《媚公卿》林家成
Mei Gongqing (The Bewitching Courtier) by Lin Jiacheng
Update: I have received Lin Jia Cheng’s express consent to translate this novel. It is illegal to take my translations without permission or to use it for monetary gains.
This is a ‘rebirth’ story where Chen Rong, the heroine, finds her second chance at life after burning herself to death. Set in the Eastern Jin era when bureaucrats and their lofty yet equally hypocritical and oppressive ideas once ruled the empire, Chen Rong is made to use her past life’s experience to survive and hopefully find happiness this time around.
Yes, it’s over 200 chapters -_- so don’t ask me what I’m thinking. It’s not often I finish something this long let alone finding it lovely. But there you have it. It was such a lovely read from beginning to end. For once, the heroine sticks out like a sore thumb not because she’s an alien from the future, but because there are simply outcasts in any era in time. She can’t help who she is, she tries to conform, but she nevertheless knows herself better than anyone else and admirably stands by her choice. A serious plot that is nevertheless scattered with gaiety, a winsome OTP, and an ending that somehow manages to pull away happy. Check, check, and check.
All aboard!
[1] [2,3,4,5] [6,7,8] [9,10,11,12,13]
[14,15,16,17] [18,19,20] [21,22,23]
[24,25,26] [27,28,29,30,31,32,33]
[34,35,36] [37,38,39,40,41]
[42,43,44] [45,46,47] [48,49,50]
[51,52,53,54,55,56] [57,58,59,60] [61,62]
[63,64] [65] [66,67] [68,69] [70] [71] [72]
[73,74] [75,76] [77,78] [79] [80,81]
[82-88] skipped
[89] [90] [91] [92] [93]
[94,95] [96,97] [98,99]
[100] [101] [102] [103]
[104, 105, 106, 107]
[108,109] [110,111] [112]
[113] [114,115] [116,117,118]
[119,120,121] [122,123,124]
[125,126,127,128]
[129,130] skipped
[131,132] [133, 134,135] [136,137,138]
[139,140,141] [142] [143,144,145,146]
[147,148,149] [150,151,152] [153,154]
[155,156,157] [158] [159,160,161]
[162,163] [164,165] [166-167]
[168] [169] [170] [171] [172] [173]
[174] skipped
[175] [176] [177] [178] [179] [180]
[181,182,183,184]
[185-187] skipped
[188, 189] [190, 191, 192] [193, 194]
[195, 196] [197, 198, 199, 200, 201]
[202, 203, 204] [205, 206, 207, 208 end]
If you would like to buy the original hardcopy in Chinese, a traditional version is available from Yesasia.
North American buyers: [Vol 1] [Vol 2] [Vol 3] [Vol 4] [Vol 5 – end]
International buyers: [Vol 1] [Vol 2] [Vol 3] [Vol 4] [Vol 5 – end]
Hamster428 
Cliffhanger! 😀 i just love the plot.. twists and turns make my head spin. Your translations are awesome… thank you very much!
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The quality of your translations are the best that i have encountered. I just love this story and am patiently waiting! Thank you so much!
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Please new release pllllllllllllllllllllllllz
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Waiting breathlessly for new updates!!!!
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Just like to say Thank You! for the translation. I just ‘discovered’ this novel while browsing yesterday and read through everything through one night! I slept at 7am! I noticed you started this project in 2015 and appreciate very much that you’re faithfully following through in 2017 despite your schedule. Alas, I can’t wait! Will attempt to read the original Chinese (a real challenge) or listen to the audiobook to find out what happened.
By the way, your translations are great! I think it’s quite difficult to translate Chinese into English because poetically beautiful Chinese descriptions when translated into English may come across as melodramatic. You did a wonderful job of conveying the atmosphere of the novel in English though. Thanks once again!
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Thank you!
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Thank you so much for your translations, you are amazing! I love this story (I have reread it many times). I hope (as a fan who clings to each and every word of this story) that you would consider translating the skipped chapters at some point? Even the slower chapters add so much to the character development, as a fan, I can’t help but hope to one day read those skipped chapters! Thank you again for your work, as always! =)
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Thanks for your kind words. Your (and other readers’) love for the story is what keeps me going in this long haul.
With that said, it really is a long haul. At my pace, I have another 2 years to reach the finale. Two years is a long time and there’s no telling what will happen to my availability. So my goal is to get as much story out as possible while also getting to the finish line as soon as possible in order to minimize the chances of the project getting dropped somewhere along the way.
Another reason why I likely won’t go back to the skipped chapters is that, this being the internet, my translation is vulnerable to being stolen and distributed without my consent. There’s not much that I can do about it, so I’m deliberately skipping chapters so that if stolen, what they have will never be a complete version of the book.
