With transmigration sweeping the world, novels, comics, and TV dramas are all full of transmigration.
It doesn't seem surprising that I should keep up with the trend and transmigrate too.
The problem is, everyone else transmigrates as a young lady from an official family, a princess, or a noblewoman.
At worst, they transmigrate as a farmer's daughter and start a cozy little life growing crops, supporting their family, selling goods, and getting rich.
But why did I skip right past being unmarried or married and transmigrate as a widow whose husband is dead?
And even though my husband is dead, my mother-in-law is still around!
When I got this script, I was struck like a bolt of lightning.
Only later did I realize that I'd been handed a perfect lie-flat script.
Though I have a mother-in-law, she's from my own family.
I was deposed as empress because I didn't get along with the previous empress and my late husband. You could say I ended up in this position as a last-minute replacement, pushed into it without a choice.
My mother-in-law dotes on me, feeling both pity and guilt.
And the birth mother of my conveniently acquired son died when he was very young.
He treats me, his legitimate mother, with great respect and affection.
This life seems pretty good, doesn't it?
Oh, right. I forgot to introduce myself.
I'm Shunzhi's second empress and Kangxi's conveniently acquired legitimate mother, Empress Xiaohuizhang, widowed at just twenty.
The year I transmigrated, I had just turned twenty.
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The main story is written in third person.
Reader advisory: An alternate-history Qing transmigration story, not written for historical accuracy buffs.
A slice-of-life story, not a power fantasy or sweet romance. The focus is on everyday life.
Theme: Live happily.
