[Are you ready, Host? Completing a world earns you 5 points, and fulfilling a wish earns you 2 points.]
[Points can only be traded in the Shop.]
[Since this is the Host’s first transmigration, the first world is a trial mission. The Host only needs to fulfill one of the original body’s wishes to clear it.]
[If possible, try to get close to the Luck-Favored One that is, the male lead. The male lead carries the power of the Heavenly Dao. The more you absorb, the more points you’ll earn at settlement.]
[The higher the affection of the world’s key characters toward you, the more points you’ll receive at settlement.]
[The plot of the book has been sent to your inbox by email. Remember to check it when you arrive in the mission world.]
After the cold, mechanical voice finished speaking, a flash of white light swept past, and Ling An felt his vision blur as if he were floating.
Before long, Ling An landed on the ground. When he woke again, he was lying on a bed.
Ling An opened his eyes and looked around. The sky outside the window was already pitch black, and the moon hung high overhead.
He instinctively reached for a phone by the bed, and when his hand found it, he felt a little dazed.
He hadn’t played with a phone in tens of thousands of years, probably. He felt a bit nostalgic. He remembered back in the day he was a whiz with phones, coming up with all kinds of ways to use them.
But now it took him forever of fumbling around just to find the mailbox. He opened it and tapped the unread message.
This system was really something wouldn’t it have been easier to just transmit the plot straight into his head? Why insist on putting it in an inbox?
The moment Ling An opened the mailbox, the plot memories of this world appeared directly in his mind.
Ling An: “…”
He had to admit, this plot was a bit clichéd.
The male lead, Qin Yeling, was the second young master of the Qin Corporation. The female lead, Lin Yu, was a poor but outstanding top student.
One day, a fall in the stairwell brought them together in a kiss.
One sudden accident led them to sleep together.
The female lead was secretly sent abroad by his family.
The female lead worked hard, made achievements, and returned to the country. Then, in yet another accident, she saved the male lead and cared for him, making him fall for her for real.
The male lead wanted to be with the female lead, but his family objected and refused to let her into the household.
The male lead angrily ran away from home and lived an ordinary life with the female lead, experiencing the commoner’s world he’d never known.
Then the male lead’s family, unable to bear seeing him suffer, accepted the female lead.
Afterward, the female lead displayed exceptional business talent, astonishing everyone, and the male lead’s family was thrilled as well.
On top of that, the female lead became pregnant with twins. From that point on, the male lead’s family truly accepted her in their hearts.
The female lead gave birth to the twins, and the male lead, through his own abilities, proved his strength and talent to his father.
The male lead earned his father’s trust, who handed over the right of succession to the Qin Corporation and stepped down in his favor.
After the male lead took over the company, the Qin Corporation’s power expanded all the way, even leaving its old rivals, the Lin family and the Wang family, far behind, truly claiming the throne of the nation’s number one.
The female lead also succeeded in starting her own business. Her company ranked just below the Qin Corporation, and she became a powerful career woman. The male lead, their two sons, friends, and even her backup suitors all doted on her. The ending was a happy one.
And the person Ling An transmigrated into was one of Qin Yeling’s invisible little sidekicks at school, who one day happened to badmouth the female lead.
The female lead overheard it at just that moment, and he vanished from the novel.
The original owner’s resentment was still strong. The original owner’s wish was to take revenge on the female lead and take everything she had.
Anyone who could be Qin Yeling’s follower certainly wouldn’t come from a poor family, but they would definitely be worse off than the Qin family.
The Ling family was merely a small corporation that had suddenly struck it rich by riding the tide of the times their foundations were not deep.
Because their son was a follower of the Qin family’s second young master, even if just an insignificant nobody, they had gained quite a few opportunities, which allowed the Ling family to establish a firm foothold in S City.
Ling An sat up from the bed and walked into the bathroom to take a shower.
Surrounded by steam in the bathroom, Ling An sorted through many of his thoughts.
He never expected that he, a dignified Cultivator of the Great Completion Stage, just one step away from stepping through the gate to immortality.
would fail to Ascend because his counterparts in each world were all wicked people, leaving him without enough merit.
Worst of all, the Heavenly Dao had discovered his identity as an outsider.
And directly kicked him out of that cultivation world.
Just as he was about to dissipate, he was bound to this thing that called itself a System.
As long as he completed each world, he would earn points, and with points, he could eventually purchase cultivation in the shop.
For the sake of his cultivation and his life, Ling An accepted the mission.
Of course, the main reason was that he knew if he unbound himself from the System, he would die, he currently lacked the strength to protect himself.
