Chapter 1

[Host, don't be nervous. Once he gets you pregnant in one shot, you'll have succeeded.]

[Just raise the child until he's five, and you'll gain the supreme power of pureblood vampires. Then no one will dare look down on you.]

[On top of that, you'll regain the right to speak. Doesn't that sound wonderful?]

The cold system voice in her mind kept chattering, painting a beautiful picture of the future.

An Xiang had no attention to spare for it. Deep in her mind, nothing remained but anxiety.

The room was pitch-black. Naked, she curled herself into a tight ball like a shrimp. The quilt covered her head, letting in no air. As the air in that confined space grew thinner, her breathing became increasingly rapid and uneven. It felt as though a heavy stone pressed against her chest, suffocating her until her heart ached faintly.

Even so, An Xiang refused to emerge from her confines.

She squeezed her eyes shut, her slender, trembling fingers clutching the sheet beneath her.

An Xiang was terrified.

So terrified she couldn't even cry.

But she couldn't escape. She had to endure the invasion she was about to face.

An Xiang was the An Family's youngest daughter, and its most useless pureblood.

Despite being a vampire, she lacked even the Vampire Clan's most basic abilities.

She couldn't see into people's hearts or control time. She was weak, foolish, slow to react, and mute. Most ironic of all, despite being a vampire, she was allergic to human blood. That meant she couldn't drink blood and could survive only on specially prepared food formulas.

Over time, the utterly useless An Xiang was abandoned by her family, subjected to endless disdain and neglect.

They mocked her, laughed at her, and played tricks on her.

Her malicious older cousin deliberately poured blood into her bowl. An Xiang ate it by mistake, and as she lay dying, all she heard was laughter. All she saw was her parents' indifferent eyes.

-No one saved her.

An Xiang had thought her life had ended at twenty. She never expected to open her eyes somewhere else.

The system said the world she inhabited was a novel called Descent of the Divine Son. This body's original owner had been the male lead's mother, but she had died in an accident. Now An Xiang, who shared her name and came from the same world, was required to complete the mission in her place.

As long as she successfully slept with someone, gave birth to the future male lead, and raised him until he was five, she could leave.

Then she would return to her own body and awaken the greatest power in the entire Vampire Clan. Not only would she be able to speak, she would no longer be allergic to blood, and no one would ever look down on her again.

Remembering all the persecution she had suffered, An Xiang had agreed in a moment of impulse.

But now...

Fear of the unknown made her want to flee at the last moment.

Through her hazy thoughts, she heard the faint sound of a door opening. Her spine stiffened, then began to tremble.

An Xiang's heart pounded wildly beyond her control. Her white teeth clamped down on her lower lip, and each breath came faster than the last.

The curtains on either side of the bed were drawn apart. The mattress dipped beside her. A second later, someone violently yanked away the silk quilt, and an unfamiliar presence claimed the little space that remained.

-It was a man.

Before An Xiang could register her fear, she was trapped within that presence, along with a strong smell of alcohol and the man's hot breath against her face.

In the pitch-black darkness, he found her moist, glistening lips without fail, unleashing his most primal instincts.

His kisses left An Xiang's lips numb and her mind increasingly muddled.

"I'm scared..."

The words slipped out reflexively. Then she froze, covering the throat that had just produced a voice in disbelief.

She...

She could speak?

Of course she could. She had originally been mute, but the body she had transmigrated into was a perfectly healthy, ordinary human's.

An Xiang swallowed and tried to face her current situation calmly.

The man seemed to have been drugged. His mind was clouded, and everything he did was driven by instinct.

The system seemed to have mentioned at the beginning that the male lead's father had indeed been set up, which was why he had stumbled into the commoner mother's room...

As long as she-as long as she obeyed and held on for six years, she could have everything she had ever dreamed of.

An Xiang didn't want it. She didn't want to be bullied anymore, didn't want to be trampled like an ant again.

She wanted to become stronger, and even more than that, she wanted revenge on the members of her own kind who had humiliated her.

The laughter she had heard before dying echoed in her ears again. Those hideous, terrifying faces flashed before her eyes over and over.

