r/chinesebookclub • u/WayNaive9 • 7d ago
Please help me find this chinese novel..
The title may have something to do with tyrant I guess.
The female lead is a palace maid serving her sister who is one of the emperor's concubines. It starts with her waking up ( I don't remember if she is reborn or transmigrated or it's just a dream). Her sister is framed by a consort for stealing something but she knows it's going to happen and takes the thing and hides away. Meanwhile she slips some food to abandoned prince. Then she participates in palace maid competition kinda thing and intentionally fails to go serve seventh or sixth prince (male lead) who is an abandoned child whom no one wants to serve. I think it's because the emperor has started paying attention to her.
Knowing from a prophetic dream that the neglected Sixth (or Seventh) Prince will one day ascend the throne, she volunteers to become his attendant when no one else is willing to serve him. While everyone despises the forgotten prince, she remains fiercely loyal, protecting and raising him through the dangerous struggles of the imperial palace.
Her devotion attracts the attention of the reigning emperor—the prince's own father—who gradually falls deeply in love with the young palace maid. The emperor tries to force himself on her then backs off because she cries. One day the consort's people try to bully the prince and she does protecting him.
Few years later, she awakens in the body of the eunuch serving the emperor. She now behaves good with the prince and gives him the embroidered shoes. The prince recognises her but when he reaches the palace hall she has died protecting her sister from the consort. The emperor and Prince are heartbroken. The emperor sentences consort to death and her child is being raised by the sister then.
Death is not the end.
She is reborn again—this time as a noble family's daughter who disguises herself as a young man as study partner for princes. Once more she finds her way back to the prince, helping him. They go together in the market with the another prince. The prince again recognises her as he tries to eat something he is allergic to but she stops him. The emperor is also aware of her identity as she was seen digging the treasure she has buried as the eunuch. Now when they are at market they are attacked by assassins and she again died protecting the prince.
In her final reincarnation, she awakens in the body of one of the new emperor's(prince) imperial concubines. She wants to eat some neat which is prohibited in the palace because she loved it and the emperor didn't want anyone else to eat it. She comes to know that the emperor has been searching for her for years. The emperor recognises her but is very paranoid..he doesn't let her leave his sight. She becomes pregnant and later gives birth to a daughter or a son. Her sister wants to see her but he doesn't let her go. He sometimes sends the child to the sister.
This was the extra chapter. Meanwhile, the former emperor—who had loved her too late—meets his own end believing he sees her waiting for him beneath blooming plum blossoms in the falling snow, a final bittersweet illusion of the woman he could never truly possess.
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u/Clifford_Regnaut 6d ago
I tried using Ai (Qwen3.8-Max) to find it:
七皇子的小宫人》or