The Cub I Raised Turned Out to Be a Reborn Boss (GL) - Chapter 1

The woman in the bronze mirror possessed an extraordinary air; a light cyan silk robe showcased her slender and graceful figure. The plain white outer garment was embroidered with crane patterns, and the movement of her eyes revealed an aloof, unapproachable elegance.

Anyone who saw her would surely praise her as a peerless beauty. But the beauty was currently a little frustrated.

This body, though beautiful, belonged to a vicious villainess side character who had committed all sorts of evil.

The moment Jiang Yixue opened her eyes, she transmigrated, and into an Otome game at that.

Jiang Yixue herself didn’t play Otome games, but her friend had just told her that day about a heinous villainess in this game who shared her exact name, so the memory was still fresh.

$Love$ and the $Encounter$ of $Love$ is a newly released Otome game that tells the story of the female lead, from the player’s perspective, who is dragged into the whirlpool of the Three Realms because of her divine bloodline, and meets four exceptional men.

In any game, there must be a side character—of noble birth, exceptional talent, and stunning looks, but unfortunately dim-witted and vicious—to act as a foil to the female lead.

The villainess side character in this game shared the same name as Jiang Yixue.

This game became a market sensation soon after its release due to its complex and varied choices and storylines.

In this game, every choice the female lead makes affects the subsequent plot. There are countless hidden endings, but only four $\text{Happy}$ $\text{Endings}$ ($\text{HE}$).

Players wracked their brains trying to achieve the $\text{HE}$ endings. Jiang Yixue had heard her friend recount all four $\text{HE}$ endings. Though the male protagonist was different in each, they shared one common point—the villainess Jiang Yixue would always die at the hands of the male lead, who would claim to be “avenging his sweetheart.”

Jiang Yixue: “…”

Had she entered a world where she was the only one who got hurt?

At this moment, Jiang Yixue secretly pinched her palm.

It hurt. She wasn’t dreaming…

Jiang Yixue recalled that she had also played through the game once. Her mindset when playing wasn’t to embody the female lead’s perspective and date the four men, but rather to treat it as a female lead nurturing game.

Other parts of the game weren’t very appealing to Jiang Yixue. What she couldn’t take her eyes off was the female lead’s character model.

Since the storyline started from the female lead’s childhood, the soft, adorable little female lead looked as delicate as a little angel on earth. Her dark, vibrant eyes sparkled, and her rosy cheeks formed two tiny dimples when she smiled. Her fair skin and red lips made her utterly lovable, surpassing even the most exquisite Barbie doll.

Jiang Yixue’s biggest regret in life was not having a younger sister. Seeing other people’s soft and sweet little sisters made Jiang Yixue deeply envious.

A living, human-sized, large Barbie doll that could talk and act spoiled—who wouldn’t love that?

To satisfy her enjoyment of playing with a large Barbie doll, all of Jiang Yixue’s money spent in the game was used to buy beautiful clothes for the female lead. As for the plot and the male leads’ favorability? What were those? How could she let the cabbage she raised be rooted up by a pig?

Jiang Yixue played through the game with a mindset of raising a doll, and by the end, all four male leads still had zero favorability.

She had achieved the most difficult $\text{Bad}$ $\text{Ending}$ ($\text{BE}$) in the entire game.

The female lead was expelled from the sect for being tainted by demonic energy. She ultimately fell into the Demonic path, inherited the legacy of the former Demonic $\text{Supremacy}$ $\text{Youmingzi}$, established the $\text{Youming}$ $\text{Palace}$, and proclaimed herself the $\text{Youming}$ $\text{King}$.

The female lead, already mentally fragile, was betrayed by her former friends. Coupled with the bloodlust from cultivating the demonic path, she completely changed.

She personally killed her way into the sects that once had a blood feud with her, causing widespread panic across the land.

