Tong Baozhu, a relationship advice streamer, transmigrates into the past as Kangxi’s cousin, the historical Empress Xiaoyiren.
She diligently raises princes and princesses for years.
In the end, she is left sick and injured, and even loses her only daughter.
After dying, she opens her eyes again: she has been reborn into another life.
When she sees her cousin Kangxi again, tears glimmer in Baozhu’s eyes.
She still loves him, but this time she chooses not to enter the palace and to live her own life.
They pass each other like strangers.
They marry other people and have nothing to do with each other.
After being reborn, Tong Jia Baozhu decides to return to her old profession and open a marriage and relationship counseling office in the capital, beneath the Son of Heaven’s very nose.
She chats and laughs with noblewomen, and her clients are all wives of officials.
Then one day, an unexpected guest comes to her little office:
Kangxi: You’ve brought so many lovers together. Why didn’t you ever think of bringing me and you together?
Baozhu: ???
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In his youth, Kangxi was constrained by Oboi and his grandmother. In his later years, the struggle among his nine sons for the throne left him utterly exhausted.
His cousin was by his side through the best years of his life, so sometimes he wondered what things would have been like if Baozhu were still alive.
At long last, reborn in the past, Kangxi eagerly resolves to make his cousin empress, even if that means defying his imperial grandmother. In this life, he will never let her die unhappy.
But...
Where is my dear cousin?
What? You say she never entered the palace?
Impossible! Absolutely impossible! My cousin clearly loved me so much!
Reader’s Guide:
1. The heroine is reborn first. The hero gradually remembers his previous life.
2. The heroine will enter the palace and continue her old profession there.
3. The hero favors her early on, then devotes himself exclusively to her later.
Theme: Love means letting someone have their way.
