After Transmigrating As The Scumbag Alpha In An Ancient Pregnant-And-Run Novel - Chapter 1

In the eleventh year of Shenlong in Southern Qin, Shangdu City was covered by the first snowfall. Countless scholars, poets, and refined men of letters left behind their works. Some became famous overnight, while others saw their reputations utterly ruined.

But among the upper circles of Southern Qin, what people discussed most was still the Ninth Imperial Daughter, Prince Chuxiang, and her princess consort, Shen Liunian.

Royal gossip would always be the hottest topic among hot topics, and the struggle for succession was something no court official could afford to ignore.

As for Prince Chuxiang, Yun Chenghuai, she was the legitimate second daughter of the late Empress. She possessed the noblest and most orthodox bloodline of the main imperial line, yet she had been kicked out of the game early.

All because she had married Shen Liunian, a merchant’s daughter. Unless something unexpected happened, it was basically impossible for her to inherit the throne now.

According to Southern Qin’s unspoken rules, a prince’s consort could come from a minor household, or even be a commoner, but she absolutely could not be a merchant’s daughter.

Even if this merchant’s daughter was the daughter of the owner of the Eighteen Mines, a merchant was still a merchant. No matter how rich she was, even if her wealth rivaled an entire nation, that fact could not be changed.

So the moment Yun Chenghuai married a merchant’s daughter, she was destined to have no chance at the throne.

A once-popular contender for the imperial throne had now been completely eliminated from the race. How could people not sigh over it?

However, no one knew that at this time, Yun Chenghuai had already been replaced by a modern law student.

When Yun Chenghuai slowly woke, she opened her eyes and stared at the bed curtains above her, her gaze filled with disbelief.

She had actually transmigrated!!!

No matter what, she never would have expected that she had only come down with a high fever from the flu, yet after sleeping and waking up, she had transmigrated into an ancient ABO novel. The setting of this world was that there were only women, but they were still divided by ABO.

In the novel, Alpha = Qianyuan, Omega = Kunze, and Beta = Heyuan.

Qianyuan could pair with Kunze or Heyuan, and both could give birth to children. But if Heyuan paired with Heyuan, they needed sacred water in order to have children.

She had transmigrated into the body of someone with the exact same name as her: Yun Chenghuai, the Ninth Imperial Daughter of Southern Qin, Prince Chuxiang. In the story, she was the vicious female supporting character, a cannon fodder destined to die, and the stepping stone for the female lead.

The original owner was a legitimate imperial daughter of Southern Qin. Her status was certainly noble enough, but unfortunately, that could not withstand just how good the original owner was at courting disaster.

The current Crown Princess was gravely ill and could pass away at any moment. Under such circumstances, all the imperial daughters had begun to harbor thoughts of seizing the throne. As a legitimate imperial daughter, the original owner was naturally a popular candidate.

Moreover, the original owner believed that if the Crown Princess passed away, she would be the only person qualified to become the new Crown Princess. Who would have thought that the Emperor would grant her a marriage to a merchant’s daughter?

This meant that the original owner had been removed from the line of succession.

For an ambitious imperial daughter to lose her qualifications as an heir was an enormous blow to the original owner.

The original owner did not dare vent her dissatisfaction on the Emperor, so she blamed all of this on the female lead, Shen Liunian. The two had been married for less than half a year, yet tormenting, beating, and scolding her had become common. In the dead of winter, she even punished the female lead by making her kneel in the courtyard.

Even when the female lead became pregnant, all she received was the original owner’s even harsher abuse.

Left with no choice, the female lead joined forces with the Crown Princess of Northern Qi and fled Southern Qin. This caused the owner of the Eighteen Mines, who was also the female lead’s mother, to completely side with Northern Qi.

Because of this, the original owner was placed under house arrest for ten years. Many years later, when she finally saw daylight again, the first person she saw was Shen Liunian dressed in armor.

Shen Liunian did not pay any attention to the original owner at all. She merely ordered that the original owner was not to be given food or water. Within a few days, the original owner starved to death in the prince’s manor.

Thinking of the original owner’s ending, Yun Chenghuai could not help hugging her frail self.

