The Imperial Consort's Rise

After transmigrating, she finds herself a palace lady serving Prince Yinreng. Her status is painfully low, but after a bout of resentment, Li Qinghan pulls herself together and decides to play the fool while competing for the position... P.S. The Li Jia clan: daughter of Shuerdeku, a Light Chariot Commandant. According to historical records, the Crown Prince's eldest grandson, Hongxi, was born to a woman of the Li Jia clan. Note: All my Qing-dynasty transmigration novels refer to sources including Draft History of Qing, Selections from Qing Inscriptions, and Baidu Baike's materials on the Qing dynasty!!!! I've started a new book, The Prospective Crown Princess Becomes a Vassal Prince's Second Wife. Please show it lots of support! Blurb: At first, Song Yu had never planned to marry Xie Yingshi. But when the emperor arranged their marriage, he could not defy the decree. He decided he would deliberately humiliate Xie Yingshi so the whole world would know he disliked the match. He did just that, assuming Xie Yingshi would rely on her status as a princess and storm off to live in the Princess's Residence. But she endured everything he put her through. Even when he repeatedly took her and treated her like a plaything, she did no more than cry and beg him to spare her. Seeing her like that, Song Yu thought her aunt, the Empress, must have told her to pretend to be sweet to him so she could spy on his military plans, or perhaps even assassinate him. Yet Xie Yingshi truly served him as her husband, without the slightest ulterior motive. She never showed even a trace of jealousy toward the concubines in his household. If he hadn't known that Xie Yingshi had cried and protested against marrying him when the emperor issued the decree, and that she had once been destined to marry the Crown Prince as his Crown Princess, Song Yu might have believed she had truly fallen in love with him. Then he discovered it was all because of a dream. She only wanted to stay alive. She wasn't madly in love with him. The thought that all her obedience was just a performance, that she was only treating serving him as a job, filled his eyes with coldness. No one had ever dared to humiliate him like this. Ever since she was little, Yingshi had known she was going to marry the Crown Prince and become his Crown Princess. But before the imperial decree arrived, rumors spread inside and outside the palace that her imperial uncle, the emperor, planned to make her a princess and marry her off to the heir of the illustrious Prince of Yanbei, far away in Yanbei. In tears, Yingshi went to her aunt, the Empress. Her aunt had always doted on her, but all she did was wipe away the tears at the corners of Yingshi's eyes. She said nothing about Yingshi leaving the capital to marry far away. Her aunt's attitude only deepened Yingshi's worries. In the middle of the night, she would wake from dreams crying with distress. Then one day, a dilapidated palace appeared in her dream. On the bed lay a woman in white, with a sallow face, looking like a madwoman. That woman was none other than herself. In the dream, she was in Jinling. She had gotten her wish and become the Crown Princess, then Empress, but she was now in the Southern Zhou dynasty. A palace attendant came in to report, "Your Majesty, I came especially to inform you that three days ago, His Majesty made the Second Princess the Princess of Deyang and betrothed her to the old Prince of the Southwest as his second wife. But don't worry. Although the old Prince of the Southwest is advanced in years, he's a considerate man and will surely treat the princess well." "You must understand that this marriage is a rare chance for Southern Zhou to catch its breath. By marrying the princess off, the Prince of the Southwest will surely join Southern Zhou in opposing the Prince of Yanbei." The scene shifted. Xie Yingshi was dressed in magnificent robes again, and the palace before her was no longer that shabby, desolate one. A middle-aged Crown Prince Zhou Rang, dressed in imperial robes, knelt before her, his face full of terror, and pleaded, "Yingshi, the Prince of the Southwest has betrayed us and submitted to the Prince of Yan! Please save your cousin! I'll give you to the Prince of Yan. Father already intended to make you a princess and betroth you to him back then. You were always meant to be his woman. I'll give you back to him." Xie Yingshi didn't know why she had such a terrifying dream. Whenever she thought about it, panic rose within her. She didn't want to become that poor woman, so she would do her best to be a proper consort to the heir of the Prince of Yan. All it would take was a little acting and some patience. Premise: