Disclaimer: I don't own them and not KoeiTecmo's building.
A/N: I decide to post this story because nobody came up with the idea for years. I'll bring Zhenji's loyal maid Ziyan from Luoshen here.
Zhen Ji's Hanfu Day
Part 1: Hanfu Day
It's another busy day at the Koei building where each division swarm around on their busy assignments analyzing sales figures from the west and east countries. One man rushed into the GUST offices announcing the latest Ateller game coming out. The Nioh team continue to work on Koei's most ambitious PS4 game that's suppose to be revolutionary. And…
"Ziyan, I'm planning this self made event as a dedication to our traditional Han culture women attire," Zhen Ji told her loyal friend and maid about this special day only for all the ladies in Three Kingdoms.
"With you planning this, do you think the Shu, Wu, Other and Jin women will join your celebration?" Ziyan curiously asked her lady.
She noticed Xiao Qiao waiting in front of them wearing her orange haifu from the latest ROTK game. Zhen Ji happily went to greet Jiang Dong's sunflower.
The younger Qiao twin saw two women coming and it's no doubt the main lady she's been waiting for, "Zhen Ji I came here early before the rest of the Wu women. When you told me about this Hanfu day, I couldn't stop giggling about it!"
"I'm glad you're being enthusiastic about this, Xiao. This is the pride of Han women. On this special day, we all get together wearing actual historical women attire. No skimpy skirts, g strings, or whatever modern wear we wore in the games for sex appeal towards male gamers. The hanfu is true culture!" Zhen Ji raised her fist proudly.
Suddenly a clap been heard behind the three ladies and they turn and saw a woman wearing strategist robes with her head covered with a hood.
"Lady Zhen, it's brave to see you, the wife of the Han usurper talking about a Han woman's pride," Zhuge Liang's wife, Yue Ying the woman only known in her husband's books and not the records looked surprisingly elegance.
"Ex wife, Lady Huang. My marriage is finished for good…" Zhen Ji took out her pouch and reveal the uber expensive necklace she wore during her marriage to Cao Pi. She had been thinking about selling the necklace for months.
"Are you always going to be strict with her flawed life, Lady Huang!? Give her a break over her just being recognized by that. Do all Shu women truly hate Lady Zhen because of Cao Pi?" Xiao Qiao retorted.
"I never said I hate her. She's putting herself at risk on this celebration. You're not the popular lady in Koei, Zhen Ji. Remind yourself that," Yue Ying warned the prettier lady on this subtle reminder.
"I know. Well, not Koei and Japan to be exact. However, this is my idea and I will not ruin this happy moment for all the women in Three Kingdoms because of my bad history," Zhen Ji said. They continue to stare at each other until the other Shu ladies came with Yue Ying.
"This hanfu and my mother's look average because we decided to show a humble look at ourselves. Nothing flashy like the woman before us," Xing Cai pointed at Zhen Ji after her sentence.
"Hello, Xiao," Xiahouji waved at Xiao Qiao.
"Hey, it's still creepy that you're the wife of a crazy man who kidnapped you…" Xiao Qiao frowned at Xiahouji.
"I was lost, really… And he couldn't afford to take me back with all the rumors I've been told about Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu being dangerous men. At least, Zhang Fei didn't order me to kill myself," Xiahouji stares at Zhen Ji without feeling shame of her own bad history.
"That's understandable, but you're not a war prisoner like myself, Lady Xiahou. For heaven's sake, we're bringing up the bad history of women's mistreatment in warring periods. I'm gathering you all here to celebrate this happy moment not our bad history," Zhen Ji sighed.
"Sorry…" Xiahouji pouted.
"Bao Sanning couldn't come because she said hanfu isn't something for women to wear in battle," Guan Yinping came behind Zhang Xingcai and Lady Xiahou revealing her green hanfu.
"Hahahaha! She's right though," Ziyan laughed.
