Recommendations Courtesan in ancient times/ancient china/imperial palace

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  1. MerilynEyva

    MerilynEyva Active Member

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    Okay, I've been watching a donghua where a girl becomes a servant in the imperial palace and the chief eunuch takes an interest in her after she saves the life of one of the baby princesses from poisoning. She is a doctor from the red district who was kidnapped and sold to the palace as a servant and ended up as the official companion of the concubine mother of the princess she saved. She She grew up among courtesans and worked as a doctor for them before being kidnapped, and even ended up bribing an officer with a night of dreams with the brothel's best meimei. More For a while she ends up working serving drinks at the brothel and the ML goes crazy to prevent her from starting to serve customers alone. In short. You can already see that the story has a lot to do with brothels and courtesans and the red light district.In this thread I'm looking for novels that also have an MC who is a courtesan, works in a brothel, considers the brothel sisters family, etc. But that have a bit of drama with nobility/palace imperial too.
    It can be BL or BG. Preferably with plots of misunderstandings (mostly funny since I don't like excessively angsty things). I also accept RAWS recommendations.
     
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    I would suggest "The apothecary diaries" for you, it's both an anime & a manga.
     
  3. MerilynEyva

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    Actually, I think it's the one I'm talking about in the main post. I just called it donghua because of its Chinese setting. I just watched it and I'm obsessed❤️
     
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