Chapter 96 Chapter 96 3
The original owner's name was Mudan. She was sold to Chunxiang Pavilion at the age of six. Before the age of six... her name was Erya.
For some people, their tragedy probably began at birth.
A girl from a poor, backward and conservative family, who was not expected by others but had a beautiful appearance, all of these things had destined her path to be not smooth.
Being sold to Chunhyanggak was unfortunate, but in a sense it might also be fortunate.
Because I was in Chunxiang Pavilion, I was able to learn things that I couldn't learn in ordinary families, but I also saw a lot of dirty things.
The original owner never lost hope in life. Instead, she continued to live each day earnestly, pretending to be well-behaved and obedient to the madam, but in her heart she longed for freedom, and her kindness never faded.
Lily came to Chunxiang Pavilion when she was twelve or fourteen years old, and suffered a lot for being disobedient.
Later, the madam asked Mudan to take her with her. Mudan felt sorry for her and really cared about her. She taught her little by little how to survive better in Chunxiang Pavilion, and helped her and herself become a rare double courtesan step by step.
Although Peony is younger, it is actually Peony who has always been taking care of Lily.
Everyone says that peonies are gorgeous, and most of their admirers are playboys. It cannot be said that others do not like them, but those who care about their reputation often feel that they are too conspicuous and frivolous, and that chasing after them will inevitably make people feel cheap.
Lily is different. She is good at everything including music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Although she is not an expert, her appearance is good enough, even if she is not very good.
Scholars admire her, showing her elegance; nobles respect her, showing her courtesy; even women think that being like a lily is barely good, rising from the mud without being stained. However, the peony is only regarded by the outside world as "beautiful, but too frivolous."
But who knew that most of Lily's talents were taught by Mudan bit by bit. After all, she had been good-looking since she was a child, and the brothel owner had high expectations of her.
But in order to give the "sister" she was taking care of an extra chance of survival, she put in a lot of effort. Lily was a slow learner, so she taught her over and over again, and finally created the so-called "Double Specialties of Chunxiang Pavilion".
Not only that, even on daily basis, most of Lily's expenses were paid by Peony.
After all, scholars have limited funds, and nobles are often busy, so they can't come twice a month. Peony, however, is different. With dandies, playboys, and merchants constantly hanging around, she's already raking in a fortune, even before she even receives a client. Lily often expresses her gratitude for these reasons, constantly emphasizing the importance of sharing both good and bad times, as if she simply wishes she could repay them with her own life.
In the past, Mudan believed this without a doubt. She really felt that the two of them were destined to be together, and she treated Lily as her own sister.
Until the sixth day of June, which was yesterday.
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The sixth day of June was the day when the two sisters received their first customers. It was a grand occasion and all the men in the capital were crazy about it, wanting to spend all their money to do it.
She sat in her room in Chunxiang Pavilion, praying that a young playboy would be able to capture her New Year's Eve. After all, it wasn't just men who admired women's looks; women also had eyes for beauty and liked handsome men.
Unfortunately, the person who took the photo of her was a fifty-year-old fat and ugly businessman. She was unwilling to accept it, but she had no choice but to comfort herself that she had entered Chunxiang Pavilion and everything was her fate.
Lily's fate was different. Amidst the bidding, a man in white finally appeared and made the final decision. The reason why he made the final decision was not because of how high his bid was, but because... he flew!
The man in white had a very good appearance and an extraordinary temperament. One could tell at first sight that he was extraordinary. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be an immortal.
To be more precise, they were from another world, completely different from the ordinary people. Mudan had only heard a few words before, saying that there was a world of cultivators in the world where they could turn clouds and mountains with a flip of their hands. They could maintain eternal youth and live many times longer than ordinary people. Even emperors would not take them seriously. She thought it was just a rumor, but she didn't expect to see it today.
I don’t know whether the other things are true or not, but it must be true that it can fly.
The immortal said that Lily was destined to be with him, so he wanted to take her away. He only had the silver he had just counted.
The madam was naturally unwilling to do so. After all, the silver offered by the so-called immortal was not even half of the highest price offered.
But she had no choice. How could a mortal possibly defeat an immortal cultivator? Even though the madam was unwilling, she had no choice but to agree when her life was at stake.
At that time, everyone was either busy worshipping the immortal or chasing Lily. Mudan took advantage of the chaos and squeezed forward to hold Lily's hand, saying hopefully, "Sister, can you take me away from here?"
