54 Shrewd Monarch (1/2)

The Devil Snare Amry had made its camp fifty kilometres away from the Imperial Capital. No garrison could come within fifty kilometres of the Imperial Capital without His Majesty's personal edict read by the Head Eunuch.

This was an ironclad rule of the army.

A few days later, after accepting the edict, Unit Commander Ning Fu entered the city along with a few high-ranking and middle-ranking generals and was currently, standing outside The Heavenly Hall to await his turn to pay homage to the new ruler under the heavens.

Ning Fu could discern that most of the old wily foxes inside were waiting for the axe to fall on his head. However, he had a faint premonition that everything was about to turn on its head and when the dust settled, none knew which way the coin would land.

The other generals were worried over the question as to whether they would be able to keep their heads and body intact for the foreseeable future.

Meanwhile, inside The Heavenly Hall, Su Li sat and listened to all the ministers with a distracted mind. She would nod slightly if a question was sent in her direction. She was in a trance.

She recalled her conversation with the system a few days ago.

This time she didn't receive the plotline from the system.

No, no.

That would have been too easy and how could the system allow it's host to be at ease? Right?

Su Li understood less and less of what the system wanted her to achieve.

She was given to understand that the Late Emperor had killed all the mamas and eunuchs present at the time of her childbirth and hadn't allowed anyone to come in close contact with her afterwards.

Ergo, she wasn't in the danger of someone exposing her identity. She just had to be careful not to slip that fact to anyone from here on out.

At least, that took care of her gender identity problem which was quite a relief.

The problem was the later part of the conversation.

It was peculiar and unfathomable.

Su Li had begged and pleaded, ”What is the original plotline? Send it to me.”

System : [Host doesn't need to know the original timeline of this world. The host should just concentrate on completing their task.]

She had been irked by that laissez-faire response until she had realised that the system had never said that she would be given the relevant original plotline in every world.

It had just been her own assumption.

Su Li had acknowledged her lapse in judgment and inquired about her task.

Atleast, she had a right to know that, didn't she?

The indeterminate voice had requested - more like ordered - that she had to focus at both the primary and secondary tasks this time.

She was further informed that she would be told about the primary task at a later date but the secondary task was for her to determine appropriate guardians for a person called Zhou Shen.

The system had also given her the constraints for the secondary task :

No one could know that she was providing any kind of assistance to Zhou Shen.

Su Li felt her head throb thinking about it all, even now.

Nobody could understand her pain.

No one could understand her plight.

She wasn't being dramatic here, she really was in a quandary.

See, she had no clue about the original plot.

Furthermore, the only memories she received from the original soul of this body, were that of being ridiculed by the royals of the place where the original version had been taken to in her childhood, which wasn't going to be of great help to Su Li.

Also, Su Li had no idea of what was the primary task she had to accomplish here.

To add a cherry to the cake, she had to be a certified baby sitter for a person she had no freaking clue about.

The insensitive system hadn't given her any further information, which was enough cause for her to throw a fit.

Now, one would question that with so many unknowns, was there even something that she knew and she could answer with a clear conscious that she knew a few things.

However, the information she did have,wasn't going to make the said person feel any better for her situation.

Why?

To answer that question, Su Li enumerates the information that was available to her :

She was impersonating a monarch with all the wrong physical bits required to take on the job.

Her mother, The Empress Dowager couldn't wait to pimp her out to as many girls as she could hold wink in order to help her child spread their branches and leaves. Again, Su Li would like to stress and reiterate the point that she didn't have the essential physicals bits for that.