Beauty Portraits: I Build a Harem in Another World

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"Your elder brother Qin Yu..." The old emperor shook his head slightly, "His mother was just an ordinary palace maid. Not only was her figure and appearance average, but her intelligence was also average. If I hadn't gotten drunk and grabbed the wrong person that time, she would never have been the one. And what surprised me the most was that she was able to get pregnant after just one time!"

"Uh……"

"Although Qin Yu also has my blood in him and has shown considerable talent since childhood, it's a pity that his mother's bloodline is so inferior, which limits his potential. So I never considered him from the very beginning." The old emperor was indeed very direct, and his words were quite cruel. "Moreover, after the Qin Yu incident, I was confined by your mother for a long time until she became pregnant with you and it was confirmed to be a boy. Only then was I finally released from confinement and able to pursue other concubines!"

"Then why don't you consider my second sister? She and I were both born to the Empress Dowager."

"She's a woman..." the old emperor laughed. "Women are born to be with men. Even if she becomes emperor, she can't escape this fate. If she becomes the emperor of our Great Qin Empire and later has a child with a man from another country, wouldn't our Qin family's empire be given to outsiders?"

I go!

But it has to be said that there is some truth to what was said, and Qin Feng was speechless.

"So although the rules passed down from our ancestors have never prohibited women from being the successor, this is just a smokescreen. Among the more than fifty generations of emperors in our Qin family, has there ever been a woman?"

"No..." Qin Feng answered honestly.

"Now you understand why I chose you?"

"I still don't understand. Since you chose me and knew everything, why did you let me be bullied by them before?"

"This is to protect you!"

"..."

Later, after the old emperor's explanation, Qin Feng finally understood the cause and effect of everything, and what his current position was. (The last sentence appears to be a nonsensical string of characters and doesn't translate directly.)

This made him somewhat helpless. He had said that he was a good socialist youth from the 21st century and hated dictatorship and rule. So even if he had transmigrated, he only wanted to be a quiet and handsome man, enjoying beautiful women and life. Why did you force him to become an emperor?

Hmm, being an emperor comes with many privileges? And he can hold a nationwide beauty pageant to choose his concubines?

They can even enjoy rights?

Damn it, why didn't you say so sooner!

Damn it, now anyone who dares to challenge me for the throne, I'll kill them!

……

Chapter 11: My Mom is Actually a Necromancer

Actually, there's nothing to it, since Qin Feng only has five siblings, so he doesn't really have any competitors.

Because the eldest son, Qin Yu, was born out of wedlock, and his mother was just an ordinary palace maid, although she was promoted to the rank of "Cairen" after giving birth to Qin Yu, this did not change her bloodline, nor did it change the fact that Qin Yu was born out of wedlock. Despite Qin Yu's hard work, the old emperor had no intention of passing the throne to a descendant with impure blood. According to him, bloodline determined Qin Yu's future potential...

So why does Qin Yu seem quite outstanding now?

That was, of course, because the old emperor did it on purpose. He needed someone to stand in front of Qin Feng as a shield, so in reality, Qin Yu hasn't obtained any truly useful resources yet.

Then there's the second princess, Qin Lan. As explained earlier, although a woman can become the crown princess, she will never become the emperor. So, by extension, the fifth princess, Qin Ling, is out of the running. They were directly excluded.

This also means that Qin Feng's only opponent is Qin Yuan, the fourth brother who was only a few days younger than him and whom he just beat up.

No, no, no, actually Qin Yuan was the first one to be eliminated!!

Because... this guy isn't the emperor's biological son at all!

This is the most dramatic part of the palace; you can easily become a father unexpectedly, and there are all sorts of conspiracies and schemes...

Simply put, the fact that the fourth prince, Qin Yuan, was a few days younger than the third prince, Qin Feng, was not a coincidence at all, but a carefully calculated scheme to seize the position of the third crown prince. After the emperor was "confined" by the empress, he had no chance to touch any of the other concubines. However, Consort Wang still managed to find an opportunity to secretly have sex with the emperor and then became pregnant with his child.

not at all.

In fact, Consort Wang spent the next few days with another man, doing it day and night, with the aim of creating a miracle.

Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes; the Empress happened to arrive a few days earlier than them…

So here's the question: since the emperor knew that Consort Wang had cheated on him and was even pregnant with his child, why did he keep her around, and even keep her around for so many years?

He even raised Qin Yuan, the fourth son, as his own son. Does he have some kind of psychological problem?

Okay, there's even more scheming involved here!

Because the man behind Consort Wang was none other than the old emperor's younger brother, and his own brother at that!

