Villainous Undercover (1)
When Song Xuyi woke up, there was a spread of weeds in front of her.
In the pile of weeds, she subconsciously flapped her nose, not knowing what she had inhaled, and was about to sneeze when a hand reached out from behind and tightly covered her mouth and nose—
“Little sister, do you want to die?” the young man whispered urgently in Song Xuyi’s ear, “The people from the Demon Sect haven’t left yet!”
Beside her was a young boy, not very old. Although his face was smeared with black ash, his beautiful phoenix eyes and high straight nose still revealed his striking features. Song Xuyi looked at her own hands, also smeared with black ash, with dimples on the back, and pursed her lips—
Following the young boy’s terrified gaze, not far away, a raging fire was burning down the thatch houses one after another. The sound of crying and wailing filled the air, while some people dressed in black moved in and out of the households like ghosts, their swords gleaming white, particularly noticeable in the night…
This must be the “people from the Demon Sect” the young man mentioned!
Song Xuyi didn’t dare move again, forcibly suppressing the impulse to sneeze. Her wide-open eyes involuntarily filled with tears as she watched the group of people robbing and looting from family to family, the firelight extending, and the fresh blood winding on the ground…
In this kind of situation, it was obviously not suitable to receive the plot.
Even though shortly after, the system’s voice, sounding extremely joyful, rang in Song Xuyi’s mind, she didn’t dare to be distracted, only staring at the human world purgatory before her, lips tightly pressed.
She didn’t know how much time had passed; the entire village had become a sea of fire, and that group of people in black finally stopped plundering. They found several carriages and drove the remaining women and children from the village into the carriages, departing mightily and grandly.
When the sound of hoofbeats could no longer be heard, the young man finally released his tight grip on Song Xuyi’s hand, exhaling deeply as he lay on the pile of weeds.
—The surroundings suddenly became extremely quiet, with only the ‘crackling’ sound of burning houses in the distance.
“Xuyi, listen, brother will definitely destroy the Demon Sect in the future to avenge our father and mother!”
After a while, the young man finally regained his strength, biting his teeth tightly, tears rolling in his eyes as he looked towards Song Xuyi beside him.
However, the young sister seemed not to understand the hatred in the adult world, or perhaps because the rush of the journey during the day had exhausted her strength, the little girl closed her eyes, her sleeping face appearing extremely peaceful…
The young man’s eyes, filled with surging hatred, suddenly stopped, and somehow two drops of tears fell. He quickly wiped away the tears with the back of his hand, and, as he had done before, untied his belt, tied it into a strap, and secured his younger sister to his back. With the bright moonlight, he carefully picked his way along the small path, carrying his sister with each labored step…
Song Xuyi was naturally pretending to sleep. The situation before her looked extremely dangerous, and she didn’t know the whole story. She could only pretend to sleep to receive the plot summary and body memory. However, listening to the young man’s strained breathing while carrying her, the guilt in Song Xuyi’s heart grew deeper and deeper. She couldn’t help but speak up to urge the system: “I know, give me the plot summary, please!”
The system was apologizing to Song Xuyi.
Song Xuyi also didn’t know what was happening with the system; it suddenly became extremely noisy. According to what the system said, it still couldn’t contact the main god. It spent a great effort to choose a world without any supernatural elements and felt very happy, not managing to guard against those unknown attacks. By the time it noticed, this space-time was pushed forward five years compared to the system’s set time.
“Xuyi, yes, sorry, at this stage, you might need to endure some hardships…” the system stammered, apologized, and then transmitted the plot summary to Song Xuyi.
Just as Song Xuyi saw, this is an ancient world.
In this era, martial arts are highly esteemed. Although the country is led by the court, in regions like Jiangnan where the court’s reach is limited, there has always been a martial arts world belonging to the Jianghu people. In recent years, as the emperor has become increasingly muddled, local conflicts have arisen, leaving the court overwhelmed and increasingly powerless to supervise the localities. Thus, martial arts sects have gradually risen in these areas, replacing the court to uphold justice and manage conflicts, gradually beginning to stand as equals with the court.
Correspondingly, many criminals and desperadoes began to flee to the borderlands, gathering to form the notorious Demon Sect.
In the beginning, the Demon Sect consisted of many small sects, but a few years ago, a sect called Xungu unified the Demon Sect with its powerful strength. In recent years, under Xungu’s leadership, the Demon Sect has grown increasingly large, relying on their numbers to start invading martial arts sects. Many sects have encountered massacres by the Demon Sect.
Such a massacre suddenly descended upon the Song Family Fortress a few days ago.
