Transmigrated into Prison, Writing a Diary and Preparing to Rebel

[August thirteenth: two cornmeal buns for prison food. They tasted awful.]

[August fourteenth: my second day in prison. So bored. I want to visit a pleasure house and listen to some music.]

[Third day in prison: I can't take it anymore. I'm breaking the fuck out!]

[Fourth day: good thing I didn't escape... The head jailer hacked another would-be escapee to death. Free food and lodging aren't so bad. No need to do anything stupid.]

[Fifth day: damn it, what did that head jailer mean by deliberately dropping the keys outside my cell? Was he trying to entrap me? Pah, what a sly, treacherous bastard. I wasn't falling for it!]

[Sixth day: cornmeal buns again. I'm tired. Let the world end...]

[Seventh day: counting the days, it should be about time. Tonight, that scheming empress who couldn't tell right from wrong, killed people like flies, waged endless wars, and couldn't find a husband would be assassinated. Oh, assassin, assassin, use every last ounce of strength to give her a good beating for locking me up...]

The imperial palace of Great Qi.

Frost gathered between Qi Yueli's brows, and anger gradually rose on her face.

Just now, this "Gu Yuan's Diary" had appeared on her desk.

It had materialized out of thin air, without the slightest warning.

Even using all her strength, she could not damage the diary in the slightest.

It was a rather good defensive artifact.

But its contents were infuriating!

How was she unable to find a husband?

Among all the men under heaven, not one could stand as her equal. Who was worthy of marrying her?

"Slandering the empress."

"This Gu Yuan has some nerve!"

Qi Yueli returned her gaze to the diary.

Assassinated tonight?

She didn't believe it at all.

If anyone under heaven dared to come to the Great Qi imperial palace to assassinate a grandmaster at the peak of martial arts... they must have been tired of living.

[Well, I can only mouth off about it. There's no way the assassin can beat up the empress. According to the game's setting, before the version update, only the male and female leads working together can defeat her.]

[Speaking of which, I think the assassin's name was Bu... Bu what again? I was too busy watching the CG to remember his name. Whatever, I'll just call him Little Bu.]

Qi Yueli frowned.

She recognized every character in the diary, but put together, they were obscure and difficult to understand.

"The person who will assassinate me is surnamed Bu. Could he mean the thief king, Bu Liuhen?"

"Hmph. He certainly knows how to spin a tale."

[Poor Little Bu. There were ten thousand ways to lure the empress away, but he just had to mention her birth. In the end, he angered her and was chased for hundreds of miles, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down and disabled for life.]

[The empress was an idiot too. She couldn't see through such an obvious ruse to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and a few casual words from someone else were enough to set her off. No wonder her Dao heart later shattered, leaving her vulnerable to demonic invasion. In the end, the male and female leads joined forces to kill her, her body perished and her Dao vanished, and not even a pinch of ash remained.]

[What a pity. Great Qi's centuries-old foundation was destroyed in her hands. What a tragedy!]

Bang!

The golden cup in Qi Yueli's hand was crushed to powder.

"I succumb to demonic corruption, my body perishes and my Dao vanishes, and Great Qi falls?"

"Impossible!"

"What a vile spy, spreading lies to mislead the people!"

"Such nonsense deserves immediate execution!"

[But then again, Great Qi's destruction was inevitable, so the empress couldn't be blamed entirely. According to the setting, Great Qi's dragon vein was already exhausted by this point, less than a tenth of its destiny remained, the imperial court was in turmoil, natural disasters never ceased, and the people had no means of living. It would have been strange if it hadn't fallen.]

!!!

Qi Yueli suddenly rose to her feet, disbelief surging in her eyes like monstrous waves. Her chest heaved violently, and her heart could not settle for a long time.

The exhaustion of the dragon vein was a top secret. She was the only person under heaven who knew about it.

How on earth did Gu Yuan know?!

[Forget it. None of this has anything to do with me for now. Tonight, Little Bu will lure the empress away, and the King of Qingzhou's men will come to break someone out of prison. I'll escape in the chaos, go home and knock out my dad, mom, and older sister, then take them out of Qi Capital and head straight for Qingzhou!]

