His limbs were restrained as a man approached him with a knife.
"Oh, awake?" The man's voice was shrill. "Endure it. It'll be over soon." The man pulled down his pants.
Lin Chengze struggled violently, trying to scream, but his mouth was gagged.
"...I’ve never seen someone so eager to do this to themselves. You’re quite proactive, aren’t you?"
"Though your technique is a bit rough. Let me tidy it up for you."
"Oh, and the person who sent you here asked me to pass along a message—since you won’t be needing this anymore, she’s feeding it to the dogs." The eunuch chuckled. "No idea who you pissed off."
Lin Chengze’s mind flashed to Xu Yan'er’s face. It all made sense now! It was her! She must have noticed something, sent people to tail him, and set up one trap after another!
Lin Chengze had now walked the same path Fang Zhiyi once did—carrying chamber pots, standing night watches, doing all the dirty and exhausting work. But unlike Fang Zhiyi, he wasn’t as capable, so he endured even more beatings.
Fang Zhiyi felt a deep satisfaction.
"Be careful. There’s a transmigrator," Little Hei suddenly warned.
"A what?" Fang Zhiyi was stunned.
"A transmigrator..." Little Hei’s figure flickered before reappearing. "Interested in some harem drama?"
Fang Zhiyi shook his head repeatedly, but curiosity gnawed at him. It was rare for a transmigrator to appear mid-way through a world’s progression.
After some maneuvering, he secured an audience with the emperor. He recalled that in the original plot, this was when the emperor began neglecting state affairs, allowing Prince Rui to seize power.
Just as Fang Zhiyi was casually presenting some policy ideas, a concubine burst in, radiant and oblivious to his presence as a court official.
The emperor, as stunned as Fang Zhiyi, quickly softened into a doting smile.
Fang Zhiyi studied the concubine and the spherical orb perched on her shoulder. He understood immediately.
He took the opportunity to fill in the gaps about the harem’s storyline.
The empress had passed away, and the concubines were vying fiercely for her position, employing every trick in the book. The emperor, distracted by their schemes, neglected governance, spending his days adjudicating petty disputes in the harem while occasionally delegating state affairs to the Crown Prince.
It was during this time that the daughter of the Minister of Revenue entered the palace. Her fresh, unpretentious demeanor caught the emperor’s eye.
After a brutal struggle, Chang Yue'e emerged victorious, crowned as the new empress. A year later, she bore the emperor a son.
The Crown Prince, weak-willed and indecisive, had long irritated the emperor. Seizing the opportunity, the emperor deposed him and named Chang Yue'e’s son as the new heir—a move that gave Prince Rui the opening he needed.
Great Chu endured a tumultuous decade before finally collapsing under a peasant uprising.
A standard harem power struggle. And now, the transmigrator had taken the place of Shangguan Lin, a character originally poisoned in the plot. Her mission was to win the emperor’s favor and become the empress.
Fang Zhiyi found it all rather dull. Harem politics? He didn’t get it.
Even less comprehensible was how an emperor, who typically worked on memorials until two or three in the morning and rose before dawn for court, could possibly find time to meddle in harem affairs.
Back when he’d served as an advisor, if an emperor spent more than half an hour with a concubine, the eunuchs would be banging on the door in a frenzy.
"Baffling," Fang Zhiyi muttered, shaking his head as he left.
Sure enough, the harem drama unfolded. Shangguan Lin, armed with her system and knowledge of the plot, dodged assassination attempts and retaliated, successfully diverting the emperor’s attention from Chang Yue'e.
Meanwhile, the Crown Prince nervously handled state affairs, a development Prince Rui saw as an opportunity. What Prince Rui didn’t know was that Fang Zhiyi, standing not far behind him, was narrowing his eyes.
Harem schemes weren’t his forte, but factional strife? Sorry, but everyone else here was amateur hour.
What he hadn’t anticipated was the sheer force of destiny. When Lin Chengze, now fallen from grace, was being punished, Shangguan Lin happened by and took pity on him. She rescued him and brought him into her quarters.
With Shangguan Lin’s backing, Lin Chengze rose rapidly.
Fang Zhiyi nearly laughed in frustration. What kind of nonsense was this? Couldn’t the protagonist’s plot armor be turned off?
But then again, he was curious—what kind of sparks would fly when a fated protagonist and a transmigrator collided?
Shangguan Lin was equally bewildered. Her system had identified this eunuch as the protagonist of destiny, which initially delighted her. But seeing him limp around, a genuine eunuch, she couldn’t help but have doubts.
Fortunately, Lin Chengze did have luck on his side. Under his guidance, Shangguan Lin’s schemes in the harem rarely failed.
One day, she’d manipulate a rival consort into poisoning another, with the emperor ruling in her favor.
The next, she’d expose a framed plot, sending the offending consort to the cold palace.
Shangguan Lin was riding high.
"Congratulations, host! With the protagonist’s help, this mission will be completed in no time," the system cheered.
"Of course! I’ve read countless harem novels. Even without him, I’d have pulled it off!"
"Naturally, naturally."
Lin Chengze, his psyche now twisted, wielded even harsher methods than Fang Zhiyi had in his prime. Those who’d wronged him met grim fates—the old eunuch who’d beaten him was found "hanged," and the maid who’d humiliated him had her legs broken in a carefully orchestrated accident.
Lin Chengze seethed with resentment. He would climb higher!
He would take revenge on those who’d hurt him—the Xu family, the Zhenyuan General’s estate, the Lius! None would escape. And Fang Zhiyi—he’d done nothing to save him!
The harem became Lin Chengze and Shangguan Lin’s domain. Here, only the emperor outranked them.
Even Chang Yue'e, from the most influential family, had to tread carefully when speaking to Lin Chengze.
The emperor, blissfully unaware, reveled in his newfound peace. Free from tedious state affairs and early morning court sessions, he assumed the Crown Prince was handling things competently. He didn’t know that the first time the Crown Prince sought his guidance, the plea had been intercepted.
The official who stopped the Crown Prince directed him to Fang Zhiyi instead.
With just a few words, Fang Zhiyi won the Crown Prince’s trust. The prince even privately referred to him as "teacher." Fang Zhiyi didn’t mind—tutoring a Crown Prince? Hardly groundbreaking.
Prince Rui, however, grew anxious. Without chaos in the court, he had no chance.
And he couldn’t ignore the pressure Fang Zhiyi exerted. Though Fang Zhiyi’s rank was modest, the Crown Prince relied on him heavily. Prince Rui contemplated assassination, but strangely, none of the assassins he sent ever returned.
Under Fang Zhiyi’s guidance, the Crown Prince steadily consolidated power. Officials who’d previously allied with Fang Zhiyi now flocked to the Crown Prince’s faction. They knew the prince might be lacking, but Fang Zhiyi? No flaws there. Following him was a safe bet.
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.
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."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
