Daqing Reborn Prince, Intercepting Si Lili at the Beginning

Chapter 1: Sealed as a County King from the Start! Rewarded with the Miao Yin Pavilion!

Southern Qing, the imperial palace.

Eunuch Hou publicly read the imperial edict.

“By the grace of the Emperor, it is decreed: The third prince, Li Chengyuan, is virtuous and capable, skilled in both literature and martial arts. He is hereby conferred the title of County King of Li and granted a County King’s Mansion in the capital, and the title ceremony shall be held immediately. This is a command from Heaven!”

“Your son accepts the decree and thanks His Majesty!”

Li Chengyuan knelt on the ground, loudly expressing his gratitude.

Afterward, he slipped several taels of silver to Eunuch Hou.

Following some flattery from Eunuch Hou, Li Chengyuan sent him out of his chamber.

Once Eunuch Hou left, Li Chengyuan dismissed all the palace servants.

Alone, he walked to the window, his face filled with contemplation.

Li Chengyuan never expected that merely watching a TV drama would lead him to transmigrate into the world of its plot! He had become a prince of Qing during Emperor Qing’s reign!

As everyone knows, being a prince in the Qing is a high-risk occupation.

What made his situation even more unique was that Li Chengyuan had transmigrated as a baby.

Therefore, he experienced the Taiping Villa incident firsthand. Although he couldn’t speak then, he had seen and heard everything.

Because in this life, he wasn’t an ordinary prince. He was the twin brother of the protagonist, Fan Xian!

However, they were fraternal twins, so he and Fan Xian looked very different, with their differences already apparent in infancy.

During the Taiping Villa incident, Fan Xian was switched out by Fan Jian with his eldest son and sent to Danzhou by Wuzhu.

As for Li Chengyuan, he was being taken to be fed and was later hidden by his wet nurse, allowing him to survive by sheer luck and be discovered afterward.

What happened next was a mystery to Li Chengyuan. He only knew that he had been sent to the palace and was named the third prince.

It was publicly declared that his mother had died in childbirth, and the Empress raised him!

The Empress!

When Li Chengyuan first heard of this arrangement, he truly felt the cold ruthlessness of Emperor Qing for the first time!

Everyone knew that Li Chengyuan’s birth mother, Ye Qingmei, had been killed by the Empress’s family!

In other words, the Empress was Li Chengyuan’s enemy who had murdered his mother!

Yet Emperor Qing had made the Empress his foster mother.

This move was truly a psychological blow—to both Ye Qingmei’s remaining supporters and to the Empress herself!

Although Li Chengyuan had no emotional attachment to Ye Qingmei, she was still his biological mother in this life. So, emotionally and logically, he had to remember this grudge!

But with no power and no influence, he was too weak to do anything, so he had to bide his time.

To avoid disgusting himself, he disguised himself as a “troublemaker prince”!

For the past fifteen years since transmigrating, he had only met the Empress a handful of times.

Fortunately, after the Empress became disheartened, she started drinking heavily and showed no care for Li Chengyuan.

Li Chengyuan was raised by his wet nurse from a young age. The Empress had never cared for him.

Thus, when he didn’t go to the Empress to pay his respects, it was considered “only natural”!

Li Chengyuan had originally planned to be a profligate prince, showing no ambition, hoping that Emperor Qing wouldn’t notice him.

Then, when Fan Xian came to the capital, they could secretly plan their revenge together.

However, Li Chengyuan never expected that despite his attempts to act unruly, Emperor Qing still wouldn’t let him go.

This year, at just eighteen, he had been conferred the title of County King. Moreover, the Emperor said he was virtuous and capable, skilled in both literature and martial arts, and even granted him a residence outside the palace to facilitate his connections with ministers!

Isn’t this the same treatment as Li Chengze?

Does Emperor Qing want me to become a stepping stone for the Crown Prince as well?

But right now, he was officially the Crown Prince’s brother, a natural supporter of the Crown Prince.

By conferring him this title, Isn’t Emperor Qing increasing the strength of the Crown Prince?

Or… does Emperor Qing want to see a three-way fight for the throne?

Li Chengyuan felt a headache coming on. He really couldn’t figure out Emperor Qing’s intentions!

