Emily opened her eyes and let out a sharp breath she had just regained the memories of her past life and in her subconscious a book lit up showing her role as an antagonist in an apocalypse novel.
Emily was an a thief in her past life and was caught stealing the prince's heart jade said to contain a formation to 'duplicate' dead objects.
When the imperial guards surrounded her, she swallowed it and ended up choking to death. A thief never let her target fall into others hands.
In this new life, her sister is reborn from a life where the original owner killed her during the apocalypse then poisoned her half brother and mutilating her step mother.
The two will never mend fances even if Emily tries. A call came through. The name is affectionately saved as 'brother Jun' who is her sister's fiancé.
"Hello, she sounded hoarse as her voice is raw and dry."
"Didn't you say you wanted a birthday gift? Why are you not here after making Ah Mei organized it for you?" As soon as the call connected the man started berating her with a stern scolding.
"Brother in law? Are you angry for my sister? What a good husband you are!" Hehe.. this brother is funny. He is just brushing up his presence knowing full well that Lin Yu is in love with him, he still calls her and scold her when she does wrong. How interesting.
"Don't talk so much. Come to the birth day you asked for." He demanded.
"Let's just change the banner to 'Happy engagement' between you two love birds. I am busy enjoying my birthday with someone who loves me." She hang up.
Unlike others, this man has always been faithful to her sister and only regard the original owner as a younger sister. But Lin Yu coveted him as a lover. In the last life, he firmly refused to betray Lin Mei even in death. Truly a true love.
Not long after, her father called her but she didn't answer. What a joke! The novel says she will be abused by a group of men and her body thrown into the science lab to pay for the past life's deed of selling the half brother.
There is only a week before the apocalypse. The female lead has been reborn for a month already. She has a space jade with spring water and a legacy from a sect.
This female protagonist will become a sec master in the last days and her entire group of admires and followers will all be powerhouses in the last days.
There is a place where she can also receive a jade. In the novel, it landed in Lin Miyue her half brother but in this life, Emily will claim it.
Curling her lips in annoyance. He still gets a space jade and his sister has the nerve to call it his payment from suffering too much in the last life. What? The powerful lightning body technique is not enough of a compensation?
"What a total poser." Emily said distainfuly as her phone rang.
"Where are you?!" Her father shouted on the phone. This daughter had made a fuss and demanded a big party only to leave them with a room full of guests and an extremely angry wife.
"Eh? Why are you so angry?" She asked curious.
"Did you forget? You made your sister throw you a party and anow you are late?" Indeed, Lin Yu had asked her step sister to throw a lavish party for her 17th birthday just to disgust her.
"Dad, I have a running stomach I can barely move so I will be staying at the hospital hoping they put a drip on me since food is out of option. Ow wait, the ambulance is here." She dropped the call and dressed completely different from her usual style even wearing a baseball hat to cover herself up.
She didn't drive. Her car has been bugged by that step sister of hers. Seeing her phone ring again, she turned it off and put it in her bag. The birthday celebration that day had turned her into a big joke in the noble people's cicle.
Originally she was going to plan drugging her sister fiancé to end up in bed with him and force a marriage but she will end up with a waiter in the party.
Her half sister had even wanted her to have actual sex in the room disgracing her completely. How can Emily dare to attend a party organized by a cultivator? One who has a unique talent for talisman and spiritual sense? Emily has no wish to die.
Alos, having this party will hurt the lady of the house's feelings. She had always tried to treat Lin Yu well even though her existence represented her husband's betrayal.
The thing about Mrs Lin is that she is a complete fool for love. She is still as infatuated with her scumbag of a father even after all this time.
The only reason he didn't get a divorce has always been her half brother who made him sign that he will leave with what he came into this marriage with if he ever want to leave.
Sigh... The son knows Lin Yu's presence makes Mrs Lin heart broken and let her stay outside and occasionally allows her allowance but he is always clear who she is and makes sure she doesn't forget it. This is why his death was the most miserable of them all.
