This was an engagement ceremony without a groom-to-be.

The woman, dressed in a starry nightgown, sat in an empty yet luxurious room, clutching her phone tightly until her fingertips turned white.

She called Luo Shi many times, but no one answered, and eventually she simply turned off her phone.

In the banquet hall, she stood beside his wheelchair, smiling as she greeted each guest who came to the ceremony. After receiving a phone call, he hurriedly left without offering her a single explanation.

They abandoned her here all alone.

Finally, she dialed Brother Wen's number. Brother Wen's voice was slightly choked and hoarse. He told her that Luo Wan was having a difficult childbirth.

Luo Wan, Luo Shi's older sister.

Luo Shi treated his sister very, very well, so well that it made her jealous.

But she couldn't blame him; after all, she was his sister.

The sky gradually darkened.

The woman remained seated in the room without turning on the lights. Luo Shi's assistant brought her a glass of warm water and told her that Luo Shi was worried that she hadn't eaten dinner and that her stomach might be upset.

Luo Shi is back?

She drank the water and waited quietly and nervously.

But after waiting for a long time, his consciousness gradually blurred, everything went black, and his chest felt like it was burning, getting hotter and hotter, and his mouth was dry.

The door was quietly pushed open, and a dark figure sat on the edge of the bed.

She spoke in a hoarse voice, "Luo Shi?"

No one responded.

She was enveloped by a slightly cool body...

When I woke up again, it was already morning.

The room door was opened from the outside.

The woman looked towards the door and saw the handsome man sitting in the wheelchair. Before she could even blush, thinking of the previous night, an envelope was thrown in front of her.

She was puzzled, but when she opened the envelope, her hand trembled violently, and the obscene photos were scattered on the light gray carpet.

The bed was a mess after their lovemaking, and the dress was torn beside the bed.

She was only wearing a white spaghetti strap nightgown, slumped on the floor, looking up at the man in a wheelchair and a sharp suit sitting in the doorway, her face deathly pale: "Luo Shi..."

Luo Shi tilted his head, walked up to her in his wheelchair, looked her up and down, bent down and gently rubbed her smooth collarbone with his index finger.

Dark red hickeys.

Ambiguous and decadent.

"Miss Jiang, last night, on our engagement night, did he make you feel good?" Luo Shi withdrew his hand and smiled playfully.

The woman stared at him incredulously.

In the scattered photos, the woman's face is clearly visible, but the man is only shown in silhouette and torso.

The bride, dressed in a starry night gown, leaned against a strange man, her eyes hazy, her mind confused, and her cheeks flushed.

Her beautiful back was partially exposed by her dress, and a strange man's large hand gently embraced her slender waist.

Smudged lipstick, swollen lips.

...

“I don’t know how it turned out like this,” the woman murmured softly, then reached out and gently tugged at his fingers. “Luo Shi, I thought it was you, I thought…”

Luo Shi frowned, glanced at the hand that was gripping hers, and slowly placed his hand on hers. His cold fingertips gently pried open the fingers that were gripping him, and his tone was mocking: "Miss Jiang, this hand, was it still holding another man last night?"

As he spoke, he took out a white handkerchief and carefully wiped the areas she had touched.

The woman lowered her head and looked at her hands.

He thought she was dirty.

Even though he didn't say anything, she could tell.

Luo Shi, who had been exceptionally gentle with her before, now seemed like a completely different person.

Suddenly, I noticed a water glass next to me, and at the bottom of the glass, there was still some dried white residue.

The woman looked up abruptly: "It's that glass of water, your assistant brought it over..."

The sound stopped abruptly.

She looked at Luo Shi in disbelief.

Luo Shi chuckled softly and leaned forward, supporting himself in his wheelchair: "Feifei, who do you think sent that glass of water?"

“Impossible,” the woman murmured. “Brother Wen said you were in the hospital yesterday, you…”

“Brother Wen?” Luo Shi straightened up, turned his wheelchair to face her, and smiled coolly. “The Brother Wen you’re talking about knows about this game from beginning to end, and even participated in it.”

"It's just that you're Xie Chi's betrothed since childhood, why is that?"

Xie Chi is the biological father of the child in Luo Wan's womb.

The woman gasped, her voice trembling, "You did this for... Luo Wan?"

"But she's your older sister."

"Sister?" Luo Shi glanced at her and smiled gently. "Did I ever say that she was my biological sister?"

The woman slumped back into her seat, utterly dejected: "So, from the very beginning, you approached me just so I wouldn't ruin Luo Wan's happiness?"

Luo Shi did not respond, and remotely controlled his wheelchair towards the door: "The engagement is canceled."

