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 Chapter 11: Birthday Banquet, Stunning Those Present
 Bai Xiangxiu had truly prepared this present in earnest. After she'd finished carving and painting it, even Xiao Shi was greatly surprised. She asked, "This is really meant to be given to the Old Madame?"
 "Yes, how is it?" Looking at her finished work, Bai Xiangxiu elegantly twirled an engraving knife in one hand, her other hand on her waist, looking extremely proud of what she had accomplished.
 Xiao Shi nodded until her head almost fell off. Why hadn't she known that her mistress possessed such skills after serving her for so many years? But this was really too good! The old madame would surely look at her mistress in a different light as soon as this gift was presented. Bai Xiangxiu was also very satisfied and went to choose the clothes she would wear that day.
 Her face was born beautiful, so even if she appeared without any make-up on, she should also be able to draw many gazes. However, she was highly motivated to tone down her looks since that was what the old madame hated the most. Although she wanted to seduce the male supporting character, she also didn't wish to be beaten to death by staves before she'd succeeded.
 Thus, she chose a light blue dress that didn't appear too casual along with a red outer vest, not standing out too much while also not appearing too mild. After all, this was a day of a happy tidings, and she had to give some face to the old madame.
 As her head accessories, she decided to choose only a few. She felt that her hair was already very heavy to begin with. If she added a bunch of accessories on top of that, she'd probably develop a spinal injury sooner or later.
 Xiao Shi sighed. The mistress' features are far too outstanding. She is dressing so low-key today because she's worried about being accused of seducing the master.
 "Spend some money and have the servants to carry it in. They'd better not drop it," Bai Xiangxiu instructed before standing up. Gazing at her reflection in the bronze mirror, she mused that however low-key she tried to dress, this face of hers was just still too attractive. Why was it that such a perfectly good face had to end up like that? Could it be because she didn't have the female lead halo?
 Actually, Bai Xiangxiu also knew from the book that concubines of this era actually didn't have a position at all. While she was a precious concubine having entered the household through legitimate means, she was still just a concubine.
 This time, the four concubines actually didn't have the right to sit in at the old madame's longevity banquet. They were only going there to present their gifts, and would have to leave after the women of the family 1 arrived.
 Only if the old madame presiding over the banquet or Prince Li, Long Heng, agreed to it, would they be allowed to stay. But she remembered from the novel that they had not been allowed to stay. Therefore, it was fine as long as she presented her gift and caught a little of the male supporting character's attention. Other than that, there was nothing else to look forward to. The presenting of gifts would come before the outsiders arrived, so they would have to go over early.
 The male and female guests should have congregated before the old madame by now, so perhaps she would be able to see that male supporting character Song Jiaoyue. Bai Xiangxiu felt some anticipation begin to bubble inside. After all, she had chosen him, and would be rescued by him if she succeeded, so she may be even… No, she shouldn't think of anything else. Being able to secure her life was already a very good outcome.
 The two once again walked towards the front lounge, heading for the main hall this time. Many guests had already gathered, but most of them were still from within the complex or relatives of the family.
 Before having been received his title of Prince Li, Long Heng's family had been extremely large. His bloodline had flourished the most, but possessed the least amount of people.
 Long Heng's father was also a general, having spent many long years out on the battlefield. Although there were two concubine-born sons 2 of his who had not managed to survive, he had a concubine-born daughter who had already been married for many years.
 Meanwhile his wife, nee Liu, who was the current old madame, had only borne him one son, Long Heng. Having obtained the incomparably high position of a common prince for her son3, the old madame who had taken great pains and suffered much in raising this son of hers had earned everyone's respect. This time, even the current king had sent over a congratulatory gift, which had long since been hung over in the main hall. It was a Hundred Longevity Picture.
 Right after they'd arrived, Bai Xiangxiu and the other three concubines were instructed to first kneel and pay their respects to that Hundred Longevity Picture to avoid overlooking the rules. Therefore, having not even seen the old madame, Bai Xiangxiu had to first kneel and pay her respects to the Hundred Longevity Picture, and then was supported as she walked over to pay respects to the old madame herself.
