GCCB Chapter 51.1

Warning: Vague mentions of uncomfortable themes, such as “grape without r”.

“My Lady! You’re finally woken up!”

A palace. Ancient clothing. The joyful face of an imperial servant and that sentence randomly thrown in for good measure— this was the standard plot of ten-year-old novels about transmigrating into imperial era drama.

Shu Yu, who had just woken up from a murky haze of darkness, was blindsided by the servant’s tearful sentence, and was still baffled about the situation she found herself in.

She remembered she died. And in such an undignified way, at that. She didn’t leave any touching last words such as “After I die, you have to take care of yourself, forget about me” or something. She just, died.

The taste of death… was actually quite peaceful.

It had hurt, it had been scary, but Fu Wang was in far more pain and more scared than she was then, so when she was nestled in his trembling arms and took her last breath, she only felt great heartache for him.

To sum it up, she had indeed died.

Then, she seemed to have come to life now, or did she transmigrate again? So then, who did she transmigrate into this time? Was she still in the same world as Fu Wang’s?

Just as she moved a bit, Shu Yu felt dizzy. However, this dizziness was nothing to Shu Yu. Not long ago her soul had been consumed by that Soul Devouring Nail thing, the dizziness back then was a hundred times more intense than now.

No wait, shouldn’t her spirit have dissipated like that Grand Elder had said? How could she transmigrate again?

“My Lady, are you alright? Are you still dizzy? This servant will take you to the imperial physician! My Lady you must hold on!” The youthful servant, seeing her master limp on the bed soullessly staring at her bed’s hanging veil, sobbed her heart out as she kneeled beside her bed.

“Be quiet, stop talking.” Shu Yu said hoarsely. It successfully made the imperial servant stop. At the same time, Shu Yu found the original owner’s memories in their brain and really, really wanted to leap up and flip a table. What bullshit was this!

She had, indeed, transmigrated again, and it was also into the same novel she had previously transmigrated into after having complained about it before, but the identity of this body! It simply made her want to die again.

She transmigrated into the plot’s Female Lead, Situ Jingjing.

Right now, Shu Yu really needed to calm down. ¹ 真想静静, want to calm down, want some peace, want some quiet; this is also a play on words with the prior sentence, because 静静 is Jingjing. So it’s “Shu Yu wants some quiet” making a play funny play with “Shu Yu wants Jingjing” using the original FL’s name, Jingjing.

That’s right. From a cannon fodder who was a hundred thousand miles away from the original plot, she became the original Female Lead in one single leap. It was that very same white lotus Female Lead who she used to hate with the passion of unbending iron when she had read the novel back then. She’d rather become the little maid next to her if it meant not transmigrating into the Female Lead and meddling in with the damn plot between her and the Male Lead!

These complicated feelings of dismay and anger served to, for a moment, lighten the grief of having died and leaving Fu Wang by two percent.

She read this novel more than a year ago and had long since forgotten many of its details, she could only remember a general gist of it. But as she compared it with the memories in this body, Shu Yu realized there existed many discrepancies between them and the plot. The biggest change was, this world, it had turned from an ordinary human world into a mystical fantasy world!

Many, many, many years ago — as for how many, it didn’t need any mentions because it was too long ago. Anyways, many years ago, monsters suddenly appeared and raised chaos in the earthly world, and afterwards to fight back against these monsters, supernatural teachings rose amidst the human folk, and more and more people began seeking out cultivation, the celestials, and their Dao… Then, the entire world became a supernatural fantasy.² 世界就玄幻了, the world became supernatural fantasy-esque. It can also be read as the humorous pun, “the world became ridiculous”, in that a perfectly fine world became insane overnight.

Demonic creatures could appear in any corner of human society, there were many that pretended to be humans and mingled with the people. There were also many cultivation sects, with their white-clothed celestials riding their swords and hunting and suppressing monsters everywhere.

Where did that world which was still considered super safe and only consisted of imperial drama and a sadistic, tragic, deep romance of “you chased me and I ran” go? How could things have changed so much? The world setting has collapsed on itself, the author of the original will definitely cry if she learnt about this.

The overall background changed, but the amazing thing was that the Female Lead’s route didn’t change at all.

