At the ceremony of coronating the empress, Fang Yuci wore a gorgeous and intricate phoenix robe and stood at the highest point of the newly renovated main hall of Kunning Palace. She saw the concubines and ladies in the harem kneeling in unison to pay their respects to her. Even though she is a modern person at heart, Fang Yuci couldn't help but feel deeply moved when she saw this scene.
More than ten years ago, after Fang Yuci traveled to ancient times, she had an additional [Favorability System] on her body. As long as she raised the emperor's favorability to 100%, she could return to the modern era.
So Fang Yuci worked diligently to improve the emperor's favorability for more than ten years. From a concubine whose name the emperor could not remember, she gradually became the emperor's favorite concubine. Then, when the first queen died, the emperor issued an edict to make her the successor.
When Fang Yuci was a little concubine, she had to kneel down to everyone she met. Now she has become the most noble woman in the country, second only to the emperor, and everyone in the country, except the emperor, has to kneel down to her. And the emperor would not let Fang Yuci kneel down and salute him - the emperor's 99% favorability towards her was not given to Fang Yuci for nothing.
However, the emperor's favorability value has remained at 99% for a long time. Fang Yuci is extremely anxious, but dares not show it at all. Fang Yuci was distracted like this, and she was a little late in saying the words "stand up". Fang Yuci did not say "stand up", and hundreds of concubines and ladies knelt respectfully, and no one dared to raise their heads.
After all, Fang Yuci was different from the previous queen who had no favor and no children. Fang Yuci not only had the noble status of queen, but also had the emperor's unique favor. Even the current crown prince was born to Fang Yuci. All the chips were in Fang Yuci's hands. No one in the harem could compete with Fang Yuci, so they were naturally very respectful in front of Fang Yuci.
"Stand up." Fang Yuci's clear voice rang out in the palace, and all the concubines and ladies in the palace stood up in unison as if they had rehearsed it.
"The Emperor has arrived—" Before the voice fell, Fang Yuci saw the Emperor's bright yellow figure walking into Kunning Palace.
Fang Yuci looked across the crowd and gave the emperor her usual gentle smile, with just the right amount of surprise in her eyes.
[The favorability value has reached 100%!]
Fang Yuci was caught off guard by the system prompt that she had been looking forward to for more than a decade. The magnificent palace, the women in palace dresses, and the emperor looking at her with a smile in his eyes all blurred. Only the line of words "Favorability System" projected on the virtual screen was clear and bold.
[Has the final achievement been achieved, yes/no to return to the present?]
Fang Yuci looked towards the upper study. At this moment, her two children were studying in the study. Then she chose [Yes] without hesitation. The next second, Fang Yuci, who was standing at the highest point in the main hall of Kunning Palace, suddenly fell down, causing exclamations from everyone in the hall.
However, Fang Yuci could no longer hear these voices, and they had nothing to do with her anymore.
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Fang Yuci woke up again and saw that the room was completely dark. She subconsciously called out, "Bai Lu——"
Before she finished her words, she realized that no one would answer her. She had already returned to the modern era, and Bai Lu, the senior palace maid who had accompanied her for more than ten years, was naturally not here.
Fang Yuci reached out and fumbled for a long time before finally finding the bedside lamp switch. The light instantly illuminated the bedroom, and she realized that her cell phone was right next to her pillow, and she could have touched it just by moving her right hand slightly. It seems that after traveling through time for more than ten years, her body memory has changed. If she woke up in the middle of the night before traveling through time, her first reaction would definitely be to touch her cell phone to light up, rather than looking for the light switch.
~Edit and rewritten by Rikhi, Reiya_Alberich, ReiNyam~
She quickly picked up the phone and looked at it like a wolf that had been hungry for days finally seeing meat! The three things she missed most in ancient times were mobile phones, air conditioners, and flush toilets! Mobile phones ranked first!
Fang Yuci turned on her cell phone and the time on the screen came into view - January 2, 2014.
Although she has lived in ancient times for more than ten years, Fang Yuci has always remembered this day. When she first traveled to ancient times, she wondered every day what was special about this day and what was special about herself. However, no matter how she thought about it, this day was ordinary, and she was ordinary too. Now she returned to the moment of time travel and woke up in the home where she grew up.
The bed was still warm, and her father's snoring came from the next room. Fang Yuci was in a trance. If she calculated it according to modern time, she had not left for a minute. The more than ten years she had lived in ancient times were like a dream.
Then she discovered that she had forgotten the password to unlock her phone! she tried several strings of numbers, but they were all wrong. She frowned and tried to recall them carefully, but she had no memory of them. She hadn't touched her phone for more than ten years, so how could she remember the unlock password she had set more than ten years ago?
In the end, she had no choice but to put down her phone, open the laptop on the bedside table, and search for "What to do if I forget the password to unlock my phone."
