An Unconventional Life as a Qing-Dynasty Imperial Consort

[This will probably update weekly. I recommend letting chapters pile up until it's complete, and trying not to follow it as it's serialized. Sigh.]

Ma Lu is Mongolian and one of the modern world's talisman practitioners.

By accident, she transmigrates into Uya Malu, who has just passed the annual selection for the Imperial Household Department.

The Uya clan...

Ma Lu loved watching the many popular Qing palace dramas and reading the countless fascinating time-travel-to-the-Qing novels, especially during college.

Even though she didn't study history, she knew very well that this was the famous Consort De, mother of Emperor Yongzheng.

But so what if she was the next emperor's mother? According to the historical records Ma Lu knew, Consort De lived only to the age of sixty-four and died in the first year of her son Yongzheng's reign.

So relying on her son wasn't an option. Ma Lu sighed, wanting to lie flat. If she wanted a good life, she'd have to work for it herself.

After her first night with the emperor, Ma Lu was shocked. So dragon qi really did exist in this world?

Before, drawing talismans had been difficult and exhausting. Now, it was simple and effortless.

Ma Lu pondered this. Once she'd confirmed it, she'd start making things happen...

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The twenty-eighth year of Kangxi's reign.

The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, fainted from grief at the death of his adoptive mother, the Lady Tong Jia. But when he woke up, the soul inside him had become Emperor Yongzheng, who had died and spent years as a wandering ghost.

As he looked back through his old memories, he realized that many things were different from his previous life.

For example, his full brother, the Sixth Prince Yinzhuo, hadn't died young, while the three younger sisters who should have existed were nowhere to be found. And the detestable freeloader, his fourteenth younger brother, was still a chubby, adorable little boy who couldn't talk and only smiled foolishly...

Later, his mother, Consort De, even received another promotion after becoming an imperial consort?

His suspicious, domineering imperial father had abdicated early and settled at the Garden of Uninhibited Spring with his mother, where they traveled around and enjoyed themselves?

The Fourth Prince had to admit that the way things were going in this life was very strange.

(The title has been changed slightly because it sounded too much like fantasy. I changed it to avoid it being mistaken for a different genre.)

Theme: If you want a life you're satisfied with, you still have to work for it yourself.