Chapter 2
This world is a cultivation world, where martial prowess is paramount, and cultivation is divided into nine stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Out-of-Body, Spirit Division, Body Integration, Mahayana, and Tribulation Transcending.
However, the strongest female cultivators here have never been distracted. It is mostly the male cultivators who have done the work of resisting the demonic beasts and protecting the country. Over time, a culture of respecting the strong has formed in both the common people and the cultivation sects. Female cultivators have never been strong enough, and their cultivation resources have been severely deprived, making their situation increasingly difficult. There are very few female cultivators who have reached the Nascent Soul stage.
As Wen Shaoheng's lawfully wedded wife, Madam Wen was just an ordinary person who failed to bear him a legitimate son. Their relationship was also taken advantage of by the concubine, Madam Xu. After Wen Ze was born, Madam Xu was elevated to the status of a secondary wife, and Wen Ze became the legitimate eldest son of the Wen family.
Madam Wen and her daughter were quickly forgotten by Master Wen and had no place in the Wen family.
"Master said he'll let you in once he's finished with his official business. Madam Wen, please wait a moment longer." Madam Xu appeared in the room with a smile, leaning against the door and giving Madam Wen a mocking look before turning and entering the room.
Madam Wen stood under the scorching sun, glistening sweat slowly trickling down her slender neck. She pursed her lips, her eyes somewhat dim.
She never expected the master to be so heartless. Wan'er was, after all, his daughter. All she wanted was for him to invite a doctor. She had been asking him for several days, but he had not agreed.
Madam Wen's figure swayed slightly, and her lips grew even paler.
"Madam, Madam! Miss Wan says she misses you and wants to see you." Seeing her sway, the maidservant quickly supported her and whispered Wen Wan's words without changing a single one.
“Wan’er…” Madam Wen’s tears flowed down her cheeks. Her daughter had always been gentle and vulnerable, introverted and shy. She never dared to trouble others, nor did she ever ask her parents for affection. She was always quiet and pitiful.
Now, she's actually saying she misses herself and wants to see herself.
Heaven knows how much her precious Wan'er suffered.
"Okay...okay, I'll be right back." Madam Wen was preoccupied with her precious child and didn't care about calling a doctor. She turned around, took her maid's hand, and hurriedly headed towards Qingwu Courtyard.
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"Wan'er, how are you? Your mother has come to see you!" Madam Wen rushed in and saw Wen Wan sitting obediently in a chair, swinging her toes and playing. She felt a pang of heartache.
"Mother, hug me." Wenwan opened her arms and acted coquettishly, she really liked the warmth of a human's embrace.
She kept telling herself that there wouldn't be any zombies suddenly appearing here, and there was no risk of becoming a zombie herself.
It's safe here.
She disliked how her father treated her.
Madam Wen calmed down and hugged her child tenderly. She heard her daughter in her arms say, "Mother, Wan'er is 5 years old now. Wan'er wants to go to school."
go to school?
Madam Wen patted her daughter's head and for a moment thought that if her daughter wasn't mentally challenged, she wouldn't have said such a thing.
In this world, many children have no school to attend, but fortunately, the Wen family is large and wealthy, and they don't lack tuition for even one child. At her request to Master Wen, Wan'er attended school for a while, but afterwards she started clamoring to stay home and play with grasshoppers and mud with Young Master Ze. Children love to play by nature, so they let her have her way.
Looking back, it was because she was too indulgent towards Wan'er. It was a good thing that the two children were too close, but Madam Xu was not someone to be trifled with.
"Wan'er, why did you suddenly want to go to school? Last time we went to school, you insisted on going home."
"Mother, Wan'er isn't stupid. Wan'er must study hard so that she can... no, make a name for herself." Wen Wan snuggled out of her mother's arms, blinking her big eyes obediently at Madam Wen.
Mrs. Wen was amused by her, and the gloom vanished.
Wan'er spoke logically and clearly, and didn't seem stupid at all. After waking up this time, she was actually more sensible. It seems that she had misunderstood something before.
