Volume 3, Chapter 225 – The Female Lead from Another Story

The familiar yet strange notification sounds continuously transmitted in her mind, making Lu Zhuxin feel a chill run down her spine.

Since the matter with Qu Qingtang ended last time, she had never heard the system’s voice again.

This had made Lu Zhuxin think for a while that the system had disappeared.

She never expected that after so long, hearing this system’s voice again would give her such a huge “surprise.”

Heaven-Mandated Female Lead Bu Lian Shuang?

Hehe, what a wonderful Heaven-Mandated Female Lead!

“Huff…”

Lu Zhuxin let out a long breath. She forcibly calmed her continuously agitated heart.

Before Lu Zhuxin, the wolf princess was looking at her with confusion, then opened her mouth to ask:

“Miss Yu, is there something wrong with my name?”

Lu Zhuxin raised her hand to rub her face, then forced out a smile with difficulty.

“Your Highness misunderstands.”

“Bu Lian Shuang. This name is very pleasant and suits Your Highness well.”

Bu Lian Shuang frowned slightly. Just now, this fox girl’s reaction clearly couldn’t have meant that.

But seeing her appearance, she clearly didn’t want to linger on this topic.

Bu Lian Shuang smiled helplessly.

She said, “Miss Yu’s name is also quite good.”

“I like it very much too.”

“Your Highness,” Lu Zhuxin still wore a smile on her face. “Today you’ve had an exhausting journey and experienced a fierce battle. Why not go rest well for a while first?”

“We can discuss other matters later?”

“Regarding your brother and the Chi family matter, I still need to organize the intelligence. Once I have results, I’ll discuss them with you in detail.”

Hearing this, Bu Lian Shuang felt even more puzzled.

Was this fox girl issuing an order to leave?

Was it because of the name Bu Lian Shuang?

What exactly was wrong with her name?

This name she had been using since birth… why would it make this fox girl so shocked and wary?

Bu Lian Shuang thought for a long time but couldn’t arrive at any answer.

Then she could only say helplessly:

“Miss Yu, please also rest early.”

After the pleasantries ended, Bu Lian Shuang left with the wolf warriors to rest.

Only Lu Zhuxin remained alone in the room.

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After the room became quiet again, Lu Zhuxin finally had time to deal with the system that had suddenly come back to life in her mind.

“System, I think I need an explanation,” Lu Zhuxin said in her mind.

[What would the host like to inquire about? System 03 will try to provide answers within the scope of its authority.]

“You’re not Ming Zhaoxi. Where is Ming Zhaoxi?” Lu Zhuxin asked directly.

[Heaven-Mandated Female Lead Ming Zhaoxi, the deceased Fox Monarch, the fox clan’s only nine-tailed fox demon in a thousand years. When the host became Fox Monarch, the host completely took over Ming Zhaoxi’s identity. Ming Zhaoxi as a person will also be erased from the small world.]

Lu Zhuxin frowned slightly. “You know that’s not what I’m asking about.”

[Host, the system doesn’t understand your meaning. Please restate your question in detail.]

“Stop pretending,” Lu Zhuxin said coldly. “Ming Zhaoxi was the previous system.”

“You replaced her, so where is she now?”

[Host, the system cannot understand the meaning in your words and cannot answer your question. Please describe your question again using appropriate language.]

“Tsk…” Lu Zhuxin clicked her tongue in displeasure. She continued, “Fine, I’ll change the question.”

“Who are you?”

[System 03, here specifically to assist the host. Can provide various kinds of support within the scope of authority.]

An unsurprising answer. Because Ming Zhaoxi had said the same thing to Lu Zhuxin before.

But what was the result?

Given Ming Zhaoxi’s precedent, Lu Zhuxin wouldn’t trust this so-called system so easily.

“03, why are you called by this name?” Lu Zhuxin said. “The previous system didn’t have any name.”

[Host, 03 is just a designation without special meaning.]

[If the host doesn’t like it, you can also call me 01. Or you can ignore my number.]

Lu Zhuxin gently pressed her brow bone with her finger.

“Then let me ask you a question you can answer.”

“Bu Lian Shuang…”

“What’s going on with her?”

“She’s not a character from this story, is she?!”