The Song Family Fortress, near the border, is a well-known Jiangnan martial villa locally. The villa owner, with high martial arts skills, is kind and charitable, well-loved by people, and never does evil with others. However, in one night, the entire Song Family Fortress was plundered by the Demon Sect. Except for the young daughter Song Xuyi, who was playing hide-and-seek with maids and fell asleep hiding in a rice jar, and the second son Song Xu, who was studying at a teacher’s home, everyone else tragically died at the hands of the Demon Sect.
The young man carrying Song Xuyi, Song Xu, is the book’s male lead.
After the family was tragically massacred, Song Xu, who originally focused on studying and was unwilling to learn martial arts, abandoned his studies for martial arts. Carrying his young sister, he went through dangers and arrived at Nan County, seeking refuge with the first Jianghu sect, Taiji Sect. However, Taiji Sect saw that Song Xu’s bone structure was already matured, making it too late to learn martial arts, and after giving Song Xu some money, they refused to accept him into the sect.
Fortunately, later Song Xu met a wanderer who had received kindness from his father. Following that wanderer, he started practicing martial arts from the beginning. Song Xu, single-mindedly seeking revenge, with firm will, also frequently had fortuitous encounters, quickly rising to fame and becoming a famous young hero.
The book’s female lead is Gong Huan, the daughter of a Taiji Sect elder. She disguised herself as a man to travel down the mountain and, by a twist of fate, traveled the same path as Song Xu. Along the way, they punished evil and promoted good. The innocent and lively Gong Huan quickly took a liking to Song Xu and confessed to him. However, Song Xu, focused on revenge, although also moved by Gong Huan, held onto the old resentment of Taiji Sect refusing him entry and was further obstructed by Gong Huan’s father. Song Xu believed Gong Huan approached him with ill intent by disguising as a man and repeatedly rejected Gong Huan’s advances.
Finally, with Gong Huan’s help, Song Xu discovered the reason the Demon Sect annihilated the Song family and obtained the map of the Demon Palace.
With the map, led by Taiji Sect’s leader Lu Dun, the Jianghu righteous path formed an alliance to decide to attack the Demon Sect. During the attack on the Demon Sect, everyone was united against the enemy. Song Xu and Gong Huan’s father reconciled their differences and finally acknowledged their feelings, with Gong Huan confessing…
According to the main god’s arrangement, this should lead to the successful annihilation of the Demon Sect and a happy ending with the male and female leads together, but since Song Xuyi arrived here, naturally, some complications arose.
After the Righteous Alliance reached the Demon Sect, they discovered that the map had been silently switched, leading the Righteous Alliance into the Demon Sect’s drug puppet trap formation. Despite suffering heavy losses, inspired by Lu Dun, everyone still fought with spirit against the enemy, but they did not expect Lu Dun’s eldest disciple, Fu Xiyu, to suddenly betray them, piercing Lu Dun’s chest with a sword—
Only then did everyone realize that Fu Xiyu had always hidden her strength, and her true identity is the notorious leader of the Demon Sect—Xungu Valley Master.
After Lu Dun died, the Righteous Alliance, leaderless, collapsed layer by layer. Fu Xiyu led the Demon Sect disciples to press forward step by step, consecutively inflicting heavy injuries on many martial arts experts, and finally forced the righteous people into the miasma valley of no return.
Song Xu, originally against Fu Xiyu, suffered a heavy injury and later also suffered from miasma erosion. Ultimately, he did not endure and died at a young age in the miasma valley…
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With the male lead’s death, the world line collapsed. The main god retraced the timeline, thus Song Xuyi came to this world.
In this world, Song Xuyi’s identity is the male lead’s younger sister.
According to the main god’s consistent principle that Song Xuyi’s identity in the task world would not be lacking, as the male lead’s younger sister, Song Xuyi’s identity five years later is not low.
Five years later, the original owner, due to medical talent, was accepted as a disciple by the specialized Divine Doctor’s Medical Valley, deeply loved by the Medical Valley master, and seen by the outside world as the new successor of Medical Valley. At that time, the original owner also participated in the crusade against the Demon Sect, but stayed outside the Demon Sect. Because the Demon Sect had numerous mechanisms, Fu Xiyu suggested leaving disciples not good at fighting outside the Demon Sect on standby. Everyone praised Fu Xiyu for being considerate, only later realizing it was all Fu Xiyu’s scheme: if Medical Valley had followed the alliance into the Demon Sect, certainly not so many people would have died…
However, the current Song Xuyi is not a disciple of Medical Valley.
Song Xuyi’s arrival was at the most difficult time in Song Xu and the original owner’s life.
