At first, when she heard that Ning Yishu’s favorability was at 3, the corner of her mouth couldn’t help but curl into a smile .
By the time she finished reading the memory .
The smile at the corner of her mouth slowly froze .
Her expression gradually became cold and indifferent .
Finally it remained at 【You’re mmp1 joking】 and 【No, I must be dreaming】, these two expression packs2 .
She’d thought that coming across the system was already the oddest thing .
She didn’t expect that one day, even when she was placed in a mission plane, she could wear flowers3 .
The system didn’t send her a memory, but a novel .
The title of the novel was 《The Supreme Immortal Cultivator》4 .
The male lead was called Ning Yishu, a standard shuangwen5 scheming6 protagonist .
He had a miserable lot in life as heaven’s lone star7, going through the death of his entire family .
Since young, he grew up like a beggar, eating a hundred meals under the eyes of others who shunned and despised him .
Later, it was by lucky coincidence that he entered Grand Heavens Mountain8, under Bai Weiwei’s school .
Ning Yishu’s spiritual root was different from others . Others had metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and so on .
As for him, he had a pure yang constitution .
When Grand Heavens Mountain Sect tested his spiritual root, they had never seen this kind of spiritual root, so he was mistakenly identified as a fire spiritual root .
Ning Yishu thought that, under Bai Weiwei’s tutelage, he would have a smooth journey .
But his pure yang constitution had a peculiar point .
While his body was young and immature, he couldn’t cultivate at all .
Very quickly, Bai Weiwei discovered that he was a waste who couldn’t cultivate .
Furious, she tortured and humiliated him every day .
And she also let others bully and suppress him .
Ning Yishu swallowed down the humiliation . He was so inferior that he dared not resist .
Until Bai Weiwei encountered a bottleneck, and she needed a kind of medicinal pill to assist in her cultivation .
This pill needed a person with a fire single spiritual root to act as the primer .
So Bai Weiwei didn’t hesitate to throw Ning Yishu in a pill furnace to refine a pill .
Of course, Ning Yishu wouldn’t be finished off like this .
In his rage, his pure yang plugin broke open the pill furnace, and he fled .
Finally, the furious Bai Weiwei smacked him off the precipice with one hand .
The story up to here was only a tenth of the early phase .
Like all protagonists in shuangwen, he fell off the precipice and had a most fortuitous encounter .
Ning Yishu began his counterattack, then began to walk the road of face slapping .
He destroyed Grand Heavens Mountain Sect .
He skinned and chopped up Bai Weiwei to refine her into a pill .
Her soul was extracted for refining, forever suffering torment and unable to reincarnate .
Seeing up to this point, Bai Weiwei’s expression was not good .
The story afterwards had nothing to do with her .
In any case, Ning Yishu was noble, coldly elegant, and grounded, and did all the things a shuangwen protagonist should do .
Taking in the younger brother, picking up the beauty, fighting the boss9 . And the standard ending, breaking through the void10 and ascending to become an immortal .
This was the entire plot of the story 《The Supreme Immortal Cultivator》 .
And she was clearly not in an ordinary mission plane .
It was based on this book .
Fortunately, when she entered, the story had not yet begun .
Ning Yishu had just entered under her division last year .
The original owner had not yet tried to refine Ning Yishu into a pill or throw him off the cliff .
Ning Yishu had not yet slaughtered everyone, or skinned and made pills out of her .
Unfortunately, the original owner had already abused and tortured Ning Yishu for a year .
And in three months, the male lead would become medicine for a pill .
In the beginning, because Ning Yishu had admired his master, he’d had 30 favorability points, but they were already running out .
Bai Weiwei knocked on the system . “So this is a book? And I want to keep my character of tormenting the lead and seeking death, throw him off the cliff, and wait for him to come back and skin me?”
System: “Theoretically, that’s correct . ”
Bai Weiwei: “I mmp don’t…”
System: “Bad word . ”
Bai Weiwei: “…”
The system added: “This is a special plane . You can’t change the book’s plot, and when you’re capturing, you can’t easily change the original owner’s character . ”
Bai Weiwei: “What is the original character’s character?”
System: “Ruthless and cruel, this book’s early villain, tortures Ning Yishu every day for fun . ”
Bai Weiwei: Beat it, how was she supposed to capture? Who would fall in love with a vicious woman who tortured him every day and even tried to refine him into a pill?
1: Short for 媽賣批; “your mom is a prostitute”; here, “you’re [mother]fucking joking”
2: 表情包: emoji package . Rather than an actual emoji as we know it in English, it seems to be referring to what we would call a reaction image/ . gif/meme
3: Play on words? The word for odd/exotic is 奇葩 (odd + corolla, the collective term for the petals of a flower) . So wearing a flower = become even odder . Side note: wearing is used in Chinese [quick] transmigration novels to mean occupying/possessing the original host’s body .
4: 《纵横仙道唯我独尊》 Hello, I’d like to throw my laptop out the window, please . 纵横 = length and breadth, or criss-cross/intersecting, or free and unrestrained . 仙道 = immortal/celestial + dao/daoist/road; 唯我独尊 literally is “only I alone am honored/respected/venerated” but based on the context in other sentences it has a super egotistic, proud, and “I’m number 1” sort of vibe to it .
5: 爽文: a sort of genre? Things just work out for the protagonist and it makes you feel great and you just say “so cool” when they do . I think common tropes in shuangwen are large harems, a mysterious and powerful mentor figure, and powering up even with a minuscule chance of success . EDIT: a derogatory term for literature that’s written to satisfy the readers’ fantasies and lacks artistic value . Wish-fulfillment, if you will .
6: 套路: the more contemporary meaning refers to any hidden agenda, trap, or conspiracy .
7: 天煞孤星: people with this fate are destined to be alone, not because they choose it, but because those around them encounter misfortune .
8: 天鸿山: Day/heaven + great + mountains . Nothing explicitly states that this is a sect but based on the plot and context it sounds like a sect name (whose name was based off the location, maybe?) . I’ve been going back and forth between Grand Heavens Mountain and Tianhong Mountain a lot, but since I don’t know how many new places or names there will be in the future, I think I’ll keep it as Grand Heavens Mountain so it’s easier for people to remember .
9: Boss was in English .
10: 破碎虚空: not too sure about this but the process sounds similar to going through tribulations to become an immortal . It does seem to have some relation to Daoism? Something to do with comprehending the truth, which requires breaking through the void/false .