Chapter 16 new mission has been issued: Upgrade mission: [Completely defeat...]
"Hello—System?"
Amidst a sharp pain, Le Jin returned to the space she had arrived in after her car accident.
In the darkness, a blue, thread-like light approached her, as if to take her to a distant place.
"Am I going to be reincarnated...?"
Le Jin looked around in confusion, desperately hoping to see the mindless system that had made her a eunuch.
But it's not here.
My nose felt sore, and my vision blurred with tears.
In the end, she's still going to die. All that busy work these past few days has been as ridiculous as a clown's act.
All she wanted was to live, to have a peaceful life with her sister, but fate wouldn't be kind to her even a little. Le Jin hugged her knees and sobbed.
[Ding-dong]
A pale golden sphere of light suddenly appeared.
Sorry, the current task points calculation is quite complex, causing a delay in the online process.
In an instant, the anger of being deceived and mocked, the terror of being stabbed, and all the grievances erupted. Le Jin opened her mouth wide and wailed unrestrainedly, without any regard for her image:
"What's the use! I'm already dead! I'm about to die..."
That's unlikely.
The wailing stopped abruptly, and Le Jin's tearful eyes fixed on the system.
[I forgot to tell you last time. The tasks are based on a point system; you'll earn points for each step you take. Points can be redeemed for rewards.]
"Do I have any points?" Le Jin asked, looking bewildered and sobbing.
[Guiding the female lead to independence and self-reliance, +20 points; encouraging the male lead to pursue his career, +10 points. Total: 30 points]
Why are the bonus points different?
The score is determined by the value of the mission. The male protagonist joining the army contributes to a happy ending, but it also leads to entanglements with the princess in the later plot, resulting in a bad ending with the female protagonist.
As the calm, mechanical explanation reached her ears, a sudden inspiration struck Le Jin.
Yuan Jingming's wife was a princess he saved while on duty as a guard in the capital. What he didn't know was that the Empress Dowager and Prince Pingning had arranged their marriage long ago, and that chance encounter during the rescue was exactly what led to their arrangement for Yuan Jingming.
No wonder the Empress Dowager rewarded her! Her advice to Yuan Jingming to join the capital's guards perfectly aligned with the ruling class's life plan for the Prince of Pingning.
But you can't blame her. She thought she could stay by Yuan Jingming and Jiang Yingyun's side forever, and if the princess needed saving, she could just go and rescue her! She had everything planned out, but then Meng Shutai came along…
Thinking of that person, Le Jin clenched her fists. A ruthless, heartless liar! The one who destroyed everything!
Le Jin was seething with anger, hoping that the points would be kinder to her, so she asked sullenly, "What can I exchange for 30 points?"
[You can redeem a "one-day trip to any country," a "three-day dog attraction pass," or a "skin brightening effect" in the real world—this is a lifetime offer. Which one do you choose?]
"I...I choose you, the big watermelon! I'm doomed, waaaaaah..."
Le Jin cried louder and louder, her heart shattered into eighty pieces.
Wait, don't cry.
There was a hint of helplessness in the mechanical voice.
Le Jin ignored it and cried as if she wanted to cry out all the bitterness of her life.
[Alright, you still have rewards to redeem in the world of the book.]
Le Jin's head was throbbing from crying. She raised the back of her hand to wipe away the salty tears that had trickled down to her mouth, and pleaded pitifully, "Can you please stop playing tricks on me?"
[30 points can be exchanged for a new task, would you like to?]
New task.
"...Does it mean I can continue to live and make money as a character in the book?"
【right. 】
Le Jin nodded hurriedly in agreement, tears welling up in her eyes.
The system remained silent for a moment, the light flashing intermittently, before the cold, mechanical voice sounded again.
"An upgraded mission has been issued: [Completely defeat Meng Shutai], mission identity..."
Le Jin stared at it, bewildered yet absolutely certain: "You're just playing me..."
She suddenly went berserk, hurling a torrent of abuse at the system, which was now a sphere of light: "Is he really my 'white moonlight'? He's not even human! Do you know he blinded my younger brother when we were kids? He's a madman! A psychopath! And he even killed me!"
The fear of a cold knife stabbing into her heart surged back like a tidal wave, and Le Jin trembled: "How can I fight him! I don't want to have anything to do with him anymore!"
She's not stupid.
