After Pretending To Have Amnesia, My Mortal Enemy Senior Sister Said She Loved Me - Chapter 1

When Xie Wenyin woke up, her whole body felt as if it had been run over by carriage wheels. She was exhausted beyond measure.

With great difficulty, she turned over—and the first thing she saw was her senior sister’s breathtaking sleeping face.

Her feather-like lashes trembled faintly. Her pale pink lips were pressed together, and she lay quietly beside Xie Wenyin, breathing evenly, her clothes slightly disheveled.

Their hair was still tangled together.

Xie Wenyin’s mind went completely blank for a full three seconds.

Then she remembered the wonderful thing she had done last night.

Several hours earlier.

The spring breeze was soft and lingering, fine as silk and thread. Xie Wenyin stood there, feeling a little disoriented from that ticklish breeze brushing over her.

In front of her was a half-open redwood window. Everything around her looked ancient and elegant, and the flying-bird screen by the partition, along with the neatly arranged divine weapons and sharp blades, was enough to show the room owner’s taste.

Xie Wenyin’s first reaction was that she was still trapped in a drunken dream and had yet to wake up. But the mechanical female voice that sounded beside her ear made her sit up from the floor all at once.

[Hello, Host. Congratulations on successfully binding with the original host, Xie Wenyin.]

Xie Wenyin froze for a long while before remembering that she had originally been squirming like a caterpillar on the bed in her bedroom, holding up a novel.

It was nothing more than her being tortured half to death by useless college classes, employment pressure, and all the so-called “proper things” the older women in her family approved of—taking civil service exams, taking public institution exams, and so on.

She had thought she would relax for a while by reading the novel her friend recommended. Who would have thought she would be so angered by the vicious female supporting character in the book that she transmigrated into it on the spot?

Of all people she could have transmigrated into, she just had to become Xie Wenyin—the bastard little wretch who shared her name and spent every day doing nothing but bullying her senior sister.

“In the end, Xie Wenyin committed too many sins and reaped what she had sown. Her immortal bones were extracted, and she was trampled by others like a mad dog.” That ending had indeed been satisfying to read. But if it happened to her, it would turn into a horror story.

Before Xie Wenyin could think too much, the system’s voice sounded again.

[Please proceed with the main storyline, Host. Tonight, your senior sister, Moon Goddess Immortal Venerable Feng Ning, will drink and talk with Divine Lord Huaiyu. Please mix the aphrodisiac powder into Divine Lord Huaiyu’s wine cup.]

Xie Wenyin looked at the little packet of medicine that had appeared out of thin air in her hand and tugged at the corner of her mouth speechlessly. “I just transmigrated into the book. How is it such a coincidence that I happen to run into something as filthy as drugging someone right away?”

The system did not answer. It only kept urging Xie Wenyin forward.

[Host, this system is merciful, so I shall offer you a hint or two. You only need to preserve your own life while not exposing your identity as a transmigrator. Isn’t that very easy?]

“…Easy, my ass.”

She truly did not want to do something so despicable. It was not for any other reason; Xie Wenyin simply felt that the original host was ruthless enough even toward herself. In order to disgust her senior sister, she had not hesitated to use her own body as part of the scheme, making her senior sister see the scene of her entangled with her senior sister’s lover.

How was she supposed to break out of this situation? Why not just run away?

Thinking this, Xie Wenyin stopped the motion of pouring the powder into the wine cup.

“System, you said it yourself. As long as I don’t expose my identity, that’s fine, right? Then is it okay if I don’t follow the main storyline?”

[…]

Before the system’s voice could sound in her mind again, a spell brushed over the wooden door. With a creak, the door opened.

Someone was here!

What should she do? What should she do? Now she could not run.

Xie Wenyin turned her head in a panic. Unexpectedly, her hand slipped, and the aphrodisiac powder fell straight into… her senior sister’s glass cup.

…Plans truly could not keep up with changes. Xie Wenyin immediately grabbed the wine jug and filled both of their cups with wine.

Damn powder, hurry up and dissolve!

Unhurried footsteps sounded behind her. Xie Wenyin felt the other person’s gaze fall on her, so she could only pretend to be calm and slowly turn around.

A face like carved jade, plain clothes beneath a purple robe, like immortal mist from the Jade Pool—this was Xie Wenyin’s first impression when she saw her senior sister, Feng Ning. She had not even known she was so cultured, capable of coming up with such a description.

But this kind of immortal fairy was the person she was supposed to bully.

The person before her merely glanced at her with disdain, then passed Xie Wenyin and half-reclined in the seat of honor without saying a word.

