The Lazy Matriarch Loves Gossip

[Palace and household intrigue + exchanged lives + lighthearted comedy + pocket-space shop] The two daughters of the Vice Minister of Personnel are both reborn. The legitimate eldest daughter, Wen Qingwan, is learned, reasonable, gentle, and dignified. She excels at music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Ever since she was little, the slightest mistake in her behavior earned her a smack on the palm. The concubine of Vice Minister Wen died after giving birth to a daughter. The minister poured all the affection he had once reserved for his beloved into their child, naming her Mingzhu and cherishing her like a precious pearl. Wen Mingzhu was adored by everyone in the capital from childhood, even the princes. As a concubine-born daughter of the minister’s household, she could never become Crown Princess. The Crown Prince begged for her to be made his consort, but she wanted a lifelong union with just one person. When the imperial marriage edict arrived, she fled. To save the lives of over a hundred members of the Wen family, Vice Minister Wen forced his legitimate eldest daughter to take her place as the bride. The Emperor and Empress were happy to see the Wen family’s legitimate daughter take her sister’s place, but the Crown Prince hated Wen Qingwan from then on and never once favored her. Wen Qingwan lived by the rules and honored her elders. Even though the Crown Prince treated her with icy indifference, she devoted herself to him, tending to every matter with wholehearted care. She outlived the Crown Princess, and after the Crown Prince ascended the throne, he made her Empress. Meanwhile, Wen Mingzhu fled her wedding and married the heir of the Duke of Protectorate’s household, only to discover after the wedding that he was a mama’s boy who let his mother and cousin torment her. With the Crown Prince and her father and brothers backing her, she easily divorced him. She then married the legitimate second son of the Chancellor’s household, only to discover he was a pervert. At last, she married into a declining marquis household, where she was beaten to death before she could even make a fuss. After five marriages in five years, she died with her eyes wide open. When she opened her eyes again, she decided the Crown Prince was the only good man in the world. She would not run from the wedding, and she even asked her father to marry her elder sister off to the worst wife-beater around. Years later, when the Crown Prince was demoted to a commoner, she followed him onto the streets, while her elder sister became a marquis with ten thousand households.