How Had She Dared Just Now?

Jiang Lan knew this stretch of the story well. He certainly would not let the Female Protagonist walk all over him.

"Miss Qinghan, how do you think I should deal with you?"

With a faint smile, he looked at Su Qinghan, surrounded by guards with blades raised. "According to the current Great Xia Law, how should one be punished for assassinating the family or relatives of an important minister?"

Su Qinghan's face turned pale. She had never expected things to turn out this way.

She had returned to her clan to visit her relatives, intending to tell them that she was joining the Dao Cang Sword Sect. At the same time, she had wanted to ask her grandfather to dissolve her engagement to the Protagonist, Lin Fan.

In her view, so long as she and Lin Fan had not completed the marriage rites, there was no husband-and-wife bond between them. Even if there were, a single letter of divorce would be enough to cast him aside.

Now that she was about to join the Dao Cang Sword Sect, her status and standing had undergone earthshaking changes. She also had much more say in her own affairs and no longer needed to compromise for the sake of her clan's wishes or her parents' commands.

She wanted to decide her own marriage.

Yet she had not expected that, the moment she returned to the Su Family, she would learn from her younger sister's maid that Su Qingyao had been forcibly abducted from the academy.

After making inquiries in her fury, she quickly identified the culprit as Jiang Lan, the Prime Minister's son who had appeared in Yuyi City.

He was a notorious Second Generation Scion, famed throughout the entire Great Xia Dynasty.

After all, in Yuyi City, the only person bold enough to openly seize a woman by force and deliberately station guards outside Snow Moon Pavilion was likely him alone.

Her younger sister, Su Qingyao, had been exceptionally beautiful since childhood, and her literary talents were widely renowned. She had countless admirers in Yuyi City.

That scoundrel had likely passed through Yuyi City, heard of her sister's beauty, and suddenly harbored lustful, wicked thoughts. That was why he had sent men to abduct her.

Thus, Su Qinghan had found a way to avoid all of Jiang Lan's guards and seized the chance to enter Snow Moon Pavilion, hoping to rescue her sister.

But after arriving, she saw only a man in White Robes leisurely drinking tea in the pavilion. There was no sign of her sister.

Her heart had been frantic. In a moment of impulse and desperation, she had thought to threaten Jiang Lan into handing over her sister.

But Su Qinghan had never imagined this.

Jiang Lan was clearly nothing but a useless Second Generation Scion, a wine-sack and rice-bag who wallowed in pleasure. Why was he not afraid of death at all?

Shouldn't someone like him cherish his life all the more?

Faced with her threat, he had acted as though he had not heard it.

This was completely different from the outcome Su Qinghan had envisioned from the beginning.

Not only had Jiang Lan not trembled in terror with fear written all over his face, he had instead thrown her mind into chaos and then used the opportunity to pin the charge of assassination on her.

"If Young Master Jiang had not abducted my sister, I would not have acted so impulsively and done such a thing..."

Su Qinghan was no ordinary person. Even in such circumstances, she quickly took a deep breath, calmed herself, and explained.

Jiang Lan seemed to have heard a joke. He interrupted her and said lightly, "Let us not discuss whether I abducted your sister or not. Even if I did, what could you do about it?"

"Miss Su, you injured me just now. Based on your attempted assassination alone, do you think having you and the entire Su Family behind you buried alongside you would be enough?"

"Jiang... Young Master Jiang, I was impulsive just now and was in the wrong. I apologize to you. But my younger sister Su Qingyao is young and ignorant. I do not know how she offended Young Master Jiang..."

Su Qinghan clenched her jade-like hands tightly.

She could not bear the charge of assassinating the Prime Minister's son, nor could the Su Family behind her.

Jiang Lan's brows furrowed slightly, but he continued at an unhurried pace, "Miss Qinghan, you wanted to kill me just now. Do you think apologizing like this is appropriate?"

"Even an apology requires sincerity, does it not?"

With that, he lowered his gaze again and blew on the hot tea, his bearing casual and indifferent.

At present, Jiang Lan had no interest in Su Qinghan whatsoever.

Knowing the plot so well, he naturally would not fail to prepare when he knew Su Qinghan would come knocking on his door of her own accord.

Villain System?

Golden Finger?

Jiang Lan sighed faintly to himself. He had called out for so long without receiving the slightest response. It seemed he truly had no Golden Finger.

After transmigrating into this world, his original body truly possessed not a shred of cultivation.

Even after consuming countless heavenly treasures and Fortune Lingzhi, it had been of no use at all.

His original body seemed to be a naturally bottomless sieve. However much spiritual energy of heaven and earth entered it, that much leaked away.

Otherwise, with the Prime Minister's Manor's resources and strength, how could they have allowed him to become an ordinary person with no cultivation?

What gave Jiang Lan a headache now was this:

If he had no Golden Finger, how was he supposed to increase his strength in the future?

This was a fantasy immortal cultivation world. No matter how powerful his current backing was, it was ultimately false, a dream bubble.

Without cultivation, even with miraculous pills to prolong his life, he would live at most a little over a hundred years. By then, he would transform into a heap of dry bones.

That was not the fate Jiang Lan wanted.

As for Lin Fan, the Protagonist of the original novel, Jiang Lan had been considering how to kill him ever since learning his identity.

Setting aside the fact that, in the plot, he had already abducted Lin Fan's sister-in-law,

his father's position alone had doomed him to become Lin Fan's enemy in the future, with his entire family sent one after another to their deaths.

A Power Chancellor who brought chaos to the court was destined for no good end in any dynasty.

If he did not kill Lin Fan, Lin Fan would kill his entire family.

Therefore, Lin Fan had to die.

At that moment, as though it had sensed Jiang Lan's thoughts,

a warm, ancient, mysterious aura suddenly spread from between his brows.

The aura was weighty and majestic, unfathomable and inscrutable. It was like the River of Time from an immemorial age rolling toward him, and like the boundless myriad worlds rushing straight at his face.

Jiang Lan suddenly froze, then felt a flicker of delight.

Though he had never cultivated and had not yet opened a sea-of-consciousness space, he could clearly see the scene within his Mud Pill Palace.

A lush, verdant vine, seemingly carved from flawless jade, was rooted there, shrouded in a mysterious aura.

The vine was not thick. Its leaves were emerald green, crystalline and translucent like jade, gleaming with a soft luster. Wisps of mist-like substance coiled around it.

At the end of the vine hung something like a fruit.

It was only the size of a thumb, emanating an abstruse, unfathomable aura.

Qi Luck Dao Fruit?

A thought-message flashed through his mind, and Jiang Lan instantly understood the thing's name.

So he had a Golden Finger after all.

And it was connected to Qi Luck within The Unseen.

Once the fruit matured, he would obtain a complete Qi Luck Dao Fruit.

As for what the Qi Luck Dao Fruit could bring him, Jiang Lan did not yet know.

In any case, it was definitely something good.