BMECDAH 03

Chapter 03

“She says something, and you believe it? If she told you to eat manure, would you?”

“Second Miss, you are so vulgar.”

“Truth is often bitter, Third Aunt. In this house, you and I are on the same side.” Jiang Wei began a psychological offensive. “One of us is a tragic soul abandoned by parents since childhood and forced to take a substitute marriage the moment she returned to the city; the other is a beautiful woman in her prime, used by the legitimate eldest sister to secure her position and forced to serve an old man. We share a common enemy, don’t we?”

Helping Chen Yiyi up, Jiang Wei gently wiped her tears. “Look at you, what a beauty. You should have married the man you loved and lived a happy life, yet here you are, a concubine to that perverted, scummy father of mine. Not only do you endure his torment at night, but during the day you have to serve the Second Concubine and that fake legitimate daughter, Jiang Yan.”

“Second Miss, how did you know?” The aggrieved Third Aunt looked at her as if she were an angel—if she could just ignore the original owner’s ugly face.

Jiang Wei saw her own round, dark, and hideous face reflected in the Third Aunt’s eyes. Her mouth twitched. That wretched “Black Koi” Jiang Yan—she had ruthlessly exploited the original owner and her brother, turning Jiang Yunhe into a simpleton and the original owner into a monster.

“Second Miss?”

“Of course, I have my own connections. Don’t forget, my maternal grandfather loved me the most when he was alive.”

Chen Yiyi lowered her gaze. The Second Miss’s grandfather had been a kind man who did many good deeds. Unfortunately, good people didn’t live long; he had met with an accident and died while on his way to bring the Second Miss home when she was five, leaving her trapped in the countryside for eighteen long years.

Jiang Wei bit her lip. An accident? Of course, it wasn’t an accident. The grandfather’s death had been plotted by Chen Xiaolian and Jiang Dahai. Chen Xiaolian didn’t want the original owner brought back to the Shen family to live a better life than her daughter. Jiang Dahai wanted to swallow the entire Shen estate, but he had miscalculated: the old man had already made detailed arrangements for his assets. Apart from providing enough money for Shen Peirong’s daily expenses, all other funds had been entrusted to men loyal to him, waiting until the original owner came of age to hand them over. And the foolish original owner, upon receiving the massive fortune, had actually tried to use it to “reform” her scummy father and mother.

“Pah!” Spit covered Jiang Tian’s face. Jiang Wei didn’t feel sorry. “Third Aunt, find time to go see the man who risked his life for you. He hasn’t got many days left.”

“Impossible, the eldest miss just gave me the medicine.”

“Take that medicine to a doctor; you’ll see for yourself.”

Having said that, Jiang Wei ushered them out. The Third Aunt wanted to say more, but seeing a maid return, she took Jiang Tian and the medicine Jiang Yan had given her and left the mansion.

“Second Miss, you… what happened to you?”

As soon as the maid entered the room, she saw Jiang Wei digging at her throat.

“Wooo…” She seemed unable to speak.

“Don’t panic, I’ll go get a doctor right away!” The maid panicked, closed the door, and locked it. A trace of maliciousness flashed in her foolish eyes. Since the Second Miss was mute, she had to tell the Eldest Miss the good news immediately.

“Heh.” Jiang Wei, previously distorted and crooked-faced, sat up straight instantly. She pulled a square block the size of a palm from her embroidery bag. “Breach of contract. Turn on.”

[Host, it’s not that I’m breaking the contract; the system is genuinely malfunctioning.]

Jiang Wei ignored it. “The glitch is fixed. Time to pay up my 100 billion, right?”

[Gosh, I’ve already compensated you with a super-sized spatial villa and a ‘Myriad Worlds Exchange System’.]

The system was on the verge of tears encountering such an unreasonable host, howling at the sky: Why are there so many bizarre hosts these days?

With a few clicks, the user “Weiwei Qingcheng” joined the Transmigrator Alliance group. Group members: 250. Online: 2.

[Weiwei Qingcheng: Newbie reporting in~ Any perks?] [Sleeping with Pretty Boys in Ancient Times sent 5 images of pretty men bathing: Save and print these for your bedside.]

