She and 2333 hadn’t even started searching for the favored concubine system, instead, it found her first. This was what most would call walking right into a trap.

  It even fucking bound itself to her.

  Ning Shu was speechless.

  This time 2333 would make a big profit off the other system. They didn’t know how many laws it had absorbed in addition to the hosts’ souls it had taken.

  Who knew how much good stuff it was hoarding?

  “2333, what do you think?” Ning Shu mentally summoned 2333.

  “Binding to you like this is a little troublesome. It’s bound to the soul so one thoughtless act and it can cause irreversible injury,” 2333 words were laced with frustration.

  Ning Shu: …


  What? Excuse me!?

  Ning Shu’s heart was full of rapid cursing. This was really…


  “Then what do we do?” Ning Shu asked with a calm and collected expression.

  “Mutual data attack,” 2333 said.

  Ning Shu: Excuse me?

  “Then will you be able to beat the virtuous empress system?” Ning Shu asked, rolling her eyes.

  “As my assistant system, you really are pathetic, allowing a foreign system to bind to me.” Ning Shu’s tone was scornful.

  2333 didn’t pay attention to Ning Shu’s scorn. “This system is more powerful than that celebrity system. My estimation is that it has plundered a lot of things and gone through many hosts.”


  Ning Shu asked seriously. “Then when will we be able to destroy the virtuous empress system? Is it the former favored concubine system?”


  “Yes, the name isn’t important. It can change its name at any time. The monarch system, the palace maid system, the hero system, the strategist system, the handsome system, the beauty system-any name is possible. The host could be male or female,” 2333 said.

  “After it’s bound to you, it will issue tasks. You don’t need to do what it says,” 2333 said.

  Ning Shu smiled. “But I’ll be punished.”


  “I’ll receive them in your place. These punishments are energy that I can absorb,” 2333 said. “I’ll consume his energy first.”


  Ning Shu nodded since that was all she could do. “Then I’m counting on you. My skills can’t help you with anything?”


  It seemed like 2333 needed to get stronger. Otherwise, if a more powerful system came and immediately destroyed 2333 then it would be hilarious.

  She might not even be able to go back to the system space then.

  She, the task-taker, might turn rogue.

  But now that the virtuous empress system was bound to her body, she didn’t need to go to the prison cells to find Noble Lady Zhou and arouse Zhao Xu’s suspicions.

  In regard to the emperor with his functioning intellect, she absolutely wouldn’t provoke a tiger lying in wait.

  Ning Shu felt rather depressed. When Qiu Ling walked in and saw that Ning Shu’s complexion wasn’t good, she quickly asked, “Your Majesty, what’s wrong?”


  “It’s nothing. What’s the matter?” Ning Shu asked.

  “His Majesty sent Eunuch Li to pass on a message,” Qiu Ling said.

  Ning Shu nodded. Eunuch Li entered, curtsied towards Ning Shu, and respectfully said, “Your Majesty, His Majesty has asked Your Majesty to bring all the concubines in the inner palace to the Palace of Flourishing Happiness.”


  “Eunuch, did something happen?” Ning Shu asked. Why did Zhao Xu suddenly want to gather his concubines?

  “This servant doesn’t know either.” Eunuch Li bowed.

  Ning Shu asked Qiu Ling to send the palace maids to call on all of the inner palace’s concubines. She then headed to the Palace of Flourishing Happiness with a large number of beauties in tow.

  Ning Shu took the lead in entering the Palace of Flourishing Happiness and saw Zhao Xu drinking tea. His expression was very ugly and a Daoist priest holding a horsetail whisk stood beside him.

  Ning Shu brought the group of beautiful women over to curtsy to Zhao Xu.

  Translator: Kiara