Lin Xi's eyes widened, and she unconsciously took a step back under Liu Cheng'er's gleaming gaze.
Liu Cheng'er didn't notice Lin Xi's retreat, and even if she had, she wouldn't have cared in the slightest.
Hearing that the points for conquering Lin Xi were so high—one woman being worth ten men—Liu Cheng'er didn't need to think at all. She said to her system: 'Accept, accept, accept! Let me see her detailed information.'
[Conquerable Target: High-quality female Lin Xi.
Conquest Probability: 90%.
Conquest Success Reward: 100 points plus a mysterious bonus.]
Liu Cheng'er's gaze fell on the third line, the 100 points and the mysterious bonus, and her eyes were practically glued to it.
Before her transmigration, Liu Cheng'er was also from an ancient era, but her original world was quite different from this one. In her world, gods, immortals, humans, demons, and ghosts all existed.
Liu Cheng'er was a daughter of the Liu Demon Clan with mediocre talent and plain looks, unpopular within the family. Sixteen was the age of adulthood. In her world, regardless of race, families would celebrate this day for their children, no matter their talent or appearance.
Only the Liu family was an exception. Everything there was ranked according to talent. Because her talent was poor, her life in the Liu family was miserable. On her sixteenth birthday, her sister born on the same day and month was celebrated by the entire clan.
In her own room, she couldn't even get a decent bowl of pastries. It was at this moment that the Collection System bound itself to her. As long as she collected male DNA, she could earn points.
Points could be used to modify her body and talent. But collecting DNA required using her own body to do so. In other words, the only way to collect someone's DNA was by sleeping with them.
Liu Cheng'er, having obtained the system, was desperate for change. So that very night, she slept with the gatekeeper. Because his conquest index was low, sleeping with him only yielded 0.5 points, but even a mosquito's leg is meat. She used those points on her appearance.
As it was her first time using them, the freckles on her face vanished, her sallow skin turned fair, her dry hair became silky, and her flat figure developed curves seemingly out of nowhere.
Having tasted the sweetness the system offered, she slept with more and more men. The more points she earned, the more she could change. She became a great beauty praised by everyone, and men considered it an honor to have a fleeting romance with her.
Such a life left Liu Cheng'er extremely satisfied. She even believed for a time that she was the happiest person in the world.
But one day, the system said the data she could collect in that world was sufficient, and she needed to go to a new world to gather new DNA. Liu Cheng'er, who happened to be bored with that world anyway, agreed without a second thought.
After arriving in this world, although her starting point wasn't great, this world was much safer than hers. Third Brother Lu was the father of the female protagonist, Lu Panpan. Sleeping with him yielded a high three points. Later, Old Man Lu, though old, was surprisingly quite capable in that department.
Sleeping with him also earned two points. This piqued Liu Cheng'er's interest in the Lu family men immensely. Especially since the system said that as long as she suppressed Lu Panpan, she could become this world's female protagonist.
Then, she could sleep with whomever she wanted, and her mission rewards would be doubled.
This was already enticing enough for Liu Cheng'er. Now, a female target with a 90% conquest probability had appeared, along with that 100 points and random bonus—it was enough to drive Liu Cheng'er wild.
You must know, in her previous life, the highest-status man she slept with only gave her thirty points, let alone any mysterious bonus.
Moreover, this Lin Xi before her, whether in age, figure, or looks, was top-tier among women, which delighted Liu Cheng'er even more.
As for how to collect DNA between women, Liu Cheng'er had plenty of experience. Even without a man's... tool, she could make Lin Xi feel so good she'd never want to leave her.
Liu Cheng'er swayed her hips, walking towards her gracefully and delicately. Lin Xi's face stiffened.
Truly, the longer you live, the more bizarre things you see. Lin Xi never dreamed in her wildest dreams that she would one day be targeted for conquest by a woman, and a protagonist from an erotic novel at that.
What happens after being conquered by an erotic novel's female protagonist? It's definitely the kind of stuff that would get censored on certain green websites just for thinking about it.
At this moment, the memes "The lilies of my homeland have bloomed" and "Don't come any closer" flashed through Lin Xi's mind in rapid succession.
Zhong Shuyan hadn't expected this Liu Cheng'er to be so indiscriminate. Instinctively, she stepped forward, shielding Lin Xi.
Seeing this, Liu Cheng'er's face darkened for a moment. She stopped, glanced at Zhong Shuyan, and spoke with an unchanged smile: "Mother-in-law, who is this? I heard people outside say this is my grand-niece?"
People married early in this era, becoming mothers at seventeen or eighteen. Therefore, when Zhong Shuyan fabricated an identity for Lin Xi, she placed her in the grandchild generation. Zhong Shuyan was already in her sixties before transmigrating, so she saw nothing wrong with this arrangement.
