Seven Days and Nights Forced to Stay with the Villain [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 1

“How could she…”

BOOM!

Thunder shook the heavens as the long-brewing torrential rain finally unleashed its fury.

Her body felt like a lump of dough that had been kneaded, rolled, and flattened, every single inch of her ached.

Luo Zhi let out a yawn and rubbed her eyes, her hand reaching out haphazardly toward the side of the bed. She didn’t find her jacket. Instead, her palm met something warm, smooth, and as delicate as silk.

The last remnants of sleep vanished instantly. Luo Zhi’s eyes flew open.

Beside her lay a sleeping beauty. The dim glow of the wall lamp illuminated a stunning, lotus-like face that Luo Zhi knew all too well.

The beauty’s elegant brows were tightly knit, her lips a deep red. Her fair, rounded shoulders were covered in tell-tale marks of intimacy, making it painfully obvious what had just transpired.

Luo Zhi sucked in a breath of cold air, pulled the quilt up, and scrambled into the corner of the bed, squeezing her eyes shut.

Heavens above!

This has to be a dream, right?

How on earth did I end up in bed with Bai Zhaoyao?!

Bai Zhaoyao was the person Luo Zhi feared most in the world, bar none.

Luo Zhi had known her since childhood. Bai Zhaoyao lived in the massive villa next door, was two years older, and had always been the “gold standard” of a good child used by parents to shame their own kids.

When she was fourteen, this body’s parents sacrificed themselves in a battle against a demonic beast. In the midst of her grief, a flood of memories suddenly surfaced: Luo Zhi realised she was a transmigrator.

She had transmigrated into a waning magical era.

The technology of this age was no different from modern times, but in recent years, demons and monsters had begun to emerge. These creatures were cruel and capricious, possessing humans and leaving the world in a state of constant fear.

To resist them, the declining occult sects were revived. Both the Bai and Luo families were part of this revival.

However, unlike Luo Zhi’s family—which had once been prominent but was now reduced to a single crumbling ancestral home, Bai Zhaoyao’s family was filthy rich. Bai Zhaoyao herself was a peerless genius of the righteous path, a literal national idol.

But Luo Zhi knew the plot. While the current Bai Zhaoyao appeared noble and upright, she was destined to become a notorious villain a woman of demonic intellect and ruthless cruelty who would turn the world upside down. Anyone associated with her met a miserable end.

Terrified by these memories, Luo Zhi used the excuse of “cultivating the Path of Emotionless” to cut ties with Bai Zhaoyao. She hid away in her ancestral home with the few remaining children of her clan, cultivating in secret and surviving by selling off family heirlooms.

Logically, a “fallen noble” like her should never have crossed paths with the rising star Bai Zhaoyao again. But her luck was abysmal. She had to go and run into a crazed, blind demonic beast…

Thinking back to earlier today, Luo Zhi’s teeth still itched with frustration.

She had just dug out an ancient cauldron called the “Nine-Turns-Thousand-Returns Heart-Testing Array” from her basement and was about to list it on an auction site when an alarm blared. A demonic beast smashed through her home’s protective array and lunged at her!

The beast’s blood-red eyes were filled with deep-seated hatred. It reached for her, screaming: “Bai Zhaoyao! You killed my husband! Today, I’ll make you taste the pain of loss”

Wait, do demonic beasts have eyesight problems these days?

Luo Zhi shut her eyes in terror and screamed, “Wait! I have a secret to tell you!”

Then came a loud THWACK.

The beast batted away the small sword she had summoned and sneered, “We’ve seen through the tricks of you despicable humans! You name your swords things like ‘Hold On,’ ‘Wait a Sec,’ and ‘Spare Me, Hero’ just to lower our guard for a sneak attack!”

“Today, you die—”

Before the beast could finish the word “die,” there was a sharp SHINK.

A long sword flashed like moonlight. The technique was a textbook example of perfection. With a single strike, the beast was skewered through.

“Fellow Daoist Luo.”

From behind the beast appeared Bai Zhaoyao, her face as “showy” as her name suggested. She finished with a graceful sword flourish, her robes fluttering as she landed softly on the ground.

From Luo Zhi’s angle, she could see Bai Zhaoyao’s pressed lips and her flawless profile a masterpiece of divine carving.

“Thank you, Fellow Daoist Bai,” Luo Zhi said dryly, her eyes darting away as she hid her own little iron sword behind her back.

She’s so beautiful! No matter how many times she saw her, she couldn’t help but marvel at Bai Zhaoyao’s looks.

Fearing Bai Zhaoyao would notice her staring, Luo Zhi quickly turned to look at the bleeding, hateful beast. Her eyelid wouldn’t stop twitching; she felt a bad omen. She wanted Bai Zhaoyao to stab it again just to be sure, but she didn’t want to seem like she was questioning the genius’s strength.

She had seen Bai Zhaoyao’s battles on TV. Usually, she was cold, decisive, and always finished the job.

But today, Bai Zhaoyao seemed… odd.

She seemed overly focused on the precision of her moves. Not a single drop of blood had splashed on her. It was as if she were posing, even using her hair to hide her reddened ears…

Did she suddenly develop an idol complex?

“Didn’t expect that, did you? My internal core is on the right side!”

In the next instant, the beast let out a cackling laugh and its core detonated!

The last thing Luo Zhi remembered was Bai Zhaoyao’s eternal composure finally breaking as she lunged forward to shield her. The ancient cauldron was blasted into the air by the shockwave, hitting Bai Zhaoyao on the head. Splashed with Bai Zhaoyao’s scalding blood, it emitted a blinding light…

The curtains were not drawn.

