[Ding! Host has scammed the Jialan Empress, earning 400 million scam points.]
Jiang Che, who had been sleeping while hugging Jia Ling'er, suddenly woke up from his dream. He rubbed his eyes with his hand.
Young Master Jiang had always been grumpy when woken up, hating nothing more than being disturbed during his sleep—except for the sound of points being credited. Especially when it was a whopping 400 million points, which would only make him grin from ear to ear.
It was like being abruptly awakened by your phone ringing with the announcement, "[Fortune Pay has credited your account with 100 million yuan...]" Even if your sweet dream was interrupted, you wouldn’t feel the slightest bit of anger.
"Jialan Empress? Where did I scam her? Logically, that woman should still be in her cooldown period after the last big explosion..."
But soon, Jiang Che noticed something strange.
The soul of the person beside him seemed to have vanished, pulled into another space.
"Ling'er?" Jiang Che patted Jia Ling'er’s shoulder, but she didn’t react at all.
"Soul projection? But that doesn’t make sense..." Jiang Che narrowed his eyes.
Someone was clearly messing around.
[Mother, does the Stone Man’s Tear really have such powerful effects?]
[Indeed, and that’s not all... Our ancestral lands hold even more treasures, including countless immortal artifacts. I don’t know how Jiang Che managed to find them.]
[Mother, do you still plan to kill him? He’s the hope for our Jialan Clan’s future rise! If I can win his favor... you could live a happy life too. Maybe he could even purify your bloodline!]
[...]
With his "Eavesdropping" ability activated, Jiang Che heard Jia Ling'er seemingly conversing with someone—likely her mother.
After all, an Empress was still an Empress. Her methods were formidable. Without using Eavesdropping, he might not have even detected her presence.
"System, what’s going on? Why can’t I trace the source of the voice?"
The ever-dutiful System responded promptly.
[Host, this information involves Emperor-level secrets. A fee of 1 million points is required...]
"I’ll give you nothing! Spit it out—you even dare to charge me for this?"
[Ding! Host has scammed the System, earning 10 million scam points...]
Jiang Che had long understood the System’s quirks. A little bargaining or scolding could sometimes squeeze out extra rewards—making it the most considerate System ever.
[The Jialan Empress cultivates the 'Dream Dao,' allowing her to invade others' dreams or even merge her own dreams with theirs. Within dreams, she is invincible—an extremely terrifying ability. Jia Ling'er has been dragged into a dream. Exercise extreme caution, Host.]
Jiang Che nodded slightly. "Dream invasion?"
This was the first time the System had warned him to be careful, meaning there was real danger.
After all, the Jialan Empress was a half-step Immortal powerhouse—her methods were beyond ordinary comprehension.
But Jiang Che wasn’t afraid of capsizing in a ditch. His ship was an aircraft carrier—no ditch could hold it!
"Can you get me into the dream? I want to eavesdrop on their conversation and see what this Jialan Empress looks like!"
The System fell silent for a few seconds, as if frozen.
[Advanced Dream Card: Allows dream invasion as an observer. 90% chance of detection by the Empress.]
[Super Dream Card: 45% detection chance.]
[Ultimate Dream Card: 5% detection chance, bypasses all cultivation barriers.]
The Ultimate Dream Card cost 5 million points. Jiang Che didn’t haggle this time—occasional bargaining was fine, but doing it every time would be too shameless.
Still, before entering the dream, he prepared multiple life-saving measures. The survival items he’d bought from the System could form a small mountain.
Against an Empress? No fear. From physical immortality to causality-defying resilience—his motto was simple: "Hard to kill."
......
"Ling'er, you must remember—staying by his side is fine, but you must never fall in love with him. Our Jialan Clan’s ancestral rule is... never love a human."
The Jialan Empress spoke with absolute seriousness.
"Our ancestor, the first mermaid, was deceived by a human. That’s why this prohibition is etched into our bloodline. Violating it... means turning into stone!"
Her tone was grave.
"Mother, do you really think I’d fall for that scoundrel? Impossible! Even if he took my purity... my heart will never belong to him!"
"Lin—Ling'er!!! Your hand!!!" The Empress suddenly widened her eyes in shock.
"My hand? What’s wrong with it?"
Jia Ling'er looked down—and her composure shattered.
The tip of her little finger had begun turning to stone.
The petrification wasn’t severe yet, but it was undeniably happening.
"Mo-Mother, I swear I don’t love him! He’s a perverted bastard—I’d rather die than love him!"
Panic set in. She’d just claimed she wouldn’t fall for Jiang Che, and now this?
The Empress also flustered but forced calm.
"Then Jiang Che must die. Before your feelings deepen, eliminating him is the only way to stop the petrification."
"Wha—Mother! But killing him means losing the ancestral land’s secrets! He holds the key information!"
The Empress studied her daughter silently before speaking.
"Ling'er, you’ll have to endure. Extract the ancestral land’s secrets or have him purify your bloodline first. Once his value is drained... I’ll eliminate him for you."
"But remember—you must not love him. This is our ancestor’s inescapable curse, one even Immortals can’t break."
Her words were final.
...
"Petrification?"
Jiang Che, eavesdropping in secret, frowned.
The Jialan Clan turns to stone if they love humans?
But that didn’t add up.
Why hadn’t Qing'er and the other mermaids petrified? Did they not love him?
The thought stung, but he shook his head.
"Impossible. Qing'er and the others definitely have feelings for me. It must be because of my Emperor’s Blood—their lineage changed, bypassing the curse."
A complete bloodline overhaul meant their DNA no longer carried the ancestral prohibition.
Maybe in another realm, the mermaid ancestor and her human lover lived happily ever after, shedding tears of joy every day.
Jiang Che made a bold hypothesis.
After all, who said tears only came from sorrow? Sometimes, overwhelming happiness could bring them too.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
+【Epic Battles!】 "Your Highness, they say Linxi Temple is miraculous. Won’t you make a wish?" "A wish? It should be making wishes to me." "That may be so, but since you’re already here..." "..." "Fine. Then grant this princess a consort to play with." "He must be obedient, devoted, and utterly infatuated with my body—so much so that he’d kneel and kiss my feet." "Your Highness, that’s not a consort. That’s a dog." "Then add clever, witty, heroic, ambitious yet pragmatic..." "Hmm, that’s enough for now. I’ll add more later." After tossing out these words half in jest, Princess Anle departed the temple—only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bodhisattva statue smiling at her. Meanwhile, Yang An, fresh out of university, was having a very bad day. Good news: He’d transmigrated into another world with a cheat granting tenfold combat power. Bad news: He’d immediately fallen into the clutches of a certain villainess. Good news: Said villainess possessed peerless beauty and royal status. Bad news: She was absolutely monstrous!!! In the frozen wilderness, Yang An knelt beneath Qin Guo’er’s feet, drenched in sweat despite the cold. Desperately clutching her porcelain-perfect foot—the very one poised to crush his throat—he could only think: How do I survive this?! Need answers NOW!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