In the mall, Emily went straight to the jade store and bought a set. There won't be an incident like her losing the space jade to someone else.
In the novel Lin Miyue shared his space with his mother after giving her the hair pin just do she is happy about something after Lin Mei showed her the scumbags true colors. Emily has no such plans.
"This set is 3 million in total." The clerk looked at her with a 'are you sure' question on her face. Instead of being offended, Emily who has always been an orphan took out a black card and swiped it casually.
"Big sis, here is a tip for your kindness. Go and buy some supplies I heard it's the apocalypse on Sunday." The clerk laughed.
"Are you kidding?" She felt extremely amused. Seeing there's only two of them in the store, Emily leaned over.
"Sister, I am reborn. This piece has space inside." She laughed when the clerk looked shocked.
"Hahahaha.... You should see your face." Taking away her things she went out still laughing.
The clerk looked at the slender back walking away and pulled out her phone to advise her brother. No matter what, this little girl is a bit uncouth in the head. People like that usually speak truths.
Emily's eyes rolled up as she went to the mall rest room and bled on the three jade pieces with a dragon imprint. They were made for men and that is why Lin Mei gave it to her brother when they came to collect jade in the novel.
Just as in the novel, as soon as her blood met the pieces together, they trembled and disappeared into the space between her eyebrows.
In her last life, Emily had a sister like the perfect Lin Mei. Although not reborn, she was still a demon who made her turn into the life of a thief after she was framed and kicked out of the general's residence.
Emily flashed into the space. The place is very fantasy like, emitting thick spiritual air making her sigh every time her body purr in delight. Looking around, she found the spring water and laughed.
In the novel, this water made the cultivation of the Lin family progress endlessly. Of course as the illegitimate nuisance she is not included in this blessing. Even her father although tolerated is not in the know of the family's big secret.
There's something that was not in the original novel. A stone pillar with the appearance of the same jade she had choked on. Just looking at it her lungs felt like they are burning with lack of oxygen.
"So, we meet again?" She touched the stone pillar circling around it. "Can you dublicate dead things?" She asked the stone pillar. It trembled but didn't respond. She opened her bag and took out a bank card.
"Can you dublicate the money in this card?" The stone pillar dublicated the card. Seeing the two cards, her expression changed.
"What?! It the same card the money is only in one account." She rolled her eyes.
"At least you are not too useless." Emily walked around the space and found the small courtyard that was in the hair pin given to her step mother in the novel.
It is supposed to have a bed, bed covers, wardrobe with hanfu, qipau and embroidered ancient clothes for females. The space outside is not as small as the outside appearance of the courtyard.
There is a bedroom, a room with some pills, weapons, and armor but all for a female warrior.
There is a washroom. The bathtub is wooden as soon as she touched it, warm water filled up the tub. "How forward! I will have you know that I have taken a shower recently." The water in the tub seem to be draining away at her words.
"That's right! This is a house with a personality. In the novel, it allowed the love sick Lin Moxue to slowly discover her hidden fairy personality. Wasn't your master an alchemist? Are you going to show me the recipes book shelves?" No response.
Fine. I'll just use up her pills in the warehouse. I only need to eat the bone marrow, muscles and skin forging and lastly blood purifying pills which turned the gentle Mrs Lin into a formidable warrior capable of slaughtering mutated organisms.
Taking the small collection of weapons in the corner of the warehous, she duplicated them successfuly except for the runes on the blades didn't get dublicated.
"I guess I know what 'dead things' mean. No magic or spirit items."
Just to be sure, she took a magic female armor still from the wardrobe and tried copying it. It is successfully copied but the copies lost the 'magic' part of the magic armor. After experimenting to her heart's content, put everything in the warehouse, the rest of experiments will be done home.
"Are you kidding me?!" A shout sounded as soon as she came out of the mall bathroom.
"Daddy..." Emily wearing Lin Yu's face gave a wary smile. What's the gigolo going to say?
The original body was really spoiled and her father didn't teach her better only knowing to indulge her endlessly. Look now, we are both going to be killed off by the protagonist and her sec desciples.