Of course, I’ll be mindful of the flow and integrity of the story when I choose what chapters to skip. You can rest assured you’re not missing any juicy details.
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Many thanks for your amazing translations (they are the BEST)! I especially enjoy your notes, and summarizations of the skipped chapters 😄 It is a shame that novel translations get pirated! I appreciate your dedicated efforts, as there is a lot of work involved (more than just translating…) looking forward to future chapters.
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141 is not the end yet right? So addictive.
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Thank you and you have one of the best translating skills I have read so far. I hope you will never get tired of letting us appreciate the beauty and excellence of Chinese literature.
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Hello, Hamster!
Oh, I am so excited that there are more recent works of yours! I am new to c-novels and discovered your blog so late but am so glad that I did! Thank you for your continued hard work!
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Hi,
I am Valentina Linz, an amateur writer and translator Portuguese speacker. I like the work you translate, Mei Gongqing, and I have an interest in translating it into Portuguese for non-commercial purposes, even with puplicity and donations. but if the author and you want me to translate in book form and try to get in touch with a publisher for the publication, so with the three parties getting paid for the sales, I also make myself available to try (but knowing the publishing market, it’s almost impossible!)
I would like to know if I would have the authorization for this translation coming from you, and also could help me to obtain the authorization with the author, being that I don’t have any knowledge about mandarim.
Thanks for the attention,
Valentina Linz
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Hi, you are welcome to use my translation as long as it is for non-commercial purposes (meaning you don’t get monetary gains) but I do not use Weibo so I cannot contact the original author for you. That was done as a favor to me by a friend.
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Thank you for answering me and for your approval. This is very important to me, especially as a writer. The Chinese books are being a huge source of inspiration for me, but I can’t share with many because they aren’t known in Brazil. There is no translation of a Chinese novel into Portuguese that has a female protagonist, this will be the first. (and no, I will NOT release this novel as if it were mine …)
But could you send me an email, saying that you approve me to translate this novel, just as a formality? My address is linzvalentina@gmail.com, or you can enter my blog and send in the part of the menu that is written CONTACT.
I want to post on my own blog, or in a non-profit translation group. I don’t think at all of profiting from this translation.
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And just one more big favor:
It seems that the book is divided in volumes.
Do the volumes have different titles?
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Hello, I would like to inform you of something and make a request.
My translation into Portuguese of Mei Gongqing migrated to another site, from a group of translations of manga. We are trying to create a first asian novel translation group in portuguese aimed at a more feminine audience. But the translation is still not for profit, since one of the group’s principles is the voluntary translation. There is no advertisement on the site, nor are there any donation requests.
And then the second request : could we translate Sansheng, Wangchuan Wu Shang? I do not know if you have this information, but a Brazilian translation group translated a chapter of this translation a few years ago, but abandoned it. We would like to give continuity to this translation. We can?
And please, could you not accept this message, so that it doesn’t become public?
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Yes you can use any of my English translation as a reference for your translation. I don’t have a problem with that. But know that my permission for my English translations is not the same as the original Chinese authors’ rights for their works.
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Omg… I can’t believe this was right in front of my face…
I’ve been looking for this book for the last while, just couldn’t remember the name. And just after I was rereading SanSheng, I see this and was like ‘that’s it!’
Thanks for the translations!!
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hello hamster….
many thanks for your amazing hardwork in translating….
eventhought i know that you only realease once a month but still i cant help my self to visit n check this site everyday….
hoping may be there realy is a miracle in this world so the release will be more more often… 😷😂😂😂
anyway.. it really refresh n brightened my whole week when i read your work…
may God give you a beautiful n happy life coz u made lot of people happy too…
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I will wait until your translations are complete.. 🙂
I now consider myself an avid stalker of Hamster’s blog…
She’s definitely one of the best , her translations are AMAZING! Even the grammar and sentences constructions are edited. Imagine the great effort with all that. Thank you so much!
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Ah rong is my new idol, go girl, thanks Hamster for translating👍👍✌
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hi. is this novel dropped? but its really good. I hope you’ll continue to translate this novel. thank you.
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You only skipped two chapters? I was expected around thirty when I read this comment about skipped chapters, but two chapters? fine by me! Well, the novel so far is really great and I love how you don’t use too many English words and overall, it’s a really high-quality translation.
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I am so in love and heart broken to Ah Rong. And love your work.
Still, it is almost new year 2019. Hope you could gift us a mass release.
