Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Chapter 238 World 3110

Many princes of the imperial clan, like Gu Anzhi, felt that the booklet was not enough and hoped for a next edition.

After learning that the ladies were collecting this information on their own initiative, they lent a hand by sending out some of their own people.

This second booklet is much thicker and contains much more content.

Just as Yin Yin had expected, the first booklet was copied and sent to the families of these ladies and their handkerchiefs.

As time went on, some clever people simply handed the booklet over to their own storytellers, telling them to tell it as a novelty, which indeed attracted a lot of attention.

Seeing this, others followed suit, and naturally some people came to Yin Yin and the others for help.

As a result, more copies of this booklet were printed, and its owners were no longer limited to nobles and aristocratic families.

The merchants carried the booklets with them as they traveled far and wide, bringing Yin Yin and the others a lot of new information.

Once enough information had been gathered, Yin Yin asked Gu Anzhi to mention the matter to the Emperor to see if he would assign someone to handle it.

The emperor looked down on these messy, trivial matters among the common people and tacitly allowed Yinyin and her group to continue managing them. Yinyin then began to openly recruit people with good writing skills to polish the journal and instructed some talented people to create novels suitable for publication.

Of course, most of the works written by scholars from the lower classes were things like "The Noble Lady Falls in Love with Me" and "The Fairy Who Spends Overnight in a Dilapidated Temple Will Marry Me No One But Me," full of fantasy and a strong sense of dream man. Yin Yin rejected them outright and didn't want a single one.

She then turned to the women in her estate and orphanage who were skilled in this art and asked them to write unconventional stories based on popular romance novels, such as "How a Noblewoman Exposes the Love Trap of a Low-Class Scholar".

Many young men from lower classes who aspire to marry into wealth dislike such novels because they expose their base intentions and are therefore subject to much criticism.

But men who have settled down and started families, and have daughters, often wish they could just put a copy of the book at home for their daughters to read every day.

Fortunately, the next group of people were the ones who made it big, gained status and power, so the criticism from the previous group was just a drop in the ocean and was quickly suppressed.

As Yin Yin predicted, things outside were developing in an orderly manner. In the imperial court, the emperor finally won the confrontation with his ministers and officially established Consort Zhen as empress.

Now that she has become Empress, no matter how much people dislike her, they can only go to the palace to congratulate her.

This new empress appeared to be a gentle and kind woman, but according to Yin Yin's observation, she was more shrewd and calculating than the previous one. She did not become angry or complain to the emperor about the other imperial concubines' attempts to embarrass her.

Even when someone spoke to the emperor on her behalf, she persuaded him to severely punish the palace servants who had spoken out against her injustice.

As a result, although the wives of the royal family were still not close to her, they showed her more respect.

But that's all.

Regardless of whether the emperor acted unilaterally in the matter concerning the late empress, she was still a beneficiary. Moreover, given the empress's situation in the palace, is it possible that she was completely unaware of it?

So no matter how much or how outstanding she was at that time, few people truly became her friends.

The Empress had never been able to conceive, and the Emperor doted on her, so much so that for many years no infant cries were heard in the palace. In addition, the other princes were sickly and looked like they wouldn't live long, so the Empress paid extra attention to the Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince appeared to be polite and respectful in front of her, but Yin Yin learned from Zhan Zheng that the Crown Prince actually hated the Empress Dowager.

Seeing Bei'an hesitating about whether to persuade the Crown Prince, Yin Yin asked him, "Shouldn't the Crown Prince hate this?"

Bei An replied, "But now the Empress is also the Crown Prince's mother. I am worried that if the Crown Prince continues like this, he will do something that will make the whole world despise him."

Yin Yin understood what he meant. If the Empress lived longer than the Emperor, she would inevitably face retribution after the Crown Prince ascended the throne.

Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "You can try to persuade the Crown Prince."

Just as Bei'an breathed a sigh of relief at her agreement, Yin Yin continued, "But Bei'an, I hope that before you go to persuade the Crown Prince, you can consider one question: if your father suddenly finds another person he likes and forces me to my death, and you witness the whole process but can't do anything because you're too young, how would you view your father and his second wife?"

“Mother, how can you say that about yourself and Father?” Bei’an said immediately. “You and Father will always be alright.”

Yinyin laughed: "It's just a hypothetical situation."

"Wait until you've thought this through before you try to persuade the Crown Prince."

“I know you have a good relationship with His Majesty and the Crown Prince, so you always try to ease the tension between them. But Bei’an, your attitude is too condescending.”

Having said that, Bei'an realized how wrong she had been. She stood up and bowed deeply to Yin Yin, her face showing a hint of dejection and regret: "Thank you for your advice, Mother. I will consider it carefully."

He hesitated for a moment, then whispered, "I will apologize to the Crown Prince when I see him."

The Crown Prince treats his uncle with affection and it's the Crown Prince's business if he doesn't pursue the matter of his inappropriate attitude. If he takes advantage of being an elder to let the matter slide, then there will inevitably be a grudge between him and the Crown Prince.

When he was a child, his parents would apologize to him if they failed to keep a promise they made to him. So it's not a big deal that he apologized to the Crown Prince for making a mistake now.

After preparing himself mentally, Bei'an went to his study to think things through carefully.

He had barely left when Gu Anzhi came in from outside.

Seeing the resentful and dissatisfied look on his face, Yin Yin asked, "Why do you look like that?"

Gu Anzhi pulled Yinyin into his arms and rested his head on hers: "What analogy did you use with Bei'an just now? After all these years, do you still not believe me?"

“Who says I don’t believe you?” Yinyin quickly turned her head to coax him, “Isn’t this just an assumption that I hope Bei’an can truly understand the Crown Prince’s thoughts?”

"It was my fault, I shouldn't have said that, please don't be angry with me."

Gu Anzhi understood, but he still felt uneasy. He said to Yinyin, "How could I bear to be angry with you? But Yinyin, you have to promise me that you won't say that again. We will always be good to each other."

Yinyin nodded and said, "I'll do whatever you say."

Gu Anzhi was somewhat satisfied. Looking at Yinyin in front of him, his love for her remained unchanged, and now he also felt an inseparable bond of kinship.

He gently smoothed Yin Yin's slightly disheveled hair and said earnestly, "We don't need to get soaked in the snow together to grow old together."