Finally, the major sects united under the banner of eliminating demons, attacked and breached the $\text{Youming}$ $\text{Palace}$. They then imprisoned the female lead for a thousand years to study the divine bloodline within her. The female lead was tormented by the “Soul-Ablazing $\text{Fire}$” for a millennium until she found a moment when her guard was slack and successfully self-destructed…

After seeing the ending she had achieved, Jiang Yixue was stunned.

Where was her soft and adorable little girl? She raised her until she became the ultimate $\text{BOSS}$, only for her to completely disappear in the end?

Jiang Yixue’s friend nearly doubled over with laughter upon seeing this ending: “My ancestor, this is an Otome game! What kind of Otome game is it without the male leads’ involvement? It was bound to be a $\text{BE}$!”

Jiang Yixue curled her lip in disdain: “Who says you can’t get an $\text{HE}$ without the male leads’ protection? The moral compass of this Otome game is entirely skewed.”

Her friend sighed helplessly: “Then tell me, how can you get an $\text{HE}$ without the male leads’ route?”

Jiang Yixue replied: “Wouldn’t everything be solved as long as the female lead doesn’t fall into the Demonic $\text{Path}$?”

As long as she didn’t fall into the Demonic $\text{Path}$, she wouldn’t be driven out of the sect, and she wouldn’t become a public enemy of the world. The final $\text{BE}$ ending would then be impossible to achieve.

Jiang Yixue was still thinking about the game in her head just before falling asleep, and the moment she opened her eyes, she was inside the game.

“Senior $\text{Sister}$ Jiang, $\text{Senior}$ $\text{Sister}$ Jiang.” A girl in a pink skirt ran towards Jiang Yixue with a look of excitement: “Song Xi has already been forced onto the dueling platform by us. Do you want to go and watch? We’re going to make her lose face this time and show her why she deserves to be taken in by $\text{Martial}$ $\text{Uncle}$ $\text{Han}$!”

This girl was named Shen Qingruo. Her face was full of righteous indignation, and Jiang Yixue’s mind went blank for a moment.

Song Xi? Isn’t that the name she set for the female lead?

It’s true, she’s transmigrated, and it’s not a dream. Jiang Yixue looked at Shen Qingruo’s expectant gaze and finally nodded: “Okay.”

She failed to raise her $\text{cub}$ across the screen the first time; did she just get another chance? A genuine, soft, and adorable little doll. Moreover, Jiang Yixue still remembered the female lead’s character portrait. The female lead in her childhood was genuinely so cute it was illegal, enough to make any sister-con’s heart flutter.

This part of the plot was early on, and she still remembered it.

After the female lead was accepted into the $\text{Yuqing}$ $\text{Sect}$, she was unexpectedly taken as a direct disciple by the $\text{Elder}$ of the $\text{Law}$ $\text{Enforcement}$ $\text{Hall}$, Han Yansu.

Who was Han Yansu? He was the heartthrob of all the female disciples in the entire $\text{Yuqing}$ $\text{Sect}$—aloof, arrogant, like an immortal from heaven who didn’t eat mortal food.

Especially Jiang Yixue, who secretly harbored feelings for Han Yansu, was furious and thus bore a grudge against this little girl.

She was the direct disciple of the $\text{Yuqing}$ $\text{Sect}$ $\text{Master}$ $\text{Xue}$ $\text{Qiancheng}$, and held a high status with many lackeys around her. So, upon her instruction, these lackeys resolved to humiliate Song Xi.

Song Xi would definitely not be foolish enough to go onto the dueling platform. However, she had a good friend she met during the entrance examination—Li Wan. This spirited and naive little girl was easily provoked with a few words and went up. Song Xi, in order to save her friend, had no choice but to duel.

Jiang Yixue frowned, trying hard to recall what else she had done afterwards.

Oh… Song Xi was Han Yansu’s direct disciple, so Jiang Yixue wasn’t so bold as to go too far; she just insulted her and let her go.

