Chapter 2

Lian Yunjin followed close behind. She swiftly reached the window, pushed off against the frame, and used her movement technique to pursue the wretched man’s retreating figure.

As the wretched man twisted through the air and leaped from place to place, the surrounding scenery rapidly receded behind them. Seeing this, Gu Jiuge was as astonished as Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden for the first time.

W-was this… the legendary qinggong?

It was this fast?

Where was Lian Yunjin? Did she know qinggong? Could she catch up?

Gu Jiuge now regarded Lian Yunjin as her only hope of survival. Burning with anxiety, she turned her head to look behind them while continuing to cry for help.

She had only just spotted a distant figure with fluttering robes when the wretched man, irritated by her restlessness, struck the back of her neck with a hand chop.

Agonizing pain shot through her neck. Gu Jiuge’s vision went black, and she lost consciousness.

…

The rancid stench of mold filled her nose. Suppressing her nausea, Gu Jiuge slowly opened her eyes and deduced from the darkness that she was inside an abandoned warehouse.

“You’re awake?” An indifferent voice came from beside her.

Lian Yunjin stood aloofly at her side, her cool gaze casually sweeping over her condition.

“Yes, I’m awake.” Realizing what a disheveled state she was in, Gu Jiuge hurriedly got up. “Sister-in… Sister-in-law, where’s that wretched man?”

Lian Yunjin frowned slightly and corrected her. “Your brother and I are only bound by an engagement. Don’t call me Sister-in-law. As for that man, he’s already dead.”

Following Lian Yunjin’s gaze, Gu Jiuge indeed discovered a completely lifeless figure lying in the corner of the warehouse.

“Sister Lian, did you… kill someone?” Gu Jiuge readily changed her form of address. Struggling to collect herself, she stared at the cold beauty before her in disbelief.

Her gaze and cautiously probing tone made Lian Yunjin’s brows furrow slightly. She turned around and looked coldly at Gu Jiuge.

“The moment he dared to enter the Lian residence and abduct someone, this outcome was already inevitable.”

“But, Sister Lian! K-killing someone will get you sent to prison.” Gu Jiuge’s emotions were complicated as she tried her best to point out the most important issue.

Could Lian Yunjin’s characterization have already collapsed?

Did she already love the male lead so much that her affection extended to everyone around him? Was that why she was willing to throw away her promising future for his younger sister?

While Gu Jiuge was feeling deeply uneasy, Lian Yunjin narrowed her eyes at the anxiety and lingering fear on her face, then scoffed softly. “You and Gu Chengze have only just entered the cultivation world. It’s normal for your minds to remain bound by secular notions.”

“The cultivation world exists beyond the secular world. As long as the killings and feuds among cultivators do not affect ordinary society, the secular authorities have no right to interfere.”

“Gu Jiuge, put away your compassion. The cultivation world is far more brutal than the secular world!” A cold glint flashed through Lian Yunjin’s eyes. “If he hadn’t died, the people coveting you would have continued coming in endless waves. Only his death will make those who overestimate themselves show some restraint.”

Hearing this, Gu Jiuge’s face turned pale. She bit her lip with lingering fear, her emotions extremely complicated.

As expected of a world where strength reigned supreme. Its bloody and brutal reality was frightening.

With the original character’s cowardly personality and the supreme-grade cultivation-cauldron constitution that made so many people covet her, it truly [Read on BaiLianTales]would have been extremely difficult for her to survive safely.

Reminding herself that this was the world of a novel, Gu Jiuge had no choice but to accept the reality before her, no matter how difficult it was.

Lian Yunjin said nothing more. She reached out and took Gu Jiuge’s hand, channeled her power to rise into the air, and headed back the way they had come.

As they sped through the air, Gu Jiuge caught a faint, cool fragrance. Following the scent, she looked toward Lian Yunjin’s graceful, fair, slender neck. A sparkling necklace rested against the exquisitely defined collarbone beside it, while below the necklace was the V-shaped neckline of her moon-white dress.