Xie Wenyin silently lifted her head and looked at the silent woman. There was scrutiny in the other party’s eyes, and her expression was weary. Her appearance seemed to give a wordless command:

Confess. Why are you here? What did you do?

Xie Wenyin truly began explaining on her own without meaning to.

“Um… I… I thought that tonight, you and Senior Brother Huaiyu were going to drink and talk, so I specially prepared wine for the two of you…”

The system seemed a little uneasy. It must have felt that the female lead’s explanation had too many holes in it.

[Host, I suggest you run right now.]

Xie Wenyin: …

Sure enough, the person seated above let out a soft scoff. “How does Junior Sister know that Huaiyu and I have an appointment?”

Junior Sister does not know. Junior Sister simply had a shaky hand and drugged the wrong cup. Junior Sister really wants to run right now… Wuwu.

Xie Wenyin’s heart was a mess. She bit her lower lip and said nothing, thinking that she was definitely the most cowardly and useless host the system had ever chosen.

In the seat of honor, Feng Ning lifted the cup with one hand and gently swirled it.

Seeing this, Xie Wenyin raised her heel, preparing to flee. But then she heard the other woman speak:

“You drink with me.”

…She must have noticed something! Xie Wenyin’s heart was filled with unease as she unwillingly shuffled toward the seat of honor.

Feng Ning’s tone allowed no refusal. Xie Wenyin was somewhat afraid of this senior sister of hers.

She possessed the original host’s memories, and she also remembered what had been written in the book: in the future, her senior sister could no longer tolerate Xie Wenyin’s recklessness and coldly sent her, step by step, to her death.

She picked up the wine cup that should originally have belonged to Divine Lord Huaiyu and looked nervously at her senior sister, who was neither too close nor too far away from her.

Seeing that Xie Wenyin was acting somewhat strange today, the other woman frowned, not knowing what trouble she intended to stir up this time.

“Did you take a mute medicine today? You’re speaking so little.”

Feng Ning raised her cup in front of Xie Wenyin. Xie Wenyin lowered her head and looked. Sure enough, the powder in the cup had not completely dissolved!

Yet this Moon Goddess Immortal Venerable before her seemed not to notice at all. She merely stretched out her hand, clinked her cup against Xie Wenyin’s, and then drank the wine in one go.

The scene left Xie Wenyin dumbfounded.

“Why aren’t you drinking?”

Feng Ning lifted her chin at her. Xie Wenyin rubbed the carved patterns on the cup, then closed her eyes and, copying her senior sister, drank the wine clean in one gulp.

She only felt that the wine burned her throat terribly. The first mouthful she swallowed already made her dizzy. By her ear, the crisp sound of Feng Ning extending her hand and the two wine cups touching still seemed to linger.

After that cup of wine went down, she was actually the first one to get drunk. If it had not been for the fact that the powder in her senior sister’s cup had not dissolved, Xie Wenyin would have suspected that the aphrodisiac powder had not been put into the wrong cup after all.

Her head felt very heavy, but her body also felt very light. Xie Wenyin had never experienced this feeling before.

She had not been someone who never touched alcohol. When eating out with friends, she had never gotten drunk.

Maybe the alcohol in the cultivation world was just too strong?

In the moment before she sank into darkness, Xie Wenyin only felt herself falling onto a soft bed, not the hard floor.

The above was everything Xie Wenyin had seen and heard after transmigrating into the book.

She simply could not understand how she had… how she had ended up sleeping in the same bed as her senior sister. And why did her body have no strength at all? Was this right??

If she did not run now, what was she waiting for? Xie Wenyin could not care about how strange her whole body felt. She struggled to get up, only to discover that aside from her close-fitting undergarments, her inner robe and outer robe were all scattered on the floor!

Xie Wenyin hurriedly called for the system, but the other party took forever to respond.

Only after a long while did that familiar female voice sound in her mind.

[…Too embarrassing, too embarrassing! This system has never seen such an absurd thing before///-///]

“?? What do you mean? Explain clearly…” Xie Wenyin had a bad feeling in her heart.

[I already said it was an absurd thing. How could this system possibly peek! This system shut off its hearing and vision last night, so Host, stop asking me!]

Xie Wenyin reached for the outer robe nearby and draped it over herself. After the hangover, her head was dizzy. Although she tried her best to control the size of her movements, the person beside her still woke up.

Or perhaps she had never been asleep at all, and had only been silently watching Xie Wenyin’s flustered state from the side.