Now that she had transmigrated into the book and replaced the vicious female supporting character in the novel, everything the original owner had done would naturally be counted against her.

In that case, the original owner’s ending would become her ending.

After combining it with the original owner’s memories, Yun Chenghuai quickly sorted out the situation.

If she did not want to lose her freedom, and if she did not want to starve to death in the prince’s manor, then she had to change the female lead’s impression of the original owner—and even everyone else’s impression of the original owner.

Relying on her noble bloodline, the original owner looked down on everyone. She had always been disrespectful toward the current Empress and court officials, and she was self-righteous and narrow-minded.

When it came to the female lead, she had taken all her own flaws and carried them to the extreme, hurting the other woman without the slightest restraint.

Right. She remembered from the original owner’s memories that right now, the female lead, Shen Liunian, was still kneeling outside.

On such a cold day, even with charcoal burning in the original owner’s room, there was still a faint chill. Outside, it was all ice and snow. It was nowhere near as warm as the room. Kneeling out there could kill a person.

If she remembered correctly, it was because of this punishment that the female lead was found to be pregnant, and because of it, her body also developed a lingering hidden illness.

Thinking of this, Yun Chenghuai could not help despising the original owner. What a useless idiot. She had actually taken her own stupidity out on the female lead.

But when she thought about how she had become this vicious waste of space, she could not help gritting her teeth.

She had no time to think too much. The female lead was still kneeling outside.

Putting everything else aside, she simply could not stand by and watch a pregnant woman kneel in the ice and snow.

When she had read this part in the novel, she had felt so distressed for the female lead’s suffering.

Yun Chenghuai had no time to fully sort out her current circumstances. She grabbed the thick cloak beside her, wrapped it around herself, and walked out.

“Your Highness?”

Hearing the movement, the maid who had been waiting in the outer room hurriedly called out, but Yun Chenghuai had already pushed open the door and stepped outside.

The guards on duty outside did not understand what was happening and immediately followed behind her.

The moment she pushed open the door, a gust of cold wind swept in, burrowing into her cloak and making Yun Chenghuai shiver.

Compared to the warmth inside the room, the outside was practically an icehouse.

The servants in the manor had just swept away the accumulated snow. The bluestone floor was wet and slick, giving off waves of cold air.

It was currently the hour of the Ox, the coldest period of the night. Lanterns stood every few steps, lighting up the prince’s manor, yet they could not warm a human heart.

On such a freezing night, Yun Chenghuai could barely stand it the moment she stepped out the door, let alone the female lead, who had been kneeling outside the whole time.

With every step she took, Yun Chenghuai’s heart sank a little more. She could not help quickening her pace.

For every minute she arrived late, Shen Liunian would freeze for another minute.

The prince’s manor was too large. Fortunately, the place where Shen Liunian was kneeling was not too far. In less than three minutes, Yun Chenghuai saw the figure kneeling in the snow.

The young woman wore only a thin white robe as she knelt in the pavilion. Her thin body swayed unsteadily in the cold wind.

As Yun Chenghuai approached step by step, she saw the young woman’s appearance clearly.

So this was the female lead in the novel? She was indeed just as described in the story: cold, noble, with the ethereal bearing of an immortal. Her skin was as white as snow, almost blending into the snowy ground. Her pure and beautiful side profile was stunning enough to amaze all living beings.

Yet Shen Liunian’s clear eyes carried a faint trace of melancholy, enough to make one’s heart ache.

Yun Chenghuai was stunned by Shen Liunian’s breathtaking beauty. Just as she was about to step forward, she saw the other woman lift her eyes and look at her, undisguised disgust in her gaze.

Their gazes collided in the air. The heartache in Yun Chenghuai’s eyes made Shen Liunian fall into a moment of confusion.

In the next second, Shen Liunian fainted onto the ground, like a cold and noble lotus from an icy pond that had been snapped from its stem and fallen into the water.

Yun Chenghuai quickly walked to Shen Liunian’s side, immediately undid the cloak around herself, and draped it over the other woman. Then she scooped her up in a bridal carry and headed back toward her own room.

