After Transmigrating Into a Pirated Novel to Teach Them a Lesson - Chapter 1

Fu Chenxue regained consciousness.

She slowly opened her eyes. Beneath her lashes, her pupils were extremely pale, like fine rain falling upon the surface of a lake, leaving behind ripples.

At this moment, she was beneath a ten-thousand-foot cliff.

The system’s mechanical voice rang out: [Why did you jump down after the female lead?]

Fu Chenxue stood up and patted the dust off her shoulder. “What do you think? If I didn’t jump down after her, what if she got taken back and tortured again?”

Fu Chenxue looked around, wanting to find the female lead the system had mentioned—Liu Changning.

She did not belong to this world. She had transmigrated into a book. And as luck would have it, this book was one she had written herself.

Fu Chenxue had been a full-time writer in the modern world, as well as the author of the xianxia novel A Difficult Immortal Path. She made a living through writing, and after working tirelessly day after day, A Difficult Immortal Path finally achieved a little success and made it onto the channel’s golden ranking.

However, the pirates were far too rampant. Whenever she updated a chapter on the official site, the pirates would steal that chapter at the same time. Her complaints went nowhere, her reports failed, and she could only watch helplessly as her earnings dropped. Meanwhile, large numbers of pirated readers flooded into her comment section and criticized her work as if it were completely worthless.

Fu Chenxue was so angry she almost had a heart attack.

She was forced to stop updating and put down her pen. She began searching for a new job, planning to think about resuming updates only after she could support herself.

However, on her way to a job interview, she accidentally missed a step on the company stairs and tumbled straight down from the sixth floor. Her vision went black, and she passed out…

[System: Beep, beep, beep. Congratulations, you have successfully bound yourself to the work A Difficult Immortal Path.]

When Fu Chenxue heard that voice, she opened her eyes and discovered that she was not at the stairwell. There was no one around her either. Instead, she was in a boundless darkness.

“What is this place?” Fu Chenxue still was not fully awake. Could it be that she had fainted from the fall and was now dreaming?

[System: This space is your pirated book.]

Fu Chenxue froze. “Pirated book? Didn’t I fall down the stairs? How could…”

[System: Yes. Unfortunately, you died after falling down the stairs. In the final second before your death, the system pulled you into this space.]

Fu Chenxue’s mind was a complete mess. She only heard the system continue:

[Because your work was stolen and mangled beyond recognition, countless pirated readers flooded into your comment section to complain. As a result, the original plot has completely collapsed. Therefore, the system can only sincerely invite you to fix the bugs in the story.]

Fu Chenxue lowered her head and looked at her clothes. She wore elegant, pale-colored robes, with a plain white outer robe draped over them. A tassel belt hung at her waist, and moonflower patterns were embroidered along her sleeves. This was clearly not an outfit from her era.

So she had transmigrated into a book—and into her own book at that.

Fu Chenxue immediately felt that something was wrong. Wait, this white-robed image… it could only match one person: the cannon-fodder character she had written, the female lead’s master, Fu Chenxue.

Although Fu Chenxue was the female lead’s master, she was only a minor cannon fodder on the female lead’s long cultivation journey. She had died and exited the story very early on.

Fu Chenxue never would have imagined that back then, she had casually used her own name for the female lead’s master—and now she had become her.

Transmigrating into books came with risks. One had to be cautious when naming characters.

Fu Chenxue took a deep breath. “So right now, I’ve become Fu Chenxue, correct?”

[System: Correct. Your identity is Fu Chenxue, peak master of Winter Peak in the Yubing Sect. In other words, you are the master of this story’s female lead, Liu Changning.]

[System: Ever since your story was stolen by pirated novel sites, the plot has changed. The timeline has become reversed and chaotic, while elements from other stolen works have also merged into it. This has caused the female lead to be abused by all kinds of supporting characters until she is covered in wounds.]

Fu Chenxue remembered now. Back then, aside from her mental state collapsing, another reason she had stopped writing was that all those pirated readers had flooded into her novel’s comment section. They pointed fingers at her work, saying this part was wrong and that part was poorly written, making her so furious her heart burned.

Fu Chenxue had originally wanted to reply that she had never written any of those plotlines at all. But then she thought, why should she explain anything to pirated readers? She simply deleted the comments and decided never to look again.