Feng Ning’s gaze originally held no warmth, cold as the rest of her. But Xie Wenyin had a guilty conscience, so she kept feeling that Feng Ning’s eyes were scorching hot, hot enough to burn this vicious junior sister of hers into ashes.

Thinking of this, Xie Wenyin unconsciously moved toward the outer edge of the bed. With a bang, she rolled off the bed, and the back of her head hit the floor heavily.

Xie Wenyin cried out in pain, feeling as if she had already knocked herself stupid.

Wait. Knocked herself… stupid? Xie Wenyin suddenly came up with an idea she considered genius.

She slowly crawled up from the floor. Feng Ning had already risen and was sitting upright, watching her leisurely. Her eyes did not hide the contempt and disdain she felt toward this foolish behavior.

Xie Wenyin cleared her throat, then said with a serious expression, “Who… who are you?”

Suddenly feeling that her acting was not sincere or realistic enough, Xie Wenyin raised her hand and clutched her head. “Hiss… My head hurts so much. Did I… lose my memory?”

Pretending to have amnesia would not only let her take the opportunity to whitewash herself, but also save her from worrying that acting OOC would make people suspicious.

[…Host, you truly are a genius.]

When Xie Wenyin heard that even the system was praising her, she acted even harder. She performed the dazed look of someone awakening from a great dream in a fairly convincing manner. In the past, she had used this trick of playing dumb and muddling through to survive her university teachers’ classroom questions.

Xie Wenyin observed her senior sister’s reaction from the corner of her eye. But the other woman still had no expression. She simply got off the bed, approached her, and looked down at this fake junior sister who was pretending to be stupid.

“Amnesia?”

The other woman’s voice was slightly hoarse. Xie Wenyin could not help swallowing as she waited for her to continue.

“Then Junior Sister had better remember this well—”

“Last night was the hundredth time you cried and said you loved me.”

…What?!

Xie Wenyin motionlessly lifted her head and looked up at this Moon Goddess Immortal Venerable. The corners of Feng Ning’s eyes were slightly red, and a faint beauty mark beneath one eye was half-hidden by the shadow of her long lashes, making her seem extraordinarily bewitching.

Was this really what an Immortal Venerable should look like…? Xie Wenyin only felt that the moment she saw Feng Ning, she could no longer move her eyes away. Surely the other woman was some kind of demon, right?

She blinked, and saw that her senior sister had already gone to the dressing table and was gathering up her waist-length black hair.

That scene just now had definitely been her imagination, Xie Wenyin thought.

“Uh, you’re Senior Sister, right… Although I’ve lost my memory, you can’t make things up to fool me. I’m not stupid, you know. What do you mean, crying and saying I loved you…” Xie Wenyin herself felt those words were scalding hot in her mouth, impossible to say aloud.

Feng Ning paid her no attention. She turned around and poured herself a cup of water.

Seeing this, Xie Wenyin also felt thirsty, so she slowly shuffled to her side, wanting to ask her senior sister for a cup of water.

The next moment, Feng Ning waved her hand, and the teapot transformed into a wisp of white smoke.

Xie Wenyin silently withdrew the hand she had stretched out.

Forget it. She was not that thirsty anyway.

[Detected that Host has successfully resolved the first crisis. Congratulations, the panel has been activated. Senior Sister’s current favorability: -200.]

Xie Wenyin had thought her senior sister must hate her. She simply had not expected her to hate her this much.

In the end, Senior Sister was still too dignified. Even with her favorability this low, she had not slaughtered her. Xie Wenyin suddenly felt that immortals truly were different.

The system’s voice did not stop, and continued:

[Senior Sister’s current inner demon value: 800.]

Eight hundred? How could it be so high? Would she not suffer qi deviation like this?

Xie Wenyin looked again at that back. She carried an immortal aura of her own and was as proud and solitary as the moon. How could she have such a heavy inner demon?

[Host, please note: if the Moon Goddess Immortal Venerable’s inner demon value reaches 1000, she will die suddenly.]

You want me to note that? But… I’m not the one who caused her inner demon, right? Do I have to be responsible for this too? Xie Wenyin was confused.

[Strictly speaking, you don’t have to care.]

[However… Host, the fact that your original body hated her senior sister is no secret. If the Moon Goddess Immortal Venerable falls, everyone in the sect will think you were the one who harmed her.]

Xie Wenyin understood now. From this moment on, her little life was tied to her senior sister’s.

“What are you standing there for? Hurry and clean up these filthy things of yours.”

That cool, clear voice entered her ears. Following Feng Ning’s gaze, Xie Wenyin saw the clothes scattered all over the floor.