《步步惊心》是桐华在网络连载的一部女主角穿越到清朝的小说。故事讲述了现代白领张晓因车祸穿越到清朝康熙年间,成为满族少女马尔泰·若曦,身不由己地卷入“九子夺嫡”的纷争。她能看透所有人的命运,却无法掌握自己的结局,个人情感夹杂在惨烈的争斗中备受煎熬。该作品2011年首次发表,网络转载总点击量超过一亿人次,小说出版后卖了几十万册创下销售奇迹,之后被改编为同名电视剧。原小说中的古典诗词运用对小说情节发展, “Step by Step Startling” is a novel that Tonghua crosses into the Qing Dynasty through a network of actresses. The story tells the story of a modern white collage Zhang Xiao car accident to the Qing Emperor Kangxi years to become a Manchu girl Martell Ruoxi, involuntarily involved in the “nine son”. She can see through everyone’s destiny, but can not control their own outcome, mixed with personal feelings in the tragic battle tormented. The work was first published in 2011 with a total of over 100 million hits on the internet. After the novel was published, it sold hundreds of thousands of books and set a sales miracle, which was later adapted into a TV series of the same name. The classical novels used in the novel plot development,