Grassland Divine Maiden Bu Lian Shuang, daughter of Khan Bu Lei, princess of the nomadic royal court.

She was the second female lead from another book Lu Zhuxin had written.

That was a male lead’s reversal story in a female-dominated setting.

Compared to a normal worldview, that book’s world inverted male superiority and female inferiority. Women married men, women worked outside while men stayed home, men had to absolutely obey women.

The male lead was named Wei Ziqing, the youngest son of a general’s manor. He was also a transmigrator possessing modern thinking.

The general plot of that book was about the transmigrated male lead with modern knowledge and thinking reversing his fate in the female-dominated world, collecting beauties, establishing achievements, and ultimately achieving great success.

Bu Lian Shuang was the book’s second female lead.

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In a female-dominated world, a princess was the royal court’s future heir.

No wonder when Lu Zhuxin heard Bu Lian Shuang describe her experiences on human territory earlier, she had vaguely felt familiar, yet couldn’t figure out where this familiarity came from.

It was familiar because the experiences Bu Lian Shuang spoke of were the plot from the original book.

The royal court’s prince was accidentally captured and transported to the Central Plains. Because of his outstanding appearance, he was taken by a Central Plains noblewoman as a concubine.

As the royal court’s princess, Bu Lian Shuang brought a team to the Central Plains to find her cousin’s whereabouts.

Then, while searching for her cousin in the Central Plains, Bu Lian Shuang’s identity was exposed. She fell into a court trap and became the court’s prisoner.

Through chance encounters, she was rescued by Heaven-Mandated Male Lead Wei Ziqing.

Taking this as an opportunity, during their time together, Bu Lian Shuang was won over by Wei Ziqing’s talent and appearance, gradually falling for him.

This also laid the foundation for the male lead Wei Ziqing to later conquer the grassland’s most powerful Buli Royal Court.

This was Bu Lian Shuang’s original plot.

But now, a female lead from a female-dominated reversal novel had appeared in the world of a cultivation erotic novel.

While the general plot remained unchanged, her identity had undergone some changes to fit the worldview.

From a grassland princess to an ice plains princess.

Even the grassland’s most powerful nomadic royal court had become the demon realm’s most aloof wolf clan royal court among the four great clans.

Lu Zhuxin hadn’t realized this before because she had never considered this direction.

“System, what’s going on? Why would a Heaven-Mandated Female Lead from another story appear in this world?”

[Host, it’s because of you.]

“Me?” Lu Zhuxin’s eyes showed confusion. “What do you mean?”

[Host, do you remember Qu Qingtang?]

[Heaven-Mandated Female Lead Qu Qingtang.]

“Qu Qingtang?” Lu Zhuxin’s eyes turned cold. “What about Qu Qingtang?”

[Host, you killed her.]

“I didn’t want to kill her,” Lu Zhuxin said. “She took her own life.”

[Regardless of the process, she died because of you.]

[When a Heaven-Mandated Female Lead dies, the heavenly mandate and fortune on her will be reclaimed, reserved for the next Heaven-Mandated Female Lead to inherit.]

“So what does this have to do with Bu Lian Shuang?” Lu Zhuxin frowned and asked.

[Heaven-Mandated Female Lead Bu Lian Shuang was born because of this.]

[She is the vessel chosen by this realm’s Heavenly Dao to fill the void in the heavenly mandate.]

The corner of Lu Zhuxin’s mouth twitched. “I’ve never heard that Heavenly Dao could pull people from other worlds.”

[The operating principles of Heavenly Dao are extremely complex. Even the system doesn’t understand its ways.]

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Was it truly inexplicable? Or were there other reasons?

Lu Zhuxin sneered inwardly.

When Ming Zhaoxi had dragged her into this world, these so-called systems told her that as long as she eliminated the Heaven-Mandated Male Lead’s fortune, she could leave this world.

But now, before her, a Heaven-Mandated Female Lead who didn’t belong here had inexplicably appeared.

“I feel I can no longer trust you systems,” Lu Zhuxin rebuked angrily. “The last system told me that as long as I completed the conquests, I could leave here.”

“A book’s Heaven-Mandated Female Leads are limited. As long as I worked hard, I still had a good chance of achieving it.”

