The Goal Is to Become the Empress Dowager

My new story, "Bring the Red Envelope Group Along to the Political Marriage", is now underway. If you're interested, feel free to check it out.

A few warnings: You can't please everyone. If it's not your thing, feel free to drop it. Read for fun, and don't take it too seriously.

Qing Lian is a blue lotus demon who has cultivated for a thousand years. She is just one step away from ascending to immortality. But during her tribulation, she nearly gets blasted to ashes by heavenly lightning.

A woman sacrifices herself, turning her flesh and soul into nourishment to awaken the slumbering blue lotus.

The woman who sacrificed herself is named Ye Qingyin. She is the youngest daughter of the current dynasty's Grand General Who Guards the Nation. The entire Ye family is loyal and devoted, and has never taken part in the struggle over the throne. That is, until Ye Qingyin falls hopelessly in love with the Sixth Prince, Lin Nuocheng.

The Sixth Prince, Lin Nuocheng, was born after the emperor, drunk, spent the night with a lowly palace maid. With such humble origins, he never stood a chance of ascending the throne. Yet he schemes to make Ye Qingyin, the Ye family's legitimate daughter, remain devoted to him. She ignores her parents and elder brothers' objections and insists on marrying him.

The Ye family pours all its effort into building the Sixth Prince's influence, painstakingly clearing a path for him through the blood-soaked struggle for succession.

But once Lin Nuocheng has secured the throne, he turns merciless. First, he shows endless disdain and disgust for his first wife, Empress Ye Qingyin, while secretly undermining the Ye family. Then, egged on by his beloved and his cinnabar-mark lover, he tortures Ye Qingyin to death. He heaps every vile accusation on her, even though she is heavily pregnant, betrayed, and ultimately dies along with her unborn child. The Ye family is finally drained of every last bit of its worth, then framed as traitors who colluded with the enemy and sold out the nation. Their disgraceful name lives on, and all three branches of the family are executed.

Reborn and already married to Lin Nuocheng as empress, Ye Qingyin knows she has no power to exact revenge. So she offers everything she has to the blue lotus demon, hoping she will protect the Ye family and help her take revenge.

The blue lotus demon has never given up on becoming immortal. She also realizes the imperial palace is a place with excellent feng shui, so she abandons the idea of simply cleaving the dog emperor in two. Instead, she feeds the childless emperor a pill that will ensure he fathers daughters for the next twenty years or more.

The blue lotus demon thinks the dog emperor is filthy, having been defiled by humans. Whenever she has no choice but to see him, on the first and fifteenth of the month, she uses an illusion to make him kneel beside her bed all night.

Humans need a male and a female to have children. She's different. She can have six all by herself.

Main characters:

1. The dog emperor who kneels beside the bed

2. Consort Shu, the transmigrated-into-a-book beloved

3. Noble Consort Yan, the reborn cinnabar-mark lover

4. Consort Rong, the transmigrated woman

5. The other consorts

This is probably a story about everyone in the palace wanting to kill her, but somehow never managing to.

Written on February 1, 2021.

My other ongoing story: *My Animal Army [Apocalypse]*

Orphan Su Yu has loved small animals since she was little. Even when she could barely afford to live, she still chose to study veterinary medicine, a five-year degree.

After five years of hard work, saving money from the age of eighteen until she graduated at twenty-three, she finally managed to take over a little pet shop of less than a hundred square meters. It had a few cats, a few dogs, three or four hamsters, one or two turtles, and one or two birds.

But just two months after opening, right when she was ready to make her grand plans a reality, the Apocalypse arrived.

In the cruel Apocalypse, people eat people, zombies eat people, and mutated beasts and plants eat people too. She has no special abilities, just an ordinary person's golden finger: a pet app. But surviving is really not hard at all.

Cats: Our claws are sharp as knives, and we run like lightning. Shooting sparks is easy, fighting is easy too, but raising humans is really hard.

Rabbits: We're soft and fluffy, with pearly white teeth. Digging holes is easy, growing vegetables is easy too, but raising humans is really hard.

Dogs: We're three meters long and incredibly strong. Pulling sleds is easy, hunting is easy too, but raising humans is really hard.

Hamsters: Our cheeks are stuffed, and we've got plenty of food. Cracking sunflower seeds is easy, hiding things is easy too, but raising humans is really hard.

Turtles: Our shells are hard, and our teeth are sharp. Catching fish is easy, diving is easy too, but raising humans is really hard.

Birds: Our wings are like the wind, and our claws are like blades. Flying into the sky is easy, riding the wind is easy too, but raising humans is really hard.

Su Yu: Land, sea, and sky, we've got it all! Staying alive really isn't hard after all.

Theme: Women can live brilliantly without relying on men.