“Holy shit.”
“Don’t come any closer!”
In the Lin family’s council hall.
A young woman seated on the elevated platform at the head of the hall suddenly opened her eyes and blurted out two choice phrases.
The moment her voice fell, the entire hall fell silent enough to hear a pin drop. Everyone turned toward her in unison.
“Ahem. Wrong line. Please, continue.”
The young woman immediately realized her mistake and hurriedly waved her hand, signaling to everyone below not to pay it any mind.
“Miss Wushuang, the matter of this marriage alliance is of great importance. I’m afraid we cannot arrange the wedding today. Would you be willing to give us a little more time and consult the elders of the Ye family first?”
The person speaking was a white-haired, middle-aged man seated beside Ye Wushuang. He looked to be around fifty years old and spoke with extreme caution.
He was none other than Lin Aotian, Patriarch of the Lin family. He possessed absolute authority within the Lin family, yet at this moment he was bowing and scraping before the young woman, his attitude so respectful that it bordered on servility.
However, Ye Wushuang showed no reaction whatsoever, as though she had never regarded him as worthy of her attention.
Seeing this, Lin Aotian did not dare voice the slightest objection. The disparity between their family backgrounds was simply too great, even though his cultivation was far higher than Ye Wushuang’s.
What he did not know was that Ye Wushuang had only just transmigrated and was still digesting the information in her mind.
All she remembered was that she had worked late the previous night. Someone had tried to sell her a swimming-and-fitness membership, but she had refused.
In a fit of rage, she had hurriedly crossed the road to save time. She never expected to hit the jackpot.
After rubbing her aching head, she finally finished processing the memories.
That’s right. She had transmigrated into a cultivation novel called The Spirit Domain Continent.
And she was the legitimate daughter of the Ye family of Famous Sword Manor, located in Green River City.
Green River City was merely a remote border town on the Spirit Domain Continent, ruled by four great clans. The Ye family of Famous Sword Manor was one of them.
As the Second Young Lady of Famous Sword Manor, Ye Wushuang had been willful and unruly since childhood. No one in Green River City dared provoke her.
Unfortunately, the original owner was also a hopeless romantic.
At the Lantern Festival in Green River City, she had caught a distant glimpse of Lin Langtian, Young Master of the Lin family. His handsome features and extraordinary bearing had captivated her completely, and she had been unable to forget him ever since.
Thus, Ye Wushuang, who had always run rampant wherever she pleased, had gone to the Lin family alone, intending to use her status as the Second Young Lady of Famous Sword Manor to force them into a marriage alliance.
“Damn it! According to the original plot, doesn’t that mean I’m about to die?”
After absorbing the original owner’s memories, Ye Wushuang’s face filled with shock.
If she remembered correctly, the anniversary of Ye Wushuang’s death was exactly one year from today.
“Damn it! I’ve only just transmigrated, and someone’s already about to dance on my grave? If I’d known this would happen, I might as well have gone digging for wild vegetables.”
Ye Wushuang was furious.
Ding! The host’s anger value has broken through the heavens. Congratulations, host, on officially activating the system.
An electronic voice rang out in Ye Wushuang’s mind. Her heart jolted, and she became incredibly excited.
“Give your lady a proper introduction to your functions.”
Ye Wushuang issued the command silently.
Ding! Congratulations, host. This system is the Fortuitous-Opportunity Snatching, Ten-Thousandfold-Return System. The system can display other people’s recent opportunities. After snatching an opportunity, the host may receive a return reward ranging from tenfold to ten-thousandfold.
“System, exchange me for a different one!”
“???”
When the system failed to respond, Ye Wushuang let out a mournful sigh and could only resign herself to accepting it.
She had thought she would receive her dream system—the kind that made her invincible, where she would be unbeatable below the Immortal realm and trade one-for-one with anyone above it.
Clearly, she had failed. It seemed people really shouldn’t be too greedy.
“Let’s see what you can do.”
Thanks to the advanced intelligence she had developed in her previous life—ordering takeout whenever she was hungry, carrying an umbrella whenever it rained, and never signing up for a swimming-and-fitness membership—Ye Wushuang carefully studied the system.
After familiarizing herself with it, she more or less understood how it worked.
Put simply, she could view other people’s status panels.
Everyone’s destiny was ranked from highest to lowest as: [Built], [Top-Tier], [Above the Masses], [NPC], and [It’s Over].
Seeing this, Ye Wushuang silently thought, “View status.”