“But now, you’re telling me that the small world’s Heavenly Dao has the ability to pull new Heaven-Mandated Female Leads from other worlds to supplement.”

“Then in the future, I conquer one, and it pulls one to fill the gap. Repeatedly like this, won’t I be trapped here forever?!”

Lu Zhuxin covered her chest, breathing slightly heavily.

Her anger almost burst through her chest.

[Host misunderstands.]

[Your conquest is seizure.]

[The heavenly mandate you seize will completely merge with you and cannot be reclaimed by Heavenly Dao.]

[Conversely, a Heaven-Mandated Female Lead who dies by accident will have her heavenly mandate reclaimed by Heavenly Dao.]

[Therefore, as long as you proceed with conquests step by step, similar situations won’t occur.]

Lu Zhuxin rubbed her forehead.

What System 03 was saying now actually matched with the other system.

But was this truly the case?

The matter involving Ming Zhaoxi made Lu Zhuxin realize that these so-called systems could lie.

“So just because one Qu Qingtang died, my workload has increased by this much for no reason?”

[Host, Qu Qingtang’s death was, after all, your mistake.]

A mistake? Lu Zhuxin didn’t think so.

“Qu Qingtang… is she truly dead?” Lu Zhuxin asked.

[Of course. “Qu Qingtang” is dead. The Venerable Saint has fallen. Heaven and earth grieve together.]

[Host, you also witnessed her fall together, didn’t you?]

Lu Zhuxin wasn’t asking about that Qu Qingtang.

However, seeing this system’s appearance, it wouldn’t give other answers.

“Then, one more question. Is Bu Lian Shuang the only Heaven-Mandated Female Lead I need to conquer now?”

That female-dominated reversal novel was just like this current erotic novel. There were quite a few female leads.

If she had to conquer female leads from both books, Lu Zhuxin’s workload wouldn’t just increase by a little bit.

[Host doesn’t need to worry. The increase and decrease of heavenly mandate fortune are equal.]

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[No matter how powerful Qu Qingtang’s heavenly mandate was, it couldn’t support an entire small world’s worth of Heaven-Mandated Female Leads.]

Lu Zhuxin stroked her chin.

This system said Qu Qingtang’s heavenly mandate couldn’t support an entire small world’s female leads. But it didn’t say that only Bu Lian Shuang was added as a Heaven-Mandated Female Lead.

All traps.

Lu Zhuxin closed her eyes, recalling that book’s plot and Bu Lian Shuang’s setting.

The wolf princess Bu Lian Shuang that Lu Zhuxin met today was slightly different from the grassland princess Bu Lian Shuang in her other book’s setting.

Perhaps it was the difference in worldviews that caused these slight discrepancies.

In Lu Zhuxin’s original setting, that grassland princess had both feminine grace and the boldness of grassland children.

She was beautiful, brave, and intelligent. With a straightforward personality, she dared to love and hate.

“She seems… somewhat similar to Little Shiyuan,” Lu Zhuxin muttered to herself.

Song Shiyuan was the first female lead Lu Zhuxin had conquered in this small world.

Bu Lian Shuang was the first female lead from another world to appear before Lu Zhuxin.

Both had roles in the original texts that were basically second female leads.

However, the erotic novel itself didn’t really have a primary female lead.

But in that other book, there was an absolute primary female lead.

“The Kingdom’s Empress…”

Lu Zhuxin raised her hand to rub her somewhat aching forehead.

“It shouldn’t be that bad…”

“If this System 03 hasn’t lied to me…”

“Qu Qingtang was just a background character. Her heavenly mandate shouldn’t be enough to equal a Heaven-Mandated primary female lead…”

The premise was that the system hadn’t lied to her.

“Bu Lian Shuang being captured is the prerequisite plot for meeting the Heaven-Mandated Male Lead…”

“And now, I saved her before she was captured…”

“Does this mean I unknowingly intercepted a major plot point?”

Lu Zhuxin smiled lightly.

She couldn’t tell if it was self-mockery or relief.

Then she thought about removing Bu Lian Shuang’s veil.

Earlier, she had wondered why the wolf princess had that kind of reaction.

Now, knowing Bu Lian Shuang’s true identity, she understood the reason.

“The wolf clan’s tradition… so that’s what it was about…”