chapter 24

The world became blank, with nothing but white.

Fengguang saw that her points in the interface had risen to 66 and smiled. She felt satisfied.

“Because the host’s mission performance was good, the shop will upgrade and have new items. Would you like to buy some revives?” The system voice remained consistent, unfeeling and genderless.

A revive! That’s a godly item that can help escape from a bad ending!

Fengguang felt moved. “How much does a revive cost?”

“30 points. With an additional 30% off for its first day on the shelf.”

“Not buying!” She declined without even thinking about it. Even if it was 30% off, that’s a whopping 21 points! That’s so expensive! She might as well just continue doing missions. She looked up. “Draw a storyline.”

Books appeared in the air around Fengguang. The titles were blurred and the words weren’t readable. She casually picked a book and the words appeared on the book in her hand. The books floating around disappeared like usual. Once Fengguang saw the title of the book, she felt a bit disgusted.

[The Ghost King’s Pampering: Concubine’s Daughter As Wild Consort] was a name that was very peculiar and once Fengguang opened the book, the plot directly filled her mind.

The female lead was a concubine’s daughter of Dawei’s prime minister. Her birth mother had passed away early, leaving her to be bullied by the main wife and her half sister. She was just a weak, unloved concubine’s daughter who could be pushed around by anyone residing in the prime minister’s home. But then one day, Xia Qimeng fell into the water and woke up an entirely different person. Not only was she cultured but her martial arts ability was incredible. She revenged against all those who once bullied her. Also, when she went to pray for her mother at the temple, she was crossdressing and successfully met the male lead. Ghost King Xiao Ruo was the main general guarding the borders and Xia Qimeng became his strategist. With a male lead and a female lead like this, there was bound to be some conflict and the enemy forces they were at war with was the country of Guangliu and their emperor was naturally the second male lead.

And thus, during those days on the battlefield, Xia Qimeng successfully gained the hearts of both the main male and second male leads.

Fengguang took a long deep breath. “Start the mission.”

When she opened her eyes, her surroundings had changed. The room had a historical scent and feel to it while she, herself, was dressed in fine silks. In the copper mirror, she saw her looks which were as fair as a flower and beautiful like the moon. She was also surrounded by servant girls fussing over her hair.

Servant girl Little Lv helped Fengguang put on a jade hairpin and happily said, “Miss, today the Ghost King will be returning to the palace. You have to look extra pretty at the banquet tonight so the Ghost King can’t take his eyes off you.”

“That’s a given. Our family’s miss is famously known as the top beauty. If our miss wasn’t the fiancee of the Ghost King, the people who wanted to propose marriage would be lining up from the east side of the city all the way to the west.” Little Lv’s twin younger sister Little Ze laughingly retorted. She and Little Lv looked exactly the same. The only difference between them was that Little Lv had a mole on the corner of her lip while Little Ze didn’t.

Fengguang didn’t say a word mainly because she felt that saying and hearing the name ‘Ghost King’ was odd. Ghost King, Ghost King, what kind of title was that? Replacing someone’s name with that title must be unfortunate. Similar ominous words would include death and separation and if used as a name, they would be just as awkward.

Not long after, Fengguang’s hair was finished. One couldn’t deny that even though hair and attire of this era in history were troublesome and took a long time to prepare, the results of such a look were stunning. She was wearing light-pink robes with a thin white covering around her shoulders. When the wind blew, she gave off the feeling of a floating immortal. Three thousand strands of hair were somehow able to stay in place with the use of a single white-jaded hairpin. Although a few baby hairs were left near the neck, this emphasized on her gentle beauty. And accompanied by her lotus-like face, Xia Fengguang really lived up to the title of being the most beautiful.

However, it was destined, due to the storyline of a novel, that the top beauty would always be cannon-fodder.