Chapter 1: Refusing the Marriage Alliance

Miss, get up! Today is the once-every-three-years tournament between the great clans!

Lin Yaoyao forced her eyes open. It was her third year since transmigrating.

In her previous life, Lin Yaoyao had been a gifted girl who pushed herself all the way to the top of her industry. Exhausted in both body and mind, she dropped dead. When she opened her eyes again, she was the Fifth Miss of the ancient divine clan, the Lin family.

She had no talent, no spiritual root, and a reputation in tatters: a love-struck airhead.

Lin Yaoyao loved this character setup!

This life, she had only one goal: eat, drink, and have fun. Lie flat and coast.

She spent her days in pleasure houses listening to music, watching cockfights, and walking dogs. Why would a decent modern youth practice cultivation?

The Lin family was one of the four great clans of the divine race. For millions of years, cultivation geniuses had emerged without end. Those prodigies trained hard and shone on the stage. Lin Yaoyao leisurely cracked melon seeds in the audience and led the applause.

“Well fought!”

So satisfying!

Lying flat, retiring early, financial freedom: this life was way too good.

With looks, power, and influence, this was a proper wish-fulfillment novel life!

The person on the stage spat blood and collapsed. His opponent still refused to let up and delivered a fatal blow.

Lin Yaoyao broke out in goosebumps. It was just a tournament, yet they fought like mortal enemies. The referee didn’t even stop it. Modern civilization was much better.

If this continued, someone would die.

“The Lin family is really a bunch of trash.”

The burly man spat right in the fallen man’s face.

No manners. Absolutely no manners. Lin Yaoyao’s face twisted in disgust, and she shook her head.

Lin family? Trash?

Lin Yaoyao got a clear look. The person who had fallen on the stage was her eldest brother, the Lin family’s first son, Lin Qingshan.

This scene felt familiar. Last night, Lin Yaoyao had had a nightmare. In the dream, after her eldest brother Lin Qingshan was badly injured, his legs were crippled and his cultivation ruined. A generation’s prodigy fell from grace. Her second brother, Lin Changzhou, who was already simple-minded, starved to death. Her third brother, Lin Feiyuan, became obsessed with gambling on rough stones, lost the family fortune, and had his hands and feet cut off before begging for a living. Her fourth brother, Lin Xiaotian, had been frail since childhood and would die of illness soon.

Lin Yaoyao married Bai Jingming, the young master of the Bai family. On their wedding night, he used evil arts to drain her blood essence, and not even her bones remained.

Her father, Lin Xuanzhong, had his cultivation crippled and his position as clan head taken by her second uncle. Lin Yaoyao’s whole family was cast out of the Tiandu Kingdom.

Tragic!

Too tragic!

The whole family was a collection of the old, weak, sick, and disabled, a typical example of a miserable life.

Lin Yaoyao’s satisfying novel life had turned into the heroine of a tragic story.

“Stop! We concede this round!”

Lin Xuanzhong conceded on behalf of the Lin family. If the fight continued, his eldest son Lin Qingshan’s life would be lost.

“Miss, the eldest young master’s life is saved, but… his legs are crippled!”

Cold sweat broke out on Lin Yaoyao. Her eldest brother’s ending really was exactly the same as in the dream.

If everything in the dream was real, then within a year, Lin Yaoyao would face the ruin of her family.

No! She had to change everything in the dream.

In this world where the strong are respected, the tears of the weak only become the laughingstock of others.

If Lin Yaoyao wanted to change the ending in her dream, she had to start by rejecting the marriage to the Bai family.

Among the four great clans, the Bai family ranked second in overall strength. Bai Jingming, the second young master of the Bai family, was as gentle as jade. Young as he was, he had already reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, a rare genius in the Tiandu Kingdom. His talents were outstanding, and his conduct was praised by everyone as a proper gentleman.

To consolidate their power, the four great clans had always intermarried.

The marriage alliance between the Lin and Bai families should have been concluded in her father’s generation. It had been delayed until Lin Yaoyao’s generation, and now the union was inevitable.

