Two days ago.
The eldest princess and the great general completed their wedding and planned to mobilize the army to wipe out the goblins.
The second princess, meanwhile, had been abducted by a treasure-thieving gang, her fate unknown.
“Eldest Princess, I’ve brought you out just as you arranged. Now, about the reward we agreed on…”
The leader of the treasure thieves glanced impatiently at the girl nearby who was curiously examining her own body.
He just wanted to collect his payment and leave as soon as possible.
“Relax, relax, I won’t go back on my word. Here, it’s right here.”
Luo Xinyu slid a ring off the finger of this Xia Yue body and tossed it to the treasure thieves’ leader.
In the game, the existence of spatial rings made perfect sense—similar to an inventory bag, except it was a locked bag. For others to use it, they needed the ring owner’s permission, or the original owner had to remove the restriction.
Luo Xinyu had specifically read through the comprehensive guide to everyday items that the servants had brought over, so she was quite familiar with these little gadgets.
However…
The ring she gave the treasure thieves’ leader belonged to Xia Yue. It did contain quite a bit of gold, silver, and valuables—more than enough to serve as payment.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to use her own—it was that the few rings she’d brought along had all been swapped away when the bodies were exchanged.
They were probably still on her original body right now.
“Alright, pleasure doing business. We’ll be on our way.”
The treasure thieves’ leader didn’t waste any words. He took the ring and turned to leave.
As for why he didn’t use that earlier item to directly swap bodies with the kingdom’s princess and enjoy endless wealth and luxury—well, naturally, it was because he couldn’t bring himself to abandon his male dignity. If the kingdom had a prince, he would absolutely have chosen to swap bodies. But becoming a woman? No thanks.
He didn’t know if this country’s king had something wrong with his head—the upper echelons of the nation were basically all women.
After he left, Luo Xinyu composed herself and prepared to head to the goblin cave.
Everyone’s final quest was the same—the target was the goblin chieftain. To complete the quest, one had to go to the goblin cave.
Though she didn’t know if there would be any dangers along the way, Luo Xinyu wasn’t afraid. As the kingdom’s princess, aside from the ring full of treasures, she also had a storage ring containing many self-defense items.
She’d even heard that when princesses like them faced lethal danger, the Goddess herself would descend to save them.
“I wonder how Xia Xi is doing.”
This was Xia Xi’s game space. Luo Xinyu didn’t believe for a second that he hadn’t entered the game. Knowing his personality, he shouldn’t have ended up with some nobody identity—but she genuinely hadn’t gathered any useful information.
“Don’t tell me…”
Suddenly, a possibility occurred to her.
“Don’t tell me Xia Xi went and became the Goddess?!”
Thinking about it carefully, the probability wasn’t low at all. The Goddess’s identity was arguably the highest in this game. If Luo Xinyu could choose for herself, she definitely wouldn’t pick the princess identity—she’d choose the Goddess.
After all, little Xi Xi had been a girl so many times already. Setting aside his pride to pick the Goddess identity didn’t seem impossible~
With these thoughts, Luo Xinyu felt even less afraid of exploring the goblin cave. Maybe if she got into danger and the Goddess came to rescue her, she’d get to see Xia Xi!
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Time returns to the present.
Xia Xi looked at the young girl bound before him with some strange binding technique, a trace of amusement flickering in his eyes.
My foolish little sister, you’ve fallen into your brother’s hands. How shall I toy with you~
That’s right—the human who had intruded into the goblin cave was none other than Luo Xinyu, currently inhabiting Xia Yue’s body!
She hadn’t expected that inside this cave, the spatial ring couldn’t be accessed at all. This meant all the items stored inside were completely unusable.
With just this little girl’s body, facing countless goblins, she was utterly powerless.
And so, she had been captured and brought before this somewhat scrawny-looking goblin chieftain.
“What are you looking at! You’re just a goblin—you’ll be wiped out sooner or later!”
Luo Xinyu blurted out this provoking remark as if possessed. It seemed that the moment she laid eyes on the goblin chieftain, an inexplicable anger surged in her heart, making her unable to resist snapping at him.
