Bu Bu Jing Xin

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Bubu Jingxin

Covers of all three volumes of the 2012 Taiwanese edition published by Yeren Culture Publishing (野人文化出版社)
Author	Tong Hua
Original title	步步驚心
Language	Chinese
Subject	Time travel, Imperial China
Genre	Romance, historical fiction, chuanyue
Publisher	Jinjiang Original Network (晉江原創網) Ocean Press (海洋出版社) National Press (民族出版社) Huashan Arts Press (花山文藝出版社) Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House (湖南文藝出版社) Yeren Culture Publishing (野人文化出版社)
Publication date	2005
Publication place	China
ISBN	978-7540450977

Startling by Each Step, also known as Bubu Jingxin (Chinese: 步步驚心), was Tong Hua's debut novel. Originally published online in 2005 on Jinjiang Original Network (晉江原創網), it was later 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), Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House (湖南文藝出版社), and Yeren Culture Publishing (野人文化出版社). Tong Hua revised the novel in 2009 and 2011. The latest edition contained an additional 30,000 word epilogue.^[1]

The story features a twenty-first century woman who gets transported back in time to the court dramas of the late Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty. The novel was most prominently adapted as the television series Scarlet Heart, and was later also adapted into a radio drama, feature, film, stage play and a Korean drama.