The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Xie Yuzhen looked around in horror and found that she could not recognize the source of the strange sound. The palace maids beside her were still immersed in joy and obviously did not hear this sudden sound.

She forced herself to suppress the shock in her heart, but the sudden change in her expression could not be hidden from others. Chunfen, who was closest to her, asked worriedly, "Are you tired, madam?"

Xie Yuzhen took the opportunity to nod and said, "Yes, I am a little tired."

"Although the things you need to bring into the palace have already been packed, they still need to be counted again. Madam, why don't you take a rest for a while?"

"Okay, I'll go take a nap in the inner room. You don't have to stay here. Just leave two people outside the door. When everything is counted and it's time to enter the palace, come and call me on Chunfen."

"Yes."

Xie Yuzhen listened calmly to the strange sounds in her mind. She didn't understand what a system was, but she could understand that this thing came from the future.

After entering the inner room and making sure that no one could hear him, Xie Yuzhen lowered the bed curtain and asked in a low voice: "Who are you? Why...why can't I see you but can hear your voice?"

She originally wanted to ask why this strange thing was talking in her head, but with a tentative thought in mind, she changed her words temporarily to make herself appear more innocent.

"Hello, host. I am from a system in a parallel dimension 3042 years from now. I am a human creation. My creator put me into this world to try to see if it is feasible to change history by changing the behavior of important historical figures."

"If you accept my binding, I will provide you with tasks and help. As long as you complete the tasks I assign, you can exchange for various items that are beneficial to you in the mall. I personally recommend that you exchange for the save and load function first. This is a special function unique to this system and there is only one store like this."

That strange voice revealed a kind of pride that Xie Yuzhen couldn't really explain, and it sounded like the person was not very old.

Xie Yuzhen pondered for a moment: "...What is a save file?"

"Saving means you can save a certain time point, and loading means when you encounter something unavoidable in the future, you can directly choose to load the file back to the previously saved time point to prepare early. Believe me, this function will be very useful for the palace fight you are about to face."

It's so magical?!

Xie Yuzhen couldn't hold back his surprise, and then he heard that voice again: "My mission is to do my best to help you, the host, to achieve the goal of a nobody's counterattack in the harem and change the course of history!"

Little transparent?

It was another word she had never heard of, but Xie Yuzhen could roughly understand what it meant. She also remembered that this thing claimed to be from the future, so she had a guess in her mind: "You mean, after I enter the palace, I will fall out of favor?"

She had already prepared herself for falling out of favor after entering the palace, so she just took a deep breath and mustered up her energy again: "It doesn't matter. Since I have received this great opportunity from you, I will surely be able to regain your favor sooner or later. Let's work together to earn this good life of wealth and glory!"

However, the existence in her mind was like a fish with a bone stuck in its throat, constantly making "crack...crack..." sounds.

"Searching...identity search...era search...bad signal...interference from unknown factors...click...search completed."

"System?" Xie Yuzhen suddenly felt uneasy.

The system was silent for a long time before a much quieter voice rang out: "...I'm sorry, I think I found the wrong person."

"Ah?" Xie Yuzhen was puzzled. "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm very sorry, the task of this system is to find the true love concubine of Emperor Qiyuan of the Great Sheng Dynasty as rumored in later generations, and to help her change her fate of being used as cannon fodder by the evil queen Xie in the harem."

Xie Yuzhen was helpless, but couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "It turns out that I'm not the one who has fallen out of favor. Wait, the Demon Queen, Xie?"

The system's voice sounded harshly: "It's you."

"So I became the queen?" Xie Yuzhen almost couldn't breathe. The life goal she had set for herself was actually too low... The emperor had a original queen, and the queen had just given birth to a prince last year. Her position was very stable and her health had always been healthy. No one knew what happened later that allowed her to ascend to the throne.

Suppressing his agitated emotions, Xie Yuzhen suddenly reacted: "Wait, why is it the Demon Queen?"

I just want to live a life of wealth and glory without being bullied, so why am I labeled a demon queen?

Could it be that the harem was infighting so badly that he became a bloody murderer?

its not right.

If the emperor was in a clear mind, how could he allow someone like me to become the Empress Dowager? Not thinking that the harem was not chaotic enough, he wanted to see a river of blood?

The more Xie Yuzhen thought about it, the more she suspected that the emperor had gone mad in his later years, and she had followed suit, imitating the Ming Emperor and causing misery in the court and the country, which was why she was criticized as a demon queen by later generations.

"...Because you were married before, and your ex-husband was still alive, and you seduced the emperor into entering the palace, you are not a faithful wife."

Xie Yuzhen: “Ah?”

Just, that’s it?

Deep down she didn't quite believe it. In the Great Sheng Dynasty, it was common for women to divorce, and second and third marriages were not uncommon. It was just that her second marriage was special.

"That Zhou guy cheated me into marriage first, and then poisoned my original wife. If I didn't find a way to save myself, I would have become a ghost at the bottom of the Jing River. If it weren't for Zhou Ting and Xiang's couple pressing me step by step, why would I have to take such an extreme approach?"

Xie Yuzhen was filled with endless resentment and anger, but she still suppressed her voice, only her eyes turned slightly red: "I just want to survive. Meeting Your Majesty is my luck, and also..."

Destiny has never abandoned me!

Her chest rose and fell violently, and she squeezed her eyes shut tightly. When she opened them again, a fierce light of hatred was hidden in her pupils. Her tone became lighter: "Do you people in later generations also value women's virtues so much?"

The ways of being a wife that those sour Confucian scholars talk about are more important than a woman’s life.

The system got stuck for a moment, and with a clicking sound, it said again: "...Uh, you, you have been in the palace for many years, but you have not given birth to a child for Emperor Qiyuan. You can't give birth to a child, you are a useless salt-alkali land!"

Xie Yu was really shocked: "I gave birth to Dalang before. I took good care of him when he was in the womb. The birth was smooth and I didn't hurt my body. How could I not have children? Could it be that... the emperor is just a show-off and is no longer good enough?!"

There are now four princesses and five princes in the palace. The emperor has no shortage of heirs, but he himself does!

People in later generations called me the Evil Queen. What if the emperor passed away and the princes and princesses left behind also thought I was the Evil Queen and refused to be filial to me?

The youngest of the imperial children was the fifth prince who was born last year. He was born to the queen. Xie Yuzhen didn't know how the current queen died. What if she didn't die of old age, but was murdered? Or, like Empress Wei of Emperor Wu, she served as queen for decades before it was Xie Yuzhen's turn to take the throne...

Then how could these princes and princesses born earlier have any deep friendship with himself, who was cooperating with an emperor who went mad in his later years and a mad witch queen?

It would be strange if she wasn't killed to uphold justice!

"...you gave birth to two daughters..."

Hearing this, Xie Yuzhen just wanted to roll his eyes at this thing called "system": "The current emperor, that is, the Emperor Qiyuan in your mouth, has been on the throne for seven years, and he only has three princesses in the harem. Do you dare to say that the princesses are not his children?! You dare to call him a useless salt-alkali land?!"