Who would have thought that after those pirated readers saw their comments had been deleted, they would start leaving negative ratings on the free chapters, claiming that the author had encouraged the comment section to bully them? Other readers said, “You read pirated copies, so don’t come here running your mouth.” That person replied, “Just because I read pirated copies, does that mean I can’t express my opinion?” Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah—

Fu Chenxue became utterly disheartened. Only then did she choose to stop writing.

Fu Chenxue asked, “Then where is the female lead… Liu Changning?”

[System: The system will send you to the female lead’s side. However, the system must remind you that the female lead’s eyes were poisoned by people from the Demon Realm using gu poison, and her legs have been crippled. For the time being, she cannot see or walk.]

Fu Chenxue’s brows furrowed slightly. She had never written such a plot. It seemed that the pirates really had stolen things recklessly, mixing her work together with other works, which had led to this situation.

[System: To help you understand your missions more easily, the following is a simplified explanation.]

Fu Chenxue looked up, and a huge blue screen appeared in front of her.

[Mission One: Treat the female lead. That is, heal the female lead’s leg injuries and eye condition.]

[Mission Two: Restore the plot. That is, complete the characters’ storylines.]

[Mission Three: Increase satisfaction. That is, assist the female lead in killing all villains.]

[System: Because the original plot collapsed due to piracy, every time you complete a mission, a part of the pirated-novel world will automatically disintegrate. Furthermore, most of this story’s villains are made up of elements from the pirated-novel world. Eliminating the villains is equivalent to striking back against the pirated-novel world.]

Fu Chenxue quickly memorized everything. But then she suddenly realized something.

Wait. This Fu Chenxue… was also one of the cannon-fodder villains she had designed!

In the original story, Fu Chenxue failed her tribulation and turned to demonic cultivation. In the end, she was discovered by the people of the Yubing Sect. The female lead endured the pain and killed her master with her own hands, and from then on, her reputation soared.

To put it simply, Fu Chenxue was a stepping stone on Liu Changning’s path to fame—an early-exit cannon-fodder villain.

Fu Chenxue said, “Wait a minute. I understand the first two missions, but the third mission… what does killing all villains mean?”

[System: It means exactly what it says.]

Fu Chenxue: “…”

Exactly what it said. So she had to help Liu Changning kill herself?

Fu Chenxue pressed further, “Killing all villains… could that possibly include the villains I designed myself?”

[System: Yes. Because your second mission is to restore the plot.]

Fu Chenxue asked, “Then if I really get killed by the female lead, can this mission still continue?”

[System: Please rest assured. When the time comes, the system will assist you. Once all missions are completed, the pirated-novel world will automatically collapse. On the other hand, if you cannot complete the missions, the world inside the book will collapse. Now, please prepare for transfer…]

Fu Chenxue immediately felt the world spin around her. Then the sound of rain striking leaves reached her ears.

She seemed to have arrived at an unusual place.

This was a ten-thousand-foot cliff. The rainstorm poured down violently, and muddy water stained the hem of Fu Chenxue’s pure white robes.

Suddenly, a sinister cackle came from not far away. Fu Chenxue looked up and saw a group of people gathered at the edge of the cliff. The man at the front wore red robes and a silver iron mask. The long sword hanging from his hand was coated with fresh blood, which dripped one drop at a time into the yellow earth.

He looked at the person lying on the ground and said lazily, “This is your last chance. Will you hand over the Yubing Sect’s core mental cultivation method or not?”

When the person on the ground heard this, the corners of her lips moved slightly. Her fingers dug deeply into the cracks between the stones. Her legs seemed to have been drained of their bones, unable to move at all. When she opened her eyes, they were filled with blood-red color.

“How could the Yubing Sect’s mental cultivation method possibly be handed over to scum from the Demon Realm—”

Fu Chenxue froze slightly when she heard that voice.

That was… Liu Changning?

Although she had never heard Liu Changning’s voice before, the system had said it would send her to the female lead’s side.

This should be her.

Fu Chenxue stood not far away, but no one noticed her. The man in red was not affected in the slightest either. It was as if the person before him was nothing more than a foolish disciple who refused to hand over the mental cultivation method. If she would not give it to him, then he could simply capture someone else.

He waved his hand at the people beside him and said coldly, “She’s useless. Throw her down.”