"You said you were have stomach issues and went to the hospital. What are you doing buying three million worth of jewelry?" He glared at her.
"I...got lost?" She blinked. Her father felt his chest pain flare as blood seep out of his lips.
"Hey old man, don't die! Someone please help! Saving a life is better that buil..." She is hoping to let him forget about her lying to him.
"Shut up! I am not dying. Come with me to apologize to your sister!" Mr Lin pulled her towards a restaurant.
His livelihood depends on the grace of his two children which is why he flatters them more than the wife he married. As a married in son in law, he has no dignity in the house at all. A little club spending and he is called in his son's study.
In his heart there us also some resentment for the wife which is why even knowing she loves him still, he ignores her. Emily thinks this man is crazy.
If she loves you and you make her happy, the siblings will give you money and your daughter will get more money. A gigolo with ho sense of money at all. You want to sell your beauty or be a proud hardworking man? Choose one! You can't be both!
Emily beraded him in her heart as he dragged her to 'curry favor' with his other daughter. So spineless. At the very least you should treat her as your daughter as well and not like your sponsor tou should please. Bah! So thoughtless.
This is why the female lead will make her mother a strong woman to leave you! I want money to stock up and you want me to waste my time here. Hurry up and suck up to your wife! The wealthy heiress.
In the restaurant, Emily found the family eating and chatting merely. As soon as she showed up, Lin Miyue and Lin Mei's faces fell. They both looked at their mother with concern.
"Yuyu, how come you are here? Didn't you have a running stomach?" Mrs Lin asked with a sarcastic smile. She is not completely brainless as the siblings think.
She is just glad this family shame didn't come to the lavishly thrown party to rub her presence in front of the other high society wives.
"Mom, what are you saying in a dinner table?" Lin Yu looked at the refined woman with shock.
[Heh! Disgust you to death!] The lady kept silent. It is indeed indecent for her to speak of such things.
"Where is my birthday present?" Lin Yu blinked. The people in the table held their chopsticks with force.
"What gift? Didn't you just bought yourself a gift?" Mrs Lin frowned. What does this mistresses child mean to do?
"It's my birthday. I know that it may be a sad day for you but I wish for mom to swallow her grievance and rise above it all like a proud lady of the house." Hearing these shameless words, even her father wanted to slap her.
"What nonsense are you saying?!" Her father whisper yelled. Lin Yu whispered back.
"Ten months before my birthday, you cheated on your lawfully wedded wife with a waitress and got her pregnant." She may have whispered but her words fell on the people in the private room.
'Clank' The chopsticks in the siblings hands fell one after another. Does this girl want to be beaten?
[In my last life, father indeed brought her mistress in the rented house inside the base under the guise of her being Lin Yu's mother. But those two scumbags collided and sent my brother to the base lab for supplies driving my mother to go mad.] The protagonist though with deep seethe hatred.
Mrs Lin looked at the seriously whispering Lin Yu and suddenly found her cute. Not only did she complement her but she also reminded her father of his wrong doings.
"What birthday gift do you want from this proud lady of the house?" An imperceptible smile danced at the corners of Mrs Lin's lips.
"Money." Lin Yu smiled brightly. Sliding a recently emptied card on the table. "If you may please put it all into this card. My other one has an overdraft."
"What?!" Her father felt like this child will be the death of him. However, this treatment shows that her father has feelings for her, a father is angered when his daughter has bad habits like drowning herself in debts while he has no such thoughts for his legitimate children.
The siblings seem to be getting angrier and angrier at the girls presence. But Lin Yu is determined to show them she is not as refined, desciplened and educated like they are. Maybe they will find it beneath them to kill her in the future.
This plan is good. Also, suck up to the main wife while she can. According to her knowledge, the female lead has not told her mother the truth of her rebirth fearing she will die from heartach.
They want to show their mother their fathers colors slowly so she is cleanly discentetized.
"What did you expect? I attend a fancy school where I am compelled to buy others affection since I can never match their noble status so they look down on me. If I don't take them out to expensive restaurants they might forget I have a rich parent and start bullying me again." Lin Yu spoke truthfully. This is indeed the reason she is broke.
