The female lead thought she had a "proud and arrogant" character script.

Luo Qingcheng has traveled through time.

That day, the weather was fine and sunny, and the air was filled with the fragrance of flowers and the songs of birds.

The system arrogantly informed Luo Qingcheng that she had been chosen as the Lady of Destiny of the Xuanwu Continent. As long as she experienced the ups and downs of life, she could become an unprecedented and unparalleled god of ascension in the Xuanwu Continent.

Upon hearing this, Luo Qingcheng was moved but refused. She crossed her legs and disdainfully picked her teeth, telling the system to find another woman of destiny. She was busy going back to her 100-square-meter bed to be a couch potato.

System: This system has received the host's command and is preparing to unbind. The erasure process is initiating. Ten, nine…

!!!

Luo Qingcheng immediately sprang from the bed, her expression stern: "Hurry up! Who else but me is the chosen one! This young lady can't wait!"

then--

The clear blue sky over the Xuanwu Continent suddenly turned black, as a hurricane swept through.

"The sky has cracked!" someone cried out in terror.

A crack widened from small to large, resembling a black hole.

Dozens of purple thunderclaps boomed in succession over the capital of the Fengtian Dynasty. The old, bored officials living in the Imperial Observatory rushed out of the observation platform, excitedly licking their brushes as they wrote memorials.

For decades, the Fengtian Dynasty had not seen any unusual events. Now, they no longer had to worry about being fired by the emperor for being a useless person!

Luo Qingcheng knew nothing about what was happening here.

She was lying sprawled out in the dilapidated courtyard, in the broken wooden house, amidst a pile of broken planks.

Well, that pile of wooden planks could have been called a bed for the time being.

She struggled to her feet.

[System, wasn't it supposed to be about experiencing the ups and downs of life? Where are the ups?]

[Coming right away.]

Before Luo Qingcheng could even think about what "coming right away" meant, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl burst into the dilapidated house whose door had vanished.

"Miss, something terrible has happened!"

His young face was filled with panic and helplessness.

Luo Qingcheng was full of questions.

System notification: Hongdou, Luo Qingcheng's maid.

Luo Qingcheng quickly got into the zone.

"Hongdou, I'm not feeling well," Luo Qingcheng said, pulling Hongdou's rough little hand in one hand and grimacing.

"Quickly check how my tailbone is." The bed collapsed, and her old body collapsed along with it.

Luo Qingcheng sat in the ruins, touching his tailbone, his face contorted in a grimace.

"Miss, what's wrong?" Hongdou asked worriedly. Then she suddenly remembered something and saw Luo Qingcheng touching her buttocks in an indecent manner. She quickly blushed and stopped her from lifting her skirt.

He exclaimed, "Oh dear! Miss, don't worry about such trivial matters! The Sima family has sent people to say they want to annul your engagement!"

"Master wants you to go to the front hall to discuss this!" Hongdou grabbed her sleeve and pulled her outside, extremely anxious.

[A annulment of the engagement? System, what happened to the overpowered protagonist? I'm very familiar with the face-slapping trope of annulment, but is this what you call "starting"?]

Luo Qingcheng was completely shocked.

[Of course, if this plot hadn't been included, given your status, you would never have had any connection with the eldest son of the Sima family, let alone be engaged to him.]

The system shrugged in response to her questioning.

Luo Qingcheng: I fucking—

"Miss, stop spacing out!" Hongdou was getting anxious, but when she turned around, she saw her mistress standing there motionless.

But then I thought about it again. My poor little lady was finally going to come of age and get married in two months to escape her misery, but she was unexpectedly jilted at this critical moment.

Now who knows what people in the capital will say about her? How will the young lady find a good husband then?

Before Hongdou could finish speaking, tears welled up in her eyes.

With tears in her eyes, she thought Luo Qingcheng was unwilling to accept the truth and advised, "Miss, please don't do anything rash. We have a long life ahead of us."

Luo Qingcheng was arguing and fighting with the system.

The system had never seen the endless stream of modern people who would complain and make trouble without reason, and even when they were right, they would still act shamelessly. It was only after it could no longer tolerate the situation and issued a contract termination warning that Luo Qingcheng immediately backed down.

When she came to her senses, she saw her cute little maid crying.

She was crying and saying things that didn't make sense.

Luo Qingcheng was at a loss for words, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

He said aggressively, "It's nothing, let's go. I want to see which damn bastard dares to break off my engagement!" It's perfect for venting the anger he got from the system!

