Wen Renxi’s last sight was Zaoya’s smiling face before it was completely swallowed by darkness.

She returned to the real world.

The rewards this time were indeed very generous. The higher the difficulty of the cleared dungeon and the higher the completion rate, the more points were awarded. Initial trial dungeons only gave ten points, and even less if the completion rate was low.

High-level dungeons like [Snow Wedding Gown], which no one had perfectly cleared before, naturally had very generous rewards, a full hundred points. Moreover, Wen Renxi and her team achieved a perfect clear, further multiplying their points. She didn’t know how much others received, but her points were multiplied tenfold.

Dungeon vouchers cost two hundred points each. With this haul, Wen Renxi could redeem five vouchers.

Besides the points, her other gains were significant. Perhaps because they took an unconventional route, the item from Mr. Hu was rather useless, but the other two items were excellent.

[Snow Bride’s Gratitude]: One-time use item. Upon use, it grants the holder the favor and friendship of female NPCs in the current dungeon. To a certain extent, it can gain their assistance and prevent them from actively attacking the holder.

Gaining NPC assistance and avoiding their attacks is crucial in some dungeons, making it a life-saving item, albeit a one-time use.

[Snow Bride’s Blessing]: This is a permanent item. The wearer gains the favor of female NPCs, who generally won’t refuse requests unless they are rude and won’t actively attack the holder. Its functions are similar to [Snow Bride’s Gratitude] but enhanced. Additionally, this item has another effect.

It doubles the wearer’s attack effectiveness against male NPCs.

A very useful item. With this, [Snow Bride’s Gratitude] becomes redundant, its effects entirely covered by [Snow Bride’s Blessing].

However, although [Snow Bride’s Gratitude] is inferior to [Snow Bride’s Blessing], it has one advantage the latter lacks: it can be gifted, transferred, or traded.

Wen Renxi didn’t intend to sell this item; she could keep it for Rong Yan, increasing Rong Yan’s survival chances in dungeons.

Of course, this wasn’t urgent. Rong Yan was thirteen and had a year before entering dungeons. Wen Renxi could accumulate more points, enough for Rong Yan to enter after she turned eighteen.

Yue Manqing and Rong Qi left over a thousand points. Adding her current haul, she now had over two thousand, enough for their needs.

Wen Renxi planned to sell the less useful items.

Perhaps their unconventional clearing method displeased Mr. Hu, as the items from him were few and of poor quality, mostly common, lackluster items. However, Wen Renxi liked these trinkets.

For example, Han Jiao’s hidden sleeve arrow was a lackluster item, but Wen Renxi found it handy.

Rong Yan needed medicine and medical treatment, which were expensive. Wen Renxi also wanted to find items that could cure Rong Yan, all requiring money and survival points.

The small items from Mr. Hu could be exchanged for these.

Considering this, she needed to earn more points.

This brought up the difficulty of nightmare world dungeons, which were generally based on levels, with only a lower limit and no upper limit. This meant high-level players couldn’t enter low-level dungeons, but low-level players could enter high-level ones.

Wen Renxi thought her large point gain was partly because they perfectly cleared the high-level [Snow Wedding Gown] and partly because her low level amplified the reward.

Points were equivalent to money in the nightmare world.

She needed to support her sister, thus requiring more points and money.

After sorting her items, Wen Renxi opened her room door.

Rong Yan was holding a book, seemingly reading, but her attention was clearly elsewhere. Upon hearing the door open, she looked up anxiously, then smiled in surprise upon seeing Wen Renxi.

“Third Sister.”

The thirteen-year-old girl looked like she was ten, small and thin, with a pale complexion, highlighting her large eyes, which were very calm.

Of the four siblings, only they remained. Rong Yan was worried while Wen Renxi was in the nightmare world. Upon seeing her come out safely, she finally relaxed and smiled.

“Youngest Sister.”

Wen Renxi saw Rong Yan stand up as if to approach and quickly stepped forward, gently pushing her back down. “Any discomfort these past two days?”

Rong Yan had congenital heart disease and had been weak since childhood. Her adoptive parents were very worried about her. Because of her heart condition, the girl was very calm and tried to keep her emotions stable.

Rong Yan paused, pursed her lips, took a tissue from the coffee table, and carefully wiped Wen Renxi’s tears. “Why are you crying again?”

Wen Renxi: “…”

She didn’t want to cry, but she couldn’t help it when she saw Rong Yan. Should she learn to control her emotions like Rong Yan?

Seeing Wen Renxi’s state, Rong Yan felt helpless.

Although they were four years apart, and the original owner was the elder sister, Rong Yan was more composed and sometimes acted more like the elder sister.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry. Did someone bully you in the nightmare world? It’s okay, Third Sister is safe, we’ll ignore them.”

Rong Yan only wanted her family to be safe.

Seeing Wen Renxi was unharmed and seemed calm, she felt reassured. This meant Wen Renxi’s dungeon was simple and safe.