As for picking wild grass to eat, it must have been out of curiosity. She was drooling over Young Master Ze's big rabbit, and it was her fault as a mother for letting her child go hungry.
Thinking of this, Madam Wen quickly ordered someone to prepare a large table of delicious food. Faced with the sudden feast, Wen Wan, who was unaware of what was going on, ate to her heart's content.
The next day, she got her wish and boarded the carriage to the school.
Wen Ze was also with him.
I remember the two siblings had a good relationship. Compared to the hideous zombies of my previous life, the little bean bun in front of me is much cuter.
Wen Wan had longed for the feel of human cubs from her memories for a long time. Without any hesitation, she directly pinched Wen Ze's chubby cheeks and pulled them slightly, finding them bouncy and smooth.
Sure enough! The feel is even better than I expected.
Wen Ze was completely bewildered, but he didn't cry or make a fuss. Instead, he retorted and pinched her back. The two of them made a ruckus in the carriage, laughing and joking, until they separated and the noise stopped.
This heartwarming scene was something she had never experienced in her previous life.
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"Hey, you coward, you dare to come back."
"It seems the lesson I taught you last time wasn't enough."
"A money-losing wretch dares to show off?"
After school, everyone left, and three malicious voices rang out.
Wen Wan looked at the repaired bamboo slips in her hand, lost in thought.
In her memory, the original owner of this body went to school because she answered a question given by the teacher correctly. The three people then hated her, destroyed her books, verbally abused her, and even put caterpillars in her desk to scare her. On one even worse occasion, they tied her to a tree and had snakes placed at her feet. Fortunately, they were all venomous snakes with their fangs removed, otherwise the original owner would have died long ago and wouldn't have been able to wait for her to transmigrate.
That's why she rejected school and cried, wanting to go home.
The three bullies came from families of officials, and the tutor couldn't control them. Master Wen knew about it but was unwilling to offend anyone by seeking justice for his unloved daughter. Only Madam Wen was kept in the dark and knew nothing about it.
Wen Wan's lips curled up. Since someone had dared to bully her, Wen Wan, how about I help you get revenge!
She was always ruthless and taciturn. With a wave of her hand, a black scythe taller than several people appeared, radiating a sharp red glow and exuding a murderous aura.
The three of them had never seen such a scene before and were immediately stunned. Before they could react, a black and red afterimage flashed before their eyes, and their hair buns instantly came undone.
Realizing the immense danger, and disregarding the fact that they had come to cause trouble, their physical instincts compelled them to desperately try to escape, as if any slower and the scythe would become their deadly weapon.
The three of them jostled and pushed each other at the door. One of them fell down, and the other two, not caring that he had already run far away, ignored him.
A wave of overwhelming fear made him tremble. He turned back in terror to see Wen Wan slowly approaching with a scythe in hand. She wore a smile, but her eyes held a cold, unsmiling gaze, as if he were being watched by some monstrous demon. Suddenly, his body felt hot, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
That's it? She hasn't even done anything yet.
Wen Wan put away her sickle and pouted: Boring.
The two bullies who managed to escape, one fat and one thin, were so frightened that their lips turned white and their hair was disheveled, making them look like little madmen. Seeing the teacher leaving school for the first time was like grasping at a straw.
"Master...Master, help me! Wenwan...Wenwan is trying to kill someone, waaaaaah..."
"What do you mean by 'murder at night'?"
The other person's speech was unclear, and the teacher didn't hear them clearly. He recognized these two people; they were two of the three little bullies in the academy. Three men can make a tiger: "Where is Jiang Tao?"
Jiang Tao was the bully who fainted from fright after falling down.
When the teacher arrived at the classroom in a flurry with a group of people, he only saw Jiang Tao lying on the ground, with a pool of yellow, unidentified liquid beneath him, and a faint smell of urine in the air.
Older students, who finish school later, walked past the area with disgusted expressions, while some onlookers gathered around to watch.
The matter became widely known the next day.
