Reborn as the Queen of the Women's Country [Journey to the West]

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This story is also known as I, the Queen, Tang Sanzang's Personal Therapist / A Cannon Fodder's Survival Guide to the Conflict Between Buddhism and Taoism / Tang Sanzang, Don't Hide, I'm Not Going to Eat You.

A single office worker who's never been in a relationship transmigrates one day into Journey to the West as the Queen of the Women's Country. After enjoying life for just a few days, she learns that the Queen Mother of the West has given her a mission: she must make Tang Sanzang fall in love and stay, or her soul will be destroyed.

She gives it her best shot, but Tang Sanzang accidentally drinks Mother-Child River Water, and the two of them end up with a sibling-like bond. She becomes something of a therapist to him instead. What an unexpected turn of events!

See how she gets out of this safely and saves her own life.

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“Save the mother or the baby?”

“The mother!”

The man's voice is hoarse and anxious.

The young wife is dying in a difficult childbirth. Hearing her husband, Jiang Mo, make his firm choice outside the window, she never forgets it. But after giving birth to twins, a boy and a girl, she dies and is reborn in the modern era as Xing Qingchan, where she experiences a completely different and smooth-sailing life.

Reborn into her life before her previous life, just as she is about to die in childbirth, Xing Qingchan is hardly free of resentment. Her immediate priority, of course, is to stay alive and safely deliver her children.

She can't stand Jiang Mo, a thoroughly old-fashioned man. He clearly loves his wife, yet leaves her behind to go to the capital and enjoys the company of concubines. He knows his mother is domineering and foolish, yet lets her arrange everything concerning his wife's delivery. He spends his whole life a widower, and deserves to be. But with disaster looming, Xing Qingchan has no choice but to rely on him.

She makes unreasonable demands through gritted teeth, asking Jiang Mo to accompany her into the delivery room and stay by her side. Xing Qingchan never expected him to agree. An old-fashioned scholar, agreeing to a request everyone else considers absurd?

Holding her newborn twins, Xing Qingchan says reluctantly, “I appreciate it.”

Once her life is out of danger, Xing Qingchan has to think about the future. Jiang Mo isn't part of her plans, and she's still undecided about the children. After hitting a wall, she realizes that becoming self-reliant is practically impossible.

As a liberal arts student, she can't change the world. Instead, she gradually earns a reputation as an excellent mother, finally settling into her role as an official's wife and putting down roots in this era, making a life of her own within its limited bounds.

But how is she supposed to deal with Jiang Mo, who is becoming more and more to her taste and has learned to be considerate and faithful to his wife? Wouldn't it be better to keep their distance and remain nothing more than the parents of their children? Why is her heart starting to stir despite herself?

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Jiang Mo becomes a model civil official. He reflects that he has done right by his sovereign above and the common people below, but has failed his wife, who died young in childbirth, and their children. He was a poor father, and not even a Jiang family descendant came to his funeral after he died.

Suddenly reborn just before his wife goes into labor, Jiang Mo resolves to start over and devote more thought to his wife and children, building an exemplary family with a virtuous husband, a worthy wife, filial sons, and virtuous daughters.

However, his young wife is very different from what he remembers from long ago. She has strong opinions, and while this surprises Jiang Mo, he gradually falls for her. He indulges and pampers her, even defying his mother for her sake. Eventually, he truly sees and respects her, and understands her: “If you were an official, you would far surpass me.”

She is not only the children's mother and guide in life, but his guiding light, too. For the first time, Jiang Mo recklessly gives her his whole heart and soul, asking only to share a bed in life and a grave in death, and to live together in mutual understanding for the rest of their lives...

---Also looking for a little attention for my ongoing story, Ling Long: Xiangling Reborn as Consort Ling, a crossover with Dream of the Red Chamber and Qing Dynasty fiction---

Xiangling, whose real name is Zhen Yinglian, was the daughter of a local gentleman. She was kidnapped as a child, later became Xue Pan's concubine, and was tormented to death by the principal wife. She is the only character in the auxiliary volume of The Twelve Beauties of Jinling.

She was lovely and refined, devoted to poetry, yet spent her life wandering in misery. Her story is truly pitiable and heartbreaking.

After being reborn, she works hard to protect her little family and meets Hongli in disguise. Following the course of fate, she enters the palace.

Her whole family is granted noble status and the surname Wei Jia. She hears gossip about the Rong and Ning households from Consort Jia, and later takes in Zicjuan and Ying'er after they are sold off.

She saves Xue Baochai and makes arrangements for Xue Baoqin, fulfilling the bonds from her previous life.

She lives a peaceful life in the palace, grateful for the kindness shown to her by the two empresses who came before and after her in this life, and has no regrets.

Until she is made Consort Ling and then Noble Consort Ling, rising higher and higher. At last, she senses that something is wrong and turns her attention seriously to the emperor...

Theme: A tribute to the classics, using the past to reflect on the present. No matter your circumstances, love life and love yourself.