Chapter Summaries

Yun Manman transmigrated into the body of a seventeen-year-old farm girl and killed the three men who had tried to assault her. After learning her relatives had arranged the attack, she headed back toward the village but discovered the men had given her an unknown drug.

• Yun Manman awoke in the back hills of Wuliang after transmigrating into the farm girl Yun Manman, whose family had sent her out to gather wild greens.
• Yun Manman killed the burly man, the sharp-faced man, and the fat man after they tried to attack her.
• The fat man revealed that Yun Manman's grandmother, grandfather, and second uncle had paid them to ruin her purity and force her into marriage with a woodcutter.
• Yun Manman took the men's money and prepared to return to the village to check on her parents and brothers.
• Yun Manman felt heat and discomfort in her body, remembered that the men had forced medicinal powder down her throat, and regretted that she knew Western surgery rather than traditional Chinese medicine.

After Yun Manman was overcome by a strange heat in the mountains, she encountered a white-robed man and the two became intimate before she fled. She resolved to live freely in the village, but a strange mass of white vapor rushed toward her.

• Yun Manman cut her arm to clear her head and went deeper into the mountains in search of water.
• Yun Manman fought the white-robed man in a cave, then treated him as the antidote to her condition and became intimate with him.
• The white-robed man woke after sunset, found Yun Manman gone, and left with his guard without pursuing her.
• Yun Manman returned toward the village, deciding she would not marry and would live freely in this life.
• A voice called Yun Manman a scummy woman as a mass of white vapor rushed toward her face.

Yun Manman discovered that a strange space had attached itself to her wrist and demanded resentment qi, then returned to Red Star Village during a Beilin attack. She saved Old Father Yun from a soldier and faced a group of soldiers while he wondered what had changed about her.

• Yun Manman learned that the Resentment Qi Storage Space wanted her to gather resentment by killing, beating, or cursing people, and it vanished to cultivate.
• Old Father Yun attacked a Beilin soldier who mocked him about Yun Manman, and the soldier prepared to kill him.
• Yun Manman rushed in, broke the soldier’s arm, and killed him with his saber while shielding Old Father Yun.
• Several Beilin soldiers surrounded Yun Manman, and Old Father Yun urged her to flee before she reassured him and told him to step back.
• Old Father Yun watched Yun Manman face the soldiers and noticed that her eyes, tone, and manner seemed different.

Yun Manman killed the Beilin soldiers threatening the village and told Old Father Yun that she had replaced his daughter, but he accepted her as his child. After warning the village chief that more Beilin troops were nearby, she rejected Old Woman Wang’s demand that the Yun family take responsibility and knocked her down.

• Yun Manman killed the Beilin soldiers who had attacked the villagers and learned that more Beilin troops were nearby.
• Yun Manman told Old Father Yun that the original Yun Manman could not return, but Old Father Yun accepted her as his daughter and bandaged her shoulder.
• Yun Manman promised to protect Old Father Yun’s family, while Old Father Yun wept with relief and regret.
• Yun Manman warned the village chief to have the villagers pack and flee before the Beilin troops arrived.
• Old Woman Wang and another villager blamed Yun Manman for the soldiers’ deaths and refused to flee with the Yun family.
• Yun Manman said the Yun family would make its own choice and kicked Old Woman Wang down when she insulted her.

Yun Manman returned home after killing the six men sent to assault her, and warned the village chief and villagers not to gossip about her. She told Old Father Yun and Madam Zhou that the old Yun family had ordered the attack, leaving Old Father Yun enraged and Madam Zhou devastated.

• Yun Manman warned the villagers that she would kill anyone who spread gossip about her, then advised the village chief to hide from Beilin's people.
• Yun Manman searched the corpses for silver while Old Father Yun collected it, and she recovered her discarded saber.
• Old Father Yun brought Yun Manman home, where Madam Zhou anxiously checked that they were safe and comforted Yun Manman about her purple eyes.
• Yun Manman told Old Father Yun and Madam Zhou that her grandparents and Second Uncle had arranged for men to assault her so they could sell her to the woodcutter.
• Old Father Yun grabbed an axe and vowed to kill the relatives who had plotted against Yun Manman, while Madam Zhou collapsed, sobbing.

