Somehow, Everyone Fears Me

Also known as "Don't Use Public Funds to Date in the Martial World."

A custom martial arts setting: a chaotic ancient era, martial arts, and a touch of fantasy!

Transmigrating into a game isn't the absurd part. The absurd part is that you're a Tang Clan member who only knows how to stay alive and attack from hiding, and the very first thing you learn after opening your eyes is that you've been assigned a disguised assassination mission.

System: You can do it!!!

You: I can't!!!

You're just a casual player who loves daily quests! You only picked this sect because its stealth skill lets you slip past monsters' targeting and sneak in to gather materials! You absolutely do not know how to do this!!

But the System can't help it. That's just how occupational missions work. You pleaded and begged, but they sweet-talked you, and you have no resistance to that. So you grit your teeth and go for it. After finally using your lightness skill to reach the target, finding a good spot, and completing the mission in stealth, you discover there's another fellow assassin inside.

You: ... (curling your toes in embarrassment) You saw that?

Help!!! I looked so ridiculous while I kept adjusting my position just now!!! Did you see that too?!!

Masked assassin: ?! (I'm going to get killed!! The look in her eyes... She doesn't care about human life at all!) Have mercy, great hero!!

Maybe you made your character look too fierce. One look from a fellow assassin, and they immediately prostrate themselves and beg you to spare them. The ordinary people you rescue rush up and slam their heads against the ground without a word. Later, you meet other people who keep dropping to their knees and begging you... Can't you just stand up and talk? If people keep bowing to me like this, I'll have bad luck and die young!

Also, you really don't like fighting! But as you take on more and more missions, sometimes you even have to silence people, and more and more people start looking for fights with you?!

Forget that they won't listen. Those people who clutch their wounds, spit blood, and collapse, don't say horrifying things like "As expected of the number one assassin in the martial world" as if you're delivering your last words!!! That's the auto-targeting red-name system's fault!!

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"...And speaking of ordinary life during the Xia Dynasty, there's one person we simply have to mention. Opinions about her were mixed at the time, but judgments from people in the martial world are always somewhat subjective..."

"Some say she was righteous and loyal, others say she was a treacherous villain. But among martial-world assassins, unlike the other anonymous killers whose identities are unknown, her origins in martial arts are a mystery and her movements are uncanny. With a Thousand Mechanisms in hand, she killed corrupt officials and protected the people. If she struck, it was because the King of Hell had called your name. She was, by all accounts, the number one figure in the martial world..."

"They say she especially despised faithless lovers who flouted morality, as well as shameless traitors who harmed the common people... With her peerless martial arts, she threw the whole blood-soaked martial world and the scheming officials who held power in the court into a state of paranoia and terror..."

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