[My last unplanned novel. I'm not satisfied with how it turned out, so it won't be paid.]
[My next book, How to Help the Righteous Path's Leader Husband Overcome the Grief of His Dead Wife, opens on October 10.]
After spending a hundred years in the cultivation world, Shen Yiyuan went from a timid office worker, overjoyed to learn she'd become emperor from the start and finally turned her life around, to a lazy, benighted ruler steeped in power and lust.
But pride comes before a fall. She woke up one day to find herself locked in a dark room.
A mechanical voice rang out: "Beep. Mission [Win the Emperor's Heart] failed. Host being eliminated. Progress: 98%..."
Her most beloved consort, Li Changlin, had red-rimmed eyes and a hateful expression. Holding the jade hairpin she had bestowed upon him, he cried, "Your Majesty, you lied to me! You don't love me at all!"
Only later, after she was imprisoned in a soul-torturing formation, did Shen Yiyuan finally learn the truth: all her consorts had been bound to a [Harem Struggle System]. If they completed the System's ultimate mission, [Win the Emperor's Heart], they would immediately attain the Dao and ascend to immortality.
Failing meant being eliminated, their souls scattered into oblivion.
And the only reason they had imprisoned her now was that a hundred years had passed and they still hadn't won her heart. Faced with the System's punishment, they had finally snapped.
"So don't blame us. We only met you to attain the Dao and become immortals. This is a struggle for advantage, the survival of the fittest. It's either you die or I do."
She died after suffering untold agony.
*
She was reborn.
Everything had returned to the very beginning.
Shen Yiyuan suffered a brief spell of amnesia. By the time her memories returned, she had already ascended the throne, and three new consorts had moved into the newly built palace.
When she entered the new palace, she saw Li Changlin, who would later become her Noble Consort, still a young man. His handsome face was guileless, and he smiled sweetly at her. "Your Majesty, this servant is Li Changlin."
"Beep. Consort status loaded successfully. [Win the Emperor's Heart] mission initiated. Host, please complete side mission [Receive the Emperor's Favor for the First Time 0/1]."
The mechanical voice of the [Harem Struggle System] rang out.
Shen Yiyuan's heart skipped a beat.
Faced with consorts who demanded her true feelings like demons, it seemed the higher their affection for her, the safer she would be.
Wish Granted: "Beep. The Emperor's affection for you has increased. Current affection: 5 (What a beautiful person.)"
Shen Yiyuan froze, then saw Li Changlin's eyes curve as he suddenly gave her a genuinely warm smile. "Your Majesty is so kind."
It turned out that dying once hadn't been entirely in vain. At the very least, while it had let her see her consorts' true faces, it had also given her a little golden finger that let her read and modify the [Emperor's Affection Value].
Theme: Face your own desires
We are born to be emperors and live a good life [Come on]
The idea is very good, but there are some problems with the details. For example, in the eyes of the protagonist's master, the two people are making inexplicable dialogues and actions. Then there's the female lead with such a low level of cultivation, how can she completely control these immortal cultivators, etc., Non-writing guidance, please come on, author.
For a person who has been killed once, even if someone carves out her heart, she cannot be softened and trusted again.
Is Xie Liangbao a new character? I haven't noticed it before
Gulu gulu gulu - make a bubble [make me healthy] [star eyes] [come on]
Long: I planned to dismiss her harem in the future so that I could be her real husband, but I didn't expect to become brother and sister!
A bloody race [pigeon]
Everyone is really twisted, driven crazy by love, hate, and so on. They no longer look like normal people. They barely put on a shell that looks okay, but in fact the rotten juice and bad water inside are bubbling.
"You" are a big thorn in the side of the author~
There is one more you
"The child who had already taken the form of the magical elixir was only two years old after he was born. He had just started babbling and calling his mother daddy, and yet Zhou Ershi viciously took his life!" This is a big bug for the author~
The Cold-Faced One Lost His Life to the Heroine of Little Sun
Returning on a Snowy Night
The Love Between Two Professional Villains
At the Wedding, I Matched My Friend's Groom's Clothes.
Isn't It Bad If the Villain Cries?
After Being Ordinary, She Became a Heartthrob
Will a Stupid Villain Be Loved by Everyone?
The Demon Lord Transforms into a Taoist Nun and Explores Spirits to Save the World [Metaphysics]
After an Ambitious Schemer Got Bound to a Nemesis Simulator
After Binding the Deceased Wife System, She Became the Moonlight of the Entire Cultivation World
After the Mary Sue Aura Overloaded
We are born to be emperors and live a good life [Come on]
The idea is very good, but there are some problems with the details. For example, in the eyes of the protagonist's master, the two people are making inexplicable dialogues and actions. Then there's the female lead with such a low level of cultivation, how can she completely control these immortal cultivators, etc., Non-writing guidance, please come on, author.
For a person who has been killed once, even if someone carves out her heart, she cannot be softened and trusted again.
Is Xie Liangbao a new character? I haven't noticed it before
Gulu gulu gulu - make a bubble [make me healthy] [star eyes] [come on]
Long: I planned to dismiss her harem in the future so that I could be her real husband, but I didn't expect to become brother and sister!
A bloody race [pigeon]
Everyone is really twisted, driven crazy by love, hate, and so on. They no longer look like normal people. They barely put on a shell that looks okay, but in fact the rotten juice and bad water inside are bubbling.
"You" are a big thorn in the side of the author~ There is one more you
"The child who had already taken the form of the magical elixir was only two years old after he was born. He had just started babbling and calling his mother daddy, and yet Zhou Ershi viciously took his life!" This is a big bug for the author~