She opens her eyes in the Han palace — as Liu Xu, youngest daughter of the formidable Empress Lü Zhi, in a family the history books say will devour itself. She refuses that script, and she starts small: a register bearing the name of every woman who gives birth in Chang'an, a bureau for mothers and children, midwives taught how to keep both alive. Nor is she the only 'awakened' soul hiding in the palace — others test, recognize, and circle one another. A complete 100-chapter alternate-history epic of a little girl, her mother, and the slow remaking of a court. Chinese edition; English translation in progress.
一睁眼,她成了吕后最小的女儿刘姁。史书里这一家人最后自相残杀,她偏不认这个命。顶着孩童的脸,她先做了一件小事:让长安每一个产妇的名字都被记下来——设妇幼之署,教稳婆接生,护住生孩子的人。宫里还藏着别的「醒来的人」,彼此试探、互认,又各自成局。100 章完本:一个幼女和她的母亲吕雉,如何一步步改写汉宫的规矩。
Chapters Chapter 1: The Girl Woken by a Slap Chapter 2: Who Looks after Women in Childbirth? Chapter 3: Two Months of Pulse Records Chapter 4: Sister Zhou Coughs Blood Chapter 5: The Han Girl Marries No One Chapter 6: The Hands That Delivered 312 Babies Chapter 7: Twenty-Nine Days to the First of October Chapter 8: I Did Not Disappoint You, Mother Chapter 9: From Which Year Did You Fall? Chapter 10: Press — Press the Womb Chapter 11: This Time, She Is Not the Emperor Chapter 12: Companion to the Little Emperor Chapter 13: Two Girls Named Liu Xu at Dawn Chapter 14: 140,000 Riders Breach Xiao Pass Chapter 15: Eldest Princess, Something Has Happened Chapter 16: She Heard Everything Chapter 17: After the Lamp Went Out Chapter 18: Mother, I Am Leaving Chapter 19: Which Year Is It This Time? Chapter 20: Axing Learns Her Letters Chapter 21: Three Wobbly Characters Chapter 22: The House Can Wait; Give Me the Person Now Chapter 23: The Bamboo Slip in the Sleeve Chapter 24: The Children's Bureau, Eight Years On Chapter 25: Leave the Dream in the Dream Chapter 26: The Siege of Baideng Lifts Chapter 27: This Question He Will Ask in Person Chapter 28: Sound the Order: Muster the Troops Chapter 29: The Roosters of the Lü Family in Shanfu Chapter 30: The Bronze Mirror in Three Pieces Chapter 31: Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? Chapter 32: Zhi'er Wants to Study Chapter 33: Ask the Innkeeper about the Well Chapter 34: Trouble in the North: Return at Once Chapter 35: She Is Not the Only One Who Came Through Chapter 36: The Queen Is in Labour Chapter 37: The Ink Dot at the End of the Silk Chapter 38: A Heng Rides North Chapter 39: Your Name Is A Heng Chapter 40: A Dot That Dripped, Not Dotted Chapter 41: I Remember My Name Is A Heng Chapter 42: Write Down Every Mother's Name Chapter 43: The First Character Is 'The People' Chapter 44: I Will Go to Yanmen Chapter 45: Liu Ji Won Another Jar of Wine Chapter 46: Too Many Women in Pei County Die Chapter 47: He Has Waited for You a Long Time Chapter 48: Summon Li Gan Chapter 49: She Closed Her Eyes and Slept Chapter 50: You Carved a Plaque at Seven? Chapter 51: How Old Are You This Year? Chapter 52: Eight Years Old — There Is Still Time Chapter 53: Mother, I Want to Learn Medicine Chapter 54: Three Thousand Cavalry Will Do Chapter 55: You Came Through Too? Chapter 56: Find Someone to Help Me Chapter 57: Be Careful at the Examination Chapter 58: Three Thousand against Twenty Thousand Chapter 59: As If There Had Never Been Chapter 60: Seven Years Old, Kneeling in the Snow Chapter 61: Mother Said You Would Come Chapter 62: 第62章 闭嘴 Chapter 63: The Imperial Seal, Heavy as Iron Chapter 64: 第64章 反杀 Chapter 65: Into the Childhood of Lü Zhi Chapter 66: A Bowl of Soup from the Palace Chapter 67: A Test Question Unchanged for Seventeen Years Chapter 68: The Xiongnu Are Coming Chapter 69: Liu Ji of Sishui Sends Ten Thousand in Gifts Chapter 70: Mother, Let Me Learn Medicine Chapter 71: How Does the Dead Wake as a Little Girl? Chapter 72: Fire in the Weaving Workshops Chapter 73: Test Whether They Dare Speak Truth Chapter 74: Emperor, Is Your Net Woven? Chapter 75: She Is Me — and Zhang Han's Daughter Chapter 76: The Girl Named Lin He Chapter 77: Seventy-Nine Lives, All Trapped by This Question Chapter 78: Dowager, Stop Guessing Chapter 79: Snow on Mount Baideng Chapter 80: Zhang Zhongjing, the Dowager's Old Acquaintance Chapter 81: In Two Thousand Years, No One Will Know Your Name Chapter 82: The Empress Is with Child Chapter 83: Break the Thirty-Seven Brushes, One by One Chapter 84: A Scarlet Light toward Ganquan Chapter 85: Last Life's Snow Has Not Melted Chapter 86: Birth, Life, Milk, Infant Chapter 87: She Writes on Another Scroll Chapter 88: After the Fifth Character, Blank Chapter 89: Which Chapter Have I Arrived In? Chapter 90: Someone Has to Begin Chapter 91: What the Children's Hall Needs Chapter 92: You Know, and Still You Write Chapter 93: A Five-Year-Old Face in the Mirror Chapter 94: Less Than a Li to Chang'an Chapter 95: Did You Only Just Arrive Too? Chapter 96: The Beauty Showed Blood This Morning Chapter 97: Zhao Heng, the Beauty's Brother Chapter 98: Xiao Pass Has Fallen Chapter 99: The Register Full of the Future Chapter 100: I Changed Seven Things