A First-Rank Maid's Guide to Getting Promoted

An ancient maid’s rise through the ranks + no romance Shi Yi, a modern-day corporate drone, transmigrated into the body of an orphaned girl in ancient times. From the start, her clan tried to seize her inheritance and sell her to a brothel. To avoid that fate, she sold herself into servitude as a maid to Shen Qingci, the Third Young Lady of the Yicheng Earl’s household, who had saved her life. She thought she had escaped one tiger’s den, but her new workplace was even more turbulent beneath the surface. Every maid around her had connections, each one clever and devious. Her mistress, Shen Qingci, had lost both her parents and was living under someone else’s roof, a lamb to the slaughter, constrained at every turn. From then on, Shi Yi stayed on high alert, actively gathering information from every courtyard and setting plans in motion, baiting her traps as she gradually carved out a way forward for Shen Qingci, trapped in her cage. Shi Yi was only halfway along her path. She would forge a road to independence and self-reliance for the women of ancient society, trapped within the inner quarters.