“Yu Xingwu! Sect rules clearly state that competitions are meant for exchanging techniques, and deliberately inflicting serious injuries on fellow disciples is strictly forbidden! How dare you intentionally injure Senior Sister Lin so severely!”
“She clearly did it on purpose. Before the match, I even saw her swallow a pill. Who knows? It might have been a pill that temporarily boosts her cultivation!”
“I think so too. Otherwise, how could someone who hasn’t even reached Foundation Establishment and is still in the Qi Refining Stage seriously injure Senior Sister Lin, who’s already in the early Golden Core Stage?”
“Taking pills just to win a competition? Someone with such a corrupt character deserves severe punishment according to the sect’s rules!”
…
Yu Xingwu’s pupils suddenly contracted as she listened to the accusations surrounding her.
The same scene, the same people. She had died and been reborn yet again!
And it wasn’t just rebirth. She had actually transmigrated into the world of a novel, becoming a Vicious Female Supporting Character who shared her exact name—Yu Xingwu, the junior sister of Zhaoyao Peak.
Yu Xingwu was the daughter of Yu Zheng, the Grand Elder of the Tianlan Sect. Spoiled rotten since childhood, she had developed an arrogant, domineering, and willful personality.
She usually acted as though she were above everyone else and frequently mocked and ridiculed her fellow disciples. However, because she had such a powerful father, nobody dared criticize her except behind her back.
The current scene was precisely the plot point where she took a pill during a competition and seriously injured a fellow senior sister, provoking public outrage.
This incident laid the groundwork for what would happen after the True Young Miss, the novel’s female protagonist, was brought back to the sect. Her fellow disciples would mock and ridicule her, accusing her of occupying a place that wasn’t hers and calling her an impostor.
It was also because of the True Young Miss’s appearance that Yu Xingwu, in the original novel, lost her father’s affection. Consumed by resentment, she began bullying and framing the female protagonist at every opportunity.
So not only had she transmigrated into a cultivation novel as the Vicious Female Supporting Character, she was also a freaking Fake Young Miss to boot!
Faced with a situation where she had seriously injured a fellow disciple, anyone with half a brain would try to clear their name.
After all, the more arrogant and overbearing this vicious supporting character was in the beginning, the more miserable her death would be later.
For the sake of her future, she absolutely had to redeem her reputation! She had read plenty of novels with plots like this.
So, on her first attempt, she immediately defended herself, desperately insisting that she had only taken a Spirit-Replenishing Pill and that the serious injury had been an unfortunate accident.
Unexpectedly, a mysterious force had instantly strangled her to death on the spot. She had experienced firsthand what it meant to be eliminated the moment she entered the game!
When she was reborn again, she changed her approach, promptly apologizing and admitting her mistake. But she still died!
There were 365 days in a year, and she had died 365 times!
No matter how she changed her lines, tried to clear her name, or admitted her mistakes, that mysterious force would always erase her existence!
After transmigrating into a novel and being reborn countless times, she had never even survived past the first chapter!
To hell with everything!
“Congratulations, dear host! You’ve successfully bound yourself to the Villainess System! This system will be at your service 365 days a year!”
Yu Xingwu: “?!”
What the hell was going on? A damned system had suddenly appeared out of nowhere?!
【Fuck! You couldn’t have shown up earlier? You just had to wait until I’d died 365 times before appearing! Get lost!】
“…Dear host, please don’t be so irritable! Anger makes you ugly! The reason you’ve died 365 times is that you deviated from your Vicious Female Supporting Character persona and were killed by the power of the plot~!”
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She had died so many times and worked so hard to redeem herself, only to be told now that trying to clear her name had been a mistake! She wasn’t supposed to redeem herself at all!
Damn it! According to this stupid system, she wasn’t even allowed to be a good person?!
“Dear host, please maintain your Vicious Female Supporting Character persona at all times! That way, you won’t be killed by the power of the plot~!”
“Current mission—Maintain your villainess image and recite the following villainess dialogue: ‘So what if I took a pill and deliberately injured her? She was asking for it when she dared to set her sights on my man!'”
