The Princess Consort of Great Qin

Ning Yu, a certain ice-cold beauty of the Qin Dynasty.

Descendant of a transmigrator, transmigrator, Qin's third Grand Spirit Medium, beloved of King Zheng of Qin...

The birth mother of Prince Hu Hai?!

After the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi buried 400,000 Zhao soldiers alive and marched straight for Handan. Terrified, the King of Zhao immediately sought peace with King Zhaoxiang of Qin. To secure the help of Chu Yue, Qin's Grand Spirit Medium at the time, the King of Zhao sent back the daughter of her only child, Ying Sui, along with her granddaughter.

Transmigrated into a family as its only child, with an open-minded transmigrator for a great-grandmother, the most bitter thing Ning Yu has ever had to eat is Chinese medicine.

Unlike Ying Le, who returns to Qin to live in luxury, Prince Yiren and his wife, held hostage in Zhao, endure the people's fury. That year, Ying Zheng is still an infant.

Different circumstances shape different personalities.

Ying Zheng hates this chaotic world and wants to bring it all to an end. Ning Yu only wants to make the best life she can within her limited means: enjoy good food, have fun, and date the handsome commander-in-chief of the Terracotta Army, King Zheng of Qin.

At seventeen, King Zheng of Qin is troubled and brooding every day, with a sinister look in his eyes, but he's undeniably handsome.

One day, King Zheng reveals that he wants to marry her and make her his queen, because he doesn't want to accept his grandmother's arrangement and marry a princess of Chu.

Ning Yu is stunned. "But I'm a member of the Ying clan too!"

She may not have much Ying blood in her, but Ying is the surname she inherited from her mother! Aren't people with the same surname forbidden to marry?

Dating is fine. Marriage is not.

The young king only becomes more excited.

"Then that's even better. We'll unite the blood of the Ying clan in our children. Only blood like ours is worthy of flowing through the line of emperors who will rule for ten thousand generations, lasting for all eternity."

Ning Yu turns and runs. He chases her, and she can't escape.

$$$ The female lead is three years older than Ying Zheng. A woman three years older brings a fortune, so this is an older-woman-younger-man romance. The female lead is more assertive early on.

$$$ Later on, the story includes elements of taking by force and coerced love.

$$$ They are more than five generations apart, and only share a surname.

Content warnings:

1. History is not changed. This story takes place against the backdrop of the Warring States period. People are products of their society and cannot be separated from their historical circumstances, but the story does not rule out individual agency.

2. This is part of a series, connected to the previous story and the one that follows.

3. The story follows the theory that Lao Ai was not a male favorite, but rather the Qin clan general Jiao.

(In the Warring States period, inheritance was determined mostly by bloodline, with military merit making up the rest. Lao Ai being made a marquis goes against common sense, and the royal clan's attitude toward him was ambiguous.)

4. The story follows the theory that Fusu lost his claim to the throne because of Lord Changping's rebellion, and that Fusu was sent away as a military commander. Hu Hai did not usurp the throne, but inherited it in the normal order.

(The First Emperor planned to establish an emperor-and-prefectures system, so he would certainly take steps to prevent the various princes and princesses from colluding with their maternal families and setting themselves up independently after his death, undermining his policies.)

Theme: A transmigrator lives earnestly in the Qin Dynasty