"Of course not, this silk's clothing is too light and a blade can easily tear through your skin," Wang Yi's voice was heard coming from the left where she along with Cai Wenji joined their swore little sister's celebration.
"Wang Yi, Cai Yan, it's good to see you both!" Zhen Ji came to hug both of them.
"Um, Luo, why are you wearing that horrendous ROTK 12 attire? That hanfu been sewed with the most expensive silk," Cai Wenji scanned Zhen Ji's hanfu from the back and front of its design.
"I'm wearing this because this is what Koei thinks of me now. Are we all that's here to celebrate Hanfu Day today?" Zhen Ji counted the people joining her and Xiao Qiao the only Wu woman still with them. The Jin and other ladies have not arrive yet.
Suddenly the woman Zhen Ji been waiting for came with another woman from the same faction as her, "Had to persuade Lingqi to come, but she was so pissed about wearing a Hanfu because she's a woman and would rather wear female war armor to celebrate. Zhu Rong on the other hand never wore a hanfu because Nanzhong was too hot and she would rather wear half naked warrior gear."
"Diaochan and Lady Zou, both of you look glorious," Zhen Ji greeted them both haste.
"Oh, I look cheap compare to her," Zoushi grinned.
"I tried to get Zhaoer too, but she also refuse to come. Hanfu Day, never did I imagine such a celebration can exist. The last Chinese Empire was a Manchurian Empire. And Sino era, we all completely ditch the hanfu while Japan and Korea continue showing their own traditional ancient dresses. I'm glad we're celebrating the hanfu," when she finished talking, she spins around showing her pinkish red hanfu.
"Here comes my sister and the rest of the Wu ladies," Xiao Qiao pointed towards Da Qiao's direction.
"My sister the sharp gossip girl. Hello Miss Zhen," Da Qiao, unlike her sister worn the ROTK XI attire. Her hanfu's red with blue sleeves opposites her sister in orange.
"Isn't that hanfu for servants, Da Qiao?" Zhen Ji asked.
"Well, I've decided to look ordinary. I'm not interest in dressing royalty or expensive today. I have to go back to the orphanage after this," Da Qiao referring to her second job.
"What do you think of me keeping these bracers on my hanfu?" Sun Shangxiang showed her bracers on her her sleeves.
"Did all your maids really wore battle armor?" Ziyan asked her.
Sun Shangxiang gave a darling look at the older woman, "If they haven't, my quarters wouldn't be well protected from assassins or prepared for battle."
"My son always complains about it," Wu Guotai added.
"Zhongmou always complains, mother," Lianshi glared at Guotai.
Another Wu lady shows up and she's the youngest out of the Wu females wearing the most expensive tanned orange and pink hanfu. Her cleavage was exposed while everyone elses were covered except Diao Chan and Lady Zou's.
"So the ugly Shu Empress Xingcai is also here. How's your retarted husband these days?" Sun Luban mischievous appearance had Xingcai's wanted attention.
"I'm divorced and who are you calling me ugly you shameless tramp!?" Xingcai glares at Luban.
"Luo, this reminds me of you and Guo Wang…" Ziyan whispered at her best friend.
"Except they're both not married by the same guy. One is a virtuous empress while the other a cruel princess looking to control her father's court. I can see a rivalry incur. But…" Zhen Ji watched the two girls exchange hateful stares.
"What does the Shu empress even do? Go entertain your retarded husband in banquets? No wonder Shu had the worst Emperor and the worst Empress. If we had taken Shu, no one would have to endure those eyesores in the throne. Hahah, you're wearing a trashy hanfu Empress Zhang!" Sun Luban couldn't believe her eyes on the Shu Empress choice of style.
"…." Xingcai already irritated by the daughter of Sun Quan.
"Luban, that's enough…" Lianshi stresses her nerves over her spoiled daughter's behavior.
"Don't mind her, Xingcai. She can't win a round of kumite against me and you're stronger than her," Sun Shangxiang said.
