Kill That Transmigrator Woman - Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Time Rewind

Cui Wanwan was carried back to her room by her older brother. He turned and gave Miaomiao a few instructions, then took Wei Qingyu with him and walked off elsewhere.

The moment Cui Heng left, Cui Wanwan’s eyes snapped open. She rolled off the bed in one swift motion and ran to the window, not even bothering to put on her shoes properly.

Watching the two figures grow smaller in the distance, she let out a cold snort.

It was obvious, her dear brother had gone off to comfort that transmigrated woman.

But that didn’t matter. She had never intended to take Wei Qingyu down with just one strike, nor to make her brother suddenly hate her.

After all, if Wei Qingyu were that easy to deal with, Cui Wanwan wouldn’t have lost so miserably in her previous life.

Wei Qingyu was, after all, a drifting soul from another world. She had seen things Cui Wanwan hadn’t, studied knowledge she’d never even heard of, she did have a few real skills up her sleeve.

Not to mention, she had that mysterious power called the “system” secretly helping her behind the scenes.

“How could the Young Master act like this? Miss, you’re clearly his real sister.” Miaomiao stood to the side, speaking up on her behalf.

“No rush,” Cui Wanwan curled her red lips into a smile.
“Everything’s only just beginning.”

The room was filled with the warm fragrance of incense. Cui Wanwan reached out and touched the empty air, the faint fragrance hanging in the air was truly quite pleasant.

“Miaomiao, go find a physician. Have him carefully examine what’s in this incense burner.”

Miaomiao, “Yes, Miss.”

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Once bitten, twice shy.
After that mess, Wei Qingyu had completely lost any interest in provoking Cui Wanwan again.

After all, her real goal in this world was to conquer all the high-quality men, make every male lead and supporting male fall madly in love with her. Making Cui Wanwan suffer was just a bonus side quest, not something she had to deal with right away.

But just as she resolved not to provoke Cui Wanwan anymore, Cui Wanwan came knocking first.

And she brought the steward of the Cui household with her.

Without saying a word, the steward stepped forward and ordered people to tie up Wei Qingyu.

“How dare you!” Wei Qingyu shouted, flinging her sleeve aside, then brushing off her clothes as if disgusted by dust that wasn’t even there. She shot a look of contempt at the old maid who tried to tie her up.

A mere servant, and she dared to tie her up?
Quite bold.

Cui Wanwan sneered coldly, taking in the whole scene.

This transmigrated woman had a very particular trait, though she usually acted gentle and composed, the moment she was dealing with servants or maids, she became no different from those arrogant and domineering people.

After returning home, Cui Wanwan had asked around about everything that had happened with Wei Qingyu in the past half year. People all said she liked to talk about equality and harmony among all beings. But now it seemed, she was just an ordinary person after all.

In the face of power and status, she wouldn’t speak of equality, let alone believe in it.

Cui Mansion, Front Hall.

Wei Qingyu knelt on the ground, hands tied behind her back.

At first, she was still weeping and wailing, but the moment she saw the incense burner, she went silent.

“Father, Mother, please look.” Cui Wanwan opened the burner and pointed inside.

“This incense burner in your daughter’s room was found to contain a trace amount of poison powder from the Western Regions. Though inhaling a small amount won’t cause death, prolonged exposure would cause a healthy person to become confused, even mentally deranged.”

Just as one storm had barely passed, another arose, Wei Qingyu was already in extreme panic.

She never expected Cui Wanwan to detect such a small amount of poison.

Was this Cui Wanwan a bloodhound?

“System, what should I do?” Wei Qingyu instinctively turned to the system for help.

【Host, don’t be afraid. Just deny it no matter what.】

The steward respectfully cupped his hands and said, “A portion of the same Western Region poison powder was found in Miss Wei’s room. It is identical to what was found in Second Miss’s incense burner.”

Madam Cui raised her hand and pointed at Wei Qingyu. She opened her mouth several times but couldn’t speak, nearly fainting from rage.

Slap!
Master Cui raised his hand and gave Wei Qingyu a resounding slap across the face.

“Drag this ungrateful wretch out and execute her!” Veins bulged on Master Cui’s forehead.

Wei Qingyu’s pleading gaze turned to Cui Heng, but unfortunately, he no longer held any favorable opinion of her.

Cui Heng turned his eyes away. Though earlier he had tried to downplay things and even comforted and defended Wei Qingyu, that didn’t mean she held more weight in his heart than his own sister.

