Lin Xiao died after suffering a severe, unexpected injury. When she opened her eyes, she found herself bound to the Merit System. She had become an outer sect menial disciple of the Unwanting Sect, the foremost of the three great sects in the land. She was a nobody on the fringes, a good-for-nothing with five spiritual roots. She had only managed to enter the Unwanting Sect by selling everything her family owned and bribing her way in. And now her ten-year term was up, and she was about to be expelled from the sect.
But that wasn't even the deadliest part. By the time she arrived, the original owner had already died from a strange poison. The System gave her a task: go down the mountain and save someone to stay alive.
Without a second thought, she sprinted down the mountain!
"Senior brother, since you have no feelings for me, then I'll leave you! I, Yu Xiaojing, hate you! I hate you so much!" A female disciple who was pregnant before marriage and mistakenly believed her lover had abandoned her jumped into the water! Lin Xiao rescued her, and the couple's misunderstanding was cleared up. She saved three people in one go.
The senior and junior disciples meeting in the Crimson Plum Grove became her second target for earning merit points.
"Senior brother, there's someone in your heart."
"Mm."
"Fine. Since you have someone else in your heart, while I can't live without you, why don't you just die by my sword!"
The woman struck with lethal intent. If Lin Xiao hadn't intervened in time, it would have ended in tragedy. The man lying in a pool of blood was on the verge of death, yet he still smiled sweetly. "Xue'er, the one in my heart is you!" "Senior brother!"
With her mouth full of this ridiculous melodrama, Lin Xiao wanted to yell too: You absolute menace!
Little by little, Lin Xiao realized that every one of these tasks came with a story about a lovesick man and a heartbroken woman.
Though the sect was called the Unwanting Sect and cultivated the Path of Emotionlessness, it had so many lovesick couples that Lin Xiao was on the front line every day, breaking up fights and rescuing people.
There was the sect heir and the genius fighting until heaven and earth shook because they were jealous. There was the junior sister who wanted to die because her senior brother had fallen for someone. There was the senior brother who was about to go mad and lose himself because his family had arranged a marriage for his junior sister. Senior brothers, junior brothers, and senior sisters were all hopeless, every last one of them a top-tier lovesick fool!
Later, Lin Xiao discovered that it wasn't just the younger generation who would go to extremes without caring whether they lived or died. Even the sect's big shots were tangled up in endless love and hate, constantly on the verge of causing a disastrous demonic transformation.
She ran through every day, which was packed with melodrama. At first, she was just there to watch the drama and enjoy the gossip. Gradually, she realized that one day she herself would face a terrifying predicament.
A roguishly handsome, fatherly young man (a good-for-nothing who rose to become a domineering prodigy, and the fiancé her family found for her, whom she argued with the moment they met) pointed at a cold, heartless, breathtaking beauty (a genius from a prestigious family, with whom she had barely spoken and who had nothing to do with her) and demanded of her:
"Lin Xiao, get out here! Choose him or me!"
Two overwhelming forces charged toward her. Lin Xiao, kicked out by the System, was on the verge of tears. Retribution! This had to be retribution for enjoying too much gossip!
Theme: Stay positive and do your best to survive.