"I look a thousand times better than anyone here gathered in this so called celebration. Mother, that old hag almost tried to kill you in DW 7 XL right? She doesn't look so tough to me judging by how she died. If you weren't so soft for the weak Lady Xu, you could have been Wu empress," the daughter turns her mother.
"She's just talking gibberish. We'll be waiting outside to celebrate, Zhen Ji," Bu Lianshi dragged her daughter out.
"Hahah…she's fat mother. Zhenji's whole hanfu covers her real weight from ROTK 13! She's a cow! Moo moo!" the Wu princess with the stylename Dohu, was dragged by her own mother out the hall.
"How could Lady Bu raise such a spoiled brat?" Wang Yi crossed her arms watching the mother and daughter duo leave.
"She's so proud to be in Musou Blast and the game got shutdown last month. Imagine if she makes the cut in Dynasty Warriors 9…ugh" Guan Yinping shook her head in disbelief.
"She calls me a cow. I do count as a big beautiful woman on my near forties, hehe," Zhen Ji thought.
"Sorry about my niece, Lady Zhen," Sun Shang Xiang apologized on behalf of the Wu women.
Zhen Ji chuckled, "Haha, no need to apologize. This reminisces the short times I had with my own daughter. Not that she's anything like Luban. A good daughter."
Wu Guotai and Sun Shangxiang exchange looks to recap the best mother and daughter moment. A pity, her brother ruined it.
"Are you waiting for the Jin ladies, Zhen Ji? Chunhua and Yuanji decided not to come. Zhang Chunhua appreciates the idea though and sends her regards. I'm taking their place for the time being. Sigh, why can't there be a Late Wei faction? Shizai and I had discuss about this earlier," Xin Xianying shows off her most classy looking navy hanfu from ROTK 12-13.
"Ding, we have a winner for the Traditional Hanfu Contest!" Cai Wenji cheered.
"Thank you, but I wear this same Hanfu almost every day making sure to clean it for tomorrow and the day after. I'm not the fashion type like most ladies are, but this hanfu is wore for my personality, not my beauty," Xin Xianying complied.
"So classy, the silk is perfect and I love the blue flower stripes cover the collars and sleeves! You don't look like someone from a cheap bachelor as you're supposed to be noble, wise, and…perfect. You are too good for Yang Dan," Cai Wenji said out loud in awe.
"Oh, did any of you have an instagram? I posted up my hanfu on my instagram. It became a hot topic afterwards," Xin Xianying showed her instagram on mobile.
"Looks cool and innovative," Xiao Qiao drool at Lady Xin's mobile.
"Yes to be precise, pictures send by famous people looks interesting," Da Qiao nodded.
Zhen Ji assess the attendants gathered for Hanfu Day, with Xin Xianying being the only Jin woman joining, two Others, six Wus, 4 Shus, and three Weis are all that agreed to celebrate with her.
"Now ladies, let's go outside and show our fans the cultural pride of the hanfu," everyone nodded and went outside where Lianshi and Luban are waiting.
Outside the Koei Building….
"Take pictures of your favorite Dynasty Ladies on traditional hanfus!" Xiao Qiao loudly announced the crowd of fans outside.
"They're wearing hanfu instead of their actual Dynasty Warriors costumes!"
"Wang Yi in a hanfu!? Is this real life?"
The crowd murmurs echo the entire district and the Koei employees look on to the surprising success on Zhen Ji's Hanfu day. As Zhen Ji was sitting on a chair getting fans taken pictures of her posterizing image, a voluptuous lady appear amongst the crowd wearing a pink hanfu almost comparable to Zhen's hanfu as her cleavage was being exposed.
"No matter how beautiful I am, she is indeed on an unprecedented level of complexity," the voluptuous woman whispered.
The voluptuous woman swiftly went and stood next to her after a series of photo shots. Zhen Ji, aware that person standing next to, gave a welcome smile. Zhen Ji got off her chair and hastily drag her to take pictures with the fans.
