Notes on Rising Through the Eastern Palace (Qing Dynasty)

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[Coming soon: I Came from the Grasslands (Qing Dynasty transmigration). Add it to your favorites if you’re interested. The blurb is below.]

After her surgery fails, Jinyu transmigrates and wants nothing more than to eat, drink, and get by with her family.

But unexpectedly, after being selected in the imperial concubine draft, she is assigned to the Eastern Palace.

At the same time, she discovers that she hasn’t merely transmigrated, she has also transmigrated into a book.

The awkward part is that she isn’t the heroine, but the heroine’s foil.

The heroine enters the future emperor’s household, rises step by step, and becomes the most revered woman in the harem.

As the foil, Jinyu enters the deposed crown prince’s household, doomed to fail from the very start.

On top of that, in the future she is supposed to make a fool of herself in all kinds of situations, forming a stark contrast with the heroine.

Jinyu: “...”

What foil? She’s done with that.

Years later, Jinyu, who had thought she was just an inconspicuous nobody lying low and surviving, suddenly discovers she has become the very picture of a winner in life. Meanwhile, someone who was supposed to be confined has ascended to the most exalted throne.

She looks at the person across from her, who still hasn’t left. “Why are you still here?”

The person smiles innocently. “Today is my day off!”

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Jinxiu was born into the Qing Dynasty and bound to a System from a young age. With an extremely unlucky cousin as her foil, her life went smoothly.

But at some point, the course of fate changed. Her foil became luckier and luckier, while Jinxiu herself became more and more unlucky.

She schemed to send her foil into the deposed crown prince’s household while she herself entered the future emperor’s household, arranging their contrasting fates from the very beginning.

But she waited and waited, three years, five years, seven years... ten years, twenty years. She never heard that her foil had been confined. Instead, she watched her rise from a junior consort to a side consort, then to a noble consort, an imperial noble consort, and finally an empress.

Reading guide:

1. This is a very long novel, with a slice-of-life style and simple prose.

2. The female lead is sexually inexperienced, while the male lead is not. He doesn’t dote exclusively on her at first, but does so later, and he has a special golden finger that works only for her. Neither lead is perfect; both have flaws.

3. There are many invented details, so don’t worry too much about historical accuracy.

4. The heroine is the best. Everything goes smoothly for her. Not everyone loves her at first sight, but nobody except certain people is malicious toward her, and no one will hurt her.

Coming Soon

I Came from the Grasslands (Qing Dynasty transmigration)

Dulan was an inconspicuous nobody in a post-apocalyptic world. She had only one useless golden finger that couldn’t be upgraded, so she had to fight with her own strength.

At last, during a zombie horde, her exhausting life came to an end.

She never expected to open her eyes again as Dulan, a Mongolian princess.

With status and rank, why wait? She could lie flat and enjoy the good life.

But one day, many people of noble status arrived on the grasslands. Only then did she realize she hadn’t merely transmigrated, she had transmigrated into the Qing Dynasty.

One moment she thought she was just a passerby in the struggle among the Nine Princes for the throne. The next, she became the Tenth Prince’s wife, caught up in the whole affair.

Dulan: “?”

...Well, fine. As long as the Tenth Prince doesn’t get involved, her future will be secure.

She smiled faintly and sharpened her knives, ready to take on Yin’e.

He’s just a prince. How could he be scarier than zombies?

She can pin him down with one hand!

Dulan adapts well, from Mongolia to the Forbidden City. Then, while eavesdropping on gossip one day, she suddenly discovers that her unchanging golden finger has changed.

Ah, this...

Whose golden finger levels up by listening to gossip?!

From then on, another figure appears wherever people gather to gossip in the Forbidden City, never missing a juicy tidbit, big or small.

“Lao Shi, shouldn’t you do something about your wife?”

The Tenth Prince, sporting black eyes, covers them with his hands. “Huh? What did you say? I can’t see!”

The other princes: You got hit in the eyes, not the ears!

Then they turn around and discover another black-eyed figure among the Forbidden City’s gossip lovers. A figure with black eyes.

Theme: Never forget where you came from.