The Transmigrated Heroine's Little Maid

[Read with caution. The writing started to feel off to me later on. Also, about the heroine's age: it isn't always stated explicitly, but the story includes several time skips. By the time she opens her shop, she's already over fifteen, not just ten.] When Gu Er'ya was five, she was sold to the Jiang family as a maid. After meeting her once, Jiang Yunyao, the third daughter born to a concubine, gave her the name Gu Mingyue. Before that, the villagers called her Gu Er'ya, her stepmother called her a little brat, and her grandmother called her a useless expense. Gu Mingyue had never met anyone as gentle as Third Miss. But Third Miss was not favored. The Jiang family had six daughters, and the third was neither the legitimate daughter nor the youngest. Her birth mother was out of favor, and her rooms were known as a "cold stove" that no one dared approach. Gu Mingyue didn't care. She volunteered to serve Jiang Yunyao. Everyone called her foolish, but only Third Miss's eyes lit up as she held her gently and said, "From now on, we'll have to rely on each other." # Later, Gu Mingyue thought that she had made the right choice after all. Third Miss was clever and resilient, with countless novel ideas. She became the most favored girl in the household, and the Jiang family, teetering on the brink, regained its vitality. Later, she even married into a powerful family and gradually became its matriarch. Gu Mingyue thought Third Miss seemed to have changed, yet somehow nothing about her had changed at all. But it didn't matter. Third Miss still liked her very much. She only shared those strange sayings, like "Odd stays the same, even changes; look at the quadrant for the sign," with her. Gu Mingyue would keep Third Miss's secret forever, too. Upcoming Novel: "The Little Maid of Dream of the Red Chamber" Blurb: What's the most miserable thing in the world? Probably going from a free person to a maid. An Ning woke up one day as a maid in Dream of the Red Chamber. The good news was that she wasn't on the secondary list of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling. The bad news was that her mistress was Wang Xifeng, "clever and sharp-tongued, with a jealous nature." The worse news was that yesterday, the rakish Second Master Lian had just suggested making her his concubine. An Ning: Damn it, you scumbag! Get away from me! How to survive under the thumb of jealous Wang Xifeng and philandering Jia Lian? That's a problem. How to get out of the Jia household once she survives? That's a huge, huge problem! Theme: Turn the tables in adversity and live toward the light.