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“This tastes a bit strange.” Jiang Yan smacked her lips and continued absorbing Shen Peirong’s luck. By doing so, she could shorten her lifespan and make her more obedient.
Seizing the opportunity, Jiang Wei snatched back the jade pendant and immediately slipped into her personal space.
Ding! A message popped up in the Transmigrator Alliance chat.
[I Sleep With Hunks in Ancient Times @Weiwei Overwhelms the World]: Girl, hurry and get in the group to grab the benefit drop—first come, first served!]
Jiang Wei’s fingers moved so fast they sparked, and she snagged the last red packet.
Group member Weiwei Overwhelms the World has obtained: “Dream Heist Realm” (1 use).
[I Sleep With Hunks in Ancient Times]: Girl, your luck is insane. With that, not only can you enter your lover’s dreams to spar in the arts of passion, but you can also morph into anyone. Super intense stuff… wink wink~
[Weiwei Overwhelms the World]: You mean I can morph into someone else and enter anyone’s dream?
She already knew exactly how to use the Dream Heist Realm.
[I Sleep With Hunks in Ancient Times]: Ooh, sounds like you’ve got a wide range of tastes. 😏
[Weiwei Overwhelms the World]: I’m out.
Jiang Wei exited her space.
Jiang Yan had already finished absorbing luck and left—heading toward Second Concubine’s west courtyard.
Jiang Wei used the Dream Heist Realm to enter Shen Peirong’s dream.
Following Shen Peirong’s consciousness, Jiang Wei arrived at the Shen family’s ancestral home. After walking through a long corridor, an ancient bronze door appeared before her.
She pushed it open and saw a bright stone chamber inside, with three iron chests the size of washbasins.
Shen Peirong opened one chest—it was filled with gleaming gold bars, at least 300 jin (~150 kg) by the look of it.
“Tomorrow, take out three for Wei girl’s dowry. She’s thick-skinned—carrying too much gold to the countryside is inconvenient.
The rest goes to Xiaoyan. She’s frail, and everything she eats and wears needs to be the best.”
“You unfilial daughter!” Jiang Wei had transformed into her original body’s grandfather—Shen Zhen’nan.
“Father!” Shen Peirong’s eyes welled up at the sight of her aged father. “Father, I miss you so much…”
“Unfilial girl. I was killed by Jiang Dahai, and you use my money to feed him and his concubine’s daughter!”
“Father, Dahai is a good man. How could he harm you? You had that accident on your way to pick up Wei girl. It’s her bad luck that cursed the family!”
“Ptui! How is my Wei girl bad luck? Let me tell you—she is my real granddaughter. That Jiang Yan is a fake—Jiang Dahai and Chen Xiaolian’s illegitimate daughter!”
“Impossible!”
“What do you know? You think you know more than me even now that I’m dead?” Shen Zhen’nan bared his ghostly teeth.
Frightened, Shen Peirong shut her mouth tight. She had always feared her father since childhood—
Partly because he looked fierce and had a weird temper.
And partly because she once lost her younger sister when they were little, and when her father found out she’d sent Jiang Wei to the countryside, he was so enraged he cut off ties with her on the spot.
“Unfilial daughter, believe it or not, you’ll find out tomorrow. Jiang Dahai and that fake Jiang Yan will pretend something was stolen and make you hand over what I left you. At first, you’ll refuse, then discover they’ve already taken it behind your back. If this continues, I swear I’ll become a vengeful ghost…”
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Zhen’nan’s face twisted and he lunged at her, punching and kicking with ghostly fury.
“Father, stop! You’re going to kill me!” Strangely, she could feel the pain vividly in the dream.
“Pain? This is nothing compared to what Wei girl suffered in the countryside!”
Thinking of the original host being abused, forced to eat Guanyin clay just to survive, Jiang Wei struck even harder.
The original host’s bloated body wasn’t from fat—it was from edema, caused by starvation. Her swollen belly was from the Guanyin clay stuck inside her that she couldn’t pass.
Thankfully, the beauty pill she took flushed out the edema and the clay.
