After Kangxi's Harem Became a Player Respawn Point

This novel is also known as My Concubines Are Completely Unhinged and After the Fourth Calamity Invades the Qing.

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Blurb:

Winter of the twelfth year of Kangxi's reign.

As Xuanye was fretting over Wu Sangui killing the governor Zhu Guozhi and raising an army in rebellion, a panel suddenly appeared in his mind, with red text prominently displayed: "Da Qing ONLINE First Closed Beta Countdown 00:19:59" and "Administrator: Xuanye."

Xuanye thought he had been awake for three days and nights and had lost his mind. He immediately summoned the imperial physician to examine him, afraid he would die young.

"00:00:03"

"00:00:02"

"00:00:01"

"00:00:00"

At zero, a line of text appeared on the panel:

[Player spawn location selected: [Three Palaces and Six Courts]

Player 001, username [I Want to Supermarket Fourth Master], has entered the game.

Administrator, please keep an eye on player behavior. If a player gets out of your control, you have veto power over their beta access and can kick them out of the world.]

Xuanye's eyelids twitched. A foreboding crept over him, and he hurried to the harem, following the spawn location marked on the map.

At that moment, Player 001, with [I Want to Supermarket Fourth Master] floating over her head, was crawling around in a dark, twisted manner, wearing flowerpot-bottom shoes. She climbed a tree branch and marveled at how real everything around her looked.

The moment she spotted Xuanye, she danced over to him at lightning speed, waved her handkerchief, and coyly fluttered her lashes.

"Whoa, was Kangxi really this handsome? I need to change my ID. Heart-Core Sandwich, hehehe."

Xuanye ordered his men to keep watch over the player, then spent all night studying the panel until he found the instructions. After reading them, he breathed a huge sigh of relief: he had partial control over the players.

But he had no idea he was sighing too soon. The next day, while he was holding court, Player 001 barged into the Hall of Mental Cultivation with her hair in disarray and her palace gown hanging loose, then knelt before everyone.

"I accuse Noble Consort Xi of adultery and corrupting the imperial harem. She deserves death!"

Xuanye stared in shock and was about to fly into a rage, but then sat back down.

If he remembered correctly, there was no one called "Noble Consort Xi" in his harem.

He had only just begun to reprimand the player for behaving so recklessly when she said, "All right, all right. Time to do the quest."

"Your Majesty, I hereby request permission to leave the palace and execute Wu Sangui. I won't come back until I've killed him and his grandpa!"

Before Xuanye could reply, the officials erupted, denouncing her as lawless and outrageous.

Player 001, [I Want to Supermarket Fourth Master], looked around at them in confusion, then suddenly realized something. "Oh, I should've said that somewhere else, right? No problem, I'll just exit and start over."

Then she slammed her head against the floor and died.

Xuanye: ???

The officials: !!!

Meanwhile, beyond this world, one trending topic after another appeared on the blog.

#What game has this much freedom?

#001: Reborn, I'm taking back everything I lost

#The ultra-realistic game Da Qing ONLINE goes into closed beta

#Livestream: If you're my brother, come help me take a swing at Wu Sangui

#Livestream: Reclaiming Taiwan ahead of schedule, starting with me

#Livestream: My days surrounded by beauties in the imperial harem

#Please launch the game already, I'm dying of jealousy

P.S. Players can choose from three main storylines: 1. Daily harem life. 2. The imperial court and its officials. 3. A carefree street loafer mode.

Please also follow my other historical novel, After Becoming the Sword of the First Emperor of Qin!

Blurb: The heroine's POV:

Lu Yao never imagined that one day she would transmigrate into a sword.

She thought she had arrived in a cultivation world and become a sword spirit, but then she suddenly heard everyone around her address their master as King Zheng of Qin.

It was 227 BCE.

Lu Yao was utterly stunned. Then she heard that Jing Ke had come to pay an audience. In her excitement, she transformed into a human on the spot, grabbed her true form, and chased Jing Ke down.

"I'll protect my king!"

"Reborn as Ying Zheng's sword, now I'll kill, kill, kill!"

"Transmigrating to the Qin dynasty to conquer Earth and solve the problem of foreign languages at the source!"

With a script she'd written for herself in hand, Lu Yao set out to trick and swindle (crossed out) lead Ying Zheng on a cultivation journey (make empty promises).

Ying Zheng's POV:

It was a sunny day with not a cloud in the sky.

My sword had become sentient. Not only was she taller than I was, she could also send her thoughts directly into my mind...

The good news: this woman is wholeheartedly devoted to me and wants only the best for Qin.

The bad news: she says my Qin is doomed.

The even worse news: her cultivation is unstable. Whenever she gets to the important part, she turns into a mute who can only babble, and I can't hear her thoughts anymore.

No matter what, she is my sword. After several days of anxious deliberation, I finally found a way to keep her by my side for good: appoint her Imperial Preceptor.

#Since Jesus had not yet been born, the heroine will launch a wave of religious indoctrination.

#Fanatical believer x noble deity (fake)

Short scene:

Naive, patient believer: "God, isn't this wrong of us?"

Lu Yao raised her middle finger. "I know better than you what your Western gods are like. What we have is already perfectly wholesome."

Warnings: Many original setting details. The heroine and Ying Zheng have a father-daughter relationship. The male lead is a foreigner with blond hair and blue eyes. This is a silly comedy and is completely unlike real history. There is absolutely nothing that needs fact-checking. If you say so, you're right. I admit I'm wrong!

Theme: Life is an endless game. Don't worry about what other people think!