Snowy night, mountain cave, bone-chilling cold.
A handsome man, unconscious, half-undressed.
“Heave ho, heave ho, heave ho!”
Jiang Yueyao used every ounce of her strength to finally drag the frozen handsome man into the wind-sheltered cave. Then, clutching a handful of snow, she pressed it against the man’s exposed body.
Rubbing, rubbing…
【This skin texture, these abs…】
【Wowza, in my previous life I never got to lay hands on a man like this. Finally living the dream!】
【But… ahhh, my hands, my hands are so cold!】
【Who understands? Why do other transmigrated girls get surrounded by handsome men, enjoying all the perks, while I have to start out as a human-shaped heating pad?】
System: [Congratulations, Host. You’ve achieved the Quadruple Rhyme accomplishment.]
Jiang Yueyao rolled her eyes.
【All because of you! I was a perfectly fine young beauty, and you had to make me transmigrate to this godforsaken place.】
Jiang Yueyao had transmigrated.
No, to be precise, she had transmigrated into a book.
Into an early-era tragic romance novel she’d read before bed last night, titled “The Miracle Doctor’s Legitimate Daughter: The Tyrant Prince’s Palm Treasure.”
It told the story of the torturous physical and emotional relationship between the Seventh Prince Chu Tianming and Jiang Yuehua, heir to the Medicine God Valley.
Because of a similar face, the tyrannical prince Chu Tianming treated Jiang Yuehua as a substitute for his White Moonlight, sometimes intimate with her, other times cruelly abusive, driving Jiang Yuehua to physical and mental exhaustion, and ultimately causing her family’s ruin…
Finally, just as Chu Tianming obtained his White Moonlight and Jiang Yuehua prepared to leave forever, he realized:
Ah, so it wasn’t the White Moonlight I truly loved, but Jiang Yuehua.
Thus… after a fierce “chasing his wife to the crematorium” phase, the two reunited, becoming the Emperor and Empress of Great Chu, standing atop the city walls gazing upon their beautiful realm.
Jiang Yueyao: …(⊙_⊙)
This actually works?
The male lead was the culprit who ruined the female lead’s reputation, exhausted her physically and mentally, nearly disabled her, caused her miscarriages, and destroyed her family—and they still get a happy ending?
Seriously? Just some trivial matters like killing her parents and wiping out her entire family?!
Back when she was reading the novel, Jiang Yueyao couldn’t continue halfway through. Skipping to the end and seeing it was a HE, she immediately gave it one star and moved on.
But who would have thought…
She woke up and had transmigrated into the book!
And not just anywhere—she became the female lead Jiang Yuehua’s younger sister, the cannon fodder who dies along with the family’s destruction, Jiang Yueyao.
Who could tolerate this?!
Jiang Yueyao was ready to perform an on-the-spot demise.
Since death was inevitable anyway, I’ll do it myself!
Right then…
The System appeared.
System: [Ding! Detected strong dissatisfaction from original readers regarding the female lead’s tragic fate. Initiating worldline correction.]
System: [Mission assigned: “Save My Sister, World Peace.” Upon completion, the host may return to the original world, receive a reward of 100 million in cash, and have one wish fulfilled~]
Jiang Yueyao: …Actually, transmigrating into a book isn’t entirely unacceptable.
(^▽^)
【System, why did you choose me?】
System: [Naturally because you harbored the deepest resentment and didn’t finish reading the entire book. You… are the chosen transmigrated heroine!]
Jiang Yueyao: …My native language is speechlessness.
【Well, System, look at my situation… I’m in this freezing snowy wasteland, about to freeze to death before I can even save the female lead!】
Jiang Yueyao had transmigrated right at the beginning of the original book.Her parents, who had been guarding the border for over a decade, finally returned to the capital. Jiang Yueyao, who had been left alone in the ancestral residence in the capital since childhood, dressed up carefully and braved the wind and snow to the courier station outside the city, hoping to see her parents in advance.
However…
After meeting, Jiang Yueyao, this minor antagonist, watched as the female lead and their parents warmly embraced, full of energy and joy.
She, on the other hand, felt like an outsider—cold, isolated, and neglected.
Even when her parents asked after her well-being, it felt distant.
Then, she began to sulk and argue.
In the end, she ran out alone.
What good outcome could a minor antagonist have?
Naturally, she ran blindly and fell off a cliff… and that was when she transmigrated.
Fortunately, there had just been a heavy snowfall, and there was a man who had already frozen unconscious below to cushion her fall, so she remained unharmed.
But because the original host had been running wildly in the snow earlier, Jiang Yueyao’s vision was now slightly blurred.
Hmm, it must be the legendary snow blindness.
