[Eastern Han] I Have a Mother

Story blurb: Liu Long woke up to find himself a tiny baby, his arms and legs limp, being carried toward the emperor's throne. Liu Long could already foresee his fate: he was going to be overthrown. Or overthrown. He decided to lie flat. Let it all burn. Wait, wasn't his mother Empress Dowager Deng, the famed Empress Hexi who “restored fallen states and continued extinct lines”?! He had been lying flat and giving up, but sprang upright in shock. Liu Long clung to Empress Dowager Deng's leg and wailed, “Mother, food! I'm hungry!” My completed novel, [Great Tang] My Imperial Cousin, is also available. Please give it a read! Here's the blurb: Wu Jing'er transmigrated to the early years of the Great Tang. One day, her second cousin on her fourth uncle's side was taken into the palace as a concubine because of her beauty. The surname Wu? A palace concubine? Wasn't she the only female emperor in Chinese history?! Good sister, don't forget me when you strike it rich. Her cousin had just become empress, so Wu Jing'er brought her son to Chang'an. Time to mooch off the family! Years later, Wu Jing'er looked up from her paperwork, and a sudden inspiration made her spot the problem. She had come to mooch, not to work! Wu Zetian smiled and encouraged her. “Work hard, and someday I'll have you buried in the imperial mausoleum with me.” New story now available: [Ming and Qing] My Brother Keeps Urging Me to Take the Imperial Examinations. Blurb: In the previous generation, the whole village's great hope was their father, Zhuang Jinzhi. He stopped at the level of licentiate, just one year ahead of his eldest son, Zhuang Shaoguang, who passed the next examination, and thus gave up his studies to educate his children and grandchildren. In this generation, the whole village's great hope was Zhuang Shaoguang. At twenty-five, he passed the palace examination as a third-rank jinshi, got lucky enough to be selected for the Hanlin Academy, and became a high-ranking official. The cleverest of the brothers, Zhuang Shaoyao, had hoped to throw his weight around in the village by relying on his eldest brother. But his brother urged him to pass the jinshi examination and take his place, while planning to resign and go home to care for their parents. Zhuang Shaoyao was horrified. “Big Brother, what's gotten into you? I haven't even started living off you, and you're already planning to live off me?” Zhuang Shaoguang ground his teeth. “Shaoyao, your big brother is going to care for our parents and fulfill his duty as a filial son!” Zhuang Shaoyao half-believed him, but with both his elder brothers nagging him, he could only bury himself in his books and take the imperial examinations. But help, how could he have taken them so many times and still failed every time? Notes: 1. This is not a typical imperial-examination novel. 2. No transmigration. A blend of Ming and Qing fiction and history. Premise: Be a good emperor and a good son