The name Zhang Yun is known to everyone on Earth.

Discovered by a talent scout at the age of fourteen and entering the entertainment industry, he possesses godlike looks and voice, as well as monstrous talent and genius, destined to become a shining star in the world.

Zhang Yun became a top-tier superstar in just five years and expanded overseas, and then spent another five years conquering the international market.

But he never expected that he would die unexpectedly while receiving the "World's Most Influential Artist" award, his life ending at the age of twenty-four.

Zhang Yun was unwilling to accept it. He was still so young. He had worked hard for more than ten years and finally reached the pinnacle of his life. Before he could even start to enjoy it, it was all over!

"A suitable host has been detected. Binding in progress. Binding successful!"

A mechanical electronic voice sounded, and Zhang Yun's soul appeared in a gray, hazy space.

"Hello host, welcome to the Simp System. I am your system assistant d001."

"The host's task is to travel through different planes with the bound protagonist, protect, care for, and assist him, and be his lapdog."

"Accept the mission and you will have the chance to be resurrected or even become a god; refuse the mission and you will be eliminated."

"To refuse or to accept?"

A semi-transparent option box appeared in front of him. Zhang Yun didn't have time to think it over before clicking "accept".

He didn't want to be erased at all.

System: "Host has accepted the mission. Matching for the first mission plane. Matching complete. Identity implantation in progress. Mission initiation complete!"

...

Zhang Yun opened his eyes and found himself lying in an antique-style room.

The tactile sensation of touching the real object filled him with the joy of feeling as if he had come back to life.

A flood of information rushed into Zhang Yun's mind, and it took him quite a while to process these memories and information.

This is his first mission world, a backward ancient world.

The level of production development is similar to that of the Song Dynasty on Earth. The country he is in is called Yun Kingdom, which is currently the country with the largest land area, the largest population, and the most developed economy. However, the current situation is somewhat similar to that of the late Ming Dynasty in his original world.

His current identity is that of the eldest son of Zhang Xianfeng, the Northwest King of Yun Kingdom, and also the Crown Prince of the Northwest King, whose name is Zhang Yun.

The Northwest King had only one son, Zhang Yun, in his old age. Everyone in the royal palace doted on him. Zhang Yun was spoiled and unruly from a young age.

Yes, this character is entirely within the scope of his performance.

The protagonist in this world is named Qin Zheng, the son of the current Grand General and Duke of Dingguo.

"Wait, why call him the lead actor?" Are you filming a movie?

System: "To be precise, it should be called the Chosen One or the Chosen One. Using 'protagonist' is just to make it easier for you to understand. You can think of each plane world as your script. The protagonist in the script is your mission target, and the role you play is to be his lapdog."

Zhang Yun understood and focused on continuing to read the script.

When the male protagonist was five years old, his father, the Duke of Dingguo, was framed by a treacherous official and his entire family was executed. Because the male protagonist was under six years old, he was spared the death penalty and was exiled to a desolate place in the north.

The northern lands are the border between the Yun and Hu peoples, and the town where the man was exiled was a no-man's-land. Not long after his exile, he was forcibly taken into slavery by a group of Hu bandits.

The bandits housed him in a sheep pen, fed him spoiled food, and frequently whipped and humiliated him, making his life worse than death.

With unwavering perseverance, Qin Zheng endured eight years of humiliation and hardship under the rule of the Hu people, finally seizing an excellent opportunity to steal a horse and escape.

However, he didn't know the way back, and eventually collapsed from exhaustion and hunger on the road, where he was picked up by a passing smuggler.

A smuggler travels between the Yun Kingdom and the Hu tribes. He mistakenly believes the protagonist is a Hu person, so he rescues him and takes him back to the Yun Kingdom to sell him to nobles at a high price.

Qin Zheng endured years of hardship, training, escape, capture, and beatings before being sold to the Northwest. He was eventually bought by the Northwest Prince's Mansion and became a stable boy there.

Upon arriving at the Prince's mansion, Qin Zheng only lived a few normal days before being bullied by the other servants. He was often punished and starved. Fortunately, a kind-hearted maid named Hong'er in the back courtyard secretly brought him some steamed buns to eat.

Once, Qin Zheng accidentally fell ill with a high fever and almost died. It was his maid Hong'er who took care of him, feeding him porridge and rice, which helped him get through the ordeal.

Young men and women help and support each other, and their feelings naturally grow closer.

But according to the usual formula of web dramas, most people who are associated with the male lead don't have a good ending.

Ma, the stable manager of the Northwest Prince's Mansion, had long coveted Hong'er. One night, Ma lured her to his room under some pretext and raped her.

Hong'er resisted fiercely, but she couldn't break free. At the last moment, Qin Zheng rushed in, knocked Ma unconscious, and took Hong'er away, ruining their plans.

