Transmigrated into an Ancient M-Preg Novel as the Scumbag Alpha (GL) - Chapter 1
In the eleventh year of Shenlong in Southern Qin, the capital city was covered in its first snow. Countless literati, romantic scholars, and elegant gentlemen left behind their works. Some achieved fame in one battle, while others were utterly disgraced.
However, within the high-ranking circles of Southern Qin, the most discussed topic was still the Ninth Princess, Princess Chuxiang, and her consort, Shen Liunian.
Royal gossip always remained the hottest of hot topics, and the struggle for succession was something no court official could ignore.
And Princess Chuxiang, Yun Chenghuai, as the legitimate second daughter of the former empress, possessed the most esteemed and orthodox direct bloodline, yet she had been prematurely kicked out of the game.
This was solely because she married Shen Liunian, a merchant’s daughter. Her desire to inherit the great unification was basically impossible, unless some unforeseen event occurred.
Southern Qin’s unwritten rule stated that a king’s consort could be from a minor household, or even a commoner, but never a merchant’s daughter.
Even if this merchant’s daughter was the daughter of the owner of eighteen mines, a merchant was still a merchant. No matter how wealthy, they couldn’t change the fact of their mercantile status.
Therefore, Yun Chenghuai’s marriage to a merchant’s daughter meant she was destined to have no claim to the throne.
The once popular candidate for the throne was now completely out of the running, how could one not sigh with regret?
Yet, no one knew that at this very moment, Yun Chenghuai had been replaced by a law student from modern times.
Slowly waking up, Yun Chenghuai stared at the bed curtains, her eyes filled with disbelief.
She had actually transmigrated!!!
She never imagined that she would just get a high fever from the flu, and upon waking, find herself in an ancient ABO novel. The setting of this world was that there were only females, but they were divided into ABO.
In the novel, Alpha = Qian Yuan, Omega = Kun Ze, Beta = He Yuan.
Qian Yuan could mate with Kun Ze and He Yuan, and both could bear children. However, for He Yuan and He Yuan to bear children, they needed sacred water.
She transmigrated into someone with the same name as her, the Ninth Princess of Southern Qin, Princess Chuxiang, the villainous female supporting character in the novel, a cannon fodder destined to die, a stepping stone for the female lead.
The original owner was the legitimate imperial princess of Southern Qin. Her status was indeed noble enough, but the original owner was also problematic enough.
The current Crown Princess was severely ill and could pass away at any time. In such circumstances, all the imperial princesses harbored ambitions for the throne. As the legitimate imperial daughter, the original owner was naturally a popular candidate.
Moreover, the original owner believed that if the Crown Princess died, she would be the only one qualified to become the new Crown Princess. Who knew that the Emperor would bestow upon her a marriage to a merchant’s daughter?
This meant that the original owner was excluded from the succession to the throne.
For an ambitious imperial princess to lose her qualification as an heir was a significant blow to the original owner.
The original owner dared not vent her dissatisfaction towards the Emperor, so she blamed all these things on the female lead, Shen Liunian. Less than half a year after their marriage, tormenting and scolding were common occurrences. In the dead of winter, she would make the female lead kneel in the courtyard as punishment.
Even when the female lead became pregnant, all she received was the original owner’s intensified abuse.
The female lead had no choice but to conspire with the Crown Princess of Northern Qi to flee Southern Qin, leading to the owner of the eighteen mines, who was the female lead’s mother, completely siding with Northern Qi.
The original owner was consequently confined for ten years. When she finally saw the light of day again years later, the first person she saw was Shen Liunian, clad in armor.
Shen Liunian completely ignored the original owner, merely ordering that she be denied food and water. Within a few days, the original owner starved to death in the princess manor.
Thinking of the original owner’s fate, Yun Chenghuai couldn’t help but hug her own frail body.
Now that she had transmigrated into the book, replacing the villainous female supporting character in the novel, all the things the original owner had done were naturally attributed to her.
Therefore, the original owner’s ending would be her ending.
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Combining the original owner’s memories, Yun Chenghuai quickly sorted things out.
If she didn’t want to lose her freedom and starve to death in the princess manor, she had to change the female lead’s impression of the original owner, and indeed everyone’s impression of the original owner.
The original owner, relying on her noble bloodline, was arrogant, disrespectful to the Empress Dowager, disrespectful to court officials, self-righteous, and narrow-minded.
Towards the female lead, she exploited her flaws to the extreme, wantonly harming the other party.
Oh, she recalled the original owner’s memory; at this moment, the female lead, Shen Liunian, was still kneeling outside.
In such cold weather, the original owner’s room had charcoal burning, and it still felt a bit chilly. Outside, it was freezing, not nearly as warm as the room. Kneeling outside would be fatal.
If she remembered correctly, it was because of this punishment that the female lead was found to be pregnant, and this also left her with chronic illnesses.
Thinking of these things, Yun Chenghuai couldn’t help but scorn the original owner. What a useless piece of trash, actually blaming her own stupidity on the female lead.
But thinking that she had become this vicious waste, she couldn’t help but clench her teeth.
She didn’t have time to think much; the female lead was still kneeling outside.
Putting everything else aside, she couldn’t stand seeing a pregnant woman kneeling in the snow.
When she read this part of the novel, she felt so much pity for the female lead’s plight.
Yun Chenghuai didn’t bother to sort out her current situation. She grabbed the thick cloak nearby, wrapped herself in it, and walked out.
“Your Highness?”
Hearing the commotion, the maid who had been in the outer room quickly asked, but Yun Chenghuai had already pushed open the door and stepped out.
The guards on duty outside, confused, immediately followed behind.
As she pushed open the door, a gust of cold wind assailed her, piercing through her cloak, making Yun Chenghuai shiver.
