Chapter 2: If the Host Successfully Completes the Conquest Mission, You Can Return to the Modern World and Claim a Five Million Bonus!
System: [If the host successfully completes the mission and uses Energy Value to exchange for the ability to return to the modern world, then immediately upon your return, this five million bonus will be directly deposited into your bank account in the form of a Compound Lottery win.]
[According to the pace of one year in the Otherworld equaling one day in the modern world, you can totally take the risk—turn a bicycle into a motorcycle. When you return to the modern world, you will be—]
Zhang Susu: [What! How much did you say?]
Upon hearing this, Zhang Susu could hardly believe her ears. After all, she was just an ordinary college student. Even if she graduated and found a stable job earning over ten thousand a month, it would still take a considerable amount of time to save up five million through work.
Now, with the System saying this, she suddenly felt that this Otherworld wasn’t so absurd anymore—it even seemed a bit adorable. It was as if the entire world here was filled with walking stacks of cash, and everywhere she went, she could just pick up money as she pleased.
Could such a good thing really be true? Was she dreaming? Zhang Susu pinched the inside of her thigh hard—ouch, that hurt! It really wasn’t a dream!
She was really about to get five million! She had never even won five hundred from the lottery, and now she might actually earn five million?
Zhang Susu suddenly felt that this must be what people meant by “taking a risk to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle”—a poor girl transforming into a wealthy woman, reaching the pinnacle of life in one fell swoop.
Thinking that Zhang Susu might not have heard clearly, the System had no choice but to repeat: [Five million, Host. It’s five million.]
Upon hearing this, Zhang Susu’s eyes almost turned into two gold coins. She was already growing impatient to complete the Conquest Mission and hurriedly urged:
Zhang Susu: [System, then hurry up and tell me, where is my Target Character? I’ll go conquer him right away! Send me the Target Character’s information immediately! Right now! You can’t delay me from earning money!]
Oh my god, that’s five million!
As Zhang Susu thought this, she began mentally planning how to spend the five million once she returned to the modern world. Should she make a down payment on a small house in her hometown village, renovate it into a homestay or coffee shop, and live a secluded, reclusive life?
Or should she use the money to invest and start some kind of business?
While Zhang Susu was still contemplating how to use the money, the System couldn’t help but remind her: [Host, this mission isn’t that easy to complete. If things go wrong, you could lose your life here, Host.]
Seeing that her mind was filled with who-knows-what, the System worriedly reminded her: [This is a B-grade mission, meaning that among previous Transmigrators who entered this world, there was a 20% probability of dying here. Although System A-San is also matching with this Otherworld for the first time, A-San will do everything possible to help you complete the mission.]
System: [But Host, don’t just focus on the bonus. Every step in the Otherworld must be taken with extreme caution. You only have one life to complete the Conquest Mission, so you must not be careless. Here, you are the Eldest Princess Su Yingxue—a mortal with a physical body. If someone takes your life, even if I, the System, want to help you, it’s not certain that I can save you.]
System: [So, Host, please be cautious, and then even more cautious!]
Upon hearing this, Zhang Susu seemed thoughtful, but after a moment, she smiled radiantly and comforted the System with a laugh.
Zhang Susu: [Hey, System, you said the mortality rate is 20%, so the survival rate should be 80%. I think that’s quite high!]
System: […] Speechless.
Zhang Susu: [Look, an 80% survival rate! I think I’m naturally lucky. Probably heaven sees that though I’m poor, my ambitions are great—”when heaven is about to place a great responsibility on someone”—that’s why it values me so much, letting me defy fate and change destiny, transforming from a pauper to a rich woman!]
System: […]
System A-San really couldn’t take it anymore. He felt that this Host was a bit too eccentric in her thinking and erratic in her actions—her words and deeds seemed rather foolish.
Was the Time-Space Planning Bureau really this casual in selecting people now? System asked himself. After listening to Zhang Susu’s hundred thousand words of nonsense, he finally reached his limit. With a swift move, he cast a skill to seal Zhang Susu’s mouth—the Silencing Spell.
The moment System silenced her, he instantly felt that this Two-Dimensional Space he had conjured became much quieter.
Finally, peace and quiet.
All that remained was the woman before him struggling to use her willpower to break the Silencing Spell, only able to watch her own soul dancing wildly in her mind without being able to utter a single sound.
This System was truly heartless! She hadn’t even finished speaking, and he’d already silenced her!
Zhang Susu, unable to speak, felt utterly miserable.
Fortunately, System soon emitted a beam of white light that touched her head. The light entered her soul’s consciousness, and the basic information of this Otherworld from the Book Transmigration was completely implanted in her mind. This included data on the male lead, second male lead, female lead, and all major NPCs, all packaged together and sent into her awareness.
After Zhang Susu had gone through all the information and System was sure she wouldn’t speak recklessly, he finally lifted the Silencing Spell.
The moment Zhang Susu opened her mouth, she felt so moved she could cry—she could finally speak again!
Zhang Susu: [System, you’re so cruel!]
System: [Host, I just wanted to remind you that your current body has now grown graceful and elegant. Princess Liyue is only two years younger than you, still somewhat immature. The second male lead hasn’t yet passed the Spring Palace Examination to enter officialdom—right now he’s just the legitimate son of a wealthy merchant in the capital.]
[According to the novel’s original plotline, the second male lead will place first in the palace examinations two years from now, becoming Zhuangyuan Lang. After joining the Hanlin Academy, he’ll meet the female lead, Princess Su Liyue Changle, at the Palace Gathering the following year. So during these two years, you need to think about how to show him some kindness and boost his Favorability.]
System: [Because once the second male lead meets the female lead, according to the novel’s setting, he’ll fall for her like a moth to flame—love at first sight. After that, completing your mission will become much more difficult!]
Zhang Susu, upon hearing this: [That makes perfect sense, System! You’re practically my strategist!]
Zhang Susu: [Then we shouldn’t delay! Can you help me figure out how to run into Mo Yunsheng?]
System: [While that’s true, Host, there’s one more thing. Your Original Host has always enjoyed abusing the male lead. As a Hostage Prince from a neighboring kingdom, he’s grown up in the Da Sheng Kingdom’s royal palace with low status and little say.]
[Plus, your years of torment and humiliation have left him psychologically twisted, gloomy, cold-blooded, and ruthless. Ultimately, two years from now when he returns to the Great Qi Royal Palace and seizes power again, five years later when he breaches the gates of Da Sheng Guo Du—that will be your death day. So Host, you need to complete your mission quickly!]
Zhang Susu, upon hearing this, found it very reasonable.
System: [So Host, your time is limited. Make the most of it.]
Zhang Susu: [What if I start now, showering him with care and double the affection—could I possibly use love to reform him?]
System: […] Speechless.