The Female Lead Situ Jingjing’s country, Wuyue, was a small nation in the continent. The Female Lead was the beloved princess of this nation; innocent, kind, gentle and beautiful, the poster girl of a white lotus in the heavenly mountains.

Then when Situ Jingjing was eighteen and it was time for her to consider romance³ It means that the plot starts when she’s 18, because the original Author can only write characters age 18 beyond with a setting like hers. So it’s more along the lines of “she’s 18, so the plot started because if the author made her female lead any younger, the author would’ve gotten her novel banned.”, the nation of Wuyue was destroyed by a neighboring powerful nation, which was the Tianyun Kingdom governed by the overbearing Male Lead, Long Xuan. The overbearing Emperor Male Lead’s favorite thing was the expansion of his country’s map, after all!

Anyway, in short, the Female Lead’s parents were lynched alongside their nation, countless citizens and subjects died, and in the end Wuyue Kingdom was swallowed by Tianyun Kingdom.

As for the Female Lead, before her parents died, they ordered their most loyal death servant⁴ 死士, Death guard, death servant, sacrificial pawn or servant; an individual who’s trained to kill and die on orders of XXX and be unconditionally loyal assassins or warriors. to send her away. Thus the Female Lead’s family and kingdom perished, and she started a life of wandering. Then she swore to take revenge and kill the emperor who decimated her kingdom. Immediately following this, the Emperor Male Lead who destroyed the Female Lead’s kingdom felt bored, so he disguised himself and went to mingle amidst the common folk, and that’s when he met the Female Lead.

The two eloped; he was an interested man, and she was an enamored woman. The Female Lead, whose parents were dead for a scant few days, was hurled into the burning furnace of romance. But fortunately, she quickly came to her senses, how could she fall in love with her vengeance still unfulfilled! So, she tearfully left without saying farewell, found an identity with which to enter the imperial palace of Tianyun and planned to assassinate the Emperor on her lonesome.

Indeed, the Female Lead declared she would fulfill her vengeance by herself, and determinedly refused the aid of her loyal guard dog and duped him outside the imperial palace. Then, this delicate little white flower ventured into Tianyun’s imperial palace with a heart of blazing fire, and a small dagger.

How did she manage to easily sneak in a small dagger into the palace, you ask? Of course, it was because the domineering Male Lead, Emperor Long Xuan, had long since known of her identity.

In the beginning he was only playing with her, but gradually he grew feelings for her. However, the overbearing Male Lead would only admit he wanted to play around with the Female Lead, thus, he lit the green light to her path of “vengeance”, allowing the Female Lead to enter the palace with the fake identity of a low court member’s daughter and even giving her the position of one of the twelve imperial consorts, just waiting the opportunity to make her suffer.

In the present time, Shu Yu had just transmigrated, and the plot had progressed to the Female Lead meeting Emperor Long Xuan and learning the man she fell in love with was her nemesis, so she fell sick from the agony of that truth.

What will follow within the original plot, was the Male Lead capturing assassins sent to kill him, whom were of the Wuyue Kingdom, and then using these assassins as hostages against the Female Lead so she would voluntarily serve him. So, the Female Lead could only cry and proceed to pah pah pah with the Male Lead, and then continue the non-stop pah pah pah because her weakness was being held against her. Then she was also hurled amidst the jealousy and vinegar of the imperial concubines and continuously framed. She spent her waking days hating the Male Lead and being ostracized by the Male Lead’s harem, and spent her nights crying as she and the Male Lead continued pah’ing.⁵ Translator: At this point, I started to realize the author of the original novel was probably writing a hentai or smut…

Then the two would fall in love but never come clean about it, hating and loathing each other in equal amounts, and then the Female Lead became pregnant, and still didn’t find the opportunity to assassinate the Male Lead yet. Ah well, she said it was because she hadn’t found any chance to do so. Anyways, the pregnant Female Lead was schemed against and was forced into an abortion, so, consumed in despair and pain she left the Male Lead and escaped the imperial palace. Afterwards, she met the original plot’s boss Fu Wang, the Divine Doctor of the Orchid Valley.

Of course, Shu Yu didn’t care about doing anything with the original plot. She wasn’t interested in the feuds and grudges between the Female Lead and the Male Lead either. Right now, she only wanted to leave the imperial palace and go to the Orchid Valley to find Fu Wang.

