Consort Ding, Long-Lived and Content to Lie Flat (Qing Dynasty Transmigration)

Please add The Crown Princess Just Wants to Lie Flat (Qing Dynasty) to your to-read list. Story blurb: Shu Ning never imagined that after working herself to the bone for so many years, she'd finally get results, only for an accident to happen and take her life. Then she transmigrated into the Qing dynasty, an era that had seen more transmigrators than a sieve, and became a Gege. She was the low-ranking consort who, despite having a son, was only remembered and named Consort Ding when Kangxi was nearly dead. She was the Wanyan Hala woman considered the greatest consort of the entire Qing dynasty, who lived through four reigns and reached the age of ninety-seven. And her son was the Twelfth Prince, Yintao, who devoted himself to managing funerals for a hundred years, personally seeing off both Kangxi and Yongzheng. Having lived through the endless reruns of Qing palace dramas, Shu Ning knows how dangerous the Nine Princes' Succession Struggle is. One wrong move and she could lose her life. Kangxi's consorts are all fiercely competitive, and so are their children. Shu Ning decides to lie flat. She'll live peacefully to ninety-seven, or better yet, three more years beyond that. A hundred years would be even better. But somehow, she wins by lying flat. She reaches the rank of consort at twenty, even though she was originally not expected to be promoted until she was nearly sixty. Then, by accident, she becomes a concubine consort and eventually the Empress Dowager. Reading Guide 1. The female lead never loves Kangxi. 2. She has a golden finger: turning stone into gold. It might not be much use. 3. "The greatest consort of the entire Qing dynasty" comes from Baidu. Please add it to your to-read list! The Crown Princess Just Wants to Lie Flat (Qing Dynasty): Shi Huaizhi transmigrates, and the System tells her that all she needs to do is complete the coming-of-age storyline for a daughter of an official family. Then she can return to the modern era and claim a successful life. After working herself to the bone to beat the game, something goes wrong with the System and she doesn't make it back. However, the System promises that if she accumulates enough points and energy this time, it will definitely send her home. The best way to rack up points should be to enter the palace and complete the main storyline of the game's next stage: become empress, then empress dowager. Shi Huaizhi has no choice but to agree. She plans to find out whether this "unknown dynasty" has a selection of palace consorts and see if she can enter the palace. With the skills she gained from the life-simulation game, she's sure she can thrive in the harem. But once the stupid game lifts its background filter, she discovers that her surname is actually Guaerjia, and that she's in the Qing dynasty! Well, that's convenient. She doesn't have to go through the selection. An imperial decree appoints her Crown Princess, and she marries Yunsi. Who doesn't know that being crown prince is one of the most dangerous jobs in ancient times? Half of all crown princes meet miserable ends, and Yunsi is an especially bad case: deposed twice, reinstated twice, and eventually confined until his death. If even the crown prince can't make it, what chance does the crown princess have? From the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi to the fifty-first, she is Crown Princess for just sixteen years. After being confined, she dies within five or six years, not even reaching forty. The System has ruined her! But Shi Huaizhi suddenly realizes that once she gets married, her mission is automatically completed! Being Crown Princess was an achievement all along, which means she can go home! She doesn't have to die after all. So what is she waiting for? Time to lie flat! Yunsi has few expectations for his Crown Princess. The woman his father chose must be virtuous and talented, and fit to rule the inner palace one day. And when he meets her, she does indeed seem just like that. The young woman smiles warmly, carries herself with grace, and shows not the slightest trace of shyness or nervousness on her wedding night. That's fine by him. He can trust her to manage the Yukun Palace. But he never expected this Crown Princess to be so different from what he imagined. When the Secondary Consort comes with her attendants to pay respects, his Crown Princess really does nothing but serve her tea before immediately seeing her out, leaving the Secondary Consort so anxious that she runs to him to apologize. When the First Prince throws a first-birthday celebration for his daughter, she really does nothing but play with the child, leaving the people trying to drive a wedge between the First Prince and the Crown Prince at a loss. Consort De and his Fourth Brother have fallen out, so they ask her to go comfort them. While everyone else insists that Consort De doesn't dislike the Fourth Prince, she says that her own father died when she was young, so she's had it worse. The Fourth Prince really is comforted by her? How does that make any sense? When he argues with Imperial Father, she stays quiet to his face, but behind his back she says, "A widowed father raising a child wants the child to be a daddy's boy, and then gets upset when the child refuses." He starts to worry. Can she really be a good Crown Princess? As it turns out, she doesn't just do a good job as Crown Princess. She becomes a good empress and empress dowager, too. [Dream of the Red Chamber] The Long-Suffering Girl Wins by Checking In Song Heqing transmigrates into Dream of the Red Chamber and discovers that she's Yingchun! The honest, fearful, weak-willed "Second Wooden Head," the "living corpse who can still feel pain." She has parents, but she's worse off than if she had none. She has an older brother and sister-in-law, but they don't care about her at all. In the end, her marriage destroys her. According to the book, a year after Yingchun marries, she's tormented to death by the lecherous, gambling, hard-drinking "wolf from Zhongshan," Sun Shaozu. But Song Heqing refuses to accept such an ending. Fortunately, as a transmigrator, she has the latest transmigrator must-have: the Dream of the Red Chamber Spectator System. As long as she watches iconic scenes from Dream of the Red Chamber and checks in, she can earn rewards. She checks in at Lian and Feng's wedding and gets a jade pendant. Wearing it boosts her health, saving not only her but also Lin Ruhai, thousands of miles away. She checks in when Daiyu enters the Jia household and gets a jade hairpin. Wearing it boosts her luck. She can pick up any book and find a lost ancient incense recipe, or save a stranger and discover they're a princess or a commandery princess. She checks in at Yuanchun's homecoming and gets a gold bracelet. Wearing it boosts her fortune. Even the stingy Lady Xing is willing to spend money on her, and Jia She, who already hopes to secure a fine son-in-law, gives her a generous dowry. In the end, Song Heqing checks in her way to a wonderful life. Ye Mingxiao has known for a long time that he transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber. Luckily, he's neither surnamed Jia, Xue, nor Shi. He's a prince, and there's no chance of his family being destroyed in this life. As long as he lives quietly like a salted fish, his imperial brother can guarantee him a comfortable life. It's just that something seems off about the second Jia girl. She doesn't look like a long-suffering girl who'd let people bully her without fighting back. Could she really be from his own world? P.S. Baoyu and Daiyu won't end up together, and the second branch of the Jia family will be bashed. Theme: Love yourself.