A Deck of Cards from the Start

After transmigrating, Ming Xiaye's golden finger was a deck of playing cards that could form contracts with all kinds of creatures. She accidentally got caught up in a battle between powerful beings, and just as she was on the brink of death, her golden finger activated its self-defense function and helped her form a contract with an unparalleled camellia, letting her punch far above her weight class.

Zhan Qingshuang had been imprisoned by a seal for years, and had been getting others to sacrifice all kinds of spiritual treasures to break it. Just as the seal was about to loosen, Ming Xiaye's playing cards forced him into a contract. It was so infuriating he almost laughed. He'd never been beneath anyone in his life.

Especially not beneath a weakling like this master of his, who'd pretend to be someone's girlfriend for money, tell people whatever they wanted to hear, and, worst of all, dared to give him attitude. When had he ever had to put up with this? People who wanted to work for him used to have to get in line!

After arriving in this world, Ming Xiaye had thought she'd make a name for herself. Instead, she discovered that there were far too many powerful things here: strange beings who coexisted with humans, exotic beasts that ruled vast territories, plants that had gained sentience, and even a Netherworld that devoured the living. She was at the very bottom of the food chain.

Fortunately, this world was the setting of a book she'd read. She could still level up by stealing a few of the opportunities from its pages.

But then she discovered that the book had been written in a thoroughly oblique fashion. The male lead was just a tool being used by others, so there was nothing she could learn from him!

Yan Fei, the male lead of the book: If I'd known how bizarre my life would become after meeting Ming Xiaye, I'd have rather stayed an oblivious tool!

After a lot of struggle, Ming Xiaye finally accepted reality. The only way to get ahead in this world was to level up step by step; there was no way to skip ahead. So she had no choice but to cultivate diligently and collect characters, while also watching out for the people she'd contracted turning against her. But after collecting a few, she discovered that her golden finger was a big liar too. The more people she collected, the more her own power was divided. Was she working for her golden finger?

This world was full of traps at every turn, and even her golden finger was scamming her. Ming Xiaye was so furious that she sat on the roof in the middle of the night, drinking herself into a stupor!

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The Great Liang Dynasty was nearing its end. Rebellions raged across the land, the borders were unstable, and enemy nations watched hungrily, waiting to carve up this fertile realm. At that moment, a supermarket suddenly appeared in the middle of Yunzhou City's bustling marketplace, filled with all sorts of things no one had ever seen before.

Wenren Xiao's mission was to give Great Liang a head start and light up its technology tree, selling modern goods to the ancient world. After the technology tree had been upgraded for a while, scenes began to appear in Yunzhou City of bicycles riding alongside fine horses, and cotton-padded coats being worn alongside down jackets. That wasn't all: the cheap everyday goods Wenren Xiao brought from the modern world also swept through this dynasty.

Ordinary people's lives changed overnight. Before, an entire family might own just one set of clothes, and whoever went out wore it. Now everyone had T-shirts, shorts, and secondhand clothes. What, you say showing their arms and legs is indecent? Who cares? When people were poor enough to go around naked, who had time to worry about that?

Glassware that used to cost a fortune now sold for a few coins and was everywhere. Everyone ate from stainless steel bowls. There was nothing you could think of that the shop didn't have, and everything from that magical store came in especially vibrant colors.

Wenren Xiao even brought several modern factories back to life, including match, candle, and flashlight factories. She brought every old-fashioned item that fit the early technology tree to Great Liang.

She even dangled the same carrot in front of every big shot: "Just support my products, and once my shop upgrades, I'll get you some technological weapons. You'll be the future emperor of Great Liang!"

"You know what technological weapons are? No? Come watch this video." After watching it, the big shot was so shocked his jaw dropped!

"Don't doubt it. Sooner or later, these weapons will exist!"

And so the various regimes, like donkeys chasing a carrot on a stick, obediently helped her complete missions and frantically stocked up on all kinds of goods!

On the battlefield, the most popular supplies were spicy strips and instant noodles. Supplies were transported by pedal tricycles, charging soldiers wore helmets, and the general on the city wall held binoculars and a megaphone. The enemy saw all this and thought, We can't fight a war like this. We need to upgrade too.

Gradually, Yunzhou City became a universally recognized neutral zone for all the warlords. No matter what you needed, you came here. Though no one knew why that woman kept making such strange demands: for example, requiring a certain literacy rate in their territory, a certain planting rate for some unfamiliar seeds, or higher skill levels among the artisans.

Much later...

"Why does his territory have something from that video called a railway?" a big shot demanded angrily.

"Oh, that's your own fault. Who told you not to take that mission earlier?"

"You told me to train doctors to cut open people's stomachs! Is that appropriate?"

"Why did nobody else think it was inappropriate? The reward for that mission was a railway. You were the one who turned it down."

"I was being kind! You never said the reward was a railway!!!" The big shot wailed over losing the railway just because he'd been too soft-hearted. He'd wanted one for ages.

"You were holding everyone back! You only failed to advance my medical technology tree because none of you would study!"

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