Lian Rou sat boredly on the doorstep, her vacant gaze sweeping over the dilapidated courtyard. Within the yard were six small mud houses and a small reception hall that served as a dining room and kitchen.
This was her life after coming to this mountainous village.
Thinking of the star seer, Lian Rou wishe she could chop him into pieces, drink his blood and eat his meat.
Outside the yard, there was a low fence made of willow twigs serving as a wall. The two creaking, worn-out doors swayed in the gentle breeze.
The yard was bare, devoid of any furniture. It was filled with people gasping for breath.
Lian Rou turned her head and looked at her disabled husbands, each busy with their own tasks in the yard. She let out a sigh and felt like retreating into herself.
Her five husbands were blind, lame, deaf, mute, and paralyzed, respectively, and she herself was an abandoned princess with a big ugly birthmark on her face.
Damn it, how laughable that she had thought she had hit the jackpot, only to hurt her toes.
Lian Rou, was just an ordinary office worker. She wasn't an assassin, didn't possess medical skills, wasn't a businesswoman, and had no extraordinary abilities.
The only skill she had was well ogling at good looking men, Ehem maybe a little bit of cooking. And her cooking skills were only good enough to make raw rice edible.
As for the taste...
Well, it was edible enough to avoid a trip to the hospital.
But being so useless, she unexpectedly found herself swept up in the wave of transmigration. It happened so fast and unexpectedly at that.
Let's not dwell on her absurd disappearance, but what followed was even more baffling!
After transmigrating, most girls would become wealthy young ladies, great cultivators, beast tamers with cheat sheets. At worst, they would be beautiful with good health.
But what about her?
Well...She was a princess alright!
She actually transmigrated into an ugly, and unfavoured princess, one who was unwanted and had no mother.
The place she transmigrated to should be a fictional world. There were 2 large Nations here: Huayin Nation, similar to the southern region of her previous life, with a humid climate and relatively abundant resources; and Southern Nation, similar to the northern region of her previous life, with a drier climate and a more harsh environment. Consequently, the people of Southern Country were more straightforward and tough compared to those of Huayin Country and three small nations Eastern, Western and Northern nations.
There was also the Frontier Barbarian Territory, situated in an extremely harsh and cold border area. Compared to the drier climate of the Southern Nation, the living conditions in the Frontier Barbarian Territory were even more difficult.
Every winter, the neighboring countries would attack the borders of Huayin nation and Southern nation in order to secure resources for the winter.
And all this was knowledge imparted by the original owners consciousness before it all disappeared.
The country where she currently resides is Huayin Nation, a nation with the only balanced gender ratio.
Here, men were equal to women, with a ratio of 1 to 1. And in the neighboring Nations, the gender ratio of men to women was absurdly imbalanced, higher, reaching 50 to 1 the ratio of men to women.
In the other nations , women were revered and men were like subordinates. So the women there were not confined to their homes and could go around doing business, take imperial exams and even become generals.
Therefore it was a normal occurrence in the other nations for a marriage of one woman and multiple husbands.
Yet in their nation it was something heavily frowned upon. Though they knew it was something practiced in the ither nations, a woman in the nation she residing in having multiple men was considered dirty.
....
Not to mention the large black mark on her face, her rough and crude manners left even the imperial teachers furious.
The Emperor having had long given up on this daughter of his was more than wiling to exchange her already tarnished reputation and life for his good health and the prosperity of the nation he was ruling.
So, following the principle of utilizing waste, the Emperor managed to use the original owner for his gains.
Seeing that she was having designs on his very perfect son-in-law and an opportunity had come to get rid of her and save face, the Emperor grabbed onto it without caring about anything.
Although these five husbands were good-looking, they all had some disabilities. However, in the ither nations, women choose husbands who are physically healthy and capable so as to help them in their daily lives as men should.
They would not bring men with disabilities back home to be worshipped as ancestors. After all, good looks alone cannot put food on the table!
So that was why, despite their good looks and good backgrounds the five princes ended up with her.
On the day the original person was getting married, because she had gotten married against her wishes and watched the person she loved marry her rival(her sister- the treasured princess), she decided to end her life and hanged herself.
Hmm! She died alright, that was how her soul came in.
....
Perhaps because they found the original person too ugly and cruel! It had been three days since she married these five new husbands, and mived to this mountainous village, and not one of them had touched her even with a finger.
This did not work out perfectly because Lian Rou was not just an ordinary passerby in the midst of a great army in her time-traveling adventure, she had decided to stay but how was the question. Definitely not under the conditions they were in at their current state.
Initially, Lian Rou wanted to follow the original host's path and continue living as a fool, enjoying a life where everything was provided for her.
After all, being taken care of by others was quite nice!
But what was the result?
The damned star seer and that Empress. Bet they were in cahoots.
Buhuhu! POOR Lian Rou....
Her five new husbands, these unfortunate souls, actually found fault with her for refusing them the first day of their marriage. It had been three whole days, and they hadn't even given her a single meal. They claimed she should starve for a few days to help her think straight and become kinder.
Damn it! When other girls travel to a world where men outnumber women, aren't they all treated like precious treasures, little darlings?
Why is it that when it comes to her, she can't even get a mouthful of food? Even if she looks ugly in her current state, they should at least give her something to eat!
With these thoughts in mind, Lian Rou who had never gone hungry in her life, decided to resist these five heartless bastards.
Hmph! Since she was playing the role of a useless princess with a spoilt attitude, she should do some foolish things next.
Otherwise, wouldn't she have assumed the reputation of a spoilt good-for-nothing for nothing?
So Lian Rou went back to her room early, took out a copper basin for washing her face, and threw it directly into the yard.
The sound of the copper basin falling to the ground directly interrupted the five men who were busy with their own things.