“Yes, Altar Master.”

Several people immediately stepped forward, preparing to throw the barely breathing Liu Changning off the cliff!

Fu Chenxue: “!!!”

Everything happened far too suddenly. Fu Chenxue did not even have time to prepare. The red-robed man in the lead was too lazy to deal with the aftermath and had already turned into a wisp of red smoke, leaving the place.

Just as those people threw Liu Changning off the cliff, they suddenly felt a cold gust of wind pass by them, making goosebumps rise all over their bodies.

They looked around cautiously. One of them said suspiciously, “Just now… was there some kind of movement?”

Another person replied, “What movement could there be? Hurry back to the Ghost Altar. The Altar Master is still waiting for us.”

Several wisps of red smoke rose, and the cliffside fell silent once more.

Fu Chenxue walked alone beneath the cliff. She roughly tested the spiritual energy in her body. The original owner was a medical cultivator, and her cultivation had just reached the Golden Core stage. Fu Chenxue had only just transmigrated over, so she was still somewhat unfamiliar with using it.

But earlier, she had followed the female lead and jumped off the cliff purely by reflex.

She still had not adapted to the world inside the book. Following the female lead was the best choice. Besides, the system had also said that her first mission was to save the female lead.

Fu Chenxue did not actually have much confidence in playing the role of “Master.” After all, the original owner was just a cannon-fodder character with barely any lines. The book had only described her like this: Fu Chenxue lived in seclusion on Winter Peak all year round, and even Liu Changning had only seen her a few times.

Fu Chenxue: “…”

Right now, she wanted to beat her past self to death. Even casually adding a little more setting would have been better!

But she had jumped down together with the female lead. Why was Liu Changning nowhere to be seen?

Fu Chenxue said, “System, where did the female lead go?”

[System: After system confirmation, the female lead landed on the other side of the cliff.]

Fu Chenxue hurried off to search for her and asked along the way, “Can her eye condition and leg injuries be brought back to the Yubing Sect for treatment?”

[System: Ordinary spiritual medicines cannot cure the female lead’s injuries. There is a cave beneath this cliff called the Jade Stone Cave Residence. Inside it is a spiritual spring. If you send the female lead into the spiritual spring, her leg injuries will recover in due time.]

Fu Chenxue thought this sounded easy enough. She asked again, “How long is ‘in due time’?”

[System: Anywhere between two to five years.]

Fu Chenxue: “?”

“Wait. Tell me how old the female lead is right now, and where the timeline currently is.”

[System: The female lead is currently fifteen years old and is at the stage where she has gone down the mountain for training.]

Fifteen years old. In that case, hadn’t the plot only just begun?

Fu Chenxue sighed and asked again, “What about her eye injury?”

[System: According to the outline of another stolen work, there is a spiritual herb in the secret realm on Shaoqing Island called the Soul Infant Seven-Leaf Flower. After refining this flower and applying it to the patient’s eyes, the patient will be able to see again.]

[System: However, the secret realm on Shaoqing Island will only open five years from now. Before that, the system recommends that you heal the female lead’s legs first. Otherwise, when the time comes, you will still have to carry her to Shaoqing Island on your back.]

Fu Chenxue said, “You have a point.”

The mountain path was rugged and uneven. Fu Chenxue searched for a long time before she finally found traces of Liu Changning beneath the cliff.

Liu Changning lay soundlessly on the ground. Her hair was disheveled, her entire body stiff. Her pale purple clothes were covered in bloodstains. Fu Chenxue quickly ran over to check on her.

She crouched beside Liu Changning and pushed her body gently. Just as she was about to turn her over, Liu Changning opened her eyes in a daze, startling Fu Chenxue.

Those eyes were filled with blood-red color. She had clearly been poisoned by gu!

For some reason, Fu Chenxue felt her heart clench fiercely. Perhaps it was because the female lead she had personally created had been tortured by the Demon Realm, making her unable to bear it. Or perhaps it was because the pirates had stolen and jumbled up her story, causing the female lead to become like this…

She slipped one hand beneath Liu Changning’s knees and lifted her up in her arms.

Liu Changning’s consciousness was blurry. When she opened her eyes, all she could see was a field of crimson. The pain was unbearable, so she had no choice but to close her eyes again. In a weak voice, she asked,

“…Who is it?”