The Dramatic Little Imperial Consort

Ye Jingtang transmigrates, and the moment she opens her eyes, she's sent to the palace. She is there to care for the two-year-old prince left behind by her cousin, a beloved consort who died of illness. But not long after Ye Jingtang arrives at the palace, before she even sees the emperor, the dynasty changes. The other princes are either dead or imprisoned. Only the young prince is kept alive by the new emperor, Mu Yunting, as a prop to show off his benevolence. Ye Jingtang is promoted to Dowager Consort. She moves with the young prince into a secluded palace as desolate as the Cold Palace. As long as she can stay alive, everything else can be worked out. Besides, once the young prince grows up, she can go with him to his fief in Jiangnan. With a child by her side and a future to look forward to, Ye Jingtang thinks this life is pretty good. She starts growing vegetables in the Cold Palace. No one looks after her, but no one makes trouble for her either, so life is fairly comfortable. - Then one day, she leans over the wall and asks a passing guard to help her move a water vat. After that, her life changes... Not long later, Ye Jingtang sternly scolds the man who has cornered her: “You insolent scoundrel! I am the Dowager Consort!” The young emperor laughs. “When you gave me your handkerchief and promised we'd meet again in Jiangnan ten years from now, you didn't say that.” When Mu Yunting was ten, he fell from a horse. After that, he could hear people's inner thoughts. A father's love and a son's filial devotion were false, Brothers who seemed to get along stabbed each other in the back, People who claimed to adore him only wanted the power and status his position brought, Even his own mother's affection was full of scheming... He saw every kind of ugliness in the world: honeyed words hiding daggers, and piety masking a vicious heart. - As it happened, he was no saint either. He paved his way with bones and washed the steps in blood. Stepping over the corpses of his father and brothers, he took the throne. But life soon became dull and meaningless. - Until one day, dressed in ordinary clothes, he went to visit the Empress Dowager. On his way back, a beautiful woman, as radiant as a begonia after rain, leaned over a wall and called to him. “Excuse me, sir guard. If you have a moment, could you help me?” On the surface, she was dignified and proper. Inwardly, she was screaming: “Wow, that handsome guy's face, those broad shoulders, that narrow waist, those long legs. He's totally a top-tier star!” He didn't know what “top-tier star” meant, but he could tell that this brazen woman was lusting after his looks. * One-on-one / happy ending / each other's first love / mind-reading * Romance / lighthearted, sweet story [Blurb captured on 2026-10-04] Theme: As long as there is love in one's heart, status is no obstacle.