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How do you become a favored imperial consort?

Noble birth? Proper education? Gentle and courteous?

Unfortunately, Nan Jin has none of those.

Her strengths include—but are not limited to—acting, scheming, manipulation, fighting tooth and nail, and wanting it all.

In just three years in the palace, with exceptional tea-making skills, beauty, and wit, Nan Jin managed to lure the emperor like a hooked fish and rose from a lowly palace maid whose life was worth less than grass to become the emperor’s most cherished consort.

The other consorts hated her to the bone and used the vilest words to describe her:

“You’re cunning, ruthless, and will stop at nothing!”

Nan Jin merely raised a delicate brow and accepted it all with grace:

“Thank you, sister, for the praise. I humbly accept it.

At first, when facing the cold and distant Emperor Shen Yanci, Nan Jin thought:

‘Justice in this world has always been in the hands of those in power. Then I shall become the one in power and tilt justice toward myself.’

‘He is the only road I have to ascend to the clouds.’

Later, faced with the now passionate Shen Yanci, Nan Jin played hard to get with a charming smile.

“Heh, the emperor?”

“Playing him is as easy as training a dog~”

Associated Names
One entry per line
Ascending to the Clouds
Cloud Sky
Loathing the Vermilion Walls
登云天
Related Series
The Girl Who Struggled Through Palace Intrigues to Become the Empress (Same Franchise)
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Recommendation Lists
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Brevi
Brevi rated it
December 8, 2025
Status: Completed
I am finally finishing this story, I have been looking for it for a very long time time and I have to be honest, it's so intriguing!!!

It's not your everyday Chinese Royal Harem story. This story ticks quite a lot of non-mainstream things you often internally question while reading a similar story. Something like, is there a main character who is a genuinely ancient person and not from nobility nor reborn? Is there any main character who only gives birth to a princess and does not have any sons who... more>> eventually inherit the throne? Is there any main character who experienced a miscarriage in her first pregnancy and has not always successfully given birth to all her children and they survive adulthood? Etc....

In terms of plot, I'll give 8/10. But in terms of characterisation, it's 10/10. I love how complex each character is, villain or not. Of course, there's a classic 2D villain with no soul but 8 out of 10 characters here were humans with their own story.

One more interesting thing to note, never did I ever feel like fML is a third wheel in her own supposedly romance story 🤣 Then suddenly it somehow strangely walks towards a Yuri pavement and makes me feel like the ML now was the third wheel...

Personal opinion and unqualified jealousy:
Spoiler

I hate how in love the empress and the emperor were. How they have more chemistry as a couple than the fML herself. How dare they be so genuine to each other! Whose love story did I read? I am not signing up for the empress love story 😭😭😭 yeah basically fate somehow said that "You might be the fML and you met me first even saved me but it can't compare to the time we lost and the new person that entered my life while you are not around." And how I accept the logic and it does make sense! But my heart feels too broken! Luckily the fML never fell in love with him. Not even till the end. They became like a good old friend while the empress is the emperor's true love.

People do say that first love is the ray of light and last love is life itself. That's pretty much the romance theme of this story.

The only thing I would like to disagree with is how the author ends the story. It's a tragedy! And it portrays very well the price of the throne. And it could be a very valuable lesson to learn for the emperor. It's ok to let people die in fiction, you know?! No need to revive them in the end, all of them except the spy! Even the supposedly 6-month-old premature baby is just to let them thrive in their little utopia.

I think letting the empress and consort Zhen die peacefully while Nan Jin ended up the only survivor and lived her peaceful life outside the palace is a good ending.

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A happy ending is not always a good ending. The good ending for me is when that very ending makes the whole plot and the story meaningful. <<less
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Hapixien
Hapixien
October 17, 2025
Status: --
Omg this novel is crazy it's so good that I had to mtl it... all I can say is everyone is so so smart there's not one dumb character!! From the emperor, empress, MC, dowager, concubines (even the quiet one or the one that are loud and pretent to be arrogant are not dumb!!... they all just pretending)... and the emperor he knows literally everything but keeps quiet gosh!... the queen too is no simpleton... never underestimate anyone!!!And then there's zhen fei the typical villianess that always have a bad... more>> ending unless she's not even the villainess like there's someone worse... hidding behind zhen fei ruthlessness and zhen fei was literally a pawn or cover up for the person aiiiyaa poor thing she was

it was and will always be one of the best imperial harem novel incomparable to any other... mind blowing at each scene😌 <<less
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isha06gupta
isha06gupta rated it
August 4, 2025
Status: c20
It's so good. I love NanJin and her scheming. The way she takes revenge, It amazing. I am searching for this novel raw and unable to get it. It's updated till chapter 20 when I read.

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Spoiler

Our MC was a maid in duke houselhold also her family. But due to some incident her parents are killed, her twin sister takes side of the mu*derer. The duke's daughter was going to palace our MC then replaced her sister and entered the palace. There she made the dukes daughter loose the favour and she herself gains the emperor favor. Emperor Shen Yanci is also not dumb.

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MC is observant, sharp, scheming, rational, leaves no loop hole. Emperor is also sharp, intelligent.

You will love how she schemes and takes revenge for her parents. <<less
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