Chapter 13: Million-Dollar Beauty

After hesitating for a while, thinking of Cao Wenzhen's warning and the fact that Hua Yanqiu had little contact with the original owner, Lu Changjing decided to let her in.

"Xuan!"

Soon Hua Yanqiu walked in from outside, accompanied by two palace maids.

When Lu Changjing saw Hua Yanqiu, his eyes lit up.

She was wearing a crimson purple palace gown with plum blossom patterns, which looked elegant and majestic.

The purple silk middle garment was embroidered with jade-like flowers in golden thread, which extended from the hem of the skirt to the waist, adding a touch of charm.

She was wearing a gold-thread cloak embroidered with a phoenix, the cuffs and collar were trimmed with blue silk thread, and there were hollowed-out exquisite kingfisher grass-head insects inlaid with pearls and silver, which swayed gently as she walked.

The plain belt highlights her slim figure. Her three thousand strands of hair are tied into a bun, and she is decorated with a purple gold phoenix pearl crown and a gold bracelet inlaid with blue and white glazed beads, giving her a faint charm.

Her peach blossom eyes are full of brilliance as they move around, her skin looks fair and rosy with rouge, her lips are lightly smeared with light red lipstick, and her hair is decorated on both sides with colorful emerald flowers like fallen petals.

In the middle, she wore enameled hairpins with chrysanthemum patterns, which were bright yet elegant. She also wore gold-studded ruby ​​earrings, and armor inlaid with several pigeon blood rubies on her fingers. Her slender and misty, beautiful face was reflected in Lu Changjing's eyes.

According to palace rumors, the deceased old emperor married several concubines of the previous emperor. If he becomes powerful enough to completely replace Ning Zhongyu, I wonder if he can marry this extremely charming empress dowager...

I can’t think about it anymore. Now even my life is not my own, but I am still thinking about these things. I still haven’t changed my bad habits from my previous life.

"Your Majesty, how many girls of appropriate age have signed up since the news of the talent show spread?"

Hua Yanqiu smiled sweetly, obviously in a good mood.

Lu Changjing thought for a moment and said, "There should be tens of thousands of people, right?"

"Haha, Your Majesty underestimates his own charm." Hua Yanqiu covered his mouth and chuckled: "Don't even mention tens of thousands of people, there are a million beauties participating in the election, which is the highest number in our Daning Dynasty in the past hundred years."

Lu Changjing was also stunned: "So many?"

Isn’t Ning Zhongyu a monk emperor? How could he be so charming? So many beauties want to enter the palace and marry him. Aren’t they afraid of becoming widows like the concubines and beauties before them?

"I didn't expect so many people would sign up. It seems the emperor's charm is even greater than you thought."

Hua Yanqiu smiled and said, "But this is a good thing. By then, we will be able to select a group of the best beauties for the emperor and expand our royal family."

What else could Lu Changjing say but to agree happily.

In three years, as long as nothing unexpected happens, his physical fitness can be improved to more than a thousand times that of an ordinary person.

Coupled with the practice of martial arts, it can at least be increased by hundreds of times, or even more.

By then, he should be invincible in the Da Ning Dynasty and completely replace Ning Zhongyu's position.

After talking about the talent show for a while and asking Lu Changjing what type of showgirls he liked, Hua Yanqiu left the imperial study.

After Hua Yanqiu left, Lu Changjing suddenly felt a little embarrassed thinking about what he had just said.

Because he told Hua Yanqiu that he likes good-looking ones with good figures. As for the type, pure, charming, dignified, elegant... all are fine.

He is not picky, as long as the girl is good-looking and has a good figure.

After experiencing the love desert in his previous life, he couldn't even catch up with a fat girl around 30 points. You can imagine how good his taste is now. It's all tears to talk about it. It's all because of the reality of the previous life where there were more men than women. Otherwise, his requirements would not be so low.

However, any woman who can pass the numerous levels and enter the final few levels has an appearance score of no less than 96 points, and none of them has a bad figure.

Although it is said that he made a request, in fact, it is no different from not making a request. No wonder Hua Yanqiu looked strange when he left. He probably felt that the request of him, the emperor, was too low.

According to Hua Yanqiu, in the Daning Dynasty, any woman who was qualified to participate in the selection would have been a beauty with a score of at least 90 points in the previous life.

This is not one of the 90-point beauties that many people in previous lives created through beautification and makeup, but this level of beauty that she has achieved without makeup.

Even because this world has all kinds of natural treasures and martial arts training, many beauties' appearance, temperament, skin... far surpass the top stars in their previous lives.

According to the scoring system of the previous life, many beauties in this world would be over 100 points, and some would even be over 1,000 points.

For example, Rong Xiyao, Tang Qingyi, Lin Yixin... In the previous life, they would all be peerless beauties with a score of over a thousand.

Confirm again that the full score is not 1,000, but 100.

If this were not the case, with Lu Changjing's experience in watching short videos, he wouldn't always lose his composure.

To put it bluntly, even those so-called beauties with their beauty filters turned to the extreme in the short videos are no match for the makeup-free Rong Xiyao, Tang Qingyi, Lin Yixin, Tan Qingyun... and they are not even a match for them.

Hua Yanqiu had been gone for a long time, but Lu Changjing was still quite excited. After all, in his opinion, these beauties were chosen for him.

Who the hell is Cao Wen? Ning Zhongyu will die sooner or later!
"What are you so happy about? Are you still planning to take advantage of that millionaire?"

At some point, Cao Wenzhen came quietly to his side and mocked him in a sharp voice.

Lu Changjing felt a chill all over his body. "Master Cao, you must be joking. I just couldn't help myself because I understood the meaning of a few memorials. Thank you for your explanation, Master Cao."

"That's good." Cao Wenzheng's expression looked better. "If there's anything you don't understand, tell us as soon as possible, so that we don't cause any trouble when we need it."

Lu Changjing nodded: "I understand."

After being busy until the evening, he went into the secret room to rest.

After locking the stone door, he began to practice and improve himself as usual. Thinking of what happened during the day, Lu Changjing couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Today was truly wonderful, more wonderful than any other day in my previous life.

After taking a Five Elements Pill, the medicinal properties soon began to take effect.

Lu Changjing stopped thinking about it and immersed himself in his practice, completely unaware of the passage of time.

After one Five Elements Pill was digested, Lu Changjing immediately took the second Five Elements Pill.

He would not have dared to do this before, but with the awakening of the third characteristic of the immortal demon body, Lu Changjing became much bolder.

While busy with his cultivation, the talent show that swept across the Daning Dynasty also began in full swing.

Not to mention Empress Dowager Hua Yanqiu, even Imperial Noble Consort Rong Xiyao, Noble Consort Tang Qingyi, and Consort Duan Lin Yixin also participated and became one of the final examiners.

(End of this chapter)