A Lady's Tranquility 1

Chapter 1

TN : Hello, Flio here. I'm a fan of Chinese novel. This is my first time trying to translate a story. I like this story very much, so I want to share it with like minded people. It's hard to even churn out one part of the raw's chapter for me because of all the terms, politics, poems, etc. that needs more time to translate it as accurate as possible, and I also have to live my real life too. For now, I don't have any set schedule yet for posting, and I have not yet churn out the next part too. So, please be patient with me. For some terms, I will use the original one (such as the title) and I will prepare the glossary page too. If I forgot anything, please feel free to comment on it. Thank you, and here you go.

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ALT chapter 1.1 A sunny day covered by snow

"When I was very young, Wan Niang told me that the most noble woman in the world is the Empress, and the palace where the Empress lives is called the 'Kunning Palace'. I asked Wan Niang what Kunning Palace is like."

"Wan Niang said, she also didn't know."

　　"I sat under the eaves of a house that leaked with rain in the village and thought, if I could become that goose in the sky which just flew past, fly to the prosperous capital, fly to the Forbidden City and see what Kunning Palace looks like, how good would it be?"

The Palace door is closed because of the confinement and only a window on the left is open.

The sky is gloomy with a dim ray of light.

In the Kunning Palace, which used to be lively in the past, not even the shadow of a palace servant could be seen now.

　　Only Jiang Xuening was sitting on her knees in front of the table, holding the incense chopstick with her white and slender fingers, and gently plucking them into the low and short hill censer inlaid with gold on the other end of the table. The wispy smoke floated leisurely from its pores. Her golden and rusty phoenix robes spread out long behind her, and the complicated cloud patterns faintly swam in the darkness with a little glittering.

　　"Later, I really went to the capital. Heavens played a big joke on me. It gave me an arrogance that I shouldn't have but let me grow up in the countryside. I am not a famous beautiful lady in the capital and didn't have the bearing of a lady from a noble family. But it still put me in this prosperous place and fighting field, and only gave me a good skin.... "

Jiang Xuening's appearance is very bright and colorful, burning just like a lotus.

Her eyebrows are graceful, the tail of her eyes is slightly raised, and the sandalwood lips were dotted with vermilion red. It was a natural charm. Because of the fact that she has been in charge of the Phoenix Seal and being in a high position over the years, she has developed a rare grace and dignity.

　　When she lowered her eyebrows and closed her eyes, it could even make people's hearts beat with excitement.

You Fangyin stood still behind her for a long time and listened to her faintly dusty voice. Thinking of her life of scheming and striving for fame and profit in the eyes of the world, she suddenly fell into a trance.

There was even a kind of sorrow that rose from her heart.

　　They all knew, that she couldn't escape anymore.

　　Jiang Xuening suddenly laughed: "Fangyin, during this period of time, I have always been thinking, am I really wrong?"

When she was a child, she was raised by Wan Niang. She didn't know her own status and acted wildly in the mountains and rivers, fields and gardens outside the countryside. She was a bird that no one can control. Only Wan Niang's rouge and powders could make her go home.