Chapter 1: My Father Is About to Be Exiled!

Cining Palace.

Today is the Hundred Flowers Banquet, and officials of the fourth rank and above, along with their families, are all permitted to attend. Yan Ning arrived early; since the banquet has yet to begin, she came to keep the Empress Dowager company first.

Yan Ning lay comfortably on a soft couch, a dainty-looking palace maid behind her gently kneading her shoulders, while another palace servant stood to the side peeling grapes for her to eat.

Yan Ning drifted off to sleep in a daze just like that.

She felt that her luck was good enough to be considered the ceiling of transmigration.

Her father transmigrated into the First Prince, who had been enfeoffed as the Prince of Jin years ago, an idle prince. Her mother also transmigrated here and is the Princess of Jin.

The Daxia Dynasty is prosperous and flourishing; if there were no mishaps, their whole family could live comfortably in this ancient era for a lifetime. Isn't this better than her parents in their previous life, who worked hard for a lifetime and couldn't afford a single apartment in the capital?

Who would have thought that the mishap would come so suddenly.

Yan Ning had a long dream.

In the dream, Yan Ning learned that the world they transmigrated into is a book, and her family are the cannon fodder First Prince whom the male and female leads stepped on to rise to power.

At first, their family was favored, and many court officials demanded the deposition of the Crown Prince so that the First Prince could become the heir apparent.

But later, the civil and military officials gradually discovered that the "good-for-nothing" Crown Prince in their eyes always seemed able to offer key suggestions at critical moments, and his subordinates were always able to bring back supplies that Daxia lacked.

There were even many capable and talented people who came to follow the good-for-nothing Crown Prince in their eyes, inventing many magical things that allowed Daxia to stand tall for a thousand years.

As for Yan Ning and her family, they were the miserable cannon fodder.

The book only wrote that after the Prince of Jin got drunk at the Hundred Flowers Banquet, he actually stole a Dragon Robe to wear, was caught by the Crown Prince's men, and the old Emperor immediately confiscated the Jin Wang Fu, with the whole family demoted to commoners and exiled.

And from then on, the Crown Prince obtained a spatial Golden Finger, capable of storing a massive amount of supplies. In the subsequent wars and famines, they never had to worry about the issue of grain reserves, and occasionally he would rely on this Golden Finger to sweep clean the homes of corrupt officials to replenish the national treasury.

Not only that, this Golden Finger also has a Trading System; things like supplies scarce in Daxia, such as high-yield Corn, Sweet Potato, and Potato, as well as high-yield Rice and Barley Seed, could all be exchanged for, and in the later stages, even Cannon and firearms could be exchanged.

Yan Ning complained in her heart, with such an heaven-defying Golden Finger, let alone a good-for-nothing Crown Prince, even a pig could defy the heavens if it got this Golden Finger.

The next moment, the scene in Yan Ning's dream shifted to the bitter cold land of the Northeast, where her father fell critically ill in the first year and passed away in agony.

In order to let Yan Ning survive, her mother had to submit herself to an old and greasy Centurion, and was eventually beaten to death with clubs.

And she, having lost the protection of her father and mother, a twelve-year-old little girl, had no ability to protect herself at all, especially when she had such a beautiful face.

That face was like a death warrant, coveted by others, and she was sent into the camp tent of the Zhenbei General.

Before Yan Ning's consciousness faded, she saw the Crown Prince's daughter, Linyang Princess, standing not far outside the camp tent, looking at her with a face full of resentment.

The scene came to an abrupt end, and Yan Ning woke up with a start, by which time she was already covered in cold sweat.

The palace maid at her side looked worried and hurried to find an Imperial Physician.

Yan Ning waved her hand: "Don't go, I'm fine. Where is my mother?"

She quickly calmed down.

The dream just now will likely be what happens in the future.

Her father is about to be framed into wearing a Dragon Robe at the Hundred Flowers Banquet, followed by exile.

That means it is today.

