[Qing-era transmigration] [A touch of ensemble cast] [Historical] [Kangxi era] [Eldest legitimate princess] [Fraternal twins] [Brother-obsessed, but only with Chengxi] [Divine power: magic] [Everyone transmigrates into another person’s body] [Group transmigration] [Nine people travel from the present to the past] [Transmigration]
In the eighth year of Kangxi’s reign, Empress Hesheli gave birth to fraternal twins: the emperor’s eldest son, Chenghu, and eldest daughter, Chengxi.
The dragon prince Chenghu would carry the weight of the ancestral temples; the phoenix princess Chengxi would bear the fortunes of the Great Qing.
It was foretold that Chengxi was richly blessed, the lucky star of the Great Qing.
She was the only princess with a name. Later, she persuaded her Imperial Father to give names to the other princesses, and ended up naming them herself. Her Imperial Father’s only condition was that each be given a full name.
It was a privilege he granted to his only legitimate princess.
While Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was alive, Chengxi helped manage palace affairs and oversaw the Six Palaces. After her death, Chengxi took sole charge of Kunning Palace and governed the imperial household.
Her younger brothers and sisters, whom she raised, all respected her. No one dared break the palace rules and regulations she established.
She once decreed that if a prince had no legitimate children after three years of marriage, he could allow his concubines’ children to be born.
Any woman who bound her feet was forbidden from serving as a consort, wife, concubine, or servant to members of the imperial clan or the nobility.
She broke with tradition by refusing to marry into Mongolia and instead chose a husband in the capital. With the authority of a princess, she took charge of Kunning Palace, rewrote the old rules of the Qing court, and became the one and only person in Great Qing history to “rule the palace and command the realm.”
As the years passed and old customs changed, Kunning Palace became Chengxi’s alone.
