Meili-Jia Ruan

Meili-Jia Ruan (梅里佳 阮) is one of the newest concubines of Emperor Mu's harem

Meili, Sister Meili-Jia, Sister Meili, Sister Jia, Consort Virtuous

Female

14-23 years old

Dark Brown

Odango

Light Green

Human

Fair

Petite with a defined figure

Meili-Jia behaves very politely and with courtesy towards her fellow concubines, regardless of their ranking. But that also means that regardless of ranking, she is very open and honest about her opinions.

Meili-Jia joined the Emperor's harem for the sole purpose of supporting her mother. And now that she is a mother of the Emperor's child, she intends to stay for her daughter and her mother.

Meili-Jia doesn't beat around the bush, she will tell you point -blank what she doesn't like.

Singing, painting, sewing

Singing, spending time with her children, paintings, writing to her mother, reading, napping, going on walks

While generally very friendly and soft-spoken, Meili-Jia can’t be very sharp-tongued when wronged or angry. But nine times out of ten, Meili-Jia is very well behaved.

Briefly Buddhist

Concubine for Emperor Mu

Pink and Purple

Dumplings

Sword

Cat

Consort Virtue

January 27

She can read, write, play a Guzheng, and cook

In a small village not to far from the palace, a woman named Ruan Chao-xing fell in love with a beautiful man from the west. He had come to China to learn about his mother’s culture, and Chao-xing was more than happy to give him the grand tour. During their time together, they explored many places, along with each other. The two declared love for each other, and the man decided to let his parents know in person that he planned to marry. He got on the earliest boat back home, but little did Chao-xing know that it would be the last time she saw the man.

A short while after, Chao-xing discovered that she was pregnant. Horrified that she would be shunned from society, she declared that it was a blessing from the gods. While no one was sure what to think, they decided it wasn’t worth getting upset about. Several months past and Chao-xing gave birth to a beautiful baby girl whom she named Meili-Jia. While it was difficult raising a child on her own, Chao-xing never felt betrayed by her daughter’s father; after all, all she needed to do was look into the girl’s green eyes which matched her father’s to see the love of her husband.

Meili-Jia was a cheerful and friendly child, happy to sing and dance with the other children, but above all else she loved to explore and go on “adventures”. During one of these explorations, she found a beautiful garden filled with the most amazing and rich flowers she had ever seen. There, she met a boy several years older than her, who briefly scolded her. While she clearly didn’t care for scolding, she decided it was worth it to ask to play. During this time, the two made garlands and sang songs and played hide-and-seek. For a short while, Meili-Jia would go back to the garden to play with the boy. But after a while, he seemed to disappear, leaving her not even with a name.

Years passed and Meili-Jia grew more beautiful. While she initially insisted on continuing to help her mother at home, both she and Chao-xing decided it would be best for Meili-Jia to become a concubine for the Emperor. Though she had nothing better to wear but her cooking clothes and her mother’s heirloom hair accessories, Meili-Jia went to the palace at just 14-years-old. Empress Xiao Lianyi dismissed her reading and writing skills, and Imperial Noble Consort Nian Suyan mocked her lowly dress, but Emperor Mu Lingchen saw something more. An earnest and gentle soul behind honest and caring eyes the color of emerald framed by long lashes. This was all it took for him to accept her in.

It didn’t take Meili-Jia to see who were her friends and who were her enemies. Regardless of who you call “sister”, there will always be someone ready to stab you in the back. But she was never alone; having her dear servants Yuexiu and Wei, along with her closest friends Wen Ruyan and Yunyue, Meili-Jia was ready for the challenge. However, even if she didn’t have her allies, she had something others didn’t- a genuine connection with the Emperor. Such connection wasn’t something that could be earned or won, which gave her a leg up. She knew that it was important to be close to Lingchen, she felt that they had a soul connection, that the gods had made her for him. But she knew that voicing such things would be foolish. She knew that she already was ahead of even the Empress in that regard, but she still needed to prove her devotion to Emperor Mu.

Time and time again Meili-Jia would prove that money meant very little to her, that gifts and flattery and even rankings were like frosting. To her, being with Emperor Mu Lingchen was more than enough. However, she received his favor nonetheless, becoming Consort Virtuous. Such ranks never went to her head, and she would take half of her pocket money and send it back to Chao-xing with a letter telling her how she is doing. Regardless of how much time went by, she never forgot her roots… nor the boy in the secret garden; to whom she is closer than she might have suspected.

Huan, a long haired seal point cat

• Meili-Jia is about four years younger than Wen Ruyan and Yunyue, and ten years younger than the Emperor.


• As a child, Meili-Ji would catch frogs and adopted a garden snake. She also has a box of feathers and skulls of small animals. (Insert “I just think they’re neat” meme here)


• After having Lei, Meili-Jia briefly went home to gather her old childhood toys for her children to play with. (She didn’t bring home her box of weird stuff, but the Emperor knows about it)


• Meili-Jia is good at chess


• As a child, Meili-Jia put a frog into the shirt of a boy who had been bullying kids in the neighborhood


• Meili-Jia is proficient with a sword (Lord Ye taught her)


• It’s difficult for Meili-Jia to truly hate someone, but not terribly difficult for her to mildly dislike someone


• Wen Ruyan painted a picture of Meili-Jia napping with Bik and Lei. The painting is in Meili’s room


• Meili reads her children to sleep


• Bik and Lei have similar qualities to Meili-Jia as a child (often scraping their knees and hands, and having a security blanket)