"The fans will be satisfied if you were sitting on this chair posing like a queen. Try my fan as compensation for being the most popular Musou Blast character!" Zhen Ji then gave the voluptuous woman her fan.
"Lady Zhen, this is too much. Only empress dowagers sit on this chair," the voluptuous woman said sternly.
"I don't care about that. Look Yufeng, I didn't plan this celebration for myself. It's for the fans of three kingdoms. Relieve the beauty of Han culure and.." she moved an inch away from Lady Fan and the scene capture the latter woman's ecstatic pose as the observers gasped at Fan Yufeng's beauty.
Lianshi was taken pictures posing on the wooden couch. Her red hanfu was bland opposite to her daughter's flashy looking hanfu. She scanned to the larger crowd where Zhen Ji was supposedly taken pictures there. There was another woman with Lady Zhen and she knew who that woman was.
"Is that Fan Yufeng with Lady Zhen?" Wu Guotai asked Lianshi as they both watched the larger crowd taking pictures at the right panel.
"Judging by her features. Yufeng always have a flower crowned on her head. Remember, mother in law, Zhen Ji is suppose to be BIG. I'm not referring to Zhen Ji's appearance in the warriors series," Lianshi showed the details on Yufeng's appearance.
Unfortunately, her daughter Sun Luban scoffed at the right panel and it's crowd, "Who gives a damn about Lady Fan? I still hold great influence in political affairs."
As Zhen Ji's side continues to capture the most attention, a dark wind flows from across the street where two women were watching the celebration. A silver haired English woman and a dangerous Chinese woman in red empress attire.
"I wish I brought my hanfu to celebrate with the girls, Nuwang. Maybe a Dynasty Warriors costume pack for the DOA girls will happen," the silver haired assassin known as Christie stood next to Lady Guo with binoculars on her eyes scanning the audience.
Lady Guo analyze panel Zhen Ji was at with Lady Fan. Her face appear calm and satisfied. This type of attention is just perfect for her next scheme. She forced a cocky smirk as her hand raised with a mechanic she's carrying.
"Zhang Di, are all preparations being set? I want that titantron at the other building turn on …now!" Guo Nuwang spoke on her comm.
At the building where a large ultra high definition titantron was at, the man Zhang Di who was one of Lady Guo's personal secretaries answered, "At once madam. You there, turn it on!"
Moments before…
"This is too embarrassing. I never expected to become this popular! Even with my recent gold card in Musou Blast, I still see myself a D list female character in the lore," Fan Yufeng chuckled.
"Is that what you really think of yourself, Yufeng?" Zhen Ji turns to see the other woman's reaction.
"Huh?" She was taken aback by Zhen Ji's comment.
"I'm not the one who gets tossed aside for some random fictional character on that tv series. Your stats are better than mine on every ROTK game and this isn't me speaking out of jealousy. You never got slandered by scholars and past historians or put yourself in a situation where people start being afraid of you for being too beautiful as a villain's wife. Please, accept the positive reception you are receiving from the fans, Yufeng," by encouraging her, Yufeng slowly watched the other ladies enjoying with their own fans. Still, she felt underwhelmed compare to Zhen Ji.
"Thank you.. I don't know how to repay you, but thank you for having me join on this occasion. It's reassuring really," Fan Yufeng shed a tear after that.
Sun Shang Xiang, even with her hanfu on, she still carries a blade terrifying the public, "Don't even think about asking me for free hugs you perverts!"
"Relax, Shangxiang, modern fanboys always have fantasies over warrior chicks in clad armor and stuff,," Wang Yi respond to Shangxiang's frustration.
"But, I'm not that kind of woman! Hmph!" Sun Shangxing continued having pictures of her on hanfu with a grumpy face.
"Oh my gosh! Look!"
"Over there at the titantron on the other building!"
