[Qin] Transmigrating into Fusu's Birth Mother from the Start

Office drone Jian Yao sleepwalks into the dry well in her backyard. When she opens her eyes, she seems to have transmigrated to ancient times. What is this, an Inuyasha plot? She is just about to complain when a woman's scream rings in her ears. She scrambles to her feet and sees a small figure pushing past the frightened maids, stumbling toward her one step at a time. The child looks eight or nine, dressed in dark robes and a headscarf, with a kind, scholarly face. He has phoenix eyes, a high nose, and a delicate oval face. Quite a handsome little boy. The boy calls her Mother, his voice full of concern and urgency. Jian Yao: "What?" It must be a dream. She has been watching too many historical dramas lately... Looking at the solemn little boy with his mature expression, Jian Yao decisively gives a formal bow. "I'm leaving." But the moment she turns to step over the threshold, two guards in armor block her way with drawn swords. "By order of the King of Qin, the Queen is forbidden to leave her quarters during her confinement!" Jian Yao goes blank.jpg. Mother. King of Qin. Confined? She turns to the upright, impartial guards and asks pitifully, "What about 0.01 steps? Would that be allowed?" The guards look at one another, baffled. She turns to the little boy and asks woodenly, "C-child, what's your name?" The boy tilts his head. His voice is clear and bright. "Your son is Fusu." Jian Yao's vision goes black, and she nearly faints. She... she has transmigrated to the Qin dynasty, and become the birth mother of Prince Fusu, the most tragic figure in history! And she's confined from the start. Is the next step to kill the mother and keep the child? It has to be a dream! She nods firmly, then recklessly bangs her head against the pillar beside her. "Ding ding ding, System activated. Host Jian Yao bound..." Her dream doesn't end. Instead, a mechanical voice without a hint of emotion sounds in her mind. "If the Host wishes to return to her original time, please complete the tasks assigned by the System..." "First task: make Prince Fusu gain three jin..." "The second task will be revealed once the first is complete..." "The Host must remain alive in order to return..." Jian Yao clutches her throbbing head and sways. It takes her a long while to understand her situation: She has probably, more or less, been bound to a System, like in those transmigration novels... Th-then she must have a golden finger too, right?! "Ding. Task briefing complete. System shutting down. Bzzzt..." What the hell! That's it? Where's my golden finger? Where's my portable storage space? "Mother?" Looking at the boy's fair, adorable face, Jian Yao quickly accepts the fact that she's a mother now. She forces what she thinks is a loving smile and pats his head. "Good Fusu, come with Mother to the kitchen for some meat..." She has no idea that the sight of her smiling with blood dripping down her forehead terrifies nine-year-old Fusu and sets off rumors throughout Xianyang Palace. "I heard the Queen tried to kill herself last night and has gone mad." "Her face was covered in blood, and she was still smiling. It was horrifying." "Could His Majesty be trying to undermine Lord Changping's faction this way?" "Shh, be quiet. This isn't something we should gossip about. We could lose our heads..." Inside Zhangtai Palace. "Your Majesty, the Queen has been confined for half a month." "Has she agreed to admit her guilt?" The young King of Qin pauses in his review of memorials, without looking up. "The Queen says she'll admit to any wrongdoing. She only hopes she can receive more meat and fruit each day..." The King frowns and looks up: "..." Reading Guide: 1. The heroine has a golden finger, but she must unlock it gradually by completing tasks. 2. This is a parallel-universe setting, so there are some differences from real history and its timeline. 3. If you dislike romance involving the First Emperor, read with caution! Please bookmark my upcoming story, "After I Abandoned the Crown Prince"! Blurb: Yu Zhi is the daughter of the Minister of the Secretariat. Beautiful enough to captivate a city, she is famous throughout the capital and has been engaged to the Crown Prince since childhood. But when a scandal breaks, the Crown Prince loses power and is sent to the frontier to fight the enemy, forbidden to return to the capital without an imperial edict. Her father turns to the rising Prince Wei. To prove his loyalty, he helps Prince Wei topple the Crown Prince's maternal family, sending the entire clan into exile with no chance of rising again. A year later, the emperor dies. Prince Wei ascends the throne, and the Crown Prince returns at the head of a 300,000-strong army. He bathes the palace in blood, executes Prince Wei and all his advisors, and becomes the new emperor. The Yu family is sentenced to execution. In prison, Yu Zhi is roughly dragged out and taken to the imperial palace, where she is forced to kneel before the new emperor. The boy who had once been her childhood sweetheart looks at her with dark eyes, menace and murderous fury swirling within them. He lifts her chin and asks contemptuously, "A-Zhi, do you want to save your family?" He imprisons her in the palace and treats her like a plaything, abusing and humiliating her night after night. He used to love her sweet, innocent smile. Now he finds her tearful, humiliated attempts to please him even more entertaining. Yu Zhi endures every indignity and tries every way to please him, only for him to place the heads of her father and brothers in a box and present them to her one day. "I'm bored with you." He grinds his toe against her father's head, smiling with cruel relish and looking down at her as though she were the lowest kind of whore. Yu Zhi loses all hope. That night, she stabs herself in the neck with a hairpin and dies, only to be reborn at fifteen, the year she became engaged to the Crown Prince. In her second life, Yu Zhi decides to stay away from that calamity. At a palace banquet, she pretends to be drunk and throws herself into Prince Qi's arms. Prince Qi is the late emperor's fifth son. He spends his days eating, drinking, having fun, and fighting crickets, with no interest in power. He will not be caught up in any purges in the future, making him the perfect person to seek refuge with. In the woods beneath the night sky, she gently brushes her cheek against the young man's chest and speaks in a shy, sweet voice: "I have admired Your Highness for a long time. I humbly beg you to show me favor." "Oh?" A familiar voice comes from above her, deep and noble, with a hint of amusement. "In that case, I could hardly refuse your kind offer." It's him! Yu Zhi goes rigid, then struggles frantically, but he silences her with a kiss. That calamity. Is there no escaping him, even after being reborn? One-on-one, both virgins, both reborn. The male lead was a jerk in his past life, and he's... still a jerk in this one. Theme: Face life with a positive attitude