A Qing Dynasty Concubine in Kangxi's Household

The new story "Being a Concubine in Prince Yong's Residence Is No Easy Thing [Qing Dynasty Transmigration]" is being updated daily.

Blurb [Complete]: Xu Xiangning arrives in the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty. She is the daughter of a seventh-rank county magistrate in Fuzhou, just eighteen years old. During the selection, she is made a First Class Female Attendant and enters the palace. After two years without the emperor's favor, with a low family background, a low rank, and looks that are at best pretty, she thinks winning favor has nothing to do with her. She intends to quietly remain a low-ranking attendant in the palace. Then one day, she suddenly catches Emperor Kangxi's eye. Once he notices her, it seems he can never let her go.

Recently, Kangxi has taken an interest in a young female attendant in the palace. She is young, round-faced and plump, and inexperienced. He is twenty years older than her. Using his status as an elder, he gradually begins to teach her. But as he teaches her, he falls for her. As time passes, he finds the young attendant more and more beautiful. She is still in her prime, while he has entered old age and his strength is gradually failing him.

Reader advisory: No trigger warnings are provided. Read with caution if you need them.

The new story "Being a Concubine in Prince Yong's Residence Is No Easy Thing [Qing Dynasty Transmigration]" is being updated daily. Please follow it: Feng Nanjia has just graduated from high school when she transmigrates. On her first day after waking up, a man with a long Qing-dynasty queue says darkly that in this life she belongs to him in life and death, and that she should accept her fate.

Later, she learns that the man is Fourth Prince Yinzhen. She has transmigrated into the Kangxi era and become one of Fourth Prince Yinzhen's concubines. The imperial household is full of rules and strict hierarchies. Above her are her father-in-law, Kangxi, and mother-in-law, Consort De. Below them are Yinzhen himself and his principal wife, the principal consort. As a low-ranking concubine, she must tread carefully, avoid offending anyone, and do her best to win favor and please Fourth Prince.

But the people around her keep looking at her strangely, especially Fourth Prince Yinzhen.

[Son's perspective]

From the age of three, Hongyao is ordered by his mother and father to pay his respects to Lady Feng in the side courtyard every three days. He is young, and winter is cold. One snowy day, he refuses to get up early to go pay his respects. His father gets extremely angry and makes him stand in the courtyard for an hour. The little boy freezes stiff in the snow and faints, falling seriously ill. All the servants around him are also severely beaten as punishment.

After that, he never dares skip his visits again. Later, he hears that his mother is not his birth mother, and that his birth mother is Lady Feng in the side courtyard. When he asks his father about it, his father says he has only one mother. Hongyao thinks his father means his principal mother. Only when he grows up does he realize that his father wasn't talking about his principal mother, but Lady Feng.

New story seeking follows: "The Legitimate Daughter Returns Ten Years After Being Possessed": Kui Jiayu is the legitimate daughter of a Duke Liang's household. She has no great ambitions, no talent or ability, and is clumsy and slow-witted. All she has is a stunningly beautiful face. Her siblings often bully her, and she has a terrible relationship with her family. When she is sixteen, a woman from another world possesses her. For ten years, she shares her memories with the transmigrator, but cannot interfere with any of the transmigrator's choices or actions.

The transmigrator is brilliant and clever. She builds her life step by step, not only earning the family's respect but also successfully marrying into Prince Rong's household. The prince is handsome, dignified, and noble. The transmigrator becomes the mistress of Prince Rong's household, manages it perfectly, gets along well with all kinds of relatives, and has a son and a daughter. She lives a comfortable, prosperous life.

Ten years later, the transmigrator goes back, and Kui Jiayu finally regains control of her own body. But... she's not as clever as the transmigrator. She's still stupid and clumsy, and often messes things up. What is she supposed to do?

New story seeking follows: "A Nineteenth-Century Manor Maid": She wakes up as a black-haired, yellow-skinned Asian maid in a nineteenth-century Western nobleman's manor. She's the lowest-ranking servant in the household, and she has no intention of staying beneath everyone forever. Once she has saved enough money to get started, she'll quit her job as a maid and make her own living.

Duke Herman is thirty-eight. His wife died two years ago, leaving him a widower. But he owns a vast manor, has untold wealth, and is of noble status. Plenty of women throw themselves at him, hoping to become a duchess. He's also tall and strong, with blond hair and blue eyes, exceptionally handsome Western features, and an air of nobility.

One day, he draws the petite, black-haired maid into his arms and gently coaxes her to stop crying.

His son Vance is seventeen, rebellious, and capricious. He looks down on all the lowborn women who try to climb into his bed or marry into the nobility. In his eyes, the maids are all vulgar, greedy playthings, and he doesn't feel the least bit guilty about toying with them. He especially looks down on the short Asian maid with black hair and black eyes. Then one day, he suddenly realizes that the maid is getting close to his father. For some reason, he is furious. They're both noble branches, so why is she climbing his father's branch instead of his? If he could, he would make her his woman and give her a noble status. [Father and son compete for the same woman]

New story seeking follows: "I'm the Female Side Character in Hong Kong's Most Over-the-Top Romance Novel": Zhao Siwen transmigrates into a wealthy-family romance novel set in 1990s Hong Kong. She becomes the wife of Rong Zhengbai, the eldest son of Hong Kong's richest family, the Rong family. Rong Zhengbai is the male lead, but she is the female side character.

One of the novel's outrageous twists: The Rong family adopted a daughter, Rong Zhengbai's sworn younger sister. She has a chronic illness, and whenever it flares up, only Zhao Siwen's blood can save her. Using this as leverage, Zhao Siwen successfully marries into the Rong family and becomes the wife of Rong Zhengbai, the next head of the family, entering Hong Kong's wealthiest family with riches beyond imagination.

The novel's second outrageous twist:

When a kidnapping goes wrong and the kidnappers get angry, one of them fires a gun. As the bullet comes, Rong Zhengbai pushes his sworn sister aside and shields her with his body, leaving his wife Zhao Siwen unable to dodge the shot. She is hit, even though they have already been married for three years.

After transmigrating, Zhao Siwen has only one thought: She worked so hard to enter this fabulously wealthy family, so she's going to turn the female side character into the heroine if it kills her!

Theme: Life can change in countless ways. The only truth is to rely on yourself