After Transmigrating, I Have To Win Over The Female Lead - Chapter 3

“Hm?”

Li Xilian was a little confused.

Why was she being so fierce?

She tossed away the cane in her hand and went to look at the person tied up on the ground. Hanqiu looked young, only in her teens. She was dressed in a ragged white inner robe, the fabric stained with several traces of blood.

Her long black hair fell over her shoulders. Beneath it was a youthful, still-immature face—yet it was the most beautiful face Li Xilian had ever seen in her life.

Her brows and eyes were long and narrow, her phoenix eyes half-lowered, revealing a faint sense of defeat. There were still bloodstains on her thin lips, probably from biting them after being beaten.

Fine beads of sweat had gathered on her delicate, small nose. No matter how Li Xilian looked at her, she was flawless.

For a moment, Li Xilian didn’t answer her question. But she quickly came back to herself.

009 had said she had to humiliate her and leave wounds, right?

She looked Hanqiu up and down.

Well, in that case, don’t blame me.

Li Xilian stepped forward, pinched Hanqiu’s face, and bit her.

Hanqiu only felt a burst of heat on her cheek, followed by a sharp sting.

“Ah… Li Xilian, are you a dog or something?”

Hanqiu glared at her in both shame and anger.

Li Xilian licked her tongue.

“Eh? Hanqiu, how did you know? I really was born in the Year of the Dog. Not convinced? Hold it in.”

She looked at the mark on Hanqiu’s face with satisfaction and nodded.

Not bad.

“009, how was that? There’s humiliation, and there’s a wound.”

Li Xilian leaned smugly to the side.

“Host, isn’t that way too simple?” 009 never would have imagined it could be done like this.

“Just tell me whether it matches what you asked for or not. Besides, this way is fast and simple. It helps us complete the mission quickly.”

Li Xilian was busy battling wits with the system. On the other side, Hanqiu kept staring at her, seeming completely unable to understand what was happening.

“Fine, fine. But the wound doesn’t really qualify. The higher-ups won’t let it pass,” 009 said after communicating with someone.

“Isn’t that easy?”

Li Xilian turned her gaze back to Hanqiu.

“Hanqiu, this is your punishment.”

This time, she explained it to her. Then she leaned down and bit Hanqiu’s fair neck.

“Uh… Host, I have to hand it to you.”

009 stared from the void with a complicated expression at Hanqiu’s neck, which had already been bitten full of teeth marks by Li Xilian. At least her face had only been bitten once.

This host still had a bit of a bottom line.

Though not much.

“Congratulations, host. Mission complete. Reward obtained: lightning-attribute immortal spiritual root.”

In this world, cultivation realms were divided according to the twelve double-hours. And what Li Xilian had just obtained was an incredibly rare lightning-attribute spiritual root—an immortal-grade one, no less.

But Li Xilian was in no hurry to claim her reward.

Hanqiu was already so embarrassed and furious that she looked like a ripe peach.

“Here. Take these medicines and apply them. Don’t embarrass the Li Residence.”

Li Xilian shoved all the things she had brought into Hanqiu’s arms in one go, then left.

She ordered the maids at the door to send Hanqiu back to her room, while she dragged her own body away alone.

Hanqiu watched her retreating figure. Under the sunlight, the bloodstain across Li Xilian’s back was especially clear.

Her eyes darkened with unreadable emotion. Her fingers lightly touched the marks on her neck, and no one knew what she was thinking.

“009, claim the reward.”

Only after Li Xilian had dealt with the wound on her back did she speak to the system.

“Reward loading…”

“Loading complete!”

Li Xilian opened her eyes. She had thought it would hurt, but in the end, she didn’t feel much of anything.

Though her body did seem a little different.

Before she could adjust to it, someone knocked on the door.

“What is it?”

“Um… Madam sent me to inform Second Miss that Eldest Miss has returned!”

The maid’s voice was timid. After all, she was still afraid of Li Xilian. Li Xilian had the kind of face that seemed to warn strangers away.

“Sister is back!”

Li Xilian’s expression changed at once.

Eldest Miss—Li Ruoyao.

Li Ruoyao was Li Xilian’s favorite character. She had always taken care of her younger sister, and even until the very end, she continued protecting the original owner.