Relying on Food Chapter 1 Part 1: Recovering from Illness

"How is Wan Daying's health?"

Daying: Second Class Attendant. It’s one of the ranks in Imperial Chinese harem system.

"Reporting to Lady Xuan, Wan Daying's illness is very dangerous. If the fever cannot be reduced today, I'm afraid..."

Wan Anran heard bursts of conversations in her sleep.

She struggled to open her eyes, but all she saw was a hazy ball of light and a swaying black shadow. Wan Anran struggled to move her fingers and open her lips to try to speak, but her throat was so dry and painful that she couldn't even speak.

"The lady is awake—the lady is awake!"

"Shut up! Haitao, be quiet! Doctor Zhao, I hope you can take a closer look at Wan Daying." First there was a sharp scolding, and then the female voice gradually softened and spoke in a soft voice.

"I will do my best..."

Wan Anran forced herself to listen to the words, but the voices in her ears became softer and softer, and her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and finally she could not hold on any longer and closed her eyes.

There was only one question on her mind before she fell asleep.

Who is...? Who is Wan Daying...?

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A few days later.

From being too sick to get up, Wan Anran could finally sit up now. She looked idly at the snow outside the window and couldn't help but recall what happened when she was unconscious.

She didn't think of it at that time.

Wasn’t Wan Daying referring to herself? Wan Anran was originally a food blogger in the future. Apart from her busy studies and video shooting, her hobbies were drinking coke, eating potato chips, reading novels, and watching TV series.

Such as this last novel that she read.

There was a joke on the Internet that if you encountered a character with the same name as yourself, you should read that novel over and over again to memorize it, lest one day you transmigrate into that novel. Of course, Wan Anran never thought that this day would actually happen to her, and what was even more ridiculous was the reason why she transmigrated.

In this Qing Dynasty novel, Wan Daying was just an insignificant supporting character that appeared in the early stage. She was beautiful and was favored when she first entered the palace. Unexpectedly, her fate was rough. She became seriously ill and was soon forgotten by the emperor. She suffered a lot of cold shoulders and wasted a lot of time.

By the time she recovered from her illness, Wan Daying had become completely stuck in a dead end. She tried her best to win favor and rise to the top, but she had been a Daying for more than 40 years, and everything became a laughable drama in the eyes of others.

Sad, lamentable and pitiful.

Wan Anran couldn't help but leave a comment to complain.

The replies below were people laughing at her one after another. Many kind-hearted people reminded Wan Anran to read the book carefully just in case of transmigration.

Who knew that it would come true.

Less than two days later, Wan Anran fainted due to over-fatigue from making food videos. She only remembered that after she woke up, she had become Wan Daying who was seriously ill. At the same time, a sentence emerged in her mind: If you want to go back, you must eliminate the resentment of the previous owner of the body.

The only way to do it was to become the first person in the harem.

Was this easy? If you regard the entire harem as a company, the first person in the harem was the chairman. If she really had this ability, she would not have been a rookie in her previous life, she would have been one of the top 100 food bloggers.

 

Translator’s Note:

In Qing dynasty Imperial Chinese harem system, there were eight ranks:

Empress (皇后; huánghòu)

Imperial Noble Consort (皇貴妃; huángguìfēi)

Noble Consort (貴妃; guìfēi)

Consort (妃; fēi)

Concubine (嬪; pín)

Noble Lady (貴人; guìrén)

First Class Attendant (常在; chángzài)

Second Class Attendant (答應; dāyìng)

I’m not sure if the author will use this system, but I’m putting this information here just in case.

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