The Cub I Raised Turned Out to Be a Reborn Big Boss (GL) - Chapter 1
The woman in the bronze mirror possessed an otherworldly elegance. Her light cyan silk-gauze dress accentuated her slender, graceful figure, and white outer robes were embroidered with crane patterns. Her eyes, as they moved, exuded a cool, peerless charm.
Anyone who saw her would praise her as an unparalleled beauty. But the beauty was currently a little depressed.
This body, though beautiful, belonged to a villainess who was utterly wicked.
Jiang Yixue transmigrated the moment she opened her eyes, and into an otome game at that.
Jiang Yixue herself didn’t play otome games, but her friend had just told her today that there was an unforgivable villainess in this game with the same name as her, which was why the memory was still fresh.
“Encounters of Love” was a newly released otome game that told the story of the female protagonist, from the player’s perspective, who gets swept into the vortex of the three realms due to her divine bloodline, and meets four exceptional men.
There always had to be a villainess in games: noble in birth, exceptionally talented, devastatingly beautiful, but with a bad brain and a wicked heart, serving to highlight the protagonist.
The villainess in this game shared the same name as Jiang Yixue.
This game, upon its release, became popular due to its complex and varied choices and storylines.
In this game, every choice the protagonist made affected the subsequent plot. There were countless hidden endings, but only four true “Happy Endings” (HE).
To achieve the HE endings, players racked their brains. Jiang Yixue heard her friend describe the four HE endings. While the male leads differed, there was one common point: the villainess Jiang Yixue always died at the hands of a male lead. The male leads would justify it by saying, “to avenge the one they loved.”
Jiang Yixue: …
Had a “world where only I get hurt” come to fruition?
At this moment, Jiang Yixue secretly pinched her palm.
It hurt, so she wasn’t dreaming…
Jiang Yixue recalled that she had also played this game once. When she played, her mindset wasn’t to immerse herself in the protagonist’s perspective and date the four men, but rather to treat it as a protagonist-nurturing game.
Other parts of the game didn’t particularly attract Jiang Yixue. What captivated her was the protagonist’s character model in the game.
Because the storyline began when the protagonist was a child, the soft and adorable child protagonist was as delicate as a little angel on earth. Her pair of dark, lively eyes shimmered, and her rosy cheeks formed two tiny dimples when she smiled. Her red lips and white teeth made her endearing; even the most exquisite Barbie doll couldn’t compare.
Jiang Yixue’s biggest regret in life was not having a younger sister. Seeing other people’s soft and sweet little sisters made Jiang Yixue incredibly envious.
A living, human, large Barbie doll that could act spoiled and talk—who wouldn’t love that?
To satisfy her enjoyment of playing with a large Barbie doll, all of Jiang Yixue’s in-game purchases were for buying pretty clothes for the protagonist. As for the plot and the male leads’ affection levels? What were those? How could the “cabbage” she nurtured be “rooted” by pigs?
Jiang Yixue played through the game with a “doll-raising” mentality. By the end, all four male leads still had zero affection points.
She achieved the game’s most difficult “Bad Ending” (BE).
The protagonist, stained by demonic energy, was expelled from the sect, eventually fell into the demonic path, inherited the legacy of the former demon supreme Youmingzi, established the Youming Palace, and declared herself King Youming.
The protagonist, already prejudiced at heart, was betrayed by former friends. Coupled with the bloodlust of demonic cultivation, she completely changed.
She individually slaughtered the sects with whom she had bl00d feuds, causing widespread panic in the world.
Finally, several major sects united, using the slogan of “exterminating demons” to break into Youming Palace. To study the divine bloodline within her, they imprisoned the protagonist for over a thousand years. She was tormented for a millennium in the “fiery soul torture” before finally finding a moment when her guards were lax and successfully self-destructing…
After seeing the ending she achieved, Jiang Yixue was stunned.
Where was her soft and adorable little girl? She raised her and raised her into the biggest BOSS, and then she was just gone?
Jiang Yixue’s friend, seeing this ending, almost couldn’t stand straight from laughing: “My ancestor, this is an otome game! What kind of otome game is it without the male leads’ involvement? It’s bound to be a BE!”
Jiang Yixue scoffed: “Who says it can’t be an HE without the male leads’ protection? This otome game’s values are extremely warped.”
Her friend helplessly asked, “Then tell me, how can it be an HE without a male lead route?”
Jiang Yixue replied, “As long as the protagonist doesn’t fall into the demonic path, wouldn’t everything be solved?”
As long as she didn’t fall into the demonic path, she wouldn’t be expelled from the sect, nor would she become a public enemy, and the final BE ending would be impossible to achieve.
••••
Jiang Yixue was still thinking about this game in her head before falling asleep. The moment she opened her eyes, she was in the game.
“Senior Sister Jiang, Senior Sister Jiang.” A girl in a pink dress ran towards Jiang Yixue with a joyful expression: “Song Xi has already been forced onto the sparring platform by us. Do you want to come see? We’ll definitely humiliate her this time and see why she was able to become Master Han’s direct disciple!”
