[Hilarious, shameless, wild imagination, Water Margin, wish fulfillment]
The Nine Heavens Profound Maiden sighed softly. “In your next life, you’ll be… reborn as a pig. But you only have to put up with it for a few years. Meat pigs are sent to market pretty quickly. Next time, you’ll surely get a better reincarnation.”
“Next time… surely.” Wu Zetian murmured, repeating the words. They were the same words Yan Zi, the girl he’d once had a crush on, had used to reject him.
At that moment, Wu Zetian couldn’t take it anymore. He threw back his head and roared into the void.
“I refuse to accept this!
I’m going to live a life of fire and glory, a life that shakes the heavens!”
Wu Zetian thought of the good-for-nothing protagonists in web novels who turned their lives around.
He’d actually wanted to shout, “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west,” but it didn’t quite fit the situation.
So he settled for a line from some novel about defying fate and changing one’s destiny.
The Nine Heavens Profound Maiden looked momentarily stunned. She hadn’t expected the reincarnation of Wu Dalang to possess such spirit.
“You’ve certainly piqued my interest,” the Nine Heavens Profound Maiden said meaningfully.
Wu Zetian hurriedly covered his clothes, thinking, I never imagined even immortals would covet my virgin body.