[Once I reach Qingzhou, I'll be in my comfort zone as an expert player. I can recite from memory where every quest and treasure is.]

[Once the King of Qingzhou succeeds in his rebellion and becomes emperor, an expert player like me should at least be able to become a grand general.]

"The King of Qingzhou, a prison break, rebellion!!"

A chilling cold filled the hall.

A layer of frost covered Qi Yueli's eyes, and her beautiful face was devoid of expression.

"Guards."

A guard rushed in from outside the hall and felt as though he had plunged into an abyss of ice. His body trembled violently, completely beyond his control.

The empress was furious!

"Investigate whether there is a prisoner named Gu Yuan in any of the capital's prisons."

"Yes."

The guard's heart skipped a beat, and he mourned in silence for the unlucky fellow named Gu Yuan...

Meanwhile.

The imperial prison in Qi Capital.

A somewhat haggard young man was hiding in the corner of his cell, silently writing in a diary.

His name was Gu Yuan.

A transmigrator.

In his previous life, he had just finished the unparalleled game "Heavenly Desolation" and was about to go out and celebrate when he was hit by a truck.

When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into a world with a setting identical to that of "Heavenly Desolation."

Transmigration was one thing.

But his identity was actually that of the heir to the Marquis of Pingxiang, who shared his name.

A piece of cannon fodder who existed only in dialogue and didn't even have character art... No, calling him cannon fodder was giving him too much credit.

Worse still, he had woken up in prison.

According to his memories, he had gotten drunk and accidentally wandered into the imperial tombs, then behaved disgracefully and insulted the imperial family while intoxicated. The Mystic Shadow Guard had arrested him.

And then he had ended up in the imperial prison.

Everyone locked up in the imperial prison was a condemned criminal, the kind due to be executed after autumn...

That start had made Gu Yuan want to explode.

Fortunately, the Diary Check-In System had awakened when he transmigrated.

He could earn rewards simply by writing a diary, and the more he wrote, the greater the rewards.

Gu Yuan had written for seven days straight.

"System, it's been seven days. Where's my reward?"

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully writing a diary for seven consecutive days.]

[Reward: Martial God Physique.]

[Martial God Physique: Martial arts cultivation advances by leaps and bounds, with no bottlenecks whatsoever.]

"Martial God Physique! Wasn't that the best talent in the early game?"

Gu Yuan was delighted.

The next moment, an endless stream of warmth surged from his dantian, spread through his limbs, and finally gathered at his spiritual platform.

The exhaustion from his imprisonment vanished at once, and his face was no longer haggard.

He briefly recalled the Gu family's inherited martial arts.

In less than a breath, he had mastered them completely!

The barrier within his body shattered.

"Ninth grade."

"At this point in time, the Heavenly Desolation plot hasn't officially begun."

"That means the protagonist hasn't claimed any of those opportunities and fortuitous encounters yet."

The corners of Gu Yuan's lips curled upward. Since things had come to this, naturally he would-

Snatch them first!

Snatch every last one!

They were all his!

Being an errand boy in a game was one thing, but who would still be a tool after transmigrating?!

He wouldn't do anything without a benefit.

Gu Yuan even wanted to kill everyone on both the righteous and villainous sides and become emperor himself.

But as soon as the thought arose, he suppressed it.

"Right now, the plot is in the first version, 'Dynasty Turmoil.' If the plot changes too much and the later versions don't update, the loss wouldn't be worth it."

"After all, in the final version, it's possible to become an immortal!"

A longing for immortality appeared in Gu Yuan's eyes.

Between an emperor and an immortal, it was obvious who ranked higher. Of course he could tell the difference.

"The final boss of the 'Dynasty Turmoil' version is Qi Yueli, the empress of Great Qi. Taking her down should unlock the next version... For the sake of my grand plan for immortality, I'll have to rebel."

At that thought, Gu Yuan silently wrote a few lines in his diary.

[Ultimate goal: immortality!]

[Short-term goal: rebel and take down the empress!]

[That's enough writing for today. It's time to prepare for the prison break.]

Realms: ninth to first grade of martial arts, Grandmaster Realm, Heavenly Being Realm, Creation Realm, Land Immortal Realm...