No wonder the system’s quest was to enslave or kill this chieftain. Just looking at him from afar brought endless disgust welling up—who wouldn’t want to kill him?
So cocky?
Xia Xi raised an eyebrow, spun the toy stick in his hand, rose from the throne, and slowly walked over to “Xia Yue.”
Goblins were quite short. From Xia Xi’s current perspective, he was probably about half a head shorter than Xia Yue.
He reached out and used his index finger to lift her smooth chin, putting on the lecherous expression typical of ordinary goblins.
“Little girl, so pretty. You’d probably be quite enjoyable to play with, wouldn’t you?”
Xia Xi had intended to tease her like this, to make her feel fear through words. But unexpectedly, “Xia Yue” just stared at him blankly, as if she couldn’t understand what he was saying.
To Luo Xinyu’s ears, this creature with “Goblin Chieftain” written on his head simply walked up to her and emitted a string of gibberish.
Judging by that lecherous expression, he was probably saying something like “You’re so pretty, I wonder what you’d be like to play with.”
Credit where credit was due—Luo Xinyu’s guess was spot on. Even without understanding the language, she could largely figure out his thoughts.
Damn goblins—truly an evil race!
No wonder those otaku types grouped goblins, slimes, and tentacle monsters together and called them the Three Evil Gods.
She didn’t know what Xia Xi was thinking, insisting on making the villains this lecherous race.
Luo Xinyu had already decided: if this goblin chieftain tried to lay his hands on her, she’d bite her tongue and injure herself to summon the Goddess.
As long as the Goddess descended, she wouldn’t die no matter how badly hurt, right? And even if she did die, it didn’t matter—dying in the game would probably just make her a spectator like before, sitting in a dark room watching others’ actions like watching an anime.
But… would biting her tongue to die hurt a lot?
The young lady was still a bit afraid of pain.
But compared to being defiled by a goblin, she could accept dying.
“Damn, the language barrier—how am I supposed to humiliate this bratty sister of mine?”
Xia Xi scratched his smooth head.
Verbal insults wouldn’t work. Surely he couldn’t actually do something inappropriate to her?
Never mind that she was his sister—just looking at this goblin body of his made even himself sick. If he actually did something out of line, it would leave her with psychological trauma!
As he thought, he twirled the toy stick in his hand like a pen. But he fumbled, and the stick fell to the ground—landing right next to Luo Xinyu’s hand.
From the very moment she’d entered this place, Luo Xinyu had noticed this stick that clashed so completely with its surroundings and the goblins’ image.
Just imagine: an ugly goblin twirling a blue-and-pink stick that looked like a magical girl’s wand. The scene would be absurd no matter how you pictured it, right?
But that also proved one thing—this stick was definitely not ordinary!
Now that she’d been captured by the goblins, if she had a chance to gamble, she naturally had to try!
So Luo Xinyu reached out and grabbed the blue end of the stick, intending to take it in hand and use it to strike the goblin chieftain.
But unexpectedly, the goblin chieftain also bent down at the same moment and grabbed the other end of the stick.
The next instant, intense dizziness washed over her. When her consciousness recovered and her vision cleared, she realized her perspective was different from before.
The first thing that met her eyes was a pair of green, oily claws. Looking slightly upward, she saw a cute, dazed-looking girl with a blank expression, her head pressed down by two other goblins, her rear end sticking up as she lay on the ground.
She had… swapped bodies with the goblin chieftain?!
“Hey, Goblin Two, have you noticed the chieftain seems weird?”
“I noticed, Goblin One. Our感应—our sense for the chieftain’s identity—has shifted to this woman underneath us.”
“So, Goblin Two, who do we acknowledge as chieftain now?”
“Duh, Goblin One. Whoever we sense is the chieftain.”
“But she’s a human.”
Luo Xinyu suddenly realized she could understand the goblins’ conversation—probably because of the body swap.
But… these goblins could actually sense that their chieftain wasn’t the original person anymore? They had a special way of identifying the chieftain’s identity? That was ridiculous.
Xia Xi also came back to his senses at this point.
Feeling his head being pressed down, his knees on the ground, and looking at the pale, delicate little hands before him—he immediately understood the situation.