System: [To help the host quickly complete the mission, a golden finger has been prepared for you.]
The golden finger mentioned by the System was the System Shop.
It was filled with a dazzling array of items, almost comparable to the Peach Shopping Mall.
But the problem was…
“This is way too expensive!”
The prices were similar to those in her previous life, but the units…
Rice cost three taels of silver per pound, instant noodles five taels per pack, and even her favorite milk tea… fifteen taels per cup, with extra toppings charged separately!
This… this…
This is just profiteering, profiteering, profiteering!
Still, having a golden finger was better than having none.
Jiang Yueyao’s small pouch still contained twenty taels of silver. After calculating repeatedly, she first spent twelve taels to buy 20 heat packs, applying them to herself and the unconscious man.
[Hmph, if you hadn’t been my cushion and saved this beauty’s life, I wouldn’t have been so generous.]
[Wahhh, my money, my little money]
[No way, when you wake up, you have to reimburse me!! No, no—not just reimburse, but also pay extra for emotional distress, medical fees, and mood-ruining compensation!]
[Wait, what if he sneaks away? Should I tie him up with a rope?]
[Uh… forget it, what bad intentions could a beauty have? I’m a kind little angel.]
Most importantly, she didn’t have a rope on hand, and buying one would cost more silver—she couldn’t bear to spend it.
While muttering to herself, Jiang Yueyao applied the heat packs to key areas like the man’s chest and abdomen.
[Ahhh, the texture feels so good!]
Using snow to wipe his body earlier was just emergency first aid; heat packs were the real deal.
But…
Busy as she was, Jiang Yueyao didn’t notice that the man, who should have been frozen unconscious, furrowed his brows slightly under her touch.
Chu Wujin, who had just regained a sliver of consciousness, heard a constant chattering in his ears.
And a pair of small hands were roaming all over his body.
Who was being so presumptuous?!
Wait…
This voice wasn’t heard with his ears but appeared directly in his mind.
It took Chu Wujin a moment to realize that this… might be the inner voice of the girl who was touching him?
Could he hear her thoughts?
How peculiar.
The owner of these hands had stuck something on his body, and soon… waves of warmth spread, gradually thawing his frozen body.
The voice in his mind continued to chatter.
[Ah, I’m so hungry, I really want to eat something.]【My hot pot, barbecue, crayfish, beer, cola, and yogurt】
【Mom, I want to eat steamed lamb, steamed bear paw, steamed deer tail, roasted duck, roasted young chicken, roasted goose…】
【Slurp… the more I think about it, the hungrier I get】
Chu Wujin: …
Simply too hungry, Jiang Yueyao looked at the eight taels of silver in her hand and finally went to the System Shop to buy a bottle of mineral water and a steaming hot Large Meat Bun.
As for things like hot pot, barbecue, and crayfish… with only eight taels of silver, she couldn’t afford them.
o(╥﹏╥)o
Barely filling her stomach, Jiang Yueyao hugged her pitiful, weak, and helpless self and slowly drifted into dreamland.
By tomorrow morning, the Jiang family should be able to find her, right.
…
…
Moonlight streamed into the cave.
A black shadow swiftly floated in and landed beside the frozen man, kneeling on one knee.
“Your Highness, this subordinate is late. Please punish me!”
The man who had been lying with his eyes closed opened them, no trace of confusion remaining in his gaze.
He slowly sat up.
“A Lang, you could have come even later.”
The black-clad guard immediately looked up, revealing a chubby round face, his eyes shining with surprise.
“Really?!”
Chu Wujin: …
Supported by his guard Xue Lang, Chu Wujin stood up and glanced at the girl curled up in a ball, already fast asleep.
A small bundle, her figure slender and delicate, though her skin was quite fair.
Curled up under the bright red cloak, she appeared even more frail.
In her dreams, she seemed to be thinking of something, smacking her lips lightly.
The black-clad guard beside Chu Wujin followed his gaze and noticed Jiang Yueyao, immediately frowning.
“Your Highness, who is this person? If she learns of your presence, might she spread the news of your early arrival in the capital? Should this subordinate…”
Guard Xue Lang made a throat-slitting gesture.
Chu Wujin curled his lips slightly, “A Lang, after returning to the capital, run twenty laps around the manor yourself.”
Xue Lang: …???
“But, Your Highness, I… I only have your best interests at heart.”
“Thirty laps.”
“Your Highness, you…”
“Fifty laps.”
“Your Highness, I was wrong.”
Chu Wujin nodded: “Good that you know your mistake. Now take out all the silver you have on you.”
Xue Lang: …!!!
Wait, what’s the connection between those two sentences?!!!