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I’ve been rooting this novel since 2yrs ago. I’ve even discussed with an author of some novel in other site how I like this novel. I’ve been too curious how will this pitiful Ah Rong will struggle in an era of having nothing, no skills, family, wealth, only bewitching face. I cry for her fate. (Always visiting to check for some movements). Thanks hamster428
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Hello. I’m Korean who loving chinese romance. Recently, I got recommended this novel and heard that, for gratitude, this blog translates. Thank you for your hard work and sharing this quality translation willingly.
I think this is very fun, so want to introduce this novel to other Korean mania of chinese romance by translating in Korean, dreaming so that someday an Korean agency would settle an publishing agreement. May I get your permission…..?
Also, I feel Would you please advise how to get the original chinese author’s permission (i.e. author’s e-mail or publishing platform site address….) ?
If this ask bothers you or seems like a rude, I badly wanna your pardon….Please excuse I don’t have a good command of English.
Wish your happiness. Thank you.
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Hello and thank you for your kind words. Yes you may use my English translation for your Korean translation. As for the Chinese author, you can contact her through weibo. I don’t have a weibo account so a friend contacted the author as a favor to me.
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Thank you for your generous permission♡♡♡♡ as your request, I gonna join in waive and find Chinese author’s account. Thank you♡♡♡♡
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If I will get Chinese author’s permission, I will share my translation link here in this comments. Hereby, you can know where the translation is posted. Thank you ♡
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Olá, me chamo Nayobe, sou brasileira. Estou aqui para agradecer por sua tradução. É realmente agradável.
Estou ansiosa por novos capítulos.
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Is this project dropped? I’ve been waiting for the next chapter for a long time now but it hasn’t been updated. Thanks in advance if you replied!
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Sorry I’m just so busy lately. Trying to get the next chapter out but don’t have any dates in mind
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I really really want to drop this novel…but here I am it only took me one day to caught up with the latest update, 😅. To the translator…thank you so much for your efforts and dedication on translating this story 😘.
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New update pls
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There are other versions/translations of Mei gongqing out there and I can’t even think about reading them. Just patiently waiting for you to upload more hamster428. No regrets.
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Ahaha please read them by all means. Im so sorry I’m such a turtle
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Hi why u skip afew chap?.. Just asking
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I binge read this, took a week (because my day job got in the way😣). I love the story and the quality of your translation is AMAZING!!! Thank you for translating up to 192. I’m sorry to hear things life have been bumpy, I can relate, last year and up to now, Mar2021. I hope things improve for you. Also hope you will rediscover your enthusiasm for this translation project. Thank you, again. Sending positive vibes your way 😘
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Thank you for the updates. I’m also wondering if you’d allow me to translate your work into Korean on my blog. English to Korean, that is. It will be just free translation to share with freinds. I really liked reading Mei Gongqing. Please let me know. Thank you.
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Thank you for the updates. I’m also wondering if you’d allow me to translate your work into Korean on my (not yet created) blog. English to Korean, that is. It will be just free translation to share with freinds. I really liked reading Mei Gongqing. Please let me know. Thank you.
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yes that’s not a problem. gl!
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Oh, that’s great! Thank you! Just one more thing, do you think I should get the author’s permission as well? It’s just I don’t speak Chinese and have no idea how to contact her/him. If possible, would you please ask the author about this? It will be just non-profit postings and can be deleted anytime in the future if the author wants it to be removed. Please. Thank you very much in advance!
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Hello again, I’ve just read one of the previous comments on this page and found out that you’ve already asnwered the same question – about the author’s persmission! Sorry for bothering you again. It’s very difficult to sign up weibo from overseas so I guess I can’t contact the author. If by any chance you can help me with this, then that’ll be wonderful. However, I totally understand if you can’t. Thank you.
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Sorry I’m not on weibo either. I did remember that the authors wanted me to link back to their original works so you can do that too
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Thank you! 😀
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Thank you for this beautiful translation! I’d been having having a rough time lately and (binge) reading this somehow has reminded me that no matter what happens in life, the important thing is to live well, to live splendidly and to treasure the moments you have and the beauty life brings… Thank you for all your hard work Hamster428 💕
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Hey Hamster! I have been following you since “the book that shall not be named” and I am currently binge reading this right now. I just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work that you’ve put into /every/ piece that you’ve translated. I have really enjoyed reading through you and very much admire you for taking on these insane chapter count books.
Love you lots! Deadass, you are the best!
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Thank you for your kind words 😊 I’m glad you enjoy the translations! And oh my goodness it has been so long since I posted the book that shall not be named. Did you come from LJ as well?!
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May I asked for the skipped chapters to be translate?
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