This simple identity, however, gave Liu Cheng'er an indescribable, thrilling stimulation. She greatly enjoyed the taboo thrill of the generational gap.
Especially since Lin Xi was a girl who, by seniority, would have to call her "auntie." Just imagining this beautiful girl tearfully calling her "auntie" during that was enough to make Liu Cheng'er tremble with excitement.
'System, tell me, if I do this and that to her, will she cry and beg me?' Liu Cheng'er and the Collection System were the best of partners by now.
All the things she couldn't say to others, she would say to the system.
[Dear host, that is for you to explore personally. This system cannot predict~~] The system's tone was matter-of-fact, but the fluctuating inflection hinted at its own curiosity.
Lin Xi hid behind Zhong Shuyan, completely shielded. Growing up, Lin Xi had never felt so helpless.
Faced with this kind of pervert, no one wouldn't be afraid.
Zhong Shuyan felt nauseous. She didn't bother probing how Liu Cheng'er could hear movements from one or two hundred meters away. With a dark expression, she said, "She's a bit shy around strangers. Third Brother's wife, if you have nothing better to do, go to the kitchen and cook. Don't wander around here aimlessly."
Zhong Shuyan pulled Lin Xi towards the room she currently shared with Eldest Girl Lu. Liu Cheng'er reluctantly headed to the kitchen. Ah, the kitchen—she was all too familiar with it. In both her previous life and this one, the kitchen had been the starting point for many a story.
Liu Cheng'er's body had been modified to be extremely sensitive. Just thinking about certain things made her heart itch with desire. She threw down the spatula and went back to her room.
Soon, noises began to emanate from within.
Lin Xi and Zhong Shuyan, both possessing keen hearing, exchanged a look.
"Sister Zhong, you really have to put up with a lot." The gene repair serum could restore aged and necrotic cells, so Zhong Shuyan's hearing was significantly more sensitive than most people's.
Zhong Shuyan felt weary. "What's there to put up with? Nothing at all. The one who should feel hard done by is you. If you hadn't come, you wouldn't have encountered such a pervert."
Zhong Shuyan's previous impression of Liu Cheng'er was simply shamelessness. Feelings of disgust were reserved for those men who couldn't control themselves. She had always believed that if a girl drifted from one man to another, there must be some unspeakable hardship behind it.
Just like Xu Huixin and the others in the chat group, most of what they did was compelled by the Heavenly Dao. She wondered if this Liu Cheng'er was the same.
But she didn't think so anymore. Liu Cheng'er was clearly enjoying herself and was the one orchestrating everything. There was no need for sympathy then.
"I really can't understand it," said Zhong Shuyan, a somewhat trendy yet not entirely modern old lady who knew what erotic literature was. While reading it, she always had one question. "How do those female protagonists avoid gynecological diseases?" Especially since in some erotic stories, the men were dirty vagrants who couldn't even guarantee their own hygiene.
Lin Xi chuckled. "It's erotic fiction. The female lead naturally won't be troubled by gynecological diseases."
Sun Xiaoyun and her sister-in-law returned from outside. The two women stopped talking and switched to messaging in the group chat.
[Ancient World Farmer's Old Lady Zhong Shuyan: @Earth Girl Lin Xi, Liu Cheng'er has a system. How should we deal with her?]
[Earth Girl Lin Xi: I'm asking right now, don't worry.] Lin Xi felt the group chat system was unusually quiet today.
Usually, when she traveled to another world, her phone would have already shown a solution. Why was the system so silent today?
Lin Xi poked at the phone invisible to others. Soon, a system message appeared on her screen.
[System Message: Abnormal electronic fluctuations detected in the world of Ancient World Farmer's Old Lady Zhong Shuyan. Reported to the Heavenly Dao System Management Bureau. Please wait patiently, group member Earth Girl Lin Xi.]
Seeing this message, Lin Xi's eyes widened in surprise. She typed on her phone.
[Earth Girl Lin Xi: So, when you sent me over, you didn't know there was another system in this world?] This message didn't appear in the group chat but was redirected to a private chat interface with the group chat system.
[System Message: Correct. Before crossing over and encountering Liu Cheng'er, this group chat system did not detect the existence of any electronic fluctuations in this world. This is an oversight by this system. As compensation for group member Earth Girl Lin Xi, you may ask me one question. This system will answer truthfully.]
This statement from the group chat system made Lin Xi's heart race with excitement. She wanted to ask about Lin Zhongxun and also about Xue Min, but as the words reached her lips, she felt now wasn't the best time to discuss these matters.
[Earth Girl Lin Xi: So what do we do now? Just wait?]
[Group Chat System: Yes. In recent years, the Heavenly Dao System, responding to the call for green, healthy, and civilized content, has destroyed a batch of erotic systems. However, a few clever and capable ones always manage to scatter across various dimensions.]
