All the Imperial Relatives Can Hear Third Prince's Inner Thoughts

One day, I transmigrated into the body of Yin Zhi, and couldn't help but fall silent. Yin Zhi, Kangxi's third son, was peerless at calligraphy and archery. But life was full of ups and downs, and his life kept repeating the same cycle. All in all, Third Prince was usually invisible in the struggle among the nine princes for the throne, and the Third Prince faction was even more invisible. He never even got to his feet before he fell flat again. And he fell into the same pit twice. Yin Zhi: “...” Looking at his chubby little hands and short legs, Yin Zhi decided it was better not to get up at all. He'd keep his head down and wait. Besides, the System was stuck offline and had been in standby mode the whole time. It was completely useless. Until, at last, he opened the starter pack. The System interface had barely changed, except for an added megaphone. When he asked the System about it, it said it would take another forty years before it could receive a user notification file. Yin Zhi: “...What good are you?” After not seeing Kangxi for a long time, he happened to run into him while paying his respects. [Long time no see, Imperial Father. You don't look as vigorous as you used to. Your steps are a little unsteady, too. Are you already all show and no substance?] [Is this really my Imperial Father, who can live to sixty-eight, nearly seventy?] Kangxi: You unfilial son! I was up all night reviewing memorials yesterday! My foot's unsteady because I bumped it the other day, and you, you unfilial son, forgot! That very afternoon, Kangxi began a health regimen. He saw Kangxi and the crown prince sharing a tender father-son moment. [The crown prince is quite handsome. Imperial Father and the crown prince have such a good relationship. What a pity they'll fall out later, and he'll be deposed twice and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.] The two men, who had been so loving and filial, paused mid-gesture. [But the crown prince brought it on himself. “How could there be a crown prince for forty years?” There's someone in this world who's been crown prince for nearly seventy years. That person was crown prince long enough to outlive Imperial Father. If you keep trying, maybe you'll even become emperor.] Kangxi: ??? You unfilial son, is it polite to compare your father's lifespan to someone else's? He saw Yin Zhen, still young but already moody and unpredictable. [There's nothing wrong with being moody and unpredictable at such a young age, but I never heard you had a mental illness, too. With this, can Fourth Brother really become emperor someday?] Fourth Brother: ??? Then Yin Zhi walked off without another word. In Yin Zhi's eyes, he spent every day keeping his head down, while the eldest prince, the crown prince, Fourth Prince, and Eighth Prince all reached out to win him over. Even Kangxi sought him out for a late-night heart-to-heart. Yin Zhi: ??? Why are you all coming to me? *An alternate-history Qing dynasty transmigration story, with plenty of original worldbuilding. *Will enter VIP serialization on December 15. Recommending a friend's ongoing novel: The Tang Dynasty Bureau of Strange Affairs by An Jing De Jiu Qiao Blurb: Losing sanity while getting promoted. Please add my upcoming novels to your reading list: I Became the World's Number One Music Cultivator by Being Terrible and I Accidentally Cast My Short Videos on a Screen in the Qin Dynasty Blurb: In a dark fantasy novel where the protagonist suffers terribly, the male lead is born under a lonely star. Everyone who treats him well meets a gruesome end, and those who mistreat him meet an even more horrific fate not long after. The good news is, she's the villain. The bad news is, her time as the villain is almost up. As a vicious supporting female character everyone despises, she is spoiled, willful, cruel, and wicked. Though she's an ordinary mortal, she relies on being He Yingsheng's fiancée to do whatever she wants, living a life of debauchery and excess. When she tries to make He Yingsheng wear a green hat, he catches her in the act and becomes utterly disgusted with her. In the end, she dies because she's made too many enemies. When she transmigrates into the book, a crowd is singing and dancing in front of her. The beauties she invited are getting ready, and He Yingsheng is already on his way back, right outside the door. Jiang Qianqian: “...Uh.” Is it really okay to transmigrate into a book and die on the spot? She loves music, so she decides to use what little time she has left to take out the jade flute from her dowry and play a final song for her life. But then He Yingsheng just leaves??? When faced with enemies she knows she can't beat, Jiang Qianqian resolutely picks up her sword. The flute beside her plays a funeral dirge for her. After a long time, nobody attacks. She opens her eyes. “Huh? Why are you all incapacitated?” Much later, when she becomes the number one music cultivator, she finds the flute in her hand extremely satisfying as she plays a single note to break ten thousand techniques. The only problem is that it's a bit unpleasant to listen to. Everyone lying on the ground in agony: You call that “a bit”?! I Accidentally Cast My Short Videos on a Screen in the Qin Dynasty At court, while the officials debated whether commanderies and counties or the enfeoffment system was better... A dazzling spread of delicious food appeared in the distance, fresh and crispy, making everyone smack their lips. Who has no sense of public decency?! Then a voice rang out: [I'm hungry. Why hasn't work ended? When's dinner?] That very day, Lin Chao left work early. While discussing the Rites of Zhou, some officials even digressed into the origins of the immortals. A school of fish fry appeared in front of them: [From monkeys to humans, our ancestors came a long way.] [But the old Qin state took five hundred years to rise, and the Qin dynasty took only fourteen years to go from its beginning to its fall.] [The First Emperor wanted a dynasty to last for thousands of generations, but it fell in the second. His own son made sure his line died out, making him the first person ever to be cut off from his descendants. Li Si helped the tyrant, and he didn't meet a good end either.] That day, Ying Zheng's gaze nearly pierced through Li Si. While discussing siege weapons, Lin Chao was slacking off and watching short videos about the Four Great Inventions. When he came back to his senses, he realized: Huh? Why did you all stop talking? Theme: Don't give up when the way ahead is unknown. Keep going, and new rewards will come.