 The knees of these ancients were really pitiful indeed. She had already kneeled twice in such a short period of time. Just as she was mentally complaining about this unusual torture, she heard someone announce, "His Highness has arrived!"
 She rolled her eyes towards the heavens. Did this mean that she would have to pay her respects once more?
 Indeed, Long Heng sat down after having sincerely greeted his mother, after which the concubines had to kneel and greet their husband.
 "All of you, rise. There are no outsiders here today." The old madame appeared much nicer today than when she had called for someone be beaten to death with staves, but her air of authority still remained. Bai Xiangxiu still feared her very much, not even daring to raise her head.
 She could not be faulted for being timid. Having grown up in a modern society, a city-dweller who had never even seen chickens or ducks be killed, the shock that she'd felt at suddenly seeing someone being beaten to death was not something easily washed away.
 Bai Xiangxiu rose with the other three, trying to seem as inconspicuous as possible. But just as she sat down, she heard the old madame say smilingly, "Jiaoyue is also here. Don't stand, come, come, sit. How is your mother doing lately? Will she be coming later?"
 Song Jiaoyue's eyes only casually drifted over the slim figures of the four women before he laughed, "In response to the Old Madame, my mother will naturally be coming. It's just that she hasn't left home in a long time, so I'm afraid that it will be some time before she arrives."
 The old madame laughed, "That's true. Speaking of, we haven't seen each other in a few months. With how busy the various affairs of our complexes have been, we haven't sat down to chat in a long while. If not for this matter, I'm afraid that she would still not be willing to come over!"
 Song Jiaoyue only smiled, politely exchanging small talk with the old madame. While this went on, the cold-faced male lead hadn't said anything at all. He hadn't even moved. It seemed that he was really like how it was written in the novel, he treasured his words like gold! Bai Xiangxiu only hoped that she could quickly present her gift and leave. Those who were meant to be here were already all here.
 Just as she was thinking thus, the old servant behind the old madame laughed, "Old Madame, look, the wives and women are all waiting to wish you longevity. Shouldn't you ask them to come over?"
 The meaning of this was that the time was growing late, and the concubines should quickly get over with the presenting of gifts to show their sincerity before making way for the official wife and daughters.
 "Yes, let them come forward!" The old madame smiled.
 However, the corners of Bai Xiangxiu's lips twitched. She had long known that the positions of concubines in the ancient times were very low, but this was really just like a slave, wasn't it? Presenting a gift was like being a beggar begging for alms. This caused her to feel rather depressed.
 However, who told her to transmigrate over and not become the female lead? This was a grievance she had to bear even if she didn't want to. Hence, she simply sat there waiting. Of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, she was the very last. Moreover, they had also arranged a female cousin in the queue, also one of the supporting female characters of the novel, a character who had suffered a fate worse than death despite not having died in the end.
 Bai Xiangxiu glanced over at her out of curiosity. The novel wrote that she had the figure and looks of Lin Daiyu 4, just that sadly, she had an extremely venomous personality. What sort of woman was this? She really wanted to see it with her own eyes.
 After just a single glance, she determined that this cannon fodder was just like her, both completely within the category of cannon fodder. She wouldn't live up to that Sister Lin's face of her as well as Sister Lin's style if she wasn't cannon fodder.
 According to the usual doctrine, there was definitely no way someone like her could become a female lead. Although she had a nice figure and pretty features, she had a harsh way of speaking. What kind of man would like her? However, she didn't say anything wrong before the old madame, just showering her with some congratulatory words. After having said her piece, she commanded the maid beside her to present her gift. But for some reason, that maid stumbled and fell.
 The little female cousin smiled unwillingly, "Look at you! You're usually rather clever, how come you suddenly became so stupid at this time? Stand up quickly, lest you dirty cousin's shoes." Having said this, she even coughed twice before smiling lightly once more. Even a blind man would be able to see the contempt within that smile. It went without saying that she was clearly mocking the maid for harboring hopes of climbing upwards and stealing Prince Li's heart. Otherwise, why would she have fallen like that? But that was her own serving maid. Wasn't this personality of hers a little too unpleasant?
