Does Li Shimin Know Who I Am Yet?

Next up: Qing Dynasty Transmigration: My Auntie's Daily Life with a Child. The child is the Crown Prince, Yinreng. Please add it to your collection~ Muah~ Blurb: Wu Xu transmigrates as the half-sister of Wu Zetian, the future empress. Looking at her beautiful little sister, she thinks: I've won big! Not until secret guards show up to arrest someone and her stepmother pushes her forward to take her sister's place does Wu Xu realize that this story doesn't follow history. "Mother, the person they're after is..." Her little sister is interrupted as her stepmother covers her mouth and drags her away. Wu Xu: The future empress is a keeper. After Wu Xu is taken away, she is locked in a small courtyard with a hot spring and flowers blooming in every season. Whenever it rains, a tall, handsome man comes to bathe in the hot spring. He looks young, but his body is covered in old injuries, and he has to rely on the spring to recover. The man is kind to everyone here, but treats her as if she were invisible. Wu Xu: This stand-in just wants to stay alive. Later, Wu Xu uses her golden finger to cure the old injuries and illnesses of the female steward and the guards. From then on, she lives a pampered life, with food and clothes brought to her, and is perfectly content. After all, every day she is kept here is cover for the empress. The more useless she seems, the safer the empress is. * Li Shimin is reborn. He knows exactly what happened to the Tang Dynasty after his death. The first thing he does after being reborn is search for the Wu clan. Fortunately, he finds them quickly. Li Shimin is too proud to kill a young girl, so he merely locks her up. He's curious how such a sweet, naive girl managed to take the Tang empire from Li Zhi. But as he keeps her locked up, Li Shimin realizes something is wrong with him. One day, Li Shimin asks the female steward, "Has she ever asked about me?" The steward shakes her head in confusion. He then asks the guards on duty, "Was she the one who healed your old injuries?" When the guards nod, he presses them: "Then why won't she heal mine?" Everyone: ... * Years later, Li Shimin's old injuries have healed, but bathing in the hot spring has become his greatest pleasure. He goes in the rain and on sunny days, unable to stop. Everyone thinks he has hidden a beauty away in a golden house. Only he knows what it means to long for someone he cannot have. "Xu Xu, won't you return to the palace with me?" With a late-in-life passion, Li Shimin humbles himself to invite her. Wu Xu politely declines: "Your Majesty, you've forgotten that I'm destined to throw the realm into chaos." Li Shimin chuckles. "You really think I don't know who you are?" With no one else around and the curtains drawn, Wu Xu thinks: Suddenly, I want to usurp the throne! #To protect the empress, I rule alongside Emperor Taizong# PS: 1. The heroine transmigrates; the hero is reborn. 2. An alternate Tang Dynasty, blended with the fantasy novel written by the heroine. 3. Empress Zhangsun has a different setting. Her true nature only awakens later. Fans of the emperor-and-empress pairing, please take note. 4. Everything serves the story. No historical nitpicking, please. Coming soon: Hao Ruyue brings a medicinal cuisine space with her when she transmigrates as the younger sister of Empress Hesheli in the Kangxi era. The empress suffers a difficult labor, and Hao Ruyue enters the palace with her family to tend to her. With medicinal food in her arms, Hao Ruyue is full of confidence: Big Sis, I'm here! But when she sees the tiny, hungry baby, she tears up: Big Sis, I'm too late. After Empress Hesheli dies, the medicinal food goes to the grief-stricken Kangxi. The Grand Empress Dowager keeps Hao Ruyue in the palace to care for Kangxi, who has just lost his wife, and the Crown Prince, who has just lost his mother. Three years pass in a flash. Many new faces have joined the imperial harem, all eyeing the empress's throne and using every trick in the book. Hao Ruyue looks after the child while enjoying the drama. Yinreng: "Auntie, Auntie, someone's secretly burning paper in Zhongcui Palace, and someone else is crying quietly." Hao Ruyue calculates on her fingers. "Today is Prince Changhua's death anniversary. Changhua was your elder brother. Send over some paper offerings." Yinreng: "Auntie, Auntie, Big Brother got into trouble again. Father is making him kneel." Hao Ruyue smiles. "It's so hot out. Go bring the First Prince a bowl of mung bean soup." Yinreng: "Auntie, Auntie, Consort Tong's child is sick and can't breathe." Hao Ruyue gets up and prepares a bowl of medicinal food, then sends it to Consort Tong in the Crown Prince's name. Yinreng: "Auntie, Auntie, Father and Grandmother are arguing. He said he can't live without you and wants to make you empress." Hao Ruyue presses her philtrum. When did this happen? Why didn't she know? PS: An alternate Qing Dynasty. Everything serves the story. No historical nitpicking, please. Theme: When forced to choose between two evils, choose the lesser one.