In the original owner’s memories, the room Shen Liunian, this princess consort, lived in was not even as good as the servants’ quarters in the manor, let alone supplied with charcoal fire.

She decided to carry her back to her own room. At the very least, it was warm inside.

Shen Liunian’s body was ice-cold, like a snowman. Even while holding her, Yun Chenghuai could feel a bone-piercing chill.

Yun Chenghuai had given her cloak to Shen Liunian, leaving only a single layer of clothing on herself. Her warm body was exposed to the cold wind, and the agonizing chill invaded her. She endured the cold and strode forward.

She walked very quickly, but her steps were steady. She only wanted to return to the room as soon as possible and warm up.

“Your Highness, Shen Liunian?”

The moment she returned to the room, the maid came forward to greet her. When she saw Shen Liunian, especially when she saw Yun Chenghuai holding her, an expression as if she had seen a ghost appeared on her face.

And from the maid’s mouth, she actually called Shen Liunian by her full name.

That would have been normal in modern times, but in ancient times, it was a subordinate offending her superior.

It was clear that even in the hearts of the servants, Shen Liunian had never truly been treated as the princess consort.

Yun Chenghuai knew that the servants were merely acting according to the original owner’s attitude. If the original owner had shown even the slightest regard for the female lead, the female lead would not have suffered such treatment.

In the novel, before the female lead married out, she had also been raised in pampered luxury at home.

Otherwise, in this era where everyone married early, Shen Liunian would not have delayed until she was twenty before marrying the original owner.

After all, in ancient times, twenty was already considered old for an unmarried woman.

Someone who had been raised with such pampering had suffered such vicious treatment in Southern Qin. How could she not hate them?

Yun Chenghuai carefully placed Shen Liunian on the bed and reached out to cover her with the quilt. Only then did she lower her eyes and look at the stunning young woman lying on the bed.

Shen Liunian’s face was extremely pale, her brows tightly knitted. The moment she lay on the bed, she could not help curling into a ball, drawing warmth from beneath the covers.

“You. Have someone prepare some medicinal soup to dispel the cold, then invite the resident physician over.”

For a moment, Yun Chenghuai could not recall the maid’s name, so she simply gave the order.

As the master of the prince’s manor, she had absolute authority in the estate. No one dared question her words. That also saved her from having to explain anything.

Besides, if she remembered correctly, in the novel, it was precisely because of this punishment that the female lead’s pregnancy was discovered.

A pregnant woman had to be treated with caution no matter the circumstances. Moreover, the female lead had knelt in the snow for so long. Yun Chenghuai would only feel at ease after a physician examined her.

The prince’s manor had its own resident physician, assigned to the various princely manors by the Imperial Medical Bureau. Her medical skills were among the best of all physicians of the era.

The resident physician of Prince Chuxiang’s manor appeared to be in her early thirties. Upon entering the room, she hurriedly bowed to Yun Chenghuai.

“Your Highness.”

“No need for ceremony. Examine the princess consort first.”

The only good thing the original owner had done was leave her these memories, allowing her not to panic too much in this completely unfamiliar environment.

The resident physician knelt beside the bed, took the embroidered handkerchief handed to her by the maid, and placed it over Shen Liunian’s wrist. After a long while, she rose and bowed.

“Congratulations, Your Highness. The princess consort is with child.”

The resident physician said this congratulations with exceptional unease. Everyone in the manor knew that Prince Chuxiang loathed the princess consort. For all anyone knew, the child in the princess consort’s belly might be implicated as well.

Offering congratulations might very well anger Her Highness. Of course, having offspring was a good thing, so not offering congratulations might also anger Her Highness.

The resident physician only felt that her life was truly too difficult.

Yun Chenghuai did not care what the resident physician was thinking. Her entire mind was filled with only one sentence.

Shen Liunian really was pregnant.

And in the novel, three days after Shen Liunian was found to be pregnant, she fled the prince’s manor and took a long, winding journey before finally reaching Northern Qi.

In other words, if Yun Chenghuai could not stop the female lead from leaving the prince’s manor within three days, then she would still lose her freedom and face the risk of being placed under house arrest for ten years.

And in the future, she would end up being starved to death alive.