Chapter 299 Chapter 299

Kim Jung-joo's story is very simple. She was named the Crown Prince's concubine when she was ten years old. When the Crown Prince inherits the throne, she will directly become the new king's principal wife. For a woman from the ancient Han Kingdom, this step has reached the pinnacle of life.

The other noble girls who participated in the "three selections" with her but were screened out were so jealous and resentful why they were not the ones chosen.

But Jin Zhenzhu did not feel happy. After being crowned, she quickly entered the palace and held her wedding with the prince not long after. The prince she was going to marry was one year younger than her.

The ten-year-old girl is already sensible, because she has been taught by her elders, but the nine-year-old prince still does not understand. Two young couples live together in the palace. They are husband and wife in name, but in reality they are just two strangers who cannot play together but are forced to be together.

The Crown Prince doesn't like to pay attention to Kim Jung-joo. His father disciplines him strictly and he has to attend classes every day. When he is not in class, the Crown Prince would rather play football in the yard to relax than look at Kim Jung-joo.

He didn't even remember what Kim Jung-joo looked like, and once he mistook a young palace maid of considerable stature for Kim Jung-joo.

The little girl who was mistakenly identified shyly said that she was just a maid who did chores in the Crown Prince's concubine's palace.

At that time, the prince just said "oh" and left.

A month after the wedding, the Crown Prince and Kim Jung-joo met no more than five times. Just like the king and his queen did not sleep together every night, the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess also had their own courtyards.

The Crown Prince is busy, and the Crown Princess is also busy. She is busy learning the various etiquette and rules in the palace and preparing for taking charge of the harem in the future.

Jin Zhenzhu was trembling with fear, not daring to make any mistakes, fearing that she would be accused of being unworthy of her position. Just when she began to adapt to the rhythm of life in the harem, war broke out.

The women in the harem were not very sensitive to the affairs of the previous dynasty, especially Kim Jeong-joo who was only ten years old. She only knew that one day she received news that she had to move to Khan City, the palace that was specially built for refuge.

The first few days after moving in were fine. Although people were panicking, they still had some hope for the future. The palace ladies all believed that this little difficulty would soon pass, and they would return to the palace and live their previous lives.

However, more than half a month passed and the siege situation did not improve, and food began to run out.

Since the people below are not well fed, the people above naturally have to tighten their belts and live frugally. The king and the queen cannot be spared from meals, and the concubines have to be served well. The crown prince has to be pleased even more. The only one who is ignored in the royal family is the crown prince's concubine.

At first, the food was just simple, but later, seeing that Kim Jung-joo really was ignored by the Queen and the Crown Prince, and no one cared how she was neglected, the food became worse and worse. Not to mention the female officials in the palace, even many palace maids had more rice in their bowls than the Crown Prince's concubines.

Kim Jung-joo was not born to be competitive, and her time in the palace was too short and she had no foundation, so she had no one of her own.

In addition, during this special period, she couldn't go to the princess consort to make trouble over a small matter like a few mouthfuls of food. The prince's concubine had to distinguish the importance of things and be magnanimous. This was the education she received.

Her "generosity" resulted in the food being not only insufficient in quantity but also a mixture of good and bad.

They ate the stale food, but one day, the palace maid suddenly brought a big bowl of noodles.

The steaming hot noodles, served with a pile of kimchi, are delicious.

This was the last meal that Kim Jung-joo had before her death, and also the only full meal she had in recent days.

The palace maids below had no intention of assassinating the Crown Prince's concubine. They just regarded her as a joke and gave her a lesson. The noodles they served tasted fine, but they had already gone bad.

The food in the past was not very fresh at best, but this time, the ingredients used to make the noodles had completely gone rotten.

The Crown Prince's concubine was knocked down by a bowl of noodles and was in critical condition.

In her hazy consciousness, she vaguely heard the palace maids talking and complaining in front of her couch.

"This... didn't you say everything was fine?"

"Who knows? When I was a child, my family was poor, and I ate moldy rice carefully, but I lived a good life."

"You didn't eat the moldy parts. Hey, did you really throw away the ones that were completely bad?"

"I...maybe I wasn't that clean when I picked it."

"You really are... It's over now. The Crown Prince's concubine is gone, and we will all die with her."

"I don't want to, you are the ones who did this, it has nothing to do with me!"

"If she dies, she dies. What are you afraid of? Just say that the Crown Prince's concubine was afraid of war and frightened herself to death, or..."

"What if it's discovered?"

A young palace maid said, "Who said the Crown Prince's concubine is dead?"

"Ah, what do you mean?"

"I mean, isn't the Crown Prince's concubine alive and well? She's standing right in front of you." As she spoke, the young palace maid adjusted her skirt and raised her head. "Don't I look like one?"

"This will be exposed..."

"The prince has admitted his mistake!" the little palace maid said stubbornly.

"Just because the Crown Prince admits his mistakes doesn't mean the King and Queen will also admit their mistakes. And what about the Crown Prince's concubine's family..."

