The system nervously said to Ming Li: Host, something's wrong!
Ming Li: What is it?
System: Host, I just detected that the female lead has gone black!
Ming Li raised an eyebrow, intrigued. What happened?
The system was a bit awkward and replied, Host, I haven't found out yet.
Ming Li: Useless.
The system felt wronged.
After Ming Li coaxed Lin Yun'er to sleep, she left the little phoenix behind to protect her.
Watching Ming Li disappear into the night, the little phoenix hopped onto the bed and nestled in a comfortable spot beside Lin Yun'er.
...
At this moment, in the harem.
The fire that day did not affect the harem, so Nangong Jin's concubines still resided there.
And now, in the female lead's palace, several imperial physicians were busy. Because this noon, Consort Su had accidentally fallen and, very unfortunately, hit her head, causing her to remain unconscious. The imperial physicians couldn't figure out the cause and were in a panic. These were the emperor's women, and if she truly never woke up again, these imperial physicians would be finished.
At this moment, a palace maid, who was standing guard, saw Consort Su's finger move. Sure enough, after a while, Consort Su woke up.
Su Ziyuan, upon opening her eyes, felt as if she had crossed worlds. She slowly sat up, looked around, and then secretly pinched herself under the covers. Feeling the pain, she finally confirmed that she had indeed been reborn.
It felt as if the sharp pain of a dagger piercing her heart from the previous moment was still there, and in the next, she was reborn.
Su Ziyuan raised her hand to touch her heart. It was still beating. She was truly alive.
Su Ziyuan was stunned for a long while. When she came back to her senses, her eyes were filled with venom.
In her previous life, Lin Yun'er from the Lin family, to avenge Bai Ming Li, had disguised herself as a palace maid and infiltrated her side, ultimately killing her. This life, with heaven allowing her to be reborn, she would surely get revenge and ensure that Bai Ming Li and that slut Lin Yun'er met a terrible end.
Thinking of this, Su Ziyuan stood up and asked the palace maid to help her change clothes. After getting dressed, Su Ziyuan realized something was wrong. In her previous life, she was clearly the Empress who presided over the empire, favored above all concubines. But in this life, why had she become merely a Consort? Furthermore, Nangong Jin didn't seem to love her as much anymore.
Su Ziyuan: ...?! This isn't right! None of this feels right!
Ming Li stood on Consort Su's palace roof, lifted a tile, and peered down. She saw the female lead pacing back and forth below like a lunatic. She paced for so long that Ming Li started yawning. Finally, Ming Li saw Su Ziyuan stop.
Ming Li dragged the system out of her space and scanned the female lead.
The system, who was currently engrossed in reading a storybook, was still disoriented from being suddenly pulled out of its space. It wasn't until it met a pair of eyes filled with chilling coldness that it lost its grip on the book, and it fell.
System: ...?! Swallowed a nonexistent gulp of saliva. It's over, it's going to cause trouble. Will the host beat it to death?!
Ming Li looked at the system with displeasure and, raising her hand, caught the falling storybook.
Seeing this, the system breathed a sigh of relief and quickly began scanning Su Ziyuan.
After the system finished scanning Su Ziyuan, it turned around and met its host's eyes. The system stammered, Host, Host, this Su Ziyuan, she, she's been reborn.