[Name: Ye Wushuang]
[Realm: Early Qi Condensation]
[Destiny: It’s Over]
[Recent Plot: Driven by her lust for the beauty of Lin Langtian, Young Master of the Lin family, she attempts to use the power of the Ye family to force the Lin family into a marriage alliance. She is opposed by Liu Ruyan, the future Great Emperor, who ambushes her and uses a talisman treasure to kill her on the spot in the Lin family’s council hall.]
The cultivation realms on the Spirit Domain Continent were divided into: Body Tempering, Qi Condensation, True Essence, Profound Connection, Cave Heaven, Innate, Golden Core, Violet Palace, Sea of Bitterness, Divine Bridge, Other Shore, Dharma Idol, Primordial Beginning, Saint, Saint King, Saint Sacrifice, Profound Venerable, Supreme, Quasi-Emperor, and Great Emperor.
As for what realms existed beyond the Great Emperor realm, perhaps there were even higher levels.
In Ye Wushuang’s opinion, however, there was a simpler way to classify them: senior, fellow cultivator, junior, and ant.
A talisman treasure was a powerful single-use talisman that sealed the strongest strike of a senior member of a clan. Usually, only an expert at the Innate realm or above could create one, and it would take three months to make.
She had one too, but…
The original owner just happened not to bring it today.
Ye Wushuang was speechless. Wasn’t this a little too much? She had only just transmigrated, and someone already wanted to kill her?
After all that, she had transmigrated into a cannon-fodder character. And the key point was that this was only the very first episode!
A normal cannon-fodder character should at least survive three episodes. She was going to die in the first one?
An inexplicable rage rose within Ye Wushuang’s heart. This was way too cruel.
Based on her experience reading web novels in her previous life, Liu Ruyan was at least the sort of ruthless woman who killed decisively.
However, Ye Wushuang clearly had no intention of taking the blame for the original owner. If things really came down to it, perhaps she should just slip away while she still could.
A cowardly idea rose in Ye Wushuang’s mind.
But giving up just like that seemed a little too pathetic.
“System, I’m far too weak right now. Do you have any kind of beginner’s benefit? Hurry up and give it to me.”
Ye Wushuang asked inwardly.
Ding! The host has just transmigrated, is completely alone, and cannot survive even one episode. Rated as the Most Miserable Transmigrator. A Beginner’s Gift Pack has been issued. Would you like to claim it?
“Claim it! Hurry up and claim it!”
Ye Wushuang’s eyes lit up.
Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained one Pig-Pig-Climbs-a-Tree Talisman and one Orientation-Reversal Talisman.
“???”
What kind of beginner’s benefit was this supposed to be?
Still, judging by their names alone, these two talismans were clearly no ordinary items.
Ye Wushuang quickly examined them.
[Pig-Pig-Climbs-a-Tree Talisman: Releases a divine-soul imprint onto the target, causing the target to believe that they are a piglet capable of climbing trees. Duration: two hours.]
[Orientation-Reversal Talisman: Forcefully reverses the target’s sexual orientation. Duration: one month.]
Ye Wushuang was speechless. This system was genuinely stingy.
She had thought it would at least give her an offensive talisman so she could casually wipe out the two people in front of her and be done with it.
Instead, it had given her nothing but useless junk.
“Hahaha, Ye Wushuang, marriage is a matter of mutual affection. At the very least, it requires the approval of one’s parents and the arrangement of a matchmaker. You truly have no shame!”
A shrill voice came from outside the hall.
Ye Wushuang raised her head and looked over. A proud, striking figure appeared in the Lin family’s main hall, her eyes full of disdain as she gazed at Ye Wushuang.
Liu Ruyan was an adopted daughter from outside the Lin family. She had been taken in and raised by the Lin family’s matriarch since childhood.
Thus, Liu Ruyan and Lin Langtian had been childhood sweethearts, and their feelings for each other deepened over time.
On the very first day she entered the Lin family, Lin Langtian earnestly guided Liu Ruyan in her cultivation. From then on, their relationship blossomed rapidly.
Later, during one of the family’s training expeditions, Lin Langtian even saved Liu Ruyan’s life, causing her feelings for him to grow even stronger.
Although Lin Langtian was the Young Master of the Lin family, he had never looked down on her in the slightest.
Add to that his handsome features and aloof temperament, and Liu Ruyan had long since given him her heart.
Yet now, in order to curry favor with Ye Wushuang, the unruly young lady from Famous Sword Manor, the Lin family’s patriarch had actually made the decision on his own.
He intended to use her beloved, Lin Langtian, as a bargaining chip in a political marriage, sending him to marry into the Ye family.
How could that not enrage her?!
“Outrageous! Liu Ruyan, how dare you speak to Miss Ye like that? You’re completely disregarding all rules of rank and propriety!”
