Chapter 12 Why can she just leave whenever she wants?
A group of people were gathered together, and it seemed that two people in the middle were arguing very fiercely.
"She's my fiancée! How dare you covet her? I'll kill you!"
People around him helped pull him away. A girl was being pulled by the hand by another man. The two of them were trying to escape from the crowd, but many people blocked their way.
The man whose fiancée had been robbed suddenly pulled out a dagger. When the passersby saw the weapon, they were immediately terrified and scattered. The man with the knife rushed straight at the couple.
Jiang Zhishui used her magic to knock the man's dagger away. When everyone turned around, they found that it was someone from the Immortal Sect who had intervened.
Seeing their savior, the couple rushed to Jiang Zhishui's side, and the girl cried out for help, "Immortal Master, save us!"
Before Jiang Zhishui could say anything, the man whose dagger had been knocked away walked over and said fiercely, "What business is it of yours, you cultivators? She's mine! Yuehe, come here!"
The girl shrank behind the man beside her, trembling. The man stood in front of her, saying, "Qi Hong, she has already asked her father to annul the engagement, but he passed away during the plague and hasn't had a chance to tell him yet... We didn't have an affair!"
"Bullshit! You ungrateful bastard! I've treated you so well, feeding you and providing you with shelter, and what do you do? You've hooked up with my fiancée! You two scoundrels, I'll tear you apart!"
Jiang Zhishui, holding several bags of pastries, looked at them with a solemn expression. There was too much information to process, and she still couldn't figure out who was right and who was wrong.
Qi Hong brought several servants with him. Those men protected their master and shoved the onlookers around them menacingly.
The passerby was in high spirits when he was pushed aside and started fighting with the servants, creating a chaotic scene.
By the time Jiang Zhishui reacted and tried to stop them, the girl was pushed, and with the river behind her, she was about to fall in. Jiang Zhishui quickly grabbed her, but at that moment, Qi Hong and another man were fighting over the girl. With a forceful shove, they knocked Jiang Zhishui aside, and she fell off the bridge, suspended in mid-air.
She sank into the river, still clutching the boxes of pastries in her arms. The rushing water sang in her ears, and a jumble of noises slowly rose in her mind.
Then, images gradually surfaced in my mind.
Jiang Zhishui listened to the voices in her mind. She couldn't understand a word of the plot, the female supporting character, or the male lead. But she recognized all the people in the images. There was her, Jing Qianheng, and many others. She had never done or experienced any of those things, but the images appeared in her mind with unparalleled clarity.
She choked on water several times and was swept away by the river for a long time before finally managing to climb ashore. She lay down on the slope, looking up at the sky above. The sky was blue with white clouds, the sunlight was dazzling, and it was very quiet around her.
Jiang Zhishui took a deep breath and began to sort through the information she had gathered.
This was originally a world in a novel. She was a vicious female supporting character who secretly practiced forbidden techniques, resulting in her going mad from internal energy cultivation. She was also someone who would stop at nothing to achieve her goals. When she met the male lead, Jing Qianheng, she schemed to absorb his power to increase her own cultivation, but in the end, her power backfired, and she suffered the consequences, being killed by the male lead with a single sword strike.
The plot has progressed to the point where the female supporting character and the male lead have a three-lifetime love affair, but this love affair is a karmic entanglement, and as long as the two are together, they will not have a good ending.
In her first life, Jiang Zhishui was forced by the immortal sect to serve as a furnace for a demon, and died three years later. In her second life, she was reborn with the memories of her previous life and discovered that the male lead, Jing Qianheng, was her demon husband from her previous life. She then began a series of plans to win him over, but due to a twist of fate, she went mad and forced herself on the male lead, causing him to despise her.
She had already followed the storyline, and the system even helped her review it, but the explanation in her mind was completely different from her perspective before she awakened.
She approached Jing Qianheng with good intentions, wanting to help him escape a tragic end, not with ulterior motives as the system claimed.
[The host is a skilled at feigning innocence, initially appearing kind and naive, but later becoming vicious and ruthless. From her own perspective, you are indeed a good person.]
Jiang Zhishui: "Does that mean I got too into playing the good guy?"
[This possibility cannot be ruled out; from each person's perspective, no one would consider themselves a bad person. It's also possible that after being reborn, memories may cause a deviation in subjective consciousness.]
That's outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!
[Host has completed storyline 1-2. Please continue your efforts and complete the following tasks:]
[Pending Story 3: Protect the male lead Jing Qianheng and gain his favor.]
[Plot 4 (To be completed): Three years after marrying the male lead Jing Qianheng, her true colors are discovered, and she dies by his sword.]
[Pending Storyline 5: ...]
"Wait, I'm already dead, and there's still a storyline? No, am I crazy? Am I doing a mission just to get killed?"
