I, the Vengeful Female Lead...

Yu Xunge had no idea Su Yitong was already considering marrying her into the Su Family to work for them, but even if she had known, it would not have mattered. She had already gotten angry enough about it in her previous life.

The Su Family could be hilarious sometimes. If you worked for them, the closer you got to the core, the better your benefits became, motivating everyone to climb higher.

But if you married into the Su Family as a daughter-in-law or a live-in son-in-law, then that was the end of it. You worked for free. You were already family, so you were working for your own household—why were you still asking for this and that? Surely you had not married into the Su Family just for their gold coins, right?

After she gained some fame through her God-Bestowed Talent in her previous life, Su Yitong had desperately wanted her to marry one of those utterly vile members of the Su Family. But just seeing the life Yu Xunhuan lived had left Yu Xunge with no favorable impression of the Su Family. If Liang Yuchuan and Han Qianshan had not joined the picture later, and if the Liang Family and Han family had not possessed power nearly equal to the Su Family's, Yu Xunhuan's status and treatment would have been hard to say.

And what kind of trash had Su Yitong even introduced to her? How could Yu Xunge possibly agree?

Yet in Su Yitong's eyes, Yu Xunge's repeated refusals meant that she had Yu Xunhuan in her heart.

Her imagination was filthy!!

At eight that evening, the portal lit up on time. Everyone lined up and passed through one by one, and after each person went through, they had to wait two minutes before the next was allowed through.

When Yu Xunge stepped through the blue door of light, she found herself in a dim little room lit by only a single candle.

Two people stood inside: a Short-haired Woman and the man in military uniform who had come in to make the announcement earlier. The uniformed man had changed into a gray robe. The Short-haired Woman waved Yu Xunge over. "Come here. We'll turn you into a small animal."

Yu Xunge watched her warily. "Where are the people from before?" Even if they were being turned into small animals and sent out of the city, it should not have been this fast.

The Short-haired Woman smiled and turned sideways, revealing a small glass box behind her. It was packed with cockroaches, layers upon layers of them. Countless cockroaches were desperately stepping on other cockroaches in an effort to crawl upward, while none of them wanted to be crushed beneath the others.

These were the small animals you meant?!

Wait, what had Zhao Shuying said exactly? "We can turn everyone into adorable little animals."

Yu Xunge went numb.

I, the Vengeful Female Lead who had returned from rebirth...

The Short-haired Woman said gently, "Come on."

Yu Xunge took a huge step back. "Wait! I surrender... No, I mean, I have an item that can turn me into a small animal myself. A genuinely adorable small animal."

It was fine. She had plenty of trump cards. No one knew how many small animals she could turn into!!!

Trump cards existed to make her life better!

Yu Xunge raised a hand to stop the Short-haired Woman from approaching. "Can I transform myself?"

The Short-haired Woman remained where she was, looking regretful. "Of course."

Just as Yu Xunge was about to transform, she suddenly asked, "Then do I still have to repay the 5 crystals in my loan contract that were charged for this transformation service?"

The Short-haired Woman pursed her lips in a smile, realizing that Yu Xunge was most likely a player who had traded a skill for entry privileges. "The 5 crystals are mainly for the cost of escorting you out of the city. Turning you into animals is merely a complimentary benefit."

Yu Xunge gritted her teeth. Fine, fine, fine. You people sure had plenty of tricks! Just you wait!

She transformed into the fat Cow Cat she had touched recently and walked into a corner, only to discover that a black dog was already crouching there. The look the dog gave her was full of pity and understanding.

Yu Xunge: "..."

Before long, Yu Xunge understood why the line to enter was moving so slowly. Once most people learned that they would be turned into cockroaches, they had to go through a process of shock, doubt, struggle, resistance, and compromise. Only a few people, presumably those who had been here before, remained calm and composed.

But when they saw the black dog and the Cow Cat in the corner, every one of them cast sour looks their way again and again.

Yu Xunge waited patiently, all the while sensing the aura of this other world. Even the air here seemed to contain magic.

Ever since becoming a player, she had been able to sense the energy within her body. Whenever she used a skill, she could even feel magic flowing through her. But those sensations had never been as clear as they were now.

It was like a lens that had always been shrouded in fog had suddenly been wiped clean, making the whole world sharp and clear.

She even had the illusion that she could instantly cast Ice Flower Seal without chanting an incantation.

Players passed by Yu Xunge one after another, but she did not use the Thief God's skill. When she had first been reborn, she had wanted to steal from even every dog that passed by. But after stealing Yu Xunhuan's God of Cooking Talent, the hostility in her heart had greatly diminished. There were so many powerful beings on this alien planet that she had no need to steal from her own people. Besides, there were still the Su, Liang, and Han families. She had more than enough enemies, so there was no need to target people who had never provoked her.

After waiting patiently for a while, everyone finally arrived. An orange cat had also appeared to Yu Xunge's right—it was the Short-haired Woman.

The man in military uniform had already put away the box of cockroaches. He used an item to transform himself into an undead, then led the two cats and one dog outside.

Gloom City was filled with all sorts of strange people: trolls, Blood Elves, Dwarves, goblins. No one paid attention to a few ordinary pets.

The group soon left the city. Yu Xunge followed closely behind their leader as he skillfully led them around the territories of low-level creatures such as wild wolves and goblins. After walking for who knew how long, they arrived beside a large tree some distance from Gloom City. Looking back, they could only vaguely make out the spire of the Undead Palace.

The Probe Function of the Soros Pocket Watch was truly powerful. In Yu Xunge's eyes, a line of text appeared outside the tree: A modified magical residence.

The leader knocked on the door and quietly spoke a passphrase. A flash of light passed beneath Yu Xunge and the others' feet. A few seconds later, a door appeared in the massive tree, which took several people to wrap their arms around. A bespectacled man opened the door and let them in.

Some unknown skill had been used inside. The space looked about as large as a football field, with two rows of tents as well. At a rough glance, there appeared to be nearly a hundred of them.

The orange cat transformed back into the Short-haired Woman. She told the cat and dog on the ground, "This is our base. You can come here to repay your loans."

What a cold thing to say.

Yu Xunge nodded her cat head, then felt that she looked a little foolish. She changed back into human form, put on her mask and hat, and asked, "Are there any other services here?"

The Short-haired Woman took out the box of cockroaches. As she restored the cockroaches to human form one by one, she said to everyone, "If you discover that you cannot survive here, you can also come here and continue cooperating with us. Of course, then you will have to follow orders. As for everything else, there is a price list here. You can take a look."

Yu Xunge took the sheet of paper handed to her by the bespectacled man. It was filled with chargeable services, from treatment to lodging, from potions to help with disguises. There was even a service for contacting them if someone got lost and could not find the camp, then paying them to send someone to pick them up...

Most terrifying of all, at least half the listed services had "price negotiable" written after them.