However… This world had changed so much, would Fu Wang still be there?

Shu Yu still hadn’t realized the connection between Mengze and the changes that occurred in the world years ago. It was because the original plot didn’t write about any relationship between Mengze and the human realm at all, it only mentioned how the boss came to the human realm from Mengze. Regarding the time difference between the boss living Mengze and leaving for the human realm or the start of the Female and Male Lead’s story, the original plot didn’t mention any of it. Thus, Shu Yu sincerely assumed that most likely not much time had passed.

As for why the world had changed, right now her whole heart was bent on going to the place where the original boss first appeared to find her boss, why should she spare the energy to find out why the world had changed so tremendously? It’s something that happened so long no one knew the exact time it started anyways. Since the Female Lead was a mortal, those were things she listened to and treated as mere legends, so Shu Yu naturally didn’t care much either.

Alright, there were currently two problems in front of her.

One, how to leave the imperial palace? She wasn’t the powerful and physically tanky Tianfeng Jinyu anymore. When she thought of this, her heart felt like dripping blood. She worked so hard for an entire year and now, all her efforts were hurled back to the pre-liberation period⁶回到解放前 hurled to a pre-liberation era. Slang for something like efforts, work progress, training etc. going down the drain and having to start all over again., oh the heartache!

How can this Female Lead’s delicate body run away; she can’t even beat up one man!

Secondly, the boss here, was he the same Fu Wang who had fallen in love with her? That’s something she’d find out when she found him, so more importantly, where was the Orchid Valley? Where should she look for it? The novel didn’t make it clear at all. No one knew the location of the Valley Orchid where the Divine Doctor resided, the Female Lead at that time just casually wandered around and passed away next to a lake, just in time for the boss to drift by the lake on his raft. She was not going to follow the plot, so how could she know where to find him? She couldn’t possibly leave the palace and visit each lake, right?

Shu Yu wearily laid on her bed. She didn’t want to get up. The first time she transmigrated, it didn’t take long for Fu Wang to be by her side, and he soon began guiding her and accompanying her, so right now, Shu Yu felt very discomforted because Fu Wang wasn’t by her side, and she still had no idea about Fu Wang’s state. She was tormented by her worries, but her current situation was difficult as hell.

Although the Female Lead didn’t enter the furnace with the Male Lead yet, it still would happen soon. Shu Yu had no interest in being slept with. If she still had her past martial strength, she would simply straight out give that domineering emperor a taste of the fruits of her one year of training and “Chicken Killing Frenzy”. Only *BEEP* would be left of his *BEEP*. Wait, not even *BEEP* would be left, only an empty expanse.

But she wasn’t capable of it anymore, it was just, frustrating.⁷ These parts are actually censored, not me adding the beep just because lmao.

Fu Wang, Fu Wang, where are you? Are you okay?

Remembering the painful expression of Fu Wang before she died, Shu Yu felt her heart clenching painfully.

Translator: It was getting a bit long, so I decided to chop this up into two parts like chapter 50.

• 1
  真想静静, want to calm down, want some peace, want some quiet; this is also a play on words with the prior sentence, because 静静 is Jingjing. So it’s “Shu Yu wants some quiet” making a play funny play with “Shu Yu wants Jingjing” using the original FL’s name, Jingjing.
• 2
  世界就玄幻了, the world became supernatural fantasy-esque. It can also be read as the humorous pun, “the world became ridiculous”, in that a perfectly fine world became insane overnight.
• 3
  It means that the plot starts when she’s 18, because the original Author can only write characters age 18 beyond with a setting like hers. So it’s more along the lines of “she’s 18, so the plot started because if the author made her female lead any younger, the author would’ve gotten her novel banned.”
• 4
  死士, Death guard, death servant, sacrificial pawn or servant; an individual who’s trained to kill and die on orders of XXX and be unconditionally loyal assassins or warriors.
• 5
  Translator: At this point, I started to realize the author of the original novel was probably writing a hentai or smut…
• 6
  回到解放前 hurled to a pre-liberation era. Slang for something like efforts, work progress, training etc. going down the drain and having to start all over again.
• 7
  These parts are actually censored, not me adding the beep just because lmao.