"That depends on whether they survive the war." The little palace maid looked at the bowl on the table, gritted her teeth, grabbed the bowl and threw it, picked up the broken pieces and cut a wound on her face, and blood immediately flowed out.

"I am the Crown Prince's concubine!" the little palace maid shouted, "Even if I get hurt, have my face scratched, and have to cover it every day, I am still the Crown Prince's concubine!"

"My face is damaged, so I probably won't be favored by the prince." The little maid lowered her voice and said, "The prince's offspring still depends on the harem."

The other palace maids looked at each other, then they all bowed to the young palace maid and acknowledged her as the Crown Prince's concubine.

The real Crown Prince's concubine closed her eyes completely in anger and unwillingness.

After listening to Jin Zhenzhu's story from the system, Mang Tao looked at the strange girl lying on the ground and tied up.

"What's the result?" Mang Tao asked again, "Was that little palace maid who replaced the Crown Prince's concubine arrested?"

"No," the salvation system replied, "but the ending is not much better."

The young maid relied on her status as the Crown Prince's concubine and had leverage over the palace maids who knew about it, and she lived a more leisurely life than the real Crown Prince's concubine. Because she was embarrassed, the princess was busy with the allocation of materials in the harem and had no time to discipline the new Crown Prince's concubine. She didn't even notice that the Crown Prince's concubine, who was originally well-educated and well-mannered, was suddenly replaced by a lowly palace maid who couldn't read a word.

Because he disliked the Crown Prince's concubine, after hearing that she had been injured and her appearance was disfigured, he was even more reluctant to see her.

The fake Crown Prince's concubine had her leisure until the day when the King compromised and asked for peace with the enemy soldiers.

The war ended just like that, and those who had been hiding and were so short of food that they attacked their own kind finally breathed a sigh of relief. Only the fake prince's concubine knew that the day of testing herself was approaching.

Sooner or later she will meet the princess and Kim Jung-joo's family, and her true identity cannot be revealed.

The fake Crown Princess returned to the palace in the capital. She thought of several excuses for meeting important people, but she didn't expect that the real test after returning to the palace was not Jin Zhenzhu's parents, but the work assigned by the princess.

The princess asked her to write letters to the wives and daughters of several important officials and to hold palace banquets.

After the war, the court was reorganized. The king wanted to strengthen his control over his ministers, so the queen naturally had to cooperate and start with the wives and daughters of the ministers.

Writing invitations has always been the Crown Princess' job.

The fake prince's concubine was dumbfounded. The hand holding the brush looked like it was holding a kitchen knife.

There were palace maids who could read and write, but they were all young palace maids who entered the palace at the age of three or four. They would receive a certain amount of education, including simple literacy, and they were the ones with the greatest hope of becoming palace ladies. Those who entered the palace after the age of ten did not receive such a good education and started working directly, at most learning needlework and cooking. If they did not work hard to learn to read and write, their future would be over.

Unfortunately, the fake Crown Prince's concubine entered the palace only half a month earlier than Kim Jeong-joo. She was twelve years old, and although she was two years older than Kim Jeong-joo, she was thin and small because she came from a poor family and did not have enough food. Her height was almost the same as Kim Jeong-joo.

Not only could she not read, she didn't even know how to hold a pen.

I was unable to write the letter that night, and only asked a maid to tell the princess that she was feeling a little unwell and would hand it over later.

The palace maid who delivered the message knew the inside story. She did not tell the princess, but discussed with several other palace maids and threw the prince's concubine into the pool that night.

If they were exposed, everyone would die, but if the Crown Prince's concubine accidentally fell into the water, they would at most be beaten and driven out of the palace if they failed to take good care of her.

The body was found the next day. The face was difficult to recognize due to the swollen corpse. It was only through the clothes and jewelry she wore that she was identified as the Crown Prince's concubine, and she was buried as the Crown Prince's concubine.

The fake prince's concubine entered the royal tomb under this identity. No one knew that the real Kim Jung-joo had died in Khan City during the siege.

What's even more horrifying is that Crown Princess Kim Jeong-joo was the first victim of cannibalism caused by food shortages.

She died as a 'concubine who made a mistake'.

The meat was eaten cleanly, and the bones were thrown over the courtyard wall and carried away by wild dogs.

"No wonder it is the core of the Strange Domain." Mang Tao sighed.

This experience was somewhat tragic.

All the derivative weirdness that appears in the entire weird world is related to the harem and cannibalism, and it is precisely because of this that the core weird resentment lies.

The most mysterious courtyard is also in the west corner, which is also the courtyard where the prince's concubine lived in the past.

"It's a fascinating story, isn't it?" Li Tu said with a smile. He leaned over and looked at Jin Zhenzhu's face. "She looks pretty good, but unfortunately she's a bit stupid. She killed herself."

"I'm not stupid--" Weirdly roared on the ground.