She took out a handkerchief and handed it to Hongdou to wipe her tears. She paused for a moment, then, to maintain her composure, walked out as if nothing had happened.

hiss--

Tailbone pain QAQ

Hongdou didn't catch the implication in her words and thought she really didn't remember the Sima family. She quickly wiped away her tears and, panting, caught up with her, explaining, "Miss, have you forgotten? It's not some Sima thing, it's the Sima Mansion, which is full of imperial advisors."

System notification: The Imperial Advisor is the most powerful person besides the Emperor.

Luo Qingcheng scoffed: "Isn't the emperor still keeping things under control?"

System: That's what they say—

Oh.

Luo Qingcheng understood immediately.

It just means removing "except for the emperor".

LOL, Luo Qingcheng wasn't afraid at all.

She was willing to back out, not out of fear of retaliation, but because she, Luo Qingcheng, didn't want a fiancé at all!

The Sima family mansion is nothing special, ha, they're really pretentious.

Hongdou led the way, and after walking for more than ten minutes, Luo Qingcheng, who had been enthusiastically and vividly imagining in his mind how he would shout the line "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, never underestimate a young man's potential," became dejected.

One should press on with one effort, but the momentum will wane afterward.

"Aren't we there yet?" she asked weakly, her once dignified demeanor gradually turning wild.

"Almost there, Miss," Hongdou replied for the third time.

She didn't know that her mistress had been replaced by a different person. The original mistress might have inherited all of Luo Qingcheng's wealth, including that 100-square-meter bed, just to find an excuse for this mistress who was acting strangely.

Waaah, Miss must be feeling like every day is an eternity because she knows she's going to be jilted and doesn't know what the future holds.

Poor lady.

She was unloved by her biological father and stepmother since childhood, was born with a physical disability and no spiritual roots, her biological mother disappeared, and she suffered so much injustice. Now, even the marriage arranged for her before she was born is about to be canceled...

How heartbroken the young lady must be!

Hongdou imagined herself with teary eyes.

Luo Qingcheng looked dejected.

When the two appeared in everyone's sight, the man was silent and the woman wept.

Luo Qingcheng was still wearing a faded dress that was even patched.

It goes without saying how conspicuous the red patch was on the yellowed white dress.

Her father, a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining, felt the intense gazes of a large group of people fixed on him, and for some reason, he felt his face burning.

Fortunately, he had grown quite a bit of a beard.

Luo Qingcheng raised his eyelids, realizing that the first scene had finally begun, and immediately prepared himself and got into character.

Her father coughed twice, and was about to speak when Luo Qingcheng interrupted him.

"Father! My dear father! It's been more than ten years since we last met, Qingcheng has missed you so much!" She leaped to her father like a red-spotted white butterfly.

No, I can't pounce on him; this old man looks a bit disgusting.

This was just Luo Qingcheng's subjective feeling. In fact, her father had always been among the top few in the "Who is more handsome, me or Xu Gong?" list, or "Xu Gong List" for short.

She looked like she wanted to get close to her father but didn't dare. She stopped just before rushing towards him, hesitating.

"Father, did you finally remember Qingcheng when you summoned him here today?" she asked expectantly.

His clear eyes were filled with affection.

Those who knew about her family's troubles naturally understood the purpose of today's visit and couldn't help but cast pitying glances at Luo Qingcheng.

"Tsk tsk, did you hear that? This Miss Luo hasn't seen Master Luo for over ten years."

"Yes, that's really heartless."

Even Hongdou, who had walked with her for a while and realized that she was completely different from before, couldn't help but start crying again. Seeing her maid looking so aggrieved added a lot to the drama for the onlookers.

The onlookers couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

"How come Master Luo doesn't even have the money to buy new clothes for his daughter?"

"What do you mean he has no money? His other daughter goes to the Treasure Pavilion every day," a passerby mocked.

Since discovering that Luo Qingcheng was born disabled and had no spiritual roots, no one has paid attention to her anymore. They only occasionally ask her a few questions because Luo Qingcheng is engaged to the Sima family. Luo Qingcheng's biological father, who is not allowed to kill her, has begun to reflect on whether he really did something wrong under the condemnation of many eyes.

However, upon seeing the Sima family's envoy sitting next to him, his heart hardened instantly.

"No."

He replied coldly, ignoring Luo Qingcheng's tearful face, "It's about your annulment of the engagement with the Sima family."

It was originally a useless thing, its only use was the marriage agreement with the Sima family. Now that even the marriage agreement can't be kept, why should he care?

Luo Qingcheng took two steps back, looking utterly devastated. "Announcing the engagement?"

"Hmph, hand over the token and you can go back."

