The Fifth Imperial Princess’s Lazy Days (Qing Dynasty Transmigration)

Before becoming Wu Yunguan’s principal wife, Shen Yunhuan was a corporate drone at a big company, a lowly wage slave whose first task every morning was replying, “Received.”

She thought that transmigrating into the body of a rich young lady would let her lie flat and live like a carefree slacker. But then an imperial marriage decree made her realize that her future might involve resolving conflicts between concubines, raising children born to concubines, managing the household, and dealing with one headache after another...

Shen Yunhuan: “...”

It’s all the same wage-slave life, no matter where you work. Besides, she could be a high-level wage slave in the future. Even if there were concubines and their children in the household, she could still be a manager.

Shen Yunhuan decided to treat being someone’s wife as a job, and set about listing the benefits: the boss was rich, easygoing, and had a good temper; there was no risk of being fired, and she could slack off on the clock.

She wouldn’t have to handle any risky projects herself. (Historically, no children were born to the Hesheli clan’s wife.)

Most importantly, the Fifth Prince never took part in the struggle among the nine princes for the throne. He lived a peaceful life and died of old age, which pleased Shen Yunhuan greatly.

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Yinsi had always thought his wife was a dull, taciturn girl.

His grandmother told him that his wife had been unhappy at home and warned him not to bully her. Even if he wasn’t satisfied with her, he must never mistreat his wife. Yinsi had always followed his grandmother’s instructions.

Even though his wife rarely managed more than three sentences with him, and their conversations never seemed to go anywhere; even though her gentle nature had no sharp edges and didn’t particularly appeal to him, he never grew resentful toward her.

It wasn’t until one day, when Yinsi saw his gentle, demure wife pinning down the Third Princess Consort, renowned among the imperial clan for her fiery temper, that he realized for the first time he’d misjudged her.

A Qing-dynasty transmigration story. The pairing is Shen Yunhuan and Yinsi.

The male lead is a native of the era, and he falls in love first.

The heroine thinks she’s just a high-level employee QAQ

Reader’s Guide:

[This story shares a universe with "The Imperial Noble Consort’s Daily Life Raising Children". You don’t need to have read that story. The basic premise is that Imperial Noble Consort Tongjia became empress, and the eldest princess and Fourth Prince were raised by the empress as her adopted children. The siblings are very close. Sixth Prince Yinzhu is still alive and is obsessed with his older brother. Consort De and the Fourth Prince get along well, while the Sixth and Fifth Princes are partners in crime. Thirteenth Prince is Consort De’s adopted son and grew up with the Fourteenth Prince.]

Coming soon: "The Fourth Prince’s Consort" (same universe)

Blurb: Ulanara Jinyi regains the memories of her past life on her wedding night.

It turns out she wasn’t born and raised in the Qing dynasty. She was Su Jinyi, an orphan from the twenty-first century, who died in a car accident and somehow ended up in the Qing dynasty.

She was an orphan in her past life, but in this life she has loving parents, a close friend she can tell anything to, and a childhood sweetheart for a husband. She is content.

The one blemish is that her husband will have many women in the future, and when he reaches middle age, he’ll meet the love of his life.

The thought of a life whose course is so clear makes Su Jinyi feel at a loss. Even more sadly, her memories of the twenty-first century are so distant that the idea of living in a polygamous marriage in the future doesn’t even seem that hard to accept.

With the attitude that she might as well make the best of things, Su Jinyi begins the journey of coming to terms with herself.

But this Qing dynasty doesn’t seem quite like the one she remembers.

Her adoptive mother-in-law, who should have died young, is not only alive but has been empress for many years.

She even gets along well with her biological mother-in-law.

And her biological mother-in-law is close to her husband, nothing like the stories in unofficial histories that claimed she disliked him.

His younger siblings also respect him greatly.

The biggest contenders for the throne are all obsessed with their older brother...

Most surprising of all is the Fourth Prince. Despite being an imperial prince with a harem of wives and concubines, he refuses to take a secondary consort or concubines. At home, whenever he has the time, he personally takes care of the children.

Su Jinyi is especially worried that her son Honghui will die young, so she takes great care in raising him. But her adoptive mother-in-law worries about him even more than she does.

Su Jinyi: Did I transmigrate to a parallel universe?

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A little bonus scene:

Because of her past-life memories and her knowledge of history, Su Jinyi always keeps her guard up around Yinzhen. But Yinzhen patiently tells her again and again how he feels.

Yinzhen doesn’t know why his childhood sweetheart suddenly changed one day. He is confused and at a loss, but that’s all right. His mother taught him to return sincerity with sincerity.

One day, Jinyi will believe that he loves her.

Reader’s Note:

The leads are monogamous. This is a follow-up to "The Imperial Noble Consort’s Daily Life Raising Children", telling the story of Yinzhen after he grows up. Since Shushu’s actions changed history, the characters’ paths have changed too.

It’s still a story about raising children! The children being raised are Yinzhen and Yinzhu’s!

Think of it as a parallel universe.

"The Empress’s Guide to Raising Children"

Nan Jia transmigrates into the past and becomes Kangxi’s first empress, who died young in history.

She is still alive and well, and the course of the Qing dynasty’s history has already begun to shift.

The former Crown Prince, Yinsi, is now merely the Second Prince, with the status of a legitimate son but no aura of a designated heir.

Nan Jia privately reassures herself that this is just the butterfly effect. But she never imagined that the flutter of those wings would send Yinzhen to her, making him her second son.

Nan Jia had only wanted to cling to her son and scrape by in peace in the imperial palace. For a moment, she falls silent.

A Second Prince with no chance of becoming heir, and a Fourth Prince who is not Consort De’s eldest son: standing at the crossroads of a history that has been completely rewritten, she is filled with uncertainty about the road ahead.

But her confusion soon passes. She quickly gathers herself and secretly resolves that no matter how turbulent the world becomes, her son must ascend to the highest throne in the land.

Knowing all too well how ruthless the imperial family can be and how painful it is for siblings to turn against one another, Nan Jia carefully teaches her two sons from childhood. She devotes herself to nurturing their brotherly bond and treats them equally in every aspect of their upbringing.

Perhaps the modern approach to parenting was simply too effective. The sibling rivalry and fratricide she had worried about all night never happened.

Instead, she raised a pair of brothers who were utterly devoted to one another.

They get along wonderfully and yield to each other in everything. In the end, they even try to hand each other the throne everyone else would fight tooth and nail to claim.

Nan Jia: “...”

This turn of events is a little too ridiculous.

Her second son, Yinzhen, has also been a bona fide jinx since childhood.

He trips on perfectly flat ground, chokes whenever he drinks water, and often gets food stuck in his throat. Kite strings snap, carriages fall apart halfway through their journeys, and even the trip from the Forbidden City to Ying Tai can unexpectedly end in an assassination attempt.

Kangxi once said outright that anyone watching over Yinzhen had better stay alert every second.

For years, Yinzhen has believed that he was born under an unlucky star and destined for a hard life.

He never knew that his birth had already used up every bit of bad luck he would ever have, in exchange for an overflowing share of good fortune. He has a father and mother who cherish him as their own lives, and a brother who alone in this world showers him with tenderness and protects him, giving him a peaceful life.

A Qing-dynasty transmigration story about raising children. The protagonists are Yinzhen and Yinsi, and Yinsi becomes emperor.

I don’t want Yinzhen to suffer, so he is not reborn and has no memories of a past life.

The heroine is Empress Hesheli, and her pairing is Kangxi.

A loving family (not really).

Theme: Love means respecting and supporting each other.