A Transmigrator's Struggle as a Lowly Maid

Upcoming novel: The Song Dynasty Palace Maid, description below Description: An everyday tale of domestic struggles One day, Tan Shuang found herself in ancient times. Her father had died, her mother had remarried, and her stepfather sold her as a scullery maid. First, there was the vicious kitchen manager, who deliberately made her life miserable over a few coppers. Then there was the old slop woman, who insisted on taking her as a goddaughter just to get her monthly wages. The maids who had entered the household with her also took every opportunity to make snide, jealous remarks... Every day, Tan Shuang ate bland cabbage boiled in water and did exhausting servants’ work. The moment she opened her eyes, she thought of saving money and buying her freedom. She went from a scullery maid to a cleaning maid, and then to a personal maid serving her mistress. The people she had to deal with ranged from sly, aggressive servants belowstairs to ruthless, formidable masters. None of them could stop her from moving toward freedom... Divider Upcoming novel: The Song Dynasty Palace Maid Cheng Miaoyi transmigrated to the prosperous Northern Song dynasty during the Jiayou era. Her family lived in the countryside of Yuezhou, far from Jiangling Prefecture. Through sheer grit, her father had saved up enough money as a street peddler to move his wife and children to Jiangling Prefecture. He had only just managed to stand tall in front of his two half-brothers when an epidemic suddenly struck, and he collapsed. They spent their entire savings on medicine and sold their home to treat him, but he never fully recovered. The family of four squeezed into a narrow, dark room in Dishui Alley, with a cloth curtain separating the parents from their children. During the day, Miaoyi cared for her father, washed clothes, and prepared dinner, waiting for her mother and brother to return from work. At night, she sat beneath a weak oil lamp, making paper boxes and arranging silk flowers. She had wanted to think of a way to make money, but her father’s health kept getting worse. Knowing they couldn’t wait any longer, she suddenly remembered hearing Second Madam Qiao from the fragrant meat shop mention that the Xie family, the local rulers of Jiangling Prefecture, were hiring maids. Even a maid doing the lowest-level chores could earn thirty strings of cash. Miaoyi calculated that with a five-year contract, she and her brother could earn sixty strings. And if she could learn a useful skill on top of that... Theme: Independence and self-reliance