—A twelve-year-old young boy and a six-year-old young girl, the two endured hardships, walking nearly half a year, only then crossing most of the territory to reach the Taiji Sect located in Nan County.
Song Xuyi very quickly received the complete body’s memory.
Because the Song family, who guarded the area, was exterminated, the local area had already become the world of the Demon Sect, who created killings everywhere. After seeing the family’s tragic state, Song Xu did not dare expose his whereabouts, and after finding his sister, he started to run away…
All the way, the two siblings had already witnessed many instances of the Demon Sect creating killings.
The original owner was, after all, only six years old, previously a little girl unaware of the world’s sadness and suffering. Even though she tried hard to become sensible, the little girl simply could not walk that much distance; her legs developed several blisters, and after a few steps she would cry from the pain.
Song Xu had no choice but to try hard to carry his sister forward.
However, the current Song Xu was not yet the later martial arts strong great hero; he was also only a twelve-year-old boy who had previously focused solely on studying. Even though he strived to become the pillar of the family by carrying his sister forward, his always pampered sister was not light, and soon Song Xu’s forehead started sweating.
“Brother, where do you want to go?”
Song Xuyi heard Song Xu’s increasingly rapid breathing and knew she was causing him a burden. Even though calling such a young boy “brother” felt somewhat awkward in her heart, seeing this young boy’s stubborn appearance, single-mindedly wanting to take his sister and live on, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but speak: “Isn’t Nan County to the south?”
Song Xu actually didn’t know where to go either; he just instinctively wanted to get further away from the Demon Sect. Hearing Song Xuyi ask this, even though he was tired to the point of being almost out of breath, he still answered Song Xuyi: “We should first find a place to hide.”
Song Xuyi couldn’t help but frown. With Song Xu’s answer, Song Xuyi understood that Song Xu didn’t know how to plan. But this was understandable; facing family upheaval, a twelve-year-old boy able to do this much was already quite remarkable.
But since she found herself in this time period, she certainly couldn’t allow this part of the plot to continue to develop according to the original storyline. Even though setback education is also education, the setbacks Song Xu had suffered these past few days were indeed too many.
“Brother, I heard mother talk about books,” Song Xuyi thought for a bit, and with a rough idea in mind, couldn’t help but continue: “Do you see that brightest star in the sky? That is the North Star, it points to the north direction, we are currently heading north—”
Song Xu’s footsteps came to a halt.
He couldn’t discern the path, but his sister spoke with such confidence; she should be correct.
“Brother, I’m hungry,” Song Xu heard his sister softly say again: “Can we stop to eat something before continuing?”
If the two were walking in the correct direction, Song Xu certainly wouldn’t stop, but at this moment, since his sister had pointed out they were going the wrong way, Song Xu hesitated for a while. Finally, as Song Xuyi hoped, he stopped, carefully found an open area in the forest to set down Song Xuyi, and took out the flatbread from his embrace.
“Brother, you should eat too.” The bright moonlight streamed down through the tree branches and leaves. Song Xuyi looked at Song Xu’s tense body, sighed inwardly, and handed the flatbread to Song Xu.
Song Xu had no appetite these days; he was entirely focused on listening to the surrounding movements, fearing those cannibalistic members of the Demon Sect might suddenly appear. But thinking that if he didn’t eat enough, he wouldn’t have the strength to carry his sister, Song Xu still opened his mouth tastelessly and began to chew the flatbread.
Then, not long after, Song Xu heard his sister’s voice again.
For the past two days, his sister was probably too scared, only knowing how to cry. It was the first time Song Xu heard his sister speak so many words.
“Whenever mother was tired from doing the accounts, I would always press her shoulders. Mother always praises me for being sensible and says I take care of people especially well—”
There was a pair of hands gently pinching Song Xu’s shoulders, the strength not great, yet somehow it made him feel comfortable.
“Brother, did you see that star just twinkle? Is it mother praising me? The year before last, when great-grandfather passed away, mother told me that great-grandfather went to heaven and would always watch over us, hoping we live well. Now that all the family is in heaven, they certainly hope the two of us live even better…”
“With father and mother gone, let me take care of brother from now on.”
Song Xu originally did not want to cry.
These days, his mind had been constantly lingering on the tragic state of his family’s death, feeling guilty that he didn’t even have time to give his parents a proper burial before fleeing in panic, only thinking about surviving… A twelve-year-old boy’s shoulders bore too much that he wasn’t supposed to carry. Before, he had only focused on escaping and hadn’t had time to process these emotions. However, listening to his sister’s childish voice, somehow, Song Xu’s tears involuntarily flowed down—
Song Xu dared not let Song Xuyi notice his tears, so he always kept his head low. Actually, considering it, he and his sister weren’t really close; he had followed his teacher up the mountain to study since he was ten and could only see his sister during festivals. He knew she was a likable little child, yet he never thought she would be so sensible.