But it didn’t seem so bad, really. At least he wouldn’t have to accumulate that bullshit merit anymore.
The steam in the bathroom dissipated, and Ling An walked out. After drying his hair, he collapsed into bed and fell into a deep sleep.
He hadn’t slept so peacefully in a long time.
When the Heavenly Dao told him that his merit in every world was pitifully low, insufficient to support his Ascension.
and that the merit in this world had only just barely passed the qualifying line, he wasn’t surprised at all.
He had always been an arrogant, haughty person; it was only his determination to cultivate into an immortal that had kept him restrained.
Later, as his strength grew, he had reined himself in considerably and learned to disguise himself. To outsiders, his image was that of someone gentle and courteous, refined and easygoing, always willing to help others.
But there was no helping it, he had made too many enemies in the past, and he had to stay on guard every day. Sleeping this soundly hadn’t happened since his first year after transmigrating into the cultivation world.
Back then, Ling An was still a student with clear, innocent eyes.
The next morning, Ling An was woken by knocking at the door.
Aunt Zhang’s gentle voice came from outside: “Young Master, it’s time to get up. Madam is already urging you.”
“I know.”
Ling An washed up, got dressed, and went downstairs. When he came down, he saw Father Ling and Mother Ling already seated at the dining table eating breakfast.
Ling An walked over, pulled out a chair, and sat down to eat directly.
Mother Ling looked at Ling An with some surprise and asked, astonished, “An’er, why are you wearing your school uniform today? In all this time you’ve been going to school, this is the first time I’ve seen you in it.”
“It’s nothing. I just suddenly felt like wearing it,” Ling An said calmly.
He had forgotten that the original owner usually didn’t wear the uniform.
Perhaps, to help him better adapt to the environment, the System had replayed his memories from before he transmigrated into the cultivation world last night.
He had subconsciously assumed that going to school meant wearing the uniform, otherwise, points would be deducted.
After eating, he got into the family car and headed to school.
Watching the slow, crawling car, he felt a bit unaccustomed. Even though Uncle Zhang was already driving quite fast, it still felt painfully slow to him.
In the past, he’d flown by Sword Flight zip, and he’d arrived in an instant.
Back at school, Ling An found his classroom and seat from memory.
He pulled out the chair, and the moment he sat down, he slumped onto the desk.
The male lead, Qin Yeling, was in the same class as him, but the male lead hadn’t returned yet. According to his memories, even when the teacher arrived, Qin Yeling still wouldn’t have shown up.
The class bell rang, and the System’s voice sounded in Ling An’s ear.
[Host, the male lead is here.]
Hearing this, Ling An looked up, and his eyes lit up. Truly worthy of being the male lead, a height of one meter eighty-five, fair skin, sword-like brows slightly furrowed, commanding respect without anger. He was impossibly, absurdly refined.
Ling An couldn’t help swallowing at the sight.
Really, what a flower on a high peak.
Through his clothes, Ling An could almost see those faintly visible abs. Truly a beauty in soft focus.
Perhaps Ling An’s gaze was too intense, because Qin Yeling couldn’t help furrowing his brow.
Seeing Qin Yeling’s furrowed brow, Ling An sidled up to him like a bootlicker. “Boss, what happened? Why are you in such a bad mood?”
“Nothing. Some blind woman bumped into me. She looked so tiny, but full of stubborn strength bumped into me and didn’t even apologize, making it look like I was bullying her. Truly a peculiar woman. She’s successfully drawn.”
Hearing this classic line, Ling An quickly cut in, interrupting the domineering-CEO quote that was about to leave Qin Yeling’s mouth.
“Boss, you weren’t here yesterday. That kid Wang Mengqing came looking for you.”
He said to meet him on the rooftop this afternoon.
Hearing this, Qin Yeling’s brow creased. He tells me to come and I just come? Who gave the Wang family such big face…
Hearing this, the lackeys didn’t care whether Qin Yeling had more to say, they just crowded around him and showered him with flattery.
Hearing this flattery, Qin Yeling’s brow twitched, but pleasant words always made people happy, and his tightly furrowed brows quickly smoothed out looking absolutely gorgeous.
Seeing this, Ling An thought he was actually pretty cute, a boyish nature.
Just like the little Ragdoll cat he used to keep, terribly proud. If you dared to pet it, bam bam, two punches. But if you didn’t pet it, it would come rub up against you. Absolutely adorable.
He was so absorbed in watching Qin Yeling that he didn’t notice Qin Yeling was also observing him.