Reborn Seven Times, I Gave Up, but My Mother Ascended the Throne

Princess Chutang of Jinglan seems trapped in an endless loop, a game full of dead ends that she can never beat.

In her first life, she died in the struggle for power in the harem. In her second, she died in political infighting.

On her third try, she thought she'd marry early and leave the palace to avoid those dangers, only to fall for the smooth, deceitful words of a gold-digging pretty boy.

After learning her lesson the hard way, Chutang decided on her fourth rebirth to work diligently at building a career. Only by becoming powerful herself could she stop others from bullying her at will.

And so she rose from an obscure little princess in the imperial harem to the most powerful woman in the Great Chu Dynasty, able to make the clouds with one hand and the rain with the other.

But in the end, she still couldn't escape the fate of seeing her country destroyed...

This is her seventh rebirth.

When Chutang opens her eyes: I'm tired. Let it all burn!

I'm done! Whoever wants to deal with it can deal with it!

Determined to lie flat and enjoy each day as it comes, Chutang takes up the role of a gossip-loving spectator in the capital.

The favored consort, who throws her weight around on account of her pregnancy, is carrying a child that isn't even the emperor's?

The legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites, who looks down on everyone, even the princess, turns out to be a fake heiress?

The new top scholar, who has a virtuous wife supporting his rise to success, bangs his head during court one day and insists that he and a princess are in love?

And the Marquis's heir, whose fiancee just broke off their engagement, finds that she immediately marries the old marquis to become her ex's stepmother?

Tsk, what a life...

You have to admit, it just keeps getting more entertaining.

But she'd barely had a few days to enjoy herself when her mother unexpectedly ascended the throne and made her only daughter Crown Princess.

Then she bestowed three handsome men on the Crown Princess's household as consorts to assist her with governing.

After the name change, Yu Tang: ?????

Wait, Mother, I may have given up and stopped striving, but you don't have to be so ambitious!

After Yu Qingyi died, she transmigrated to a world where women outranked men and experienced a carefree life of immense power.

When she woke again, she was back on the day she died, with her sweet, adorable daughter by her bedside.

Remembering how wonderful that other world had been, she had no interest in fighting for favor. Now, she just wanted to become emperor...

She toppled the favored consort who opposed her, won over the court officials, built up her power, and eventually took out the old emperor.

The whole way, things went far more smoothly than Yu Qingyi had expected.

Her daughter, who didn't seem particularly reliable, was also far more capable than she'd imagined.

But her taste in men seemed questionable. Why was she always surrounded by greasy, spineless men who lived off women...

What should she do when her daughter's marriage prospects aren't looking good?

Find her a few more: handsome ones, virtuous ones, skilled fighters, great cooks...

Send them all her way. After all, our family has a throne to pass down!

Author's notes:

1. The heroine is reborn. The empress is the one who transmigrated.

2. The male lead will depend on how the story develops.

3. This is a lighthearted, funny slice-of-life story. The heroine's mother has already finished her career arc.

4. Really, this is the story of a heroine who got seven different bad endings, decided she was done playing, and then triggered a surprise bonus ending.

Theme: Be independent and self-reliant, and live as yourself