A Scheming Mother-Daughter Duo's Survival Guide to the Seventies

Novel blurb:

The glamorous superstar Yue Ling transmigrates. After an explosion, she wakes up in 1969, in the body of a girl named Yue Ling, who shares her name.

Having grown up in an orphanage in her previous life and never known a parent's care, Yue Ling looks at the beautiful woman before her and can't help throwing herself into her mother's arms.

Consort Yue, who had enjoyed imperial favor for half her life, was poisoned to death at her own coronation as empress. When she wakes again, she finds herself in the body of a woman named Yue Shi, who shares her name, and has a fifteen-year-old daughter.

In her previous life, Consort Yue was framed and never had any children. Looking at the lovely little girl before her, she can't help gathering her into her arms.

A strikingly beautiful mother and daughter recently arrived in Shiliu Village. The mother walks with a graceful sway, her beauty beyond compare. Her daughter is only fifteen, yet already tall and elegant, with a captivating, delicate charm.

The village gossips secretly call them a pair of vixens, mother and daughter, who lead men astray. The two aren't offended when they hear it. After all, only beauties earn the right to be called vixens.

Blurb for "A Noble Consort and Her Son's Survival Notes in the Republic of China":

Consort Mu Yan of Great Chu and her son, the Sixth Prince, lose the succession struggle. The new emperor orders them to drink poisoned wine and hang themselves, ending their lives.

When they wake again, she and her son have become a cannon-fodder mother and son in a Republic of China novel she read in her previous life.

That's right, her previous life. Mu Yan was once the lead dancer in a famous dance troupe. After an accident onstage, she transmigrated to Great Chu and became the legitimate youngest daughter of Great Chu's Chancellor Mu. Her family later sent her into the palace, where she became an imperial consort.

Now she has returned to the era she knows.

So, when Mu Yan dresses herself up to go dancing at Xianle Gate,

The Sixth Prince, who only comes up to Mu Yan's knee: Mother, you are the foremost of the Four Consorts. How can you lower yourself to dance for others... (And that outfit shows your arms and legs. Father...)

Mu Yan: If I don't earn money, are the two of us supposed to live on the northwest wind?

The Sixth Prince: I can sell newspapers with Wang Xiaohu next door. (Pouting and fiddling with his hands.)

Mu Yan: Son, you don't have to work so hard. I'll just find you a new father.

The Sixth Prince: Huh? The kind who can let me inherit the throne?

Mu Yan: Son, the Qing dynasty has fallen. You're still thinking about becoming emperor?

In the end, finding a new father didn't work out, because the child's real father showed up at their door.

Blurb for "I Became a Dynasty's Empress Through My Face Obsession":

Xia Ning transmigrates into a 3D fantasy political-strategy animated series that only had one season.

The rites have collapsed, the princes vie for power, and her state of Ji is a tiny country with weak national power, surviving in the narrow cracks between great powers.

She is Princess Zhaoning, the youngest daughter of the King of Ji, renowned for her beauty throughout the states. A pedantic poet once wrote a poem about her: "Her garments and beauty are alluring, her charms wicked and disloyal."

The lecherous and brutal prince of Zhao sends an envoy with a letter demanding that the King of Ji marry off his youngest daughter to Zhao.

Xia Ning naturally refuses. There's only one reason: his character model is hideous!

Believing that beauty is justice, Xia Ning finds a way to seduce a musician in her brother's household. She manages to sleep with him and becomes pregnant with his child.

There is no other reason: this slave has the best character model in the entire animated series. On top of that, the deep, magnetic voice actor is exactly her type.

Although Xia Ning doesn't know what happens after the first season, her face-obsessed instincts tell her that the character designers wouldn't give a top-tier model like this to some nobody.

Later, after the State of Ji falls and the musician takes her and the child to Yue, she finally learns his true identity: Qi Jian, the King of Yue.

Much later, when Qi Jian unifies the states, she belatedly realizes that the first step she took here, guided by her face-obsessed instincts, was a path straight to the top.

Theme: No matter your circumstances, keep striving to live.