Compared to the warmth inside the room, it was an ice cellar outside.
The manor’s servants had just swept away the accumulated snow, leaving the bluestone ground damp and radiating chills.
It was Chou Shi (1-3 AM), the coldest period of the night. Lanterns placed every few steps illuminated the princess manor but offered no warmth to the heart.
In such frigid weather, she could barely endure it the moment she stepped out, let alone the female lead who had been kneeling outside all this time.
With every step, Yun Chenghuai’s heart sank a little more, and she couldn’t help but quicken her pace.
Every minute she was late meant Shen Liunian was frozen for another minute.
The princess manor was too large. Fortunately, the place where Shen Liunian was kneeling wasn’t too far. In less than three minutes, she saw the figure kneeling in the snow.
The young girl, in a thin white robe, was kneeling in the pavilion, her slender body swaying precariously in the cold wind.
As she walked closer, she clearly saw the girl’s appearance.
Is this the female lead from the novel? Indeed, just as described in the novel: cool and noble, with an otherworldly, fairy-like demeanor. Her skin was as white as snow, almost merging with the snow-covered ground. Her pure and beautiful profile was stunning to behold.
However, Shen Liunian’s clear eyes held a faint hint of melancholy, which made Yun Chenghuai’s heart ache.
Yun Chenghuai was stunned by Shen Liunian’s exquisite beauty. Just as she was about to approach, she saw the other party raise her eyes to look at her, with unconcealed disgust in her gaze.
Their gazes met in the air. The heartache in Yun Chenghuai’s eyes momentarily puzzled Shen Liunian.
The next second, Shen Liunian fainted to the ground, like a cool, noble lotus from a cold pond that had been plucked and fallen into the depths.
Yun Chenghuai quickly walked to Shen Liunian’s side, then took off her cloak and covered her with it. She immediately picked her up in a princess carry and headed towards her own room.
In the original owner’s memory, Shen Liunian, as the Princess Consort, lived in a room that was even worse than those of the manor’s servants, let alone having charcoal fires.
She decided to carry her back to her own room; at least it was warm in there.
Shen Liunian’s body was icy cold, like a snowman, radiating a bone-chilling coldness even while being held.
Yun Chenghuai had given her cloak to Shen Liunian, and she herself was wearing only a single layer of clothing. Her warm body was exposed to the cold wind, and the painful chill invaded her. She suppressed the cold and strode forward.
She walked very quickly, but her steps were steady. She just wanted to get back to the room quickly to warm up.
“Your Highness, Shen Liunian?”
As soon as she returned to the room, the maid came up to her, and upon seeing Shen Liunian, especially seeing Yun Chenghuai holding her, she wore a look as if she had seen a ghost.
The maid actually called Shen Liunian by her full name.
In modern times, this would be normal, but in ancient times, it was insubordination.
It was clear that even in the servants’ minds, they never truly regarded Shen Liunian as the Princess Consort.
Yun Chenghuai knew that the servants simply acted according to the original owner’s wishes. If the original owner had valued the female lead, she would never have suffered such treatment.
In the novel, before she was married, the female lead was pampered and doted on in her own home.
Otherwise, in an era where everyone married early, Shen Liunian wouldn’t have delayed until she was twenty years old to marry the original owner.
After all, at twenty years old in ancient times, she was already considered an old maid.
How could someone who grew up being so pampered not harbor resentment after enduring such cruel treatment in Southern Qin?
Yun Chenghuai carefully placed Shen Liunian on the bed, reached out to cover her with the quilt, and then lowered her gaze to the stunning girl on the bed.
Shen Liunian’s face was very pale, her brows tightly furrowed. The moment she lay on the bed, she couldn’t help but curl into a ball, seeking warmth from within the covers.
“You, have someone boil some warming medicinal soup, and then invite the manor physician over.”
Yun Chenghuai couldn’t recall the maid’s name at the moment, so she just gave a general order.
As the master of the princess manor, she had absolute authority within the manor, and no one dared question her words, which saved her from having to explain anything.
Moreover, if she remembered correctly, in the novel, it was this punishment that led to the discovery of the female lead’s pregnancy.
A pregnant woman should always be treated with caution, especially since the female lead had been kneeling in the snow for so long. She wouldn’t feel at ease until a physician had examined her.
The princess manor had its own physician, dispatched from the Imperial Academy of Medicine to various princess estates. Their medical skills were among the best of their contemporary healers.
The Princess Chuxiang Manor’s physician appeared to be in his early thirties. Upon entering the room, he quickly bowed to Yun Chenghuai, “Your Highness.”
“No need for formalities. Please examine the Princess Consort first.”
The only good thing the original owner did was leave her with these memories, preventing her from being overly flustered in this completely unfamiliar environment.
The manor physician knelt by the bed, took the embroidered handkerchief offered by the maid, and placed it on Shen Liunian’s wrist. After a moment, he stood up and bowed, saying, “Congratulations, Your Highness, the Princess Consort is pregnant.”
The physician’s congratulatory remark was particularly apprehensive. Everyone in the manor knew that Her Highness Princess Chuxiang disliked the Princess Consort, and it was possible that even the child in her womb would be implicated.
Offering congratulations might anger Her Highness. Of course, having an heir was a good thing, and not congratulating could also anger Her Highness.
The physician just felt that he was truly in a difficult position.
Yun Chenghuai didn’t care what the physician was thinking; her mind was solely focused on one sentence: Shen Liunian was indeed pregnant.
And in the novel, Shen Liunian escaped from the princess manor three days after being found pregnant, making a long journey before finally reaching Northern Qi.
In other words, if she couldn’t stop the female lead from leaving the manor within three days, she would still lose her freedom and face the risk of being confined for ten years.
Eventually, she would suffer the fate of starving to death.