Kill That Transmigrator Woman - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: She Killed Wei Qingyu
Upon hearing this, Wei Qingyu perked up.
She sat up straight, eyes staring into the void. “How many points does it take?”
“Ten thousand points for one use, dear~”
The system’s reply instantly deflated her.
“So much? That’s a rip-off! Where am I supposed to get that many points?” Wei Qingyu pouted in dissatisfaction.
[WARNING! WARNING!]
The system’s voice suddenly changed, replaced by a blaring alarm-like sound.
Wei Qingyu thought she’d offended the system with her attitude and was just about to soften her tone and act cute when the ear-piercing siren blared again.
[The system has detected a powerful killing intent approaching. Host, please protect yourself.]
Because this host hadn’t completed many tasks and had earned too few points, the system hadn’t upgraded to an intermediate or advanced program. As a result, it couldn’t provide higher-tier features or services.
Before Wei Qingyu could even react, Cui Wanwan appeared before her, dressed in a red gown and gripping a gleaming silver dagger.
“You—”
Before she could say more, Cui Wanwan brought the blade down. Her movements were so fast they left afterimages, she had no interest in listening to Wei Qingyu’s nonsense.
The silver light flashed. Flesh split open. Bright red blood gushed forth, quickly dyeing the entire bath full of water.
Wei Qingyu clutched her neck with one hand, the other gripping the edge of the bath with such force that her fingertips turned white. Her eyes were filled with terror and disbelief.
“Cui—” Wei Qingyu didn’t finish her sentence before collapsing into a pool of blood, slowly sinking beneath the steaming bathwater until she was fully submerged.
Everything had happened too quickly, so fast that Wei Qingyu didn’t even have time to cry out for help.
The girl in red stood there, her bangs soaked with sweat and plastered messily against her pale skin. Her cheeks were flushed from rushing over with lightness skill. She was panting slightly, her chest heaving.
Veins stood out faintly on the back of her hand, along her neck, and across her brow. In her bright, beautiful eyes surged an intense mix of pain and emotional release. The hand gripping the dagger trembled slightly from how tightly she held it.
A breeze drifted in through the window, lifting the hem of her skirt. The red gauze fluttered like a blooming, dazzling flower, making Cui Wanwan resemble one of those legendary, soul-stealing enchantresses, seductive, stunning, unforgettable.
Cui Wanwan opened her mouth. She wanted to shout, but when the moment finally arrived, she found herself completely unable to utter a sound.
After so long under the shadow of Wei Qingyu’s torment, so long that she’d been driven to the brink of despair, this time, killing her with her own hands left her so overwhelmed that aside from the tears streaming down her face, she couldn’t move a muscle.
She had never hated someone so deeply.
Once again, the world spun around, and when Cui Wanwan opened her eyes, she found herself back in the past.
She had taken revenge with her own hands, even if everything would soon be overturned, it had been satisfying enough for Cui Wanwan.
Seeing Miaomiao preparing to head out, Cui Wanwan instinctively called out, “Miaomiao, where are you going?”
Miaomiao, stopped in her tracks, turned around in confusion. “Didn’t Second Miss ask me to call the doctor over to inspect the incense burner?”
So it was this moment they had returned to, Cui Wanwan understood now. She tilted her body slightly and stared at the incense burner with a blank expression.
“Go ahead,” the girl said calmly.
The doctor was quickly brought in by Miaomiao.
This time, after inspection, the incense burner was found to be normal, there wasn’t any harmful substance inside.
“I see. Miaomiao, see the doctor out of the residence,” Cui Wanwan said softly, her gaze still fixed on the incense burner.
In fact, from the moment she returned to this point in time, she could no longer smell the scent of the poison from the Western Regions.
Most likely something had happened on Wei Qingyu’s side, and the system had used its mysterious power to alter everything.
After Miaomiao left, Cui Wanwan slowly crouched down, wrapping her arms around her head, burying her face in her knees. Tears quickly soaked through the silk gauze of her dress.
