"Smash!"
Arden's latest model optical computer crashed solidly onto the floor, finally breaking the silence.
Jiang Lijin bent down, picked up the optical computer, stuffed it back into Arden's hands, and even considerately patted his arm.
"Hold it steady, brother." Her tone was sincere, yet carried a mocking counterattack. "How come your hands are shaking at such a young age? You can't even hold onto this little thing. If it breaks, it has nothing to do with me. I can't afford to pay for it, after all, I'm just a C-grade piece of trash."
After saying that, she opened the door and walked out without looking back.
"Bang!"
The door slammed shut, leaving the three males looking at each other in dismay. Before anyone could say anything, the door was suddenly pushed open again.
Jiang Lijin popped her head in and said loudly, "By the way, once the divorce agreement is drafted, send it directly to my optical computer!"
With that, the door was heavily slammed shut once more.
This time, the three of them were completely petrified, standing blankly on the spot.
After a long time, Arden murmured, "Did she... just agree to divorce us?"
"Yes," Rex's voice was muffled, carrying the frustration of fighting a losing battle, "and she called us what... a jackass?"
"She also said she would file a complaint against the three of us under the Female Protection Act." Kieran's voice was relatively calmer than theirs.
"And she said, what... what was the headline again?" Arden still couldn't quite believe it.
"Shocking! Three S-grade beastmen actually launch a joint personal attack on their mate because they despise her low grade." Kieran read out the passage deadpan.
The faces of the other two males darkened.
Rex was the first to smash a fist into the wall, instantly leaving a clear, sunken fist print on the surface.
"She's crazy!" he said through gritted teeth.
"Maybe," Kieran raised a hand and pressed his throbbing temples, "but she agreed to the divorce."
"She cursed at us! She even dared to threaten us!" Arden finally reacted, his fiery red hair practically standing on end. "A C-grade female actually dares to threaten us three S-grade beastmen! Does she know—"
"She knows." Kieran interrupted him, his tone complex. "She also knows the Female Protection Act. And we cannot leave any record that could be interpreted as abusing a female. Especially now, when the military is reviewing my promotion qualifications. Furthermore, Felwin... or any S-grade female for that matter, would never accept a male with such a stain on his record."
Arden opened his mouth, thousands of words stuck in his throat, and finally just squeezed out a fierce, "...Fuck!"
Leaving the room, Jiang Lijin followed her memories and found her own room. Upon entering, she quickly locked the door behind her, slumped down with her back against the door panel, and couldn't help but tremble slightly.
But it wasn't out of fear; it was excitement!
There were no damn system notification sounds repeatedly popping up with OOC Warnings, no countdowns for mission failure penalties, and no forcing her to say, I'm sorry, I was wrong, please don't leave me.
She had cursed back! She had actually cursed back!
She covered her face, laughter leaking through her fingers, growing louder and louder until she laughed so hard that tears came out. But as she laughed, the tears gradually became unstoppable.
In that damn book world, she had played the submissive coward for three years, simped for Gu Chenyuan for three years, and tolerated Su Wanwan for three years, all to complete that bullshit mission, all for the perfect life the system promised.
Unfortunately, she hadn't succeeded even upon her death, and she didn't even know if there really was such a thing as a perfect life. Opening her eyes, she had arrived in this even more outrageous interstellar beastman world.
She wiped her face, propped herself up to stand, and walked over to the vanity mirror. The face in the mirror looked eighty or ninety percent like her original body, except for a small mole at the corner of her eye.
She carefully sorted through the original owner's memory fragments. This world was completely different from her original world, and even the book world she had previously transmigrated into.
This was an interstellar beastman world composed of thirteen galaxies. Due to environmental pollution and Zerg invasions, human genes and animal genes were forced to fuse, forming beastmen. The degree of fusion determined one's grade, ranging from D-grade to S-grade. However, affected by genetics, the number of females was extremely scarce, with a ratio of about 1 to 5000 to males. Therefore, the Female Protection Act came into being.
Logically speaking, since females could not only bear offspring but their spiritual power could also purify the mental pollution males accumulated in battles with the Zerg, and given their scarcity, they should be cherished beings wherever they went.
It was just a pity that the three beastman husbands the original owner was matched with were no ordinary beastmen.
They were all S-grade beastmen, while the original owner only had C-grade spiritual power, making her truly insignificant in front of them.
Even though the original owner had a delicate body and a well-behaved, sensible temperament, unlike other arrogant and willful females, her low spiritual power still caused her to be constantly shut out by these three beastman husbands!
So she always cautiously revolved around the three beastman husbands, trying her best to win their favor.
This plot was exactly like how Jiang Lijin had previously given selflessly with no bottom line to Gu Chenyuan in the book world.
Jiang Lijin couldn't help but sneer:
"Heh, a simp ends up with nothing in the end."
In this world, mate matching was uniformly handled by the Interstellar Empire's Mastermind, the super AI that connected all beastmen across the galaxy. The Mastermind would forge contracts for both parties based on their compatibility; the higher the compatibility, the higher the female's purification efficiency for the male. And because females were scarce, one female could usually be matched with multiple partners.
However, according to conventional matching logic, a C-grade female could at most be matched with a B-grade or A-grade male. As for S-grade males... even if they were matched with an S-grade female who already had ten or twenty partners, it was almost impossible for them to be matched with a C-grade female.
Someone like her was truly a first.
Amidst her chaotic thoughts, her stomach began to rumble. Jiang Lijin then remembered that this body probably hadn't eaten for a long time. She patted her pockets, which were completely empty. In her memory, due to the cold treatment from her three husbands, the original owner's allowance was pitifully small, not even enough to buy a few tubes of the lowest grade nutrient fluid.
She thought of those three brightly dressed males just now; just the latest optical computer in Arden's hand was worth a fortune, yet their wife couldn't even afford to eat.
"Damn it!" she spat out a curse word.
Then, feeling unsatisfied, she took every language she could think of: Chinese, English, and the dialects she had learned in the previous world to please Gu Chenyuan, and cursed in all of them one by one.
After cursing, she felt relieved and threw herself onto the bed, burying her face in the pillow. She lay there for a while, then rolled over and sat up, turning on the old-fashioned optical computer on the table. It was the only valuable thing in the room, a relic left by the original owner's parents.
The screen lit up, requiring a password.
Jiang Lijin searched her memories for a moment but couldn't find a clear password.
Entering the original owner's birthday—Error.
Entering the wedding anniversary of the original owner and the three beastman husbands—Error.
Entering "I want a divorce"—Error.
After a moment of silence, she entered 123456.
The screen unlocked.
Fine. Jiang Lijin twitched the corners of her mouth. This password perfectly matched the original owner's persona.
She began to browse the information on her optical computer. Personal account balance: 32 star credits.
However, the lowest grade of nutrient fluid cost 5 star credits a tube. In other words, she could only survive for six days, provided she only consumed one tube of nutrient fluid per day. She calculated calmly. If she did not earn any other income within these six days, she would very likely starve to death.
Oh, and there was also the matter of the divorce.
She opened the marriage management system and, sure enough, saw three unread messages. They were from Rex, Kieran, and Arden respectively, and all shared the same subject line: Draft Agreement on the Dissolution of Marriage.