Before closing the door, he paused, his gaze sweeping over the photo on the floor. There was no unfamiliar man's face, but he could clearly see the man's long legs and the expensive trousers he was wearing.

He wasn't the "adulterer" he arranged.

But it doesn't matter.

He maliciously announced:

"game over."

...

The last scene in the original owner's memory gradually faded into darkness.

Jiang Fei opened her eyes and realized that she was sitting in the back seat of a moving car. It was nighttime, and it was pouring rain outside the window, with rainwater streaming down the windows.

Occasionally, as the car passes by a streetlamp, her image is reflected in the window.

Jiang Fei examined it carefully.

Her skin was as white as snow, and her slightly swollen eyes shimmered like gentle waves, their light rippling with captivating charm. A face pure yet alluring.

Jiang Fei stretched out her hand, looking at her slender fingers, and gently rubbed the back of her hand against her cheek.

She likes this face.

"Miss Jiang, please accept my condolences regarding Mr. Jiang's passing," the driver said, glancing at her through the rearview mirror. The girl hadn't spoken since getting in the car, silently weeping, which was heartbreaking to see. "We'll be at the Xie family home soon. Although Mr. Xie is a bit aloof, he's always been a very kind person. The two families' grandfathers arranged your marriage when you were children, so that place will be your home from now on."

Jiang Fei closed the window without saying a word.

The driver wasn't surprised, after all, his only relative had recently passed away.

Jiang Fei rubbed his temples and silently thought to himself, "System?"

A "ding" sounded in my mind.

[System: Hello, host. The Original Spouse System is at your service.]

Jiang Fei cursed the name "Original Spouse System" a thousand times in her mind: "What is my mission?"

[System: I will gather all the smaller worlds together, and the host will then guide the mission targets to gain their favor. The host will also receive a corresponding bounty. The higher the difficulty of the target, the higher the bounty. The bounty amount will be displayed above the target's head and is only visible to the host. Remember not to deviate significantly from the original storyline before it is completed.]

Jiang Fei raised an eyebrow: "Bounty hunter?"

[System remains unmoved: The Revival Stone can revive all inanimate objects, worth 100 million spirit coins. Host's current spirit coins: 0.]

Jiang Fei calmed down.

She was originally a goddess born from the essence of heaven and earth and nourished by the sun and moon. Her greatest hobby was to travel throughout the three realms and five elements, to drink fine wine, to appreciate beautiful scenery, and to wander among thousands of beauties.

Fortunately, with his beautiful face and the goddess's unparalleled skills, he was invincible by using both soft and hard tactics.

However, beauty can both make and break a person.

One day, after drinking a cup of god-killing wine, she fell into an eternal slumber, which was no different from being dead.

But she didn't even know who had harmed her.

Is he the former Daoist partner she took in and protected from her since she was a teenager, who was then cultivated by countless immortal masters and elders, and who wanted to use his body to give birth to a "little goddess"?

After learning that her former lover only had eyes for his childhood sweetheart, she found a stand-in lover who looked exactly like him because she loved his face so much.

Or perhaps... that sexy and handsome guard who always remained expressionless after being teased by her, but revealed a smile when she died?

Jiang Fei frowned.

I'm so sad.

There are always troublemakers trying to harm her.

In short, when she regained consciousness, her internal organs had rotted away, leaving only a perfect shell.

Her soul, however, was very active, and a new "original partner system" had appeared in her mind, constantly saying that completing the mission would save her life.

[System: Host, do you wish to receive the storyline?]

Jiang Fei: "Accept it."

As soon as the words were spoken, an overwhelming flood of memories surged into my mind.

The original owner was also named Jiang Fei.

Grandpa Jiang and Grandpa Xie were comrades-in-arms who had shared life-or-death experiences on the battlefield. They had made a pact that if they could return alive, they would arrange a marriage between their children from infancy, strengthening their family ties.

Unexpectedly, both families had a son.

However, during their grandchildren's generation, the Jiang family had a daughter, Jiang Fei; and the Xie family had a son, Xie Chi.

The arranged marriage still stood, so after Old Master Jiang passed away, Jiang Fei was brought to Jincheng by the Xie family to fulfill the marriage agreement.

In reality, Xie Chi had already begun a bittersweet love affair with the real female lead, Luo Wan.

—The two experienced going to the wrong hotel room and sleeping in the wrong bed; Xie Chi, having tasted the sweetness, proposed that Luo Wan be his "bed partner"; later, he was moved but did not admit it, and instead foolishly went to see other women, only to be caught in bed with another woman by Luo Wan and then running away with her pregnant; three months later, Luo Wan returned to Jincheng and was ambivalent towards Xie Chi.