This task was practically like having her barefoot standing in a sizzling pan of oil, her whole body sizzling and being fried until her bones were charred and her skin was crispy.
"Change it! Change it! I'm not taking this!"
The reward for this mission is your life and a comfortable life in the real world.
A thunderclap exploded in the clear sky.
Le Jin was speechless, staring blankly for a long time before he could react.
The rewards for each task are tied to a specific item. Are you sure you want to switch to something else?
"No."
Le Jin felt a jolt of electricity coursing through her brain from the shock, but she immediately retracted her decision.
She slumped down resignedly, swallowing hard, a sense of helplessness, as if she had been forced into a corner, gripped her. But what was even more tragic was that she had to break free from this helplessness and keep moving forward.
"But... how can I completely defeat Meng Shutai?" Le Jin felt she couldn't do it.
There are no requirements regarding the process of the task; as long as the result is achieved, you are free to go ahead and do it. For example, "Take down the Meng family?"
...Can I kill this system?
Seeing Le Jin give him an incredibly resentful look, the system's light flickered.
[Ahem, or maybe you could make him fall in love with you, then dump him ruthlessly, leaving him heartbroken?]
"Please stop reading those third-rate novels." As soon as she said it, Le Jin realized that she had no right to criticize her.
She also reads novels...
But it is precisely because of this that she is adept at handling all sorts of melodramatic and tangled plots, and this operation seems to suit her better than taking down the Meng family, a wealthy and noble family that has been imperial merchants for four generations.
There's an even more important point: she can avenge that fatal blow.
Le Jin has suffered a lot in the past sixteen years, but never before has she so longed for revenge.
She could be poor, she could suffer, she could struggle alone in society, but she couldn't tolerate the trampling and mockery of the dignity of her life.
Seeing her silence, the system added:
This time, the characters' identities involve many plot points. You need to complete the mission without violating the principles of the original story.
I will appear to remind you when you reach a certain point in the story to complete it.
Hmm, that's quite thoughtful.
But the resistance to being forced to fight Meng Shutai was still there. Le Jin asked with a long face, "This time it won't be a eunuch, will it?"
The halo around the sphere of light expanded, as if it were in a good mood.
Trust me, you'll definitely be satisfied.
The next moment, Le Jin woke up on a bed with tightly closed curtains. The coarse brown-green curtains had loose lint around the edges, making it far inferior to the Wangfu and Mengfu mansions.
Le Jin stared blankly at the top of the tent: What's the system always in such a hurry for? It hasn't even told her her identity yet!
Pulling back the curtain, I saw a small guest room. There was a table, two chairs, and a small mirror with a broken corner hanging on a washbasin.
Outside the window, the sky was bright, and the shouts of vendors, vehicles, and pedestrians rose and fell as they jostled and pushed each other, running up in a chaotic mess.
She was staying at an inn on the street.
She stepped off the bed, and when she looked down, she was wearing a lilac-purple floor-length ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress). Her jade pendants and necklaces jingled, and her arm bracelets and bangles were hidden in her light gauze sleeves, revealing her wealth and status.
It's a girl!
Le Jin beamed and immediately ran to the mirror—a round face, two crescent-shaped eyebrows. Her eyes were like autumn water, full of affection, with slightly upturned corners. Her nose was delicate and upturned, her lips were red and moist, and she had a hint of charming allure.
"strangeness……"
Why would someone of that stature stay in such a shabby guest room?
Unable to figure out what the system was up to, Le Jin decided to investigate for herself. The door creaked open, revealing a bustling scene downstairs with diners. It was midday, and the area was packed with people.
When there are many people, idle chatter is inevitable.
Le Jin leaned against the second-floor staircase. At the bottom of the stairs, at a small table, sat three women who were talking about what they had seen and heard along the way.
"Where is the young lady of the Yue family now?"
"No matter where she is, if she's found, her family will definitely beat her to death!"
Another woman clicked her tongue and shook her head, her tone full of disdain, "She's ruined the reputation of all the girls in Shuzhou! How hateful! A young lady of high birth, shameless, spending all her time fooling around with a bunch of men—"
She stopped speaking, stretched her upper body, and put one hand to her mouth as if to shield her mouth from the wind: "She ran away with her lover, and I heard she's pregnant!"
"What a tragedy! She's engaged!"
"What a waste of her husband's excellent family background and her husband's good character..."
"This is what is called a 'cheap life,' a life of self-degradation that cannot be helped up."
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