First Encounter
[Brain storage area. Absolutely a satisfying female protagonist power fantasy.]
“Host, your Conquest Mission is to find every possible way to make the female supporting character Jiang Taohua cry ten times.”
Listening to the conversation between the female protagonist Jian Mingyue and the System, Jiang Taohua sneered in disdain.
This body was born without tear ducts. Want to make her cry? Dream on!
She almost pitied Jian Mingyue, because she was destined to fail this mission in this lifetime!
All of this had to be traced back to three days ago.
…
Good news: Jiang Taohua had hit the jackpot. Her estranged, mean-spirited uncle and his entire family had died in a plane crash, and she had just inherited the one billion yuan he left behind.
Jiang Taohua lay blissfully in bed, planning a global trip, but when she woke up, the world had changed.
Bad news: She had transmigrated into a book set in the 1970s.
Damn!!
Jiang Taohua was about to lose it. Her one billion yuan!
It had barely warmed her hands before she ended up in this place of scarcity. Just thinking about all that money slipping through her fingers made her heart ache so much she could hardly breathe.
Before she could wallow in sorrow for too long, a crackling sound echoed in her mind, followed by a soft, cute voice saying, “System 001, successfully bound to Host.”
Jiang Taohua paused. According to the laws of Book Transmigration, either the female protagonist or the female supporting character must have a System. Fortunately, she had read this book and knew how the plot would unfold.
“System 001??”
“Host, I’m here!”
“I want to return to the modern era.”
“Host, to go back, you must die first.”
Jiang Taohua turned to look at the dilapidated wall, wondering if smashing her head against it would bring a quick and painless death.
As if seeing through her intention, System 001 quickly stopped her.
“Host, you cannot commit suicide. You must be killed by someone else to return to the modern era.”
Jiang Taohua—Fine, then she would do her best to court death, making others wish to kill her. She refused to believe she couldn’t return to the modern era!
“Host, the female protagonist of this book, Jian Mingyue, is also a transmigrator like you. She knows the plot development as well.”
System 001’s words stirred up unpleasant memories from this body.
The original Jiang Taohua and the female protagonist Jian Mingyue were neighbors, both eighteen years old and in the prime of youth, but their fates were completely different.
Jian Mingyue had been pampered and doted on by her parents since childhood, sailing smoothly through life.
As for Jiang Taohua, she lost her birth mother at three. Her father remarried a wicked stepmother, and from a young age, she had to work, endure hunger, and suffer beatings. After the stepmother gave birth to a younger sister, the three of them ganged up to bully her. Truly, with a stepmother came a stepfather.
Her neighbor Jian Mingyue often comforted her with words. Having never received any care before, Jiang Taohua believed Jian Mingyue was the kindest person in the world to her, so she obeyed her every word from childhood.
Not only that, to gain a good reputation, Jian Mingyue would tell everyone that she secretly gave Jiang Taohua food, claiming that without her, Jiang Taohua would have starved to death.
For this, Jian Mingyue was praised by the neighbors as pure and kind-hearted.
The truth was, she had never given Jiang Taohua a single bite of food and often manipulated her, fostering a timid and submissive personality in Jiang Taohua.
Jian Mingyue frequently framed and set her up, ruining the original Jiang Taohua’s reputation in the neighborhood. After each incident, she would shed tears and pitifully say, “Taohua, I’m sorry, I must have been mistaken. Please forgive me.”
The original Jiang Taohua, lacking backbone, always chose to forgive her.
“Host, I have prepared two small gifts for you. One is a storage space, and the other is that the female protagonist’s inner thoughts from the Book Transmigration will now be heard by everyone.”
Jiang Taohua curled her lips. Interesting. Now she could sit back and enjoy the show.
“Taohua… Taohua!!” Jian Mingyue waved her hand impatiently in front of Jiang Taohua’s eyes and raised her voice.
What was wrong with this Jiang Taohua? She seemed completely distracted.
[System, you said that as long as I can make Jiang Taohua cry ten times, I can complete the mission, receive a reward of ten million, and marry the male protagonist of this world?]
