Beauty Portraits: I Build a Harem in Another World

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So what is the biggest benefit?

Chapter 118: What is the Right of First Night?

Without a doubt, for the current Inazuma Empire, Qin Feng, the third prince of Qin, who leads an elite army, is the greatest benefit!

Because as long as they can please him, as long as they can get him to stand on the Chiba family's side, then taking advantage of the collapse of the new cabinet and the many powerful families behind it, the Chiba family can completely unify Inazuma, and even completely and permanently turn the empress system into their own Chiba family's!

This idea is certainly wonderful, but the only problem now is, why should the third prince of the Great Qin Empire pay any attention to a mere Chiba family?

They don't even know you, and have absolutely no connection with you. How dare you go up to them and say, "Third Prince, can I borrow your troops? I'll return them to you after I unify Inazuma."

If the Chiba family dares to do this, the Third Prince of Qin would definitely not mind annihilating the Chiba family first!

So in the end, the breakthrough still had to be found in Haruko Yoda. After all, no matter what, she was still someone from the Chiba family, her maternal home. Moreover, the Chiba family had to tell the Third Prince of Qin this, which led to this wedding celebration...

To put it bluntly, as the head of the Chiba family, why did Daisuke Chiba have to rush into marriage at this particular time?

Moreover, he already has a large family of children. With his status, he could bring back any beautiful woman he fancy without needing a formal marriage.

But there was no other way; only he could do it this time, because he was Haruko Yoda's older brother. Only his wedding could provide an excuse to invite Her Majesty the Empress to grace the occasion, and also an excuse to invite the Third Prince of Qin to attend the ceremony!

And once people come, isn't that the same as establishing a relationship?

It is said that Qin Feng, the third prince of the Great Qin Empire, is very fond of pomp and circumstance. This time, on his expedition to Inazuma, he not only brought five thousand imperial guards to protect him, but also several hundred palace maids to accompany him. This is simply unbelievable!

Therefore, the Chiba family decided to cater to their preferences and prepared a grand welcoming ceremony. When the royal carriage, symbolizing the majesty of the Great Qin, finally entered the capital city under the escort of the imperial guards, the entire city erupted in cheers. Countless people waved colorful ribbons and shouted "Long live the Emperor!" At the same time, a shower of flowers fell from the sky. It was a magnificent scene. Anyone who didn't know the situation would think that this was the capital of the Great Qin welcoming a triumphant return!

Furthermore, it is said that Qin Feng, the third prince of the Qin Empire, is also a womanizer...

Leaving aside the various rumors of the past, let's just talk about what everyone has seen. Since the Third Prince brought his troops to Inazuma, he has not been idle. He has been traveling around Kyoto, but no matter when or where, he is always accompanied by a number of beautiful women. They are inseparable and intimate, so much so that anyone with eyes can tell at a glance that they are the Third Prince's women.

This also means that the Third Prince is definitely a man of strong emotions, and at the very least, he can't escape the fact that he likes beautiful women!

Therefore, the Chiba family was well prepared. They not only provided the Third Prince Qin Feng with a very spacious temporary residence, but also specially assigned over a hundred beautiful women to serve the Third Prince. After all, the wedding would last for several days, so of course the Third Prince had to have a good time!

They can even continue to send over all sorts of authentic young beauties as long as Qin Feng asks!

Then everyone could see that Qin Feng was also very happy with the Chiba family's hospitality. In particular, when Chiba Daisuke patted his chest and said that these hundred beauties were given to His Highness the Third Prince and he could do whatever he wanted with them, His Highness the Third Prince's face lit up with a smile. And that day, everyone was happy and the atmosphere was lively!

Moreover, that very evening, Chiba Daisuke received news that the Third Prince was enjoying himself with the women he had sent over...

But shortly after the wedding officially began the next day, the Third Prince of the Great Qin Empire suddenly became interested in the bride. Even before the ceremony was over, he went directly to Chiba Daisuke and asked, "Um... I wonder if your Inazuma Empire has the right of first night?"

