Transmigrated as Nanny Rong (Qing Dynasty Transmigration)

★Upcoming stories: Becoming a Secret Guard in a Qing Dynasty Novel, The Forensic Investigator of the Six Fan Gate

Rong Yi, an executive assistant, transmigrates into a novel as the daughter of a servant under a Baoyi company commander in the Imperial Household Department.

She just turned sixteen at the start of the year. After being selected for the palace, she’s assigned to the Qianxi Second Residence of Prince Bao, Hongli, where she works as a maid, fetching water and sweeping. Even passing dogs can order her around.

Being a servant is tough.

Her monthly pay is barely half a string of cash, her allowances aren’t enough to cover food and drink, and she has no share in the customary rewards.

If she wants a better life, she has to climb the ranks.

It’s now the eleventh year of the Yongzheng era. In two years, the emperor’s throne will pass to Qianlong.

They say it’s good to have a powerful patron,

so Rong Yi finds herself a good boss: Prince Bao’s primary consort, Fucha.

It starts when the young prince Yonglian chokes on his food. Rong Wan performs the Heimlich maneuver and earns a merit, so she’s transferred to the main courtyard. Later, the consort notices her quick mind, her skill with acupuncture, and her knack for making all sorts of unusual foods and toys that the children love, so she promotes her to a position serving at her side.

Over the many years that follow, Rong Yi keeps to her own corner of the palace and quietly does her work.

Step by step, she rises from a low-ranking maid at the Western Second Residence to become the head attendant at Changchun Palace, and eventually the much-admired Nanny Rong.

Crown Prince Yonglian: Nanny Rong, if I don’t get acupuncture today, can I still have crispy chicken? (well-behaved)

Yongcong: If Big Brother gets some, I want some too! (drooling)

Hejing: All you ever think about is food. When I leave the palace, I’ll build a big house and take care of you in your old age, Nanny!

Rong Yi: All right, all right. I want to retire already QAQ

★Upcoming Story 1: Becoming a Secret Guard in a Qing Dynasty Novel

One day, Yang Tao opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated as Secret Guard Number Two of the highest rank, kept by Emperor Kangxi in the Imperial Hunting and Provision Bureau.

Being a secret guard these days is no easy job.

When the emperor is in the palace, you have to fly up to the rafters and guard him on his travels;

when the emperor goes on a tour, you have to hold lamps, catch fish and birds, and drive the carriage;

when the emperor gives an order, you have to investigate suspects and eliminate criminals...

You’re exhausted enough to be the subject of the famous painting The Scream, yet even a top-ranked secret guard only earns three hundred taels a year, sleeps rough, and spends all day staring at the ceiling.

Luckily, Yang Tao has a Secret Guard’s All-Seeing Eye System. All she has to do is watch the scenes it shows her along the way, and she can collect all sorts of delicious food and useful rewards.

[Watch Kangxi get scolded like a naughty child by his revered ancestor. Reward 1: 10 servings of oden. Reward 2: Stamina doubled.]

[Watch Kangxi get peed on by Crown Prince Yinreng. Reward 1: 2 cans of cola. Reward 2: Strength increased fivefold.]

[Watch Kangxi rush to Jingren Palace on a snowy night and weep with remorse as he holds Fourth Prince Yinzhen, burning with fever. Reward 1: A full Cantonese dim sum spread. Reward 2: Immunity to all poisons.]

At first, Yang Tao thinks the System is making things hard for her.

Later, she gets used to flying up to the rafters every day, with popcorn and cola ready, so she can watch the drama at the appointed time.

*

Ever since Kangxi got a new female secret guard, he keeps hearing strange voices.

The voice tells him to do all sorts of humiliating things. When he tries them, he gets incredible rewards, like “Stamina increased by 5 points, strength increased by 20 points, and immunity to a certain poison.”

Kangxi is delighted to keep at it.

Until one day, two System notifications ring in his ears at the same time.

Kangxi: ?

So all that effort I put into acting was for nothing? The rewards were all junk Yang Tao didn’t want?

★Upcoming Story 2: The Forensic Investigator of the Six Fan Gate

Forensic investigator Zhou Tan blacks out after working 72 hours of overtime and wakes up back in the Ming Dynasty as Tan Niang, a refugee girl from a shantytown outside the capital whose parents have just died. She has a younger brother who’s skin and bones and a baby sister crying to be fed.

The good news is that her precious forensic kit, which she never lets out of her sight, has come along with her.

To make a living, Zhou Tan takes her younger siblings in hand, returns to her old profession, and starts helping the local government solve cases.

Before long, spies from the Six Fan Gate hear there’s a remarkable young girl among the refugees in western Beijing. She can tell when someone died from the degree of rigor mortis, locate where a body was dumped by tracking flies, and use a silver hairpin and white vinegar to detect traces of arsenic.

So Tan Niang is granted special permission to work at the Six Fan Gate, earning three strings of cash a month, with extra rewards for solving major cases. It’s enough for her to rent a small courtyard house outside the city, so she no longer has to sleep rough with her siblings and spend all day watching out for the old creeps outside.

*

Ever since Tan Niang joined the Six Fan Gate, everyone has been amazed.

The young woman looks soft and delicate, but she’s remarkably efficient and competent at work.

She teaches them to reveal fingerprints with magnetic powder;

she has a whole set of scalpels for autopsies;

and when an assassin in the bureau is badly injured, she can calmly use a hemostat to clamp his intestines.

She really was born for this line of work!

*

Wei Wushe is the sharpest blade in the Six Fan Gate.

He is a covert agent, an assassin, a guardian who must remain unseen.

But the day Tan Niang saves his life with a hemostat and yells at him, “Is evidence more important than a human life?” a little light begins to fall on Wei Wushe.

Tan Niang will use a scalpel to uncover the truth;

he will use his embroidered spring sword to keep her safe.

Note: The heroine of this story has no connection to Nanny Rong from My Fair Princess. This is not a derivative work; the title is simply a play on words.

[Synopsis written on June 14, 2025, screenshot saved]

Theme: A mountain may collapse if you rely on it, and a river may run dry if you rely on it. You can only count on yourself.