“Mom, why didn’t you come get me…? They were going to beat me to death… sob sob sob…”
The last scene in Shen Peirong’s dream was Jiang Wei, covered in blood, tied up in the woodshed.
“Ah! I was wrong!” She woke up in a cold sweat.
Such a vivid dream…
Could it be… Jiang Dahai really did harm Father?
And why did Father say Yan was Second Concubine’s daughter?
She recalled how Jiang Wei said earlier that Yunhe looked like her.
Shen Peirong shivered. No way. Dreams aren’t real.
Besides, Xiaoyan’s features and mannerisms were just like hers.
If anyone looked unlike her, it was fat and ugly Jiang Wei.
What Shen Peirong didn’t know was that while Jiang Yan absorbed Jiang Wei’s luck, she also stole her appearance.
After leaving Shen Peirong’s dream, Jiang Wei’s invisibility pill had worn off.
Jiang Yan was still chatting by candlelight with Second Concubine.
Jiang Wei turned and entered Jiang Yunhe’s room.
He wasn’t asleep—just squatting in a corner of the bed miserably drawing circles.
When he saw Jiang Wei, his eyes lit up. “Little sister, have some candy.”
Though he had the mental age of only five, he knew the only one in the whole house who was good to him was this recently returned little sister—she didn’t yell at him and even gave him candy.
He held out the malt candy Jiang Wei gave him earlier that day.
He had eaten half, and the sticky other half was still in his palm.
“Tasty,” Jiang Wei didn’t mind at all.
Jiang Yunhe beamed. “Little sister eats candy—I’m happy.”
Jiang Wei beckoned, “Come here. Close your eyes. I’ll show you a magic trick, but you can’t peek until I say so, okay?”
“Okay!” The large and tall Jiang Yunhe obediently squatted in front of her and shut his eyes tight.
Jiang Wei took out an embroidery needle and pricked his fingertip, quickly dripping the blood onto the jade pendant.
“You can open your eyes now. Next, breathe in hard at the top of my head.”
She wanted him to try the same technique Jiang Yan used to absorb luck.
Jiang Yunhe’s eyes sparkled.
Was this a new game from little sister?
He leaned in and sucked air over her head. He was so forceful that her hair stood straight up.
But soon, his handsome face scrunched in discomfort. He looked aggrieved, and tears welled up.
“What’s wrong?” Jiang Wei frowned. Was he still too dull? Or… had Jiang Yan already sucked up all of the original host’s luck?
“Little sister… your head smells stinky.”
“…Fine. You’re so picky. Goodbye!” Jiang Wei huffed and returned to her space. She scrubbed herself for three straight hours—until even her toes smelled like flowers—before coming out and falling asleep.
Right after she left, Jiang Yunhe turned pale and rolled on the floor clutching his head.
“Pain! Pain! It feels like I’m growing a brain!”
“Ahh! A thief! A thief! Someone broke into the Eldest Miss’s room and stole everything—even her undergarments!”
Chaos erupted outside.
Inside, Jiang Wei calmly opened her Alliance group chat.
[I Sleep With Hunks in Ancient Times: Today’s benefit drop @Weiwei Overwhelms the World]
He posted a picture of a shirtless hunk dancing.
[Weiwei Overwhelms the World]: Totally unnecessary.
Ding! I Sleep With Hunks in Ancient Times has gifted you 1 Beauty Pill.
[Weiwei Overwhelms the World]: I worship you, little goddess!
[Apocalypse Boss Keeps Staring at My Hook]: @Weiwei Overwhelms the World — he’s a man.
Jiang Wei’s lips twitched. She crushed the Beauty Pill and swallowed it.
[Weiwei Overwhelms the World]: Among all hunks, you’re the hottest.
[I Sleep With Hunks in Ancient Times]: Hehe~ Girl, want to take another mission?
Jiang Wei remembered the system said she could only do one mission per day, so she replied:
[Weiwei Overwhelms the World]: I’m off to abuse scumbags.
Bang! Just as she sent that, the door burst open with a loud kick.
Jiang Dahai stormed in, furious. “Did you take the stuff from Xiaoyan’s room?!”