Right of first night?

Well, it took Chiba Daisuke a full two minutes to realize that Qin Feng actually wanted to sleep with his bride, and right now. His face turned liver-colored on the spot!

Without a doubt, Qin Feng was blatantly humiliating himself in public...

Even if this wedding was just a pretext, an excuse to get closer to the Third Prince of the Great Qin Empire, the Chiba family definitely needed to maximize their profits. Therefore, the bride he was marrying was no ordinary person, nor was she just some random extra; she was the eldest daughter of the Miyamoto family! (The last line appears to be unrelated and possibly spam/advertisement.)

Although the Miyamoto clan isn't considered a powerful clan, it's the most famous ninja clan in Inazuma. Currently, five of the top ten ninjas in Inazuma are from the Miyamoto clan, which alone is enough to prove their strength. In particular, their secret method for training Jonin is absolutely unique. Therefore, if they could form an alliance with them and become in-laws, the benefits to the Chiba clan would be immense. At the very least, the Chiba clan would definitely see a significant boost in strength!

The problem is, the Miyamoto family isn't so easy to sway. At least, the Chiba family never had that opportunity before. The fact that they're finally willing to ally with the Chiba is actually thanks to Qin Feng, because the Miyamoto family originally relied on the Maeda family, and then the Maeda family was destroyed...

Even so, the Chiba family made many promises to finally win over the Miyamoto family's eldest daughter. But now, before Chiba Daisuke has even gotten his hands on her, Qin Feng, the third prince of the Great Qin Dynasty, is demanding that he give up this bride!

Imagine this: today is your big day, and then someone comes out in front of a room full of guests and says to you, "Your bride is quite beautiful, so let me have my way with her first..."

What's your expression?

You were so angry you wanted to kill someone, weren't you!

Chiba Daisuke was naturally in the same boat. In fact, he was already scheming in his mind. Although Qin Feng was the third prince of the Great Qin Empire, he was all alone in the capital. Moreover, he had only brought a little over a thousand soldiers with him. So, if they acted quickly, they might be able to kill him directly and then pin the blame on the new cabinet forces that had been wiped out. It would be a completely undetectable operation.

Of course, there are risks involved in doing this. If the Qin army gets angry and comes to sweep through the capital, he will be helpless, right?

Just as he was hesitating whether to take a gamble or find another way to dissuade the prince, he suddenly saw a subordinate rush in from outside with a panicked expression. The subordinate whispered something in Chiba Daisuke's ear, and Chiba Daisuke's expression changed immediately. Then, the look in his eyes when he looked at Qin Feng turned into... fear!

Actually, it's nothing much. The 100,000 Qin troops outside the capital city are already in full battle array and will start the siege as soon as they are given the order!

It was at this moment that Chiba Daisuke realized what it meant for someone to have ill intentions, and he finally understood why his sister Yoda Haruko looked at him so strangely. He only thought about pleasing Qin Feng, the third prince of the Great Qin Dynasty, and completely ignored his sister Yoda Haruko. Now he couldn't even cry!

Perhaps the only way out for the Chiba family now is to do everything in their power to capture this Third Prince and then force the army outside the city to surrender.

But Daisuke Chiba soon realized that this idea was just wishful thinking, because the 'palace maid' he had always thought of as just a decorative vase and a plaything of the Third Prince suddenly revealed her fighting spirit in front of him...

Tenth rank?

Not to mention that His Highness the Third Prince is also a tenth-level mage... This is a fact that has long been established.

So Chiba Daisuke had no choice but to kneel down obediently and kowtow respectfully, "It is the Third Prince's good fortune that he has taken a liking to my bride. I will have someone arrange a room for His Highness now... no, no, you can go directly to my bridal chamber!"

Suddenly the whole place was in an uproar!

Chapter 119: I really like your bride.

Everyone was somewhat incredulous that Daisuke Chiba had actually given up his newlywed wife.

Isn't that a bit too... flexible and adaptable?

