A Pure Consort's Easygoing Life in the Qing Dynasty

[Currently serialized: The Fourth Master's Lazy Side Consort, a Qing Dynasty transmigration romance, 1v1]

[Coming soon: My Father Is Nian Gengyao, a Qing Dynasty transmigration story. My Father Deserves a Place in the Imperial Ancestral Temple!]

Blurb:

Su Limo may be the first person ever to die after staying up all night binge-watching dramas until four in the morning.

When she opened her eyes, she had become Pure Consort in Emperor Qianlong's harem. She was already thirty-two, with an eight-year-old eldest son, a younger son not yet two, and a baby girl who wasn't even a month old. She wanted to cry but had no tears.

The worst part was that the historical Pure Consort lived only to the age of forty-seven!

Her children had it even worse! Her second son died at forty-seven, her eldest at twenty-six, and her youngest daughter at twenty-three...

Somebody save me! Somebody save me!

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Qianlong lived to the age of eighty-seven, and several of his concubines in the harem managed to make it past seventy. One even outlived him by two years.

Once she calmed down and thought it over, she realized that although the harem was a dreadful place, as long as she kept her head down, took good care of her health, and became an old lazybones, she might just make it to ninety-nine...

P.S. This is a genuinely lazy slice-of-life story. What's the point of fighting for power in the harem? Wouldn't it be better to lie flat and live to ninety-nine?

The whole harem is caught up in competition, while the heroine just snacks, takes care of her health, and lies flat.

Keep your head down, and we can survive!

The goal: die peacefully of old age, surrounded by children and grandchildren!

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Years later... Su Limo was perplexed. What was going on with this Qianlong? Why did it seem like all the consorts in the six palaces were competing for his exclusive favor toward me?

Somebody save me! Somebody save me!

I don't want to be the emperor's favorite consort!

P.S. This ridiculous middle-aged romance is just too sickly sweet!

In this life, we grew old together. - Su Limo

The Forbidden City was a place that devoured people without even leaving behind their bones. If she hadn't stayed calm, composed, and alert, she might already have become a withered beauty buried in the palace.

All she ever wanted was to live well, die peacefully of old age, and have her children and grandchildren gathered around her.

What she hadn't expected was that Qianlong would come to care for her. At first he treated her with indifference, then he started sulking and saying one thing while meaning another. Before long, he was acting out melodramatic romance scenes with her, and finally, he offered her his heart. He stopped taking new consorts for her, searched the world for every rare treasure he could find for her, and kept her in his heart for decades, just as he had from the start.

Su Limo treasured his affection above all else. It warmed the long years of her life.

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The next book in the series is The Fourth Master's Lazy Side Consort, a 1v1 sweet romance. Here's the blurb:

Word is, a stunningly beautiful side consort has joined the Fourth Master's household. But apparently, she's a little odd. She doesn't compete for his favor or flatter him. All she wants to do every day is eat and drink, play with cats and dogs, and shop till she drops?

P.S. A gorgeous, sweet, lazy side consort x a restrained, celibate, stingy, devoted puppy of a Fourth Master

Both are romantically and physically inexperienced~

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There's also a story coming soon in my collection, Making an Ordinary Life in the Qing Dynasty. Here's the blurb:

Daughter of a seventh-rank official x son of a cannon-fodder imperial physician

A doting husband, well-behaved children, and leisurely outings for food and fun. Collecting rent and visiting the country estates. An ordinary life that's warm and happy. 1v1

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An ordinary life needn't be mediocre. Struggling to make each day more prosperous is beautiful in its own way.

Theme: Learn to love yourself, take care of your health while living the lazy life, and keep the whole family together.