Compared with the treatment she had endured before, this little bit of harm was nothing.

At that thought, An Xiang silently unclenched her tightly balled fists.

Besides the hot smell of alcohol, the man carried a faint cedar scent. The two mingled, enveloping her whole body.

He was a little rough at first, then gradually became much gentler. An Xiang began to adjust and stopped struggling and resisting. The cries in her throat became quiet whimpers.

Actually... it wasn't quite so hard to accept.

An Xiang closed her eyes and gradually sank into it.

Night ended, and dawn broke.

Exhausted in both body and mind, An Xiang was woken by the system's voice in her head.

[Host, wake up! You need to leave!!!]

[Host, can you hear me?]

It called out again and again. An Xiang's fingertips stirred, and she slowly opened her eyes.

A sliver of light fell onto the floor through the gap between the curtains. There was a heavy weight at her waist: the man's firm forearm rested around it. His palm was warm and broad, a sharp contrast to her slightly cool skin.

His skin was very fair. Several faint red pinch marks were visible on his forearm, all left by her last night.

She gently pushed his arm off, slipped quietly out of bed, and picked up her clothes, putting them on one by one.

Her limbs were terribly sore and weak. An Xiang let out a deep breath and carefully turned back to study the man she had spent the night entangled with.

Against the white sheets, his hair looked jet-black. His neck was long, the lines of his neck and shoulders smooth and perfect.

His entire face was covered by a blurry mosaic, making his features impossible to see.

A mosaic...

An Xiang froze.

[According to the laws of fiction, the heroine can't see the protagonist's face after a one-night stand, so I took care of it for you. No need to thank me.]

Seeing An Xiang still standing there, the system added, [Don't worry. He's hot as hell.]

An Xiang's breath caught slightly, and she stammered in defense, "I... I don't judge by looks."

In a vampire's long life, many things mattered more than a face.

The system said nothing, simply assuming she was shy.

[Those people will be here soon. Hurry and leave, Host.]

An Xiang nodded. Not daring to delay, she dragged her exhausted body out of the hotel.

It was early spring. The morning wind was brisk, and pedestrians hurried along the streets.

She had no money or phone, so she relied entirely on the system's directions as she walked toward this body's home. At the same time, the system slowly transferred the original owner's nineteen years of memories to her.

She had been born into a thoroughly ordinary family. Her parents had left her three properties when they died. The original owner had no particular ambitions, and her family's misfortune had made her increasingly idle. She had dropped out of school early and lived on the rent from those properties.

System: [Host, do you need to review the original plot?]

An Xiang had arrived in such a rush, panicked and at a loss, that she hadn't been able to analyze the situation calmly at all. Since the system had offered, there was no reason to refuse.

"I want to review it."

System: [All right.]

With that, it played through the plot of Descent of the Divine Son for An Xiang at a slower speed.

In this novel's world, three major races coexisted: humans, vampires, and hunters.

Humans were unaware of the other races' existence. Having been driven from this land a century earlier, those races had kept their identities hidden and lived quietly in the corners of the earth.

But the balance was bound to be broken. The increasingly powerful Vampire Clan began actively attacking the other two races. Amid the undercurrents stirring between the various factions, An Zimo was born.

As the novel's male lead, An Zimo was destined for a difficult life.

His mother had given birth to him with a cursed vampire. Born of a human and a vampire, An Zimo was diagnosed at birth as an "intellectually deficient imbecile." This meant he would never be able to speak or possess awareness, and wouldn't even recognize his own mother.

Knowing nothing about life and still an overgrown baby herself, the original owner had immediately panicked and left An Zimo with her grandfather in the mountains. He cared for him for four years.

Unexpectedly, this led An Zimo to receive guidance from a mysterious person, surpass his limits, awaken his bloodline, and become a genius seen only once in a century.

Later, his great-grandfather died, and An Zimo's mother brought him back to live with her. A year later, she too died of illness, leaving An Zimo to grow up alone.

After countless trials, the male lead finally shattered the chaos, ruled the Vampire Clan, and became humanity's savior.

It was worth mentioning that the first pureblood family An Zimo reduced to cannon fodder in the novel, the An Family, was An Xiang's own family.