Especially when they saw Qin Feng actually walk into the bridal chamber in front of everyone to enjoy the bride in place of the groom, those with sharp eyes already knew that something was wrong, so they quickly found a reason and excuse to slip away!

Even those slow-witted individuals realized what was happening when they saw everyone running away, and the once bustling Chiba mansion quickly fell silent, and the wedding was naturally called off!

But this is not the end; it's the beginning...

Just as Chiba Daisuke found his sister, Yoda Haruko, and questioned her about her plans, Her Majesty the Empress merely glanced at him contemptuously. "I treated you like a brother, so I've let you manipulate me all these years. But how have you treated me? In that case, I'll consider my brother dead!"

"Haruko, you..."

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Chiba Daisuke's bride is named Miyamoto Mao, and she is actually just an eighteen-year-old girl!

So from a certain perspective, she herself didn't like Daisuke Chiba at all. After all, he was already a man in his forties, even older than Mao Miyamoto's father. They were from completely different generations and had nothing in common.

But as a woman from Inazuma, and from such a special family, sometimes fate is not in her own hands. This marriage was not to be discussed with her opinion at all, because the interests of the family are above all else.

Therefore, while waiting for the most important moment of her life to arrive in the new house, Mao Miyamoto was actually quite conflicted. She thought about running away, resisting, and even committing suicide, but in the end, she gave up because she was afraid of the consequences. So in the end, she could only hope in her heart that a miracle would happen, preferably a handsome young man would come to save her from her predicament...

Unexpectedly, her prayers were answered!

Because the person who finally walked into the bridal chamber was not the groom, Chiba Daisuke, but a very handsome young man. Only then did Miyamoto Mao realize that he was actually the recently much-discussed third prince of the Great Qin Empire, and that his purpose in coming in was to stand in for the groom, Chiba Daisuke, and perform the rites of marriage with her!

To put it bluntly, he came here to consummate his marriage with her!

Wait, is this even happening at the Chiba family's wedding?

Miyamoto Mao was initially a bit confused, but then she thought that giving her first time to the Third Prince of the Great Qin Empire, who was both of high status and incredibly handsome, was better than giving it to an old scoundrel like Chiba Daisuke!

Therefore, faced with Qin Feng's subsequent unscrupulous advances, Miyamoto Mao's desire to resist was not strong, or rather, she was half-heartedly acquiescing. Not only did she quickly allow Qin Feng to expertly strip her clothes off, but she was also subjected to various on-the-spot, tailored lessons in premarital sex knowledge by him...

For example, what are her erogenous zones, and what areas can make her feel a surge of passion...

Not only that, Qin Feng then shamelessly taught Miyamoto Mao what foot fetish was, and even... foot fetish!

Yes, Qin Feng thought that since he rarely had the chance to play with a bride, he simply came up with all the ways he could think of, even something like foot fetish that he rarely had the opportunity to experience. Then, watching Miyamoto Mao sit on the bed and gently hold his big sword with her slender jade feet, the feeling was indeed a bit different. Qin Feng found that he actually liked this kind of play!

And honestly, doing these things on a wedding bed with a bride, and someone else's bride at that, is an incredibly exciting experience!

Qin Feng felt as if he had unlocked some incredible knowledge, so he decided to let Yoda Haruko and the others try it out as well. It would definitely be exciting!

Of course, no matter what they did, Qin Feng would never let Miyamoto Mao off the hook in the end. So, once she was fully prepared, Qin Feng immediately aimed his big sword directly at the secret garden between her legs, saying, "I'm going in now, is the bride ready?"

"what!!"

With a cry of pain, another one has been lost from this world...

Having maintained her virginity for eighteen years, she finally lost it, and to a stranger no less. But Miyamoto Mao wasn't sad. She even took the initiative to hug Qin Feng's neck at this moment, "Please take me with you, Your Highness. I don't want to marry him, not at all. I'm willing to follow you and serve you... I'll do my best!"

Well this...