“Dear host, please begin your performance~”
Yu Xingwu: “…?!”
【Stupid system, tell me, what kind of line is that?! Is that something a normal person would say? If I keep acting this viciously, won’t I end up dying a horrible death?!】
“Don’t worry, dear host~! Once you’ve completed the Vicious Female Supporting Character’s storyline and made your exit, the system will send you back to your original world~!”
“Your rewards will be the freedom to travel around the world, complete financial independence, and the fulfillment of one wish!”
The corners of Yu Xingwu’s mouth twitched as she rolled her eyes inwardly.
Financial freedom and traveling around the world? What an enormous, perfectly round pie in the sky!
But then again, how could this godforsaken cultivation world, with no internet and people dropping dead at the slightest provocation, possibly compare to modern society?
Although her mother constantly pressured her into going on blind dates, home was wherever her mother was. This place wasn’t home, and she was determined to return.
More importantly, she had no other choice. If she didn’t complete the mission, she would be trapped here in an endless cycle of death…
This was beyond ridiculous. It was so absurd it made her mother’s constant matchmaking seem reasonable by comparison.
【Fine! Let’s go all out and get this over with! It’s just playing a villainess, right? When I get vicious, even dogs will shake their heads in disbelief.】
Yu Xingwu instantly transformed into a full-fledged drama queen.
She let out a disdainful sneer and arrogantly swept her gaze across the surrounding crowd.
Her contemptuous tone was dripping with arrogance. “So what if I took a pill and deliberately injured her? She was asking for it when she dared to set her sights on my man!”
“You think the likes of you can punish me? I’m the Grand Elder’s daughter! Who would dare punish me?!”
【Ahhh! System! System! How was that?! Did I complete the mission? Does that mean I’m not going to die anymore?!】
Yu Xingwu asked excitedly. After she finished reciting her lines, the mysterious force that had repeatedly killed her really hadn’t appeared.
Besides, she thought her acting was absolutely fantastic!
Especially the line about being the Grand Elder’s daughter. She had delivered it with the same energy as some spoiled brat declaring, “My dad is the mayor!”
System: …I only asked you to perform. I didn’t tell you to improvise and add extra lines…
“Ahem. Congratulations, dear host, on completing the current villainess dialogue mission! You’ve been awarded 100 points, which can be exchanged for items in the System Shop~!”
“Please continue maintaining your villainess persona, dear host. Otherwise, the system will punish you~!”
【What kind of punishment?】
The system replied, “Deviating from your villainess persona will result in three lightning strikes!”
“And if there’s a storyline the host must follow or villainess dialogue the host must recite, failing to complete the mission will result in immediate execution by the power of the plot~!”
Damn it!
Yu Xingwu looked utterly defeated, as though she had lost all hope in life.
If abandoning her persona meant getting struck by heavenly lightning three times, then she would just have to keep being vicious! Whoever wanted to be a good person could go right ahead!
【Got it. But System, that line just now about ‘my man’—who exactly was I talking about?】
“Host, you’ve already died so many times. Don’t tell me you still don’t know you have a fiancé?”
“Naturally, ‘my man’ refers to your fiancé, who also happens to be the novel’s main villain—Shen Zhuo.”
Yu Xingwu sucked in a sharp breath. How could she have forgotten about that?!
In the novel, Yu Xingwu was infatuated with her second senior brother, Shen Zhuo. After her powerful father learned of her feelings, he used his position as Grand Elder to pressure Shen Zhuo into agreeing to marry her.
But Shen Zhuo didn’t love her. He had only agreed to the engagement because he had no other choice.
Precisely because he had been forced into it, Shen Zhuo actually despised her.
After all, nobody liked being forced into marriage, just as she hated her mother’s constant attempts to set her up on blind dates.
Thinking about it that way, she and the main villain were practically fellow sufferers.
According to the novel’s plot, Shen Zhuo would fall in love with the True Young Miss after her arrival and break off his engagement with Yu Xingwu, regardless of the consequences.
But the lines she had just recited made one thing painfully obvious…
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