Unconsciously, under Song Xuyi’s massage, Song Xu’s tense body finally relaxed, and as tears flowed, the burdens on his heart seemed to crack open a gap, and Song Xu’s breathing gradually became even…
Noticing Song Xu asleep, Song Xuyi sighed in relief inwardly—
Pretending to be a little girl is really too difficult! But Song Xu’s kind of tense emotion urgently needed soothing, so Song Xuyi had no choice but to resort to this: in the original story summary, Song Xu digested all the hatred and sorrow alone, his personality becoming increasingly introverted and not good with words, always tense like a string. Because of his personality, he later had many conflicts with the female lead.
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Now, having become Song Xu’s sister, Song Xuyi naturally hopes Song Xu can live more easily.
Making Song Xu fall asleep was only the first step in Song Xuyi’s plan.
Afterwards, Song Xuyi quickly finished the flatbread in a few bites and called out to the system in her mind: “Next, it’s up to you!”
Carrying just a few flatbreads like this is absolutely not feasible. It’s currently August, and the weather is still relatively warm. If they continue as written in the original story summary for half a year, by the time winter comes, they will certainly suffer greatly.
Song Xuyi decided to return to the village that the Demon Sect had just slaughtered to see if she could find some usable things. Currently, Song Xuyi’s body has no ability to resist danger, so everything can only rely on the system.
The system appeared particularly diligent, not only helping Song Xuyi find money and food but also meticulously pointing out even pits in the ground. Song Xuyi, observing the system’s actions, somewhat suspected that the system might have done something guilty in the last world, so it’s compensating her this way in this world…
But her memory was intermittent, and even though Song Xuyi carefully pondered, she still couldn’t remember exactly what happened in the last world.
However, after the system found a horse for Song Xuyi that was not discovered by the Demon Sect and was tied in the forest, Song Xuyi became extremely happy and forgot her suspicion of the system—
With the horse, the journey for her and Song Xu will be much easier!
Song Xu did not sleep soundly; in his dreams were countless flashing blades and blood, and he even saw stars in the sky crying… but his body was really too tired, so even though his consciousness wanted to wake up, his body remained heavy. It wasn’t until dawn that Song Xu finally opened his eyes.
Probably because he cried last night, Song Xu felt the oppressive feeling in his chest dissipated a lot.
Thinking of his comforting sister, Song Xu’s cold eyes couldn’t help but show a trace of softness. However, immediately, Song Xu suddenly stood up in panic:
——Where is sister?
The space beside him was empty; the sister who was eating flatbread beside him last night was already nowhere to be seen…
Song Xu glanced around in panic, just planning to leave the forest to find his sister when he heard her voice calling ‘brother’ from outside the forest.
Song Xu responded by raising his head—
Long after, Song Xu could never forget this scene: on the horizon, a faint line of morning sun, his sister, not yet taller than a horse, was leading a horse, waving to him from outside the forest, her smile incomparably bright.
Even though he blamed his sister in his heart for not considering the danger of returning to the village, after discovering the horse, Song Xu’s mood was extremely happy. He had previously ridden horses with his father and brother, but was not skilled. He practiced in the forest for two days until he could skillfully control the horse, feeling that even if he encountered the Demon Sect, he had the ability to escape. Then Song Xu, with his sister, rode the horse out of the forest.
According to Song Xu’s plan, he would choose small roads and ride the horse all the way to Nan County, then find the Taiji Sect to become a disciple. His sister did not deny his plan, but one day while passing through a town, she suddenly said her stomach hurt. Worried about his sister, Song Xu couldn’t help but take her to the town’s clinic…
When lying in the clinic, his sister grabbed the doctor’s hand and pleaded with him to go to the Tianmen Sect in the city for help to find someone.
Song Xu was greatly shocked and wanted to escape with Song Xuyi, but Song Xuyi grabbed his hand: “Brother, Master Chen of the Tianmen Sect is father’s close friend. Mother once said if the family encounters difficulties, we should seek Master Chen.”
These words were naturally false, but Master Chen indeed was a good person and treated Song Xu as his own. In the later plot, Master Chen even once helped Song Xu by blocking a sword… Song Xu now, like a startled bird, trusts no one. If directly asked to come find Master Chen, he certainly would not come. Song Xuyi wants to rebuild his confidence in the world, so she can only resort to this strategy.
Song Xu’s expression changed several times, but finally, he could not resist Song Xuyi’s pleading gaze and stiffly sat on the bench.