Jiang Fei was brought to Jincheng after Luo Wan returned to Jincheng and Xie Chi was pursuing Luo Wan. He was provoked by his love rival and agreed to Xie's old master's suggestion in a fit of anger.

Xie Chi has more than one rival in love—Luo Wan's disabled younger brother Luo Shi; and Wen Yishu, the eldest son of the Wen family.

Luo Shi is not Luo Wan's biological younger brother.

When Luo Shi was young, his mother married Luo Wan's father, and he later learned that his mother and Luo Wan's father were each other's first love, and that Luo Shi was the child that Luo's mother was forced to give birth to.

Luo's father ignored him and was extremely harsh on him, often beating and scolding him.

Luo's mother regarded him as a disgrace, and even if she felt a pang of pity, she would only cowardly avoid him.

Only Luo Wan.

She would secretly apply medicine to him and comfort him every time he was beaten.

Luo Shi regarded her as the only ray of light in his decaying life.

Later, Luo's mother fell ill and died, and Luo's father also died drunk one winter night.

Unable to bear the immense blow, Luo Wan went to a bar alone, feeling utterly lost. There, she met Xie Chi and had a one-night stand with him.

While fleeing the bar, she was nearly hit by an out-of-control car. Luo, who was searching for her, pushed her aside, but was hit by the car himself.

From then on, Luo Shi was crippled in both legs and could no longer stand up.

It was also while Luo Shi was hospitalized that she was found by the Chen family and taken to a luxurious villa—Luo Shi is the only child of Chen Xingzhou, the head of the Chen family.

It turns out that Luo's mother and father were once a couple. Chen Xingzhou fell in love with Luo's mother at first sight, but Luo's mother had no feelings for him at all. So Chen Xingzhou used Luo's father to threaten the two of them into breaking up.

Later, after seeing Luo's mother constantly in tears, Chen Xingzhou finally let her go.

When the Chen family took Luo Shi back, they forced him to change his surname and even used family discipline, which Luo Shi endured without uttering a sound. In the end, it was this stubbornness that won Chen Xingzhou's favor, who told him that he would take over the Chen family when he was willing to change his surname.

If the Xie family is considered a business leader in Jincheng, then the Chen family is the kind that has connections in both the legitimate and underworld circles.

From then on, Luo Shi became Luo Wan's strong support, and repeatedly proved those who said Luo Wan was not good enough for Xie Chi wrong.

As for the other Wen Yishu, he is the eldest son of the Wen family. He is gentle and rarely shows emotional fluctuations. The few times he has shown such emotions, it was all for Luo Wan.

In high society, he had never met a girl like Luo Wan—she couldn't dance, didn't understand high society etiquette, but was always optimistic and positive, and unknowingly fell in love with her.

Jiang Fei's engagement to Xie Chi naturally hurt Luo Wan, who deeply loved Xie Chi.

The Xie family patriarch is stubborn; he will never go back on his word unless Jiang Fei speaks up first.

Therefore, in order for his beloved sister to be happy, Luo deliberately approached Jiang Fei and flirted with her in every way possible, hoping that she would fall in love with him and take the initiative to break off the engagement.

Wen Yishu initially refused, but after seeing her beloved woman, pale-faced, confessing her love for Xie Chi, she joined the game.

The original owner was the only one kept in the dark.

In the end, Luo Shi emerged victorious in this game.

Jiang Fei fell for him, accepted Luo Shi's marriage proposal, and took the initiative to break off the engagement with the Xie family.

However, on the day of their engagement, the day the original owner was about to give herself to Luo Shi, Luo Wan suffered a difficult childbirth. Without hesitation, Luo Shi abandoned Jiang Fei, who was no longer of any use, and went to the hospital.

She even had her assistant bring warm water laced with aphrodisiacs and arranged for a "lover" to enter the room, just waiting to catch them in the act.

The truth was revealed the day after the engagement.

This completely ruined the reputation of the original owner of the body, the woman who caused Luo Wan so much pain, making it impossible for her to ever recover.

To Luo Shi's surprise, the person who entered the room on the night of the engagement was not the "adulterer" he had arranged, but Cheng Ji, the Chen family's mortal enemy.

Cheng Ji, seeing Jiang Fei drugged, was determined to get revenge on Luo Shi and deliberately took a set of ambiguous photos to keep.

These photos, however, became the most logical reason for Luo Shi to cancel the engagement.

On the night of her engagement, she had an affair with another man.

That was enough to ruin a woman.

Upon learning the truth, Jiang Fei was overwhelmed by the successive blows and committed suicide by cutting her wrists.

