A Maidservant's Guide to Turning the Tables (Transmigrate into a Book)

------ Coming soon next door: My Lover Is the Chief Minister. Please add it to your favorites! ------ Yu Weiwei, the legitimate eldest daughter of the Duke of Qingguo, was clever and graceful, with beauty that could outshine the world. At five years old, the Retired Emperor personally chose her to become empress. Unfortunately, the emperor preferred men and was attracted to other men. After his male favorite set a deadly trap for her in the palace, the emperor couldn't even be bothered to keep up appearances. He revoked her posthumous title, canceled all the funeral music, and would gladly have wrapped her in a straw mat and buried her. It was Zhou Peixu, the Chief Minister of the court, a man as elegant as a jade tree and bright as the sun, who held her corpse and wept bitterly. In a fit of rage, he swept through the palace with his sword, killed the wicked emperor, and took the throne, ensuring that her posthumous honors were protected. After living her life over again, Yu Weiwei once more became empress. This time, however, she was no longer content to be a puppet or a pretty ornament. She stopped her childhood sweetheart, Zhou Peixu, beneath the palace willows and red walls. Just as she had as a child, she tugged at his sleeve and said softly, "Brother Pei, I don't want to be empress. I want to be empress dowager." He calmly pulled his sleeve away. "You can't force yourself to have children. As for the emperor..." "He can't do it." She rose on her toes and whispered in his ear, "You become emperor, and I'll bear your child." * The Chief Minister Zhou Peixu holds power over the entire court and is handsome, making him the dream husband of every noblewoman in the capital. Yet he remains a widower and never remarries, treating the young emperor as his own son. He even personally measures the boy's height every day. Everyone praises him as a noble crane, a man of shining virtue. But no one knows that beneath the gauzy curtains, as he gazes at the beauty lying beside him, he says hoarsely, "Your Majesty the Empress Dowager, if you wish to give the emperor another little sister from the imperial clan..." He kisses the top of her foot. "Your humble servant can also do his part." Important warnings: 1. It may be a thrilling secret affair for a lifetime, but it will definitely have a happy ending. 2. The male lead has eyes only for the female lead and is willing to give her everything. 3. The female lead may be mistreated by a supporting male character early on. ------------------ Novel Blurb ------------------ Wen Yingrou, daughter of the Marquis of Yongchun, is famous throughout the capital and as beautiful as a goddess. Unfortunately, she's a fake heiress. Sent back to her original home and her identity switched, she becomes a lovely flower in the slums. With nothing but bare walls at home and life forcing her hand, she has no choice but to become a maid in the Prince Regent's residence. Song Chuping, the Prince Regent, holds absolute power over the court. From the moment she enters the residence, she behaves herself and keeps a low profile at every turn, terrified of offending this man who must not be crossed. But despite her best efforts, Lady Song's "keen eye" singles her out and promotes her to his bedchamber maid. A bedchamber maid. Those two words strike her like a bolt of lightning. A little scene: At first, he assumes she's a scheming white lotus, doing everything she can to climb the social ladder. He scorns her beauty and treats her with utter coldness. Later, Song Chuping thinks that letting her become his concubine is already more than she deserves. Later still, Song Chuping's callused palm nearly smashes down the tightly shut door of the Wen family's slum home. He was wrong. So very wrong, he tells himself. Anything in heaven or on earth that she wants, he will give her. Reading guide: 1. An imperious, arrogant man who commands respect without trying x a resilient little white flower. 2. Both leads are virgins. There's only a little angst early on, and it has a happy ending. 3. The setting is very, very loosely based on history. No nitpicking, please. 4. The text will be revised as it goes. 5. If you drop the story, please don't tell me. [This novel is participating in a themed writing contest on advancing the country through science and technology. Reason for entering: After the heroine transmigrates back to ancient times, she will improve people's lives through inventions. Please support me, little angels, by sending nourishing fluids OR throwing a bomb my way.] Coming soon next door: The Ultimate White Lotus Transmigrates into a Fake Heiress. Please add it to your favorites! If Lu Youyou called herself the second-best white lotus, no one would dare claim to be the best. Men adored, pampered, and pitied her, while women envied, resented, and admired her. She had been thriving in the modern world, but then she transmigrated into a book and became the fake heiress of the Marquis of Qinglin's household. In the original story, the real heiress comes looking for her, and she's about to be thrown out to wander in poverty for the rest of her life. Lu Youyou curls her lips into a smile. Hah, really? I don't believe it. She turns around, puts on another harmless smile, wears a coy expression, and sets off on her journey. In this life, she wants wealth and glory, fine clothes and splendid robes, servants at her beck and call, and a husband who will grant her every wish! * Xu Guanyang is the Crown Prince, second only to the emperor and clad in a python robe. He's handsome and elegant, but his temper is capricious and violent. His fearsome gaze makes people's knees tremble, and no one dares approach him without a good reason. One day, to everyone's gasps, the Lu family's fake heiress falls into Lu Guanyang's arms in front of everyone. She lifts her lovely face, bright as the morning glow, and says in a frail, breathy voice, "Crown Prince, I'm scared." Xu Guanyang's heart gives a tremor. He discreetly draws her behind him and says coldly, "With me here, what is there to fear?" A stern, icy man with no favorites x a delicate, affected white lotus. Theme: Even in adversity, keep true to yourself, stand on your own, and be strong.