(Transmigration + noble heroine + palace intrigue and rise to power + feel-good female-led story + eldest legitimate son + fraternal twins + System)
A modern soul transmigrates overnight into the eldest legitimate daughter of a first-rank Minister of Revenue in the Great Jing Dynasty. Jiang Mingxuan is noble by birth and renowned throughout the capital for her beauty.
After awakening, the System tells her that she can return to the modern world once she becomes Empress Dowager.
To get home, she enters the palace to compete for the emperor’s favor and scheme for the throne.
Newly appointed a Beauty, she eagerly takes every pill the System unlocks: Beauty Pills to enhance her looks, Skin-Nourishing Powder to improve her complexion, Vitality Pills to strengthen her body. She has to try them all. For her, loving yourself is second nature.
After entering the palace, she becomes the emperor’s sole favorite, provoking Consort Xian’s jealousy. When Xian plots against her, the emperor flies into a rage and demotes Jiang Mingxuan to Talented Lady.
Jiang Mingxuan just sneers. “Hmph. You’re still too green to take me on.”
As soon as she becomes pregnant, the emperor promotes her to Consort, and the System rewards her with a Twin-Birth Pill.
The emperor has few heirs? She gives birth to his eldest son with her very first child and is named Consort Shu.
Two years later, she takes the Twin-Birth Pill and gives birth to boy-girl twins, stunning the entire court.
Twins born in one delivery, a dragon and a phoenix bringing good fortune: the whole realm celebrates.
Overjoyed, the emperor defies court protocol and opposition, appointing her Imperial Noble Consort, second only to the empress, and entrusting her with the phoenix seal and the affairs of the six palaces.
From Beauty to Imperial Noble Consort, she comes to possess both the emperor’s favor and real power. Even after years in the palace, she has never given her heart to him.
But she never imagined that the emperor, who once seemed so far above her, had already given his heart to her.
This emperor feels like a scumbag, he is lustful, he sleeps with the palace maid, he doesn't like the heroine much, and he is not smart either.
I'll give it 3 stars. It's really not good-looking and the logic doesn't make sense.