Shattered Scales

[Coming soon: Transmigrating to the Dragon-Proud World with a Tycoon System; The Villain Is Forced to Bind Himself to a Conquest System. Please add them to your collection~]

Three years ago, Changsun Xianpei was sent to the distant borderlands of Wuzhou after suffering an undeserved calamity because of Xue Yanting. Three years later, the first thing Changsun Xianpei did upon returning to the capital was shoot an arrow at Xue Yanting from the Viewing Platform.

From then on, the two were at odds, fighting whenever they met and refusing to yield to each other.

At first, Xue Yanting thought this person had only managed to get an official position at court thanks to the protection of her elders. Changsun Xianpei also thought Xue Yanting was an arrogant, lawless troublemaker.

But later, it seemed that was not quite the case...

The gourd vines that once covered the gourd-shaped rocks east of the city had long since withered. As Xue Yanting watched the flames crackle and blaze before her, she said only, "The affairs of this world are like falling snow."

And when the strings snapped and the jade pendant shattered, she said, "Without understanding fate, one cannot be a gentleman."

One day, a great army laid siege; another day, old friends gradually drifted away.

The secrets of heaven have their appointed time. At last, even the ordinary people adrift on the vast sea could glimpse a corner of the truth.

*Happy ending, one-on-one romance

(Many chapters have been revised, so there are many differences from pirated copies.)

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Coming soon: Transmigrating to the Dragon-Proud World with a Tycoon System

On the first day Lin Zhaoyuan transmigrated into a book, she discovered she had a tycoon System.

The System paid for everything she bought, and completing spending missions earned her double the money back.

So while everyone else was fighting tooth and nail over divine artifacts and spirit medicines, panting as they scrambled for opportunities in secret realms, and brawling over spirit medicines and divine artifacts, Lin Zhaoyuan simply bought herself a mountain of heavenly treasures.

She tossed the spirit medicines everyone else would pay a fortune for around like candy; she used the Three Gods Whip, which others schemed desperately to acquire, to drive her carriage; and she used Qilin blood and phoenix bones as decorations.

Onlookers: … Is this right?

A rogue cultivator: Boss, do you need an attendant?

A certain sect: Would you care to be our sect leader for fun?

Lin Zhaoyuan looked at the Dragon-Proud male lead, who was still in his "childhood stage," and sighed with the air of an otherworldly sage.

In the original story, the Dragon-Proud protagonist was still relying on cheat abilities to stage a comeback, act cool, and slap faces, leveling up and fighting monsters through countless trials.

But she already stood at the top of the pyramid, lonely as snow.

Lin Zhaoyuan: Easy money, all I have to do is open my eyes and spend. There is no way to spend it all. I can never spend it all.

What a headache. How should I spend today's spirit stones?

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Ling Jiuxiao coolly wiped the blood from his sword, sprinkled Bone-Eroding Water over the corpse on the ground, concealed his tracks, and made sure everything was in order before heading down the mountain.

But he had barely gone a few steps when he stopped.

A person... a person, a person, a person?? Where did this person come from??!

The person was unconscious on the ground and in critical condition. After some hesitation, Ling Jiuxiao took her home, bandaged her wounds, wiped the dirt from her face with a handkerchief, and tended to her carefully.

When she woke up, she had lost her memory and said only that her name was Lin Zhaoyuan.

She also kept tossing money around at every turn.

Ling Jiuxiao looked at the growing pile of heavenly treasures, divine artifacts, and spirit jade in his wooden house. "...Miss, you don't need to do this."

Lin Zhaoyuan ignored him. "I'm borrowing your house to store this stuff. Use whatever you need, and throw out anything you don't like."

Ling Jiuxiao: "..."

Until one day Lin Zhaoyuan's eyes glittered as she looked him up and down. He felt uneasy under her gaze.

Lin Zhaoyuan nodded. "Excellent. The Dragon-Proud male lead, the most valuable thing in this world."

Then she coldly dumped a pile of spirit stones on the ground. "You. I'm buying you."

Ling Jiuxiao: ?

She likes me.

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A somewhat chuunibyou heroine with a cold expression, and a Dragon-Proud male lead who is a self-conquest type, cool in public and a devoted husband at home.

Theme: Heaven moves with vigor; a gentleman should strive constantly to improve himself