In another part of the city, where only the wealthy resided, a luxurious living quarter held a scene of frustration. A girl directed her anger towards a chubby baby boy dressed in a traditional Chinese red costume.

{"Dumb system! Is this how you fulfill my wish?! By putting me into the body of another cannon fodder?! Why did my soulmate have a fricking girlfriend?!"}

{Wuwu....You can only blame yourself. It's not my fault that you couldn't seduce your own soulmate.}

The girl wore a light purple ancient dress. As beautiful and dangerous as a shower of broken glass, silky long black hair cascaded down her pale and soft skin, alas snow.

Blessed with rosy cheeks and cherry lips, her eyelashes fluttered like great fangs upon her purple irises. Having facial expressions under perfect control, her inner turmoils didn't show up on her flawless face.

{"Scram! It's because her heroine halo was too great! If I dared to come between them, he'd set me on fire! Bing Shi is like the step-sister from my previous life before I got transmigrated. The sweet, elegant white lotus who orchestrated my demise, snatched my fiancé, my family, my acting career... everything."}

The little boy bit his fingernails while looking at his host.

{ Are you saying that if you were first, you could accomplish the same thing as Bing Shi?}

The girl smirked, {"Is that a challenge? You just watch."}

As she absorbed the world's story, she couldn't help but sneer at the ridiculousness of this realm, {"Such a temptress, spreading her legs to all those powerful men. So who am I? Cheng Young's fiance? Zhao Rong's female shadow guard or Wang Guo's concubine?"}

{No. This time, you're just a mob character. A merchant's daughter, Fei Lan.}

While sending memories of the body's owner to the girl, the chubby boy gave her the world mission.

{Main mission: Gain Rayan Wu's love.}

{Side mission: Don't make Cheng Young fall for you. +2000p}

{Side mission: Don't make Zhao Rong fall for you. +2000p}

{"Who is Rayan Wu? A hidden target?"}

There was no such man in the story.

{This mansion's front gate guard. Good luck.}

{"Good luck, my ass! Come here! I swear I won't cripple you! Why do I have to seduce a mere front gate guard?! You have five seconds to explain!"}

Fei Lan squeezed that boy's ears. Her targets were always those like Zhao Rong. Something was suspicious.

{Wuwuwu...Host, Rayan Wu is your soulmate.}

Fei Lan stopped.

{"Xuan Mu's soul? Did Bing Shi reincarnate too?"}

{Yes, but her identity is unknown. Host, you should quickly snatch Rayan Wu away before she does.}

'He better be tall and good-looking,' Fei Lan walked towards her vanity, studying her features, she reminisced about her past, 'Doesn't matter, they are all the same.'

After being betrayed, she promised to never fall in love again. Especially the males who had some relationship with the female lead. Breaking them apart, seeing the female lead losing her halo became her new joy.

She'll obtain Rayan Wu's heart. He'll pamper her to the heavens, and she'll enjoy the pampering until she dies, then, repeat.

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Slouched against the majestic gate, Rayan Wu's muscular body was covered in light armor, and his strands of fiery red hair danced in harmony with the evening's gentle breeze.

His deep brown eyes suddenly opened. Surveying the expanse of his surroundings, he held a steady gaze that seemed to command attention.

Did he reincarnate again? As unfamiliar memories flooded his consciousness, Ru Quan's brows knit together, resembling the fierce furrow of an eagle's gaze.

He ruled the world, stood above all, and achieved his dreams, yet, he was dissatisfied. He no longer had anything left in life to accomplish. Living one lifetime after another, he was too worn out to fight.

What's the purpose of reincarnation when sooner or later he'd remember his past life? Thus, he began to define reality through self-inflicted suffering and misery.

Seizing a knife from his sheath, he directed its blade towards his chest. A heart that should have been lifeless and shattered.

As an image of a girl materialized in his thoughts, the knife slipped from his grasp, clattering to the ground, his hands trembling uncontrollably, "Little Monster..."

That girl—the one he had encountered in his first lifetime —remained etched in his memory. He had encountered Bai Meili's reincarnation in every lifetime, but his attempts to find Ting Zi's reincarnation proved to be futile. It was as if as if the very ground beneath her had devoured her whole.

° The joy of reuniting with her came just once, in his eighth life, and the encounter was brief—agonizingly so. Ru Quan just received his past memories when he was around ten years old. Alone in a small house, he'd casually pick up a knife to play with, devoid of the will to continue living.

° A ringing doorbell roused him, yet he chose to disregard it. Even as the sound escalated to urgent knocking, he persisted in his indifference. It wasn't until he heard desperate cries for help that he finally moved to investigate.

° The entrance stood empty, devoid of any presence. Could it be an illusion? It seemed the only explanation.

° A month later, the blaring sirens of police cars and ambulances encircled the neighbor's residence. Intrigued, he ventured outside to witness the unfolding commotion.

° There she was, carried on a stretcher, locked in a fierce struggle with every man attempting to approach her. Tumbling off the stretcher, she retched violently and crawled away from them. Yes, crawled—her legs seemingly broken.

° Due to all the injuries, he couldn't recognize her at first. It seemed as if fate was toying with him, revealing her true identity only when it was too late to make a difference.

° There was some feministic propaganda, and they used her picture and story as an advertisement.

° Nobody noticed her disappearance. She was a university student living far away from her parents with no friends — a perfect victim.

° She said that she attempted to run away on her second day, but the assaulter caught her when she tried to ask the empty house next door for help.

° No, it wasn't empty. A boy was living there. If he had helped her that day, she wouldn't have had to suffer in that cold room for a month.

° But it was too late. Looking at the pamphlet with her picture, he tried to grab it, only for his hand to pass through it. 'Little Monster...?' It was her second time asking for help, and he found out too late again.

° He vowed to search for her in the next lifetime. Sadly, his soul was too broken. From then on, he didn't receive his past memories anymore. His pattern, however, persisted—whenever he reached a certain age, he would repeat the tragic cycle and take his own life.

Leaping out of the mansion, Ru Quan dashed through the streets, in search of one person. His crimson eyes meticulously assessed the features of each passerby.

As he gazed at the multitude of colorful eyes and hair, a sense of tension and anxiety began to well up within him.

Now that he was lost...

Would he...

Would he get a chance to be found again?

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Info dumb:

The Emperor/Empire vs The King/A Kingdom

This World: The three main sovereigns call themselves Emperors. There's no rule. An emperor is someone who calls himself an emperor. That's it. They see themselves as rulers of the world, because of their influence, neighboring sovereigns could only call themselves kings. (Kings don't usually see themselves as rulers of the world.) On the other hand, their territories are kept as Kingdoms. (Kingdoms are different from Empires where one could keep their language, religion, and local customs. )

Overall: The Emperor is a higher rank but is not necessarily more powerful than a King from another part of the world. (Kings may hold a larger and more powerful army and navy. The British monarch could've been considered more powerful than the emperor of Ethiopia. However, as an absolute monarch, the Ethiopian Emperor had more actual power to shape his domain.)

Though Japan has an Emperor, it's actually a kingdom.

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