[To evade pursuit, they employ countless disguises. Generally, without direct contact, it's impossible to detect the presence of such systems. Furthermore, each of these systems possesses a small survival tool. Acting rashly would not only alert them but could also provoke them into destroying the small world regardless of consequences.]
[In your Earth's terms, it's called 'a cornered dog will leap over a wall' or 'those with nothing to lose fear nothing.']
This was arguably the longest speech the group chat system had made since binding with Lin Xi.
Lin Xi took a deep breath. [So, before I was transmitted here, what did you think her situation was?]
[Group Chat System: Based on this group chat system's previous analysis, this was a transmigrator from an erotic novel world. Generally, as long as such transmigrators do not harm others, the Heavenly Dao System does not interfere. After all, all transmigrators are equal; no era's transmigrator is inherently superior.]
[The reason this transmigrator is on the Heavenly Dao System Bureau's rectification list indicates she has already harmed this world's original protagonist.]
After the group chat system finished speaking, a light orb invisible to others floated before Lin Xi's head, then entered her consciousness like a wisp of breeze.
Lin Xi instinctively closed her eyes. Within the sea of consciousness she had opened in the previous world, besides the Construction Card, there now appeared a book. Her consciousness focused on it.
This world was originally a doting family novel. Lu Panpan was the Child of the Heavenly Dao in this world. She was inherently pure and kind-hearted. Although a bit proud and willful as a child, these minor flaws would disappear as she grew up.
Once her values were fully formed, she disapproved of her grandfather's stubbornness and her biological father's aloofness. She led the family in resisting them. When they went too far, she even sided with her mother and uncles, supporting their decision to separate the two from the main household.
After living separately for a time, the father and son deeply realized the goodness of their family. They reflected on their past selves and began actively changing. In the end, the prodigal sons returned, their change being more precious than gold. Third Brother Lu passed the county, provincial, and imperial examinations, eventually becoming a local magistrate.
The Lu family's status rose with Third Brother Lu's promotion, becoming a renowned prominent family in the region. Grateful for the sacrifices his elder brothers and sisters-in-law made during his studies, Third Brother Lu began repaying the family. He not only funded the establishment of a clan school but also hired teachers.
Fourth Brother Lu joined the army at nineteen and eventually became a general. The two brothers, one civil and one military, elevated the Lu family's social standing.
The female protagonist, Lu Panpan, married a scholar who later became the Chief Grand Secretary of the court. The couple loved each other dearly until old age.
After finishing the entire book and withdrawing from her sea of consciousness, Lin Xi felt utterly speechless.
Zhong Shuyan had spent the past few days venting in the group chat about the bizarre setup of this erotic-novel world. According to her, any woman connected to the female lead, Liu Cheng'er, met a terrible fate.
Especially the original female lead, Lu Panpan. In the story, she was kidnapped, and her mother, Liu Cheng'er, didn't show much grief over it.
Zhong Shuyan had said at the time that while she found Liu Cheng'er cold-blooded, she could also guess her thinking—after all, it wasn't her own biological daughter. Lost was lost, and it didn't affect her much.
She still had a constant stream of men, only now she had the added excuse of searching for her daughter to hook up with them.
Thinking about it now, Lu Panpan's disappearance is highly suspicious.
Lin Xi opened her eyes. Zhong Shuyan came in from the kitchen with a bowl, intending to pour water for Lin Xi.
After she entered, Lin Xi quietly told her about the issues with Liu Cheng'er's system. Zhong Shuyan's expression immediately turned serious. She truly hadn't expected Liu Cheng'er's so-called system to be so troublesome.
Lin Xi added, "Sister Zhong, did you know Lu Panpan was the original female lead of this world?"
Zhong Shuyan was taken aback. "I didn't know that. I only knew this was an erotic novel world, and the female lead was Liu Cheng'er."
Lin Xi said, "Then you didn't hear it when Liu Cheng'er and her system were discussing this earlier?"
"I heard it, but I thought it was some kind of censored term. I didn't realize Lu Panpan was this world's original female lead." Zhong Shuyan had read novels too, and she was no stranger to transmigration-into-books stories.
Back then, transmigration was a hugely popular genre, and in most of those stories, the transmigrated female lead and the original female lead were often adversaries.
Putting it into the context of the books she'd read before, she had a sudden realization. "I always wondered why Panpan, being the female lead's child, had to be kidnapped. You know, all the Lu family children are quite good-looking. It's impossible that traffickers would only take one, and that she still hasn't been found after so many years."
"I originally thought Panpan not being found was either a plot point the author forgot about because they were too focused on writing the smut, but hearing you say this now, it makes perfect sense. So, this was all according to Liu Cheng'er's wishes."
Zhong Shuyan hated traffickers most in her life.
