Chapter 6 — Behind the Curtain of Glory

Tu Chieu Hoa looked bewildered at that scene, then suddenly screamed in horror. The nobility and composure on her body seemed to disappear.

"No way! System, come back to me! I don't want to be a slave all my life! If you don't come back, I will tell the whole world of your existence, I will..."

I stood up, grabbed the teapot on the table, and threw it straight at her head. One shot. She didn't fall, she just glared at me with hatred.

"Brother Dao, when you were tied up like a dog and a pig for sale on the street in the past, my family bought you. Otherwise, you would have entered the palace and become a prostitute by now!

I don't expect you to be grateful, but on what basis do you rely on grudges to repay favors?

"Give me back the system, I won't compare with you anymore. We'll still be good sisters from now on, I'll help you become queen, okay?"

I didn't answer, I picked up the teapot and hit it again.

"Do you remember what Dao Tu said before she died? She said she had followed you since childhood, and when she was young, she even held a knife for you. You only need to eat a bite of rice, just one bite, to save her. But why don't you eat?"

Blood oozed from Tu Chieu Hoa's head and she fell onto the bed.

"Dao Tu? Just an NPC, if you die, you die. When you die, you can still unlock new characters. Why do you have to save?"

The third time, the teapot shattered on her head, Tu Chieu Hoa was unwilling and fell into a coma. I turned around and pushed the door open - before the rain and dust stopped, Vinh Uy stood quietly outside, holding an umbrella over my head. Returning to the temple, I told Dao Tu:

“Wait for Anh Dao to completely recover, let her try the dish.”

12

I've never seen anything like it. Just close your eyes and a square frame will appear in your mind in the middle of nowhere. On it are countless words: Shop, points page, mission details, character unlock... Even Anh Dao's name is in there:

“Loyalty attribute: 0%. Intelligence: level 3. Physical damage: 10%.”

“Do you want to use medicine to treat NPC damage?”

Can I... heal them?

“Yes. As long as the host has enough accumulated points, it can cure all diseases in this world.”

Healing broken bones requires 3 points, transforming damage only requires 1 point. No wonder, every time he encountered disaster, Tu Chieu Hoa easily escaped, being a slave at Van Phu Palace to bear the punishment. It turns out that's it. The system told me that the original queen of the Secret Kingdom - Tu Chieu Hoa - suddenly died, causing Emperor Trieu Yen to be mentally shaken and become tyrannical and confused. Disasters are constant, people no longer have a livelihood. Therefore, they chose another soul to enter Tu Chieu Hoa's body, fill the void, become Trieu Yen's queen, thereby preventing the collapse of the world. I cannot understand.

"So... you choose someone like that to be the national mother? The savior?"

The system's cold voice rang out:

"As long as she completes the main quest, she can become your national mother. Moral character is not within the scope of evaluation."

I burst out laughing, eyes half-closed:

“So why did she fail?”

The first time the system hesitates:

"Unknown. Data sometimes has errors. Otherwise, how could host number 013 detect the BUG, go back in time, and swap bodies?"

Listening to those wild explanations, I suddenly feel funny: If this system is a slave talented, could not survive until the third day.

13

The tasks in the system are mostly related to the emperor: Level up, frequency of visits, level of favor with the emperor... After accumulating 2000 points, I held a bunch of handwritten Buddhist scriptures and presented them to the Queen Mother. One day we don't see each other, I write for ten days. If we didn't see each other for ten days, I wrote for a whole month - writing all night with a light on, without asking anyone to replace me. The skin on my finger peels and pus flows, so I bandage it and continue writing. By the end of July, the Queen Mother finally calmed down. Even though they have not been summoned yet, they have already passed on the message:

"It's calmer than before, and seems to have some of the appearance of a concubine."

This side quest that Tu Chieu Hoa does not want to do only gives 100 points. Just at the end of July, the troubles from the South piled up - drought. From Hoai Am down, after sowing the spring crop, it did not rain even once. Bach was so worried that he couldn't sleep. The price of rice in the city skyrocketed. At this rate, in less than ten days, the locust plague will come. Folklore began to spread:

“The emperor lost his virtue, heaven punished him with natural disasters.”

For the first time, I wore mourning clothes and knelt before the emperor's palace. When he came out to look at me, his eyes were blood red from lack of sleep — it was very rare for him to get angry.

"I thought you were doing well these days, but when it's urgent like this, what's causing trouble again?"

I clasped my hands and bowed my head solemnly to the ground.

“Your Majesty, I pray that you will pray for rain and use your blood to sacrifice to the sky.”

“If praying for rain fails, I vow to die on the spot to quell the people's resentment.”

The truth is — I hate Emperor Trieu Yen. He protected Tu Chieu Hoa to the point of losing his reason, viewing the slave's life as a bargaining chip. With just a wave of his hand, a whole group of people would die, and when someone died, he wouldn't even bother to glance at them. But now, we can only listen to the system - this emperor is a "love brain", whoever he loves is influenced by that person. The emperor should have prayed for rain with her, but then Tu Chieu Hoa said:

“The emperor is the son of heaven, so the ritual to pray for rain will certainly be effective, but if heaven is careless, won't people laugh at him?”

I still heard her whispering in the palace:

“A bunch of feudal illiterate people, if there is rain it will rain, if there is no then there will be drought, can you pray for sure?

I'm so stupid.