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Chapter 2 - The Empress's Modern Calculations

When Fang Yuci was in ancient times, the [Favorability System] could query the emperor's favorability towards her in real time. Now that she has returned to modern times, the [Favorability System] can still query the people's favorability towards her in real time.

  There is an additional button [Query Favorability Details] on the virtual screen. After clicking it, a full page of favorability details will be displayed on the virtual screen.

  [Yu Jingxian (mother): 100%]

  [Fang Chuji (father): 100%]

  [Lu Xiaoxuan (best friend): 75%]

  [ Jiang Chengwang ( secret admirer): 60% ]

  …

Fang Yuci was not surprised that her parents' love for her was 100% unreserved. The name Lu Xiaoxuan made her stunned for a moment, feeling strange yet familiar. Lu Xiaoxuan was her best friend in modern times. They were deskmates in junior high school, in the same class in high school, and although they did not continue to go to the same university, they both went to the university town in the city, only a ten-minute walk away.

Fang Yuci and Lu Xiaoxuan have been good friends for six or seven years - from Lu Xiaoxuan's perspective, this is the case. From Fang Yuci's own perspective, she and Lu Xiaoxuan have been out of touch for more than ten years...

She looked at Lu Xiaoxuan's favorability towards her, which was as high as 75%, ranking second only to her parents, and felt a little guilty. She felt like an unreliable friend who only had her husband and children in her life after marriage and had forgotten her best friend. But she didn't come here voluntarily! Now that she's back, we can continue our friendship!

As for the secret admirer named Jiang Chengwang, Fang Yuci couldn't remember it at all. It was probably a classmate who had a crush on her. She had lived in ancient times for more than ten years and had two children. It was normal for her to not remember the person who had a crush on her when she was a teenager. She continued to scroll down, and next there was a series of names of secret admirers with favorability values ​​ranging from below 60% to above 50%.

She was a little surprised. It turned out that so many people had a crush on her before she traveled through time? How come she didn't know anything about it? There were even more people whose favorability values ​​were between 50% and 20%. Among the large number of unfamiliar names, there were a few that she still remembered, mainly relatives, neighbors, classmates, and teachers...

  [ Li Mengmeng (the shopping guide at the clothing store where you often shop): 5% ]

  [ Zhang Hao (the wallet you found and returned to the owner): 4% ]

  [Wang Qiu (the waiter who was impressed by your smile): 3%]

  …

Of course Fang Yuci couldn't remember any of these people. However, after seeing this, she already understood how her current people's favorability value of 191 came about. It was the sum of everyone's favorability values.

  100% (Dad) + 100% (Mom) + 75% (Best Friend) + 60% (Secret Admirer) +… + 5% (Shopping Guide) + 4% (Owner) + 3% (Waiter)…

  Adding all these together, the total should be 191.

While thinking about this, Fang Yuci slid her finger across the virtual screen and turned directly to the last page of the favorability details.

  [Feng Zhixuan (the college roommate who is jealous of your beauty): -65%]

  [Li Hongtai (a high school classmate who is jealous of your family background): -70%]

  [Liang Yuhan (her idol is your schoolmate who is a licker): -85%]

  …

Fang Yuci: !!!

It turns out that so many people made subtractions in the calculation process of her favorability value! Who are these? Who? Who!

  .

She frowned and thought for a long time, but she couldn't remember many people who had a positive favorability score towards her, let alone those who had a negative favorability score towards her. However, she has completely figured out how to calculate the [People's Favorability]. People who like her have a positive favorability value for her, people who hate her have a negative favorability value for her, and people who don't know her have a favorability value of 0. Then, add up all the people's favorability values ​​for her, and that's the final [People's Favorability].

Every time the [People's Favorability] doubles, there is a chance to draw a card to summon an ancient soul. If you want to increase the [People's Favorability], obviously the more positive favorability values ​​the better, and the fewer negative favorability values ​​the better.

It is not difficult to double the current 191 to 382, ​​and it should be possible to double it from 382 to 764 if you work hard. However, doubling from 764 to 1528, doubling from 1528 to 3056...the "small goal" set for her by the system is 100 million!

  The difficulty increases exponentially every time it doubles!

Before Fang Yuci traveled through time to ancient times, she was neither a homebody nor a social expert. There were several hundred items in her favorability list. These hundreds of people were the sum of her relatives, neighbors, teachers, classmates, friends, and people she had only met once since she was a child. If you want to double the [People's Favorability] again and again, it is definitely not enough to rely on these people alone. Even if Fang Yuci is exhausted, it is impossible for her to meet thousands of people frequently in real life and maintain the favor of thousands of people.

So if she wants to get a chance to draw cards and summon ancient spirits... she can only become an internet celebrity? A star? But it's still difficult!

Putting aside the fact that internet celebrities and stars all have black fans, and assuming that no one hates her, Fang Yuci's goal of achieving 100 million fans would be equivalent to 200 million people having an average favorability of 50% towards her, or 500 million people having an average favorability of 20% towards her. Then what kind of internet celebrity or star does she have to be to have hundreds of millions of fans? ? ?