While enjoying and exploring the tight garden of the girl beneath him, Qin Feng nodded dismissively, "Don't worry, even if you wanted to marry him now, you couldn't, because he's going to die tonight!"

"what?!"

"As for you, my bride... I've already accepted you. Who else will you marry if not me?"

"..."

Qin Feng was certainly not just saying it casually.

In fact, before all the guests of the Chiba family had left, the Qin army outside the city had already begun its attack...

However, calling it a siege wouldn't be accurate, because the capital city had no proper defenses, and most importantly, no manpower was deployed. Even though some people reacted quickly and tried to hold the city's defenses to prevent the army from entering, don't forget that Qin Feng had previously led a thousand-strong imperial guard into the city.

This was the Third Prince's pomp and circumstance, so the Chiba family didn't take it to heart and instead treated him to good food and drink. Who would have thought that these more than a thousand Imperial Guards would become the biggest bomb in the city?

When they took control of the city gates, the city of Gyeonggi fell completely. The entire battle, from start to finish, lasted less than half a day!

There was no other way. Putting aside the fact that the Chiba family's purpose in holding this wedding was to curry favor with the Third Prince of the Great Qin Empire, and that Empress Yoda Haruko and the Third Prince of Great Qin Qin Feng had already come to attend the wedding, who knew they would suddenly lead troops to turn against them?

Moreover, in order to prepare for this wedding, and most importantly to make the Third Prince of Qin feel at home, and to give him the biggest show, the Qianye family used all the people they could. Naturally, the city's defenses were quite weak. In fact, when General Bai Hao led his soldiers to attack the Qianye residence, there were very few people who could put up any resistance.

Even if some individuals are highly skilled, it's no match for a regular army. Moreover, Qin Feng brought quite a few experts with him. Not to mention Nataya alone would be enough to give the entire Chiba family a run for their money, not to mention that Qin Feng also brought some of the hundreds of palace maids with him. How can the Chiba family possibly resist this group of 'unknown' individuals?

Therefore, when Qin Feng finally got to experience being a groom and had thoroughly enjoyed himself with the beautiful bride, Miyamoto Mao, he came out to find that the Chiba family had completely fallen. All the family members, big and small, were kneeling obediently in the hall waiting for their fate. Only Yoda Haruko was sitting on the side drinking tea. As for the main seat in the hall, it was naturally reserved for Qin Feng!

Qin Feng didn't stand on ceremony and plopped down on her. He then glanced at Chiba Daisuke, who was kneeling on the ground, pale as a ghost, and chuckled, "I really like your bride, so I've decided to take her away. No objections?"

What opinions could Daisuke Chiba possibly have? And how could he possibly dare to have any opinions?

Moreover, even now, pale as a ghost, he knew perfectly well that the Chiba family was finished. The cause of this disaster was his recklessness and arrogance; he had disregarded his younger sister, Yoda Haruko, not only forcefully suppressing dissenting voices within the family but also readily abandoning her. Now, he was finally reaping the bitter fruits of his actions! (The last two lines appear to be unrelated and possibly machine-generated gibberish.)

Fortunately, Haruko Yoda still held onto some old feelings, so at her pleading, Qin Feng finally decided to spare her mother, Ayane Chiba, as well as some other members of the Chiba family...

Chapter 120: Empress Haruko Yoda's Strong Backer

However, we all know that this was actually a pre-arranged act, because Qin Feng had said beforehand that all the men of the Chiba family should be killed, and the women should be spared!

The question is, what should be done with the women of the Chiba family who remained?

As women, once they lose the protection of their families, their fate will be worse than death. Since Qin Feng cannot take them all with him, these people actually have no choice but to follow Haruko Yoda back to the Imperial Palace!

In this situation, Qin Feng was naturally happy to do Yoda Haruko a favor.

Because it was Haruko Yoda who saved them, they will definitely be extremely grateful to her and remain loyal to her...

Not only that, Qin Feng even preserved some of the Chiba family's industries and wealth, but all of them were transferred to Yoda Haruko's control. So strictly speaking, the Chiba family was not destroyed, but only has a new head of the family!

