The Qing Dynasty: Consort Rong of Kangxi

Ma Shihan blinked and discovered that she had transmigrated into the historical figure Ma Jia, Consort Rong, who bore five sons and one daughter to the Kangxi Emperor.

At the time, Ma Jia had just given birth to her first child, Chengrui. Four more sons and one daughter would follow.

Thinking about how Ma Jia would go on to have four more sons and a daughter, Shihan felt faint.

The ancients said more children, more blessings, but why would someone from the modern world want more children and more blessings? She'd much rather keep her slim waist and live a healthy life to a hundred!

But the other consorts didn't see it that way. Ma Jia had given birth to the emperor's eldest son, so surely she would bask in her son's reflected glory and be triumphant. As it turned out, Shihan was indeed triumphant, but not because of her offspring. She was proud of her skincare and fitness routine. Who else in the whole palace could get their postpartum body back to its pre-transmigration condition within six months? She really was the best health and wellness guru, just as her reputation claimed!

Once her body had recovered, she settled into a healthy routine of occasionally taking herbal medicine and exercising. She also looked after the child the original Ma Jia had left behind. As her days gradually became more comfortable, the gloom she'd felt at first after transmigrating into Ma Jia began to lift.

Just as she was enjoying her comfortable life, the emperor began openly setting his sights on her, perhaps because he thought she was having it too easy.

Since ascending the throne as a young man, Kangxi had worked tirelessly for the court and the imperial harem. At court he diligently fulfilled his duties as emperor; in the harem he shared his favors among his consorts.

He thought that while a ruler's life might not be carefree, it offered a freedom and power no one else could experience. But after Ma Jia gave birth to his first child, she suddenly seemed to become a different person.

She let the children run wild in the harem and put herself above Chengrui, and even above him.

At first, when he realized what Ma Jia was thinking, he was furious.

But gradually, he thought he began to understand. He looked at Ma Jia, who seemed unbound by her status as a consort and was thriving, living even more freely than he did, and his gaze darkened.

He would have to find a way to make Ma Jia notice him.

P.S. After transmigrating, the heroine has no more children, but adopts children all over the place.

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