After surviving an attack by her grandparents, Yun Manman comforted her parents and agreed with Old Father Yun to sever ties with them. The danger passed when Mo Beiyuan became the new Prince of the North and defeated the Beilin Kingdom’s forces, and Yun Manman chose to build a family life with her parents.

• Yun Manman reassured Madam Zhou and persuaded Old Father Yun that severing ties with her grandparents was the safest choice.
• At dinner, Yun Manman ate the family’s meager rice and gave the silver back to Old Father Yun to use for household expenses.
• Yun Manman tried to exchange points from her cheat for food, but the silent system left her hungry with only a steamed bun.
• The village chief told Yun Manman that Mo Beiyuan had become the new Prince of the North and led the Black Flame Army to defeat the Beilin Kingdom’s forces.
• Yun Manman asked Old Father Yun to take Madam Zhou to a doctor and visit her younger brothers, then chopped a courtyard full of firewood.

Yun Manman carried Madam Zhou to Red Camp Town, where a doctor said Madam Zhou needed nourishing food to recover from the effects of childbirth. When Yun Manman and her parents reached the courtyard where her younger brothers worked, they heard their master and his wife bullying the boys.

• Yun Manman carried Madam Zhou while Old Father Yun carried their baskets on the journey to town.
• At a bun stall, Yun Manman ordered food for the family, and they ate before visiting Zhenyuan Hall.
• The doctor told the family that Madam Zhou had no serious illness but needed nutritious food to recover from childbirth.
• Yun Manman and her parents went to visit Yun Zewu and Yun Zeren, bringing meat buns for them.
• Before Yun Manman could knock, she heard the master's wife order Yun Zewu to wash her undergarments and Yun Zeren to clean a chamber pot, while Master Shen also demanded that they clean his chamber pot.
• Yun Manman felt heartbroken and furious as Old Father Yun and Madam Zhou heard how the boys were being mistreated.

Yun Manman rescued her younger brothers from Master Shen and his wife, punished the pair, and erased their memories of the Yun family. She took their valuables and food, then reassured her family that the dispute was over.

• Yun Manman broke into Master Shen's courtyard with Old Father Yun and Madam Zhou and found Yun Zewu and Yun Zeren bruised and forced to work.
• Yun Manman stopped Master Shen's wife from attacking her brothers, then forced the couple into tubs and made the boys help punish them.
• Yun Manman returned to the courtyard alone, gave Master Shen and his wife memory-erasing pills, and took their money, silver, food, and flour.
• Yun Manman reunited with her family and told Old Father Yun that she had dealt with the Shen family and ended their feud.

Yun Manman bought clothes, food, supplies, books, and silver needles for her family, then returned home exhausted. There, Old Madam Yun and Yun Zhen’s brothers accused him of hiding food from his parents and stirred the villagers against him.

• Yun Manman reassured Old Yun that the family would no longer have to endure humiliation and led them to buy supplies in town.
• Yun Manman bought cloth, provisions, books for her younger brothers, and ordered silver needles at the smithy.
• The space revealed that it could store belongings and people after upgrading from the resentment Yun Manman had earned.
• Yun Manman and her family returned home, where Old Madam Yun, Yun Wang, and Yun Fa accused Old Yun of secretly eating meat and turned the villagers against him.
• Yun Manman came out of the kitchen and coldly surveyed Old Madam Yun and her two sons as they eyed the family’s food.

Yun Manman stopped Yun Wang and Old Madam Yun from taking her family’s food, while Father Yun demanded to sever ties with the old Yun family. After Yun Manman frightened Old Man Yun into wetting himself, Father Yun pleaded with the village chief to help his family break away.

• Yun Manman kicked Yun Wang down and warned the old Yun family not to take her family’s food.
• Yun Manman kicked Old Madam Yun over, and Father Yun told the village chief he wanted to sever family ties.
• Yun Manman split Old Man Yun’s firewood stick with a thrown axe and embedded the axe in a tree, frightening him into wetting himself.
• Yun Manman told the village chief that the old Yun family had tried to take their food and sell her to a woodcutter.
• Father Yun knelt and tearfully begged his father to sever ties, while the villagers turned against Old Madam Yun.