As for how many points she earned, that wasn’t urgent.

After Yue Manqing and Rong Qi disappeared, Rong Yan planned to use the remaining points to buy vouchers for the original owner, preventing her from entering for now. A year later, when the original owner turned eighteen and had to enter, Rong Yan, at fourteen, would also need to enter. They could enter together and support each other.

Rong Yan understood the original owner’s personality and was worried about her going in alone but couldn’t persuade her otherwise.

Moreover…

Rong Yan had a dream last night, dreaming of her third sister.

She thought something had happened, but Wen Renxi came out safely.

“Third Sister, I dreamed last night that you told me you awakened your past life memories.” Rong Yan’s face showed her age-appropriate curiosity.

She was genuinely curious.

The dream was nonsensical, but she noticed a change in Wen Renxi and remembered the dream’s words.

As for the dream’s credibility, Rong Yan thought it was normal. After all, their world was enveloped by the nightmare world; what wasn’t possible? It was just awakening past life memories.

She was worried that Wen Renxi’s personality would change drastically or be severely affected by the memories, but now she was relieved.

She still cried easily.

Sigh.

With this personality, she would be bullied in dungeons. Now that the nightmare world had descended, people were different. Third Sister had always been timid, and awakening past life memories didn’t seem to change much.

“???”

Wen Renxi paused, then agreed. “…Yes, I wanted to tell you. I awakened my past life memories at a critical moment in the dungeon.”

She had the original owner’s memories and could easily impersonate her, but she didn’t expect Rong Yan to be so perceptive. As for the dream… it was the original owner, right?

The original owner probably told Rong Yan.

The original owner told a white lie to reassure Rong Yan, switching the order of events.

Awakening past life memories and being transmigrated but retaining the original memories seemed similar, but the former was the original owner’s perspective, and the latter was the transmigrator’s.

“Then who were you in your past life, Third Sister?”

She was even more curious.

Having been mentally prepared, Rong Yan didn’t overthink Wen Renxi’s change. She rarely doubted her family and was simply curious, finding it fascinating.

Was Third Sister a mermaid in her past life? That’s why she kept crying? Or was she like Lin Daiyu?

Ah…

“…What do you think I was, Youngest Sister?”

Rong Yan thought carefully, thinking she might not have been human.

“A fainting sheep?”

Wen Renxi: “…”

“No, Third Sister was a powerful assassin in her past life.”

Rong Yan didn’t believe Wen Renxi’s nonsense, looking at her with suspicion.

How could she be an assassin? Third Sister was timid, a fainting sheep.

See? She was still crying.

Rong Yan wiped Wen Renxi’s tears while thinking, but she didn’t refute her third sister’s nonsense. “Okay, don’t cry anymore, your eyes will swell.”

After this topic, Rong Yan asked Wen Renxi about the dungeon. Afraid of worrying her, Wen Renxi didn’t mention [Snow Wedding Gown] but a trial dungeon for novice players.

She had various experiences and could easily deceive a thirteen-year-old girl.

They chatted and checked online news.

This was their daily habit. People cleared dungeons almost daily, and new information was frequently released. This information was crucial and could be useful anytime.

After lunch, the sisters relaxed on the sofa, chatting, when Wen Renxi suddenly received a system message.

[System Message: High-level dungeon [Snow Wedding Gown] has been perfectly cleared. This dungeon is now closed and will no longer be open in the future.]

Wen Renxi paused, thinking this was good news.

After a high-level dungeon was perfectly cleared, there were usually two outcomes. One was that the dungeon’s difficulty would be automatically lowered, reducing the danger, and players would continue to enter, but the danger wouldn’t be comparable to before, and the survival rate would be much higher.

However, even so, it was still a high-level nightmare world.

Another outcome was that after a perfect clear, the dungeon would be completely closed and disappear, and no one would enter it again.

Wen Renxi thought this was good news because at least Zaoya and the other snow brides wouldn’t face the players’ choices anymore and could finally rest in peace.

This system was automatically bound after turning fourteen, the age for entering dungeons. Rong Yan, at thirteen, didn’t have it yet, so naturally, she didn’t know the news.

But soon, she saw related information on the official forum.

Not only was the high-level dungeon [Snow Wedding Gown], which had annihilated countless players, perfectly cleared, but it wouldn’t appear again. This news blew up the forum, with everyone discussing who had achieved the perfect clear and what secrets the dungeon held. Why could only one person clear it?

This dungeon was too special, seemingly unsolvable.

“Third Sister, [Snow Wedding Gown] has been cleared and won’t appear again. I hope those nightmare worlds will all disappear eventually.”

In the four years since the nightmare descended, countless people had died in it.

Her elder sister and second brother were still missing, their lives unknown.

Rong Yan knew they probably wouldn’t come back.

Soon, a post went viral on the forum.

“What’s it like to be carried by a level 1 noob?”