1.
Zhu Jieyun was born into an ordinary cultivator family. Her talent was unremarkable, and her clan did not think much of her. Thanks to the care and support of her fellow disciples, she overcame one challenge after another and advanced in her cultivation. She kept their kindness in her heart and swore she would repay them one day.
But then, one day, something appeared in her sea of consciousness.
"Beep... The game Cultivation: I Want to Be the Villain is loading missions. Beep... Logged in. Beep... Bound. Please complete the main and side quests as soon as possible, Host."
"Main quest issued: Destroy your sect and survive."
"Side quest one: Win over Senior Brother Zhu Cangchun."
"Side quest two: Win over Senior Sister Chu Wangqiu."
"Side quest three: Win over..."
"Side quests four, five, six..."
And so, Zhu Jieyun was forced down the path of a double agent.
The good news was that if she made the wrong choice in this game, she could reload and start over.
But the bad news was...
No matter how many times she reloaded, no matter what she chose, every path ended in death.
Much later, she exhausted herself plotting and scheming, yet still could not save everyone. In the end, she was abandoned by all and condemned by countless voices.
Her friends and family, her fellow disciples, all severed ties with her and became her sworn enemies.
Among the ruins, in a sea of blood, she stood alone.
No one knew that she had died for her dearest loved ones thousands upon thousands of times.
And for all these years, she alone knew what it meant to die for someone who understood you.
2.
After being reborn, almost everyone on Shachana Immortal Mountain wanted to kill the traitor Zhu Jieyun.
She was a honey-tongued, two-faced, faithless, heartless traitor who colluded with outsiders and left her fellow disciples crippled, bringing her sect to ruin.
So, on the night Zhu Jieyun came up the mountain to become a disciple, everyone in the sect was itching to stab a gaping hole in her, to vent their hatred.
But just as they were about to act, a strange voice appeared in every one of their seas of consciousness at the same time:
"Beep beep beep: reloading mission."
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