The Great Lotus Bath

[Be sure to read the content warnings before you start!] Overnight, Chen Huiqing, a seventeen-year-old high school student, transmigrates into the body of the Zhou family’s sixteen-year-old eldest daughter-in-law. The Zhou family’s demands are simple and brutal: bear a son, bring good fortune to her ailing husband, and uphold the dignity of the main branch. But her husband is bedridden and has poor fertility. Even after Chen Huiqing is pressured into agreeing to consummate the marriage, months pass without the slightest sign of a pregnancy. Later, her husband dies. Her mother-in-law dies. One by one, the people who persecuted Huiqing die. After washing the blood from her hands, Huiqing calmly watches her belly grow larger by the day. The child’s father is her husband’s second uncle, a high-ranking official and a favored judge of the Court of Judicial Review. When Huiqing was being persecuted, it was her second uncle who saved her. That day, her second uncle led a very pregnant Huiqing before the elders of the Zhou clan and declared solemnly: “My elder brother died in battle more than a decade ago. Now his son and daughter-in-law have passed away one after the other. I could not bear to see the main branch die out, so I have married Chen and will carry on both branches of the family.” * “It is said that in the western heavens there is a Jade Lake, with lotus flowers blooming across its waters. A mortal who bathes there can wash away every sin.” Transmigration | domestic intrigue | twists | Chinese-style horror Older man | forced possession | old-school melodrama Content warnings: 1. Neither the male nor female leads are virgins. One female lead and multiple male leads, with three male love interests in total. The leads have a twelve-year age gap. The male lead has a wife, concubines, and children. 2. Melodrama! Melodrama! Melodrama! The heroine suffers in the first two chapters, and only begins to fight back in the third. 3. About the heroine killing people: it isn’t intentional! She accidentally kills someone in self-defense, and there are karmic consequences. 4. The heroine goes from a sweet, sheltered only child raised in a socialist society to a wicked woman molded by feudal society. She grows more evil, and although she suffers terribly, she will become a bad person. Both leads are ordinary people with normal sexual desires, and neither is particularly noble. Theme: Respect and love yourself, stand on your own two feet, and you’ll find happiness