I woke up as the Villainous Empress

"Oh, wait! I cannot even call it a meal. It was simply a dessert before the main course." She corrected herself and lay on the bed in a comfortable position.

When she returned to the Dragon Pavilion after meeting the Empress at the Main Palace, she was feeling tired. That woman has the skill to make the other person exhausted, just by talking with them.

To rejuvenate her energy and pump up her sugar level, she asked Xiaowie to bring some sweets and tea for her. Before she tasted the sweets in this world, she never realized that she had a sweet tooth before. Or was it because she was in Yang Ning\'s body that she has been craving sweets more than usual lately?

Although there are no chocolates or delicious cakes in this world, there are various kinds of sweets that she had never tasted or seen in her whole life. Since she is already in this world, why not eat whatever she likes and eat to her heart\'s content?

In the past, she always avoided sugary items to be in shape and maintain her weight. Although archery doesn\'t require her to have a strict diet to lose weight and she could do it with basic strength training, her coach used to say that an athlete should always be active and good in shape.

The athlete who stays in good health and shape always brings good results.

Moreover, along with being an athlete, she also needed to appear on tv frequently and give interviews to the media because she was not just an athlete but a star athlete who is on par with the celebrities.

Maybe because of this reason, the more she used to shine as a star in the sky, the more brutally she fell on the ground because of her so-called scandal of hers.

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Yang Ning was lying on the bed while embracing the pillow in her arms while staring at the white ceiling that was decorated with hand-painted designs. The designs were so small and detailed that she could never be amazed enough at how artistic and hardworking the people of this world are.

They don\'t have much technology and facilities yet they live such a contented life, unlike the people like her who live in the city and had everything yet she doesn\'t remember many happy moments of her life.

She was so busy perfecting her skills and working hard that she forgot to enjoy those small happy moments with her family and friends.

However, after she lost everything and had to stay alone in this large and spacious chamber, now she remembers those small happy moments that her family gave her. Sometimes she regrets why she didn\'t spend more time with her family and told her father how grateful she is to have him as her Father.

Only if she had told him, she wouldn\'t be feeling sorry and guilty while living in this world as Yang Ning and eating delicious food every day.

"Ah! It\'s not the time to be getting emotional. Crying like this will do you no good." Yang Ning groaned and wiped the tears that unknowingly made their way to her cheeks.

She cleared her throat and to shake off the unnecessary thoughts in her mind, she decided to do some exercise and move her body.

She gets out of bed and adjusts her long and cumbersome skirt so that she does not stumble by getting tangled in the dress. She raised the skirt over her navel while exposing her ankles so that she could move in the dress comfortably.

She even removed her upper robe to feel comfortable in her clothes and was standing with her pulled-up skirt. In her disheveled attire, she started her workout with on-spot jogging.

There is a large and spacious garden in front of the Dragon Pavilion and there is a training field as well where she can go for a jog. However, if she did that, she was sure that the people of the palace would have a heart attack to see her running around like that.

Why is everything so complicated here? She wondered.

It\'s been months since she moved her body and did some workouts. Previously she used to work out to make herself fit and increase her productivity in competitions, however, now she was exercising to forget about the things that were bothering her.

Moreover, Yang Ning\'s body is too weak for her to handle. If things continue like this, before Zheng Liang could slash her neck with his sword, she would die on her own because her body cannot handle so much stress that this palace was giving her.

To face the villains in the palace and fight against the current situation, she needs to make herself fit and able enough to go against the original plot and return to her world. How will she be able to return to her world if she is not healthy and strong enough to bear the difficulties of this world?

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"Ah! I can\'t do this anymore." After jogging on the spot for hardly ten minutes, Yang Ning started to feel breathless and sweat beads started to form on her forehead. "This body is weaker than I thought it to be. I wonder how she managed to survive until now." Yang Ning cried out as she panted heavily

She stopped jogging and decided to do some stretching instead. Before doing the exercise, she did some light stretching and moved to another exercise.

She clasped her hands in front of her and bent her knees to sit in a squat position and stood up afterward. Since she cannot continue to do on-spot jogging, she decided to do some squats to make her core and lower body stronger.

"Ah! I shouldn\'t have eaten so much earlier. I am feeling sleepy already." She groaned while going down for another repetition. While she was forcing herself to complete this set, she heard some whispers from outside.

However, she was too exhausted to worry about anything else at the moment. Her priority was to complete this set and get over with the mini-workout session.

10:35

She closed her eyes to gather some courage and continued with her last set. "Just one last set, Fang Directly support the authors on Webnovel!

Li. You can do it."

"You\'re fuc*ing awesome. You go girl!" She cried out and encouraged herself to complete the three-set round rather than give up halfway.

 "Yang Li? What…what are you doing down there?" While she had her eyes closed and was forcing herself to finish the last repetition, she heard a shocked yell which caught her off guard and she almost lost her balance and fell to the ground.

She was still in her squatting position when she heard the shocked scream of Zheng Liang and snapped her eyes open to see what was going on.

However, to her shock, the door that was closed earlier was now wide open and Zheng Liang was standing outside and looking at her with his widened eyes. Not only he but the guards and the other maids who were standing outside were staring at her with the look of shock and confusion in their eyes as well.

She pursed her lips in a thin line and blinked innocently. She was only exercising to refresh her mind, however, who would have thought that things would turn out this way?

Yang Ning glanced at Xiaowei who was standing behind Zheng Liang and she could see the horror in her eyes.

Seeing everyone\'s shocked reactions and Xiaowei\'s almost crying face, she realized that squats were not the best exercise to do in the palace.

For a moment, she forgot that she was not Fang Li but Yang Ning, who is also the Crown Prince of the Zheng Empire.

The Crown Princess doing squats in front of everyone, how elegant it is! Explaining this situation would be more controversial than explaining her cheating scandal during the competition.

"Ha….Ha….Ha!" With nothing to say about the situation, she could only smile through the pain and laugh awkwardly, waiting for someone to dig a hole so that she could hide inside that.

\'Can I please die again?\' She cried inwardly while still standing in the squatting position because along with her senses, her body had stopped working as well.