[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-investing-in-the-reborn-empress-she-actually-cal":3,"chapter-investing-in-the-reborn-empress-she-actually-cal-investing-in-the-reborn-empress-she-actually-cal-chapter-474":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Investing in the Reborn Empress, She Actually Calls Me ‘Husband’",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},596597,846,"Chapter 474","investing-in-the-reborn-empress-she-actually-cal-chapter-474",474,"\u003Cp>The night was cool as water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sleepless Fairy of Frost, Ying Bing, silently stared at the images before her—all extracted from the mind of a certain \"gentleman.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had played several times already, with no repeats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door to a new world, once slightly ajar, had now opened wider, as if waiting for the ice-cold beauty to step through at any moment...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Punishment for the defeated is being drawn...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Congratulations, Host. The selected punishment is: Being marked with forty-nine \"strawberries\" by the victor.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"......\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Bing clutched her skirt. The images she had just pushed away returned vividly to her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that childish fool only knew how to eat ice, not how to plant \"strawberries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would have to teach him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hand in hand?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I could change it...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Bing pursed her lips, murmuring to herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hello, you always can.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why didn’t you say so earlier?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Host often complains about this system being talkative. Hence, unless asked, this system remains silent. Would you like to draw another punishment and then choose between them?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Second punishment draw in progress...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Congratulations, Host. The new punishment is: Say two words to the victor.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two words?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Bing froze. She had never seen such a simple punishment from the system before. But knowing its usual antics, she immediately suspected a trap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still... two words were limited. How much trouble could they cause?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the text that appeared next left her stunned. The ethereal, ice-cold fairy momentarily looked dazed—an expression unimaginable for someone like her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Husband.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood still, as if her soul had left her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Host, please choose between Punishment One and Punishment Two.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Bing said nothing—or rather, she didn’t even notice the system’s prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reminder: Make a choice, or the system will randomly select for you.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\".....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Countdown: Ten, nine, eight...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Three... two... one!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system has automatically selected the punishment for the Host...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh? What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ying Bing snapped back to reality, she realized the system had already chosen for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[This system suspects the Host was torn between both options, hence the prolonged hesitation.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Thus, as an exception, both punishments will be fulfilled at once!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Next punishment updated: After the victor plants forty-nine \"strawberries,\" call him \"husband.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"??\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, in the quarters of the fourth-ranked genius of Hidden Dragons...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wonder if that ice block is asleep yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Li tossed and turned on his luxurious feather-woven bed, unable to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His skin itched, as if bitten by mosquitoes—but hadn’t he just been the mosquito earlier? What kind of mosquito dared to bite its own kind?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it some high-tier calamity beast? A \"Mad Mosquito Diary\" situation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Li Mo writhed in bed like a worm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the ever-welcome system notification chimed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Congratulations, Host. Successful investment in 'Xie Xuan,' helping him break free from emotional shackles and rediscover himself.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Investment reward: Secret Silver Tome Seal.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"??\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Mo’s eyes widened slightly as he scratched his chin, staring at the system prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had gone to great lengths to arrange a private meeting between Xie Xuan and Hua Nongying, only to backfire spectacularly. He’d assumed the investment failed.Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by novel⦿fire.net\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet somehow, it had triggered Xie Xuan’s awakening!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sometimes, the universe rewards unintended efforts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Mo took out the Secret Silver Tome Seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, the \"Muscle-Tendon Change Classic\" had already ascended to a peerless martial art. Further refinement would elevate it to a divine technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snap—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noble, enigmatic silver script flowed like rivers into the manual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What will it evolve into?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Mo watched as the text shimmered and shifted, curiosity bubbling within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the martial arts novels of his past life, the \"Muscle-Tendon Change Classic\" often appeared as a divine technique of Shaolin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d loved those stories since childhood, especially the wuxia tales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a boy, he’d even believed them real, searching for these legendary techniques—only to find conflicting accounts. Some claimed it was created by a Daoist monk, a technique of Daoist origin; others said it was passed down by the Ancestral Master Bodhi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what would it become now? He truly couldn’t guess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the glow stilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the divine technique manifested, dark clouds blotted the sky, and a gale howled as if the heavens and earth mourned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just the Cloud-Stepping Pavilion—the entire outer city was thrown into chaos by the surging winds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside, before the \"Rivers and Mountains Scroll,\" several figures materialized as if from thin air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The speaker was a purple-robed elder—the emperor’s uncle, a Sage who wielded the Heavenly Tribulation Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him stood a goat-bearded scholar in Confucian robes, clutching a scroll as if interrupted mid-reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third was a man clad in a mysterious golden mask, his aura thick with killing intent. His piercing gaze was unbearable to meet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scholar was Dean Qi, mentor to countless disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The masked man was the Grand Commander of the Sky Patrol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together, they represented the three dominant powers of the imperial capital: the officials, the nobility, and the Sky Patrol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dean Qi, the Rivers and Mountains Scroll has never stirred like this before. With your vast knowledge, any insights?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice behind the golden mask carried a metallic rasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumors said only the emperor had seen the Grand Commander’s true face. His might was peerless—he had once suppressed a Sage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It resembles the birth of a divine artifact... or perhaps an unparalleled technique. Its creator is within the capital.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dean Qi seemed intrigued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine artifacts? The capital was no ancient ruin. Any such treasures would have surfaced long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had to be the latter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The capital teems with experts and prodigies. Innovations emerge daily—this shouldn’t warrant such a reaction...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just... what kind of technique is this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Purple-robed Noble Elder stared at the churning celestial artifact, deep in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Sages, they had each mastered a Great Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even divine techniques shouldn’t concern them so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when one of the Great Yu’s two celestial artifacts stirred, the stakes changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can we locate it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve no skill in divination. That’s the forte of the old crone from the Yantian Sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I shall seek the emperor’s guidance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The masked man’s voice resonated once more:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shall we use the Rivers and Mountains Scroll to trace this technique... and its creator?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1053,"2026-05-30T17:19:00.270Z","2026-06-01T04:31:46.286Z",1,"novelbin.me","95968a180f91830314691c58f2c08e6cf883a7988bb1f5131b188b0c05ac3b9a","investing-in-the-reborn-empress-she-actually-cal-chapter-475","investing-in-the-reborn-empress-she-actually-cal-chapter-473",737,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Finvesting-in-the-reborn-empress-she-actually-cal-cover.jpg"]