"Jiang Yunnuan!"

Hearing her name, Jiang Yunnuan raised an eyebrow. ’Well, well, looks like someone I know.’

’Let’s see who it is.’

She focused her gaze and saw the door of a Flying Car open. A slender, pretty girl stepped out.

The girl was wearing a beautiful princess dress. Staring at that sweet and lovely face, Jiang Yunnuan frowned for a few seconds before finally recognizing her. Wasn’t this Ling Ze’s sister, Ling Yuexi?

Ling Yuexi charged at her angrily and swung a hand at her face.

"My brother already has a Contract Master! How can you, you ugly freak, still be shamelessly harassing him? When he ignored you, you used the Protection Law as an excuse to hit him! Do you think I’m just going to stand here and do nothing?"

The day before yesterday, she had gone to see her brother, only to find his left eye badly swollen. When she asked what happened, he refused to say a word. Worried, she had someone pull the Star Network surveillance footage and saw that he had been beaten by this useless, ugly freak.

This infuriated her. After tracking down Jiang Yunnuan’s location, she had rushed over to confront her, vowing to get revenge for her brother.

However, the slap never landed. Her wrist was caught in a tight grip, one that felt like it was about to crush the bone. The pain made her face scrunch up as she stared in shock at the woman before her.

’How is this ugly freak so strong?’

"You’re talking about the past. I won’t be harassing your brother anymore. Also, me hitting him is between him and me. It’s none of your business. If you don’t want that pretty little face of yours to get beaten into a pulp, you’d better scram. My patience is very limited."

Jiang Yunnuan narrowed her eyes, a slight, threatening smile on her lips.

With that, she forcefully threw Ling Yuexi’s arm aside. The girl stumbled back several steps, nearly falling to the ground.

After steadying herself, she glared at Jiang Yunnuan, her eyes red with fury. As for the promise ’I won’t be harassing your brother anymore,’ she didn’t believe a single word of it.

"You ugly freak! You hit my brother and you just got violent with me! You’re unbelievable! No wonder your own mother doesn’t want you! You’re so barbaric, unreasonable, ugly, and vicious. You can’t compare to Sister Wanwan in any way! My brother will only ever love Sister Wanwan, and you... you’ll never be loved by anyone in your entire life!"

The ability she had awakened was Blessing. While it was an incredibly precious and sought-after power, making her a national treasure of the Empire, it had zero offensive capability.

Seeing that she couldn’t overpower Jiang Yunnuan and wouldn’t gain anything from a physical fight, she immediately switched to verbal abuse and personal attacks.

"Hah! You probably don’t even know, you ugly freak. Next month is Sister Wanwan’s birthday, and the Empress started planning her banquet last month. The venue is even set for the Rose Palace."

"You, the useless one, are clearly the Empress’s biological daughter, but she doesn’t want you! She threw you out of the palace long ago. Look at you now! You don’t even have the right to attend a banquet at the Rose Palace. All you can do is live in this remote Fifth Star Zone."

"As for birthdays, I bet the Empress doesn’t even remember when yours is, does she? In all your life, has the Empress ever once celebrated your birthday with you?"

"But the Empress celebrates with Sister Wanwan every single year. Not only that, she’s already grooming her to be the next Empress. How about that? Aren’t you just about to go crazy with jealousy?"

Jiang Yunnuan: "..."

’This girl really knows how to twist the knife.’

’If it were the original owner of this body hearing these words, and not me, she really would have lost her mind on the spot.’

"Right, right, I can’t compare to Jiang Wanwan. But isn’t it the same for you? Haven’t you had a secret crush on Bai Luo and Wen Yanchen for ages? Half a year ago, just before you came of age, you told them you’d choose them for your contract once you were an adult."

"But what happened? The very next day, those two were so scared that they ran to Jiang Wanwan and begged her to form a contract, terrified of being stuck with you, right?"

The gender ratio was extremely skewed, and after coming of age, females were only forcibly matched with four Beastmen. Therefore, the remaining lucky few either had to continue waiting for the allocation system or take the initiative to find a female to form a contract with.

And as it happened, Bai Luo and Wen Yanchen were just such lucky individuals.

They had been adults for quite some time but still hadn’t been assigned. Thus, before a forced assignment, they had the absolute right to choose their own Contract Master, as long as the female agreed.

"See? No one wants you either, and you can’t compare to Jiang Wanwan in any way. So tell me, what makes you any different from me? How dare you come here and mock me?"

"At least I’m better off than you. Beauty, abilities, status, family—if I work hard enough, I might get all of those things in the future. But you? You will never have Bai Luo and Wen Yanchen. You can only watch them be all lovey-dovey with your dear Sister Wanwan."

’Bring it on. Let’s hurt each other. Who’s afraid of who?’

Having lived two lives, Jiang Yunnuan couldn’t care less about things like face or reputation. And the Empress, whom she had never even met, wasn’t her real mom in her heart. So, Ling Yuexi’s words couldn’t hurt her at all.

But Ling Yuexi was different. She had only recently come of age and had been sheltered her whole life. She was naive and innocent, currently at that peak age of pride, vanity, and being completely boy-crazy.

The fact that Bai Luo and Wen Yanchen had been so eager to form a contract with Jiang Wanwan just to avoid choosing her had caused her immense pain. Half a year had passed, and she had just barely gotten over it, only for Jiang Yunnuan to bring up the past again in such a mocking tone.

The repressed anguish of unrequited love, combined with the humiliation of being mocked, washed over her all at once. She felt so ashamed she wished she could disappear.

"In your dreams! You’re ugly, but you sure dream big! Hmph! You’ll never get beauty, abilities, status, or family in this life! You’ll never be loved by anyone!"

She stomped her foot hard and shot back a vicious retort. Then, covering her face, she turned and left, choking back sobs.

Jiang Yunnuan: "..."

’Is her emotional fortitude really that weak?’

’Talk about being a snowflake.’

’I barely said anything, so how did I manage to inflict a critical hit of that magnitude and make her cry?’

’Still, even as she was crying, she didn’t forget to get one last dig in before leaving. Tsk, this girl is pretty petty!’

Jiang Yunnuan couldn’t be bothered to argue with her, but when she saw that cool, rouge-pink convertible Flying Car lift into the sky and fly away, her heart was instantly filled with envy.

Why could a little brat like that drive such a beautiful, cool Flying Car when she couldn’t?

Was that fair?

Of course not! As a transmigrator, she deserved to have a cool Flying Car like that too!

’Buy, buy, buy! I’ll buy one right now!’

The original owner hadn’t left her an inheritance, so she’d just buy it herself. Jiang Yunnuan opened her Light Brain and saw that the screen was already displaying all the information for that specific Flying Car. She must have accidentally clicked on it earlier when she was about to search.

When she saw the price, her heart instantly sank, and her eyes went wide.

’Whoa, this car is that expensive?’

The low-end model cost over eight million Star Coins, while the high-end version was more than twelve million. What was even harder to accept was that her account balance was less than one hundred Star Coins.

She had been busy with other things ever since she was transported here, so she was only just now finding out how utterly broke the original owner had been.