The villain, Xiao Nanliang, caused the female lead excruciating pain.

Looking at the scroll in his hand, Su Qi tentatively asked a question.

"Is that big shot in the back there?"

The scroll did not respond.

Do you have your own consciousness?

Su Qi guessed that this thing should have some kind of intelligent AI.

In the cultivation world, they would be called artifact spirits.

The scroll still didn't respond.

Su Qi narrowed his eyes, threw the scroll on the ground, and began to undo his belt.

Just as he was about to fire a water dragon at the scroll, the scroll on the ground disappeared.

He tentatively walked a short distance away, and as expected, it came back.

I picked it up and opened it; this time, there was only one line of text left on it.

If you are willing to take the place of the original owner and continue the transaction, please drip your blood onto the scroll.

"What if I don't want to? Will you send me back?"

Su Qi changed the question.

This time the scroll responded.

My name is Su Qi, and I've transmigrated. An opportunity is presented to me, but I hesitate to accept it. After much deliberation, I've decided to refuse.

The moment I refused, that being made its move. It erased my memories, forcing me to continue living the life of the original owner. In the end, like the original owner, I died at Ye Feng's hands.

After my death, I was cast into the cycle of reincarnation along with billions of other souls, continuing to live each ordinary and mundane life.

In every subsequent life, each time I died and entered the cycle of reincarnation, I would remember that I had an opportunity for transcendence presented to me, but I didn't cherish it, and only regretted it when it was lost. If I had the chance to choose again, I would choose to seize it!

"Hey, are you trying to provoke me?"

Su Qi was delighted.

Is each lifetime just ordinary and mundane?

This scroll clearly understands human psychology.

Who would be content with mediocrity?

To put it bluntly, this is called being used as a pawn. But to put it more nicely, you could say you've met a benefactor.

Not everyone has any use.

Su Qi wasn't one of those self-important, hot-blooded idiots who thought he was destined to reach the top.

Even after cultivating for so many years, the original owner was only at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Let alone the summit, you'll be out of breath just climbing the foot of the mountain.

It would be a miracle to even make it halfway up the mountain.

Not to mention, he has now become a thorn in the side of the male and female leads.

If this thorn isn't removed, the male and female leads won't be able to be together.

Will life become mundane, or will we seize the opportunity to achieve success at the cost of countless lives?

The worst possible ending is nothing more than the soul being scattered and the soul ceasing to exist.

Su Qi had already made his choice, but he wasn't in a hurry.

He looked at the scroll with a slightly interested expression.

"You said before that He needed me to make the female lead turn evil, so does that mean that He can get something from the evil female lead?"

As Su Qi habitually reached out to rub her chin, she noticed how good her skin was—smooth, supple, and bouncy.

The land shapes its people; it truly is a land of beautiful women.

Ahem... We've gone off-topic.

"Also, my cultivation level will increase after the female lead turns evil, and you didn't say that there's an upper limit to this increase. Can we assume that if there are enough female leads who turn evil, it might even be able to raise me to its level?"

After mentioning this possibility, Su Qi smiled again and shook his head.

"If He could so easily elevate people to that level, He wouldn't need me. So, the money still comes from the people. The things He used to elevate me probably came from those female characters, right?"

This is like a labor relationship.

The boss provides a platform for employees to create value and earn profits, with the boss taking the lion's share and the employees taking a smaller share.

Su Qi now is just a lowly worker.

"So, what is the profit-sharing ratio between me and Him? If I do well, can my share be increased?"

The scroll did not respond, but Su Qi felt he had guessed correctly, and a sly smile appeared on his lips.

"Boss, restarting this world's timeline must have come at a considerable cost, right? Tell me, if I spread the word that you covet some power from the female lead, wouldn't all your efforts in this life have been for nothing?"

After he finished speaking, the scroll visibly trembled, and then a sentence appeared.

[You insignificant ant, how dare you threaten me? Aren't you afraid I'll crush you to death?]

Wow, so the entity behind it has finally decided to show itself?

Su Qi didn't care about the threat at all; he had nothing but a worthless life.

"If the boss could just fire me whenever he wanted, he wouldn't need me. Besides, with my outstanding abilities, the boss probably wouldn't want to give me up, right?"

Was my selection really just a coincidence?

In his previous life, he was a master at dealing with women, but his mission in this world was to deal with the female protagonists.

Is it really a coincidence that our majors are a perfect match?

To be honest, Su Qi didn't believe it.

[Excellent, as expected of the person I chose. I've agreed to your request for better treatment. Sign the contract!]

"Then thank you boss."

Su Qi smiled and dripped blood onto the scroll.

The blood seeped in, outlining a strange pattern, and then disappeared.

The surface of the scroll returned to a blank state.

To be honest, even though the other party promised to improve his treatment, Su Qi didn't believe a word of it.

After all, he didn't know how much the commission would be, nor did he know the total profit from completing a single "business" transaction.

How much the other party gives you depends entirely on their conscience.

But as everyone knows, capital has no conscience.

So the question is, knowing this, why did Su Qi still go to all this trouble?

It's actually quite similar to working a regular job; if you don't ask for a raise, many bosses won't bring it up on their own.

But once you bring it up, as long as you have the ability, the boss will give you extra money as appropriate.

Although the amount added is definitely not much, even a small amount is still something.

Moreover, Su Qi's main purpose was to make an example of Su Qi.

Tell the other party that he is willing to be a pawn, but if they go too far, he doesn't mind fighting to the death.

After carefully putting away the scroll, Su Qi followed his memory and wandered around until he finally returned to his residence.

This is an independent courtyard, built by the previous sect leader, Su Yun, specifically for her "daughter." At the time, she did not know that her "daughter" was actually her son, so she named the courtyard "Qifeng Courtyard," located at the foot of the main peak of the Yunmiao Immortal Sect.

"Young master, why did you take so long?"

A young girl dressed as a maid came out to greet him. When she saw Su Qi's somewhat disheveled appearance, she gasped and covered her mouth.

"Oh, young master, what happened to you?"

They rushed forward to help him up.

An Qing, a maid given to the original owner of this body by the Mu family, was once a noble lady from the Southern Region. After the Great Ling Dynasty conquered the six kingdoms, she was reduced to slavery and bought by the Mu family.

It was common knowledge that Mu Feier refused to consummate her marriage with Su Qi.

The Mu family, protected by the Yunmiao Immortal Sect, clearly felt embarrassed. So they sent over this extremely beautiful and elegant maid to help the original owner vent her frustrations.

However, the original owner of this body was a fool who thought this was a test given to him by the Mu family, and he stubbornly refused to touch her for more than a year.

"It's nothing. When I went to see your young lady, I discovered that there was someone with ulterior motives hiding near her secluded cultivation place. I got into a fight with him, but I couldn't beat him and he knocked me unconscious."

Su Qi's eyes darted around, and he pretended to have a headache and look weak, waving his hand.