 1. The official, legal wives and daughters
 2. Concubine-born children were inferior in social status to the proper children born of the legal wife, but still better than illegitimate children from women who never married the father.
 3. The title of prince was bestowed on him, but he possesses no royal blood and is not in the line of succession
 4. One of the principal characters of Cao Xueqin's classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is portrayed as a well-educated, intelligent and beautiful young woman, however mentally and physically weak sometimes.
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 She’s somehow ended up transmigrating into the book as the supporting female lead, who was beaten to death! Deeply in love with the male lead, she’s fated to be beaten to a bloody pulp before even holding hands with him?!
 First things first, she needs to survive and latch onto the big thigh of a patron. But the supporting male lead is a true gentleman and feels nothing for her stunning, alluring body. That’s alright! She’ll latch onto the old madame or the male lead then!
 But why does the supporting male lead look at her with increasingly odd eyes? And what of that Wulin Alliance Head with the personality disorder? You’re just a random bystander, what are you getting involved for??
 Finally, the male lead could bear it no longer and dragged her back to the Prince Li Manor…
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 Waking up as a descendant of a Noble family of traditional Chinese medicine, Han Fei found herself unable to bend down and see her toes.
 What? She was a well-known fat woman of the Prime Minister Han’s house? The eldest daughter of the Han family? And King Qin who was ridiculed for being crippled was her husband to be appointed? A fat woman with a lame was a perfect match?
 For the face similar to a celebrity, Han Fei decided that she wants to lose weight. She was going to have the best wedding!
 With a System, Han Fei embarked on the journey of losing weight, conquering the Prince Charming and helping the Prince Charming to fight the rebellion.
 When she wanted to go back, King Qin embraced her and asked, “Little Fatty, where are you going? Huh?”
 “Don’t call me Little Fatty!”
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 Rebirth, Xie Tingyue’s face is solemn, holding on to the unknown and the “Great Power Economy” that has always been with him.
 Goal: Shun down all kinds of swords and swords, protect yourself, protect your brother, and protect the useless disabled husband.
 Husband: The last three words, are you sure?
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 Lin SuCi transmigrated into a book, and became a kitten who had just cultivated into becoming human.
 When he was still young, he was picked up by a good man to be become his apprentice, but he did not expect his master to let his senior — the number one villain in the book — raise him?
 This villain senior was too scary, when he had nothing to do he would put him on a plate and stare at him. Let’s not mention cuddling, embracing, stroking and pinching him all day long, he even had a hundred ways to bite a cat!
 Lin SuCi covered his butt and had a tearful epiphany, Senior wants to eat me up!
 Having tried to run away with his short legs and getting caught for the nth time, Lin SuCi, his paws covering his face, had to accept his fate.
 Wasn’t it to just be the boss villain’s favored younger brother? Take your hand off my tail, fine, I’ll take on this role!
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 (Old book: The Evil General of One Piece, I was bitten by a zombie.) (Still unsystematic, cool writing without abuse, no heroine, only harem.) Lu Bu: Lu Bu among men, Red Rabbit among horses, I am the best in the Three Kingdoms Strong general. Zhou Cheng: Don’t worry, when I kill you, I will be number one. Zhou Cheng was reborn in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and became a member of the Yellow Turban Army. At this time, Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang were dead, and the Yellow Turban...
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 Chen Jue traveled to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and became the master of Qingyun Village?
 With the help of the system, Chen Jue not only supported himself, but also kept the stockade well-fed.
 The system issued a mission that day, asking him to go down the mountain and grab a Mrs. Yazhai back.
 So Chen Jue found a beautiful MM and brought it back to the cottage.
 On the wedding day, MM told Chen Jue that her name was Zhen Mi.
 The next day, someone named Cao Pi called at the door…
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 A natural moat called the Luo river split the great land into two. Jing of the north, and Wei of the south.
 One was the Prince of the grass plains who had no worries nor sorrow. One was a lawful Princess who received exclusive favour of the Emperor.
 A war turned the Prince of the grass plains into an orphan, she who had laid dormant for ten years had originally planned to become a sycophantic official, to manipulate the enemy kingdom into chaos, but was appointed as Fuma at the Chionglin banquet.