Because they were so close, Gu Jiuge could even see the soft, fair, delicate skin rising and falling beneath the V-shaped neckline.

That faint, cool fragrance seemed to emanate from her skin, and for some inexplicable reason, desire arose in Gu Jiuge’s heart.

“What are you doing?”

While they were still airborne, Lian Yunjin noticed the warm, damp breath against her neckline and instinctively frowned. She descended to the ground and released Gu Jiuge’s hand.

When the cool fragrance disappeared, an almost imperceptible sense of disappointment arose in Gu Jiuge’s heart.

“Nothing.” Gu Jiuge smiled awkwardly and avoided Lian Yunjin’s gaze.

Why had she just behaved like that wretched pervert?

How strange!

Lian Yunjin pursed her thin lips, contemplation appearing between her brows as she studied Gu Jiuge thoughtfully.

“Why don’t we take a taxi back?” To prevent herself from doing something like that again, Gu Jiuge took the initiative to suggest it.

Lian Yunjin glanced at her and nodded lightly. “All right.”

The modern city beneath the night sky was brightly illuminated. Vehicles and pedestrians filled the surrounding streets, and everything looked no different from the modern world Gu Jiuge knew.

“Gu Chengze, I don’t care where you’re fooling around right now. You must come home tonight!” Sitting inside the taxi, Lian Yunjin picked up her phone and issued the order coldly.

Gu Jiuge did not know what was said on the other end, but Lian Yunjin’s expression grew increasingly unpleasant. She ended the call with a frosty face, a chilling aura radiating from her entire body.

Gu Jiuge kept her mouth tightly shut ​bailiantales.com​and secretly observed her expression, silently speculating about the current state of Lian Yunjin’s marriage to her newly acquired brother.

Neither of them spoke throughout the journey. They took the taxi back to the Lian family’s villa.

Just before returning to her room, Lian Yunjin’s cool gaze fell upon Gu Jiuge, and she looked as though she wanted to say something but hesitated.

“Sister Lian, is there something you want me to do?” Gu Jiuge asked.

Lian Yunjin knitted her brows, closed her bedroom door, and replied indifferently, “It’s nothing.”

Gu Jiuge scratched her head in confusion, returned to her room, and quietly considered everything that had happened.

The wretched man had been effortlessly killed by Lian Yunjin, which was enough to prove that he was merely an insignificant cannon-fodder character.

Judging by Lian Yunjin’s attitude during the phone call, her relationship with the male lead seemed very tense, and her characterization had not collapsed yet!

This… should be shortly after the male lead married Lian Yunjin, just as his younger sister’s supreme-grade cultivation-cauldron constitution was exposed!

[Host, you truly are a little genius! That’s right. The plot is currently at the exact point where the male lead’s younger sister’s depression begins.]

The voice that suddenly appeared inside her mind immediately reminded Gu Jiuge of the sheet of white paper she had seen before transmigrating into the book.

She demanded angrily, “System! What exactly is going on? Why did I become the male lead’s younger sister?”

[The Heaven-Defying Fate-Changing System’s duty is to help novel characters defy the heavens and transform their fates. Based on your intense indignation and the concise explanation in your comment, this system concluded that you would undoubtedly be capable of completing the fate-changing mission as the male lead’s younger sister. Therefore, you became the lucky one.]

Hearing the words “lucky one” left Gu Jiuge utterly speechless.

This system probably misunderstood what those words meant.

“I was just mouthing off because it felt satisfying at the time.” Gu Jiuge instinctively suggested, “Can’t you find another lucky person?”

[That isn’t possible. Once you have bound yourself to the system and transmigrated into the book, you must complete the mission before you can return to your original world.]

[Given that the main mission’s objective is currently too difficult for the host, this considerate system has established a side mission based on your comment. You may complete the side mission first.]

“What is the side mission? Will I be able to go back after completing it?” Gu Jiuge asked.

[You once complained that all the female supporting characters’ personalities had collapsed. Therefore, the side mission is to preserve the female supporting characters’ original personalities. Completing the side mission will earn you rewards that can be used to complete the main mission.]

