The Job of an Imperial Concubine

After reading all the spoilers I'm not certain I wanna read it but it Seems good. I like reading more realistic novels where the leads think more with their minds and not with their feelings and since it's by the same author that wrote TBAVW and ETT and i absolutely love her novels I'll most probably read it despite the negative comments . 

thank goodness she's a noble consort XD at least her hardwork paid off in the end. and thank you very much for pointing the power ranks! i read the translated chapters there and only read the power ranks just now 

This is kinda disappointing, bc it's from the same author, I had assumed it would had a HEA ending...
So I guess, since MC wasn't the Empress, ML still had to keep "rain evenly" and mandatorily slept with his Empress about 1x a month?
I hate the ending in both Mistaken Marriage Match: Imperial Harem (since ML took another as his Empress, I guess he still had to sleep with her too) and The Beautiful Landscape (even though MC ended up with ML, ML still slept with his Empress and continued to have children with her too).  

Charysa, can you say a bit more about those novels after 8TT? Other than "I'm Just That Kind Of Girl" and "Ascending Do Not Disturb" I haven`t been able to find anything on those  historical novels by the author.

Trying to use google translate to go to her webpage also present so many errors XD 

right, i want to ask since the mtl is kinda confusing. what's zhuang laoyan's rank in the end of the story after the fourth prince is born? is it noble consort or just consort? someone please help me  all of the ranks confused me too, what's the order of it from the highest to the lowest? 

Is there an official spoiler link? This link seems more like discussions and comparisons to other novels than a spoiler page.

Can anyone please tell me the ending or more of the MC and ML relationship after she has a child? Does she have more than one? 

(Following is an opinion piece and may contain a few minor spoilers)

Since many of you are sharing your opinions on the novel I'd also like to share a few of my insights

A lot of you guys were comparing this to TBVW and ETT and for obvious reasons, and I really don't know which of these 3 is my favourite or if I can really rank them cuz even if they were all the same "dish" each had a different "flavour"... if that makes sense.
I personally really enjoyed the realism and humour in this novel though! And the question a few have been asking about such as of what the mc's feelings are for the emperor, or the sense of not having enough insight and connection with the mc are very interesting but I think that that may be the author's intention?

Let me put it this way, this novel is obviously very much on the realistic side where you know you're screwed if you fall in love amd believe in the emperor but I the same time, you also know you can't just do NOTHING. So what's the only option left? Secure a high position aka make yourself "valuable" to the emperor. Mc was smart and knew that the emperor was an ambitious and cautious one so she played her cards right by making herself look the most naive by doing what all the women of the harem know not to do - fall in love with the emperor. All the women this whole time had an understanding that the emperor should be respected and not loved or else you're the one who'll suffer (and the Emperor knows this as well).
Getting slightly off topic but yes, this is definitely more on the realistic side compared the 2 other novels. That said, I think the author made it so that readers get a glimpse more of the Emperor’s feelings while the mc's are ambiguous because that's exactly the opposite of what usually happens. The Emperor (and not just in this one) is the ruler of the harem and everything/everyone has to go along his whims if they want success or to even survive. Thus people of the harem are always wracking their brains trying to find out what the emperor is thinking so they could please the man above all. However, in this novel we kind of have a reversal. Although we still don't know what the emperor is thinking we see glimpes of it and much more than that of the mc's. To me this symbolizes that mc won "The Game" and as the winner who has schemed successfully we can't have access to her thoughts and feelings cuz she's now the one who has risen "above all" including the emperor whi thinks of himself so smart but still believes her "sincere feelings" till the end. (Technically still not above all cuz emperor is still "god" but yall get what I mean).

Didn't expect to write an essay at 1am but here ya go~ 

I just caught up to this story. I've been reading it on and off because it has an odd appeal. The Emperor is cunning, but it's interesting how he can't tell which of his wives are true to him or not lol. Perhaps, this is what happens when you're too high up? He expects a woman to love him wholeheartedly, love him even more than she loves herself or her family, and not demand that he love her in the same singular way. In my opinion, he's a major asshole lmao. I don't ever seeing the MC truly falling for the Emperor because no woman with a smidgen of dignity can truly give him what he wants lol. This type of ML can only work when he's the Emperor. Any other character setting and he'd get trashed right away. Well, he still gets trashed now. lol. And yet, I continue to come read this story with a sense of schadenfreude for the Emperor lol. I feel like this is a pretty realistic professional story lol. MC gotta do what she gotta do for job security and promotions. LOL.