Chapter 279
Translator: Cheese
Sponsored Content
Proofreader/editor: Sera
The Regent’s Little Emperor (4)In this plane, she was called Bai Wei . Of course, her original name was Bai Weiwei .
The original body was the empress and emperor’s legitimate…prince .
In those days, the empress and the incredibly talented1 and greatly favored Imperial Consort Shu were in a constant struggle for control over the imperial harem .
Although the empress acted as the head of the rear palace, without the emperor’s favor, her family was also in decline . In addition to the many years failing to bear a child, she was already being criticized by both the harem and the court .
At that time, Imperial Consort Shu was pregnant . The emperor began to abandon the empress . The empress, to keep her position, could not simply take this lying down .
To have a child, she took secret medicine that would let her succeed at the expense of her health .
The queen smoothly became pregnant .
Sponsored Content
Unfortunately, she gave birth to a weak girl .
In order to have this child, the empress lost her ability to have another .
And a princess obviously would not be able to help her keep her position in the harem .
In the face of impending danger, with the help of family and confidants, she turned Bai Weiwei into a false phoenix, and the princess became a prince .
It just so happened that the emperor was seriously ill and the harem was in chaos, so the scheme was covered up just like that .
And so Bai Weiwei became Bai Wei . Because she was the legitimate child of the empress, she became the heir, commonly known as the crown prince .
For 16 years, it was concealed .
But it was not just bad luck here .
Even worse, Xie Yunting rebelled .
Xie Yunting was the enchanting genius of this dynasty .
Sponsored Content
The bastard son of a fallen family, his ill-treatment by his legal mother2 since youth resulted in his sinister character .
He was a young boy who understood the importance of power . Step by step, he designed a plan to enter school, learn under a famous master, study science at the age of 15, from the first test to champion3 .
That is to say, three entry-level exams, three upper-level exams, all first place . He became the first person in this dynasty’s history to be the top scholar for all six imperial examinations4 .
This privilege allowed him to prosper and gather his own forces in court .
In addition, the previous emperor was incompetent . He listened to Xie Yunting in all things, allowing him to cover the sky .
Seeing the memories up to here, the corner of Bai Weiwei’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch . How could this be possible in real life?
But in these planes, the targets were like the centers of the world . What almighty halo, their kingly auras covered the entire body?
Why didn’t she have it?
And then, when he became too powerful, the wastewood5 emperor finally felt something was wrong . He tried to clip his wings, even kill him .
Sponsored Content
But Xie Yunting had already taken control . He joined forces with Imperial Consort Shu, who intended to place her son in power .
With the help of Xie Yunting, Imperial Consort Shu forced the emperor to abdicate .
But Xie Yunting was not aiming for the power of a minister, but rather… the throne .
So Imperial Consort Shu was killed along with the emperor . Her capable son was also kacha’d by Xie Yunting .
The empress had already died of illness, leaving only one weak body, the very young and ill Bai Wei .
Xie Yunting smoothly became regent of the imperial court, his power soaring . He would wait until the situation stabilized, kacha Bai Weiwei, and then he would be in power .
Bai Weiwei wanted to sigh in disbelief . Only at -20, it turns out it was no different from -50 . Was this Jiangshan Beauty6?
A power-hungry man like Xie Yunting would simply kill all the women in the world and choose the country .
Bai Weiwei beat up the system: “Trash, are you dead, did we complete the last side task? Where’s my bonus?”
The system coughed, “Complete, asking the host to accept the side task reward, the seductive temperament7 . ”
Bai Weiwei picked her ear . “Seductive …what was that?”
This side task reward couldn’t be a real thing .
1: 风华绝代: magnificent style unmatched in his/her generation; peerless talent .
2: 主母 In ancient times, it was common for nobility to have one official wife and several concubines . Children born to other women (the shu sons and daughters) would refer to the official wife as their legal mother (zhu mu), even though they weren’t biologically related
3: 状元: top scorer in the palace examination, a title reserved only for the first place winner of the palace exam (started from the bottom now we here)
4: 也就是说小三元大三元全中了，成为本朝历史来第一个科举六元的人。Did my best to figure out what this meant . The imperial exam system consisted of several rankings, with a total of 6 . The rankings went from entry-level (county → prefecture → college) → township/province → metropolitan/conference → palace/court . So 3 small wins, 3 big wins, in a sense . This part is a rather loose translation, but I couldn’t think of a better way to phrase it .
5: 废柴: loser, good-for-nothing .
6: 江山跟美人 There are several media that share this name, but the one I can get information on is the 2008 film, and the plot seems to match . The protagonist Yan Fei’er takes over after her father dies in battle, while a scheming minister plot to take the throne .
7: 撩人淫荡: titillate/attract + lewd/lascivious, could potentially be written as sexy and lewd temperament, but it’s hard to take it seriously when I’m writing the translation LOL . Don’t be like me and look it up on Google; my very first suggestion was an r18 site _:(´ཀ`」∠):_ currently lying on the ground in shock even though i really should have known better…