Long Now

In the ninth year of the Jingyuan era, the Great Yan imperial palace held a selection of palace maids. Because the Empress Dowager had not heard the sounds of her hometown for a long time, Emperor Xianzong ordered that respectable young women from the common people of Yunzhou, the Empress Dowager's hometown, be selected to enter the palace as maids. Five-year-old He Changjin was chosen. In the fifth year of the Zhaoyuan era, on the Empress Dowager's seventieth birthday, she granted a special favor: the Yunzhou palace maids who had entered the palace eighteen years earlier could leave. Changjin, now twenty-three, left the palace. She returned to her hometown after eighteen years, but He Changjin was no longer the same person she had been. She was a wandering soul from another world, transmigrated to this era after a plane crash and reborn in the body of five-year-old He Changjin, a girl who had drowned. From a little girl training at Changchun Palace to a first-rank maid at Changle Palace, she retired and returned home after eighteen years, settling into an ordinary, peaceful life. Unexpectedly, she then made a dazzling transformation from an overage retired palace maid and entered the ranks of the Great Yan dynasty's most elite noblewomen...