After absorbing this information and confirming that she could only return home by completing the main mission, Gu Jiuge gradually calmed down.

Once she had calmed down, she was overwhelmed with regret.

Why had she dropped the novel halfway through last night? She could not even remember all the female supporting characters’ names, so how was she supposed to earn the rewards?

“Um, what reward will I receive for completing the side mission?” Gu Jiuge asked.

[Host, that isn’t what you should be thinking about right now. Do you currently feel as though your entire body is heating up and burning?]

Huh?

Just as confusion arose in Gu Jiuge’s heart, her attention shifted away from the system, and she immediately noticed a scorching heat in her palms.

Not only that, but the surface of her skin felt as though it unauthorized copyhad been rolled through boiling oil. The burning restlessness made her dizzy and disoriented.

Her breathing, every exhalation from her nose, and even the deepest part of her heart were filled with a fiery impatience. Gu Jiuge desperately wanted to find something cold to soothe herself.

Gu Jiuge gulped down lungfuls of fresh air and asked with unbearable discomfort, “What’s happening? Why am I like this?”

The moment she finished speaking, a hollow, tingling sensation surged from deep within her, closely resembling the feeling of physical desire.

But this time, the desire came fiercely and was completely uncontrollable.

“Did that wretched man drug me?” After considering every possibility, Gu Jiuge could only think of this explanation.

She quickly ran into the private bathroom attached to her room.

Cold water from the shower sprayed down amid her panting, washing over her smooth, porcelain-white skin and dousing the flames of desire in her heart.

However, even after the water had left her skin faintly red, the flames of desire inside her still did not dissipate. A crimson flush spread across her cheeks, and her mind had become somewhat hazy from the heat.

[This is a side effect of the male lead’s younger sister’s supreme-grade cultivation-cauldron constitution. After the constitution awakens, ​bailiantales.com​she enters an arousal period every week.]

[During the arousal period, spiritual energy spills out from her body, and the surging spiritual energy attracts numerous cultivators. Furthermore, if a cultivator dual cultivates with her during this period, they have a high chance of breaking through their current bottleneck. That is why so many cannon-fodder characters who overestimate themselves flock toward her.]

[Showering like this cannot stop your spiritual energy from spilling out, nor can it relieve the unbearable sensations you’re currently experiencing.]

After hearing this, Gu Jiuge’s feelings toward the original character shifted from frustration at her weakness to sympathy for her.

“Then what should I do?” Gu Jiuge patted her cheeks, struggling to remain conscious. “How did the original character endure her arousal periods before? Did she force herself to bear it?”

[That won’t work. As long as your spiritual energy continues spilling out, you will remain in this state.]

“Then what am I supposed to do? Did the original character DIY?” Gu Jiuge asked despairingly.

DIY… was not impossible. It was simply too embarrassing.

No wonder the original character became increasingly depressed. What kind of garbage setting was this?

[The original novel stated that DIY cannot resolve it.]

“DIY doesn’t work, and neither does enduring it.” Dark lines slid down Gu Jiuge’s forehead. “Was the author who created this setting trying to force a decent woman into prostitution? How exactly did the original Gu Jiuge deal with it?”

[The original novel never clearly stated how the original Gu Jiuge resolved it. Perhaps this was merely a plot hole in the original novel.]

Gu Jiuge fell into despair.

It might have been a plot hole in the original novel, but now that it had fallen upon her, it was no longer something as simple as a plot hole! This life-threatening sensation was unbearably agonizing.

[Lian Yunjin seemed to want to say something earlier but hesitated. Perhaps she knows how to resolve it. You can ask her for help,] the system calmly suggested.

Hearing this, Gu Jiuge indeed recalled Lian Yunjin’s hesitant expression.

Desperate to escape the unbearable sensation tormenting her, Gu Jiuge did not dare delay. She immediately wrapped herself in a bath towel and left her room.

Her face was crimson as she panted hot breaths, anxiety visible in her eyes. Drawing a deep breath, she knocked on Lian Yunjin’s bedroom door.

“Sister Lian, are you asleep?”