But it was different for Li Wan. With no status or background, her cultivation foundation was directly shattered, and she was then expelled from the $\text{Yuqing}$ $\text{Sect}$.

Li Wan was the first good friend in Song Xi’s life, and Song Xi consequently held a deep hatred for Jiang Yixue.

She wondered if this group had already crippled Li Wan’s foundation…

Remembering the one hundred ways the “original Jiang Yixue” died in the plot, a cold sweat instantly broke out on her back. She quickly grabbed Shen Qingruo: “You’re too slow, I’ll take you.”

With a clear clang of a sword, a sword shadow seemingly bloomed into a full-blown blue lotus, which shot into the sky, leaving a residual afterimage in the air.

Jiang Yixue followed her memory and used the fastest speed towards the dueling platform. Fortunately, she quickly accepted the memory and gained control of the body after transmigrating; this simple sword-riding technique was instantly mastered.

The people around the dueling platform were all intently staring at the people on stage.

One small girl’s clothes were already torn, and the exposed skin on her arms was covered with bruised marks, making her look quite a mess. Even the blood on her face couldn’t hide her stunning beauty, which was as bright as a peach blossom. Her slightly upturned phoenix eyes were full of malice.

This was Song Xi. She looked disheveled but hadn’t suffered much damage.

In contrast, the condition of the little girl in blue next to her was not good. Her face was pale, and the bloodstains on the corner of her mouth showed she had suffered internal injuries.

These two little girls were only about ten years old. Even with exceptional talent, they had only just awakened their spiritual energy.

Opposite them were two children, a boy and a girl, aged fourteen or fifteen. Though they were only registered disciples, they were quite famous within the $\text{Yuqing}$ $\text{Sect}$.

These two were Yan Zi and Yan Ming, a pair of dragon-and-phoenix twins who were disciples under the $\text{Sect}$ $\text{Master}$ $\text{Xue}$ $\text{Qiancheng}$.

Although they weren’t direct disciples, everyone knew they were close friends with $\text{Xue}$ $\text{Qiancheng}$‘s only direct disciple, Jiang Yixue, so no one dared to provoke them.

Yan Ming laughed and said, “When you come to the $\text{Yuqing}$ $\text{Sect}$, you should learn what it means to respect your $\text{Senior}$ $\text{Brothers}$ and $\text{Senior}$ $\text{Sisters}$. On the dueling platform, victory and defeat are irrespective of life and death. You two $\text{Junior}$ $\text{Sisters}$ have already taken a $\text{Master}$; you should know this principle, right?”

Song Xi clenched her teeth and glared fiercely at the people opposite her: “How dare you!”

A murderous intent, vast as the sky, permeated her words. Yan Ming suddenly felt that the person standing before him was not a ten-year-old girl, but an $\text{Asura}$ stepping out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. He couldn’t help but feel his legs tremble from the killing intent, and his grip on his sword became unsteady.

A moment later, Yan Ming snapped out of it. He had actually been frightened by a little girl. His face flushed red with shame and anger: “I wouldn’t dare to touch you, of course. Who doesn’t know that $\text{Martial}$ $\text{Uncle}$ $\text{Han}$ values you? But her, that’s another story.”

Hearing this, Song Xi subconsciously protected Li Wan behind her.

Having been reborn, would it still be like this? Would she still have to watch Li Wan head towards a tragic end?

Song Xi slightly lowered her eyes. In a place unseen by others, a trace of ferocity flashed through her beautiful phoenix eyes, like an ancient ferocious beast awakened from its sleep, its gaze filled with bloody, endless killing intent…

In her previous life, when Song Xi successfully self-destructed and dissolved in the raging fire, she thought she had finally found release. She never expected to have a chance to start over.

Just give her a little time, and she could cultivate the $\text{Youming}$ $\text{Secret}$ $\text{Tome}$ based on the memories in her mind. By then, all these people would be nothing but ants.