"What on earth could have gotten everyone acting up all of sudden?" Wang Yi and the Bow Princess hurried near the street where the crowd are watching the big tv showing a woman's portrait from the latest ROTK game.
Xiao Qiao could see who the woman on the portrait was, "What kind of sicko edited out Zhen Ji's portrait with this malicious depiction!?"
"I know this. It's the ROTK 13 CG hack. Some Chinese PC hacker can edit our portraits into nude patches," Diaochan responded to Xiao Qiao's outrage.
"Meaning, they can edit our clothes into showing ourselves half naked…." Zoushi nodded.
"Hahaha, moo moo! That's all history will remember her!" Sun Luban hollered at Zhen Ji's panel.
"Luban, stop it!" Lianshi scolded at her eldest daughter.
Zhen Ji slowly went across the street with Lady Fan. The closer she viewed the portrait, the more her mouth wide and the more her eyes struggled to remain firm. The portrait didn't just edited out her shirt to expose her half body, but her face was remade into marked features with her makeup ruined and her head now featured a crown with two serpents.
There were also quotes as if those were her words on the portrait:
"I did it! I sold out my beliefs for my body!"
"Only my body can save myself from death!"
"I was born with it! The body of a queen to rule the land!"
"Even Jiang Ziya feared me because I'm the root of a Dynasty's fall!"
"Even Jiang Ziya feared me because I'm the root of a Dynasty's fall. I think I know who did this. Heaven's help Lady Zhen's mentality…" Yue Ying sighed.
"That poem, it was meant to humiliate Luo!" Cai Wenji told the other ladies what the poem's meaning was.
It was all unbelievable to her. The struggle for redemption on her history. And still, that portrait, how she could not get over the fact that the poem's words shown great shame on her image. Whoever did this would get sued, but that's what the perpetrator wanted. There's only one person who could have defamed her like that. However, she could only hate herself over and over by the fact that she was married to that man…
"Zhenji, are you alright? I know what it's like to be on the same position as yourself. If it were him instead of Zhao Yun at Gui Yan…." Yufeng was cut short by Zhen Ji's changed expression.
"Don't….don't ever put him on the same sentence with Zilong! He will never treat you like that, ever!" Zhen Ji's breathe became heavy as she struggled to walk back into the Koei building. Furious, fill with anxiety, mentality instable over the portrait that bears her negative image.
"I know, that's why…." Lady Fan winced.
"He was the worst husband ever! No one, no one could live that long to bear all the lies and deceptions as the wife of that man! No one! And I was the only woman to endure it until my death!" Zhen Ji shouted.
"Please…" Lady Fan cried.
"That's why you deserve it, Yufeng! You deserve the popularity! This…this Hanfu day…ooh…" Zhen Ji fainted.
She dropped herself hard at the ground unable to recover from the humiliation.
As Lady Guo watched her nemesis faint, she gave a sharp smile. A dark victory for the Queen of Beauties. She nodded to Christie who marveled at Guo Nuwang's cunning. she ruined Zhen Ji's Hanfu Day.
Xin Xianying could see Lady Guo leaving with that Dead or Alive woman escorting her back to her limo.
"I knew this was your doing Guo Wang…" Xin Xianying murmured.
Once Lady Guo gets inside the car with Christie, she gave another glance at her greatest foe and laughed evilly, "Hahaha, how dare she tries to represent the pride of Han women!"
"She took the whole thing hard and fainted. I feel bad for her in all honesty," Christie gave a sadistic smile.
"Cao Pi will be worrying about her from now on, but when she wakes up, she will hate Cao Pi forever because of everything he did to destroy her life. I will always be there for Zihuan, but his heart was with Lady Zhen. Poor Zihuan, he will never understand what true love is. Not while she's the mother of Cao Rui," the Queen of Beauties crossed her legs and drank her wine.
Zhen Ji's body was still lying on the ground as everyone rushed to her support and Lady Fan shouted her name echoing throughout the block.
To be concluded.