Why did they have to treat me like this…
Why?
Why…?
After a moment of despair, Cui Wanwan wiped her face messily with her sleeve, then stood up again, her back straight and her chin slightly raised.
After digesting and discarding the fear and hopelessness, that unyielding spirit of hers returned once more.
She was Cui Wanwan, Second Miss of the Cui family, the future Princess Consort. She would never bow her head so easily.
Even if she fell from the heights into the mud, her heart would remain strong and unbreakable, she would never give up!
Fate was cruel and left her powerless, but in this life, a person should fight at least once for themselves, shouldn’t they?
As for Wei Qingyu, she fell seriously ill, said to have caught a cold after getting drenched in the rain, resulting in a high fever.
But only Wei Qingyu herself knew the truth, how could it be some cold? It was clearly because she had been scared out of her wits by that crazed Cui Wanwan. She needed time to recover.
“System, do you think this Cui Wanwan might be a lunatic? Otherwise, why would she try to kill me out of nowhere?” Wei Qingyu was now like a startled bird, having dismissed all the servants and maids, ordering them to completely surround her room from the outside so that not even a drop of water could seep through.
Only then did she feel the slightest bit secure.
She hadn’t even gotten around to dealing with the original female lead, who had now become the current supporting female, and yet that girl had come to kill her first?
The system was also confused, running diagnostics for a while but coming up completely empty-handed.
On the system’s end, all of Cui Wanwan’s indicators showed as normal, there was nothing abnormal.
[Host, don’t be afraid. Since time has been reversed and the plot reset, that vicious female supporting character won’t retain any of her previous memories,] the system’s mechanical voice sounded.
Wei Qingyu lowered her head, hugging her knees tightly. It took quite a while for her emotions to calm down.
She thought about what the system said and felt it made sense.
After all, Cui Wanwan didn’t remember what had happened before. Each time time was reversed, the characters and plot of this world would refresh again, it was a bit like saving and reloading progress in a text-based game.
Thinking this way, Wei Qingyu gradually felt at ease.
The way that Cui Wanwan had suddenly tried to kill her before was probably due to some kind of provocation or stimulus.
Although time could be pulled back to a previous point, Cui Wanwan was still a living person.
As long as one was human, they were changeable.
Even with the exact same plot and character setup, the choices and actions of the NPCs might differ. Maybe she had been egged on by some treacherous servant, or maybe that vicious female supporting character had blackened all of a sudden due to jealousy or mental imbalance.
Back during the first time reversal, Wei Qingyu had already decided not to provoke Cui Wanwan for the time being, and to prioritize strategy and progression instead. But before she could even act on that, she was already killed by that lunatic Cui Wanwan.
Now, after the second time reversal, she was even more determined not to provoke Cui Wanwan for the time being.
However, this incident turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Wei Qingyu. To prevent something like that from happening again, the system forcibly extracted the female lead aura it had previously taken from Cui Wanwan and injected all of it into Wei Qingyu’s body.
From this point forward, everything would go smoothly for Wei Qingyu, good fortune and safety would follow her, and she would become the beloved favored one of Heaven’s will.
With the help of the female lead aura and luck, Cui Wanwan wouldn’t be able to hurt her so easily again.
If anything, she might even suffer a backlash from the immense force of luck, ending up losing more than she gained.
Once all the high-quality men stood on Wei Qingyu’s side, no matter how capable Cui Wanwan was, she would be nothing to fear.
Because by then, if Cui Wanwan so much as touched a single strand of her hair, the powerful male leads and male supporting characters behind her would scramble over each other to twist Cui Wanwan’s head right off.
Wei Qingyu was very confident about this.
After all, she was a transmigrator from the 21st century, wasn’t this how it always went in the novels?
The transmigrated girl was the supreme female lead.
No matter how good or bad her situation was before transmigration, once it landed in her hands, everything would just serve to highlight her as the mighty heroine.
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