(Updated irregularly, very slowly. It's best not to buy the VIP chapters yet. I plan to finish writing a batch before posting. Content warnings at the end.)
[Lazy, construction-obsessed prince * sharp-tongued, reborn Lin Daiyu]
Hongjing was born into the Qing dynasty and became Yongzheng's youngest legitimate son, a little prince who had never existed in history.
His birth mother was the empress, and his full elder brother Honghui was the firmly established crown prince. His life couldn't possibly be any happier.
After the emperor spent time with the little prince, his back stopped aching. The crown princess, who had been unable to conceive for years, became pregnant, and Noble Consort Nian was able to stop taking medicine and walk without getting out of breath.
Everyone marveled: Could the little prince really have been born with good fortune?
Hongjing smiled without answering. He had his built-in good-luck buff to thank.
Years later, everyone had expected Hongjing to make a dazzling name for himself. But when they saw his chicken-scratch handwriting and his handsome face fast asleep, it suddenly dawned on them that they might have spoiled the little prince in recent years.
He couldn't write poetry, and he couldn't wield a blade.
In the sixth year of Yongzheng's reign, Lin Ruhai brought his daughter to the palace to pay her respects to the emperor. Hongjing happened to be there, too. The lovely figure from his dreams had become real. He took Lin Daiyu's hand, his eyes brimming with tears, and said, "This younger sister... I have seen her before."
Baoyu, whose line had just been stolen: ?
Hongjing was sharpening his knife, ready to punish the Jia family, when he suddenly realized that Lin Daiyu had already taken them down with her sharp, fluent tongue. It turned out Lin Daiyu had been reborn, too!
After he married Lin Daiyu, everyone was amazed yet again: the once carefree, spoiled little prince, who had seemed on the verge of becoming a lost cause, had improved and built cannons far more advanced than anything that came before.
The West wouldn't catch up for another ten years.
Automatic plows, a new kind of "carriage," glass spectacles... People couldn't react as quickly as Hongjing could invent things.
Honghui, now graying at the temples, stared wide-eyed. ...Why did his little brother only make all this stuff now?!!
Hongjing took Lin Daiyu's hand and smiled sweetly. "It's the power of love!"
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Content warnings:
1. Both leads are each other's first and only partner. It's probably a sweet little romance.
2. A fusion of Dream of the Red Chamber and Qing dynasty time travel, with countless fictional details. Don't read if you dislike that.
3. The male lead dislikes poetry and books. He's not perfect, and everyone dotes on him.
4. The emperor is probably a scumbag, based on his historically accurate personality.
5. To avoid disappointment, it's recommended to buy VIP chapters one at a time.
Theme: Love ebbs and flows.
