Dream of the Red Chamber: The Clan Chief's Wife Enjoys Her Retirement

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[Middle-aged couple, a grandson from the start. Daiyu and Baoyu stay together.]

Liu Yan spent over twenty years as an ordinary girl in the modern world before waking up in her previous life.

As the legitimate daughter of a Duke’s household, she married Jia Jing in her teens. He had passed the imperial examinations at a young age and was the sole heir to the Ningguo household, a family of comparable standing.

The couple got along well after marriage and soon had a son, whom they named Jia Zhen.

Back then, she could never have imagined that her son would grow into a reckless playboy, her husband would withdraw from the world and become obsessed with cultivating immortality, and the daughter she had risked her life to give birth to would end up with the tragic fate of becoming a nun.

She heard Jia Jing had brought Taoist priests home again.

Liu Yan sat bolt upright in her deathbed.

“Master wants to go outside the city to cultivate immortality, right? I’ll pack your bags this instant!”

Jia Jing had invited the priests to perform rituals and pray for his wife and child: “...?”

The maid beside them said, “Madam must be so worried about Young Master’s illness that she’s confused.”

Zhen is sick? Good! Liu Yan smiled and bowed to the Taoist priests. “Medicine won’t help Zhen’s illness. I’ll have to ask you, esteemed masters, to take care of it!”

The Taoist priests: “...?”

Later, as Zhen’s condition grew worse, Jia Jing paced around in a panic. “Madam, those Taoist priests are charlatans. You can’t trust them!”

The powerful families in the capital all believed the Ningguo household was doomed.

Jia Jing, its head, was an eccentric recluse. Its heir, Jia Zhen, had been forced to become a monk, and its matriarch, Liu Yan, was no virtuous lady either. She sold off the family’s ancestral property and servants, defied the Old Madam of the Rongguo household, and treated imperial relatives with open disdain.

Yet years later, as the old noble families who had waited to see them make fools of themselves fell into decline, the Ningguo household alone flourished. The old duke was still eccentric, and the Old Madam still had her frequent fits. But even the emperor treated this family with respect, so what could anyone else say?

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In the sixth month of the twenty-second year of Kangxi’s reign, Imperial Noble Consort Tong gave birth to a daughter. Reborn, she knew the baby would die before reaching full term. The moment she saw her child, her face clouded with worry.

Kangxi saw that his youngest daughter was frail from birth and unlikely to survive. Afraid the sight would upset his cousin, he told the wet nurse not to bring the baby to her too often.

The Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, understood all too well what it felt like to be disliked by one’s parents. His little sister was so adorable; he couldn’t bear to let her suffer the same pain.

Everyone noticed that the somewhat odd-tempered Fourth Prince changed after the Eighth Princess was born.

He used to ignore his brothers, but now he praised the Eighth Princess to everyone he met. Anyone who dared say a bad word about her would have to answer to him.

He used to be somewhat ill at ease in Chengqian Palace, but now he sternly scolded any servants who slacked off when it came to his little sister.

He used to be no good at winning the emperor’s favor, but now he was all sweetness and smiles, doing his best to make the emperor visit Chengqian Palace more often to see the Eighth Princess.

The Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, Kangxi, and the Imperial Noble Consort all grew fonder of Yinzhen.

The Eighth Prince, Yinsi, trailed after Yinzhen. “Fourth Brother, Fourth Brother! Don’t dote only on Eighth Sister. Pay some attention to Eighth Brother too!”

After transmigrating, Tan Ning learned who she was and decided to eat well, sleep well, and keep herself alive.

Once she grew up, she could become her Fourth Brother’s little helper. But when she did grow up, she discovered that her Fourth Brother was terrifyingly powerful.

In that case, she’d just keep focusing on eating and sleeping well.

A lighthearted, cozy story about being doted on. Please add it to your reading list!

Theme: Respect the elderly and cherish the young.