Wu Yaxin entered the palace during the preliminary selection in the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign and was assigned to the Chengqian Palace of Consort Tong as a third-class palace maid. Learning that Consort Tong Yunyi intended to find a palace maid to bear a child, Wu Yaxin knew her opportunity had arrived. She secretly manipulated things and successfully won Consort Tong Yunyi's favor. After successfully serving the emperor, she took a fertility-enhancing drug she had found at home and became pregnant. She was then granted the title of Changzai, becoming a concubine with a name and status in the harem.
Unexpectedly, just a few days later, Tong Yunyi, who had been infertile for four years, was also diagnosed as pregnant. Originally just a tool for giving birth, she instantly lost her original role, and the preferential treatment given to her by Consort Tong also disappeared.
Because of her young age and the fact that she had taken potent drugs to conceive, Wu Yaxin's pregnancy was extremely poor. Later, she secretly learned from a bribed imperial physician that she was carrying a girl, while Tong Yunyi was carrying a boy. Ambitious, she conceived a daring plan.
As her due date approached, she first used her family's influence to give laxatives to Tong Yunyi's personal nanny and head maid, and then gave Tong Yunyi labor-inducing drugs. She also took labor-inducing drugs herself, causing the two to give birth on the same day.
She gave birth first, and as expected, gave birth to a girl. Then, she had her family plant a secret agent earlier, switching her child with the boy that Tong Yunyi gave birth to later.
What seemed like an impossible task was accomplished smoothly thanks to Wu Yaxin's meticulous planning and the powerful, secretive influence of her family within the palace. She became the birth mother of the Fourth Prince, while Tong Yunyi became the birth mother of the little princess. Unfortunately, due to Wu Yaxin's actions, the little princess was sickly in the womb and died after only an hour.
After the tragic death of her child, which she had waited four years for, Tong Yunyi was devastated and fell seriously ill. Seeing his beloved cousin weakened by the loss of her child, Emperor Kangxi ordered that Wuya Xinyue's child be given to Tong Yunyi to raise, and bestowed upon Wuya Xinyue the title of Noble Lady De, moving her to Yonghe Palace.
In this way, Wu Yaxin used Tong Yunyi's child to exchange for the rank of Noble Lady De, and successfully left Tong Yunyi's Chengqian Palace, breaking free from Tong Yunyi's control. She then established her own household and went to the uninhabited Yonghe Palace. If nothing unexpected happens, she will become the head consort of Yonghe Palace in the future.
Unaware of the truth, Tong Yunyi devoted herself to raising the fourth prince, Yinzhen, giving all her maternal love to this child she believed was not her own. However, due to the trauma she suffered in her early years and Kangxi's reluctance to make her empress, she was filled with worries and anxieties, and her health never fully recovered. She passed away on the tenth day of the seventh month of the twenty-eighth year of Kangxi's reign at the age of 31.
On the other hand, Wu Yaxinyue rose through the ranks. She entered the palace in the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, gave birth to the fourth prince, Yinzhen, in the seventeenth year, was promoted to Consort De in the eighteenth year, gave birth to the sixth prince, Yinzuo, in the nineteenth year, was promoted to Imperial Concubine De in the twentieth year, gave birth to the seventh princess in the twenty-first year, the ninth princess in the twenty-second year, the twelfth princess in the twenty-fifth year, and the fourteenth prince, Yinti, in the twenty-seventh year. In the sixty-first year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, after the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, she was honored as Empress Dowager, and it was proposed that she be given the title of Empress Dowager Renshou. Finally, she passed away in Yonghe Palace on the twenty-third day of the fifth month of the first year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, at the age of 64.
As a palace maid born into a bondservant family, Wu Yaxinyue rose to become one of the four imperial concubines. She bore three sons and three daughters for Emperor Kangxi and eventually became the Empress Dowager. She enjoyed wealth and honor throughout her life, and she truly achieved the goal she set for herself in her youth.
All of this was built upon the child that Wu Yaxinyue had switched, the fourth prince Yinzhen, the future Yongzheng Emperor.
Seeing that Yunyi had finished reading the novel, the system quickly said, "Host, your mission is to prevent the baby swap from happening and make Wuya Xinyue suffer for the rest of her life."
After reading the novel, Yunyi was speechless. Based on her years of experience reading novels, the plot was too outrageous. She couldn't help but complain to the system, "The original owner of this body was a noble concubine, Kangxi's cousin, and the Empress Dowager was her aunt. How could she be betrayed by a palace maid and have her child switched? Oh, and the original female lead, Wuya Xinyue, had such amazing cheat abilities. She could drug a noble concubine and plant spies in the noble concubine's palace. She's really something."
"Hehehe, host, this is a novel, so it's normal for it to be a bit far-fetched. It's precisely because it's a world created from a novel that completing the mission isn't so difficult for you. The rules of a novel world are incomplete, and the restrictions are smaller, making it easier for a newbie like you to pass. Otherwise, how would you become a full-fledged member?" The ball of light explained to Yun Yi in a serious tone.
“That’s true. I’m a complete novice with no experience. If the first world is too difficult, I really won’t be able to handle it.” Yun Yi nodded and then said, “However, this novel isn’t without its merits. The premise of Wu Yaxin Yue swapping children is quite interesting. Historically, Consort De really didn’t love Emperor Yongzheng much, but she adored her youngest son, the Fourteenth Prince. That was a favoritism that even history acknowledges. They were both her sons, yet her attitude towards them was so different. It’s such a contrast. After reading this story, it’s actually quite possible.”
The little light system sighed, "Host, you'd better stop thinking about these things and focus on how to complete your mission."
Notified by the system, Yunyi dismissed these irrelevant thoughts. Knowing the content of her mission and combining it with the story of the original novel, she already had a slight idea of how to complete it.
"System, I remember when I bound myself to you, I received a newbie gift pack, which seemed to contain a Pregnancy Pill. Could you tell me its specific effects?"
"Okay," the system replied, then explained, "The Pregnancy Pill, as the name suggests, will cause the user to be able to give birth to only girls for the rest of their life, and will not be able to give birth to boys. The effects of the medicine cannot be reversed by ordinary medicines. Only by taking the antidote from the system store or taking the Pregnancy Pill, which is also produced by the system store, can the user give birth to a boy."
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