Chapter 1
Living for so long, Qiao Wan had never realized how much of a fool she was. She was a literal fool, a complete idiot.
She thought deeply to herself, "I am really dumb."
When her memories returned, she was about to go to Wenshi Hall to complete a task. However, the moment she crossed the threshold, a flood of images and information rushed into her mind.
Qiao Wan stumbled and nearly fell over the doorway of Wenshi Hall.
She remembered everything.
Sitting quietly at the doorstep, she organized her thoughts and came to the conclusion.
She was an idiot.
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To figure out everything, we have to turn back time to a long ago. Qiao Wan used to be a village girl from Daning Village in Wu Tian County of Dongshang Country. She was an orphan, with neither a father nor a mother.
Rumor had it that two immortals were fighting in Daning Village when she was born. The fight caused the sky to cast over and the earth to shake. Qiao Wan's father just so happened to be gathering firewood on the mountain when a giant boulder fell from the sky, striking him fatally. Soon afterwards, her mother remarried and took her older brother with her.
Her brother had planned to secretly take her with him, but her mother was adamant. She refused to take Qiao Wan, considering her a burden. And so, Qiao Wan watched tearfully as her brother left, leaving her behind in the dusty village.
"Wan'er, wait for your big brother! I will definitely come back to find you!"
Left all alone, she managed to survive until the age of twelve, all the while without seeing even a glimpse of her brother.
Men's words, deceiving like ghosts.
At the age of twelve, Qiao Wan gained a deep understanding of men's true nature.
Not long after that, famine struck the village. Qiao Wan followed the crowd to escape to Longyuan Prefecture in the south.
It was in this year, when she was fourteen, that she unexpectedly encountered a celestial being named Yuqing Spiritual Master.
At the sight of her, Yuqing Spiritual Master seemed a bit surprised and without hesitation asked her if she wanted to become immortal.
Qiao Wan didn't even blink her eyes as she replied resolutely.
Yes.
Thus, she packed a small bundle and followed Yuqing Spiritual Master, up the mountain, becoming his disciple.
She spent many years on the mountain, experiencing both joy and hardship, all of which she endured.
But today, she suddenly regained all of her memories.
Qiao Wan was startled to discover, "Oh my god! I actually traveled through time!"
No wonder she had always wondered why she had no feelings for her so-called parents, even though they died at a young age. She couldn't understand her own coldness towards them.
Now, the truth had finally been revealed. She was an Earthling reborn in this world.
All of this was because she stayed up late reading a novel called "Immortal Ascending Road," and when she woke up, she had traveled through time and was born in Daning Village in Wutian County, losing her memories until today when she regained them with a loud crash.
However, her memories didn't fully return. She had no recollection of where she used to live, who her family was, how many people were in her household, or who her classmates and friends were. But her life experiences remained intact, even to the point of remembering the general plot of the novel "Immortal Ascending Road."
"Immortal Ascending Road" was a novel that the author enjoyed writing and readers enjoyed reading, filled with excitement. The story revolved around the protagonist, Mu Xiaoxiao. Unlike most female characters in cultivation novels, she wasn't burdened by deep grievances or portrayed as noble and aloof. Mu Xiaoxiao was soft and obedient, rumored to be the chosen one, an extraordinary beauty. At a young age, she was taken in as a disciple by Yuqing Spiritual Master from the Kunshan Sect.
The Kunshan Sect was the leading sect amongst the four major sects of the cultivation world, and the Yuqing Spiritual Master was one of the twelve peak masters of Kunshan, reaching the third stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and enjoyed an unparalleled status in the cultivation world.
Mu Xiaoxiao, the female protagonist, had extraordinary luck, finding treasures as she walked and possessing stunning looks. All men who laid eyes on her couldn't help but fall in love with her.
Even now, Qiao Wan couldn't forget the fear of being controlled by the plot.
"Until one day, when others saw Pei Chunzheng pressing Mu Xiaoxiao against a wall and kissing her."
