The Imperial Harem.
Deep within the palatial courtyards.
This was a place Qin Xiao rarely set foot in all year round.
A myriad of flowers bloomed, a riot of brilliant purples and vibrant reds.
Today, however, the tranquility was shattered by a single piece of news!
The reason being: Qin Xiao was coming to spend the night!
The moment this news broke.
All the palace maids and concubines were in an uproar!
They scrambled to dress up and apply their makeup, making meticulous preparations and striving to present their best selves to await Qin Xiao's arrival.
After all, ever since the Empress of Great Qin was executed, no one had held power over the vast imperial harem.
They all wanted to seize this opportunity to curry favor with Qin Xiao, win his affection, and soar to the heavens!
Inside a small stone pavilion, a young woman sat quietly, her fingers lightly caressing the strings of a zither, producing a melodious tune.
The young woman possessed absolute beauty. Dressed in a light-colored gown, she was like a lotus emerging from the water, bright and captivating.
The charming fragrance of tea wafted from the table, its steam curling upward.
"Your Ladyship, His Majesty will be arriving soon. You must dress up nicely."
The palace maid Qiao'er gently reminded her.
Another palace maid smiled and said,
"Your Ladyship is naturally beautiful, with looks that could topple cities and states. Why would you need to dress up deliberately?"
"As soon as His Majesty sees Your Ladyship, he will surely be captivated and unable to extricate himself."
Hearing this, the young woman shook her head and looked at the two maids, her delicate brows slightly furrowed.
"You two, haven't I told you before? In this world, everyone is equal. Why should I have to please a man!"
"So what if he is the Emperor? I am a woman of the new era!"
The young woman scolded them, full of displeasure.
The two maids lowered their heads.
"Your Ladyship, your servants know their wrongs."
Seeing the two maids looking repentant, the young woman finally nodded in satisfaction.
"When you see me, there is no need to kneel. Just call me sister."
Her voice became gentle again.
The two maids were immediately moved to tears of gratitude.
"Your Ladyship, then your servants will go and welcome the noble ladies, so they can come and pay their respects to you."
After saying this, the two maids slowly withdrew.
The young woman smiled slightly and waved her hand.
She was a woman of the new era, after all.
Why should she go out of her way to please a feudal emperor?
"It has been half a month since I transmigrated here. After educating those maids and concubines every day, they should finally know what equality for all means."
"The memories in my mind are becoming clearer. Whether it is poetry and songs or various modern knowledge, I have completely mastered them all."
"It is time to unleash my grand ambitions and make this ancient world tremble!"
"The fact that I was able to transmigrate here must be a mission given to me by God, to guide the people of this world and bring equality to everyone under heaven!"
"To hell with the Emperor! I, Niohuru Wang Yuanyuan, am the one destined to change the world!"
Wang Yuanyuan's heart swelled with lofty sentiments, and a smug smile appeared on her face.
At this moment, the sound of footsteps rang out.
The two maids led a group of chattering beauties gracefully walking over.
They all bowed and paid their respects one after another.
"Greetings to Consort Shu."
Wang Yuanyuan sat in the seat of honor, looking displeased.
"Who told you to kneel?"
"This is the dregs of feudalism!"
"All of you, stand up!"
Hearing this, the group of noble ladies and attendants were a bit bewildered.
Didn't they say the waters of the inner court were very deep?
Why did Consort Shu seem so easy to get along with?
However, they all obediently listened and stood up.
They had not been in the palace for long. Although they had titles, they ultimately could not compare to Wang Yuanyuan.
After all, this woman was a Consort, someone who had followed His Majesty for many years.
Hearing that His Majesty was about to enter the inner court, they naturally had to come here first to curry favor with Consort Shu.
This was to avoid displeasing Consort Shu if Qin Xiao favored them later, which might lead her to secretly make things difficult for them.
Wang Yuanyuan looked around and saw over a dozen absolutely stunning beauties.
Suddenly, she frowned.
"This Emperor is really a piece of trash! To think he would imprison so many women in the deep palace just for his own selfish desires!"
The moment these words were spoken.
The concubines below shuddered in fear.
Their legs gave way, and they all fell to their knees on the ground.
"Consort Shu, please speak cautiously. If these words reach His Majesty's ears, we fear our lives will be forfeit!"
They said, trembling with fear.
Listen to this, what kind of talk was that?
If Qin Xiao found out, it would be a disaster!
The sky of the entire imperial harem would probably collapse!
However,
Wang Yuanyuan did not care in the slightest. She stood up and looked at them, angry at their failure to fight back.
"Hmph! What are you afraid of!"
"It seems you have all been disciplined by those men for so long that you have forgotten your identity as women!"
"We women should sit on equal footing with those men!"
"Why can they inherit vast family fortunes while we cannot? Why must the Emperor be a man and not a woman!"
"Everyone in this world should be equal, rather than men sitting high and mighty above us!"
Her words were impassioned and rousing, deafening to the ears.
All the concubines were stunned.
Although they also felt resigned, when had they ever dared to say such things!
For a moment, some were excited, while others were terrified.
The more Wang Yuanyuan saw this reaction, the prouder she felt in her heart.
This was the power of a woman of the new era!
But more effort was still needed!
Holding her teacup, she held her head high and puffed out her chest, surveying the crowd like a queen.
"You have no need to fear."
"With me here, who would dare bully you!"
"As the Emperor, Qin Xiao has monopolized so many of you. Not practicing monogamy is simply a monstrous crime!"
"You have people you like but cannot be with them, locked away in this deep palace. It's too pitiful!"
"I, Wang Yuanyuan, declare here today!"
"From now on, you no longer need to tremble in fear, afraid of this and that, and you certainly shouldn't go out of your way to please those men!"
"Who has your back! It is I, Wang Yuanyuan!"
"If anyone dares to bully you, I will absolutely not let them off lightly!"
After this speech.
Everyone was agitated, their eyes brimming with tears.
Under Wang Yuanyuan's leadership.
They stood up one after another.
"Consort Shu is absolutely right!"
"Why must we women marry as wives, instead of taking men as concubines!"
"This in itself is unfair to us women!"
"So true! We absolutely cannot allow sharp blades born from beneath our skirts to backstab us!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
