I’d Never Be a Princess Consort… Except I Will!

[A deceptively meek but highly skilled, offbeat top × a cool, abstinent-looking bottom who is dark and unhinged underneath. A touch of court intrigue, marriage first and love later, both reborn, fictional ancient setting] Reborn three years before the fall of the Southern Qi, Pei Mingshe spends every day thinking about how to earn more money, get her whole family out of the capital and away from the coming war, and find the beautiful older sister she last saw in her previous life so she can take her away with them. While her family members scramble to compete for a place among the candidates to become the princess's consort, Pei Mingshe scoffs. “No dog would become a princess's consort!” After unexpectedly getting a place among the candidates, Pei Mingshe is looking for a way to turn it into money when she discovers that the princess seeking a consort is the very person she's been longing to find! Pei Mingshe: “No dog would become a princess's consort. But I will!” While under punishment and guarding the imperial tombs, the Southern Qi's eldest princess, Xiao Tilu, was steadfastly accompanied by her study companion, Feng Zhijun. After they returned to the capital, Xiao Tilu helped Feng Zhijun marry a prince and did everything she could to meet her needs. During the struggle for the throne, Xiao Tilu threw her full support behind the third prince Feng Zhijun had married. Who could have expected the third prince to die young, while the other princes and princesses also met with various accidents? In the end, Xiao Tilu became regent princess and took charge of state affairs. Xiao Tilu believed she and Feng Zhijun were the closest of kin, and that she could give Feng Zhijun everything she wanted. That is, until she heard Feng Zhijun, standing beside the rebel leader, say, “From the beginning, all I ever wanted was the empress's throne. He can give it to me, and you can't!” Xiao Tilu is reborn on the day the candidates for her consort are selected. Feng Zhijun is recommending candidates to her. Ignoring Feng Zhijun's advice, Xiao Tilu skips over the powerful nobles and chooses a fallen imperial merchant's son rumored to suffer from a dissociative disorder to be her consort. Xiao Tilu remembers that this person is foolish and vacant. More importantly, she should be a woman, and in her previous life she even took an arrow for Xiao Tilu amid the chaos of battle. Choosing Pei Mingshe will let Xiao Tilu repay her debt and keep a low profile. It's the best of both worlds. But can someone explain why, after their wedding, this princess-consort who agreed to a sham marriage keeps coming over every night with her pillow, looking pitiful as she squeezes into Xiao Tilu's bed?! Well, she looks so pitiful. They might as well sleep together. It's a shame she's quite pretty and has a lovely voice, but she's still foolish and keeps saying the most absurd, outrageous, shameless things! “Laundry powder, laundry powder, where's my laundry powder?” “Big Sister, do you like craftspeople or mouth-workers?” “I look malnourished. Can I eat a billionth of a bite? Just a billionth...” Pei Mingshe remembers that the Southern Qi will be destroyed by a great demon who brings calamity to the realm. So before the kingdom falls, she finds a defensible fortress to keep herself safe. When she is ready to go back for her princess-wife, the capital has changed completely: a new emperor has ascended the throne, the entire city is under lockdown, and word is that they are searching for the missing empress. As Pei Mingshe goes to the princess's residence to fetch her wife, she wonders who could be unlucky enough to become empress of a doomed kingdom. But as soon as she arrives, a squad of imperial guards surrounds her. The commander and hundreds of guards kneel and cry out, “Greetings, Your Majesty!” Pei Mingshe is stunned. “N-no, no, no, you've got the wrong person!” The moment she finishes speaking, a cold voice says, “We haven't. Are you unwilling?” A woman in a bright yellow imperial robe, looking just like Pei Mingshe's princess-wife but with a fierce expression, sits in her imperial carriage and stares at Pei Mingshe, her gaze dark and gloomy. Pei Mingshe looks at the woman, more breathtakingly beautiful than ever and no longer as she once was. After a moment's pause, she straightens her clothes and waves toward the princess's residence: “Goodbye, Mom! I'm off to be the empress tonight!” The new emperor, whose face had been gloomy, is left speechless... #Let Loose and Get Back in the Game #The Top Disguises Herself as a Man, Then Resumes Her Female Identity Later #Younger Top, Six-Year Age Gap #I'll Become Anything for My Wife Coming soon: Running Away Pregnant After Flirting with the Immortal Venerable, xianxia. What if you take too much antidote? Coveting [Nonhuman], post-apocalyptic nonhuman romance. It keeps swallowing. Recommended completed novels by the author: Mistook the Eldest Princess for a Kept Lover, fictional ancient setting. An ancient perfumer makes money to spoil her wife. After Mislabeling My Ex's Powerful Older Sister, modern ABO. My Wife Is the Scum Alpha Novel's Powerful Female Lead, ancient ABO. She gets promoted to general for her wife. After Becoming the Female Lead's Scum Alpha Wife, modern ABO. She comes back to find herself with a wife and daughter. 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