She spat in disgust. Her patience with Liu Cheng'er had reached its limit. She rolled up her sleeves, ran to the main hall, and kicked the door of the west room.
"Have you no shame at all? Have you no shame? In broad daylight, how can you carry on like this? Huh? Fine, you're carrying on, but this is already the second round, and you're still not finished?"
Liu Cheng'er was utterly shameless. Hearing that Sun Xiaoyun and Zhang Xiaocao had returned, she didn't show the slightest restraint. Instead, she got even louder. The two sisters-in-law, Sun Xiaoyun and Zhang Xiaocao, were squatting in the kitchen, not daring to come out.
Zhang Xiaocao, blushing with embarrassment, had just run to wait outside the gate, afraid that the three Lu brothers would return and run into this.
Although in these times, some poor families only had one room, and couples had to take turns sleeping, when others were present, they would absolutely not engage in such activities.
Inside the room, Liu Cheng'er grew even more excited, moving with greater intensity. The seduction technique within her body activated, and Third Brother Lu's eyes instantly turned red. He exerted himself even more forcefully, completely forgetting what anyone outside was saying.
Old Man Lu still cared a little about face, and being older, he didn't recover as quickly as Third Brother Lu. He was already uncomfortable listening to the sounds from next door, and Zhong Shuyan's door-kicking made him even more agitated.
That pent-up frustration found an outlet. He walked out of his room. "You shrew! How did I end up marrying a woman like you! When you were young, you couldn't do anything right and ate everything in sight without leaving a scrap. Now that you're old, you're getting even more senile, meddling in your own son's bedroom affairs!"
Old Man Lu was skilled in the art of rhetoric. With a twist of topic, he painted Zhong Shuyan as a mother-in-law who couldn't stand to see her daughter-in-law happy.
And mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships are a timeless problem. What woman hasn't been troubled by such a relationship? Especially in an ancient world! If Old Man Lu's words spread, regardless of the truth, plenty of people would take his side against Zhong Shuyan.
"Third Brother and his wife have been married for eight or nine years and still don't have a son. What's wrong with them trying hard for a child? Do you begrudge your own son's happiness? Do you want your son to have no heir?" Old Man Lu's words this time were even more malicious.
If his previous statement was meant to make women, young and old, dislike Zhong Shuyan, this one was aimed at making the men despise her.
After all, in ancient times, among the three forms of unfilial conduct, having no heir is the greatest. From the moment men understand things, they are guided by the notion of continuing the family line. For them, it seems that not having a son makes one a sinner against the clan!
Zhong Shuyan looked at Old Man Lu. His eyes were smug and held an indescribable expectation. He was a man who had engraved the phrase "continue the family line" into his very blood.
He was obsessed with having children, loved having children. Zhong Shuyan's absolute refusal to have more after the fourth child had infuriated Old Man Lu. He had thought his life was basically over.
But then he went to Third Brother's place, got involved with Liu Cheng'er. How old was Liu Cheng'er? In her twenties, the prime childbearing age. Old Man Lu was very confident in his own abilities.
He believed that his seed, as the father, would surely outdo his son's. Liu Cheng'er would definitely give birth to his child. Fathering a child late in life would give him plenty to boast about.
In the past, Old Man Lu took pride in Third Brother Lu. This son fulfilled all his imaginings of a successful son.
But these past few days, his thinking had changed. He now believed Third Brother Lu was a man without virility. He must be failing to satisfy his own wife, which was why Liu Cheng'er sought pleasure outside.
Once his perception of Third Brother Lu shifted, he found fault with everything about him. Third Brother Lu went from his favorite son to his most despised one.
But Liu Cheng'er was different. She was the apple of his eye. Zhong Shuyan could curse Third Brother Lu, but she could not curse his darling.
If Zhong Shuyan hadn't given him a deep lesson with a knife a few days prior, Old Man Lu wouldn't be just talking now—he would definitely have laid hands on her.
Zhong Shuyan scoffed coldly. "Don't you feed me that bullshit about having a son for Third Brother Lu. Go ask Third Brother Lu, then ask Liu Cheng'er. Ask them if they dare guarantee whose seed any child Liu Cheng'er births would be?"
"Lu Dagen, don't think I don't know what you did in the west room during the day. What, feeling pretty pleased with yourself at your age, sharing your daughter-in-law with your own son?"
"Did you really think you could hide your little schemes from me? Talking about Liu Cheng'er having Third Brother Lu's child? More like having yours, right? I've already shown you great face by not exposing this matter, and yet you still have the nerve to spout nonsense in front of me."
With a loud clatter, something heavy hit the ground. Zhong Shuyan followed the sound and saw the three Lu brothers standing outside the door, dumbstruck. The firewood they had been carrying on their shoulders had fallen, but they seemed oblivious to the pain of being struck by it.
In the ensuing quiet, the commotion inside the room sounded all the more lively.
