○ Light comedy, nontraditional palace intrigue / unconventional college girl / Where exactly do I turn off this golden finger?
[Optimistic, joke-loving little-sun heroine & rational, steady, healing hero]
University student Qin Yuzi transmigrates and becomes Qin Cairen, the least noticeable woman in the harem, who has never even seen the emperor.
Low status, no favor from the emperor, and an easy target for everyone.
The high-ranking consorts treat her like an ant, while the palace servants are all too used to currying favor with the powerful and trampling on the weak. People take a turn stepping on Qin Yuzi in every aspect of her life.
She eats cold food and burns black charcoal.
Just when she is about to starve, the System for transmigrated women finally arrives. Now she has a golden finger:
[The Entire Harem Shares My Senses]
Skill details: At night, anyone who has come into contact with the Host during the day will share sensations with her unilaterally. The more contact there is, the stronger the sensation.
The golden finger has its advantages
◇ The Imperial Food Service sends her cold meals. That night, she doesn't reheat them on her little stove, but eats them cold at the appointed time. The palace servants who deliver the food will get stomachaches along with her. Whoever delivers it gets the pain. It works every time!
Worried the food might be spoiled, she smells it and gets a stomachache. The Imperial Food Service no longer dares to neglect her. And so Qin Yuzi gets to eat hot, fresh meals.
◇ At the New Year's palace banquet, someone secretly tampers with Qin Yuzi's food, giving her an upset stomach. She vomits and has diarrhea, and nearly embarrasses herself in front of the court. She grits her teeth and uses the opportunity of a toast to grab the hands of the consorts who have bullied her before, holding on tight.
If she can't figure out who did it, there's no need to dwell on it. Nobody gets away scot-free; everyone's in for a shitty time!
But it doesn't all work out in her favor
◇ She attends the Qianqiu Banquet in honor of the Empress Dowager during the day, then gets her period that night. All the consorts in the palace get their periods at once, even the Empress Dowager, who went through menopause years ago, is forced to join in...
Qin Yuzi is distraught: Oh my god, what is this bizarre spectacle?! Her Majesty the Empress Dowager is already so old, and now she has to suffer period cramps with me. How terrible!
◇ After meeting the old emperor, who is past sixty and moody, Qin Yuzi gives up on her dream of rising through the ranks to become a favored consort. She just can't bring herself to kiss him. But after attending the morning assembly to pay her respects to the Empress, someone from the emperor's court arrives to announce, "His Majesty summons Qin Cairen to his bedchamber tonight!"
She just met so many people. Wouldn't that mean every consort in the harem...?
Imagining the chaos that would follow, Qin Yuzi finally faints from fright.
"Reader's Guide"
1. The hero is not the emperor!!! One-on-one romance.
2. The System will appear later. Readers who dislike systems, please move along.
3. Fictional dynasty, with a mountain of original worldbuilding.
(The first version of the blurb was posted on 2023-12-03.)
Theme: Keep moving forward with resolve, and the light will come.
