[Dream of the Red Chamber] The Doormat Wins by Clocking In

Coming soon: The Crown Princess Just Wants to Lie Flat (Qing Dynasty). Blurb at the very bottom.

I'm sorry to tell everyone that I'm planning to update this book sporadically for the time being. Maybe I'm not suited to this subject matter. I get writer's block all the time, and every day I spend ages thinking about whether what I'm writing is appropriate, whether it's right, whether it's really not out of character. I get stuck after a few hundred words. Although I've been working hard to update every day, I really don't feel like I'm in a good writing groove, so I'm going to set it aside for a while. To everyone who likes this book, I'm sorry. I'm truly very sorry.

Blurb:

Song Heqing transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber, and she was actually Yingchun!

The timid, fearful, useless "Second Wooden Head," the "living dead who can still breathe."

She had parents, but she might as well not have. She had an older brother and sister-in-law, but they didn't care about her at all. In the end, her marriage ruined her life.

According to the book's ending, a year after Yingchun got married, she was abused to death by the lecherous, gambling, hard-drinking "wolf in the mountains," Sun Shaozu. But Song Heqing refuses to accept that fate.

Luckily, as someone who transmigrated, she also has a fashionable accessory for transmigrators: a Dream of the Red Chamber observation System. As long as she watches famous scenes from Dream of the Red Chamber and checks in, she can earn rewards.

She checks in on Lian and Feng's wedding and gets a jade pendant. Wearing it increases her health, saving not only her but also Lin Ruhai, who's a thousand miles away.

She checks in on Daiyu's arrival at the Jia household and gets a jade hairpin. Wearing it increases her luck. She can casually buy a book and discover it's a long-lost ancient incense recipe, or casually save someone and find out they're a princess or a commandery princess.

She checks in on Yuanchun's ceremonial visit to her family and gets a gold bangle. Wearing it increases her fortune. Even the stingy, penny-pinching Lady Xing is willing to spend money on her, not to mention Jia She, who already wants to marry her off to a fine son-in-law. He gives her a huge dowry.

In the end, Song Heqing relies on her check-ins to save Xiangling, Qingwen, and Daiyu, rescuing the wonderful girls of Dream of the Red Chamber, and enjoying a beautiful life without lifting a finger along the way.

Ye Mingxiao knew long ago that he'd transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber. Luckily, his surname isn't Jia, Xue, or Shi. He's a prince, and there's no chance his family will be destroyed. As long as he quietly lives like a lazy fish, his imperial brother can guarantee him a comfortable life.

It's just that the second daughter of the Jia family seems strange in every way. She doesn't look like a meek pushover who'd let people bully her without fighting back. Could she really be from the same world as him?

P.S. The Bao-Dai pairing is broken up, and the second branch of the Jia family is portrayed negatively.

Coming-soon blurb:

Shi Huaizhi transmigrated, and the System told her that she only needed to complete the main storyline of raising a daughter in an official's household to return to the modern world and win a successful life.

After grinding through the game and finally completing it, the System malfunctioned, and she didn't return. However, the System promised that if she could earn enough points and energy this time, it would definitely send her home.

The best way to earn points should be to enter the palace and complete the main storyline for the next stage of the game: become empress, then empress dowager.

Shi Huaizhi had no choice but to agree. She planned to find out whether this "unknown dynasty" had palace selections and see if she could get into the palace. With the skills she'd gained from the life-raising game, she was sure she could thrive in the harem.

But when the stupid game lifted the veil hiding the setting, she discovered that her surname was actually Gūwalgiya, and this was the Qing Dynasty!

Well, that worked out. She didn't need to go through palace selection.

An imperial decree appointed her Crown Princess, and she married Yinreng.

Everyone knows being the Crown Prince is one of the most dangerous jobs in ancient times. Half of all Crown Princes meet miserable ends, and Yinreng is a particularly bad case: twice deposed and twice reinstated, then imprisoned until he died. If the Crown Prince can't make it, how could the Crown Princess?

From the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi to the fifty-first, she was Crown Princess for only sixteen years. She died five or six years after being confined, before she was even forty.

The System had ruined her!

But then Shi Huaizhi discovered that after she got married, her mission had been automatically completed! It turned out being Crown Princess counted as an achievement, so she could go home!

She didn't have to die, so why wait? Time to lie flat!

Yinreng didn't expect much from his Crown Princess. Anyone chosen by his father was bound to be virtuous and capable, fit to become the mother of the empire one day.

And when he met her, she really was just like that. The young woman smiled warmly, her bearing elegant and composed, without a trace of the shyness or nervousness one might expect on her wedding night.

That was fine by him. He could trust her to manage the Yungui Palace.

But he hadn't expected this Crown Princess to be so different from what he'd imagined.

When a side consort brought people to pay their respects, the Crown Princess really did nothing but serve them tea and immediately send them off, leaving the side consort so anxious that she came to him to apologize.

When his eldest brother threw a first-birthday party for his daughter, the Crown Princess really did nothing but play with the child, leaving the people trying to sow discord between the First Prince and the Crown Prince at a loss.

When Consort De and his fourth younger brother had a falling-out, she was asked to go comfort Consort De. While everyone was saying Consort De didn't dislike her fourth son, the Crown Princess actually said her own father had died when she was little, which was even more tragic. And the Fourth Prince really was comforted by that? How did that make any sense?

When he argued with the Emperor, she said nothing to his face, but behind his back she said, "A widower raising a kid wants the child to be a daddy's boy, but the kid refuses and makes a fuss."

He began to worry. Could she really be a good Crown Princess?

As it turned out, she was not only a good Crown Princess, but also a good Empress and Empress Dowager.

Theme: Be self-reliant and strong