Not long after, the people from the Tianmen Sect arrived.
The person who came was Master Chen’s wife. Upon seeing the two siblings, the lady immediately shed tears, lamenting the hardships of their fate. Song Xu, seeing the lady’s sincere tears, felt his gaze waver. When he heard the lady say that Master Chen did not come because he had already gathered various people to go to Song Family Fortress to avenge and bury the Song family, Song Xu could no longer maintain his calm demeanor. He knelt on the ground and repeatedly kowtowed to the lady.
Master Chen naturally could not find anyone to avenge: the Demon Sect is always elusive, plundering a place and then running away. By the time Master Chen arrived, the Demon Sect had already disappeared without a trace.
Originally, Master Chen thought the Song family had all perished and intended to cremate and bury them on the spot. But after hearing the urgent news from his wife that there were still Song family members alive, Master Chen changed his mind.
A few days later, Master Chen brought back the Song family’s ashes to the Tianmen Sect and held a funeral for them.
In the original plot summary, Song Xu always regretted not holding a funeral and vigil for the Song family. Here, it was compensated.
And after building their parents’ grave, Master Chen strongly urged the Song siblings to stay and live at the Tianmen Sect, but Song Xu had made up his mind and still planned to go to the Taiji Sect to become a disciple.
Master Chen had no choice, so he entrusted a familiar escort agency to take care of them, escorting the siblings to Nan County.
With the escort agency, the journey was naturally much safer and faster. In the plot summary, the siblings took nearly half a year to travel, but this time they arrived in two months.
As soon as the two reached Nan County, the people Master Chen arranged for their reception brought them to the Taiji Sect and told them that the hall master recruiting new disciples was attending a morning class. After the class, he would come to examine the two’s bone structure.
The Taiji Sect is the country’s largest sect, with masters as numerous as cattle. It openly has one sect leader, eight elders, and sixteen hall masters, each with unparalleled martial arts skills. Behind them, there are even several retired peerless masters as backing. Father once told Song Xu that his father’s strength was top-notch locally, but in the Taiji Sect, it was the most ordinary strength. This is also why Song Xu insisted on coming to the Taiji Sect to become a disciple: he knew that wanting to learn martial arts at his age was too late. If he started learning martial arts in other sects, at best, he could only reach his father’s strength. But if any sect could achieve miraculous effects, in Song Xu’s understanding, it would be the Taiji Sect.
Even though the family upheaval had matured him beyond his years, with the Taiji Sect so close at hand, Song Xu couldn’t help but feel somewhat flustered as he looked at the majestic and grand gate plaque before him.
Song Xuyi, however, did not feel nervous at all.
She knew, according to the plot summary, that there was a high chance Song Xu would not be able to enter the Taiji Sect, but his opportunity was not far away; he would meet his wanderer master on the way down the mountain…
The two of them waited for about the time it takes to drink two cups of tea. At this moment, the disciples finally finished their morning class, and many people came bustling out. Suddenly, the system in Song Xuyi’s mind screamed out loud: “The villain has arrived!”
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Villain?
Song Xuyi did not expect to encounter the villain, Fu Xiyu, so soon, especially since there are still over ten years until the later plot events occur. Was Fu Xiyu already undercover in the Taiji Sect this early?
“What does the villain look like?”
“What else could it be?” the system spoke through gritted teeth. Just thinking about the villain gave it a toothache, and it didn’t want to look at the villain’s disastrous face, but it would recognize the villain’s appearance even if turned to ashes: “Just the most seductive one, the most outstanding in a crowd, the most beautiful one, with a red mole under the eyes—that bad woman!”
Song Xuyi widened her eyes; there were many people in front of her, and many of them were beautifully outstanding. She couldn’t distinguish which one it was for the moment.
Seeing Song Xuyi’s confused look, the system decided to point out again to Song Xuyi: “It’s the second one walking in the middle, the woman coming towards you!”
As soon as the system finished speaking, Song Xuyi froze in place, and even the system paused for a moment—
The young girl before her eyes, with a tall and slender stature, had a face full of cold sternness. Her features were indeed exquisite, and her eyes were particularly beautiful, with a small red mole at the corner like a finishing touch. Yet, there was an ugly scar crossing her entire cheek from temple straight to chin, making her appear extremely ferocious…
Is this… the system’s so-called most beautiful villain?
The author has something to say:
Disfigurement is not possible; without a beautiful face, how would our villain seduce Xuyi?
In this small world, the age difference is 9 years.
This book has a total of twelve small worlds~ so in the next small world (the tenth small world), we will have a zombie villain~
LP: Re-translated on September 29, 2024