Body swapping wasn’t exactly new to him, so he adjusted quickly and wasn’t surprised at all.
So, having two people touch opposite ends of the stick would swap their bodies—that was this treasure’s ability?
Xia Xi yanked the stick back from the green claws with a tug, then faced the ground and shouted at the two goblins holding him down: “What are you two still pressing me down for? Don’t you recognize your chieftain anymore? Let me go!”
Goblin One and Goblin Two exchanged a glance, then obediently stepped aside.
Seeing this, Luo Xinyu sensed trouble and stepped forward to grab Xia Xi.
“First, grab this human who swapped into my body!”
Xia Xi was speechless at these goblins.
He told them to let him go, and they really just stopped restraining him and obediently stood aside.
But don’t forget—Xia Yue’s body was still covered in ropes!!!
And what was with this binding method? It was so strange.
Two strands of rope passed through the valley between her breasts, the tight clothing outlining curved arcs.
Normally, this kind of binding should have tied the hands behind the waist. But perhaps these goblins hadn’t learned it properly—they’d tied her hands in front. That was why “Xia Yue” had earlier had the chance to grab that blue-pink stick.
The two goblins somehow suddenly understood human language too—probably related to their so-called chieftain感应. But none of that mattered. The most important thing now was to obey the chieftain’s orders and grab this human who had become one of their own kind.
Xia Xi’s original goblin body was scrawny to begin with. Against two more robust goblins, he couldn’t put up much resistance.
“Gibberish!”
(Give me back my body!)
Back when she’d swapped bodies with Xia Xi in reality, it hadn’t felt like much—she’d just thought it was fun and novel, getting to experience society as a male.
It wasn’t until now, after swapping bodies with an ugly goblin, that Luo Xinyu understood why so many people considered body-swapping to be something evil.
Like in plenty of novels—a handsome guy and a beauty, the school beauty and the school hunk swapping bodies—that’s standard destiny, always leading to a sweet romance.
But if a cute young girl or a beautiful young lady swapped bodies with an old, stinky geezer or a sloppy middle-aged man—that was a complete disaster, an utterly evil act!
Nobody wanted their beautiful life swapped away by someone else.
“You think I’ll give it back just because you say so?”
After the other goblin untied Xia Xi, he grinned.
My foolish little sister, trying to take on the boss right from the start—now you’ve fallen into my hands, haven’t you?
But this Xia Yue body really was nice. It felt energetic, full of vitality. The chest burdens weren’t heavy at all, and movement was quite convenient—just a bit short.
Being in Xia Yue’s body felt very different from being in Bai Xiaocha’s body.
When Xia Xi was in Bai Xiaocha’s body, the sense of weakness that body brought was very clear—that was what made Xia Xiaocha so delicate and frail.
Xia Yue was different. In his own sister’s body, Xia Xi felt overflowing vitality.
He could only say—as expected of a energetic young girl!
By the way… this was his second time swapping bodies with his sister, right?
He remembered last time, this bratty sister nearly drained his male body dry.
Heh heh, this time she wouldn’t get that chance. A goblin’s body wasn’t fun at all~
“Gibberish!”
(What do you want me to do before you’ll give me back my body!)
Luo Xinyu forced herself to calm down.
She had now swapped bodies with the goblin chieftain, and the Goddess’s blessing was on the princess’s body. That meant only when that princess body suffered lethal harm would the Goddess descend.
Looking at the two goblins gripping her arms on either side, Luo Xinyu really couldn’t think of any way to turn things around.
Damn goblins—truly an evil race!!!
She should have just stayed obediently in the kingdom and married that great general. At worst, when the general tried to make a move on her, she could have done a suicide run and summoned the Goddess to solve the problem.
Why did she have to end up like this?
Without even a single means of resistance.
Woo woo woo, stupid Xia Xi, your young lady is about to be tormented terribly by goblins. Come save me~
Little did she know—the Xia Xi she was hoping would come rescue her was actually the goblin chieftain right in front of her, the one who had swapped bodies with her!
Smack!
Xia Xi kicked “Xia Yue” to the ground, then placed his bare foot on her face.
“Foolish human, feel the power of us goblins~”
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