Although he deeply hated Emperor Qing as a person, he couldn’t deny that Emperor Qing was an absolute master in terms of scheming.

Every word carried hidden meanings.

Dealing with Emperor Qing, one wrong move could leave me completely outplayed!

Thus, since his birth, Li Chengyuan had been learning to conceal himself, keeping as low a profile as possible.

But in the end, he still fell into Emperor Qing’s calculations.

Before, I could feign ignorance while in the palace. However, I would be placed under public scrutiny once I established my residence. Every move I made would be watched by everyone, and hiding would no longer be an option.

From now on, my life would likely be filled with peril at every step.

Thinking of this, Li Chengyuan couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

Being a prince of Qing… even a dog wouldn’t want it.

What worried him even more was that perhaps due to his presence, Fan Xian, who should have come to the capital two years ago, was still in Danzhou.

As a result, it was unclear if the original plot events would still unfold.

However, since he transmigrated into the TV series, where the protagonist’s age was vague, Fan Xian’s entry into the capital might not be delayed much longer.

Ding! The system has detected that the host has been conferred a king’s title. The interception task system has been successfully bound!

The host can intercept or seize others’ opportunities or achievements to receive various rewards!

A novice gift pack has been distributed. Please check it yourself!

A system?

Hearing the mechanical voice suddenly ringing in his mind, Li Chengyuan almost lost his composure!

Eighteen years! Damn it, the lousy system is only awakening now!

Where was it all this time?

Did it know how he had struggled through these eighteen years?

Living cautiously, with every step filled with danger, hardly ever having a moment of peace.

Now that he had finally made it through his growth period, the system was only now awakening.

Li Chengyuan felt exhausted!

However, the system’s awakening was still a good thing.

After venting his frustration for a moment, Li Chengyuan eagerly checked out the system.

An Interception Task System!

Li Chengyuan was very familiar with such systems and knew how to operate them.

After briefly looking through the instructions, he eagerly opened the novice gift pack.

Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining a Marrow Cleansing Pill and the ‘Azure Dragon Art’ cultivation technique!

Marrow Cleansing Pill: After consumption, it reshapes the bones and greatly enhances one’s aptitude for cultivation!

Azure Dragon Art: A long-life cultivation method from another world. When cultivated to the highest level, one can transform into an azure dragon and achieve immortality!

A Marrow Cleansing Pill?

The Azure Dragon Art?

The novice rewards were this generous?

Li Chengyuan was instantly delighted.

He hurriedly checked the detailed information about his rewards.

One glance at the Marrow Cleansing Pill was enough for Li Chengyuan to understand its significance.

This thing was tailor-made for him.

Typically, one must start practicing martial arts from a young age.

But he was already eighteen, and his bones were fully grown. It was too late to start training now.

But with the Marrow Cleansing Pill, he could skip the foundational training of hardening his bones and directly begin cultivating his inner energy.

This meant that even an elderly person in their seventies or eighties could start cultivating martial arts with the Marrow Cleansing Pill!

This showed just how valuable the pill was.

As for the Azure Dragon Art, there was even less to say.

Once this technique was cultivated to the highest level, one could transform into an azure dragon and achieve immortality!

This cultivation technique was insane.

However, after checking the detailed information on the Azure Dragon Art, Li Chengyuan’s excitement quickly cooled.

The Azure Dragon Art was divided into two phases: the Nine Changes of the Wandering Dragon and the Nine Changes of the Azure Dragon.

The Nine Changes of the Wandering Dragon corresponded to the mortal realm. Once mastered, it would bring one to the realm of a land immortal.

The Nine Changes of the Azure Dragon corresponded to the legendary realm of immortality, where cultivating the Nine Changes to completion would grant eternal life.

But in a world with scarce spiritual energy like this, even mastering the Nine Changes of the Wandering Dragon would be difficult.

As for the Nine Changes of the Azure Dragon, that was likely just a dream.

Yet, Li Chengyuan wasn’t disappointed.

He had never been greedy for immortality in the first place.

As long as he could master the Nine Changes of the Wandering Dragon and become a land immortal, living freely for hundreds or even thousands of years, he would already be satisfied!

Satisfied, he closed the system interface.

Just as Li Chengyuan was about to extract the Marrow Cleansing Pill for consumption, the system prompt rang again.

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