Uh… Jiang Wei saved them at lightning speed.

[Sleeping with Pretty Boys in Ancient Times: Sis, you taking a mission? @Weiwei Qingcheng] [Weiwei Qingcheng: Yes.] [Sleeping with Pretty Boys in Ancient Times: Task: One BL illustration. Reward: One Beauty Pill.]

Jiang Wei’s mouth twitched. She swiftly drew an X-rated illustration and sent it to “Sleeping with Pretty Boys in Ancient Times.”

[Sleeping with Pretty Boys in Ancient Times: Not bad. Beauty pill delivered. Swallow it whole, no water.]

Looking at the pill the size of a glutinous rice ball in her palm, Jiang Wei’s eyelids twitched. She smashed it with a slap and swallowed it. The moment it hit her stomach, it felt like all her meridians had been cleared. A primordial force surged within her, and she quickly flashed into her space to “relieve” herself. Afterwards, she weighed herself: she had lost 20 pounds. Looking in the mirror, her skin was smooth and hydrated.

That was just a temporary fix. To fully restore the original owner’s beauty, she had to reclaim the jade pendant that was leeching her life force.

Ding. She opened the square block; two more people had come online in the group.

[Apocalypse Overlord is Always Staring at My Hook: Requesting the same. Reward: One Invisibility Pill.] [My Deskmate Bullies Me After Lights Out: Requesting the same. Reward: One Strength Pill.]

Invisibility Pill? Strength Pill? Jiang Wei’s eyes lit up. These were exactly the “hacks” she needed to empty the Jiang family’s assets. Before anyone else could take the order, she grabbed them and fired off the drawings.

[Ding, Host has obtained one Invisibility Pill and one Strength Pill.]

Having obtained so many cheats in under half an hour, if she just kept taking tasks…

[Host, you have a novice package allowing three tasks today. After this, you can only take one task per day. Please choose carefully.]

Jiang Wei wilted. “I still want my 100 billion.”

Silence ensued. After consuming the Invisibility and Strength pills, Jiang Wei slipped into Jiang Yan’s room.

Jiang Yan wasn’t in. The passing maids said that Shen Peirong’s migraines had flared up, and Jiang Yan was helping her with acupuncture. The maids added that the Eldest Miss was not only filial but also skilled in medicine; every time the First Mistress had acupuncture, she would sleep soundly.

“Ha.” The invisible Jiang Wei laughed out loud. After having her fortune sucked away by a ‘Black Koi,’ of course she would be sleeping like the dead.

“Who’s there?” The maid heard the laughter but couldn’t see anyone. Terrified, she ran off in a panic.

The invisible Jiang Wei sighed at how lopsided Shen Peirong’s partiality was. Unlike the dog kennel she had arranged for the original owner, Jiang Yan’s room was meticulously decorated. The bed was a spring mattress imported from abroad, so soft it felt like it would swallow you whole. The massive walk-in closet was filled with beautiful qipaos, Western-style dresses, silk scarves, and silk robes. All sorts of gold, silver, agate, and pearl jewelry overflowed from the jewelry boxes. If she had given just one piece to the original owner in the countryside, the girl wouldn’t have been mistreated.

With the strength gained from the pill, she single-handedly threw the wardrobe, the spring bed, and the jewelry cabinet into her space. Once the room was empty, the pill’s effect wore off, but she still had half an hour of invisibility left. She dusted off her hands and sauntered into Shen Peirong’s room.

Shen Peirong’s head was shrouded in black smoke, and Jiang Yan was actively draining her fortune. Jiang Wei walked right up to her, and as Jiang Yan’s mouth was open, she flicked a mud ball—about the size of a rice ball—that she had scraped off the original owner’s body, straight into it.

Jiang Yan, who was busy absorbing the fortune, felt something round suddenly appear in her mouth. Thinking it was some extraordinary manifestation of “fortune,” she swallowed it. But the mud ball was too big; it got stuck in her throat. She had to dig it out with her fingers, crush it, and swallow it again.

Ugh… Jiang Wei felt like vomiting from the sheer disgust of it.