Knowing that one of the head stewards in the mansion was Ma's uncle and that they were protecting each other, Qin Zheng did not report it. Instead, he took Hong'er to the yamen to file a complaint.

Unfortunately, in this world, even government offices cannot uphold justice.

It's obvious who should be sided with between the head steward of the prince's mansion and the slaves there; the government simply cannot make decisions for them.

Moreover, Hong'er was born into a family, and her parents worked in the household. Naturally, they dared not offend the head steward. They threatened to kill themselves to force Hong'er to go back on her word.

Ultimately, Hong'er testified that Qin Zheng was the one who tried to rape her, and that Ma was injured by Qin Zheng while trying to save her.

Qin Zheng was sentenced to 100 strokes of the cane.

After being tortured, Qin Zheng was barely breathing and was wrapped in a straw mat and thrown into a mass grave.

Driven by resentment and anger, Qin Zheng survived, crawled out of a pile of corpses, was rescued by a group of passing refugees, and joined them.

The refugee leader had no sons, only a daughter named Yan Yueniang.

Seeing Qin Zheng's resolute character, the leader Yan Liu took him as his disciple, taught him martial arts, and betrothed his daughter to him.

Later, when life became unbearable, Yan Liu led everyone in a rebellion, plundering several cities, and his forces grew stronger and stronger.

Their rebel forces attracted the attention of the imperial court, which launched a massive crackdown, resulting in heavy casualties. Yan Liu died and the throne was passed to Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng ordered his men to break up and escape, while he himself was forced to jump into the river to escape in order to draw away the pursuers.

Qin Zheng was seriously injured and drifted down the river into a minority village called Baitu in the south, where he was rescued by the villagers.

The Bai Tu tribe is a matrilineal society. The mature and powerful female chieftain took a liking to Qin Zheng and kidnapped him to marry her. After winning the heart of the sexy and powerful female chieftain, Qin Zheng naturally became the leader of the Bai Tu tribe.

Five years later, the Hu people entered the pass and plundered, severely damaging the Yun Kingdom and plunging the country into chaos.

Qin Zheng rose up in rebellion once again, experiencing hundreds of battles, large and small, and narrowly escaping death many times. In order to balance and gain benefits, he captured important women from various factions and added them to his harem one by one...

Seven years later, Qin Zheng led his troops to occupy Hongcheng, the capital of the Yun Kingdom, and became the new founding emperor.

After reading the script, Zhang Yun exclaimed "666!"

He truly deserves to be called the chosen one, having been given a harem protagonist script. He survives countless near-death situations, turns the tide of battle, and even manages to seduce all sorts of high-quality female characters!

Bulbasaur!

According to the system's explanation, this body was created by the system using energy and grew under the control of an anthropomorphic AI. In the original script, the King of the Northwest did not have a son.

"Since you can implant an identity, why not create an even bigger one for me and make me the emperor directly!" Zhang Yun said.

"The greater the influence of the identity implanted in your body on the world and the stronger your personal abilities, the higher the points required. The energy points spent on condensing this new body and the high-starting identity of the Crown Prince of the Northwest were all covered by me. If you want an even more powerful identity, you can buy it yourself with your points!"

Zhang Yun angrily exclaimed, "Damn it! I have to bring my own investment to get into this production just to play a sycophantic supporting role!"

"By the way, the anthropomorphic AI technology is not perfect. You've seen the AI ​​memories I shared with you. This character has been influenced by the environment and has evolved into an ignorant, arrogant, willful, irritable, and lifeless idiot. Be careful not to break down, or I'll have to spend points to fix it for you."

Zhang Yun couldn't take it anymore: "You're assigning me tasks while expecting me to play the role of a grumpy idiot? Even a split personality wouldn't be this bad!"

System: "You don't have to maintain this persona all the time. Just find a suitable opportunity to drastically change your personality. I'm just advising you not to change your personality without warning, and not to overemphasize your uniqueness as a modern person. You don't want to be suspected of being possessed by a ghost and spend the rest of your life locked up at home for exorcisms, do you?"

Zhang Yun shuddered as he imagined himself locked in a room being exorcised, and accepted the system's reminder.

"Where is the plot at now?"

A virtual screen popped up in front of him, showing a courtroom scene. A boy was being held down below the courtroom, and servants on both sides were torturing him.

Holy crap, isn't this the scene where Hong'er betrays Qin Zheng and falsely accuses him of raping her, causing Qin Zheng to get a hundred lashes?

"Prepare the horses! Prepare the horses! I'm going to the county government!" Zhang Yun rushed out of the room.

According to the system prompts, Zhang Yun can directly use any ability that this body previously possessed.

As the crown prince of the Northwest, horsemanship and archery were skills that had to be learned from a young age. After Zhang Yun took over this body, he immediately possessed excellent horsemanship skills.

Riding his prized Akhal-Teke horse, Zhang Yun sped all the way to the county government office.

He must have bumped into countless baskets and racks on the road, but that's in line with his persona.

