- The stories in books can also become reality.
“Thud…”
In the dimly lit palace, a woman, who had been dozing with her cheek resting on her hand, suddenly tilted her head and fell, her head hitting the chair beside her with a loud bang.
“Ouch, ouch, ouch…”
As if awakened from a dream, the woman covered her bruised head, muttering to herself, and struggled to get up from the floor.
Seeing her disheveled state, the maids on both sides hurried forward to help her up. One of them asked timidly, “Young Palace Master, are… are you alright?”
“I’m…”
At this point, Gong Youwei suddenly froze.
What did they just call him? Young Palace Master?
This term, which seemed to only exist in novels, ancient texts, and television dramas, had unexpectedly appeared in his ears.
“Am I… No, that’s not right!”
Gong Youwei then noticed that his voice sounded… three parts charming, three parts cold and arrogant, three parts ethereal, and one part silly (in his own opinion).
But that wasn’t the point. The point was, how could he, a man, produce such a distinctly feminine voice!?
“A dream… Is this a dream?” Gong Youwei opened his eyes, and everything before him solidified his first impression.
It was a main hall in the style of ancient Eastern architecture. Two dragon-shaped pillars stood on each side, and the only light source came from the weak candle flames inserted into the dragon pillars, making the room appear very dim.
This was truly a place he had absolutely no memory of.
If he had to say there was any connection, it seemed remarkably similar to a scene from a book he had just read a few days ago.
“Young Palace Master, what dream were you having just now?” Hearing this, the maids on both sides continued to fuss over him. “Was the calming tea sent from Pei Luan Palace ineffective…?”
“What calming…”
Suddenly, the woman stopped rubbing her head.
A look of confusion and astonishment flashed across Gong Youwei’s crimson eyes. His gaze quickly swept over the room, searching for anything that might be useful at this moment, finally landing on a mirror placed on the table.
Ignoring the maids’ inquiries, Gong Youwei immediately ran forward and picked up the mirror. When he saw the person reflected in it, he seemed to understand.
Simply put, he had transmigrated.
To add a few more strokes, he had transmigrated into a novel.
To be more precise, he had become a female character in the book, and that person was the current biggest boss in the ongoing story, the Young Palace Master of the Pear Blossom Blood Orchid Palace, Gong Yiling.
As for the connection between Gong Youwei and this book… there was indeed some connection.
The author of this book was his younger sister, Gong Youyuan, who had dropped out of high school long ago, convinced that she could become a novelist.
His mother supported his sister’s decision, but his father felt that it was simply playing with her future.
Because of this, the couple had quarreled frequently. Although it didn’t ultimately lead to divorce, his mother, in order to support his sister, chose to move with her to their old, unsold house, even though she couldn’t persuade his father.
This family was actually only one step away from falling apart.
This also led to a strained relationship between Gong Youwei and his sister, Gong Youyuan.
Gong Youwei always felt that it was his sister’s willfulness that had caused the family to become like this. Although this sentiment wasn’t reflected in his actions, it made him instinctively resistant to anything his sister wrote.
Until a few days ago, his roommate suddenly recommended a fantasy novel to him, and the author was his younger sister’s pen name.
White Rose, that was the girl’s favorite flower when she was little.
“What’s there to see in something written by that girl?”
Although Gong Youwei said this, he still remembered the title of the book.
Late at night, he opened the book, wanting to find any flaws in it so he could pose as an expert in the comments section and criticize it harshly.
However, his plan was foiled as soon as he started the first step.
He spent two nights reading the over one thousand chapters that had been published so far. After finishing it, he completely lost his initial intention, only marveling at his sister’s writing skills and literary talent, truly believing she had the potential to write fantasy web novels.
Especially in terms of character development, his favorite wasn’t the male or female lead, but the antagonist, Gong Yiling.
In the book, Gong Yiling was both the second female lead and the female antagonist. She was an orphan who grew up with the male lead, also an orphan, and cultivated together at Zixu Mountain of the Tianli Hundred Paths Mountain, vowing to punish evil, uphold justice, and oppose the greatest evil sect, the Pear Blossom Blood Orchid Palace.
However, coincidentally, Gong Yiling was actually the daughter of the previous Palace Master of the Pear Blossom Blood Orchid Palace. At the time, because the previous Palace Master was seriously injured and couldn’t travel too far with her newborn daughter, she left the baby girl at the foot of the mountain gate.
When the male and female leads were twenty-two years old, they went down the mountain together to fight evil, but were ambushed by bandits. In a moment of desperation, Gong Yiling unleashed an evil technique, an ancient cultivation method engraved in the bloodline of the Gong family, instantly sucking everyone present, except the male lead, dry.
As a result of this incident, the male lead mistakenly believed that she was a spy planted by the Gong family in the righteous sect and reported the matter directly to the sect elders.
It was because of the male lead’s foolish actions that the second female lead had her cultivation base abolished and her meridians severed in front of everyone, before being thrown off a cliff to die.
When he saw this part, Gong Youwei was so angry that he almost exploded. Although he had the omniscient perspective and the male lead didn’t actually know that the second female lead was unaware of her own identity, it was still necessary to curse him a few times.
However, eight years later, Gong Yiling, for some unknown reason, wasn’t torn apart by wild beasts. Instead, she became the Young Palace Master of the Pear Blossom Blood Orchid Palace, leading the evil sect members in causing trouble everywhere with a glamorous and beautiful demeanor.
After the previous Palace Master was assassinated, she became the Palace Master and acted like a demon, conquering countless peaks of the Hundred Paths Mountain.
But she herself never indiscriminately killed. The evil sect she commanded mainly focused on crippling their opponents’ ability to act, and even after conquering a peak, they never massacred anyone.
Because of her stunning beauty depicted in the illustrations, her decisive methods, and her daring personality, she was extremely popular among the readers.
Beautiful, cold, and arrogant, unparalleled in the world, and even possessing a certain stubborn principle, what man wouldn’t be captivated by such a domineering woman?
When she confronted the male and female leads and was ambushed and killed by the righteous sect, her words lamenting her innocence even moved Gong Youwei, a grown man, to tears.
But… just because you’re captivated doesn’t mean that he, Gong Youwei, has to become her, right?
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