Bright and Clear, Knowing Your Heart

A maid transmigrates into a book | Her mistress is reborn | Silly, lighthearted comedy | Irreverent palace intrigue

Sincerity is what matters most:

Lu Zhaozhao and Zhang Xu: 99% sincere, 1% fake

Shen Zhiyi and Qi Yu: 99% fake, 1% sincere

Lu Zhaozhao and Shen Zhiyi: 100% sincere

Lu Zhaozhao woke up one day to find she'd transmigrated into a palace-intrigue novel as the personal maid of the villainess. The original maid met a tragic end: implicated by her mistress and then betraying her, she was beaten to death with sticks.

What she didn't expect was that her mistress, Shen Zhiyi, had been reborn. Shen Zhiyi's eyes were icy, and blood still stained her hands.

Lu Zhaozhao: ...Is it too late to switch sides?

To save her own skin, she promptly brought out every trick in the modern office worker's playbook:

"Mistress, your elder sister's poison plot arrives in three days. I recommend we get ahead of it and fake an accident."

"The rouge from the Noble Consort? I know that recipe. Add a little something, and she'll rot her own face off."

She thought she was just trying to survive at work, but her cold-blooded mistress actually shielded her. "Anyone who lays a hand on her dies."

Worse still, Zhang Xu, the leader of the secret guards who had always been at odds with her, kept showing up whenever she was in danger, his eyes burning brightly. "Need help?"

Later, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the officials paid their respects.

Shen Zhiyi gently touched the phoenix seal. "Zhaozhao, there will always be a place for you by my side."

Theme: Women should respect and empower themselves