Many people are quite satisfied with this result; at least former Empress Chiba Ayane is quite pleased...

Oh, right, they've all changed their names to Yoda now, Yoda Ayane, so the Chiba family has become the Yoda family!

Moreover, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Yoda family will remain the largest family in Inazuma for some time to come, because all their rivals will be eliminated by the Third Prince, Qin Feng!

After wiping out the Chiba family, Empress Haruko Inazuma's prestige in the country reached its peak, and her power as empress was unparalleled...

Perhaps some families were trying to take advantage of the new cabinet's situation, thinking that even if they couldn't establish their own kingdoms, at least the Empress wouldn't have as much power as before, and they could secretly do things for their own benefit.

But reality slapped them hard in the face, because the new cabinet's rule only lasted a few days before it completely collapsed. Not only were all the families involved purged, but even the Chiba family, who had stood by and watched the new cabinet incident, were not spared!

After all, everyone knows that the Chiba family is actually Haruko Yoda's maternal family.

Although the Chiba family sold out Empress Haruko Yoda when the new cabinet was rising, outsiders didn't understand the inside story. They were unaware of the deal the Chiba family made with the previous cabinet government, and they even thought the Chiba family was forced into it, since Haruko Yoda being Empress was in the best interests of the Chiba family.

Most importantly, without the support of the Chiba family, who can Haruko Yoda rely on next?

Therefore, when the Chiba family held their grand wedding this time, not only did Empress Haruko Yoda put aside all past grievances and come, but almost all the prominent people in Inazuma also rushed over, thinking that the wealthy and powerful Chiba family would probably become the dominant force in Inazuma, or even the one with the final say!

But this so-called 'future overlord' disappeared just like that. The 100,000-strong Qin army once again showed everyone in Inazuma with their overwhelming offensive and unstoppable conquest that their so-called strength was nothing in front of the Qin Empire!

Then it was at this moment that everyone realized that Haruko Yoda didn't need to rely on the Chiba family at all, or even any of the Inazuma families, because the Great Qin Empire stood behind her...

But they couldn't find any fault with Her Majesty the Empress, and dared not accuse her of treason.

The reason is simple: Yoda Haruko had previously married off Princess Yoda Kaori to the Qin Empire, so it's only natural that the princess would bring troops back to rescue her mother now that she's in trouble. Even though the troops she brought are from the Qin Empire, what does it matter? In this world, might makes right, and the saying "the victor is king, the loser is villain" is definitely not just a saying!

Putting aside the fact that the Qin Empire won the war, Her Majesty the Empress also won this military coup and had the last laugh. So of course, she had the final say in everything. She could say that the Qin Empire's army could come or stay as it pleased!

Wait, the Qin Empire's army is to stay behind?

Well, now those who were hoping for a lucky break have finally given up hope!

Because shortly after Empress Haruko Yoda officially restored the imperial system, she announced that the Inazuma Empire and the Great Qin Empire had decided to end the state of war through negotiations and would henceforth become "all-weather, all-round strategic partners." The Great Qin Empire would provide Inazuma with substantial economic and humanitarian aid...

Especially given the current severe shortage of males in the Inazuma Empire, and the fact that the Inazuma Empire is unable to form its own army to maintain national defense and security, at Her Majesty the Empress's request, His Majesty the Emperor of Qin has agreed in principle to send 100,000 Qin soldiers to be stationed permanently in the Inazuma Empire to assist Her Majesty the Empress in governing Inazuma!

This statement sounds so grand and plausible that it's impossible to find any fault or flaw in it. But here's the question: what exactly does "all-weather, all-round strategic partnership" mean?

The term was actually proposed by the Third Prince Qin Feng, and it came from the official diplomatic language that he had heard so many times on Earth. When he was involved in the 'negotiation', he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of using this term to appease the people of the Inazuma Empire. After all, no one could accept it if they said directly that the Great Qin Empire wanted to annex Inazuma, right?