"That's not the real reason you are broke." Lin Miyue said through gritted teeth.
"Of course not. If I don't buy luxury good and skin care products how can I hide my lowly genes?" Lin Yu rolled her eyes exasperated.
The constant truths from her mouth made them at a loss. In truth, Lin Yu's mother was a top class beauty. Her face and body is inherited from her mother. There is no lowly genes since her father is also a pretty body who secured marriage with a rich heiress in his youth.
"What are you trying to achieve with this farce?" Her half brother, who hated it when she called him brother, asked her in this moment.
He felt this person is trying to anger everyone since she is a real beauty so there is no need to call her parents genes 'lowly' unless she is getting back at him for always calling her that.
"Was I not clear? I just want money." She looked at everyone on the table and grinned. "Sister, brother, it is rare that a person turns 17 please give a million each." She smiled when their expressions turned ugly.
Her father is so angry he wants to kill her. "Stop this right now!"
"What lesson is that? Didn't you marry a noble lady by taking care of yourself? Don't you want your daughter to mix with powerful people? Look at sister, she snagged a high class fiancé by virtue of her birth and kept him by her excellent disposition. I want one too. But if I am poor, I'll attract poor people." She said to her father whose face turned ashin with anger.
'Sorry old man. This is for our future comfort. You legitimate daughter will poison you so you don't awaken.'
"Then you should have studied." Xu Jun said coolly as he entered the room. With his eyes on Lin Yu, he bent down and gave her a loving kiss on her soft cheek. That look it's as if he wants to see reaction feom Lin Yu.
"This gentleman. It's enough for you to sit there and give me cold glances, there's no need to speak." Lin Yu said in an extremely displeased tone.
"Pfft." Mrs Lin laughed at her son in law. She always thought he was unnecessarily harsh on this mistresses child who had no brains and always try to embarrass her half sister.
"Mom!" Lin Mei glared at Lin Yu but he kept silent.
"What do you want to buy so much?" Her father became curious how she plans on snatching a rich young master.
"Girls things you wouldn't understand." She twitched her lower lip. Mrs Lin seeing her husband angered by this girl became very happy. [Do you see the example you set for your daughter?]
She took her phone and transferred 5 million. "God of wealth!" She wanted to kowtow but her father kicked her from the back.
"What are you doing?" Her father felt like he has lost all face because of this daughter.
"Choosing religion. Shouldn't you be happy your daughter has her priorities straight?" She wanted to roll her eyes. These words. Does it mean she wants to warship money?
"You have never even washed my feet. I have your blood." Her father complained but there is doting in his eyes. This daughter is not like his other children who acts like he is not necessary at all.
"Please, father you should know I hold you dearest in my heart. You gave me dimples. " She said honestly making Mrs Lin almost choke on her drink.
Her father's smile stiffened on his face. "Get out!"
"Sister and brother haven't sent me a gift yet." She turned and prepared to flatter them (or disgust) them until they give in but they each gave 500 thousand making her kiss her father cheek and laugh happily.
"Family must eat together, I won't bother you folks." She bounced up and down leaving the restaurant in light steps.
The Lin family has a complex inner world. The siblings have never loved this half sister, their mother was prepared to set aside her grievance of being cheated on, but Lin Yu found fault with her everyday.
The Lin family is an influential family with tens of billions in assets. When Lin Moxue fell in love with a poor art student that year, her father wanted to disown his only daughter so he made sure he will never have his hands on the Lin assets.
His exact words were "An artist must have a belly full of inspiration. Not my Lin family's wealth." Hehe.. good one.
It turned out the father's gut was right, because her husband cheated with a pretty waitress in three years of marriage. The love sick Mrs Lin forgave him and sent the woman away bringing his daughter to be raised in this home.
Mr Lin was originally Du but had married into the Lin family because of his good looks and charm. Years later the illegitimate daughter has grown up always feeling like everyone looks at her like a stain in the family.
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