Chapter 251 : You Rock, Highgod! 1 (1/2)
When Shi Sheng returned to the System Space, System made sure her expression and actions were normal before cautiously flashing the last world’s information on its screen. It was afraid she’d suddenly act out and insist on returning there.
Name: Shi Sheng
Morality Points: -128,000
Life Points: 25
Contribution Points: 17,000
Mission Rank: C
Mission Points: 91
Hidden Quest: Completed
Hidden Quest Reward: 2,000 Contribution Points
Side Quest: Completed
Side Quest Reward: 1,500 Contribution Points and an item, “Ghost King’s Heart”
Item List: “Queen’s Crown”, “Ghost King’s Heart”
Shi Sheng expressionlessly stared at the information displayed on the screen in front of her. Only after a long while did she speak, “Continue to the next world.”
[……] ‘HOST, IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING BOTHERING YOU, PLEASE SAY IT OUT LOUD. DON’T SUPPRESS YOUR FEELINGS SO MUCH, I’M SCARED.’
#Is it just me, or does my Host seem like she’s secretly building up towards a big move?#
[Initialising transfer…]
……
“Your Highness, we have entered Chang’An.”
Amidst the rocking sensation, Shi Sheng could faintly hear someone speaking. She slowly opened her eyes.
She was in a carriage again, and beside her sat a pretty young lady dressed as a maidservant. She seemed to be around 13 or 14 years old. The young girl had lifted up the curtain of the carriage and was currently looking outside with curious eyes.
“Your Highness, Chang’An looks so lively.”
“En,” Shi Sheng hummed a reply. She lowered her head to look at what she was wearing.
‘Oh fuck…wedding robes! I’m getting married off?
Since this girl keeps referring to me as Your Highness… I reckon I’m a princess this time; my position is not low at all. Not bad.’
The girl prattled on incessantly next to her.
‘Seems like this girl was rather favoured by this body’s original owner.’
Shi Sheng gave some cursory replies to the girl’s numerous questions before beginning to look over the plot.
This was a Xianxia novel.
The female lead was Yue Yao. She resided in the Heavenly Realm and was in charge of marriage fates. Basically, she was the equivalent of the Moon Elder[1].
But this female lead was always a bit of a klutz—she often mismatched people’s red strings[2]. But those had always been small issues that were easily fixed.
However, during a banquet at the Jade Lake on Mt. Kunlun[3], Yue Yao was greedy and drank too much of the Queen Mother’s jade wine. She returned to her palace in a drunken stupor.
As she was returning, she suddenly thought of the mission the Jade Emperor had given her: to pull some red strings for the Highgod Cang Lan who was undergoing his tribulation.
In her dazed state, she tied more than ten strings to Cang Lan’s, one of which was her own.
By the time she discovered her mistake when she woke up the next day, all the red strings had tangled themselves into a ball—there was no way to untangle them.
Once he had found out about this, the Jade Emperor was infuriated. He threw her into the Mortal Realm and ordered her break apart Cang Lan and his unintended love interests.
As she broke apart these ill-fated relationships, the two of them somehow started falling for each other.
Meanwhile, all the women who’d unfortunately had their red strings mistakenly pulled by Yue Yao ended up with terrible fates.
Yue Yao, on the other hand, followed Highgod Cang Lan back to the Heavenly Realm once he had finished his tribulation. They became a loving couple that was the envy of all.
The original owner of this body was called Qing Guan. She was one of the victims of Yue Yao’s drunken red-string pulling fuck-up. Qing Guan was also a resident of the Heavenly Realm. She had descended to the Mortal Realm to undergo her tribulation at the same time as Cang Lan.
Cang Lan had to overcome a love tribulation, but Qing Guan’s tribulation was a merit accumulation trial that would allow her to become a highgod if she succeeded.
Because of Yue Yao’s careless actions, Qing Guan was forced into falling for Cang Lan. The end result was the destruction of her country and the loss of countless innocent lives. She failed her tribulation.
There was only one chance for a merit tribulation—there were no second chances to become a highgod if one failed.
When she returned to the Heavenly Realm, Qing Guan was filled with pent-up with anger, so she went to find Yue Yao to settle scores.