They looked up and saw their wife looking at them hands Akimbo.
After Lian Rou threw the copper basin in her room into the yard, she sat down on the ground in front of the copper basin with a thud. Holding a piece of wood she found somehow, she started to hit the copper basin as it resounded "clang".
With the repeated strikes on the basin, when Lian Rou saw she had all five husbands' attention on her, she began to scream hoarsely.
"I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I want to eat, I want to eat..."
After all, she was regarded as a a spoilt brat, can't a spoilt brat do whatever a normal person dare not to?
So Lian Rou clanged while twisting her body. She hugged the basin and started to roll on the ground.
"You all are big villains! I want to eat. I'm so hungry! I'm going to starve to death!"
As Lian Rou's clanging sound continued, suddenly, lots of onlookers gathered in the previously quiet yard.
Because this was the countryside, the surrounding wall of this yard was simply tied up with twigs.
As long as someone stood outside the fence, one could clearly see what was happening inside.
After all! The villagers were very curious about the weird people who moved in three days ago, an aggregation of disabled people.
But all had been quiet in this house for three days, staying at home without interacting with the villagers or causing any disturbances.
Even if they wanted to gossip about this family, given their horrifyingly cold and aloof manner, they could only endure it.
But now!
They had just come back from the field after lunch and were idly digesting food!
When they suddenly heard the clanging of the basin and crying out from this yard. Without much entertainment in the countryside all year round, all the villagers gathered outside the fence of Lian Rou's house.
To watch the excitement for free.
General Rui, the General husband of the original owner, was thirty this year.
Seeing Lian Rou rolling on the ground, he immediately put down his bow and arrows. Limping with pain that felt like being cut by thousands of knives in his body, he walked to Lian Rou's side.
With a dark face, he picked Lian Rou from the ground with one hand.
Looking at her body being lifted, Lian Rou thought to praise the man for being able to pull her up with one hand, with no effort at all.
But when she looked back and saw General Rui's dark face, slanted sharp eyes, and thin lips containing a sharp look, she shuddered involuntarily.
Oh damn! How does he look like a cripple?
He's simply a mass murderer! It seemed that with his eyes and a gesture of his hand, a bloody storm would come.
Just as Lian Rou was going to chicken out immediately, she suddenly heard the annoying voice of the dog system in her mind.
[General Rui, general of Southern Nation, was poisoned by an arrow on the battlefield, which crippled his leg. Lian Rou, you can try to diminish his posion and injuries in his body, though be careful and dont rush to heal him fast as it will have side effects on you.]
Urged by the anxious voice, Lian Rou yelled at the dog system in her mind, regardless of General Rui.
[I'll transfer your mother! Do you think I'm stupid! To take in someone else's injuries and poison to my body, do I have holes in my brain!]
[Lian Ruo, transferring his injuries and poison will not do you any harm. And each time you help transfer someone's pain, there will be an additional reward from me.]
[What reward?] Lian Ruo asked in surprise.
[A drop of marrow washing liquid, plus a drop of beauty liquid. The marrow washing liquid can enhance a person's physique, filter out the dirt in the body, and also acts as a detoxification. The beauty liquid can not only beautify a person, but also help make your bkdy curvy all in the right places!]
[Just one drop!] Lian Ruo's surprise disappeared instantly. The system wanted her to sell her life, but the rewards were so measly.
Realizing Lian Ruo's dissatisfaction, the system quickly added.
[Lian Ruo, your current body is severely poisoned, which led to your having that birthmark on your face and your ugliness. If you don't detoxify, you won't be able to live for a few months! And a drop of marrow washing liquid can remove 1% of your poison.]
[Wasn't this body just an unfavoured and forgotten concubines daughter? How would anyone poison such a person?] Lian Ruo questioned.
[Lian Ruo, the reason why you can remain sane now is also because of me trying my best to suppress the toxicity. Otherwise, why do you think I did not appear before? My energy is exhausted now. So you have to help transfer General Rui 's injuries immediately! Otherwise in three minutes you'll become a complete fool. ]
Hearing this, Lian Ruo panicked immediately. Although she had the name of a spoilt brat that was way different with being an actual fool! But she didn't know how to transfer injuries and diseases too!
[Lian Rou, all you need is a slight skin contact with General Rui while silently visualizing transferring the pain, then his injuries and poison can be transferred to you. Hurry up! Only two minutes left now.]
Hearing the system's urging, Lian Rou was anxious. Although currently being lifted up single-handedly by GeneralRui, with his tight grip on her, even turning around was extremely difficult.
But hearing the system counting down in her mind as if rushing for death, Lian Ruo had no choice but to sway hard twice with her full body weight in General Rui's hand.
Fortunately, her tremendous effort finally made General Rui let go. So in Lian Ruo's swaying, Rui simply threw her to the ground mercilessly.
With a loud thump, ignoring her sore buttocks, Lian Ruo rushed to hug Rui's calves with the system's final minute countdown.
Damn, the system said there must be skin contact so biting should count!
Amid silently visualizing, she felt a rush of dark stuff transferring from General Rui's body into her body.
She watched this black substance transferred into herself in amazement, then suddenly an invisible black hole appeared in her palm.
[Quick Lian Ruo! Stop being stunned and collect the black substance to exchange for marrow washing liquid and beauty liquid!]
Listening to the system, Lian Ruo immediately stretched her hand toward the black substance. When she touched it, it instantly vanished. In her palm appeared two dialog boxes instead, labeled with one drop of marrow washing liquid and one drop of beauty liquid.
[Does the host want to use it now?]
[Use it, use it quickly, or do you want me to become stupid?]
As soon as Lian Ruo's voice fell in her mind, she immediately felt two drops of liquid slide down her throat.