 Wait and see, how this debt of grudge from a fallen kingdom and devastated home will be settled.
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 The uncle of a historical collector keeps an ancient secret. He has no heirs. He hopes that his nephew can inherit this ancient secret.
 But the nephew has no interest. He is only interested in developing weapons. More new weapons. Earn more banknotes. This is his only pleasure.
 However, in the process of passing on this ancient secret, an accident occurred. The nephew crossed.
 Coming to the end of the Warring States Period.
 Hey, if you come here, you will be safe. I am a weapon expert. Isn’t it easy to deal with cold weapons?
 You have a cavalry, I have a machine gun, if you rush, I will mine mines, pull the barbed wire, you run, I’m an expert. There are tanks and armored vehicles on the ground and planes in the sky. Surrender.
 What are you waiting for when mechanized weapons are used in ancient battlefields?
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 Zhang Guo Qing, an orphan in the 21st century, and his pregnant wife, Zhou Jiao, are struggling and working hard for their future when suddenly they receive a shocking inheritance. Just as they were rushing to the hospital to give birth, a premeditated car crash kills them and the couple gets sent back to the end of the 1950’s in the Northeast farmlands of China where they are reborn into the bodies of a young couple and the start of a heartwarming story begins to unfold.
 Zhou Jiao asks Zhang Guo Qing: “How will we survive the next bitter days with our son?”
 Zhang Guo Qing: “Don’t be afraid, I have golden fingers, I will make sure the two of you will eat deliciously and drink spicily.”
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 “Ride this, my beloved consort!” Instantly rewarded with a punch in his charming face. He looked hurt, “I just wanted you to try out the mythical beast mount!”
 Having died a cruel and excruciating death in her past incarnation, she was reborn into a body imbued with an impeccable talent for cultivation. A good-for-nothing? Fire, water, ice, wind, thunder, and nature; switching between the six elements is easy as pie. Supreme grade pills? She scatters them in the air like candies. Legendary beasts? They’re begging her to form a contract. She is the arrogant Queen almighty! You say that heaven is undefiable? Then she will defy it!
 “Bad news, my Lord! The consort has beaten the Empress of the Heavenly Phoenix Nation into a pulp!” 
 He raised an eyebrow and brimmed of pride, “It’s nothing. Send a million troops to back up my beloved consort. Tell them that I’m the one who’s pampering her!”
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 Beyond the earthly realm were Buddha and the Dharma. In the earthly realm were feelings of love. Camel bells rang the song of the West, about a love story that journeyed along the Silk Road over a thousand years ago…
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 A car accident, when she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying in a dilapidated thatched hut with three skinny children standing beside the bed.
 Looking at myself again, this body is not hers, is it? Damn, is she crossing over? 
 Ugh! Unexpectedly, the original owner is still the air bag of this family, the mother-in-law is not happy, and the child is not kissed.
 See how Yang Yu, who was single with a mother and womb, raised her children richly in ancient times and competed with her mother-in-law.
 How did you hear that the man she had died in battle had returned? Also broke both legs.
 It’s okay, she has Lingquan in her hand, so she doesn’t worry about not being able to cure him.
 How come I heard that he is still a general, what is the situation?
 Forget it, forget it, you can’t afford it, take the child for a walk first!
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 Fu Lengxiang is a girl born in a wealthy noble family. Blessed with a bright mind, she makes perfume and blends powder every day, affianced to an ideal fiancé, her life is everything that a girl can dream of. 
 Little does she expect that perfume can be made and blended, destiny, however, is not under her control. Due to a case concerned a drowned female, her whole family is executed. She survived after innumerable hardships, determined to find the culprit behind the scenes, she makes it to the emperor’s palace. 
 Game of the throne is never peaceful. Lord Han and Lord Qi are both eyeing the ultimate power. 
 With the appearance of Su Yuan, her fiancé when she was Fu Lengxiang, the game becomes more complicated. 
 The hands used to blend fragrant powder is now wielding influence, the mind used to only lie in her family is now plotting about the palace. 
 Alas, it turns out the culprit behind the scenes is the one she used to love deeply!
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