The old emperor was able to defeat a powerful enemy and ascend to the throne only because of the support of his younger brother and sister. Out of consideration for this relationship, he was unwilling to expose the truth and fall out with his brother on the spot, which would eventually lead to war. Besides, alerting the enemy would be a very irrational act.

So the emperor then spent more than two years plotting and then quietly killed his younger brother, who had ideas but was completely unprepared.

This is the royal family... Serving a king is like serving a tiger, and that's not just a saying!

Originally, the emperor intended to send Consort Wang and his fourth son, Qin Yuan, to accompany his younger brother, but unexpectedly, Consort Wang became pregnant with his fifth son, Qin Ling.

Qin Ling, the fifth sister, is his child!

So in the end, the old emperor simply let Consort Wang off the hook, and never mentioned the matter again... Although the fourth prince Qin Yuan was not his biological son, he was still his younger brother's child, so he might as well raise him and consider it a good deed!

But without a doubt, the succession to the throne has absolutely nothing to do with the fourth prince, Qin Yuan!

This is also why, despite Consort Wang's many years of stirring up trouble in the harem, she has never been able to shake the Empress's power in the slightest...

In short, the old emperor knew everything that was going on in the palace, so he wasn't afraid of her stirring up any trouble. But the most crucial question now was, did you really want to choose a good-for-nothing as emperor?

waste?

The old emperor scoffed, then looked Qin Feng up and down. "Looking at you now, you don't look like a piece of trash at all! Not only do you have the purest bloodline of my Qin family, but your mother is also the strongest human being in this world... How could you, the child of the two of us, be a piece of trash? The reason you acted that way before was simply because your mother placed a seal on you, but haven't you awakened it on your own now?"

What self-awakening? I'm clearly a legitimate transmigrator...

Wait?

Damn it, you guys deliberately sealed away your own son and let him be bullied and treated like trash?

Are there any parents like you in the world?

Is this son some kind of free gift with a phone plan?

why?

You said it was to protect me?

But Qin Feng truly didn't understand. As the Third Prince, what did he need to protect? Who could threaten him now? Who would dare to threaten him?

What? Just because my biological mother is a necromancer?

This is... can you guys be any more ridiculous?

This is real?

But how could that be? Every time I went to Yulin Palace to see my mother, she was so virtuous and dignified, so virtuous and majestic. Where was there even a trace of a necromancer in her? Shouldn't this profession be inherently dark and lewd?

What? The one in Yulin Palace was just a stand-in for the Empress Dowager?

Well, city folks really know how to have fun!

Where is the real Empress Dowager?

Hey, are you going to take me there now?

Then Qin Feng learned for the first time that Dekun Palace not only had a secret passage leading underground, but also an incredibly vast... underground world deep beneath the earth!! (Mei Youne is not thinking about it...)

However, what shocked Qin Feng even more than those magnificent and extravagant buildings was the people living here, because these people were all too familiar to him!

Aren't they all palace maids and guards from his Maple Forest Garden?

Moreover, many of them were people he thought had already been rotated out of the palace!

You all... live here?

Chapter 12: The Goddess Does Everything When There's Something to Do, and the Goddess Does Nothing Else

Qin Feng's mother is named Xia Lin.

But in fact, this was a new name she adopted after arriving in the Qin Empire, because her real name was Celine Kelvin.

That's right. Xia Lin was originally from the Western Continent, so Qin Lan and Qin Feng are actually mixed-race. That's why they have looks that make ordinary people envious and jealous. Especially Qin Feng, when he looked in the mirror for the first time, he was stunned by his own handsome face. How incredible is that?

Now the truth has finally come out: all his genes come from his incredibly awesome mother!

Not only is Charlene incredibly beautiful, but she also has an impressive background. She is the granddaughter of Kelvin Kelvin, the strongest necromancer among humans. She not only perfectly inherited the necromancer mantle flowing in her family's blood, but also broke through the human level barrier with her grandfather's help at the age of twenty, thus becoming the youngest top expert among humans!

But no one expected that this incident would cause a huge disaster, because necromancers are inherently incompatible with the human faith in light. In addition, the Church of Light was already dissatisfied with the existence of the Kelvin family because of Cowen's previous overbearing power. Now, a super expert has emerged, and at such a young age. This is unacceptable.

Thus began a conspiracy against the Kelvin family. The specifics will not be discussed here, but in the end, both the Church of Light and the Kelvin family suffered heavy losses.

However, the Kelvin family was ultimately outnumbered and powerless, unable to confront the Papacy, which ruled the entire Western Continent. In particular, this chaotic war, which the Papacy called the 'Holy War,' caused extremely terrible damage to the Western Continent, and it was feared that it would take decades to recover. This made the Kelvin family and necromancers universally reviled in the Western Continent.

