Chapter 1: Time Travel
"Pah!"
The first second Jiang Xinyue traveled to the Great Yan Dynasty, she was slapped hard in the face.
She was stunned and had not yet reacted to what happened. She was kicked in the leg again. Her knees "clicked" and she knelt on the cobblestone path of the Yu Garden.
Under the scorching sun, the woman in a gorgeous dress with a canopy on her head was extremely beautiful. Her sharp eyes were even more amazing. Her snow-white skin exuded a gleaming luster, and her nails were covered with gem-studded armor. She looked like a top-class favorite concubine.
"Did the heat make you lose your mind, Madam Jiang? It's a blessing for the crabapple that our queen has chosen. What's the point of snatching it away? You have wasted the fragrance of the crabapple."
Her face and knees were burning with pain. Jiang Xinyue swayed slightly and knocked her head on the ground: "Your Majesty, please be wise. I didn't know that the queen had chosen that crabapple. If I knew, I would never dare to compete with you. Your majesty is the bright moon in the sky, and I am just the dust under your feet. How dare I?" No matter
how many times she flatters, she still hasn't figured out what's going on. She is in a weak position, so she should put down her dignity and be humble.
In a word, she was wrong, very wrong.
"Hmph!"
"Since you know you're wrong, then kneel here for two hours to learn your lesson. Layue, get up and return to the palace."
Jiang Xinyue couldn't blush despite the ridicule and strange looks from the concubines and palace maids around her. Before she traveled through time, she was a top psychologist in a private hospital for the nobility in Beijing.
Her major in college was psychology, and her perfect grasp of the psychology of every VVIP customer was her sure-fire way to be promoted to the director of the psychology department with an annual salary of one million in just one year.
She took those few mocking words as a joke.
The sun was shining brightly, and Jiang Xinyue was sweating profusely, as sluggish as a dog that had lost its home.
Suddenly, a memory that did not belong to her flooded into her mind, and she realized that she had traveled through time to the Great Yan Dynasty, which did not exist in history.
She was originally the concubine of the fourth-ranking Honglu Temple Shaoqing's family. Because her appearance was the most outstanding among the sisters, she was selected by her family to serve the king together with her sister.
Originally, the Jiang family's intention was to let her support the dignified and elegant eldest sister Gu Chong, but she turned out to be a vase with empty beauty, and she got carried away after being pampered by the emperor for two days.
However, after being provoked for a few words, he dared to fight in the ring with Concubine Li, who was the most favored concubine in the harem.
No, yesterday he was pushed into the lake by Concubine Li's maids to wake up. He had a high fever and was taken to the imperial garden to be slapped in the face.
I don't know if she was sick or angry, but her soul from another world took over her body.
With the mentality of taking things as they come, Jiang Xinyue made a careful calculation.
She couldn't go back. She was in a car accident while on duty trying to save a strange old man. Her body was broken into two pieces. She was definitely not going to survive.
So, how could she win the emperor's favor, save her life, and rise to higher positions in the harem where people are cruel and sincere, and she would die?
As the saying goes, a time-traveling woman who doesn't want to be a concubine is not a good employee.
Since she is here, she can't come in vain. She must leave a strong mark in history.
"It's really embarrassing."
After everyone left, a beautiful lady in a pink and purple palace dress and a bun stood in front of Jiang Xinyue: "Father always said that your beauty could help me rise to a high position in the harem, but have you seen it? There are many beautiful women in the harem, but none of them is dumber than you. You are looking for death, don't drag me down."
The disgust and hatred in her tone did not sound like the biological sister of this body at all, but more like an enemy.
Jiang Xinyue endured the severe pain in her knees and looked up.
The original body relied on her beauty and eccentric temperament. When she was in the mansion, she didn't get along with this pretentious elder sister. After entering the palace, they were even more at odds with each other, and they looked down on each other.
"Are you worthy of being implicated by me? Look at your pretty face, who would think you are my sister?"
The original body was targeted because she was too pretty, this one is just ordinary looking, who would waste that effort?
Jiang Yutong's face turned red with anger: "Don't come to me one day to beg for something."
"You are just a little Baolin, what should I beg you for?"
The original body was at least pampered for two days and was made a noble!
"You!"
Jiang Yutong was so angry that she fell backwards, took the maid's hand, and left angrily.
The maid standing behind Jiang Xinyue sighed: "My little master, you have only been in the palace for a few days, and you have offended most of the masters in the harem. Isn't this bad?"
"It's not good."
She didn't intend to swallow her anger and take the gentle route to get out of the circle, but she didn't bite everyone she saw when she showed her sharp edge.
She was born in the year of the dog! She would make sarcastic remarks to everyone she met.
She had offended Concubine Li. Nothing that happened in the harem could be hidden from the emperor's eyes and ears. She was afraid that she would lose favor.
That would not do. She could not just sit there and wait for death.
There were more than a dozen ice basins in the Yangxin Palace. It was cool and comfortable to be in one of them, and she did not feel stuffy at all.
The young and mighty emperor put down his pen and said, "Wang Dequan, did anything happen in the harem today?"
"Nothing serious."
Wang Dequan held up a cup of Xijing Biluochun at just the right temperature, and calmly recounted the incident of Concubine Li forcing Concubine Jiang to kneel.
"Concubine Jiang?"
She was probably an extremely beautiful woman. He forgot about her after two days of novelty. She was no different from the people in the harem.
"She is so unruly that she dares to conflict with the noble concubine. She should be punished to kneel. Pass on my decree and let her copy the palace rules twice more to make amends for the crime to the noble concubine Li."
"Yes, I'll send someone to Xihe Palace to pass on the decree."
Everyone in the palace knows that the noble concubine Li is the emperor's favorite. He would rather offend the empress than offend the noble concubine Li!
The new noble concubine Jiang is really a newborn ox and a calf that is not afraid of a tiger. She is rushing to death.
From now on, there will be no such person as the noble concubine Jiang in this harem!
Jiang Xinyue, who was just helped back to Xihe Palace, hadn't even sat down yet, and the emperor sent eunuchs to reprimand her, which made the already seriously injured Jiang Xinyue even worse.
There are thousands of palace rules, and she has to copy them twice!
The feudal society is really deadly because of its hierarchy.
She thought silently in her heart: You dog emperor, when I catch you, I will also make you copy 2,000 rules for loving concubines.
But now, she can only let the maid rub her bruises and apply medicine while she copies the damn palace rules.
Changxin Palace -
La Yue combed her master's long black hair and laughed softly: "I thought she was so powerful, but it turns out that she is just this capable. Compared with the empress, she is far inferior. The emperor loves the empress and punishes her to copy the palace rules!"
A blurry face of a beauty in the bronze mirror said: "Everyone is compared with me, is she worthy?"
What about beauty?
Aren't there enough beauties in this palace every year?
Has any of them surpassed her?
Beauty is the least worth boasting about advantage of the concubines in the harem, and she should use it as her weapon.