Now, with something like this happening, he was even more disappointed in Wei Qingyu.

Seeing that the situation had spiraled beyond recovery, Wei Qingyu suddenly screamed:

“System! System! I want to rewind! Turn back time! Hurry!”

【Please prepare, Host. You only have three chances to reverse time—use them wisely.】

“I know, hurry up! Things have already spiraled out of control—if I don’t use it now, it’s a dead end!” Wei Qingyu was so anxious that sweat covered her forehead.

【Command received from Host. Time Reversal…】

Cui Wanwan never expected something like this, it went beyond everything she understood about that mysterious force.

Before she could even speak, before she could even blink, the world spun wildly…

By the time her consciousness returned, the scene before her had already changed.

A trace of terror flickered in Cui Wanwan’s eyes, she had actually returned to the night she came home.

It was after dinner, when she and Miaomiao were walking along the bluestone path, in rather good spirits at the time.

“System…” The girl in the red dress lowered her head, murmuring to herself.

This thing called the system, what on earth was it? A deity?

No, that couldn’t be.

If it were truly a god from the heavens, it wouldn’t just be benevolent in appearance, it certainly wouldn’t harm ordinary people.

Cui Wanwan didn’t believe that someone like Wei Qingyu could receive help from a divine being.

If it was a god, then it must be one not worthy of mortal reverence.

She had thought that her own rebirth was already something shocking and terrifying, but after witnessing the system’s power with her own eyes, it was utterly earth-shattering.

To pull time back so easily, it was as if nothing in this world was beyond the system’s control.

As she thought, Cui Wanwan let out a bitter laugh, walking like a soulless shell along the bluestone path.

No wonder she could never win in her past life, no matter how hard she tried. Maybe, just maybe, she had won once. But under the system’s power of time reversal, everything she had struggled so hard to gain would have been erased in an instant.

“Second Miss?” Miaomiao’s puzzled voice rang out beside her ear.

Cui Wanwan turned her head and met Miaomiao’s worried gaze.

She smiled and said, “I’m fine.”

“Second Miss, don’t worry. After all, Miss Wei is not of the Cui bloodline. In the Master and Madam’s hearts, she’ll never compare to you, their biological daughter.” Miaomiao looked distressed. She had been by Second Miss’s side for over two years, during those two years, they had traveled far and wide, seen the customs and scenery of the Nine Provinces, and she had even learned some martial arts for self-defense.

Without Second Miss, she wouldn’t be alive today.

If Second Miss was happy, she was happy too. If Second Miss was upset, naturally, she felt it as well.

It was because she cared so deeply that even the emotions Cui Wanwan tried hard to hide couldn’t escape Miaomiao’s notice.

“Don’t worry.” Cui Wanwan reached out and patted Miao Miao’s shoulder.
“You’re a good girl.”

“Miaomiao, thank you.”

Though Miaomiao was actually a few years older than her, the way the young girl patted her on the shoulder with such composure made Miaomiao burst into laughter.

In the darkness, Miaomiao held a lantern in her hand, lighting the road ahead for her.

Cui Wanwan walked one step at a time, the hand hidden in her gauzy sleeve clenched tightly into a fist, her stride growing ever more resolute.

Even if darkness lay ahead, even if she would never see daylight again, she would not give up.

So what if she lost once?

Even if the current Cui Wanwan had already lost to Wei Qingyu a hundred, a thousand times, as long as she got one more chance, she still refused to resign herself to fate.

Let them say she was crazy. Being mad to the extreme, at least that would be a satisfying madness.

Thinking this, Cui Wanwan threw down a quick, “Don’t follow me,” and then used her lightness skill to leap onto walls and rooftops, swiftly returning to her room.

Three time-reversal chances, is it?

If she could force her to use one, she could just as well make her waste another.

After retrieving the sharpest dagger in the room, Cui Wanwan didn’t even bother changing into nightwear, she simply pushed her lightness skill to its limit.

Before long, she had arrived on the roof of Wei Qingyu’s room.

At that moment, Wei Qingyu was just bathing. She appeared to be in a rather good mood, even humming an unknown tune.

As she idly played with rose petals floating on the water, she said to the system, “This function is really useful. Can’t I get a few more chances?”

“Apologies, Host. The free uses are limited to three. However, you may exchange points for more.”