Inside her boudoir, Lin Yaoyao was calculating who among the Lin and Bai families were currently of marriageable age.

“Miss, what are you drawing?”

Chunyu looked at the tree diagram Lin Yaoyao had drawn on the paper and found it very novel.

Her father, Lin Xuanzhong, had four sons and one daughter. Her second uncle had two sons and one daughter. The Bai family head had three sons and one daughter. The Bai family’s eldest miss, Bai Fangfei, had already married into the Gu family of Changsheng. Naturally, it was one of the Bai sons who would marry into the Lin family.

Among the Lin family daughters, there were only Lin Yaoyao and her cousin Lin Ruyan. Cousin Lin Ruyan had long been betrothed to the eldest young master of the Lu family.

So the marriage alliance between the Lin and Bai families could only fall on Lin Yaoyao.

Lin Yaoyao was definitely a marriage tool, and in the end she would die miserably on her wedding night.

Thinking of that dream, Lin Yaoyao decided to take the initiative and make her stance clear to her father early: she would absolutely not marry into the Bai family.

“Clan head, now that Qingshan’s legs are crippled, we need to select a new heir for the Lin family.”

The moment Lin Yaoyao entered the front hall, she heard her father and the clan elders discussing matters. They were taking advantage of her eldest brother’s injury to kick him while he was down and strip him of his position as heir.

A bunch of old bastards, a pack of sycophants.

Eldest brother Lin Qingshan had been exceptionally gifted since childhood. He had represented the family in many competitions and earned many merits. Now he was still lying in bed, his injuries unhealed, and people were already scheming to take what was his.

“Lin Xuanzhong, as clan head, you can’t only think about your own son. You must think about the entire clan.”

“Now your eldest is crippled, your second is born an idiot, your third doesn’t do anything serious, and your fourth is a sickly weakling.”

“Your sons are all good-for-nothing. Who can you blame?”

“Blame yourself for insisting on marrying an orphan of unknown origin and defiling the Lin family bloodline.”

Bang!

The elders’ accusations stopped short at the anger Lin Xuanzhong could no longer suppress.

In the face of absolute strength, playing the seniority card didn’t work. Anyone who dared to slander his mother had touched Lin Xuanzhong’s sorest spot.

Lin Yaoyao had been eavesdropping outside the door for a while. Being clan head really wasn’t easy.

After everyone left, Lin Xuanzhong collapsed into his chair. His most promising successor, eldest son Lin Qingshan, was crippled. It was a heavy blow to him.

“Father!”

Lin Yaoyao brazenly walked in. She knew her father had just weathered a string of attacks from the elders and was exhausted in body and mind.

But this concerned her own life, so she had to bother her father.

In three days, the Lin estate would hold the five-yearly treasure appraisal conference. All the major cultivation families would attend. Lin Yaoyao guessed that the engagement between the Lin and Bai families would be announced publicly then.

“Little Five, you’re here.”

Lin Xuanzhong gathered his spirits. Since his daughter fell into the cold pool three years ago, she had been much better behaved than before. Apart from not cultivating, she hadn’t caused any trouble.

“Father, I need to talk to you about something.”

Lin Xuanzhong smiled and told her that if she wanted gold, jewelry, magical tools, or spirit stones, she could go straight to the treasurer’s office and take them, no need to consult him.

This dad she’d gotten for free was pretty generous!

In the three years since she came to this world, Lin Xuanzhong had always doted on her and cared for her meticulously.

In her previous life, her parents had treated Lin Yaoyao as a money tree. She never expected that after transmigrating, her father Lin Xuanzhong would become her money tree.

“Father, is our Lin family going to form a marriage alliance with the Bai family?”

Lin Yaoyao first probed Lin Xuanzhong’s intentions. When she entered, she noticed that Lin Xuanzhong’s temples had grown much whiter.

The little old man had a hard time. His sons were idiots, sick, or crippled. The only physically healthy one, the third, was good-for-nothing.

If the daughter who could contribute to the family flat-out refused the marriage alliance, Lin Xuanzhong’s position as clan head might not be secure anymore.

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