My Imperial Consort Is Such a Hard Worker

Jiang Xian, an overachiever at a major internet company, transmigrated.

Before transmigrating, she'd just asked a doctor for help over her anxiety: "I feel awful if I don't work overtime for even one day, and I can't breathe if I take a day off. What should I do?"

A friend asked, "Is your illness contagious? Come work at my company for a while and spread it around!"

After transmigrating, she arrived in a slow-paced imperial harem where everyone had nothing to do. She was going stir-crazy!

So she got straight to work and started outworking everyone.

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A certain low-ranking consort who wished to remain anonymous: In November, when the snow fell hardest in the capital, Attendant Jiang danced in the plum garden every day! Good grief, does she really have to work herself that hard? Competing for favor isn't something those of us earning four taels a year need to worry about.

And so, that same year, Attendant Jiang became a Beauty, while she was still an Attendant.

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Later on, rumors spread that Noble Consort Jiang was on bad terms with her stepmother. After her stepmother gave birth to a son, she came to the palace to pay her respects. The noble consort gave her a fifteen-character piece of calligraphy to hang above her half-brother's bed: "There are four thousand three hundred and seventy days until the imperial examinations."

Jiang Xian was a pro at making sure she stayed on her boss's radar.

Have you ever seen the imperial harem at three in the morning?

The consorts got up at five. She got up at three:

While the consorts admired flowers and the moon, watched performances, and chatted, she practiced dancing, singing, and playing the zither, studying the emperor's preferences. She honed her professional skills while mastering flattery. Jiang Xian believed that if she kept working this hard, the emperor would surely think of her first when it came time for a promotion and a raise.

The emperor had seen countless ways to compete for favor.

Yet Jiang Xian was the one he remembered most of all...

This woman really does love me so much!

#NoEmptyPromises,IfYouLoveMePromoteMe#

#MyBelovedOnlyWantsAPromotionAndRewards,SheDoesn'tHaveMeInHerHeartAtAll#