Little Panda
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying Yao Xi felt that Daxing was doomed. In this enormous Imperial Palace, they couldn't even be bothered to light a few streetlamps in the uninhabited sections. The area she’d gotten lost in last time was pitch-black, and tonight’s Jingling Palace was no different. It wasn't like they were collecting any less in taxes from the common people, and there hadn't been any wars in recent years. So where was the money! Where was the money! Was the imperial family so poor…-
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying After a few cups of wine, Emperor Ming Cheng grew more talkative. He saw Wan Bi as an ally who shared a common secret, so he could only speak to her about the many worries he could not voice to outsiders. He wasn’t afraid Wan Bi would tell anyone, either. For one, Wan Bi was even more tight-lipped than he was. For another, Wan Bi had no friends; even if she wanted to talk, she had nowhere to go. “Sigh, We have it so hard!” Emperor Ming Cheng let out a long…
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying Clutching the painting scroll tightly, Yao Xi ran through the imperial palace, sobbing. The palaces she passed all lit their lamps. The path before her was pitch black, but behind her was a trail of brilliant light. Beauty Yu was startled from her dreams by the mournful cries. She quickly summoned the night-duty palace maid and asked, “Did you hear a woman crying?” The night-duty maid was already scared witless. She stammered, “Ever since the Hai Hour,The…
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying While delivering a register to the Directorate of Ceremonial, Liufu ran into Yao Xi, who was just heading back to the Bureau of Imperial Gardens after speaking with Zheng Dayun. After the incident a year ago, he had never spoken to Yao Xi again. That kid Yao Xi was clever enough to have never sought him out, either. The two people who had mutually altered each other's fates each harbored their own thoughts, never breathing a word about what had happened a year…
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying Managing the storeroom was a fat posting. With so much coming and going, there were plenty of perks,The term is 油水 (yóushuǐ), literally "oil and water." It's slang for kickbacks, bribes, or other illicit benefits of a job. and nine-tenths of the money that could be skimmed from the Bureau of Imperial Gardens was concentrated there. Precisely because the job was cushy and the work was light, no one without connections could ever hope to manage the…
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Prologue With a crack, the door threshold, long since eaten hollow by insects, finally broke. Xibao lifted her eyes and saw Pockmarked Granny Liu at the door, teetering on the verge of falling. She looked just like a roly-poly toyA traditional Chinese toy, often made from a painted eggshell, that is weighted at the bottom so it always rights itself when pushed. made from an eggshell painted like a New Year’s doll at a temple fair. Xibao found the sight comical, but she couldn't bring herself to…
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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 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 Due to the scare, Yao Xi went back to the Bureau of Imperial Gardens, entered her room, and lay down. Since she had luckily managed to keep her life, she had to keep on living. How could the Directorate of Palace Attendants dare to be slow in carrying out an order from Her Majesty the Empress Dowager? They had sent someone over early to inform her that she was to go to Ning'an Palace tonight for night duty, guarding the palace gate. Guarding a gate wasn't exhausting…
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The Empress Dowager is Terrifying The spring chill still lingered in the April night air. Yuanqian brought over a satin-faced coverlet and gently draped it over Wan Bi’s knees, reminding her softly, “Your Highness… it is already the Zi Hour.”The Zi Hour is the first of the twelve traditional two-hour watches in ancient Chinese timekeeping, lasting from 11 PM to 1 AM. In Yuanqian’s memory, her mistress had never stayed up so late. To say something treasonous, even when the Late Emperor…
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