allonlinenovel Chapter 1 Now things are really messed up, I can't even be a decent person anymore.
Chapter 1 Now things are really messed up, I can't even be a decent person anymore.
Friendly reminder: This is the author's first time writing this type of story. I have basically never read similar stories before, nor have I read any fantasy or xianxia (fantasy/martial arts) stories.
So I can say I know absolutely nothing about this. Everything I wrote in the article was just my own random thoughts. The names, cultivation levels, etc., were all made up by me. Some of them were even looked up on Baidu. So please don't take it too seriously.
Knowing my own writing level, I didn't want to publish it, but since I've already started, I don't want to give up halfway, so I'm publishing it anyway. However, I've already anticipated the outcome, so please choose carefully!
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The author is too sensitive to negative reviews! Even if they couldn't resist and left a bad review, I still wouldn't read it.
I just decided to try this type of thing on a whim, so I wrote it. Please consider carefully whether you want to continue reading. I'll say it three times: Please be careful! Please be careful! Please be careful!
Alright, enough chit-chat, let's get started!
"Hey~"
This was already the umpteenth time Lu Jinyan had sighed. She felt so powerless, so helpless, so bored.
Before me stretched an endless expanse of mountains and forests, teeming with various flowers and plants, as did behind and to the left and right.
If it were before, seeing these flowers and plants, seeing such beautiful scenery, she would definitely jump for joy. After all, as a corporate slave, she is either working or on her way to work every day.
She's so busy every day that even a hot meal is a luxury, so how could she possibly have time to look at flowers and plants or appreciate the scenery? She's almost forgotten how long it's been since she's had a proper rest.
But now, seeing the scene before her, she felt no joy, only a sigh and helplessness.
If you ask her why she did this, it all has to start from the beginning...
Her name is Lu Jinyan, she is twenty-seven years old, and she is an ordinary employee in a company. Her appearance is also ordinary. As for her figure, to put it nicely, she is plump, to put it bluntly, she is fat. Her daily life consists of nothing but work. In order to save enough money for a down payment on a house before she turns thirty, she is really working her life away.
Lu Jinyan's family background was not very happy. Her parents died in an accident when she was very young, and she lived with her grandparents from a young age. Although her parents received a compensation after their death, her grandparents did not tell her about it.
Her grandparents treated her very well. They worked hard all their lives to provide for her, including food, clothing, and education. She had everything other children had. Although she lost her parents, she received just as much from her grandparents. After graduating from university, she chose to work in the city closest to her home so that she could better take care of her elderly grandparents.
Her biggest wish is to buy her own house before she turns thirty, so that she can live a good life with her grandparents and enjoy their own little world.
So she worked tirelessly day and night, just to earn more money. Apart from her monotonous life, her only hobby was reading novels before bed. You could say that novels were her spiritual sustenance.
Because she has no friends or a boyfriend, while other people spend their weekends either going out shopping and eating with friends or having romantic dates with their partners, she hardly gets any rest. Her weekends are spent either working overtime or on her way to work overtime.
While everyone else was refusing to work overtime, she was the only one who volunteered to work overtime, all for the sake of a pittance.
The reason is simple: going out shopping and eating out costs money, and dating also costs money. She is very frugal. She hasn't bought new clothes in a long time because she's saving money to buy a house. She doesn't want to waste money on these things. She'd rather work overtime on weekends and get double the salary than be foolish enough to waste her time.
So she almost always works overtime on weekends. On the rare occasions when she doesn't work overtime, she goes back to her hometown to live with her grandparents and help with farm work. In short, she will never spend money if she can avoid it.
After working hard for several years, she finally saved enough money to make a down payment on a house in a small county town. However, her grandparents passed away one after another due to old age and overwork, leaving her all alone in the world.
Sometimes she gets tired and complains about the unfairness of fate. Why are others born to be waited on hand and foot? Why do others have loving parents and a superior life, while she has to work herself to the bone here?
Sometimes she would think that if there really was an afterlife, she wouldn't want to be human again. She would be fine with anything but being human, because being human is too tiring.
When her grandfather passed away, she helped her grandmother with all the funeral arrangements. Later, she brought her grandmother to live with her, and the two of them lived together in a rented house, leading a simple and happy life.
Not two years later, her grandmother also passed away. Before she died, her grandmother called her to her side and took out that bank card. Only then did she realize that there had been a compensation payment after her parents passed away.
Grandma said that she hadn't told her because she originally intended to save the money for her future dowry. But now it seemed that she wouldn't live to see her get married. Holding the bank card and looking at her grandmother with her eyes closed, Lu Jinyan couldn't describe the feeling in her heart.
She thought that if her grandmother had told her about this earlier, she might not have worked so hard to save for a down payment, and she might have even been able to find a boyfriend or something.
However, she didn't blame her grandparents. She knew that they did it all for her own good. Maybe if they had given her the money, she would have squandered it and ended up with nothing.