Fortunately, Charlene managed to escape the siege of the Holy Knights' army of the Church of Light. Later, she was rescued by Qin Feng's father, Qin Ziming, who is now the emperor of the Great Qin Empire, and ultimately escaped a calamity.

Out of gratitude and for her future plans, Xia Lin eventually chose to marry Qin Ziming, becoming the Empress of the Qin Empire and bearing him a son and a daughter, Qin Lan and Qin Feng.

But when Qin Feng met his biological mother, Xia Lin was lying quietly in a crystal coffin. The marks of time seemed to have been completely frozen on her body, and she still looked the same as Qin Feng remembered from his childhood.

In the words of the old emperor, Charlene is not dead yet; she is merely waiting to be resurrected.

How to resurrect?

This brings us to the bloodline seal on Qin Feng's body. Before Qin Feng was born, Xia Lin had already inherited the necromancer mark condensed by her grandfather, Kelvin, the strongest person on the continent, with his life's essence. Therefore, she once became the strongest necromancer on the continent, and perhaps even the strongest human.

The problem is that Cowen's inherited power is far too strong, far exceeding that of normal people. Therefore, she, who inherited this power, will gradually change her gender because of it...

Charlene couldn't imagine what it would be like to become an androgynous lich, so she decided to stop the fusion. This was also the reason she 'placed' Qin Ziming at home. She needed a son to inherit everything from the Kelvin family!

So when Qin Feng was a little over two years old, Xia Lin used a bloodline seal to transfer all the power in her body, including the power she inherited from her grandfather, Kelvin, into Qin Feng.

The price she paid for doing this was that she would have to lie in this crystal coffin for the next few decades, waiting for the day when the power within her son would awaken and he could use that power to 'resurrect' her.

Do you understand now?

Why is it that this useless prince, Qin Feng, has never been able to learn anything well since he was a child?

Because this immense power originating from the First Undead Family permeated his entire bloodline, and because its presence severely delayed the Third Prince Qin Feng's brain development, how could he not appear to be a useless piece of trash? (The last part, "梅有呢在没我空梅没没想呢想…", appears to be a nonsensical string of characters and doesn't translate directly.)

Fortunately, once Qin Feng's body fully accepts the bloodline seal, and once he truly awakens, the Kelvin family's super necromancer will rise from the ashes like a phoenix!

But... wait, the Third Prince carries the bloodline of a super necromancer?

Does that mean Qin Feng will have to become a necromancer in the future? And spend all his time with skeletons and zombies? That's just too much!

Damn, is there a necromancer as handsome as me?

And even if I said I wanted to become a great demon king, I never said I wanted to be a necromancer who lives with inanimate objects!

Wait a minute, who said necromancers can only summon skeletons and zombies? Didn't they say that powerful necromancers can summon living things as well?

Luckily, I have a super artifact, the Beauty Picture, and a whole bunch of beauties who have been imprisoned for thousands or tens of thousands of years and are already itching to be liberated by me...

So I can totally become a goddess summoner in the future, isn't that cool?

Not cool?

Do you dare say another word?

I promise I won't let the goddesses come out and beat you to death!

When there's trouble, the goddess does it; when there's nothing to do, the goddess does it...

Just thinking about this kind of life is simply wonderful!

So, looking at his cheap emperor father, Qin Feng shamelessly shrugged, "Even if you rave about it, and even though I've awakened, I don't feel any difference. I know absolutely nothing about necromancers, and I don't feel any power or anything like that..."

"That's because..." The old emperor shrugged, then turned and walked to the bottom of the crystal coffin, opened a secret box, and took out a small black box, handing it to Qin Feng. "You haven't gotten this yet!"

"what is this?"

"Your mother's inherited memories..."

"!!!"

Chapter 13: The Importance of Having a Good Mother

Although he was mentally prepared, Qin Feng was still stunned the moment he opened the black box!

Because at that moment, a large number of memories suddenly flooded into his mind, and countless pieces of knowledge and even systems merged into his consciousness!

If it were a normal person, they would probably collapse under the sudden influx of so much information, but fortunately it was Qin Feng. He had already undergone a memory fusion before, and most importantly, he also possessed a super artifact, the Beauty Picture.

"Ding~ Congratulations, host, for releasing the bloodline seal of your original body and gaining super power. Your transmigration assistant is helping you absorb it... Your transmigration assistant is starting to level up automatically!"

'Ding~ Congratulations, host! Your Transmigration Assistant has successfully upgraded and now has many new features!'

"Ding~ Congratulations, host, you have obtained the power of fusion, which allows you to perfectly fuse different portraits of beauties!"