He couldn't stand this shameful thing.

“But, Father, Qingcheng doesn’t know what she did wrong to be jilted two months before her coming-of-age ceremony. How can Qingcheng save face?” She clutched her heart like Xi Shi.

"Why are you asking me what you've done?!" Luo Qingcheng's father flicked his sleeve, the wide, powerful hem sweeping across her face, instantly turning her delicate skin red.

Luo Qingcheng fell to the ground.

She covered her face, sat on the ground without saying a word, seemingly heartbroken.

Hongdou rushed out, knelt down, and hurriedly said, "Master! Miss has always been honest and well-behaved, staying in her own little courtyard and never stepping out of the house. How could she have done something wrong? You have misunderstood Miss!"

Master Luo was humiliated by a young maid, and his face grew increasingly ugly. He had never been as embarrassed as he was today since he reached the ninth level of Qi Refining.

"Hmph, who gave you the right to speak here!" He swept his sleeve, showing no restraint this time. He didn't care if a maid was beaten to death. Hongdou's body flew far away and crashed into the artificial hill by the roadside, losing its breath.

Upon seeing this, Luo Qingcheng's heart trembled.

She's had enough of acting; her immediate priority is getting Hongdou treated.

She stood up and said, "Father, you are truly my dear father. You ignored me since I was a child, leaving me in the most remote and dilapidated courtyard. In the summer heat and winter cold, I was never full or warm. I never complained about you, thinking that you were too busy with official duties to care about me."

"Now that you've treated Hongdou, who's my only family, so cruelly, it seems you've never taken Qingcheng seriously."

Tears welled in her eyes as she looked around.

"I wonder if you understand in your heart, Father, just as you look down on me and therefore look down on Hongdou, no matter what, I, Luo Qingcheng, am still your daughter. The servants' mistreatment of me is actually a disrespect to you, just like the Sima family's decision to annul the engagement with me is actually a sign of their contempt for you!"

Her words made Master Luo's face darken.

He came from humble beginnings, built his fortune from scratch, valued his reputation highly, and knew he was not favored by aristocratic families.

After saying that, Luo Qingcheng gave a cold laugh.

"I lost this keepsake a long time ago. If nothing unexpected happens, I might be able to find it by searching the pond outside my little courtyard."

She took out the marriage contract from her bosom, intending to tear it in half, but unexpectedly, even with her best efforts, she couldn't tear it.

Discard...

So she threw the marriage contract on the ground, treating it like trash, and said, "I, Luo Qingcheng, agree to annul this marriage contract."

She stared intently at the Sima family's envoy and finally uttered the lines she had been wanting to say: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, never underestimate a young man's potential!"

After speaking, she walked with her head held high and chest out, in front of everyone's eyes, to Hongdou's side.

Seeing the bloodstain on Hongdou's forehead, his heart skipped a beat, and he asked in his mind: [System, didn't you say Hongdou wasn't in mortal danger?]

System: [It's just a little bleeding, a superficial wound. This little maid has a very strong will to live.]

Luo Qingcheng felt relieved.

But then she encountered another problem. She was only almost 15 years old and had never had enough to eat. She was delicate and frail, and she couldn't possibly carry Hongdou.

The system appeared just in time, telling her to just keep hugging, as her cheat code had already been delivered.

Luo Qingcheng's eyes lit up.

That's right. Other overpowered protagonists all have cheat codes, how could she not?

Full of confidence, she easily lifted Hongdou in her arms, as if picking up a feather.

"You wretched child, where are you going?!" Seeing her head towards the gate, Master Luo couldn't help but curse.

Luo Qingcheng's words had just made him lose face, and he planned to settle the score with her properly after everyone had left.

Luo Qingcheng ignored him; he really thought he was something special just because she was putting on an act with him.

Seeing this, in a moment of impulsiveness, Master Luo sent a grayish-yellow spiritual energy shooting towards her back!

He immediately regretted it; if this spiritual energy had hit Luo Qingcheng, she would have been either killed or seriously injured!

Fortunately, the attack was blocked by the red spiritual energy emanating from the other side.

"Master Luo, that's enough."

The leader of the Sima family's envoys waved his fan.

Master Luo breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't save face. He snorted coldly, "Hmph, you wretched child, once you walk out of this door today, you will have nothing to do with the Luo family anymore."

Luo Qingcheng paused for a moment. Seeing this, Master Luo looked disdainful, assuming that she was just scared.

Unexpectedly, Luo Qingcheng didn't even turn his head, and said loudly, "Such a good thing?"

His face was pale.