The First Secretary-General (Qing Dynasty Transmigration)

Synopsis: Gu Yunying had been a workaholic since childhood. She started working at twenty-three. In her first year, she worked her way from a private company’s assistant to the boss’s secretary. By her third year, she’d worked her way into becoming the president’s secretary at a joint venture. By her seventh year, she was just about to become an executive assistant to the chairman of a state-owned enterprise when her body finally gave out under the strain of working herself to death. And then she died. When she opened her eyes again, she had become Niu Gulu Yunying, the fourteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of a Duke’s household—and the younger sister of Empress Xiaozhao Ren. She had arrived in the Kangxi Emperor’s seventeenth year, just in time to enter the palace and attend to her ailing sister. After that, all she had to do was wait to inherit her sister’s position as one of the emperor’s higher-ranking consorts. Gu Yunying knew enough history to remember the life of the gentle Imperial Noble Consort Wenxi. Two children: one useless, the other dead in infancy. And she herself was gone before thirty. Gu Yunying wasn’t exactly willing to accept that. Surely every lifetime couldn’t be shorter than the last? So, after entering the palace, she stared at Liang Jiugong for a long while. Then, without hesitation, she drank the infertility medicine that would have caused her sister to miscarry—and die along with the child. If she had to choose a new path, she might as well choose one she was good at. From an empress’s assistant to the Grand Empress Dowager’s secretary, Gu Yunying kept climbing. Eventually, she even managed to squeeze Liang Jiugong out of the way and become the one person every official in the entire imperial court wanted to curry favor with. She had worked herself into becoming the Qing Dynasty’s First Secretary-General. This time, she had worked herself far more successfully than in her previous life. So successfully that even Kangxi—who had personally declared that he would never marry another woman as empress—made an exception and married her in another grand imperial wedding. There was just one small problem. Kangxi was a little heartbroken. He had never imagined that, as emperor, if he wanted to spend the night with his own wife, he’d actually have to make an appointment in advance. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The First Secretary-General (Qing Dynasty Transmigration) — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