Then she realized she couldn't remember the password to her notebook...
Fang Yuci sighed, put the notebook on her lap, and held the phone in her hand. Even if she couldn't unlock either of them, she was happy just holding them in her arms and touching them! She just stared at the screen of her mobile phone with a silly smile on her face. The screen turned off, then on again, then off, then on again...
It was not until the tears dripped down her cheeks onto the quilt that she realized that she was crying while smiling. After wiping away her tears, she felt much calmer. She got up from the bed and wanted to quietly go to the next room to take a look at her sleeping parents. As soon as she lifted the quilt, Fang Yuci gasped. It was so cold outside the quilt!
When her feet stepped into the slippers, she shivered and quickly grabbed the clothes beside the bed and put them on. The cold clothes stuck to her skin, and her upper and lower teeth kept fighting. She wanted to put on her clothes quickly, but in fact her movements were very slow - she hadn't put on clothes by herself for a long time in ancient times, let alone such cold clothes.
The palace she lived in in ancient times had floor heating , and every winter the entire palace was kept warm and dry by the heating. Before getting up every morning, the palace maids would first iron the clothes she was going to wear with a hot water bottle, and only put them on her after they were warm.
Therefore, after she put on her clothes, she not only felt that the clothes were cold, but also wet, as if they had been washed but not dried thoroughly. Winter in the south is like this. The humidity doubles the coldness. A humid 5 degrees is more uncomfortable than a dry 0 degrees.
Fang Yuci grew up like this since she was a child. Every winter she would just shiver and it would pass. But now she felt that she could not endure it for a moment longer. After getting dressed, she went back into bed, wondering if she could install floor heating in her home. Modern floor heating is based on the same principle as the floor heating in the palace, and is even more convenient!
She thought about it while looking around her bedroom, with a look of surprise on her face - why is her bedroom so small?
Before she traveled to ancient times, her family had just moved into a new house of 180 square meters, with four bedrooms, two living rooms and two bathrooms. Her parents loved her and let her live in the largest master bedroom. Therefore, her bedroom was more than 30 square meters, and it was connected to a bathroom and a walk-in closet.
When she first traveled to ancient times, she missed her spacious, bright and cozy bedroom and her comfortable, soft and warm bed madly every year. But now she feels that her bedroom is so small! The room is so low! The 1.8-meter double bed is also so narrow!
What was going on? Shei quickly figured it out. When she first traveled to ancient times, she was just a concubine of a prince. The room she lived in was even smaller than a modern bedroom. Of course, she thought modern bedrooms were much better. But as she became a noble concubine and was named queen, the entire palace became her residence. Looking back at the modern bedroom of more than 30 square meters, she naturally felt it was very small, and the new home of 180 square meters was not enough at all.
Fang Yuci let out a long sigh. This was a difficult situation. It turned out that she had unknowingly become accustomed to the luxurious royal life of being supported by the whole country. Such a life obviously could not continue in modern times. At this moment, the familiar virtual screen suddenly appeared in front of Fang Yuci.
Fang Yuci gasped. Wasn't this her [Favorability System]from ancient times? The [Favorability System]actually followed her back to the modern era? Did she still have to work hard to gain someone's favorability in the modern era?
[The system is loading...Environment monitoring...]
[Congratulations, feudalism has been overthrown, and the master of the country has changed from the emperor to the people!]
[Congratulations, the task target has been changed. You need to gain the favor of the people!]
[Congratulations, your favorability value has doubled and you will get a chance to summon. As long as the other party is willing, you can summon a soul from ancient times!]
Fang Yuci: ???
She knows that the people are the masters of the country...but what is the people's favorability value?
[Favorability System] After hearing Fang Yuci's question, a long line of words appeared on the virtual screen.
[The people refer to all socialist workers, builders of the socialist cause, patriots who support the reunification of the motherland and are committed to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation]
Fang Yuci: ???
The system must have just scanned the political book, right?
Then another line of words appeared on the system's virtual screen:
[Current People's Favorability: 191/100,000,000]
Fang Yuci narrowed her eyes and began to count how many zeros followed the 1 in the denominator, but as she counted, she got confused! The system immediately and considerately changed the writing style,
[Current People's Favorability Value: 191/100 million]
Fang Yuci's face was filled with disbelief, "The full score is 100 million?!"
When she was conquering the emperor in ancient times, the full score was only 100! The system also gave a thoughtful explanation:
[According to demographic data, the total population of China in 2014 was 1.368 billion. Excluding people living in remote areas without TV and Internet signals, children under five years old, and the mentally disabled, the remaining population is about 1 billion.]
[Considering that you can't make everyone like you, and it's even more impossible for everyone to have 100% favorability towards you, set a small achievable goal first, and earn 100 million favorability points. ]
Fang Yuci: !!!