[Qing Dynasty Transmigration + Dream of the Red Chamber] I Became Lin Daiyu and Decisively Disguised Myself as a Man

(The ongoing novel A Survival Guide for Lin Daiyu (Lin Daiyu x Zhang Juzheng) is open for advance bookmarking, everyone! There's also the completed novel After Rebirth in the Qing Dynasty, Empress Xiaoyiren Just Wants to Lie Flat.)

Blurb:

Lin Daiyu was born into the world in a new body, becoming the sensitive and melancholy Lin Daiyu from Dream of the Red Chamber.

Thinking about how her parents would die young, leaving her to seek refuge with her grandmother in a marquis's household, where her vast fortune would be swindled away, and how she would cough up blood and die on the day Jia Baoyu got married...

Lin Daiyu: "…"

Thanks, I hate it.

After much thought, Lin Daiyu, still a baby, decided to forcefully disguise herself as a boy.

She didn't need to become a powerful official later on. She only wanted to protect her vast fortune, get away from the Jia family, and live a comfortable little life.

Who could have guessed that:

After she took on Lady Wang on the left and Grandmother Jia on the right, protecting her fortune, she accidentally became the fourth prince of the Great Qing's childhood companion, and set off on the path to becoming a powerful minister who would assist the future emperor (not really).

When the rivalry between the two empress dowagers made the fourth prince miserable, she earnestly assured him: "You are the most capable and virtuous person in the entire Great Qing. That's why both empresses are fighting over you."

During the struggle for the throne, when no one backed the fourth prince and he was all alone, she firmly stood by his side, never swayed by anyone, and smiled as she told him in his hour of dejection: "None of them have better judgment than I do."

Later, seeing how increasingly composed Yinzhen had become, she was beside herself with excitement, just waiting for Yongzheng to ascend the throne so she could coast through life.

After all, she and the emperor had been through life-and-death situations together.

Brotherly affection, get it?

But gradually...

Why did men give each other cute little gifts?

Why were men so possessive of each other?

Why did men have to make promises to each other?

Lin Daiyu fell into a long silence. Was this what brotherly affection in the Great Qing was like?

Meanwhile, the fourth prince, who had long since seen through her disguise, was quite pleased with himself. She must like me a lot. Otherwise, with so many princes around, why would she keep hanging around this down-and-out prince abandoned by Father Emperor?

Coming soon: After Transmigrating into a Book, I Fell in Love with Lin Ruhai, Who Was Supposed to Die Young!

A pampered, beautiful little lucky charm x a paternal, abstinent powerbroker

Su Qingfu was born into a new body and grew up healthy and carefree until she was five, when she was sent to the Lin residence to bring good fortune to a sick man.

Lin Ruhai had only just begun to recover when he saw a little girl sitting on a stool, timidly reaching out to him with a damp cloth.

Lin Ruhai: ?

Lin Daiyu stood to one side, sobbing with joy. "Father, the master was right! This little girl really is a lucky charm. You're awake!"

Everyone in the Lianghuai region knew that the salt commissioner, now deeply favored by the emperor, was likely to enter the cabinet and become prime minister. Even though he was taking a second wife, noble daughters from all the great families tossed their embroidered handkerchiefs at the handsome, graceful, and distinguished Lin Ruhai, all hoping to become Madam Lin.

Lin Daiyu: "Father, you can't be a heartless man! You can't use Qingfu and then cast her aside!"

Su Qingfu: "No, no, you can do that. I don't mind being cast aside!"

Lin Ruhai: …

At first, whenever Lin Ruhai went out in Lianghuai with his little wife, who had been brought in to bring him good fortune, and his daughter, he would carefully remind them: "If anyone asks, just say Qingfu is Daiyu's younger cousin. Understand?"

Qingfu and Lin Daiyu nodded obediently.

Later, in the capital, now-grown Su Qingfu and Lin Daiyu were walking out arm in arm when they 'happened to run into' Lin Ruhai, who had just left court.

"If anyone asks, you should say..."

Su Qingfu recalled the latest rumor and nodded in understanding. "I know. I'll say Brother Lin is my distant uncle."

"No. Say you're my betrothed."

Reading guide: One-on-one romance, marriage before love.

The romance begins after the heroine reaches adulthood!

A sweet, slice-of-life story, not a power fantasy.

Theme: Break things down before building them back up, and live life as your own person!