Tangli Fried Snow

Xue Li and Su He were sent to the Empress Dowager's side in the palace by the Prime Minister's wife under the pretext that there were not enough people in the palace during the New Year.

From then on, Shirley was a fourteen-year-old palace maid named Muyan, working as an ordinary cleaning maid in the Empress Dowager's palace.

Upon arriving at the palace, the first thing she did was to be scolded by Aunt Ruyi, the head of Gyeongbokgung Palace. She was told to be dutiful, work hard, and be strict with herself. Then, she was taken to a large dormitory by Granny Liu, who was in charge of the third-class palace maids.

On the first day, they received initial pre-job training. Sherry and Suhe's job was pitifully simple: sweeping in the front yard every day. First, they would sweep the dust off the stone railings with a broom, then sweep the yard and throw away the trash and fallen leaves.

There was no mental labor involved, only physical labor. Each day, you only needed to work for an hour to finish. After finishing, you could wait in the room and do whatever Granny Liu told you to do. You would get up around six in the morning and go to bed around eight in the evening, just like being in high school.

It took two days to meet the Empress Dowager. She was about fifty or sixty years old, with a beautiful face and a kind personality. If it weren't for the sharp glint in her eyes from time to time, it would be easy to forget that she was the champion of the palace intrigue of the previous dynasty.

Empress Dowager Xu's father was a general who protected the country, and her mother was the daughter of a grand tutor. She was the eldest daughter of the main branch of the family and came from a noble family. She served three emperors. When she was the crown princess, she outlived the empress. When she was the empress, she outlived the favored concubine and the empress dowager. She gave birth to a son and a daughter. Her only son became the emperor. She had a very smooth and blessed life.

But a seventy-year-old nanny who tended the fire disagreed. She often told the young palace maids about the past, first how harsh the Empress Dowager's mother-in-law was, then how vicious the late emperor's brothers were, and finally about the late emperor's favorite concubine, Consort De: "She was the one who ate people without spitting out the bones. In order to make her son the emperor, she almost killed the Empress Dowager and the emperor and his mother."

"The Empress Dowager's eldest son died in her arms on New Year's Eve one year. Her unborn son also died because she was framed by Consort De and forced to kneel for two hours in the dead of winter. Not only did she lose the baby, but she was also left with a host of ailments. If it weren't for Princess Yaoguang's grandmother protecting her, the grass on the Empress Dowager's grave would have been two meters high by now." It turns out that Princess Yaoguang's grandmother was a concubine of the late emperor, and her mother was the maternal cousin of the late emperor's Grand Princess.

As for Princess Yaoguang, it was three days after Xue Li arrived that she finally met the princess herself. She brought several people to pay their respects to the Empress Dowager early in the morning, had breakfast with the Empress Dowager, embroidered with the Empress Dowager, and recited scriptures with the Empress Dowager, staying there for the whole day.

When Sherry first saw Princess Yaoguang, she was sweeping the floor when she suddenly heard footsteps and a gentle voice beside her: "Oh, has the Empress Dowager brought in a new concubine?"

Upon hearing this, Sherry looked up and suddenly understood many things she hadn't understood before.

Why did Duan Jingyu take her away from Jin Cheng's tent?

Why make her learn those tedious things like music, chess, calligraphy, and painting?

Why did you give her plastic surgery and bone setting?

Why does everyone respect her so much, and why does Lin Wanjun often look at herself and shed tears?

All of this is due to the following reasons.

Ever since Shirley saw Princess Yaoguang's face, she understood everything. Duan Jingyu didn't want her to stay by the side of a beautiful woman, accompany her, and serve her.

He found a stand-in to replace his sister, playing a game of a substitute saving his sister!

Without even thinking about it, in a few days I won't be a little sweeper anymore. After so many cosplays, my ultimate identity has finally been revealed.

Her last identity was Duan Xueyao, the daughter of Duan Yuanshan, the sister of Duan Jingyu, and the fiancée of the Crown Prince!

The reason I say it's the last one is because once my identity is exposed, I'll be doomed!

I'm nothing but a fraud, a stand-in who's been passed off as someone else!

Thinking of this, she really wanted to throw away the broom in her hand, put her hands on her hips and curse loudly, then throw away the fake nose on her face, run to the Empress Dowager and make a scene, ruin Duan Jingyu's carefully laid plan, and make it a lose-lose situation!

But who is the fish? Who is the net?

Who will die? Who will break through?

In a flash, she realized that she would be the one to die, while the others would only suffer minor injuries.

It's not worth it, it's not worth it.

Duan Xueyao was also surprised to see her standing there in a daze, her eyes seemingly burning with fire. Such a vibrant woman was rarely seen in the harem.

Her maid, Jinxiu, scolded angrily, "No manners! You don't even bow to the princess!"

Shirley snapped out of her daze, quickly performed a palace curtsy, lowered her head, and said, "This servant greets the Princess."

Duan Xueyao smiled and said to Aunt Jinxiu, "She just arrived and isn't familiar with the palace rules yet, so please don't scold her." Then she said to Xueli, "It's so cold now, so go back inside and warm up after you've finished sweeping."

Without waiting for Shirley's reply, he left with a few people, leaving Shirley shivering in the cold wind.

"I want to live, I want to live," she kept telling herself.

. . .

Sherry was in a daze all day. Su He noticed that she was often lost in thought and didn't respond when she spoke to her, so she secretly asked her, "Mu Yan, what's wrong?"

Sherry didn't answer. What else could she be doing but racking her brains for a solution?

Trying harder to recall Duan Xueyao's appearance, I realized that she was a little taller than me, and my face was basically the same as hers. If I thought about it carefully, there were still some differences. People around me would definitely notice the difference at a glance, but people who didn't know me well wouldn't be able to tell.

Previously, she only resembled her by about five or six points, roughly the same as a young Zhang Ziyi or a young Tong Yao. If she were dressed as a man, the resemblance would probably only be three points. It's quite remarkable that Duan Jingyu, in the dark, recognized her potential on their very first meeting.

Under Lin Wanjun's tutelage and Mr. Jiang's micro-plastic surgery, Shirley now bears a striking resemblance to Duan Xueyao in every gesture. The only difference lies in their temperament. Duan Xueyao is a noble lady from a wealthy family, pampered since childhood, almost like a princess, while Shirley is a quirky modern college student who has taken the high school entrance exam, the college entrance exam, gone abroad, and watched porn and horror movies. The difference is not small.

That's enough. As long as I put on makeup and wear the same clothes, I can fool the people in the palace.

She couldn't eat a bite of dinner and went to bed early. She tossed and turned and finally fell asleep. In her dream, she was surrounded by the armies of the Southern and Northern armies. Duan Jingyu rode a tall horse and wore bright armor. He looked down at her from above. With a wave of his hand, thousands of arrows shot over and instantly turned her into a hedgehog.

Before she died, Duan Jingyu said to her one last thing, "I'm sorry, you're just a puppet that can be sacrificed."

Sherry opened her eyes in the darkness and cursed, "Duan Jingyu, you son of a bitch!"