Winning by Doing Nothing, Starting with a Substitute Marriage

There are four upcoming novels in my column. If you're interested, feel free to add them to your collection. The next one I'll start posting is The Crown Prince's Consort Is an Old Ancestor. Everyone is welcome to follow it. If you enjoy historical transmigration romances, check out my column. There are lots of ancient-to-modern transmigration stories. My other genres have plenty of chapters, too. Comments on individual chapters are open. Add the novel to your collection to comment. [*] Highlight [*] The heroine transmigrates, and the hero is reborn. The heroine was the hero's wife in his previous life. There is no one else. Blurb: Jun Qi transmigrates to the ramshackle Great Zhou Dynasty with a simplified sign-in lottery System. She's both a peasant girl and an orphan, with all the bad luck stacked against her. It isn't quite a hellish start, but it still leaves her heart cold. To avoid farm work and gain a say in her household, Jun Qi throws herself into the embroidery skill she drew from a mystery box. Before long, all seven girls in the family have grown up, and her eldest female cousin wants to trade betrothals, throwing Jun Qi into the breach. It turns out her fiance, Scholar Zhou, has become a cripple. Her eldest cousin wants to marry into a richer family, but the Zhou family is no easy match either. And so Jun Qi dons the red bridal veil and becomes the scholar's wife. Later... she wins big! Zhou Jinyan never imagined he would get the chance to live again. As soon as he understood the situation, he hurried back to the village. He was desperate to see his wife, who had fallen from a cliff and died young in his previous life. As fate would have it, he rescues her from drowning. His sweet, silly wife isn't silly anymore. Will the Jun family still make her marry him in someone else's place? The Crown Prince's Consort Is an Old Ancestor (Now posting) Blurb: All things possess a spirit, and all beings can become saints. The first time Divine Palace's Ying transmigrated, she was in the middle of her rebellious teenage phase. She arrived at the Spirit-Wielding Dao Sect, whose creed was, "The wilder your imagination, the harder your spirit can hit." There, she founded a new summoning-style cultivation tradition based on imagined gods, eventually becoming the sect's founding ancestor and reaching the pinnacle of the cultivation world. For a thousand years, no one in the cultivation world dared challenge her. Who could have guessed that, upon ascending, she would be struck by tribulation lightning and sent to an unknown interstellar age? With a frail mortal body, she receives the epic "honor" of life imprisonment from the start. She even has to use a translator just to curse someone. The Old Ancestor is utterly speechless. Fortunately, just in the nick of time, the central AI assigns her a Level Nine berserk mecha warrior to soothe. She has no idea what a soother is, but that's fine. A crisis can become an opportunity, and this is better than slowly rotting away on this prison planet. Everyone else: Who knows which would be nicer, being instantly killed by a berserk spirit entity, or suffering for the rest of your life in the notorious Olsenburg Prison? During her crash course in soothing, the Old Ancestor discovers that spiritual power can serve as a substitute for cultivation energy and instantly perks up. "Hmph! Just watch how I bring this mere berserk spiritual power to heel!" Horson: That's right. She brought me thoroughly to heel. You see the Old Ancestor and instead of bowing, you dare attack her? You've been spoiled rotten! Call in reinforcements! She forms a lotus mudra and chants a spell. The Old Ancestor's already meager spiritual power takes another hit, but her combat instincts are maxed out. She doesn't need to think when she fights; her body moves on its own. "I summon the Third Prince of the Red Lotus!" The red-clad youth in midair opens his eyes. "At your command." "Samadhi True Fire, burn!" The Fire-Tipped Spear follows right behind. "Understood." What? You still haven't learned your lesson? Call in reinforcements! "I summon the Moon Palace's Goddess of Frost and Snow!" The goddess in her blue, flowing robes opens her eyes. "At your command." With a sweep of her bare hand, frost covers the sky. Her clear radiance purifies the corrupt world. "Destroy the evil!" Moonlight and frost sweep across the heavens, cleansing all in their path. "Qing Nu obeys." Note: The male lead will have no primary consort. This is a devoted one-on-one romance. * The male lead is a mecha war god, and the heroine is a summoner who calls in reinforcements. The Spirit-Wielding Dao Sect believes that all things possess a spirit and all beings can become saints. As long as you dare to imagine it, you can use your primordial spirit as a brush to paint a divine body, channel the spirits of all things under heaven into it, and create your own personal fighter. In the cultivation world, others controlled immortals, demons, or their own founding ancestors. Only Divine Palace's Ying summoned gods. For a thousand years, she fought across the land and led the summoning-style sect to glory. The bad news: she transmigrated to an interstellar age without spiritual energy. The good news: she has a substitute in the form of spiritual power, awakened a summoning ability, and can keep calling in reinforcements. Theme: Persevere through hardship, and live happily and safely.