“Yes, Host. You must work hard on your mission.”
Jian Mingyue’s face remained expressionless, but she was already forming a plan in her mind. Wasn’t it just about making Jiang Taohua cry? How hard could that be?
“Taohua, what’s wrong with you?”
Hearing Jian Mingyue’s call, Jiang Taohua snapped back to reality. She stared straight at Jian Mingyue across from her, making the other girl uneasy.
Jian Mingyue coughed, about to say something, when she heard a sharp “slap!” and felt a burning pain on her cheek.
Jian Mingyue froze for a moment before realizing she had been slapped.
“Jiang Taohua!!” Her voice was filled with anger and disbelief.
Jiang Taohua raised an eyebrow, her tone indifferent. “Why are you shouting? I’m not deaf!”
Jian Mingyue demanded, “Aren’t we friends? Why did you hit me?”
Jiang Taohua showed no remorse. “Ah, sorry. My hand was just itching.”
Jian Mingyue gritted her teeth. This bitch! If it weren’t for her mission requiring her to win Jiang Taohua over, she would have stabbed her to death right then and there!
Thinking of Jiang Taohua’s tragic fate in the book, Jian Mingyue felt a sense of balance again. After all, both of them were about to be sent to the countryside. She could leave Jiang Taohua to be slowly tormented by that man in the village.
Just as she was about to smile, the movement tugged at her cheek, and she couldn’t help but hiss in pain.
“Slap!!”
Without warning, her left cheek inexplicably received another slap. Jian Mingyue was completely stunned.
Then, she glared furiously at Jiang Taohua, waiting for an explanation.
Jiang Taohua rubbed her slender wrist and said leisurely, “Sorry, I have OCD. Don’t you think it looks much better now that both cheeks are equally swollen?”
Jian Mingyue gritted her teeth, wishing she could pounce on Jiang Taohua and tear her apart.
System 001 suddenly spoke up: “Angering the female protagonist. Congratulations, Host, you have earned two yuan. The money has been placed in your storage space. Host, you must continue to work hard. Every time you anger the female protagonist, you will receive different amounts of money based on the degree of her anger.”
Jiang Taohua—was this for real? She could earn money just by making the female protagonist angry?
Just then, the wooden door next door creaked open, and an elderly woman with graying hair walked out.
Jian Mingyue’s heart leaped with joy. She suddenly raised her voice and shouted, “Taohua, I know you’re hungry, but you can’t just steal the brown sugar cake meant for Grandma Liu’s grandson!”
Hearing the footsteps pause, Jian Mingyue put on an even more dramatic performance. Her loud voice attracted the neighbors around them.
Seeing more and more people gathering, Jian Mingyue grew even more excited. She declared righteously, “Taohua, it’s wrong to steal food from a child. I won’t blame you for hitting me over this.”
She turned around and looked apologetically at the elderly woman. “Grandma Liu, Taohua is my friend. I share responsibility for her wrongdoing. I apologize to you on her behalf.”
With just one sentence, Jiang Taohua was accused of snatching food from a child.
The surrounding neighbors pointed and whispered.
“Both are friends, how can they be so different? Look at Jian Mingyue—gentle, kind, and sensible. Then look at Jiang Taohua—timid, shrinking, and even stealing food from a child. How shameless!”
“Hah, no wonder her stepmother looks down on her!”
“Exactly! After doing something bad, she still has the nerve to hit someone. Jian Mingyue’s face is swollen from her beating—what a sin!”
Listening to the accusations against Jiang Taohua, Jian Mingyue’s lips curled into a faint, almost imperceptible smile.
[Jiang Taohua, you wretch, I’ll never tell you that it was me who ate the brown sugar cake belonging to Grandma Liu’s grandson. Just take the blame for me, hahahaha!]
Suddenly, Jian Mingyue sensed something off about the atmosphere around her. Without her noticing, everyone had fallen silent, and the neighbors were all staring at her with strange expressions.