The Daily Life of an Ancient-Era Concubine's Daughter

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Blurb:

Wei Shaojun transmigrates into the body of a minor official's daughter, a lowborn daughter who isn't loved by her family.

Her stepmother is capable and sharp, leaving little room for Wei Shaojun to make a name for herself. Her cheap father believes women should follow the Four Virtues, and never stops telling her to know her place and observe the rules of womanhood.

She only wants a quiet life, and to find a husband from a modest family, someone meek and easy to manage. If they ever fall out of love, they can part amicably, and she can establish a separate female household and live a free and carefree life.

As it happens, the Empress Dowager has established a school for women, where Wei Shaojun can meet plenty of eligible young men. A down-on-his-luck son of a once-prominent family with no relatives to rely on sounds good. So does the gentle, refined boy next door. Wei Shaojun is spoiled for choice.

What she doesn't know is how she managed to offend the noble and exalted Prince Chengyang, Qi Xuan. He keeps his eyes on her and ruins her plans at every turn.

Wei Shaojun has suffered at his hands for a long time. Only when Qi Xuan leaves the capital to gain experience at the border does she finally breathe a sigh of relief.

To her, Qi Xuan is just a passing figure. She never expected this "passing figure" to be so brazen as to steal her away in public and ruin her marriage, causing a scandal throughout the city.

Qi Xuan was born into privilege, and his life had always gone smoothly. Then he met Wei Shaojun, and took a terrible fall.

She was exactly his kind of woman, and he couldn't get enough of her.

But this young woman had deceived and manipulated him, wrapped him around her little finger, and now she was going to abandon him and marry someone else.

Qi Xuan knew that, in Wei Shaojun's eyes, his status, wealth, and power were worth less than a single hair on her useless fiance's head.

So what? If he wanted her, he would have her.

[Witty, crafty transmigrator vs. unruly prince]

#Face-slapping and comeuppance

#Falling for her on his own

#The powerful one bows his head

Content warnings:

* Both leads have only ever been with each other; the heroine's soul transmigrates into another body.

* Domestic life, a slow burn, and a gradual pace

* The plot serves the romance. This isn't a wish-fulfillment story. Fictional setting with original worldbuilding, so please don't overanalyze historical accuracy.

* The characters aren't perfect. Don't read if that's not your thing, and please keep that in mind!

* Please be civil while reading. No personal attacks, thanks! (Bows repeatedly)

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Blurb:

During the Yongjia turmoil, the Xiongnu captured Luoyang, and large numbers of Central Plains aristocrats and commoners fled south across the Yangtze.

Qingluan's family belonged to the third branch of the main line of the Hedong Pei clan. They were supremely privileged, but during their flight south they were attacked by Hu cavalry and separated from their clan, forced to migrate with the refugees.

Refugees preyed on one another, and the wilderness was strewn with bones. The glamorous aristocrats had fallen among this vicious crowd like sheep among wolves.

To ensure their family could make it safely south, Qingluan's family had no choice but to turn to a ruffian who had clawed his way up from the bottom.

He had fought his way out with a single blunt knife. He was agile and streetwise, and if he protected them, the family could make it south safely.

Qingluan's father offered the young man a generous reward to hire him as their guard. He readily agreed, but refused the lavish payment, asking for only one thing.

Pei Qingluan, the cherished pearl of the Hedong Pei clan, and the fiancee of a young man from the Langya Wang clan.

Qingluan loathed Xie Wuyang, this lowly man from the countryside who dared to desire her.

He made her witness how fragile family bonds could be in the face of life and death, and turned her from an aristocratic young lady into a countrywoman.

He also had no self-control, day or night, and no sense of shame...

But in this chaotic era, Qingluan had to rely on him if she wanted to survive.

Xie Wuyang did everything he could to give Qingluan a better life. But to her, it was nowhere near as good as her old life.

She never gave up on leaving Xie Wuyang. She waited for the new dynasty to stabilize and for her family to come for her.

At last, her chance came. Like a bird returning to the woods and streams, she was finally free.

She returned to prosperous Jiankang and left her wretched past with Xie Wuyang behind. They had been husband and wife, and the fact that she didn't kill him was already an act of mercy.

She never knew that this one decision would turn her peaceful, prosperous life upside down.

That country bumpkin had risen through the ranks on the strength of his military achievements and made it to Jiankang. When she saw those sharp eyes again, Qingluan couldn't stop her whole body from trembling.

She remembered what Xie Wuyang had once told her: "A-Luan, in life we'll share a bed, and in death we'll share a grave."

This lowborn man, who couldn't even recognize a single character, knew how to write just one thing: her name.

[Clear-eyed, self-serving aristocratic lady vs. resentful husband whose wife ran away]

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