That money was enough for her to buy a house in the county town outright, and maybe even have some left over, but she didn't touch it. She still followed her original plan and bought a house in the small county town with a mortgage. She made a down payment and paid the mortgage every month. Although life was tough, she felt quite fulfilled. At least she finally had a home of her own.
It's unclear why she didn't use the money her parents left her, but in any case, she chose the path she had planned from the beginning: buy a house with a mortgage and then continue to work hard.
A little over a month ago, her department closed a big deal. To reward them, the boss gave the department two days off, and she finally had time to rest and catch her breath. While her colleagues were busy going out for food and drinks, she stayed in bed reading novels.
Perhaps because she was too tired, she fell asleep after watching for a short while. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a forest, with an endless expanse of green before her and the fresh scent of earth and dew filling the air.
She thought she was dreaming. Wasn't she asleep at home reading a novel? How did she end up here after waking up?
Then, she felt a sharp pain in her head, and then a small fragment of memory that didn't belong to her appeared in her mind.
After she finished reading these memories, she was completely stunned. She had transmigrated, and, incredibly, she had transmigrated into a flower...
Yes, you heard right. It wasn't that her name was "A Flower," but that she actually transformed into a flower.
Moreover, this isn't some human world; it's the demon realm from TV dramas and novels, where everything can cultivate and transform into a demon. Her current body is that of a flower demon yet to take human form.
Good grief, she only occasionally complained that she didn't want to be human anymore, that being human was too tiring, and now, well, this time, they really won't even let her be human anymore...
The thought of her new home, which she had just paid the down payment for but hadn't even moved into yet, and the refrigerator full of food she had just bought, filled her with a pang of heartache. If she didn't continue paying the mortgage, would the house be foreclosed on? And those discounted groceries she had worked so hard to snag would spoil if she didn't eat them…
Even though she was anxious and unwilling, she couldn't go back and could only silently accept reality. The original owner's memories were very short, roughly summed up in two paragraphs.
First, her original form was a red spider lily, commonly known as the flower of the other shore. This flower has many names, but in her hometown, it is called the Lycoris radiata. She had seen it in modern times; it was a very beautiful flower.
Second, the original owner's spiritual veins were damaged due to an accident, making him unsuitable for cultivation. However, with sheer stubbornness, he spent six hundred years finally cultivating his intelligence.
And then, it’s gone!
There are only two useful pieces of information!
Because of this unfortunate child, for four hundred years after cultivating sentience, she had failed to successfully transform into human form and had never left this forest. Besides herself, there were no other sentient demons around her. Then, something went wrong during her cultivation, and the original owner of this body died. And then, she came here...
The original body was just a flower, a flower that had gained sentience. It had no human form, no name, no friends, no one knew it was dead, and no one cared whether it was dead or not, so it simply took its place.
Because her spiritual root was damaged, it was difficult for her to cultivate. However, she was a hardworking child. Even though she knew that her spiritual root was damaged and she was not suitable for cultivation, she still worked hard day after day.
Normally, demons develop sentience within one or two hundred years, those of average ability within two or three hundred, and even the slower ones only need three or four hundred years. However, the original owner of this body took a full six hundred years. One can imagine how difficult her cultivation must have been.
Normally, after cultivating intelligence, one can take human form after two or three hundred years of further cultivation. However, four hundred years had passed from when the original owner of this body developed intelligence until she died. In other words, she spent a thousand years from the beginning until now, but she only developed intelligence and did not take human form.
Oh, well, now she's become a thousand-year-old monster. From a girl in her early twenties, she's transformed into a thousand-year-old demon. She doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The original owner of this body was really unlucky. With so many flowers and plants around, how come her spiritual root was the one that got damaged?
She was incredibly unlucky. She was peacefully reading a novel at home when she suddenly transmigrated! And into a monster? Oh no, she hasn't even taken human form yet, so she's not even a monster yet...
It can only be considered a flower with sentience...
Damn it, two unlucky kids have run into each other! It's like bad luck has come crashing down on them!
"Yanyan, what are you daydreaming about? I've called you several times!"
A crisp sound interrupted Lu Jinyan's recollection.
"Ah, it's Chuchu. I'm sorry, I was thinking about something and didn't hear you call me!" Lu Jinyan replied, shaking off a petal.
"It's time for your cultivation, so don't slack off! We made a promise that once you successfully transform into human form, you'll take me out to explore the demon realm."
Not far from Lu Jinyan, a small pink flower was swaying its leaves.
"Okay, okay, don't worry, I definitely won't slack off, I will definitely do what I promised you!" Lu Jinyan shook her petals, indicating that she would keep her word.
Although that's what she said, her heart remained completely unmoved. Cultivation? Cultivation my ass! With her spiritual root, being able to cultivate intelligence would already be a stroke of good fortune. To even dream of taking human form? That's simply impossible!