The cold wind cut like a knife, scraping her painfully, while snowflakes swirled thickly, covering her in a layer of frost.
The meager trace of Spiritual Power within her body had long since been exhausted!
In the end, in the endless long night…
Like a delicate flower ravaged by ice and snow, she collapsed stiffly into the snowdrift, her fragrant soul extinguished, her spirit returning to the netherworld.
Suddenly, a fist-sized golden light streaked across the night sky like a shooting star, striking her squarely on the body.
Immediately after, her fingers—originally cold and stiff—twitched slightly.
After quite a while…
Lin Qianqian barely managed to open her heavy eyelids, and with great difficulty, she sat up, her body nearly numb from the cold.
The moon hung high, casting down its cold, clear light…
Before her eyes stretched a vast expanse of white snow, at least a foot deep, creaking with each step.
Several dozen paces ahead stood a magnificent palace, heavily guarded, exuding a cold aloofness that kept others at a thousand miles’ distance.
“Holy crap, where is this?”
Lin Qianqian couldn’t help but curse, her mind still muddled from being frozen awake.
Then, a massive influx of memories that did not belong to her flooded into her brain like a torrent, crashing against her original thoughts and splitting her head with pain, as if it were about to explode.
“Oh my goodness…
As a top-tier vicious female special agent of the twenty-eighth century?
Didn’t I just finish a mission—one where I dug up over a dozen graves in a row?
Finally able to relax, and in my joy, I stayed up all night reading a trashy novel I’d dug out of a grave?”
“How did I get dizzy for a moment, and when I opened my eyes again, I’d landed myself inside the novel I was reading?”
“And I’m even a love-brained female side character with the same name as me?”
“Every day, instead of cultivating properly, she schemes about how to climb into that scumbag master’s bed, courting death in every way, getting abused in every way, and ultimately meeting a miserable end—freezing to death in the snow?”
“I just wonder—if this body gets frozen again, can I go back?”
She had just had this thought and hadn’t yet had time to ponder it further…
When suddenly another dazzling golden light descended from the horizon, even more brilliant than before, illuminating nearly half the sky.
Immediately after, a solemn and resonant voice of the Heavenly Dao reached her ears, as if carrying endless pressure, striking deep into her soul:
“Lin Qianqian, do not waste your effort!
In your previous life, you committed countless evils and every misdeed imaginable. Your body has already been reduced to ashes, and it is only a matter of time before your soul scatters completely.
As it turned out, after your death, the King of Hell in the underworld did not dare to take you in, fearing that your vicious nature would turn their underworld upside down, punching straight from the eighteenth level of hell all the way up to the thirty-third heaven.
I, the Heavenly Dao, had no choice either!
Out of pity for you, I decided to show some kindness and placed your soul into this recently deceased body, giving you a chance to start over as a new person. Take care of yourself!”
After that, the golden light vanished completely, and calm returned to heaven and earth.
Only Lin Qianqian remained, sitting alone in the cold snow, her face blank with bewilderment.
No, wait…
Couldn’t it have waited a moment?
She hadn’t even agreed yet?
How did the Heavenly Dao disappear in a flash like a rocket?
Also, she still wanted to ask!
Even if she had kicked the bucket in her previous life and been reduced to ashes, she was still somebody!
On what grounds did the King of Hell outright cancel even her qualification to take a stroll through the underworld?
Then wouldn’t all those spiritual talismans she had casually drawn out of boredom in her previous life and carefully treasured in her spatial dimension have been wasted effort?
For example:
‘Underworld House Chain-Explosion Talisman’!
‘Underworld Mountain Leveling Talisman’!
‘Underworld Ten-Thousand-Mile Bombardment Talisman’!
‘Yama’s Obedient Submission Talisman’!
‘Underworld Ten-Thousand-Ghost Command Talisman’!
‘Underworld Ten-Thousand-Ghost Kneeling Submission Talisman’ and so on—there were plenty more.
These talismans were all meticulously researched and carefully drawn by her!
Was she just supposed to shelve them away like this?
They hadn’t even been put to use yet, hadn’t unleashed havoc far and wide—how could she possibly accept this?
Inside, she felt like ten thousand grass mud horses were stampeding through her mind…
The Heavenly Dao was just too quick, too hasty!
However…
Starting over as a person?
It didn’t sound too bad, actually?
“Forget it, never mind all that for now. This place is way too cold. If I stay any longer, I’ll probably freeze stiff again and kick the bucket for good!”
She had to hurry back to her dwelling and warm up!
Based on the original host’s memories, she began arduously shuffling her stiffened body, like a clumsy penguin…
Waddling back and forth toward a run-down courtyard about a thousand meters away from Ink Cloud Hall—halfway up the mountain.
“Creak—” A harsh sound tore through the silence.
Lin Qianqian pushed open that rickety wooden door, as if pushing open a stretch of unbearable past memories.
Before her eyes was a room so crude it made one’s heart ache:
An ordinary wooden bed, a set of equally ordinary table and chairs, and a dressing table with mottled mirror surface and missing drawers—nothing else.
Lin Qianqian looked around and couldn’t help but let out a long, drawn-out sigh:
“Ah!”
The original host really was a typical late-stage lovesick fool!
You see, although this Cultivation World wasn’t a feminist society, it was an absurd world with an extreme surplus of men and a scarcity of women!
The male-to-female ratio was as high as two hundred to one!
What did that mean?
It meant women were a scarce resource!
Women could not only have multiple husbands and enjoy the blessings of a harem, but also hold advantages everywhere and enjoy all kinds of preferential treatment.