She had no interest in the immortal who didn't even look at her, but she didn't want to serve the old man who bought her virginity! Lily and she were like sisters, and she didn't need her to do anything else, just wanted her to take her away. She could accept her fate when she could, but when someone around her escaped the cage, she wanted to give it a try too.
But unexpectedly, her hand was shaken away, and the sisterhood they once had seemed to become a joke. Lily threw herself into the immortal's arms and trembled. It looked like she had bullied Lily.
This was what she had taught her, that she could make a man feel sympathy by showing weakness.
Lily always said that she couldn't learn such pretentious tactics.
It was only then that Mudan realized that it was not that she couldn't learn it, but that it was just a matter of people.
Sure enough, the immortal slapped her with his palm, and she was instantly knocked away. Her forehead hit the corner of the table, and her chest hurt so much that she almost vomited blood.
However, everyone was bustling about at that time, and all eyes were focused on Lily and the immortal. Mudan endured the pain and secretly escaped through the back door.
If this happened to a person with good fortune, he might be able to escape from the sea of suffering, fly freely in the sky, and start his life over again.
But Peony was destined to be cannon fodder, so the ending was naturally not going to be good.
The original owner woke up after being captured for the first time and realized that she was the mother of the villain who had a miserable end in the storybook.
It was a very roundabout and background identity, but when it was compared with her own experience, it made her feel disgusted.
That's right, she, Mudan, is the prostitute mother who is despised by everyone as an ungrateful, misguided bad person, while Lily is the biological mother of the inspirational protagonist.
She didn't know how those things came to her mind, but she just knew it.
She accepted everything very quickly, just like she was able to adapt to Chunxiang Pavilion and learn her lesson in the shortest possible time. She also quickly transitioned from questioning the fragments that appeared in her mind from time to time to finding ways to avoid them.
The first thought that comes to mind is naturally not to give birth to this child.
If a child is not born with love and expectation, it would be better for him not to be born.
Mudan didn't want her children to not get what she herself was destined not to get since birth.
So even if those strange and intermittent scenes hadn't appeared in her mind, she had never thought about having children. Although she didn't know why she chose to give birth to that child in the development of that similar story, it was obvious now that she would not make the same choice.
The first time, she was caught and brought back. She admitted her fault and accepted some punishment. She became her courtesan again and started to receive customers. Because of those fragments in her mind, she paid special attention to her body. Whenever she was with a customer, she would take medicine to try to prevent herself from getting pregnant. However, she found that she was still pregnant.
So she resolutely started taking the abortion pill. It wasn't that she was cruel, but sometimes giving birth was more cruel than not giving birth.
Then she succeeded, and just when she breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that at least this would not put herself and her no longer existing child in such an embarrassing situation, she was back on the road to escape.
This time, after quickly accepting the reality and gaining experience, her escape route became clearer, until she hid in a secluded place and successfully escaped the pursuit of the guards.
She didn't bother to think about why she came back to this time, but she just felt that since God had given her this opportunity, she must cherish it and live a good life.
Then she met a group of beggars...
Pregnancy, abortion, rebirth, pregnancy, abortion, rebirth...
Finally, one day, she escaped all the misfortunes and met a young and elegant young man. The young man saved her and liked her very much. As for her feelings towards the young man, she didn't know what love was, but at least the young man was acceptable in all aspects.
Soon they got married and started a family. The young master's family did not agree, but they could not stand his insistence.
This time she became pregnant again at about the same time, and the young master was looking forward to the child. Although his family did not like her as a woman of unknown origin, they were extremely concerned about the child in her belly, and because of this, they dispelled many of their grudges against her.
But the good times didn't last long. Not long after, the young master had an accident, and the child she gave birth to also disappeared mysteriously. She was still forced to return to Chunxiang Pavilion after many twists and turns.
Even if Mudan tried to go with the flow and not let herself think too deeply or feel resentful, she had to realize that she seemed to have fallen into a vicious circle.
It was as if she had to give birth to the child destined to become someone else's wedding dress! That child, too, would have to follow the path depicted in those fragments of her mind. So she chose suicide. Since the child had to be born, then it was okay for her to die, right? It would also save her from being compared to others in the future, ridiculed for being dirty, old, and ugly, and having her last shred of dignity trampled upon.
Since he can't save himself and will become a stain on others, it is better to die early and be reborn. As for the child, she cannot avoid the fate of being taken away by others anyway. The difference between her life and death is probably only whether she will add another joke to him many years later.
But it turns out that it doesn’t work!
She couldn't die. It was as if everything had to develop according to the fragments in her mind!
This is how this mission came about.
