Are these words something a six-year-old girl should be listening to?
Xiu Ning's mind was filled with all sorts of text bubbles, practically like a barrage of bullet comments.
“Xiuning, you are my eldest daughter, and your mother will never harm you,” Fucha said, looking down to meet Xiuning’s gaze. “So you must remember that no matter where you marry in the future, you must never fall in love with a man.”
Being soft-hearted towards men is being cruel to yourself.
Xiuning: ...
"Don't worry, Mother, I understand," Xiu Ning nodded heavily, deeply impressed by Fucha's teachings, feeling that she needed to go back and process the information in her head as soon as possible.
Damn, her mother is really ruthless, starting with a royal flush.
Seeing that Xiu Ning was in a state of turmoil, Lady Fucha patted her shoulder with rare tenderness and called a maid to escort Xiu Ning back to her room.
After respectfully bowing and bidding farewell to Lady Fucha, Xiuning quickly returned to the courtyard. She casually sent Chunyu, who was asking all sorts of questions, to prepare her toiletries. Xiuning then circled the main hall of the room, finally managing to suppress what Lady Fucha had said for the time being.
Wow, her mother is really scary!
After calming herself down, Xiu Ning took a relaxing hot shower and changed into her pajamas.
When Chunyu remembered to keep watch at night, she extinguished all the candles in the room, leaving only one for lighting. Xiuning lay flat on the bed and once again called out the system in her mind.
Xiu Ning had a reason for summoning the system. She inquired again about the legendary experiences of the Imperial Concubine Chen in the palace. With her keen intuition as a transmigrator, Xiu Ning quickly discovered some inconsistencies.
Consort Chen, of the Shumulu clan, entered the harem in the tenth year of the Shunzhi Emperor's reign. Afterward, the Shunzhi Emperor became obsessed with her, granting her every wish. During these six years of almost exclusive favor, Consort Chen never became pregnant, which is simply illogical.
Not to mention that before entering the palace, the young ladies would be examined by matrons to confirm their physical condition, the Imperial Hospital in the palace alone gathered the best doctors in the country. What difficult or complicated problem could they not solve?
Besides, it wasn't like there weren't concubines in the harem who gave birth to children. Kangxi was born and grew up safely. If Kangxi could be born, there's no reason why others could be...
Wait a minute, Xiu Ning had a sudden realization and noticed something was wrong.
As we all know, the character of Shumulu here is actually a replacement for the favored Consort Dong'e. So, barring any unforeseen circumstances, this person should give birth to Consort Dong'e's fourth son, Prince Rong, in order to connect with the cause and effect of the protagonist of this world. However, Shumulu has not even given any news of pregnancy.
Now the harem is empty except for three princes, as if it were all for the purpose of producing Kangxi.
Surprisingly, the usually domineering Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang did not object to this situation. On the contrary, she treated Shumulu with special favor. This is... a bit strange.
Based on what Fucha had said earlier, Xiuning had reason to suspect that Shumulu had traded offspring for the emperor's favor, and that the Empress Dowager, unable to do anything to her own son Shunzhi, had no choice but to reach some kind of agreement with the two of them.
Could there really be emperors who only love beautiful women and not their kingdoms?
"Host, let the system remind you that although Emperor Shunzhi has been ruling in his own right for several years, most political matters still need to be decided with the help of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. Even though the regent is now dead, there have been no major changes in the court," the system said at the right time, giving Xiuning some ideas to think about.
Pat pat—
Xiuning, feeling that her thoughts had been cleared, suddenly realized that it wasn't that Shunzhi loved beautiful women, but rather that with Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's full control of the court, Shunzhi could only express his dissatisfaction with the Empress Dowager's rule by loving beautiful women.
"No wonder," no wonder Shumulu was so favored and still lived a happy life, no wonder the Empress Dowager, the Empress, Consort Jing and other concubines in the harem could get along with Shumulu.
Tsk tsk, this Shumulu clan member is probably still immersed in the idea that men and women love her, unaware that she is just a tool used by Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang to keep her son in check, and by Emperor Shunzhi to indulge in a life of debauchery and threaten the Empress Dowager.
Xiuning didn't believe that if Shunzhi could one day become the powerful emperor he was during the Kangxi era, he would still choose to indulge in the illusion of being in love with Shumulu.
"Sure enough, anything becomes incredibly cruel once the illusion is exposed," Xiu Ning couldn't help but complain to the system in her mind. She felt that the harem was extremely dangerous. With the Empress Dowager's intelligence so sharp now, wouldn't she have to live in the Empress Dowager's shadow for more than ten years after she entered the palace? Sigh, just thinking about it was terrifying.
The system offered no comment. After uttering that brilliant line, the system mysteriously disappeared once again, and even Xiu Ning had no idea where it had gone.
Xiuning felt tired from thinking about these things, which was quite taxing on her brain cells. She tilted her head and fell into a deep sleep. When the next day dawned, it was a new day.
A new day brings new plans. No longer lost, Xiu Ning spends all her time on herself, except for her daily visits to the main courtyard to pay her respects. Especially since she is going to enter the palace in the future, she must take good care of her appearance. Otherwise, the emperor will lose interest, let alone discover her inner beauty.
Xiu Ning didn't believe that, faced with three thousand beauties in the harem, the emperor could really have the discerning eye to choose a woman who was good at nothing but had a beautiful soul.
As it turns out, the various pills produced by the system space did indeed have a guaranteed effect.
After persisting for more than half a year, the time had changed from the sixteenth year of the Shunzhi reign to the spring of the seventeenth year of the Shunzhi reign. Xiu Ning, who was originally an ordinary girl, seemed to have grown up. Not only was her skin fair and bright, but the chubby cheeks had also lost a lot of their plumpness. Her soft hair was black and shiny, and she was a little beauty in the making.
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