"Aunt, you can keep all your power and privilege and not be trapped under house arrest, you just have to not be such a jerk."
"*Never!!!*"

This is a woman who's schemed so much that she can no longer recognize genuine opportunities.

People that like having power always seek out more. She used used to be at the very top, so now she's incapable of being content with less.

She doesn’t anticipate lesbians

"You've been deceived. Your husband is actually a woman!"

"Yeah I know"

"...how?!"

"(˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)"

"...You sleep with my daughter!?"

Offered a hand, but would rather have rope to hang herself with... Yep, standard power-hungry political schemer.

Can only hope mama has enough sanity left to realize she burnt all her bridges herself. That'll be a delicious moment to savor.

She doesn’t anticipate lesbians

A classic blunder.

Is this not a Chinese Manhua? I’m pleasantly surprised that kiss wasn’t censored.

Censorship in China isn't as clear-cut as people think; the rules are nebulous and they change often, plus a lot authors decide to self-censor preemptively exactly because they're not sure what they can get away with, and they don't wanna risk it.

The trick most people use to get away with censorship is to have the official version censored, and then repost the offending scene uncensored on their personal social media.
When you see an uncensored kiss in here, it's usually because the scanlators went through the trouble of hunting down the uncensored scene and stitching it back into the chapter.

I've been redrawing the scenes and un-censoring by hand.

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Is this not a Chinese Manhua? I’m pleasantly surprised that kiss wasn’t censored.

Censorship in China isn't as clear-cut as people think; the rules are nebulous and they change often, plus a lot authors decide to self-censor preemptively exactly because they're not sure what they can get away with, and they don't wanna risk it.

The trick most people use to get away with censorship is to have the official version censored, and then repost the offending scene uncensored on their personal social media.
When you see an uncensored kiss in here, it's usually because the scanlators went through the trouble of hunting down the uncensored scene and stitching it back into the chapter.

I've been redrawing the scenes and un-censoring by hand.

You are a hero in my book.

"Was I too obvious?" Girl, please. You were basically slowly walking away with your hands in your pockets, whistling a chipper tune.

Given the plans for bedroom confessing, one suspects she's hoping for a won't-get-to-sleep-tonight 'punishment'...

Sending for the other huaben is rife for hi-jinks. (If she complains about other authors copying her, I'm gonna laugh.)

I've been redrawing the scenes and un-censoring by hand.

Thank you for your service o7

Qi Nian is basically toying with her wife at this point. She is not even mad or anything, she is just entertained by all the harebrained schemes the Little Empress is gonna come up with.

I've been redrawing the scenes and un-censoring by hand.

holy shit, goated

Let the games begin!