Liu Di was somewhat petrified.
He looked at the beauty before him, his pupils trembling slightly.
So this was what she looked like?
But why did she look like this?
In 2020, Chinese archaeologists had perfectly reconstructed Zhaojun's portrait.
Her face was bloated, with a dark mole on it.
Countless netizens questioned it—This damn well isn't my Wang Zhaojun.
But the archaeologists replied—this was real history.
Liu Di knew very well.
China's archaeological reconstruction technology was already second to none. There was no way it could be wrong.
Which meant...
There was a historical bug surrounding Wang Zhaojun.
That was why Gu Fan had guided him here.
Liu Di looked behind and around Wang Zhaojun again, then returned his gaze to the greatest beauty of the Western Han.
He was suspicious, but why had Gu Fan's mark not appeared?
Yet to outsiders...
It was obvious that he was checking whether anyone was nearby before plotting something improper.
A name suddenly came to Liu Di's mind.
The short, fat man Wang Zhaojun had just angrily berated was named Mao Yanshou!
All the fragments of knowledge in Liu Di's mind instantly connected.
The current emperor, Emperor Yuan of Han, favored beautiful women, so he ordered beautiful women to be selected from among the common folk.
But naturally, the emperor could not personally leave the palace to choose them.
Thus, a method emerged: court painters would fan out, search the populace for stunning beauties, copy their portraits, and then bring all the portraits back to the imperial palace.
The emperor would then select from the paintings and decide which women to summon into the palace.
Like the "imperial consort selection" in certain circles in 2021.
And Mao Yanshou was one of the court painters recorded in history. It was he who discovered Wang