Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Cramming Empresses in the Palace – Watch Me Win Palace Intrigue

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): [A photo of steaming instant noodles]

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “So good, holy crap- this is way too delicious!”

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “Do you even know that when someone else is starving, chewing quietly is a kind of politeness?”

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “[eye roll] Like you didn’t tempt me with food before?”

Su Qian could tell.

Jiang Xiao Yu was doing it on purpose, teasing them on purpose, clearly farming hatred.

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “I miss Earth’s food so much!!! Fried chicken, milk tea, hotpot, donuts! Master makes me eat fasting pills every day. I’ve almost forgotten what good food tastes like.”

Su Qian read the group chat, then glanced at the full table in front of her- fried chicken, milk tea, donuts…

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “[Image] What a coincidence. I’m eating right now.”

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “[jealous crying] Sister Qian Qian, you’re too much! You’re doing this on purpose to tease people. I want to eat it too.”

Seeing her reaction, Su Qian couldn’t help laughing.

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “List what you need. I’ll send it over for you.”

As soon as she said it, the Chat Group exploded.

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “Qian Qian girl, can you send me sanitary pads? I don’t want to use this stupid menstrual cloth for even one more day. It leaks on the side every day!!!”

Menstrual cloth…

What a strange term. Su Qian couldn’t imagine how uncomfortable it must be to use that during her period.

Sure enough, transmigrating wasn’t as beautiful as people imagined.

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “No problem.”

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “Sister Qian Qian, I want a lot of things. I’ll write them down and send you the list.”

Su Qian didn’t rush. To her, it was just a small favor.

Very soon, Xia Meng Meng sent several lists.

Su Qian opened them. The lists were written in crooked brush characters:

Chips, instant noodles, beef jerky, chocolate, biscuits, spicy strips, cola, fried chicken, milk tea, hotpot base, donuts…

What a greedy little glutton!

Aside from two boxes of daily necessities,

everything else was snacks, snacks, and more snacks.

Su Qian looked at this “foodie wish list” and couldn’t help laughing out loud.

She could practically picture Xia Meng Meng drooling while writing down each food.

At this rate, she really would be moving the whole supermarket home.

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “[big blinking eyes] Sister Qian Qian, sorry to trouble you!”

From Xia Meng Meng’s tone and that “foodie wish list,” Su Qian could tell Xia Meng Meng was probably not very old.

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “Why be polite? Girls help girls.”

Not long after, Lin Yue also sent a list.

“All kinds of snacks (I’m not picky), hotpot base, barbecue seasoning, sanitary pads, phone, power bank, solar lamp, playing cards, mahjong??!”

Su Qian stared at the increasingly outrageous list, genuinely shocked.

She didn’t expect Lin Yue’s needs to be so unique.

Sanitary pads made sense. After all, in ancient times, menstrual cloth really wasn’t convenient.

But playing cards and mahjong- what was that?

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “Stuck in the prince’s manor every day, I’m so bored I’m about to grow mushrooms. Qian Qian girl, help me download some little mobile games on the phone too. Oh, and Empresses in the Palace. Three wives and four concubines- watch me fight her to the death!”

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “Am I the miserable one here? Damn it- I get chased by zombies every day.”

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “sympathy.gif.”

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “sympathy.gif.”

Su Qian’s mouth twitched, but she still sent a “sympathy” sticker too.

Honestly, in this group of transmigrators, Jiang Xiao Yu had it the worst.

Lin Yue was a substitute-marriage Princess Consort, with food and clothes provided.

She lived in Ancient Household Intrigue, but at least she wasn’t in immediate danger.

Xia Meng Meng might be Cultivation Cannon Fodder, but she lacked nothing and could cultivate fasting.

But Jiang Xiao Yu in Apocalypse

couldn’t eat her fill, couldn’t stay warm, and had endless zombies to kill.

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “I’m in confinement copying punishment lines. When I get out, I’ll ask my master for spiritual pills and spiritual herbs and send them to you. I wanted to send you cultivation manuals, but Earth has no spiritual energy. Even with the manuals, it’d just be a pile of useless paper.”

Su Qian’s eyes widened.

Spiritual pills and spiritual herbs were things you only saw in novels and dramas.

She never thought she’d have a chance to get treasures from the cultivation realm.

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “No rush, no rush. Go coax your master first. Let’s get out of confinement before anything else.”

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “[excited face] My master is really handsome. Sister Qian Qian, want me to introduce you? Go flirt with him hard! @Su Qian (Modern Metropolis)”

“Cough, cough…”

Su Qian nearly choked on her milk tea.

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “Da Wa Zi, you really don’t have to.”

She’d heard of online dating, but cross-plane online dating was a first.

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “Save him for yourself. Immortal romance, master-disciple tragic love- how nice.”

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “[sigh] Master-disciple romance isn’t allowed anywhere. I don’t want to become Hua Qian Gu.”

Xia Meng Meng still refused to give up and @ Su Qian again: “Sister Qian Qian, seriously, you won’t consider it? My master is super handsome.”

Su Qian smiled helplessly.

She rejected Xia Meng Meng’s attempt to set her up yet again.

[Ding! You received a red packet from an ancient transmigrator (one porcelain piece, one jade bangle, one tea set).]

Su Qian froze. She waited a long time, but no prompt appeared asking whether to convert it to modern currency.

Then-

an exquisite porcelain piece appeared on the table. The porcelain was fine, the glaze warm, and the patterns vivid and lifelike.

Beside it, a jade bangle gleamed a rich green, crystal-clear and flawless.

There was also a tea set, simple and elegant, with exquisite workmanship.

One look and you could tell it was worth serious old money.

It seemed that aside from gold, other items couldn’t be directly converted into RMB.

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “That stingy prince didn’t give me anything valuable. Just these things. I don’t even know what they’d be worth in modern times. Qian Qian girl, take them and get them appraised. It’s a fictional era, so I don’t know if they’re even valuable.”

Su Qian received Lin Yue’s private message.

Her eyes stayed on the table, bright with excitement. “These are antiques!”

As for exactly how much they were worth, Su Qian didn’t dare promise. She wasn’t a professional in the antique world.

But she was sure they weren’t cheap.

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “No problem. Don’t worry.”

Then, as if she thought of something, Su Qian sent Lin Yue another message:

“On Earth, is there anyone or anything you’re worried about? I can help look after it for you.”