Little Panda
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The Empress Dowager is So Wicked When the men sent to Zai County to investigate returned to the palace to report, Wan Bi was still at her evening meal. She had seen how heartily Yao Xi ate earlier, and it had made her eat an extra portion herself. Yao Xi was brewing tea nearby. She had just declared that she would serve Her Majesty the Empress Dowager in front of the saddle and behind the horse,Original: ānqiánmǎhòu (鞍前马后). An idiom meaning to wait on someone hand and foot, following them…-
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying When Imperial Physician Fu left the Bureau of Imperial Gardens, Yao Xi went out with him. She couldn't be bothered with her duties at the Bureau anymore; she just wanted to find Zheng Dayun as quickly as possible and ask him to transfer her to serve Beauty Xu. It wasn't easy to find a vacant position serving one of the palace masters. Aside from the master of Ning'an Palace, who could do as she pleased, the number of attendants for the various consorts and ladies was…
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The Empress Dowager is So Wicked It was now deep in the night. The fires at Ning'an Palace had mostly been extinguished, and Wan Bi, thinking of the morning court session she had to attend, prepared to head to Longyi Palace to rest for a while. Longyi had been sitting with Wan Bi in Ning'an Palace the entire time. She hadn't the courage to follow her Imperial Brother to Jingling Palace; going would only make the pain in her heart worse. Seeing Wan Bi rise to leave, Longyi hurried forward to support…
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying In the sixth year of the Yongtai era, it was the fourth month, and the old elm tree in the courtyard of the Bureau of Imperial Gardens was full of elm coins.The coin-shaped, edible seeds of the elm tree. A few days prior, some young, greedy eunuchs who wanted to eat elm coin steamed buns and elm coin rice had climbed the tree and picked several branches clean. Yao Xi, who had taken the day off, sat alone on a bamboo chair under the elm tree, gazing with a sorrowful…
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The Empress Dowager is So Wicked Yao Xi returned to the duty room, changed into the everyday clothes the Empress Dowager had given her, and grabbed her large gold bars, ready to collect a waist tag and leave the palace. As soon as she stepped out of the duty room, she found a young eunuch waiting for her. "Eunuch Yao, the Empress Dowager, mindful that your foot injury hasn't fully healed, ordered this little one to escort you to Yuanqing Gate so you can take a carriage out of the palace." The…
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying Thump! Something slammed into Yao Xi’s rear, and she stumbled forward, nearly falling flat on her face. “Aiya! You should watch where you’re going! The things in this chest belong to our Beauty Yu. If they’re broken, you couldn’t afford to repay it with your life,” the young palace maid squawked, seizing the initiative by blaming Yao Xi first. She pointed at the chest on the ground and wouldn’t stop jabbering. Yao Xi had been standing by the door…
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying Wan Bi stood before the gates of the Cold Palace, supported by her attendants. She was elaborately dressed. Her aqua-blue formal blouse was woven with patterns of golden clouds and dragons, and her bright red skirt was embroidered with lotus designs in gold thread. Her hair was full of pearls and jade, and on her forehead, she wore a Phoenix Crown.A Phoenix Crown, or fengguan, is a traditional, ornate headdress worn by empresses and other high-ranking noblewomen in…
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VIP Chapter (3-in-1) Emperor Ming Cheng had just returned from Concubine Kang's palace. After going back from Ning'an Palace, he had spent a night in passionate battle and woken up a little late. He was gradually getting older; he couldn't compare to how he was at twenty. Much of the time, Emperor Ming Cheng felt quite helpless. Whether they were marquises, generals, ministers, or commoners, people would try a thousand and one ways to send their daughters into the palace for all sorts of reasons.…
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The Terrifying Empress Dowager Yao Xi froze on the spot as if hit by a freezing spell, unable to move an inch. Zheng Dayun, kowtowing on the ground, and the piercing gaze on her back told her everything she needed to know. Here, a song for my soon-to-be-prematurely-departed self: “Cooled.”“Cooled” (凉凉, liáng liáng) is the title of a popular Chinese song. The title has become internet slang for when something is over, hopeless, or doomed. To be honest, she wasn’t the type to speak…
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying It was only the third quarter of the You HourThe You Hour is 5-7 PM. Ancient Chinese timekeeping divided the day into twelve two-hour periods (shichen) and a day and night into one hundred quarters (ke). when Yao Xi arrived at Jingling Palace. The sun had not yet fully set, and the desolate, lonely Jingling Palace shimmered with a golden light in the afterglow of the sunset. From a distance, it didn't look like a Cold Palace, but rather a holy temple for people to…
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