The Student I Sponsored Was Yin Si

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A tough entertainment-industry queen vs. a virtuous prince of the Qing dynasty. Ancient-to-modern transmigration + Qing-to-modern transmigration

Blurb:

Guo Mian is the toughest top-tier star in the entertainment industry.

She made it to the top on talent alone, but offended half the industry because she refused to play along. Now she's a reigning queen of popularity, but no one will cast her.

Yinsi is the most emotionally intelligent man in the Forbidden City.

Though born to humble beginnings, he defied fate by winning people's hearts. Everyone at court and beyond adores him. After the crown prince was deposed, the officials jointly nominated him to take the crown prince's place.

Five years ago, one kind act by Guo Mian unexpectedly connected them through letters, despite living three hundred years apart.

For five years, she had no idea that the pitiful child from the impoverished mountain village she was sponsoring was actually a royal noble, much less that he was the "Virtuous Prince," despised by both Kangxi and Yongzheng.

Then one day, a super-powerful investor feared by the entire industry took an interest in her. Everyone who had rejected this devil had left the business, and everyone who had accepted him had fallen from grace. If he had his eye on her, she was doomed either way.

That same day, in his latest letter, the "poor little thing" confessed his identity:

I am Yinsi, the eighth son of the Qing emperor. I was born on the tenth day of the second month in the twentieth year of Kangxi's reign, and I am seventeen this year, old enough to discuss marriage. Though Manchus and Han Chinese may not intermarry, I have fallen in love with you and wish to take you as my wife. Even if we can never meet in this lifetime, your name alone will be inscribed as my wife in the imperial genealogy. If you are willing, please write back with your birth date and time, so I may inform Heaven and my ancestors.

Guo Mian thought her friend was playing a joke on her. She decided to play along, sent him her birth details, and waited to see what would happen.

To her surprise, that very night, seventeen-year-old Yinsi appeared before her and shyly said, "Our birth dates are compatible. We can marry."

Unfortunately, the Yinsi in the history books happens to be the person Guo Mian hates most.

And the Yinsi standing before her had deceived her for five whole years.

She wanted nothing more than to kick him back to the Qing dynasty.

But... when it came to dealing with that devil of an investor, no one could do the job better than a shrewd, ruthless contender for the throne like him.

Fortunately, he was only seventeen. His ambitions had yet to take root, his sharp edges could be smoothed, and he could still be trained.

Before transmigrating to the modern era, Yinsi thought the only thing he regretted in life was falling in love with a woman who lived three hundred years away.

After arriving in the modern era, he learned that his fate was to become enemies with his father, turn against his brothers, see his ambitions go unfulfilled, and die with regrets.

Fortunately, Heaven gave him the chance to defy fate.

Letters connect them across time + mutual transmigration to change their fates

Guo Mian and Yinsi commute between the ancient and modern worlds. Yinsi comes to the modern era once a month, more reliably than the author's period.

Guo Mian transmigrates to the Qing dynasty once a year, as unpredictably as the author's salary.

Theme: I want to write about the process of getting to know and accepting oneself.