The Fifth Daughter-in-Law of the Qing Dynasty

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[Story blurb]

Other people transmigrate and get either wealth or power. Somehow, my situation seems to fall short either way.

You could call me a high-ranking official's daughter, but in the capital, where you could hit three yellow-belt princes and five red-belt princes with a single brick, I'm just the daughter of a fifth-rank official. Whenever my carriage meets someone on the road, I have to yield.

You could call me a legitimate daughter, but my useless birth mother is weak-willed, and the concubines run the household. It's a case of little temple, big demons, shallow pond, too many fish. I can hardly hope for a peaceful life.

In the end, I figured I might as well use the dowry I have to either find a decent ordinary family to marry into or pack up and run away, then live a quiet life on my own.

But I never expected to be summoned to the palace for a formality and come away with an arranged marriage to the fifth prince, who doesn't speak a word of Chinese. I swear, calling for help gets no answer from the heavens or the earth.

[The male lead speaks up]

You could call me a prince, but above me are my eldest brother, the Crown Prince, and the fourth prince, who has a dark face and a cruel heart. Below me are my younger brother, spoiled rotten by our mother, and the tenth prince, who is spoiled even without a mother to dote on him.

I was raised in the Empress Dowager's palace. Since my Mongolian is good, that means my Chinese is poor. Since I'm quiet, that means I'm dull and honest. All I can do is stick with my lame seventh brother, keep my head down, and muddle along in the palace.

People say the kind get bullied, but why is it that everyone else's princess consort is the daughter of a commander or a noble, while mine is just an official's daughter? To hell with this!

This is a couple who couldn't stand each other when they first met.

[Blurb for an upcoming novel]

The Tenth Princess Consort of the Qing Dynasty

The first thing Hejia did after transmigrating to the grasslands of the Qing Dynasty was try a lamb dish that, according to legend, had no gamey smell at all and instead tasted of milk.

From then on, the proud daughter of Prince Commandery Uljinggalapu, who everyone said was too delicate to survive, became the most distinctive sight on the grasslands.

Her catchphrases: “What's this? Can I eat it? Would it taste good cooked this way?”

In her previous life, she died of an illness. In this life, which she got for free, Hejia swore she would never shortchange herself, and that even on grasslands centuries in the past, she could be her own boss.

But when an imperial edict arrived on the grasslands, Borjigit Hejia went from being a commandery prince's daughter to the wife of the tenth prince.

The struggle for succession among the Nine Princes, which she had thought was a hundred thousand miles away, had suddenly become an inescapable pitfall in her life.

Her only consolation was that her future husband came from a good family and had powerful connections, so even the ruthless Fourth Prince would spare his life.

Believing that a bad life was better than no life at all, Hejia decided that marrying the so-called dimwitted tenth prince wasn't such a bad thing.

But there was one problem: surviving the struggle among the Nine Princes and making a name for herself in this bloodless battle.

The tenth prince survived despite belonging to the losing side. His name was so difficult to type that he couldn't even have a life of his own on Green River Literature. Is he really a dimwit?

[Blurb for the ongoing novel]

As the only legitimate son in the household of the Vice Minister of Revenue, Wu Cheng'an was born frail.

He also had several half-siblings eyeing the vast fortune in the hands of his father, nicknamed “the Revenue Ministry's golden key.”

His parents had already worn themselves out raising him safely from childhood.

There was no way they could ask a sickly son to excel in both civil and martial arts and protect the family estate.

So he did as his parents said and married Meng Banyan, who was said to be incredibly capable and formidable, able to take on ten people by herself.

But after they married, how had the formidable Meng Banyan become so good at acting cute?

[Important]

The female lead is neither reborn nor transmigrated.

The female lead is twenty when she appears. The male lead is twenty-five.

One-on-one romance.

The female lead is strong, and the male lead is no pushover. He really is frail, and he won't be much better by the end.

Theme: Whatever happens, stay true to your convictions.