This girl was named Shen Qingruo. Her face was full of righteous indignation, and Jiang Yixue’s mind went blank for a moment.
Song Xi? Wasn’t that the name she set for the protagonist?
She had indeed transmigrated; it wasn’t a dream. Jiang Yixue looked at Shen Qingruo’s expectant gaze and finally nodded: “Okay.”
She failed to raise her “cub” through the screen last time. Did she now have another chance? A truly soft and adorable little girl, and Jiang Yixue still remembered the protagonist’s portrait; the child protagonist was genuinely adorably cute to an unfair degree, enough to make any sister-con’s heart flutter.
This part of the plot was quite early, and she still remembered it.
After the protagonist joined the Yuqing Sect, she was surprisingly taken as a direct disciple by Han Yansu, the chief elder of the Enforcement Hall.
Who was Han Yansu? He was the male god of all female disciples in the Yuqing Sect, lofty and aloof, like an exiled immortal untouched by worldly affairs.
Especially Jiang Yixue, who had secretly admired Han Yansu, was furious, and thus held a grudge against this little girl.
She was the direct disciple of Xue Qiancheng, the Yuqing Sect Master, with high status and many sycophants around her. So, at her instigation, these sycophants resolved to humiliate Song Xi.
Song Xi definitely wouldn’t foolishly go onto the sparring platform, but she had a good friend, Li Wan, whom she met during the entry assessment. This hot-headed little girl who didn’t understand the complexities of the world was easily provoked into going up by a few words of goading. Song Xi, to save her friend, had no choice but to go onto the platform to spar.
Jiang Yixue frowned, trying to recall what else she had done later.
Oh… Song Xi was Han Yansu’s direct disciple. Jiang Yixue wasn’t that bold to go too far; she just humiliated her and then let her go.
But Li Wan was different. With no status and no background, she was directly crippled in her cultivation foundation and then expelled from the Yuqing Sect.
Li Wan was Song Xi’s first good friend in her life, and because of this, Song Xi held a grudge against Jiang Yixue.
She wondered if these people had already crippled Li Wan…
Remembering “Jiang Yixue’s” hundred ways to die in the original plot, cold sweat immediately broke out on her back. She quickly grabbed Shen Qingruo: “You’re too slow. I’ll take you.”
A clear sword hum echoed, and within the sword’s shadow, a blooming green lotus seemed to unfold. The green lotus soared into the sky, leaving a lingering afterimage.
Jiang Yixue, relying on her memory, used her fastest speed to head towards the sparring platform. Thankfully, she quickly accepted the memories after transmigrating and gained control of her body. This simple sword-flying technique was mastered instantly.
••••
The people around the sparring platform were all intently watching those on the stage.
One young girl’s clothes were already torn, and her exposed arms were covered in blue and purple marks. She looked very disheveled, and the bl00d on her face couldn’t hide her excellent beauty, as vibrant as peach blossoms. Her slightly upturned phoenix eyes, however, were full of ferocity.
This was Song Xi. She looked disheveled but hadn’t suffered much harm.
In contrast, the condition of the little girl in blue beside her was not good. Her face was pale, and the bloodstains at the corner of her mouth indicated internal injuries.
Both of these young girls were only around ten years old. No matter how talented, they had only just awakened their spiritual energy.
Opposite them were two children aged fourteen or fifteen, a boy and a girl. Although they were only outer disciples, they were quite well-known in the Yuqing Sect.
These two were Yan Zi and Yan Ming, twin siblings who were disciples under Sect Master Xue Qiancheng.
Though not direct disciples, everyone knew they were close to Xue Qiancheng’s only direct disciple, Jiang Yixue, so no one dared to provoke them.
Yan Ming smiled and said, “When you come to the Yuqing Sect, you should learn what it means to respect your senior brothers and sisters. On the sparring platform, victory or defeat doesn’t matter life or death. Both junior sisters have already taken a master; you should know this principle, right?”
Song Xi clenched her teeth, glaring fiercely at the people opposite her: “You wouldn’t dare!”
A monstrous killing intent permeated her words. Yan Ming suddenly felt that the person standing before him wasn’t a ten-year-old girl, but an Asura who had stepped out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of bl00d. He couldn’t help but feel his legs go weak from the killing intent, and his grip on his sword wavered.
A moment later, Yan Ming snapped out of it. He was actually intimidated by a little girl! His face flushed crimson with anger and embarrassment: “Of course, I wouldn’t dare touch you; who doesn’t know you’re Master Han’s favored disciple? But she might not be so lucky.”
Hearing this, Song Xi instinctively shielded Li Wan behind her.
Reborn, and it’s still like this? Does she still have to watch Li Wan head towards a tragic end?
Song Xi lowered her eyes slightly. In a place where no one could see, a fierce glint flashed in her beautiful phoenix eyes, like an ancient ferocious beast awakened from its slumber, her gaze filled with bloody, endless killing intent…
In her previous life, when Song Xi successfully self-destructed and dissipated in the flames, she thought she was finally free, but she never expected to have a chance to start over.
Just give her a little time, and she would be able to cultivate the Youming Secret Codex with the memories in her mind. By then, these people would be nothing but ants.