If the young prince ever stops disturbing the peace, then he will truly be considered possessed by a ghost and forced to undergo a ritual.

"Whoa!" The horse reared up at the entrance of the county government office and stopped, immediately interrupting the caning punishment that was being carried out inside.

"Oh, young master, what brings you here? No wonder I heard magpies chirping at the gate of the government office this morning!"

In front of a large audience and in the solemn courtroom, the prefect shamelessly got down from his desk to personally greet Zhang Yun, and began to fawn over him with a sycophantic expression.

"Wu Xing Ta Yue has been disobedient all day. I just learned that the little slave who usually takes care of it has been summoned by you for questioning. So I came here specifically to ask if you have finished the questioning?"

Zhang Yun didn't even dismount; he just looked down at the other person from his high vantage point.

Of course, he couldn't directly say that he had come to rescue Qin Zheng. The only connection he had with Qin Zheng was that his servant had once jokingly told him, "The new stable boy has never been kicked by Wu Xing Ta Yue."

Zhang Yun's current status is too high. Suddenly being nice to a lowly stable boy not only risks being out of character (OOC), but also attracts unnecessary jealousy and hatred from the protagonist. It would be more appropriate to use his beloved horse as a pretext to indirectly save Qin Zheng.

In any case, according to the system's memory, the original AI had done countless things like killing servants or rewarding them handsomely because of small animals such as horses, birds, and crickets that it used for its own amusement.

"Ah, it's done! All done!"

The prefect nodded vigorously.

"Guards, take him away!"

Zhang Yun didn't even bother to look at him, displaying arrogance and haughtiness to the fullest extent.

"Young Master, no!"

Seeing that Qin Zheng, that little beast, had escaped so easily, the stable manager, surnamed Ma, who had a bandage wrapped around his head, forgot his place and went forward to grab Zhang Yun's horse reins.

"Crack!" Zhang Yun lashed him on the head with his whip, making him clutch his head and howl in pain.

"You blind bastard, how dare you block your grandpa's way!" Zhang Yun cursed angrily.

"Young Master, spare him! He doesn't know the rules, I will definitely discipline him properly!"

The speaker was Steward Zhang, one of the five stewards in charge of the backyard of the Prince's mansion.

This Ma is his nephew, and the prefect only gave Qin Zheng a heavy sentence because of him.

Seeing that this young master had intervened in the matter out of the blue, and knowing that today's plans had failed, Steward Zhang quickly stepped in to smooth things over.

"Old dog, you're much more sensible than him!"

Zhang Yun grinned and looked at Ma, whose head was wrapped in bandages: "Get lost! Don't get in my way, or I'll beat you every time I see you!"

Zhang Yun was arrogant and overbearing.

Manager Zhang dared not offend him. Even though he was humiliated, he still smiled and quickly took his leave with his nephew.

"Young Master, that boy seems to have stopped breathing!"

One of Zhang Yun's attendants stepped forward to check on Qin Zheng's condition and reported back.

"What?!" Zhang Yun exclaimed in shock, quickly jumping off his horse and rushing into the courtroom.

Fortunately, the system indicated that he still had vital signs, albeit very weak ones.

"What are you all standing there for! Quickly call a doctor! If you can't save him, I'll chop you all up and feed you to the donkeys!"

Zhang Yun was really anxious. He had only been resurrected because of the "licking dog" mission. If the protagonist died, would he still be around?

The prefect cautiously explained, "Your Highness, your servants have accused him of raping a woman, and I am also..."

"Since when have outsiders become the right to lecture the servants of the Northwest Prince's Mansion? Do you think my manor has no one left to rely on?" Zhang Yun said with a sneer.

"Young Master, spare my life! I truly didn't know he was the servant who specifically looked after your Black Star Stepping Moon! If I had known, I wouldn't have dared to torture him even if you gave me a hundred lives!"

The prefect was so frightened that he knelt down.

The prefect of Yizhou, a fourth-rank official, actually knelt down before a mere boy because of a stable boy!

Very good, Zhang Yun now has a new understanding of the power and status of the King of the Northwest.

In the Northwest, the Northwest King is a figure who can decide life and death with a single word.

"The doctor is here!" The servants quickly brought over a doctor from the nearby pharmacy to take Qin Zheng's pulse.

After a series of emergency treatments, Qin Zheng finally woke up, but he was still weak.

The doctor rambled on about the pathology, shaking his head, but Zhang Yun couldn't understand a word he said.

He was extremely anxious, but he still remembered the rule of not breaking his image, and said irritably, "Carry him back first, and you come with him, so he doesn't faint again."

The doctor who was pointed to was startled, lowered his head, and agreed with a bitter expression.

The group made a grand and imposing entrance as they headed toward the Northwest Prince's Palace.

In the marketplace, the arrogant and domineering deeds of the young prince Zhang Yun have been added to the list of not-so-small stories.