Yun Manman pressured Old Yun into signing a document severing Yun Zhen’s family ties, then comforted her father and reunited with her family over plans to cook meat. She entered her mysterious space, ate a Returning Lotus Fruit, and began preparing to handle a matter that night.

• Yun Manman threatened to report what happened on the mountain unless Old Yun agreed to sever ties with Yun Zhen’s family.
• Yun Zhen agreed to leave with his family and take nothing, and the village chief prepared the severance document.
• Old Yun and Yun Fa confirmed the document with their thumbprints, while the village chief signed Yun Zecai’s name on his behalf.
• Yun Manman comforted Father Yun as the family expressed hope for their future and went to cook meat.
• Yun Manman entered her space, ate a Returning Lotus Fruit after Guagua described its healing powers, and said she would deal with a matter that night.

Yun Manman used a nightmare pill and her martial arts to rob the old Yun family and destroy their roofs, leaving several relatives injured and in misery. After hearing the aftermath from Father Yun, she continued cultivating while a distant man in the northwest searched for an unidentified martial woman.

• Yun Manman sneaked into the old Yun family's house, drugged Old Madam Yun, and took the silver and banknote hidden beneath a pillow.
• With Guagua's guidance, Yun Manman took the remaining money from Yun Wang's room and used her true qi to blast apart the family's roofs during a storm.
• The old Yun family was buried under collapsing tiles and earth; Old Madam Yun and Yun Wang suffered nightmare-induced agony, while Yun Fa and the others struggled to escape.
• Father Yun told Yun Manman that the old Yun family had no silver to repair the roofs, Old Madam Yun had crippled her leg, and Yun Wang had disabled his left hand.
• Yun Manman stayed home to cultivate the Lotus Heart Art as a man in a northwest command tent ordered a search for the unknown woman skilled in martial arts.

Yun Manman trained her family in martial arts and literacy, then planned to earn silver by catching medicinal creatures and venturing deep into the mountains. Old Father Yun reluctantly accepted that he could not stop her and asked when she would return.

• Yun Manman invited Old Father Yun, Madam Zhou, Yun Zewu, and Yun Zeren to learn martial arts, and told her brothers to study reading and writing as well.
• Yun Manman shared breakfast with her family and said she would teach her brothers to catch scorpions and centipedes for silver.
• Yun Manman told Old Father Yun she planned to venture deep into the mountains, but he warned her about wolves and other fierce beasts.
• Yun Manman insisted she could protect herself and promised to return with meat and silver, while Old Father Yun asked when she would be home.

Yun Manman gathered centipedes with Yun Zewu and Yun Zeren before returning home after hearing that people had come to the Yun Family. She found Zhang Gouzi there, claiming her grandparents had sold her to him, and left him pinned against a tree at knifepoint.

• Yun Manman took Yun Zewu and Yun Zeren to the mountain, where they found centipedes and collected them for sale.
• After the boys went home, Yun Manman headed deeper into the mountains, but Guagua told her that several streams of resentment had appeared.
• Yun Zewu and Yun Zeren rushed home and warned Old Father Yun and Madam Zhou that Old Father Yun, Old Madam Yun, Yun Wang, Zhang Gouzi, and four young men were coming.
• Zhang Gouzi claimed Yun Manman's grandparents had sold her to him for ten taels of silver and demanded that she come with him.
• Yun Manman arrived, kicked Zhang Gouzi into a tree, and held a knife to his mouth as he tried to call her his wife.

Yun Manman drove off the Yun Family and Zhang Gouzi after they tried to sell her, then went into the mountains to hunt. She spotted a herd of endangered Przewalski's horses and resolved to tame one as her mount.

• Yun Manman frightened Zhang Gouzi with her knife, and he gave her the contract of sale and apologized for not knowing who she was.
• Yun Manman had Zhang Gouzi's men restrain Old Madam Yun and Yun Wang, cut off one finger from each, and let Zhang Gouzi take Yun Wang's daughter in repayment for the ten taels.
• Yun Manman calmed her family and returned to the mountains, where Guagua guided her to wild vegetables and mushrooms.
• Yun Manman killed two wild boars, scattered their blood to attract more animals, and hid in her space to wait.
• Yun Manman saw a herd of Przewalski's horses and decided she would tame one as her mount.