Li Tu sneered, "How can you not be stupid? You are clearly the superior, but the palace maids are taking advantage of you. You are rewarded with benefits, killing chickens to scare monkeys, and provoking opposition. You have so many ways to do it, but you have to endure it. Don't you deserve it?"

"What are you talking to it about? It's not the real Golden Chastity Pearl. It's just a weird thing formed from the memories and resentment inherited from the original owner." Bai Yixin said.

"That's right." Li Tu shrugged and once again observed the split-screen live broadcast rooms. When he saw the holy light in one of the live broadcast rooms, he whistled sarcastically.

Mang Tao looked at him puzzledly.

"It's okay. I found a live broadcast of the Great Harmony of Life." Li Tu said, with her finger on her chin. "I remember the puppet should have reminded them that there would be a live broadcast."

Bai Yixin: "Don't overestimate the bottom line of these criminals. For the sake of profit, they are willing to do anything."

"Tell me, if something strange happens at this time, will they be scared to death?" Li Tu's eyes were full of eagerness to try.

"Don't worry about them." Bai Yixin glanced at the time, "The space anchor has been opened, and the transmission has begun."

Mang Tao raised his head to observe the outline of the weird domain, and then he saw that there were traces of cracks on the top of the weird domain in the sky. He turned his head to look at the weirdness that was the core of the weird domain. The girl's body was curled up like a shrimp, looking painful.

Soon, its pain gradually disappeared, and it seemed to have calmed down. The shattering of the strange domain also stopped.

"System, are there any changes in the strange domain?" Mang Tao asked.

The salvation system replied after a while: "Yes, host, in the courtyard on the west side of Khan City, the first weird thing that does not belong to this weird area appeared. It came from another world."

"Isn't the courtyard in the west corner where the core mystery lies?" Mang Tao said.

But now that the core monster has been captured by them, the yard is currently empty and the derivative monsters will not approach, so it is the safest place now.

"System, open the split screen over there."

As soon as Mang Tao finished speaking, Li Tu raised her hand and said, "I'm watching."

"What are you looking at?" Mang Tao asked doubtfully, "Aren't you looking at something inharmonious?"

"Yes, the Great Harmony of Life happened in that yard." Li Tu looked at the screen with a hint of regret, "It's a pity that the system's holy light is too strong, so I can't see anything except the head."

Savior System: "Host, please be kind and don't look at unclean things."

Li Tu chuckled.

No, he doesn't. It's such a lively show, it's still fun even if you can only see the head.

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In the split-screen live broadcast room.

Seung Jung-hee and Seung Jung-min are sisters whose lives are filled with darkness and sin, just as the experiences listed in the system.

The sisters have soft facial features and look kind and beautiful. They are also good at dressing up and know how to use their appearance to deceive others and use language to make others let down their guard.

Before arriving in Khan City, the two sisters were determined to win the grand prize. They knew how to deal with both men and women. However, they found out after arriving that the participants were not ordinary people and were not so easy to fool.

Later, I discovered that something strange was happening here.

The purpose of making a fortune suddenly changed to leaving here alive.

As long as you are alive, there is hope for the future.

This was the first thing the two sisters understood during the darkest period of their lives.

In order to survive, dignity or anything else can be sacrificed.

So when the two were surrounded by five men demanding their gold medals, they handed them over immediately without any hesitation, and also put forward some conditions in the hope of getting their protection.

The five men were unwilling to accept a loss; after winning the gold medal, they wanted something else.

The conditions they proposed were absolutely unacceptable to ordinary women, but to Seung Jung-hee and Seung Jung-min, it was just something they had done before. Before they understood what shame was, they lost it.

It's a simple deal.

Even though they still remember the young host mentioning the live broadcast, the two of them didn't care.

The split-screen live broadcast room was filled with holy light, and all kinds of comments were scrolling in the comment section, saying all kinds of things.

So many people were watching the live broadcast, but no one noticed that a wooden box had quietly appeared in the corner of the screen.

It is about half a meter high. The craftsmanship of the person who made the wooden box is very rough. There are large gaps between the randomly spliced ​​wooden boards, and you can see inside through the gaps between the wooden boards.

The Light continues.

The wooden box in the corner began to move.

The few people who were enjoying themselves didn't notice it. After they came to the yard, everything seemed so normal. After a while, they began to relax their vigilance and thought they had found the 'safe zone' for this activity.

The wooden box was getting closer and closer to them. The audience in the live broadcast room saw it and exclaimed in the comment section. Of course, the people in the live broadcast room didn't know what they were saying.

It was not until the man who finished first pulled up his trousers and turned around that he saw the wooden box suddenly appearing in the middle of the yard.

Where did this wooden box come from? Have you seen one before?

The wooden box looked mottled, as if it had been splashed with dark red paint.

No, it's more like blood than paint.

Cold sweat immediately broke out on the man's back. Because he was closer to the wooden box, he could see something from the cracks between the wooden boards.

Those were a pair of moving...eyeballs.

The other person looked around as if he was very curious about this world, and finally his eyes fell on the man.