[The whole family reborn + secret identities exposed + exile and frontier development + no romance, feel-good power fantasy]
When the Duke of Zhenguo's household was stripped of its possessions and exiled, Xie Xingyao looked at her mother, too frail to care for herself; her father, who did nothing but bury himself in books; her useless, womanizing brother; and her sickly younger brother, who could barely catch his breath. She sighed and rolled up her sleeves. “Fine, I'll carry the team!”
But the journey into exile soon took some increasingly bizarre turns.
When assassins attacked, her cowardly father fled with his head in his hands. Then the assassins' hideout was wiped out, with a blood-red mark of the Demonic Cult left on the wall.
When plague struck, her delicate mother covered her face and wept. Then she lightly tapped her fingers, dispelling the poisonous miasma for miles around, and the head of the Poison Sect reappeared.
It wasn't long before the whole family's secret identities were impossible to hide.
Xie Xingyao: “Come clean. What did you all do in your past lives?”
Her cowardly father hid his Demonic Cult token. “I was a schoolteacher.”
Her useless brother kicked away a hidden weapon from the Assassin Pavilion. “I was a pig butcher.”
Her sickly younger brother covered up blueprints for a million war puppets. “Just a little hobby.”
Unbelievable! The whole family had memories of turning into major villains in their past lives, and were pretending to be utterly useless to have a peaceful life this time around!
Since the court insisted on wiping them out, Xie Xingyao flew into a rage. “Dad, let's overthrow the government!”
Her cowardly father drew the Demonic Cult's sacred blade. “Daughter, that would be most uncultured.”
Then he turned around and split the gates of the capital with one slash.