A System for a Favored Consort? Wrongly Landed in the 1950s, So I Fed the Pigs First

Jiang Zhiyi was once the most beloved consort of the Great Zhou dynasty.

With no family connections or powerful backers, she climbed from the lowest-ranked palace maid to the position of Noble Consort on the strength of her looks alone. On the day of her investiture, she was so happy she forgot to breathe and died.

When she opened her eyes again, she was a newborn baby in a farmer's home in 1950s China.

A mechanical voice rang in her mind: [Consort System successfully bound. Host, please win the emperor's favor as soon as possible and become Empress.]

Jiang Zhiyi was overjoyed.

Could this be reincarnation? With the help of the immortals this time, she would surely...

Wait.

This drafty mud-brick house, this hard earthen bed, these... people whose faces she couldn't make out?

Where were her wet nurse and her mother?

Something wasn't right here.

In the blink of an eye, five years passed.

Jiang Zhiyi still couldn't accept that she had become a village girl.

Yes, a village girl.

There was only one straw mat at home, and she had to share it with her older brother.

Jiang Zhiyi clutched her little quilt, her feudal notions deeply ingrained. "I'm already five! How can I sleep in the same bed as a grown man!"

Her mother kept stitching a shoe sole without looking up. "Then come sleep on the straw mat with me and your father."

Jiang Zhiyi: "...I'll stay with my brother, then."

At least her brother didn't snore.

One day, they went down to the river to catch fish.

Her older brother shouted excitedly from the river, "Sis! Hurry up and take off your shoes! There are tons of fish!"

Jiang Zhiyi clutched her shoes tightly, her sense of chastity in full force. "A woman's feet must not be shown so freely. It goes against proper conduct..."

Her brother said, "There's a huge carp! We can stew it for dinner and have a proper feast!"

Jiang Zhiyi's eyes lit up. "Where?!"

With a splash,

she was in the water faster than anyone.

"I'm having seconds tonight!"

She'd saved up points for five whole years!

At last, Jiang Zhiyi redeemed a skin-whitening pill from the System, delighted to be able to rescue her sun-darkened complexion.

Suddenly, her mother came rushing into the house, wailing. "Zhiyi! Our pig is having a difficult birth! It might not make it..."

Jiang Zhiyi's mind went "buzz."

A pig? That was her meat! A whole year's worth of grease! Her future braised pork, twice-cooked pork, and rice with lard!

"System! A pregnancy-preserving pill! Hurry!"

[Ding! The "Beauty and Pregnancy-Preserving Pill" has been used on the "sow." Delivery successful.]

Jiang Zhiyi's legs went weak, and she sank to the ground with a long sigh of relief.

Anything can die, but not the pig.

As for the emperor?

Whatever. He can get in line first. That's right, get in line!

Author's notes:

1. Once started, this story will be completed.

2. I'll start writing when it reaches 200 bookmarks.

3. The heroine is ambitious, but she starts out rather "feudal."

Theme: Strive for the prosperity of our motherland