Ye Qing was about to be sent to an international prison.
Hearing Yin Tianyu’s words, his fierce face finally showed a hint of change. “Her? How is that possible!”
“How is it not possible?” Yin Tianyu gave him a mocking look. “You probably still don’t know this, but Ye Shaohua isn’t just the Yun family’s chief jade appraisal master. She’s also the next heir that the Hacker Alliance has chosen. She knew exactly what the two of us were doing from the very beginning. She’s not the clueless idiot you thought she was. If you hadn’t tried to push the blame for your crimes onto her, Ye Qing, where do you think your Qing Gang would be right now, given her status?”
Ye Qing knew that Yin Tianyu wouldn’t lie to him at this point.
So, it was a hundred percent true.
But—
Precisely because it was true, Ye Qing just sat there dazed, slumped in his chair. Following Yin Tianyu’s train of thought, regret began to gnaw at his heart.
[Ding! Main mission completed. System rewards 800 points! Congratulations, host, you have received 800 points!]
[Ding! System 008 at your service. 800 points have been credited. Exiting the world now!]
**
When she woke up again, Ye Shaohua found herself sitting in an antique-looking hall.
By her side stood a pure white crane.
Sitting across from her was a handsome young man dressed in ancient green robes.
There were many other people in the hall as well.
But she was sitting in the very last seat, and no one’s attention was on her.
Thinking about this, Ye Shaohua furrowed her brows slightly. Based on the energy her spiritual sense was picking up… it felt very similar to the aura of that Murong Qiuyue from several worlds ago. This should be a cultivation world.
[No one’s paying attention to you right now, host. Want to receive the storyline?]
In her mind, System 008 was asking.
Ye Shaohua said, “Yeah.”
The moment she said that, a huge chunk of the storyline was stuffed into her mind.
It wasn’t primarily the original host’s memories, but a summary of the main plot.
This was indeed a cultivation world.
The original host was also named Ye Shaohua. In this cultivation world, she was born into a low-ranking family. Although there were cultivators around, most of them were just low-level Qi Condensation practitioners, none having reached Foundation Establishment.
The original host possessed a Water Spirit Root, a rare and pure type of spirit root, which allowed her to cultivate much faster than others.
Originally, someone like her would have been accepted as a disciple by a major sect and lived a glorious life.
However—
The original host’s cousin, Ye Yuan, was someone who had been reborn.
In her first life, Ye Yuan had witnessed her cousin being tested and found to have a Water Spirit Root, then being accepted as a disciple by a major sect, becoming a lofty immortal, and eventually marrying Xuan Yuanche, the son of the city lord, to whom she had been betrothed since childhood.
But Ye Yuan, on the other hand, had a mixed spirit root of low quality. She could only stay in the Ye family and ended up marrying an ordinary person.
Dissatisfied with this arrangement, she begged her cousin to take her to the major sect. However, the major sect wasn’t a place anyone could enter just because they wanted to. The original host couldn’t do anything about it either. In a fit of resentment, Ye Yuan ran away from her marriage.
On the run, she heard that her cousin had become a Golden Core cultivator and envied her greatly. In the end, Ye Yuan was captured by demonic cultivators and used as a cauldron, dying in bitterness and hatred.
Unexpectedly, after she died, she opened her eyes again to a time before any of it had begun.
At this point, the original host hadn’t yet gone to the sect.
Ye Yuan swore that she would get her revenge and make everyone pay. Because she had the advantage of being reborn, she knew where many magical treasures and elixirs from her previous life were located.
So as soon as she was reborn, she immediately went to collect those treasures and spiritual herbs, transforming herself into a single Lightning Spirit Root.
Not only that, but she also destroyed the original host’s Water Spirit Root. Ye Yuan hated that her cousin hadn’t taken her to the sect in her previous life, which led to her miserable death. So in this life, she wanted Ye Shaohua to taste the same feeling.
And that wasn’t all. Ye Yuan decided that in this life, she would live freely and comfortably. She also used her knowledge from her past life to get on Xuan Yuanche’s good side.
Xuan Yuanche had a mutated Fire Spirit Root.
In his previous life, he and Ye Shaohua had been a famous pair of immortal lovers. Moreover, he had become a Golden Core disciple even earlier than Ye Shaohua and was considered a genius in the sect.
So there was no way Ye Yuan was going to let Xuan Yuanche slip away.
She knew from her past life that Xuan Yuanche was waiting for a certain elixir. She arrived at the elixir’s location ahead of time, gathered it first, and then pretended to be modest and let Xuan Yuanche have it. This made Xuan Yuanche take notice of Ye Yuan.
Later, on the way back, the two of them “happened to run into each other.” When they returned to the city, they discovered that Ye Yuan was actually the daughter of his father’s old friend.
Xuan Yuanche was successfully drawn to her. But he couldn’t break off the engagement he’d had since childhood with his fiancée, because his father and Ye Shaohua’s father were close friends.
He was very troubled. But then, unexpectedly, an opportunity came. During the Xuan Yue Sect’s disciple selection, Ye Shaohua’s Water Spirit Root had been ruined.
So Xuan Yuanche brought his people to the Ye family to break off the engagement. The very next day, he actually went to propose to Ye Yuan’s parents. This caused the original host to lose all face in public.
In this life, everything was going smoothly for Ye Yuan. Ye Shaohua had been ruined by her and would end up marrying an ordinary person, the same kind of person Ye Yuan had looked down on in her past life.
After some polite exchanges in the hall, a voice finally broke the silence.
“Patriarch Ye,” Uncle Xuan Yuan said calmly as he looked at Ye Shaohua’s father. “Our Che’er is about to enter the Xuan Yue Sect. You see, Shaohua’s spirit root is already destroyed. She wouldn’t be suited to enter the Xuan Yue Sect anyway. The City Lord didn’t feel comfortable coming himself, so I, as his uncle, will just say it plainly. Let’s call off the engagement between Che’er and Shaohua.”
There were many onlookers from the branch families in the hall.
When the several hall masters and Ye Yuan’s father heard these words, they were all stunned for a moment. But in the next second, a hint of mockery appeared in their downcast eyes.
Ye Shaohua realized—what a coincidence. She had transmigrated at a very specific moment.
It was precisely the time when the original host had just been examined and found to have a ruined spirit root, and Xuan Yuanche had come with the City Lord’s people to break off the engagement.