Just when she was about to cry, she suddenly heard the door of the next room open. her body was faster than her mind, and she immediately rushed out of the bedroom like a cannonball, and then bumped into her mother at the bedroom door.

Yu Jingxian looked puzzled. "What's wrong with you? Are you in a hurry to go to the toilet? Isn't there a toilet in your bedroom?"

Her eyes were glued to her mother's face, which she hadn't seen for more than ten years. She felt a little dazed. So this is what her mother's face looks like? There were a few more fine lines at the corners of her eyes than in the face that had appeared frequently in her dreams over the past ten years. Her eyebrows were probably in need of trimming and looked a little messy. The mole at the corner of her lips was smaller than in her dreams. It seemed that in her dreams over the past ten years, the mole at the corner of her lips had been magnified as a feature of her mother.

Fang Yuci had a thousand mixed feelings in her heart, but thanks to the ability she had learned from living in the palace for more than ten years to keep her emotions hidden, her mother didn't notice anything was wrong. She felt like her heart was being gripped by a hand, but her expression was calm and relaxed , "I'm not in a hurry to go to the bathroom. I woke up and got up."

Yu Jingxian was surprised. "It's only half past six? You got up so early?"

Then she showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, "Oh, exam week is coming soon, you still have a lot of books to memorize. Okay, wash up and go to the study to memorize your lessons. I'll call you when I've cooked breakfast."

Fang Yuci stood there in a daze, unable to believe what she heard.

  ——Exam week is coming soon?!

  ——She still has a lot of books to memorize? !

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Fang Yuci sat in the study room. There was indeed a pile of books on the desk. They should be the ones she brought home from school "yesterday". But now, facing this pile of books, she really didn't know where to start. It's been more than ten years...how come she hasn't graduated from college yet and is still a freshman!

When she traveled to ancient times more than a decade ago, every day was difficult for her. She had just been admitted to university and had just studied for half a year. Her life had just begun and there should have been countless possibilities. She might go to graduate school or study abroad in the future, or she might work directly after graduating from university. During college, she might fall in love, or she might remain single, watching TV series by herself and shopping with her bestie every day... These were all within her imagination, but her life suddenly took a 180-degree turn and became completely beyond her imagination-she became the prince's concubine, and there were only two tasks left in the rest of her life, sleeping with the prince and giving birth to the prince's children.

~Edit and rewritten by Rikhi, Reiya_Alberich, ReiNyam~

She was a soul that traveled through time. Her face in ancient times was exactly the same as her modern face, and her name was also Fang Yuci. However, she was two years younger in ancient times than she is now. She was only seventeen when she traveled through time. She was afraid every day that she would die while getting pregnant and giving birth in the ancient times where medical conditions were extremely backward. Thinking of this, she suddenly didn't think that exam week was scary anymore. Instead, she felt blessed that she hadn't graduated from college yet.

She hadn't experienced college life properly yet. Now that she was back, she could continue to experience it properly. As for exam week... the worst that could happen was that she would fail the course? It seemed that she would be expelled only if she failed four or five courses. After more than ten years, she couldn't remember clearly.

Her university major is Chinese Language and Literature, and memorizing before the exam is very helpful. Although the class was taken more than ten years ago, if she crams before the exam, she will not fail four or five courses. Even if she failed four or five courses and was expelled, it wouldn't be a big deal! At worst, she could just take the college entrance exam again! Could it be scarier than giving birth in ancient times? When she thought of this, she suddenly felt relaxed. She casually flipped through a book in the study, and then waited for her mother to call her for breakfast.

Her dad also got up and sat at the dining table. Fang Yuci was already excited when she saw her mother, but she felt much calmer when she saw her father. She found that her father's face was almost the same as the one she had seen in her dreams for more than ten years. Maybe it's because she dreams about her dad less often than she dreams about her mom. She felt a little guilty. After all, dad, like mom, loves her 100%.

At the dining table, in front of her seat were her favorite ham, cheese and egg sandwich and strawberry, nut, cereal yogurt cup, which were her favorite foods before she traveled through time. her eyes suddenly lit up! She hasn't had a sandwich or a granola yogurt cup in over a decade! What's more, this is her favorite mother's cooking. In ancient times, she didn't know how much she missed the three meals a day cooked by her mother.

She couldn't wait to pick up the sandwich on the plate, took a big bite, and then was stunned. The ham was too salty, the cheese was a bit greasy, the eggs were not cooked perfectly, and the bread didn't have the aroma of wheat…

She scooped another large spoonful of strawberry nut cereal yogurt and put it into her mouth. She couldn't help but frowned. The strawberries were not sweet enough, the nuts were not crisp enough, and the taste of the yogurt was a bit off...

What happened? The delicious breakfast she craved for her mother tasted different from what she remembered? She realized belatedly that her taste had long been made picky by the ingredients tributed to the palace and the cooking skills of the imperial chefs.

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