They Say Consort Chen Is Empathetic

Please add my upcoming novel, The Swapped Marriage, to your library~ Blurb: Hailan transmigrates into the body of Hailanzhu. The original Hailanzhu was beautiful, short-lived, and a bit of a handful. She made face masks with pearl powder and changed cooks every seven days. She and her younger sister, Bumbutai, never got along, and whenever they met, Hailanzhu had to make a few snide remarks. She was young, but she managed to drive herself into an early grave. Hailan: I'm not like her. She grinds eastern pearls into powder for face masks, eats imperial cuisine, and samples delicacies from every corner of the empire. When she can't stand someone, she simply pretends to be ill and skips paying her respects to the Grand Consort. One night, the emperor comes to see her in the middle of the night after a long day of work, only to be turned away at the door. The Grand Consort: “Sleeping for your beauty? This is outrageous!” Bumbutai: “...She's even more of a handful than she was at home.” The next day, after court, Hong Taiji goes to discipline the audacious woman. The palace maid is so scared her hand shakes, and she smudges the rouge on Hailan's long fingernails. Hailan frowns. “That's hideous. The emperor will have to fix it.” Hong Taiji has no idea how to paint nails. When she complains, “You're only making it messier,” he looks down at her fingertips, then at his own dragon robe. If she doesn't want her nails to get dirty, why should his dragon robe be any different? * Bumbutai is reborn. She knows that although her elder sister Hailanzhu is favored, she won't live long. Once Hailanzhu dies, Bumbutai will have her moment in the spotlight and become empress. But as she waits, she realizes everyone seems determined to spoil Hailanzhu rotten. The emperor's first question after court: “How many pastries has Consort Chen eaten? Do we still have enough pastry chefs from Jiangnan?” Hauge unexpectedly starts growing his hair long, hoping Hailanzhu will call him handsome. Dorgon hunts a sable and eagerly sends it over to trim the edges of Hailanzhu's cloak. Bumbutai looks at the perfect image she has worked so hard to maintain, feeling utterly bewildered. Did I get the script... mixed up? * Everyone thinks Hailanzhu is impossibly spoiled, but no one can do anything about it. Only Hailan occasionally gazes at that peerless face in the mirror, completely puzzled. “Am I not considerate enough?” Another upcoming novel: The Jiangnan tycoon Yu family has a pair of twin daughters. The elder sister, Yu Yin, is beautiful and kindhearted, with a reputation for virtue. The younger sister, Yu An, is a born villain. The day she was born, she bit off one of the scheming wet nurse's fingers, and her fearsome reputation has followed her ever since. Who would have thought that this unapologetically wicked young woman has one fatal flaw: she can't bully good people. The moment she tries to hurt a good person, she sneezes louder than thunder. Her elder sister Yu Yin marries into the Duke's household with an extravagant dowry. Widowed on her wedding night and mistreated by her husband's family, she drags herself home, barely alive. At the time, Yu An is preparing for her own wedding. Seeing her sister humiliated, she lifts her skirts and rises to her feet. “Don't cry, sis. I'll deal with that whole rotten family for you.” Yu An takes her sister's place and returns to the household to clean house. Her stepmother-in-law forces her to sell her body and curry favor with the powerful? A few days later, her foolish father-in-law gets himself a set of horns. Her sister-in-law accuses her of wrongdoing and demands she be drowned in a pond? The next day, she's floating in the middle of that very pond. Her younger brother-in-law won't leave her alone, so he ends up on the bottom. Her younger sister-in-law calls her a jinx, so Yu An turns her into a human broom and puts her to work cleaning the privy. Just as Yu An has dealt with every villain and is getting ready to rule the Duke's household, her supposedly dead brother-in-law suddenly returns. Pei Jing: “I've been away on campaign for three years. Why is someone else in my house?” Yu An: “I've been a widow for three years, and now you're telling me he wasn't dead?!” Theme: Love may lie beyond mountains and seas, but mountains and seas can be overcome.