However, after her death, apart from Wen Yishu sighing and saying "I'm sorry" in front of her dusty tombstone, no one came to visit her.

Nobody remembers her.

Jiang Fei rubbed her swollen, crowded temples: "Wouldn't it be better if I just went and dissolved the engagement with the Xie family?"

[System: Do not deviate significantly from the original storyline, otherwise this world will collapse and the mission will fail immediately.]

Jiang Fei: "..."

She paused for a moment, then said, "Why did you come to me?" Leaning back in her chair, she added with a hint of disdain, "The original spouse system?"

[System: Because I'm honest and reliable, I'm responsible for the original spouse's business, unlike the playboy system next door, which just has more handsome men and a more carefree life.]

While expressing disdain, their envy was barely concealed.

Jiang Fei smiled and looked at the heavy rain outside the window, as well as the villa that stood in the distance, barely visible in the rain. She chuckled and said, "Then I'll let you enjoy twice the happiness with one unit of effort."

[System: What...]

Before the system could finish speaking, a screeching sound of brakes rang out, jarring in the desolate rainy night.

"What's going on?" Jiang Fei asked the driver.

The driver's face turned pale: "Someone suddenly rushed out from in front and fell off his wheelchair."

He opened the car door and rushed out into the pouring rain.

Jiang Fei looked ahead.

—At the corner of the one-way road leading to the villa, in the pouring rain, a wheelchair and a black umbrella lay disheveled to one side, and a person dressed in white clothes and black pants was soaked through by the rain, looking frail and pitiful.

She stared at the words formed by the faint blue light emanating from the person's head, and pondered for a while with furrowed brows.

So the game started this early?

She remembered that her first encounter with Luo Shi was just before she entered the Xie family.

The original owner was introverted, and Luo Shi was exceptionally handsome. One rainy night, Luo Shi deliberately fell in front of her car. She helped Luo Shi up in the rain and felt a flutter in her heart for this delicate and fragile boy.

She also felt pity for him after taking him to the hospital and spending the night alone with him there, seeing how he stubbornly refused her help despite his disabled legs.

It can be said that the original owner's attraction to Luo Shi was closely related to his having the upper hand.

Only when the original owner died did she realize that it was all a deliberate arrangement, and that Luo Shi had been acting all along. His delicate and innocent face, as beautiful as a flower, was actually a man-eating flower emitting poison.

...

Luo Shi was indeed waiting for the rabbit to run into his trap.

Before this, he had thoroughly investigated Jiang Fei.

A gentle, somewhat timid, overly introverted, and easily swayed woman doesn't require him to put in much effort.

Playing the victim appropriately will evoke her sympathy.

Using the "young bird mentality," she became her first friend in Jincheng when she was all alone.

Knowing that she felt too much fear and discomfort in the unfamiliar Xie family, they wanted to prevent her from staying in the Xie family and causing her sister heartache.

Everything was arranged perfectly.

She fell in the rain the moment the car she was in drove arrived.

What could be more pitiful than a beautifully disabled person struggling in the rain?

Sure enough, the rear door was slowly opened.

Luo Shi even managed to strike the perfect balance between being disheveled and aesthetically pleasing.

The next second, the torrential rain overhead stopped.

Luo looked up and saw the girl holding a red umbrella quietly holding it over his head.

She wore a light-colored long dress, bent over and stood in front of him, her eyebrows curved, her red lips slightly upturned, like a night-blooming cereus quietly blooming in the night, with a touch of mysterious charm.

Her eyes sparkled as she stared intently at the top of his head...

However, in less than half a second, she had already looked away, her voice low and soft with a hint of anxiety: "How are you?"

Luo Shi's face was deathly pale from the cold, and strands of hair fell in the rain, obscuring the crimson gleam in her eyes. But when she met Jiang Fei's gaze, the crimson vanished instantly, her eyes becoming as clear as mountain spring water, making her all the more endearing. She stubbornly shook off Jiang Fei's hand holding the umbrella, her eyes slightly red: "It's none of your business."

Jiang Fei looked at the hand that had been shaken off: "But..." She tilted her head and chuckled softly, "How pitiful."

Like a drenched pug.

Luo Shi's expression subtly hardened.

Jiang Fei's gaze swept over his head once again.

[Luo Shi: Bounty 5 million spirit coins; Favorability -50.]

Tsk tsk, the favorability rating was only -30 just now.

Jiang Fei held the umbrella over his head again, and took his hand in her other hand. Her warm palm touched a cold, corpse-like hand.

She smiled brightly and said, "Hello, my name is Jiang Fei."

The game begins.