"439, what's going on with the way of heaven here? Why can't the original owner escape such an ending after reincarnation over and over again?" If it weren't for the repeated reincarnation, perhaps the original owner wouldn't need the tasker to come at all.
Because she is strong by nature. She looks like a delicate flower on the surface, but in fact she is a tough grass.
439 was also extremely puzzled. After searching a lot of information, she finally understood that this was because not only was Mudan destined to be in the control group, but so was her son. With two generations of control groups, she, an ordinary person, naturally could not escape her fate.
She wanted to change her fate, so she tried again and again to abort her unborn child, but she didn't know that some things were already determined by heaven.
There are only two ways to escape her original fate. One is to find someone to replace her and her child as cannon fodder, and the other is to become the winner of the control group. Otherwise, the Heavenly Dao, which has not yet developed intelligence, will only try to correct the development of things over and over again.
"Rubbish Heavenly Dao..." Ruo Ruo gritted her teeth, trying hard to endure the pain in her body.
"Is that why the original owner was so unlucky and couldn't escape his fate no matter what he did?"
"But that's not right. A Heavenly Dao that hasn't awakened its spiritual intelligence can only pay attention to the key points, right?"
The way of heaven may make time flow back because of the birth or non-birth of a certain person. After all, sometimes the way of heaven or even a world needs some people to promote the cohesion of destiny, so that the way of heaven and the world can be stable.
But how could the Heavenly Dao have the energy to make someone so unlucky? Not to mention that the Heavenly Dao here hadn't yet developed any intelligence. Even if it did, it had no grudge against Mudan, so it wouldn't stare at Mudan and insist on bringing her misfortune.
As the saying goes, Heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs. It is precisely because they have no benevolence that they treat everyone equally to a certain extent.
Cultivators... Immortals... Heavenly Dao...
The original body couldn't see it, but Ruo Ruo could clearly detect some clues in the memory.
Ruo Ruo felt that perhaps the saying "Man disposes, Heaven disposes" was perfectly applicable in this world. The fate of her original self and her adopted son was likely a product of human calculation.
But even if Ruoruo could figure out who was behind this, she couldn't solve it now, because...she was having trouble surviving.
The blood on my forehead has stopped flowing, but my whole body is really painful!
If she hadn't remembered that the top beauty bloodline she bought at a huge price had some equally top recovery abilities that would not leave her with even a single scar, she would have wanted to borrow some more points to die with the so-called "immortal" and the lily once and for all!
Ordinary people all know not to hit people in the face. Doesn’t that crappy fake immortal know that when hurting people, you shouldn’t hurt any part of the face?
A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated. Touching her face is the greatest insult to her.
"Can I take out my mirror now?" Because her whole body was in pain, she wanted to give herself a little motivation and comfort herself for her misery.
493 Small System: [……] As expected, it’s within expectations.
It really wanted to answer no, and in fact it couldn't. But who was it? It was the 439's caring little assistant who loved its host the most!
[Yes, host.] The Transformation Mirror appeared in the host's hand at the right moment.
An opportunity to forcibly bring props into the small world was wasted.
But Ruoruo and 439 were both very satisfied.
Although 439 has to secretly go to other Tongzi to work and pay off debts when the host is not around, it is really happy!
Ruoruo tidied up her messy long hair and looked at herself in the mirror, feeling much better.
Although it is a bit dirty, it does not obscure the beauty of the person in the mirror.
What surprised Ruoruo the most was that such a beautiful and charming face looked particularly pitiful when her eyes were slightly drooping, as if she wanted to cry but couldn't.
Look, she said the bloodline she bought is very useful!
No, this gave her an endless sense of freshness!
439 felt that while the host of the small world was indeed incredibly beautiful and graceful, it couldn't compare to the host's true appearance. However, seeing how much the host liked it, it still started to praise it.
Qu Chengjing came here under such circumstances.
Before he approached, he thought it was some wild animal, destined to be hunted and roasted for food. As he got closer, he realized it was actually a person. Judging by his aura, he was probably an ordinary person.
Although he didn't know how this person entered this secret place, now that he had encountered him, he hesitated for a while and still felt that he couldn't let an ordinary person wander around here.
If it was a monk, he would not interfere, but for an ordinary person... it would be better to remind that person to leave as soon as possible.
So Qu Chengjing, who has always been cold-hearted and aloof, decided to release his kindness for the first time in his life.
He slowly came to Ruoruo holding his sword.
Then... he saw that disheveled person, faintly emitting the smell of blood... or rather, the little girl, lying on the ground looking in the mirror?!
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