The Qing Dynasty: Empress Fucha

Currently serialized: Seven Young Prince, Are You Joining the Rat Race Today? Next up for preorder: After Transmigrating, I'll Lie Flat and Wait to Become Empress Dowager (Qing Dynasty). Blurb below.

Blurb:

Fu Danwei's last wish in her previous life was to stay alive and eat well.

After transmigrating and becoming Hongli's primary consort, her wish became to stay alive and eat well with her two children.

She cooked something different every day, from wisteria flower cakes and shrimp-and-bamboo-shoot wontons to poached lamb, braised lamb, steamed fish, fish balls, and soy-sauce-dried fish...

She raised the frail Yonglian until he was as sturdy as a young calf.

The picky, pampered Third Princess now loved everything she ate.

Neglected Hongli: "? Where's my wife?"

His wife, who used to fuss over him and understand him so well, now acted as if he didn't exist and spent all her time in the kitchen.

This story is also known as: #How to Gradually Change Two Generations of Emperors#

Reader's Guide:

Not historically accurate. Please don't nitpick the history.

Gender-bender, lighthearted food and child-rearing slice of life. Yonglian ascends the throne early, Qianlong stays out of state affairs, and later dotes exclusively on her (one-sidedly).

Currently serialized: Seven Young Prince, Are You Joining the Rat Race Today? Blurb:

Qi You transmigrated into the five-year-old Seventh Prince, Yinyou. Unfortunately, his left leg was slightly disabled, which put the throne out of his reach. Among his brothers, he was an unnoticed nobody.

Qi You: "Being emperor takes brains, not legs. This disguise is too good not to use. If I can be emperor, why would I want to be some idle rich guy?"

Qi You: "There's no way I'm lying flat, unless I'm lying in a coffin. The Qing Dynasty will rot into such a mess that even a coffin won't protect me. They'll dig up my grave."

His teacher assigned ten pages of calligraphy, but Qi You turned in fifteen, all neatly written, and also memorized ten poems.

His brothers were stunned.

Kangxi: "My son may be physically disabled, but his spirit is strong. Excellent!"

The Crown Prince: "Seventh Brother is amazing!"

The eldest prince: "I wonder if I can get Seventh Brother to do my homework for me."

The Fourth Prince: "I should learn from Seventh Brother. I'll write twenty pages tomorrow!"

Kangxi was pleased to discover that under Qi You's influence, his sons studied harder than before and each became outstanding.

After Qi You ascended the throne, how could he let his talented brothers sit around doing nothing?

The eldest prince took the Fourteenth Prince to war. The Second Prince, Fourth Prince, and Thirteenth Prince became chief ministers. The Third and Fifth Princes managed education and the Ministry of Rites, while the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Princes took charge of the treasury and the Ministry of Revenue.

They built cannons, great ships, and naval fleets, established schools, and resumed voyages to the Western Ocean. They stopped sending gifts and accepted tribute instead.

The Qing Dynasty truly flourished, grew powerful, and dominated the world.

Reader's Guide:

Not historically accurate. No character bashing, just healthy competition.

Qi You ascends the throne.

Preorder: After Transmigrating, I'll Lie Flat and Wait to Become Empress Dowager (Qing Dynasty). Blurb:

1. Tong Jia transmigrated into Tong Jia, a concubine of Shunzhi.

At the time, the ranks in the imperial harem were still being established, and a Gege was basically a nameless, low-ranking concubine.

Compared with Dong'e, the imperial noble consort whose love story with Shunzhi shook the world, Tong Jia's rank was like bronze beside a champion.

Tong Jia wasn't worried at all. She had a son named Xuanye, the future legendary Kangxi Emperor.

Xuanye was already five. If she could hold out for three more years until Shunzhi died, she would be Empress Dowager for sure.

Shunzhi might be rebellious, passionate, melancholy, devoted, sensitive, deranged, and peerlessly handsome, but becoming Empress Dowager was still the better deal.

Tong Jia enjoyed her comfortable little life while admiring the handsome officials at court, especially standouts like Wang Xi, and counting the days until Shunzhi's death.

Who could have guessed that by the time this bronze-ranked concubine became the strongest champion and rose to empress, Shunzhi, now retired as emperor emeritus, would still be full of life?

2. Shunzhi summed up his two lives. In his previous life, he was lucky yet pathetic, dying before he could fulfill his ambitions.

In this life, he was still lucky yet pathetic. The lucky part was that he got to realize his ambitions and had an heir. His son Xuanye surpassed him.

The pathetic part was all thanks to the impossible-to-describe Tong Jia.

She was like a thorny rose. Unlike the empress's poisonous thorns, hers only pricked him. After being pricked so many times, he got used to it and even started craving it.

He didn't hold it against her for having divided affections, and, to put her at ease, abdicated early and passed the empire to her son.

Even when he humbled himself before her, she barely gave him a proper look from beginning to end.

Tong Jia said, "I wouldn't dare offend Your Majesty."

Once, Shunzhi overheard her muttering behind his back, "That was close. I almost went blind!"

Shunzhi: I can't believe you got me to trust you!

Sweet-faced, scheming young concubine VS sickly, obsessive emperor

Reader's Guide:

Lots of fictional details. Not historically accurate, so please don't nitpick.

A groveling chase for love: only the man suffers, never the woman. A melodramatic story.

Theme: Never back down in the face of any challenge