Yun Manman captured a herd of horses and sheep in her space, lured a wild horse into accepting her, and explored a mountain valley before discovering two wolves surrounded by tigers. The chapter ended as a tiger charged at her while the pregnant she-wolf silently begged for help.

• Yun Manman decided to lure a wild horse rather than tame it and captured the grazing horses and sheep in her space.
• Yun Manman used returning lotus fruit to win over the wild horse, then left greens for the northwestern mountain sheep.
• Yun Manman found a spring pool in a moonlit valley, bathed, and reflected that solitude would remain part of her life until she became strong enough.
• Yun Manman heard wolves and tigers, then found two wounded northwestern wolves surrounded by six tigers and recognized that one wolf was pregnant.
• A smaller tiger charged at Yun Manman while the other five held their positions around the wolves.

Yun Manman killed the tigers attacking her and the wolves, then used a rare fruit to heal the injured male wolf. After collecting the tiger corpses and pelts, she left the wolves safe and prepared to bring the spoils home.

• Yun Manman killed two tigers with her blades, then escaped their dying attacks by entering her space.
• Yun Manman returned to fight three more tigers, and the male wolf helped her by knocking one away from her.
• Yun Manman used the Heart-Devouring Lotus to kill two fleeing tigers, then stabbed the last tiger attacking the exhausted male wolf.
• The female wolf showed gratitude to Yun Manman, who gave both wolves Returning Lotus Fruit to help heal their injuries.
• Yun Manman stored four tiger carcasses in her space and skinned two large tigers to make warm clothing for her family.

Yun Manman earned the wolf pack’s gratitude after saving the wolf king and queen, then stayed overnight to cultivate under their protection. She woke stronger to find that the wolves had gathered a heap of prey for her.

• A pack of 108 wolves surrounded Yun Manman, but the wolf king calmed them and they bowed to thank her for saving him and the pregnant wolf queen.
• The wolf queen howled, sending the pack away, and Yun Manman discovered that the resentment of wild beasts could also expand her space.
• When Yun Manman tried to leave, the wolf queen and wolf king urged her to stay, so she agreed to spend the night with them.
• Yun Manman shared Returning Lotus Fruits with the two wolves and cultivated through the night, mastering the second level of her cultivation method.
• The wolf queen led Yun Manman to a heap of prey that the pack had gathered for her.

Yun Manman returned from the mountains with a haul of prey, rode a wolf back to the mountain exit, and reached Red Camp Town on a Mongolian wild horse. After selling scorpions and centipedes at Zhenyuan Hall, she left town and changed into men's clothing in her space.

• Yun Manman gave the wolf king and queen eight Returning Lotus Fruits, collected the prey, and rode a wolf out of the mountains with six wolves following.
• Yun Manman released her Mongolian wild horse, fed it a Returning Lotus Fruit, and rode it to Red Camp Town in five minutes.
• Yun Manman collected her silver needles from the blacksmith and bought clothes, a saddle, and scissors in town.
• Yun Manman sold twenty-eight scorpions and eight centipedes to the shopkeeper at Zhenyuan Hall for half a tael of silver.
• Yun Manman left town, entered her space, and changed into men's clothing before studying her reflection in the mirror.

Yun Manman disguised herself as a refined young gentleman and visited Wuliang County to sell a large haul of game. Shopkeeper Chen agreed to buy it and arranged to meet her in an alley on East Street.

• Yun Manman used cosmetics to alter her appearance, gave her wild horse a melon-seed haircut, and rode it toward Wuliang County.
• Yun Manman entered Wuliang, ate cold noodles, and asked a proprietress where she could sell game.
• Yun Manman visited the Chen Family General Store and asked to speak with the shopkeeper about selling a large quantity of goods.
• Yun Manman told Shopkeeper Chen she had over forty animals, including lions, snow leopards, yaks, bears, and boars.
• Shopkeeper Chen agreed to buy all the game, and Yun Manman told him to meet her in an East Street alley in a quarter of an hour.