Outside the massive floor-to-ceiling windows, lightning was striking over the sea. The swaying of the room made it clear that Luo Zhi was on a cruise ship.

[Congratulations on entering the plot of “The Billionaire CEO and the Beautiful Runaway Mummy”.]

[In this world, you are the daughter of a fallen merchant a vain, shameless, and villainous supporting female lead! Burdened by debt and twisted in mind, you have a wild night on this cruise. After a one-night stand with the richest man, CEO Bai, you assume she is just a poor boy and flee in panic.]

[Years later, you learn CEO Bai’s true identity. You cross paths again, this time bringing along your genius three-year-old daughter. At that time, CEO Bai is already engaged. Vowing to take back everything you lost, you scheme for the position of Mrs. Bai. All your malicious and stupid actions are witnessed by CEO Bai…]

Golden words appeared in the air, row by row, before slowly fading away.

As she suspected, she and Bai Zhaoyao had fallen into that insane “Seven Days and Nights Heart-Testing Array”!

Luo Zhi’s vision went dark. Her future looked even bleaker than the night sky outside. She had read the manual for that cauldron: its motto was “Long Live True Love,” and it was managed by an Array Spirit.

Participants had to play their roles according to the settings and reach an ending that satisfied the Spirit. Any mistake resulted in a fine of spirit stones or being trapped forever.

Furthermore, the cauldron seemed to have some unknown hidden settings.

“Me?” Luo Zhi pointed at herself in indignant grief. “You want me, the ‘villainous supporting lead’ and the terrifying great villain Bai Zhaoyao to act out ‘Long Live True Love’?”

“Is this a joke? People like Bai Zhaoyao only love their work!”

[CEO Bai will wake up in fifteen minutes!]

The golden words in the air were colder and more heartless than any practitioner of the Emotionless Path. They continued to flicker.

[In five minutes, the cruise ship will stop at the port. You must take the opportunity to disembark.] [Failure will result in a fine of ten spirit stones.]

Luo Zhi’s eyes nearly popped out of her head. The cold threat of “ten spirit stones” killed any time she had for self-pity.

In this waning magical era, ten spirit stones were enough to feed her family for five years! That damn Array Spirit had gone straight for her poverty-stricken jugular!

Wincing at her aching waist, Luo Zhi scrambled out of bed. Her clothes were practically rags, so she grabbed Bai Zhaoyao’s clothes to cover herself.

The sleeping Bai Zhaoyao didn’t wake. Her face was pale, and there was a swollen red bump on her forehead where the cauldron had hit her. Even in this state, she was still frustratingly beautiful.

Luo Zhi didn’t dare linger. She haphazardly pulled the quilt up to Bai Zhaoyao’s chin and bolted out of the cabin.

Just as the golden text predicted, the ship docked. Due to the thunderstorm, the passengers stayed inside. The crew were busy with repairs, so no one noticed Luo Zhi slipping away.

Once on land, she hailed a taxi. Following the instructions of the golden text, she told the driver to just go as far as possible. After half an hour, she changed clothes and hopped onto the subway.

It wasn’t until she reached the other side of the city that the prompts stopped appearing.

Luo Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. After a moment’s thought, she went to a pharmacy, bought some morning-after pills, and swallowed them before finding a small roadside hotel.

She didn’t know how two women were supposed to get pregnant, but this Array Spirit was bizarre. She wasn’t taking any chances with whatever “treasure child” it might try to conjure.

In the hotel lobby, a financial news report was playing. The receptionist yawned as she handed a cup of hot water to the soaking-wet Luo Zhi.

Suddenly, the news anchor’s voice turned high-pitched and excited.

“Someone actually dared to provoke the richest woman in Nancheng, CEO Bai!”

The anchor looked thrilled. “CEO Bai has locked down the cruise ship and is turning it upside down to find the culprit!”

The screen showed Bai Zhaoyao. Her forehead was bandaged, and she was wearing a sharp black suit. Her beautiful face was cold as ice, her aura sharp and distant as she stood surrounded by a crowd.

“CEO Bai, who made you so angry?” a reporter asked cautiously.

Bai Zhaoyao narrowed her eyes. Her cold gaze fell on the camera, haughty and indifferent, as if she were looking straight into Luo Zhi’s soul.

“A… very bold woman.”

“Sooner or later, I will hunt her down.”

This is the classic ‘one part cold, two parts aloof, three parts indifferent’ CEO persona.

The culprit, watching the TV, couldn’t help but marvel: the Bai family had been wealthy for generations, and with Bai Zhaoyao’s natural grace, she fit the “overbearing CEO” role perfectly!

On the screen, the employees of the Bai Group had indeed sealed off the ship. Not even a mosquito could escape.

“I wonder who made CEO Bai so mad…” The receptionist handed the key card to Luo Zhi, eager for gossip. “Our richest citizen usually hates public appearances. This is the first time she’s been so furious. She’s so pretty”

“Yeah, quite the temper” Luo Zhi agreed, watching Bai Zhaoyao’s anger with a sense of wonder.

This was definitely a melodramatic world created by the Array Spirit. A CEO had the power to lock down a cruise ship? In the real world, such a high-profile move would have the authorities dragging her in for tea immediately.

Even in their chaotic era, the government’s occult department managed all practitioners. Bai Zhaoyao held a high rank there and was usually incredibly low-key.

Comparing the real, low-key Bai Zhaoyao to this flamboyant persona on TV, Luo Zhi felt a sudden, sinking premonition.

Something was wrong with Bai Zhaoyao.

Was she just temporarily playing along with the Array Spirit… or had she actually been possessed by that hateful demonic beast?

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