Love In The Forbidden City (Completed)
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*A 25-year-old modern day woman wakes up from a car accident to find herself in the body of a sixteen-year-old Manchu girl living in the 18th century Qing Dynasty. In her new life, she becomes deeply entangled in the princes' battle for the throne and finds herself falling in love with them.*
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