System: [Task completed. The host can use accumulated points to add settings not present in the original text, such as: a love tribulation. Dying by the male protagonist's sword allows one to overcome the love tribulation and ascend.]
Jiang Zhishui glanced at the task list, pondered for a moment, and shook her head, saying, "No, it can't be done."
Jiang Zhishui was in a state of confusion. Originally, her goal was to prevent Jing Qianheng from turning into a demon, but now the system was telling her that she was the one who caused Jing Qianheng to turn evil, which was really hard for her to accept.
[It's understandable. It's normal for the host to feel confused after just awakening. This is a male-oriented novel, and the male protagonist will have several romantic relationships. Besides the host, other female protagonists will appear later to redeem him. The host doesn't need to worry about the male protagonist's ending; his ending is better than yours.]
Jiang Zhishui was stunned for a moment, unsure of what to say.
To strengthen her resolve, the system even transmitted to her mind the final scene where Jing Qianheng, upon learning the truth, utterly despised and tormented her.
In short, the rest of the story is about Jiang Zhishui learning that Jing Qianheng is dying and feeling helpless. The young master of the Demon Clan promises to marry her and make her his Demon Queen. After much deliberation, she agrees to betray Jing Qianheng to the Demon Clan. Betrayed, Jing Qianheng transforms into a demonic dragon and seeks revenge against those who wronged him.
The young demon lord thought that Jing Qianheng still cared about his wife, so he grabbed Jiang Zhishui and threatened him to release the Demon Lord. Jing Qianheng only hated her and didn't care about her life or death, letting the young demon lord put the most torturous Gu poison on her.
The Demon Lord was killed, and the young Demon Lord escaped, but Jiang Zhishui fell into Jing Qianheng's hands.
The poison she was afflicted with was called Yinhuang Gu, which would torment a person's body to the extreme, ultimately causing them to die in agony.
The following is an excerpt from the original text:
Jiang Zhishui lay on the bed, writhing in excruciating pain. She vomited blood by the bedside. Jing Qianheng opened the door and came in, giving her a cold glance before sitting down to drink tea and watching Jiang Zhishui wail in agony with amusement.
Suffering from the torment of the curse for many days, Jiang Zhishui looked extremely haggard. Her eyes were sunken, her clothes were disheveled, and she rolled off the bed in a very sorry state. She struggled to crawl to Jing Qianheng's feet and begged, "Kill me, please kill me! It hurts too much, really...it hurts too much."
Jing Qianheng reached out and helped her up, gently embracing her in his arms, and said softly, "No, my wife, I can't kill you. Even if your feelings for me are fake, I am real. I... can't bring myself to do it to you."
Jiang Zhishui collapsed into his arms in despair. She knew that his revenge had only just begun. She had killed the only servant who had been kind to him, drugged him, and, at the instigation of the Demon Clan's young master, pierced his chest with a sword. He would never let her off easily.
She tried to end her life several times, but he spared no effort to save her. Every day, watching her suffer unbearable pain, he would laugh, a satisfied laugh, a crazy and cruel laugh.
Until Lu Xuetang, who was infatuated with Jing Qianheng, appeared, she deliberately sent someone to bewitch Jiang Zhishui, tricking her into believing she could save her. Jiang Zhishui, clinging to this person like a lifeline, obeyed their every word. As a result, under Lu Xuetang's scheme, she was impersonated as an assassin to kill Jing Qianheng. Jing Qianheng didn't recognize her and was immediately killed with a single sword stroke.
This is Jiang Zhishui's fate; the wicked will be punished.
The system not only provided the original text, but also presented the text in high-definition for Jiang Zhishui to view.
Jiang Zhishui was horrified; it felt so real, as if she were experiencing it herself. The image of herself in that scene was in so much pain that she wished she were dead, but she couldn't die or escape, and she was in utter despair.
The Jing Qianheng who turned evil on screen was a completely different person; it was absolutely terrifying.
According to the system, we can escape once the storyline is completed, so let's just follow the storyline. Even if the process is a bit tough, we can all be at peace afterward.
That would be another good ending.
As evening fell, Jiang Zhishui returned, soaking wet.
Walking absentmindedly down the corridor, she bumped into Jing Qianheng and Liu Chuxi. They were talking when Jing Qianheng spotted Jiang Zhishui from afar, and Liu Chuxi, seeing him frown, followed his gaze.
"Zhishui, what's wrong?" Liu Chuxi ran to Jiang Zhishui, touched her hand, and asked in surprise, "Why are your hands so cold? What happened?"
Jiang Zhishui was somewhat dazed. She looked up at Liu Chuxi, about to speak, when she saw Jing Qianheng walking towards them. She quickly pulled her hand away and smiled, "It's nothing. There was some trouble on the street, and I accidentally fell into the river. I'm going back to change my clothes..."
