Volume 1, Chapter 3 – Ming Zhaoxi’s Gift

“Someone, prepare water. I need to bathe!”

After having people take that bastard Song Shixuan away, Lu Zhuxin’s expression immediately collapsed.

It felt like she had been contaminated by that turtle son’s scent, making Lu Zhuxin feel extremely uncomfortable.

As if she had been tainted by something filthy.

Right now, she just wanted to take a good bath and wash all the dirty things off her body.

[Host, you could just use a purification technique to cleanse yourself. You don’t need to bathe at all.]

Lu Zhuxin couldn’t be bothered to respond.

Of course she knew what the system said. She’d written about it plenty of times in her novels.

But even though she had transmigrated, she was still an ordinary human at heart. These habits wouldn’t change overnight, and she didn’t want to change them either.

Transmigration was like an ordeal, or a game. It wouldn’t become her life.

This game, she had to break through!

The Demon Palace’s attendants were all well trained. No matter how strange the order, they could execute it expressionlessly.

The bathtub was quickly prepared.

Lu Zhuxin rapidly stripped herself clean and jumped directly into the bathtub.

She scrubbed her skin viciously, as if scraping pig hair, wanting to scrub off a layer.

She kept scrubbing until her skin turned red and she could no longer smell that strange scent on herself before stopping.

“Phew…” Lu Zhuxin lazily leaned against the edge of the bathtub, eyes half-closed.

[The host seems to have already gotten quite used to having a female body.]

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The system suddenly sighed, its tone ambiguous.

“Used to it? Do I look like I’m used to it?” Lu Zhuxin thought for a moment, then answered lazily. “I’m just thinking of it as role-playing, which makes it barely acceptable.”

[Role-playing?]

“Have you played games?” Lu Zhuxin said. “Online or single-player games. The kind with role-playing elements.”

[So?]

Lu Zhuxin stretched and continued, “I have a habit when playing games. In all games where I can customize the main character or choose the protagonist’s gender, I choose female as the main character’s appearance.”

“So, I can treat this transmigration as a game.”

“A fully immersive role-playing game!”

“The Heavenly Dao’s laws are the game’s restriction rules. I need to avoid all routes that might lead to a BAD END in this game and guide the ending toward the final HAPPY END.”

“Which means the ending where I completely defeat the destined male protagonist Song Shixuan!”

“Thinking of it this way, isn’t it much more interesting?”

[So the host simply treats this place as a game?]

“What else?” Lu Zhuxin chuckled lightly, looking quite relaxed, completely without that anxious, uneasy expression from when she first transmigrated.

“Since I’m here, I might as well make the best of it.”

She waved her hand dismissively.

“If I clear the game, I can leave here and return to my original world.”

“If the game fails, I lose my life and stay in this hell.”

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“Transmigration system flow is pretty much this process. I’ve written plenty of these.”

“At first I might have been nervous. After all, you made it sound so scary. But thinking about it afterward, it’s really just that.”

Lu Zhuxin seemed to remember something and casually inquired, “What? Don’t tell me it’s not like I think, and I can’t go back?”

[Naturally not. As long as the host can complete the objective.]

[Yes, the premise is that the host can complete the final objective.]

“Oh…?” Lu Zhuxin raised her eyebrows slightly.

The system’s answer seemed to carry hidden meaning.

Why did it emphasize the premise being that Lu Zhuxin could complete the objective?

This feeling was as if it didn’t think Lu Zhuxin could complete the task.

Could there be other secrets hidden in this transmigration of hers?

“You’re not… hiding something else from me, are you?”

[The system will not engage in any deception. All clues related to the task will be truthfully told to the host. It’s just strange, as a man, aren’t you curious about a woman’s body?]

“What’s there to be curious about?” Lu Zhuxin didn’t pay attention to how the system had just crudely changed the subject.

From the beginning, she’d discovered that this system of hers possessed very high freedom and intelligence. It wasn’t like those fixed and mechanized programs she’d known before.

“Women? It’s not like I haven’t seen them before.” Lu Zhuxin was somewhat speechless. She was at least a reliable adult. Did she look that desperate?

“You seem really eager for me to look at my current body.”

[Host, aren’t you curious? This body of yours was also a gift the original Ming Zhaoxi prepared for you. The system wants to know your reaction when you see this body.]

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“A gift Ming Zhaoxi prepared for me?”

Lu Zhuxin frowned. This body of hers was actually something Ming Zhaoxi prepared?

What exactly did that nine-tailed fox demon who stabbed him seventy-two times want to do?

Thinking about it, Lu Zhuxin inexplicably felt a sense of foreboding.

She climbed out of the bathtub and used a technique to summon a water mirror.

Using the water mirror, she could observe her entire body from head to toe.

Without clothes, Lu Zhuxin could observe everything about herself clearly.

Although she’d already looked once while bathing, when she took everything in at once, the feeling was completely different.

What came into view was a cute and pure face, wine-red pupils, and silver-colored long hair.

Her skin was a cold white, tender enough that it seemed a light pinch could squeeze water out.

Her height was about 160 centimeters, with a slender waist that could be circled with one grip. Her chest was small, coverable by a single palm.

Against the snowy landscape, adorned with touches of cute pink tenderness, like tempting forbidden fruit, enticing people to explore further.

“This…” Lu Zhuxin frowned.

The girl in the water mirror also frowned cutely along with her.

The Lu Zhuxin in the water mirror was clearly a little girl who hadn’t fully matured yet.

“This is what Ming Zhaoxi prepared for me?” Lu Zhuxin said. “What is she trying to do?”

“Why did she give me such a barren physique!”

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[Host, does it look good?]

It naturally looked good. Even with Lu Zhuxin’s picky standards, she couldn’t find any flaws on this face.

“But why does it have to be a little girl?!”

“Where’s my voluptuous, seductive, tall fox demon big sister?!”

[Does the host want to be a sexy woman that badly?]

Lu Zhuxin didn’t respond, just stared at the water mirror for a while before suddenly understanding.

“I get it!” Lu Zhuxin said.

[What does the host understand?]

The system was somewhat confused.

“So this was Ming Zhaoxi’s plan!” Lu Zhuxin said. “She made me look like this with no chest and no ass just to make me the bottom!”

“To humiliate me with this!”

Lu Zhuxin irritably grabbed her hair. “Ming Zhaoxi, that woman! How can she be so vicious!”

“I was once a 188-centimeter high-quality male human. Even if I got gender-swapped, I should at least be a fierce top! How can I have the image of a weak bottom?”

“Such a vicious woman!”

[…]

[So that’s the host’s concern?!]