My Mom Has Been in the Palace for Fifteen Years

After transmigrating fifteen years ago, Xi Jiuyi had always thought she had no father or mother.

Children who have no one to care for them learn to fend for themselves early. She grew up eating meals provided by the neighbors, and being called a bringer of bad luck behind her back. None of that mattered. She could make paper, fire cement, and turn plain old sand into glass. She had no parents, but her life was still going splendidly.

Just as she'd gotten used to living that way, her mother returned.

On her eighteenth birthday, she had just blown out the candles on her birthday cake, surrounded by a crowd, when she heard that many carriages had stopped outside the estate. It seemed some important people had come from the capital.

She led people out to greet them, only to see a graceful, dignified woman step down from a carriage outside the estate and pull her into her arms. "My child, you've suffered for fifteen years. Come back to the palace with me. I've become the Empress Dowager."

It turned out that after her father died, her mother had joined the group of women being recruited as palace maids. She had been locked away in the palace for fifteen years, and now that they had reunited, she was the Empress Dowager.

Xi Jiuyi: "..."

She looked at the vast fields outside the estate, the retainers disguised as farmers among the crops, the glinting armor in the cellar, and the fine horses smuggled in from Qiangrong, and fell deep into thought.

Her mother was the Empress Dowager.

So, was she supposed to rebel or not?

Also known as:

"The Xi Family's Guide to Success: From Grand Princess to Founding Emperor, These Are the Things She Got Right"

"I Only Want to Be Empress Dowager. I Don't Care Who the Emperor Is"

Theme: There is no one better than a mother