Marrying a Princess After Transmigrating as a Carpenter
A woman disguised as a man × two female leads | I carved a pair of entwined lotus flowers for three years, from the woodshed to the stable, from Pingyao Town to the capital, and still never managed to give them away
📌 Synopsis
After transmigrating into the body of a poor village carpenter, I disguise myself as a man to care for my blind mother. My cousin drives us into a leaky stable, and I can’t even afford a copy of the Thousand Character Classic.
My only comfort is the “Miss Qin” from the neighboring village, who often comes to buy wooden hairpins. She climbs over the wall by moonlight, carrying a wine flask, and taps twice on the windowsill before saying, “Wei Heng, I’ve come to claim the pair of entwined lotus flowers you carved for me.”
Only later do I learn that she is the emperor’s second princess.
She comes to see me because the eldest princess stole her childhood sweetheart, then forced her to give up the person she loved to her third younger sister. In that enormous palace, with its four red walls, she has no one to talk to.
I carve and recarve the entwined lotuses, moving from wooden hairpins to stone ones, from Pingyao Town to the capital. Before I can give them to her, the floods come.
My mother is gone, and so is Zhou Xiaoman.
I’ve lost everything. All I have left are my hands, two newly planted jujube trees that have taken root, and a girl waiting for me beneath the eastern wall.
💡 Highlights:
👑 Princess × poor carpenter | Sneaking over the wall by moonlight × living in abject poverty
🪵 A woman disguised as a man × carefully struggling to survive
🍂 Slow-burn daily life × heartache that leaves you aching
🌙 One true love each + happy ending | “I’m not going anywhere. You can have the room on the east side.”
🍅 One-line hook:
The whole world knows the second princess has someone in her heart.
Only I know that person has never dared to hand her the hairpin.
A woman disguised as a man + alternate world + transmigration