As she spoke, she backed away, turning and walking in the opposite direction.
Liu Chuxi took two steps after him and asked in confusion, "But your room isn't in that direction."
Jiang Zhishui ran for her life, glancing back once, then ran even faster.
Seeing Jing Qianheng at this moment, Jiang Zhishui felt inexplicably afraid.
Those images were still so vivid that whenever she saw Jing Qianheng, she felt as if she had returned to an inescapable abyss, feeling suffocated.
Jing Qianheng walked to Liu Chuxi's side, his eyes fixed on Jiang Zhishui's hurriedly fleeing figure.
Liu Chuxi glanced at Jing Qianheng, whose expression was slightly somber and somewhat gloomy. She then turned her gaze back to Jiang Zhishui and instantly realized that there was a problem in the relationship between the two.
She advised, "Junior Brother Jing, Zhishui can be quite mischievous at times, but she cares about you a lot. Don't be too harsh on her."
Jing Qianheng stared at Jiang Zhishui's back until she disappeared around the corner before he lowered his eyes. He looked at Liu Chuxi and said, "Senior Sister, I'll go check on her."
Liu Chuxi said with relief, "Okay, go ahead."
He's a quick learner; he understands immediately after just one explanation.
Jiang Zhishui returned to her room and asked the innkeeper to get her a bathtub. She sneezed, feeling as if she had caught a chill.
She planned to take a hot bath, get a good night's sleep, and think about what to do next.
She took off the clothes that were stuck to her clothes, covered her eyes with a towel, rested her head on the edge of the bathtub, and felt completely relaxed and sleepy.
Making Jing Qianheng fall in love with her was easier said than done. Even asking for his forgiveness was incredibly difficult, and besides, Jing Qianheng already had someone he liked. How could he possibly give up Senior Sister Liu and turn his affections to her?
Not only does she have to win Jing Qianheng's favor, but she also has to marry him; this is harder than climbing to heaven.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
As Jiang Zhishui pondered, she felt dizzy and weak all over. Then she slowly lost consciousness, and the cloth covering her eyes fell into the water as her head tilted to the side.
Her body was still tilting at this moment.
When she returned, she was exhausted. She casually placed a bag of jade that people on the street had given her on the edge of the table; the bag's string was a little loose.
Jing Qianheng carried a bowl of herbal medicine to ward off the cold, knocked on the door a few times, and seeing no response from inside, stood silently for a while. He hesitated, wanting to knock again, but then stopped.
He did go a bit too far yesterday. I was half-conscious and half-confused, but I vaguely remember what he did. He grabbed her angrily and wouldn't let go, and even bit her.
She wasn't angry; instead, she helped him back to his room.
But he was very angry. She couldn't wait to go back to Lin Ye's place, and he didn't want her to leave, so he kept finding fault with her.
Ironically, he didn't know what the point of his actions was, but he just couldn't control himself from doing stupid things.
She kept waiting for him to fall asleep so she could sneak away, but he stubbornly refused to sleep. In the end, his body couldn't take it anymore and he collapsed on the bed. Sure enough, she was about to leave.
Jing Qianheng's head was throbbing with pain. He thought back to that time in the cave, when she pinned him down, relying on some forbidden technique she had practiced, which greatly increased her power and made her incredibly strong. She frantically tore at his clothes, and every time he struggled, she cried out in pain.
He was like a man possessed, clinging to her tightly. He was in pain too; why should she be able to leave whenever she wanted?
The scent of her brought him some peace of mind, a feeling that had been suppressed in his heart for many years.
The person in his arms struggled at first, and he didn't dare to hold her too tightly, but he didn't want her to leave, so he held her with both hands, which made him tremble slightly. She seemed to notice and suddenly stopped moving.
Then she murmured something, but he couldn't hear it; his mind was buzzing.
He woke up early in the morning and sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the sleeping Jiang Zhishui for a long time.
It felt like a dream; he didn't even dare to breathe too loudly.
Seeing that she moved, he immediately got up and ran away without looking back.
Seeing how she had been avoiding him and running away whenever she saw him, Jing Qianheng felt a pang of sadness, but he still couldn't help but come to find her.
He wondered if he should apologize.
There was still no movement inside. Jing Qianheng thought she might have fallen asleep and turned to leave. Suddenly, there was a "thud" sound of something falling from inside the doorway.
Inside the room, Jiang Zhishui slid into the bathtub, and some bubbles rose to the surface of the water.
"Jiang Zhishui, open the door." Jing Qianheng knocked on the door again, still worried.
"Jiang Zhishui!"
The rope holding the jade bag on the table slowly loosened, and the jade pieces inside fell to the ground with a clatter.
Jing Qianheng waited for a while, worried that something might have happened to her, and then used a hand seal to break open the door and go in.
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