Did the Dowager Consort Make a Run for It Today? (Qing Dynasty)

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Fu Wanran transmigrates into the last concubine of Emperor Qianlong, Noble Lady Jin of the Fucha clan. She transmigrates straight into a funeral, a widow with a bleak future ahead of her.

Unwilling to spend the rest of her life alone in a corner of the deep palace, burning incense and chanting prayers, she thinks: If only I could leave the palace.

So she faints at the late emperor's funeral, where she meets Duan Weiqing, a young, promising, courteous physician from the Imperial Medical Academy.

Wanran: Mm, he's every bit the refined gentleman. Worth considering.

Duan Weiqing: Please don't come any closer!

Someone determined to escape never gives up.

Wanran: I reflect on myself three times a day: I want to leave the palace, I want to fall in love, and I want to leave the palace and fall in love with Imperial Physician Duan.

Later, the man who has fallen in love faces reality.

Duan Weiqing: I have great respect for the late emperor. I haven't stolen or robbed anything, and all we've done is hug and cuddle.

[Reader's Guide]

1. When the female lead transmigrates, Qianlong is already dead. Before and after her transmigration, the two have never been husband and wife in any physical sense. The age gap is over seventy years, so that's absolutely not happening!

2. The youngest and most obscure imperial consort versus the youngest head of the Imperial Medical Academy. Five-year age gap, one-on-one romance, both sexually inexperienced.

3. Lots of liberties taken. Please don't nitpick the history.

Synopsis screenshot dated January 16, 2023; updated September 2, 2023.

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"The ospreys call by the river islet. A graceful, lovely lady is a fine match for a gentleman."

For a long time, Wuyouta spent her nights plagued by nightmares, to the point that she thought her arrival had changed the course of history.

On the night she entered the palace, her maid asked her, "Gege has been ill. Should we inform the Great Khan and choose an auspicious day after she recovers?"

Wuyouta looked in the mirror at her haggard face, now free of makeup, and shook her head. "No. They've been bringing me medicine three times a day for ages. I want to marry the Great Khan in a grand ceremony."

But when the time came to stand before the red wedding candles, she was still afraid.

"Lin Dan Khan died by my hand. You have nothing to fear now." In the candlelight, she couldn't make out his expression.

She would hear those words, "You have nothing to fear now," many times afterward, and each time they would put her more at ease.

Though Hong Taiji had spent half his life conquering the realm, and was accomplished in both civil and military affairs, he had never met a woman quite like her.

He had once thought that all he would do in this life was seize the realm, yet in the end he fell into the old cliché that even heroes cannot resist a beautiful woman.

Her gentle, obedient manner at their first meeting, her alluring charm as she danced alone, and the shy, captivating way she acted when they were together all tugged at his heartstrings.

On the eve of his coronation, he took her up Phoenix Tower. Standing at the highest point, they gazed out over the whole of Shengjing. He asked her, "What is your wish?"

In the darkness, her foxlike eyes gleamed as she smiled sweetly. "With the Great Khan's ascension, everything will begin anew. Then let Wuyouta die for good."

From then on, the world knew only Hailanzhu: Hong Taiji's Hailanzhu alone, a precious jade and the star who would remain by his side forever.

Reader's Guide:

1. Both leads have never been married. Happy ending, with a little redemption and palace intrigue. She won't die young.

2. A fictionalized Qing setting. Please don't nitpick the history. Many details are invented and differ from the official record. Try not to judge the heroine by modern standards.

3. The title and the line quoted in the synopsis, "Guan Guan Ju Jiu," come from the Book of Songs.

Theme: Freedom and a new life