It's just that there is one thing Yan Ning cannot figure out no matter what.

Her father is the Prince of Jin, after all; even if demoted to a commoner, he is still a prince. Who would dare to be so excessive toward a prince's family?

It must be the Crown Prince's family playing tricks behind the scenes.

Linyang Princess has always been at odds with Yan Ning, jealous of Yan Ning's title and jealous of Yan Ning being favored by their grandfather, but Yan Ning only thought it was a child's jealousy, never expecting that Linyang Princess would be so vicious as to kill her family and even send her, at only 12 years old, into the Zhenbei General's camp tent.

Even if it was just a dream, seeing the Zhenbei General's lecherous gaze made Yan Ning feel nauseous; that Zhenbei General could be her grandfather.

Yan Ning noted this debt down.

She must hurry to find her mother to discuss a countermeasure.

Just as she was preparing to get up, she felt a swelling sensation in her mind; closing her eyes, she could actually see an antique-style key, inlaid with rubies, looking very magnificent.

Yan Ning subconsciously reached out to take it.

The moment her hand touched the key, it was as if the key was grasped by her, and then it vanished in an instant.

A mechanical voice sounded in Yan Ning's mind:

【System: Congratulations on binding to the Myriad Worlds Space.】

Yan Ning:!!!

Isn't this the Crown Prince's Golden Finger?!

It actually ran over to her!

Yan Ning calmly lay back on the soft couch and said to Cuiyun at her side: "Go and find my mother."

She closed her eyes and focused her mind, and her consciousness entered the space.

It was a very large warehouse, about two hundred square meters, only it was empty inside, with nothing at all.

Walking to the edge of the warehouse, she also saw several other doors.

The doors were locked, and the plaques were inscribed with: Warehouse No. 2, Warehouse No. 3, Warehouse No. 4, Sterile Warehouse, Cold Fresh Warehouse...

It is actually an upgradeable system!

She was just wondering, with a space of only two hundred square meters, how could the Crown Prince store so much grain reserve?

So it turns out it is a space that can be upgraded.

Yan Ning's heart raced, and she tentatively spoke to the system:

【Yan Ning: After binding to the space, will it unbind?】

【System: No, unless the host actively unbinds it.】

That put her mind at ease; no matter the reason, the system bound to her by mistake, so it is now her Golden Finger.

Yan Ning focused her attention, opened her eyes, and met a pair of worried eyes.

Yan Ning pretended to have a headache and held her forehead: "Mother, I read storybooks all night yesterday and am a bit sleepy."

The Princess of Jin had rushed over in a hurry, and seeing her daughter in discomfort, she became even more anxious.

Yan Ning winked at her, and the Princess of Jin dismissed everyone.

When only the mother and daughter were left in the side hall, the two spoke in unison:

"Ningning, our family is finished! Your father is about to be exiled!"

"Mother, our family is finished! My father is about to be exiled!"

The two of them had actually had the same dream.

Could their family really be finished?

Yan Ning and the Princess of Jin integrated the information they had learned.

The more they thought about it, the more wrong it felt; her father was born of the Empress and was the legitimate eldest son, yet the Emperor delayed naming a Crown Prince, and only six months after the Empress passed away, he named the Second Prince as Crown Prince.

Usually, the three of them lived idly in the Wangfu, and her father only wanted to be a carefree Prince, not caring who became Crown Prince.

The more the two thought about it, the more wrong it felt.

The Princess of Jin frowned: "Ningning, why do I feel that while your father seems favored on the surface, receiving constant rewards, in reality, that Gou Huangdi doesn't like him at all?"

Yan Ning's face darkened as she spoke a more cruel truth: "When our family met with disaster, the Gou Huangdi wasn't dead yet, but our end was so miserable... The Gou Huangdi must have agreed to it!"

Yan Ning gritted her teeth, "Killing someone is just a matter of a head hitting the ground; since we died so humiliatingly, just watch how I deal with them later."