Transmigration? A scheming fifth sister? A weak and a coward eldest daughter? Cultivation, power, and imperial family? Oh come on, she only have a quarter of Chinese blood so why the hell she was in a Chinese novel-like era?
Never mind, she'll just...
The Capital was all busy for the Emperor's Birthday Banquet, especially the rich and officials just to acquire dresses.
The busiest around the Capital was the ZUG Clothing Boutique and ZUG Jewellery Shop in terms of clothing, then the ZUG Restaurant for the catering.
It was the initial gift of the Prime Minister to the Emperor since he has a connection to the so-called owner of the ZUG Company. The ZUG Restaurant that day was all busy, especially since it was a big banquet for them.
They did not accept any reservations on the day of the Emperor's Birthday since they would all cook for the food at that banquet.
Zexel used a special method so that if someone deliberately wanted to poison someone using their food and drinks, it could detoxify immediately no matter what kind of poison it was.
She knew this kind of method since she was used to these kinds of tricks when she was in the modern world.
The owner behind the ZUG Company had become the richest person in the whole Da Continent. Even people outside the Pingjing Country were visiting this restaurant just to acquire food, that’s why Zexel managed to open 15 branches of each of the stores she had.
The Emperors were all satisfied with them since they gave tributes to them each month.
The Ninth Grade Pingjing Country leveled up a week ago to a Seventh Grade Country because of Zexel’s store. Not only the store itself but the inventions that came from this country.
The project of Zexel to have water pipes and create dams was now in her hands. They just needed to pay her so that no one needed to manually use water wells to get water.
Not only in terms of technology—Zexel also produced a lot of Weather Panel machines that could be used for agriculture.
She also made a car and motorbikes, but they were only for her use, and everyone knew that only she had this kind of transportation.
But Zexel did create an automatic Car Mobile for everyone to purchase so that no one would be too jealous of her transportation.
In just two years, she managed to slowly turn this ancient era into her era.
But until now, no one knew who the genius person named Zexel Uenna Giovanni was. No one even knew her gender, and she always wore hoods and anything that could hide her identity.
Even her name did not give them a hint about her gender because her name was new to their ears.
If someone heard the name Zexel, everyone already knew how great she was—but none of them knew her appearance.
She had a lot of power in her hands, but the Emperor was not paranoid since it looked like Zexel did not support any of the princes.
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In the middle of the banquet, the traditional performance of the females began.
Fan Qinyou was the first one who wanted to perform. She wanted to volunteer to be the first, then she would challenge Zexel to a fight.
Every year, they needed to perform in front of the Emperor, and then the first one to perform needed to challenge another one. The Emperor, Dowager Empress, and the Empress would decide who would win.
After the first round, all the winners would practically repeat the process until only one was left.
Then the person who won would receive great rewards.
Last year, the winner was Fan Qinyou—not because she was more talented than Zexel, but because Zexel was naturally too lazy to go to the banquet that time. She pretended to be ill three days before the banquet, then continued to pretend to be ill two days after the banquet. No one suspected her since she used her special method with it.
Naturally, Fan Yaoli was not invited and Zexel was bedridden, so Fan Qinyou and the rest of the missus were the only ones who attended it.
Every lady in the Capital was required to attend the banquet, so when Zexel pretended to be ill, an Eunuch[1] came to check on her.
Everything went smoothly for Zexel that time, so the Eunuch naturally allowed her not to attend.
But now, she forced herself to come since her big sister was also invited this year.
She was worried that something would happen to her sister, so she was too alert to this kind of situation. She wasn’t even afraid if someone would poison her since the food itself had special ingredients that would dissolve the poison.
However, her fifth sister, who was her so-called competitor—not even worthy of catching her eyes—was now ruining her focus.
Fan Qinyou played a Guqin with the hardest piece in the whole Pingjing Country.
Every note was not only high but had many transitions. The piece also required strength for plucking the strings and speed for the tone.
Fan Qinyou naturally did it perfectly, which made everyone flatter her and praise her, saying she was really good after she played it.
Fan Qinyou practiced for an entire two months for this competition. That’s the reason why she was able to play such difficult pieces. Not only that talent, but she practiced more than ten talents just in case she needed to compete in another round.
She mocked Zexel, who lazily walked to the center. Fan Qinyou believed that Zexel was only second to her in every aspect—even in cultivation right now.
She was now at the Intermediate Intermediary Spiritualist. And in her mind, Zexel was only in Low Intermediary Spiritualist. But the truth was, Zexel was already at the Low Earthly Spiritualist.
It’s just that Zexel had been low-key ever since she knew that her cultivation was really advancing too fast.
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1:Eunuch - a man who has been castrated, especially (in the past) one employed to guard the women's living areas at an oriental court.