An Xiang carefully looked through the middle of the story again and discovered that the novel never mentioned her existence.

"I'm not in here. Did you make a mistake?"

The system said, [Your family didn't value you. They refused to acknowledge your identity and even concealed your existence. It's normal for the novel not to mention you.]

An Xiang fell silent, her heart pierced.

Seeing her dejected, the system hurried to comfort her. [It's all right. Just properly complete your storyline, and I'll fulfill your wishes when you return.]

An Xiang reviewed the plot once more and bit her lip. [Then... if the male lead wipes out my family, will awakening my powers still... still be any use?]

An Xiang might have been a little slow, but she wasn't stupid.

She had read plenty of novels when bored. Someone like An Zimo followed the standard all-powerful protagonist script.

In a world where he was the protagonist, even gaining supreme power would only leave her destined to become cannon fodder.

System: [You're being silly. An Zimo will take revenge on your family for you, and you'll gain your powers. Isn't that the best of both worlds? Besides, An Zimo is a very kind male lead, and you share his mother's name. As long as you don't deliberately provoke him, he definitely won't come bothering you.]

An Xiang sank into thought and was eventually persuaded.

She was rather softhearted. Even if she hated that family to her very bones, she might still find it hard to kill them in the end. If someone else would do it for her, why not?

System: [You've now successfully completed the first step. Next, just focus on your pregnancy. Once the baby is born, leave him with your grandfather. A year later, following the plot, you'll fall ill and die. The day you die will be the day you return to your body and awaken.]

It sounded oddly easy.

But...

Knowing nothing about the outside world and possibly unable even to support herself, An Xiang stroked her flat belly and sighed deeply.

But she was afraid something might go wrong and the baby would die in the womb.

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In case you don't understand, let me explain again. An Xiang's world is actually the novel's world~

A melodramatic vampire setting, taking you back to 2008 for a taste of youth (not really).

Content warning: I know readers of modern fantasy romance love powerful heroines, but this book mainly focuses on goofy family affection. The heroine isn't a dominant female lead either; she's just as the synopsis describes. Besides, I think a mother with these personality flaws paired with a child-prodigy son would be fun.

So if that bothers you, just click X. There's no need to specifically explain what personality you hate. A fictional character isn't sharing your life, and your dislike accomplishes nothing.

Love you all.

Upcoming: "Transmigrating as the Sister of an Angsty Romance's Male Lead"

Chu Li transmigrated into a novel-and a famous series of angsty romances at that.

Her three older brothers were leading figures among angsty romance male leads, each ranking among the very worst scumbags. The eldest liked removing heroines' wombs; the second liked slaughtering heroines' entire families; the third was even more vicious, a future textbook example for criminal law.

When Chu Li arrived, her three brutal brothers were relentlessly beating a teenage boy in a corner.

The boy was beaten until his head was bloodied, unable to fight back at all. Finally, he looked at them and said in a weak yet vicious voice, "...Just you wait."

Looking into those sinister eyes, Chu Li suddenly remembered-this was the male lead of a Qidian comeback novel!! In the future, a single stamp of his foot would make City X tremble!

Chu Li looked utterly shocked. What on earth was going on with this world!!

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A few days later, Chu Li hid alone in a corner and cried, successfully attracting affectionate inquiries from her three brothers.

"Little sister, did someone bully you? Tell your brother. I'll get revenge for you."

"No..." Chu Li sobbed and hiccupped, choking out her complaint. "Shen Zhi... he pinned me against a wall and kissed me."

Without another word, they went to settle the score with Shen Zhi that very day.

The boy leaned against a wall, his expression cool as he said rather contemptuously, "I told you to wait."

"..."

"Wait until you have to call me your brother-in-law."

"...!"

Later still, after falling in love with Shen Zhi, Chu Li discovered she hadn't transmigrated into a melodramatic angsty romance, a Qidian comeback novel, or even a sweet Jinjiang romance with wall-pinning kisses, but an X-rated story from a certain site!

Chu Li: QAQ I hate this world where unspeakable things can happen anywhere.