"Hey? Did you hear? Something big happened in our college yesterday."
"What's the big deal? Did Jiang Tao wet his pants in fear? I heard about it too."
"Really? Isn't he the bully of our college, always running around harassing people with his two henchmen? Can anyone actually scare him?"
"I heard it's at night, with a demon wielding a big black scythe, and it's glowing red and eerie, ugh~" The speaker got goosebumps.
"Shh, keep your voice down, or the evil spirits will hear you and come after you."
Wen, the evil spirit, silently passed by, listening to the students' whispers: Is it really that exaggerated?
As soon as she arrived at the academy, she was called away by the teacher. The teacher looked at her with a worried expression, hesitant to speak, and finally told her that the academy had already gone to invite Master Wen, and that she should not be afraid.
Inside the private room, three minor bullies, along with three major bullies, accused Wen Wan of her evil deeds in front of the teacher. As soon as Wen Wan entered, she was met with the vicious gazes of the three women.
The three bullies, emboldened by their connections, reverted to their usual arrogant and domineering ways, seemingly having forgotten the lesson they learned yesterday.
"You're the slut who bullied our Tao'er?" Madam Jiang looked down on Wen Wan with an arrogant and condescending expression, her tone unfriendly.
Their family is prominent in the Qingyun Continent. Master Jiang is a sixth-rank official in the imperial court, and if summoned, he can meet the Qingyun Emperor. How could their Tao'er be bullied by ants? It is already a great honor for them to be able to attend the same academy as them.
“Madam Jiang, perhaps there is a misunderstanding. A gentle young lady like Wenwan is no match for several noble young men.” The teacher tried to calm them down.
Before the gentle elders even arrived, the ladies started being aggressive. Isn't this like ants fighting an elephant?
"Master, are you implying that our child lied?" the fat bully's mother questioned in an unfriendly tone.
The teacher nervously wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. If he offended any of these people, he probably wouldn't be able to continue as a teacher. "Of course not. It's just that there may be a misunderstanding. Let's wait for the lady of the Wen family to arrive before we talk about it. It will also make it easier to come up with a solution. Please be patient."
"So what if Lord Wen arrives? Does he dare to mess with our families for this worthless piece of trash?" The skinny bully's mother looked at Wen Wan with a fierce expression, as if she wanted to devour her.
Any other child would have been terrified and crying long ago, but Wen Wan ignored the group of shrewish women, found a stool and sat down by herself, acting as if it had nothing to do with her, and quietly watched their performance.
"Master, look at her! What kind of attitude is this?" The skinny bully's mother was enraged by Wen Wan's indifferent attitude and loudly berated Wen Wan in a sharp and sarcastic voice.
"Wen Wan, quickly apologize to the young masters!" The late Mr. Wen scolded his daughter without saying a word, completely disregarding what had happened.
"What did I do wrong?" Wen Wan stared straight at Old Master Wen.
"Just apologize when I tell you to. Stop with all this nonsense. You'll regret offending the Jiang family. I didn't send you to school to cause trouble." Right or wrong doesn't matter at all; he really doesn't need to offend anyone for this little girl.
“The three of them insulted me in public, damaged my books, put caterpillars and rats in my desk, and tied me to a tree to let snakes bite me. Father, did you make them apologize to me?”
Wen Wan stared coldly at her father, her eyes devoid of any emotion.
The things Wen Wan mentioned are common knowledge, and there is both witness testimony and physical evidence. Moreover, the three bullies have done this kind of thing more than once or twice, and the students avoid them whenever they see them.
"Who do you think you are, and who do they think they are? If they tell you to apologize, then apologize."
Wen Wan's gentle question seemed to offend his authority, and without asking any questions, Mr. Wen pulled her off the chair, trying to force her to apologize.
Seeing this, the three adults and three children revealed smug faces, waiting for Wen Wan to cry and apologize, begging for forgiveness.
Wenwan simply thought this world was really fun.
It turns out that even those of high status are called victims when they make mistakes.
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