Startling by Each Step is a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 romantic novel written by Chinese novelist Tong Hua

Tong Hua (author)

Tong Hua was born in 1982. She is one of the most famous contemporary romance novelists in China. She used "Zhang Xiaosan" as her pen name. She was graduated from Peking University and went to America in 2005...

. It was the author's first book. It was first serialized online in 2005 in Jinjiang Original Network (晉江原創網), before being published by Ocean Press (海洋出版社), National Press (民族出版社), Huashan Arts Press (花山文藝出版社), and Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House (湖南文藝出版社). Tong Hua has revised the novel twice in 2009 and 2011.

Plot

After experiencing a deadly traffic collision, Zhang Xiao, a white collar worker from the 21st century, China

China

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, discovers her soul wanders backward through time to the 18th century Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

 during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor

Kangxi Emperor

The Kangxi Emperor ; Manchu: elhe taifin hūwangdi ; Mongolian: Энх-Амгалан хаан, 4 May 1654 –20 December 1722) was the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the first to be born on Chinese soil south of the Pass and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper, from 1661 to 1722.Kangxi's...

 and inhabits the body of a teenage Manchu girl, Ma'ertai Ruoxi, instead of being in the afterlife. Being stranded in the past with no means to return to her own time, Zhang unwittingly embroiled in the power struggles among the emperor's sons and well as a love conflicts with them.

Television series

Year	| Production	| Additional information
2011	Chinese Entertainment Shanghai Ltd. (Mainland China)	See Startling by Each Step Startling by Each Step Startling by Each Step, also known as Bubu Jingxin is a Chinese television series based on a novel of the same title by writer Tong Hua . Filming for the series started on 6 December 2010 in Shanghai and wrapped up on 22 March 2011...