Pei Chunzheng, the male lead of this book, had a tragic childhood and a twisted personality.
"He was gloomy and indifferent, but when he saw her soft and sweet demeanor, he couldn't help but desire to hold her in his arms and shower her with affection, even if it meant giving up his life."
That's not the point. The main point is Qiao Wan.
Who was a cannon fodder, a person who constantly faces danger yet never gives up on the path of self-destruction.
When the story reached a quarter of the way, the female protagonist, Mu Xiaoxiao, accidentally fell into the Broken Bone Deep Abyss during an expedition to defeat the demonic domain.
Broken Bone Deep Abyss is a graveyard for demons, where even the demons cannot withstand the poisonous air. Falling into it, one's flesh and bones will be corroded by the poison.
After Mu Xiaoxiao fell, nobody believed she could come back alive, not even Yuqing Spiritual Master who always loved her. Furthermore, her life-sustaining flame in her tower had extinguished after she fell into the Broken Bone Deep Abyss.
Just two years after Mu Xiaoxiao's demise, Yuqing Spiritual Master returned from his retreat with a girl who bore a striking resemblance to Mu Xiaoxiao. He announced that he would take her as his disciple, and her name was Qiao Wan.
What followed was a melodramatic and complicated plot.
Who would have thought that Mu Xiaoxiao, after falling into the Broken Bone Deep Abyss, not only survived but also coincidentally saved a supporting character named Feng Wangyan, the last descendant of the Phoenix Clan from Danxue Mountain, which was supposed to have been destroyed.
Only after Mu Xiaoxiao returned from the Broken Bone Deep Abyss did she discover Qiao Wan's existence.
She struggled to survive in the Broken Bone Deep Abyss, while Kunshan Sect, whom she considered as her family, had found a doppelganger of her enjoying their favor, taking away everything she originally had.
Thus, Feng Wangyan, who couldn't bear to see his girl suffer, led Mu Xiaoxiao back to Kunshan Sect in a furious and triumphant return, determined to expose their deceit.
The author always believed that readers should be satisfied, as he never allowed them to feel aggrieved. Qiao Wan, this wicked supporting character, carried out her duties faithfully, using up her last bit of energy and was promptly discarded. She died tragically, devoured and torn apart by demons, leaving nothing behind.
The person behind all this was Pei Chunzheng, the mentally unstable male protagonist, who was also the object of Qiao Wan's affection.
Qiao Wan sat on the doorstep, holding her head in her hands.
She was an idiot.
Her life had followed the exact same path as in the book, from the past until now when she regained her memories.
Yes, just like Qiao Wan, she had fallen in love with Pei Chunzheng.
And now, today, fate finally told her that she would be killed by Pei Chunzheng.
She... she... Qiao Wan thought angrily and sadly, she really has terrible luck.
This time, she had come down the mountain on orders from Wenshi Hall to capture a monster. This cunning creature was difficult to track and had led her on a chase from the southern thirteen continents to the northern region, almost exhausting her. Finally, she found it in the northern territory and fought it for twelve days and nights until she finally killed it. Having completed her mission, she hurried back to the sect without even changing clothes, her face and clothes covered in dark brown blood clot from the monster.
She looked perfectly dressed, which perfectly matched her current state of mind.
She had blood all over her face.
Life was tough, but at least the task was completed, and she couldn't avoid handing it in.
She still didn't know when the main character, Mu Xiaoxiao, would return.
At this moment, she had to thank her master, Yuqing Spiritual Master, who was like a handsome ice mountain man. Under his influence, during her many years in the Kunshan Sect, Qiao Wan also cultivated a poker face. At least from the surface, it was impossible to tell how much she wanted to complain.
The disciple from Wenshi Hall archived her mission scroll and turned around to carefully examine her, hesitantly asking, "Martial Sister Qiao?"
Qiao Wan didn't understand, "What's wrong?"
"Do you know if Elder Martial Sister Mu has returned?"
Qiao Wan answered, "I don't know."
But now she knew.
Fuck.
