[Qing Transmigration] I Became the Empress Dowager After Living as a Freeloader

My new novel, The Concubine Tong's Retirement Life [Qing Transmigration], is now underway! Come check it out and add it to your favorites! Preorder: The Concubine Tong's Retirement Life [Qing Transmigration]. Visit the author's page to add it to your favorites in advance. Liu Sining transmigrates and discovers she has become a young concubine in the household of Prince Jia of the Qing Dynasty. She is also carrying Prince Jia's eldest son. Everyone knows that Prince Jia is the future, widely renowned Jiaqing Emperor. And the child in her womb will not live past his first birthday. It's a hellish scenario from the start, and Liu Sining is speechless. She decides to focus on keeping the baby safe, then lie flat and survive. After all, the future Jiaqing Emperor already has a legitimate eldest son, as well as a beloved younger legitimate son by his second wife. How could her ordinary eldest son by a concubine compete with them? Liu Sining accepts her fate. But the child in her womb seems to have other ideas... The boy studies hard, is clever and ambitious, has a deft hand with people, behaves impeccably, and is well liked. In the end, through sheer hard work, he manages to ascend the throne, making Liu Sining the Empress Dowager. On the day of his coronation, the new emperor points to the sprawling palaces and tells Liu Sining, "Mother, from now on, you never have to bow to anyone or suffer anyone's abuse again." Looking at her family, surrounded by children and grandchildren, Liu Sining wonders: ? At first, I only wanted to be a lazy fish. P.S. This story is set in an alternate history. Just enjoy it for fun. Here's another preorder. If you're interested, visit the author's page and add it to your favorites: The Concubine Tong's Retirement Life [Qing Transmigration] After being reborn, Yu Min discovers that she has transmigrated into the body of a minor concubine in the Qing imperial harem. She has no favor from the emperor, no family background, and a newborn baby in tow. Yu Min thinks she might still be able to turn things around. But then she learns that her child's father is the hero of a famous historical love story, whose heroine is not her. Her child is a famous emperor from history: Kangxi. Yu Min decides there's no saving this situation. She might as well retire and enjoy herself. Going straight from concubine to Empress Dowager, with the chance to watch a famous historical love story unfold along the way. What could be better? But love stories aren't wish-fulfillment romances, and the imperial harem isn't a retirement home. If Yu Min wants to become Empress Dowager and live out her days in peace, she still has a long road ahead. The Chief Secretary's Wife After Being Reborn A cold, calculating chief secretary from a poor family x a beautiful noblewoman who has renounced love [1] Jiang Mingwan was born into a family of great wealth and status and was cherished by everyone. Yet in the year she came of age, she married Xu Zhongxing, a scholar from a poor family. Even though Xu Zhongxing was the youngest top-scoring candidate in the Great Zhou Dynasty, possessed an elegant bearing, and was aloof and proud, everyone said she was marrying beneath herself, and everyone thought she deserved better. But Jiang Mingwan saw Xu Zhongxing's potential. She knew he was ambitious, capable, and talented. She believed that if she joined forces with him, she could enjoy a life of luxury and honor. Even though he seemed to love someone else, spending every day in his study looking at a portrait of a woman. In the end, Jiang Mingwan did achieve her wish: she lived a life of wealth, honor, and comfort. She simply died a little early, in her early forties. She thought that after her death, Xu Zhongxing would be overjoyed. But to her surprise, when she died, she saw Xu Zhongxing, the chief secretary who was always so composed and unruffled, holding her hand with red-rimmed eyes. Thinking of how sad Xu Zhongxing had been when she died in her previous life, Jiang Mingwan decides to do something nice after being reborn. Jiang Mingwan: "Husband, if you really like the woman in the portrait in your study, let's bring her home and make her your concubine." Xu Zhongxing: "No need. She's already in the house." Jiang Mingwan: "?" [2] For the first twenty years of his life, Xu Zhongxing was disciplined, courteous, and a true gentleman. But after he met Jiang Mingwan at the age of twenty, all of that fell apart. She was the red mark in his heart, the moonlight he longed for, the person he dreamed of day and night and had to make his own. Later, he finally couldn't hold back and used every means at his disposal to marry her. But on the first day of their marriage, he heard her say that she did not love him. She had only thought that his cold manner would make it possible for them to respect one another and live in peace, with fewer complications. From then on, Xu Zhongxing no longer dared reveal his true feelings. He could only express his longing in front of her portrait, because he was truly afraid that if she learned what he felt, she would never speak to him again. But Xu Zhongxing never imagined that one day, that lofty moon would choose to draw near to him. And at last, he could hold the moon in his arms. Theme: Keep striving through life, and life will smile back at you.