Even hybrid monsters have their day

Fires raged across the sky, thick smoke billowed into the clouds, and the surrounding area was filled with chaotic and noisy voices.

Burn it!

Burn it!

Burn this monster!

……

As the cry of "Monster!" rang out, the crowd erupted in uproar, like water that had finally reached its boiling point bursting from its calm and churning. The air around Luo Jiu'er, and even her blood, boiled along with it.

Luo Jiu'er felt her blood scalding with the flames. She tried to break free of the ropes binding her and escape the fire, but discovered she had neither hands nor feet. Beneath the billowing smoke, where the flames had engulfed her, was a long, tail-like creature.

"Ah..." The person on the bed suddenly opened their eyes, staring blankly at the canopy above their head.

Yama, the King of Hell, said he would let her reincarnate, but she didn't expect that her reincarnation would only last for less than an hour before she was burned to death. She thought Yama was a good person, but she never expected that he would trick her.

Luo Jiu had died once, so her current feeling told her that she was still alive. There was absolutely no chance of survival in such a raging fire, so how had she escaped? Looking at this place, somewhat unfamiliar yet strangely familiar, she was momentarily stunned.

Could it be that her soul has been reincarnated? This was the only plausible explanation she could think of.

She still had the memory of the monster that was burned to death in her mind. Despite its noble status, it had lived such a tragic life and died in such a way. This feeling made her feel very uncomfortable.

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. After having the experience once, Luo Jiu'er calmly accepted that she had been reincarnated again.

She tried moving her hands and feet, and they really were hands and feet, not some kind of tail. This discovery made her feel a little better. In any case, she just hoped that the person she was reincarnated into this time would be a human; Luo Jiu'er had already lowered her expectations to the bare minimum.

As she was thinking, the door creaked open from the outside, and a maid-like figure entered carrying a basin of water. Upon seeing the person on the bed with her eyes open, she was so startled that she dropped the basin with a clatter. Ignoring the spilled water, she rushed to the bedside, looking at Luo Jiu'er with overjoyed surprise, "Princess, you're awake! You're finally awake..."

Luo Jiu'er pondered in her mind, if her memory was correct, the person in front of her... "Are you Mo Lian?" The maid of that dead monster, but shouldn't she be in the Delicate Realm?

With beautiful features and a slender, curvaceous figure, even in ordinary maid's attire, she couldn't hide the occasional allure that shone through her eyes. Luo Jiu'er was astonished that a maid could be so beautiful. If such a face and figure were in the human world, she would definitely be a great beauty. However, the original owner of this body's memories told her that in the demon realm, this one was nothing more than ordinary.

However, Mo Lian didn't notice any of that. At this moment, all her attention was drawn to Luo Jiu'er's question, "Um, um, I am Mo Lian, Princess. Is there anything else that's bothering you? Please wait here, I'll go and fetch the physician right away."

"No need." She called out to Mo Lian, who was about to run out. "I'm fine, I'm just a little confused since I just woke up."

Mo Lian smiled through her tears, "It's good that you're alright, it's good that you're alright. Princess, you slept for several months, it really scared Mo Lian."

Seeing Mo Lian alternating between crying and laughing, Luo Jiu'er laughed too. But suddenly, she remembered that Mo Lian was that monster's maid, and yet she was calling her princess. By that logic, wasn't Mo Lian still that monster? No, strictly speaking, she wasn't even a monster. This realization instantly ruined Luo Jiu'er's mood.

So, she wasn't reincarnated again, but was saved by someone? "Who saved me?"

"Save?" Mo Lian thought for a moment and said, "Oh, it was the Left Protector who led people to find you in the Dark Forest."

"Zuo Lengdan...the Dark Forest?" Luo Jiu'er was somewhat puzzled. In her memory, Zuo Lengdan was probably the only person who truly cared for and looked after her. When those people managed to trick her into coming to the human realm, she was being sent to the demon realm by the demon god Gongye Hong on business.

Moreover, Luo Jiu'er thought that the original owner of the body was clearly tied to the altar by a group of people in the human realm, so why did Zuo Lengdan find her in the dark forest of the demon realm?

No, she did have a memory of being rescued from the Dark Forest by Zuo Lengdan. That happened when the original owner of this body was 135 years old. She was tricked by them and then attacked by a monster and was seriously injured.

135 years old—the year before the original owner was tricked into coming to the human world, the year before she was burned to death. Thinking of this, she turned to Mo Lian and asked, "What year is it in the demon calendar this year?"

"Your Highness, this year is the 2758th year of the Demon Calendar." Although Mo Lian found it strange, she answered her question honestly.

"In the year 2758 of the Demon Calendar, Zuo Lengdan rescued me from the Dark Forest, but I was imprisoned for disobeying the Demon God's orders." Luo Jiu'er murmured. She had actually returned to a year ago. So she wasn't rescued, but reborn?

The plot development is so unbelievable.

Hearing her words, Mo Lian's eyes widened. "Ah, Princess, how do you know that the Left Protector has been imprisoned by the King?" Their princess had just woken up from her coma. Then she thought of an even more serious problem. "You...you...you're not stupid?"

Such clear and logical words could not have come from a fool.

Oh right, Luo Jiu'er almost forgot. The original owner of this body wasn't even human, nor was she a demon; she was also an idiot. This King Yama really found her a good body! Thinking about it made her incredibly angry. No wonder that little ghost said on her journey of reincarnation that he would find her a good family to be reborn into when she returned; it turned out they already knew she wouldn't live long after her reincarnation.

But if it really was as she thought, then after she was burned, she should have died and been reincarnated in the underworld. How could she have been reborn? She felt that this time it definitely had nothing to do with that King Yama. If King Yama truly wanted her to live, why would he choose to let her reincarnate when the original owner was tied to the altar?

The thought that Yama, the King of Hell, had thwarted her plans still filled Luo Jiu'er with joy. Now that she was reborn, she would live well, as Geng Miaowan. This time, she absolutely couldn't let herself end her life so tragically again—well, as a demon, and a mixed-blood demon at that…