The Female Lead is a World Destroying Demon [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 1

Silver-wrapped and encased in ice, the snow drifted down like tattered cotton.

Sucking on an oxygen canister amidst the roaring laughter of her friends, Yu Yao gritted her teeth and climbed to the snow-covered summit of the mountain.

“Not bad, Sister Yu! You actually summitted the highest peak in the city!”

“It’s good for Sister Yu to do this anyway. Climbing mountains to exercise her body is much better than her hanging from a crooked-neck tree…”

“Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and take a photo of Sister Yu!”

This body is still too weak!

Yu Yao frowned. Paying no attention to the laughter around her, she panted and stood up straight. She reached her hand toward her ear seemingly to tuck her hair away, but in reality, she pressed the switch of her soul-body’s galactic communicator.

“Yu Yao calling Headquarters. Please send the next set of instructions.”

“Yu Yao calling…”

This was her fifth attempt to contact the Time-Space Management Bureau during this period.

But just like every time before, even though she had climbed to the place with the best signal in the city, she did not receive any instructions from Headquarters!

Yu Yao’s brow furrowed deeper.

She was a new employee of the high-level plane’s Time-Space Management Bureau, specifically responsible for troubleshooting the hidden dangers of collapsing minor worlds. This world was the very first mission she had taken over.

According to standard protocol, as soon as she arrived in this world, a plane observer would dispatch operational guidance to her.

Yet, she had been in this world for half a month already. Aside from the world summary she had received in the hibernation pod, she hadn’t received another single piece of news from the Time-Space Management Bureau…

“Sister Yu, smile!”

Seeing Yu Yao spacing out, someone nudged her arm.

Yu Yao snapped out of it, looked at the lens, and flashed a toothy smile.

Click!

Looking at the captured photo, the person taking it froze for a moment

Yu Yao’s smile was bright and radiant, making her exceptionally eye-catching among the crowd.

She really… seemed different.

The body Yu Yao occupied looked very similar to her original self. It belonged to a second-generation nouveau riche whose family had struck it rich through demolition compensation.

When the original owner was in high school, she fell into a frenzied obsession with a certain minor internet celebrity. Once her family received the demolition money and became wealthy, she began throwing money at that online celebrity like crazy.

However, the original owner was merely a small fish in that influencer’s pond. She was willing to live or die for that minor celebrity, but the other party only claimed she was a “good friend,” making up all sorts of excuses to avoid even meeting up for a meal.

Half a month ago, the minor celebrity sold three-unregistered, bootleg weight-loss pills in his live stream room, and many people bought them only to say they had no effect.

To help the influencer prove the efficacy of the medicine, the original owner foolishly swallowed a whole bottle of the bootleg pills in one go and was rushed to the hospital for emergency resuscitation…

When the body woke up again, the person inside had become the current Yu Yao.

Yu Yao kept normal hours, maintained a disciplined lifestyle, and focused on physical exercise. She wasn’t like the original owner, who wore heavy smoky makeup year-round and dyed her hair all sorts of chaotic colors. Having stripped away those tedious decorations, she instead revealed her natural, lotus-rising-from-clear-water qualities.

Her smile was fresh, beautiful, and immensely infectious completely different from the original owner’s dejection.

“Sister Yu, you’re really great like this now. There are thousands upon thousands of girls in the world. If this one won’t do, we’ll just swap to another…”

When going down the mountain, the group chose to take the cable car.

The people traveling with her were all second-generation demolition rich from the same village. They could be considered childhood friends, so they didn’t have many taboos when speaking to each other. Having gone through a life-and-death crisis once, Yu Yao’s personality had changed, but no one suspected anything.

Yu Yao merely smiled and did not join their conversation. Using a headache as an excuse, she curled up in a corner of the cable car and quietly contacted a private detective code-named “X.”

Generally speaking, a task-taker’s entry point into a timeline would be a critical juncture just as the plot was about to transform.

Now that she could not contact the Time-Space Management Bureau, to avoid missing the critical node, Yu Yao could only act according to circumstances using the knowledge she had studied.

Fortunately, she still possessed the plot summary of this world, and she had also started making secondary preparations a few days ago by contacting the private detective the original host had previously hooked up with.

“X” was originally hired by the original host to investigate the minor internet celebrity’s whereabouts. Even though the original host had obtained a great deal of evidence showing that the minor celebrity was vain, money-grubbing, and malicious, she had still remained stubbornly infatuated.

“X” replied to the message immediately.

“The basic profile has been sent to your email, along with some ‘surprises.’ You can find them online yourself by searching her name, so I won’t charge you for those!”

“Two women in a row turning out like this girl, you really need to visit an ophthalmologist!”

Ignoring X’s commentary, Yu Yao opened the email.

It was a background investigation on a girl named Zhao Chuji.

Every world had a destined protagonist who was tied to the world’s shifts in fortune and destiny. In the data Yu Yao had received, Zhao Chuji was the protagonist of this world.

According to the world line, the deeply blessed Zhao Chuji should have been happy, harmonious, and smooth-sailing throughout her life. However, the Zhao Chuji in the email was completely different from the description in the world summary.

Zhao Chuji was fifteen years old this year. She was born into a family that favored boys over girls. When her mother was pregnant with her younger brother, she suffered a difficult labor, resulting in two deaths from one pregnancy. Her father became addicted to gambling, ran up a mountain of debt, and not long ago fell into a river and drowned while drunk.

The house belonging to Zhao Chuji’s family had been seized by creditors. She had no money to attend high school and could only drop out to wander the streets. Furthermore, because she wasn’t old enough to find legal employment, she could only survive by working odd jobs.

If a plane observer could contact this world and see this data, they would surely lose color from shock and swiftly recall Yu Yao.

The protagonist of a world receives the world’s protection; it was impossible for them to encounter such grueling circumstances!

Now that the world line had deviated drastically, it was highly probable that an external, terrifying force had intervened and distorted the world line!

However, the knowledge Yu Yao studied at school had not updated this particular section, so she merely treated it as a conventional problem since the error appeared on the female lead, she would just correct the error and resolve the variables affecting her.

The data showed that Zhao Chuji had recently come to Haicheng, the city where Yu Yao currently was.

Haicheng possessed a film and television base. The entertainment industry didn’t care as much about age, and Zhao Chuji would occasionally pick up some extra or supporting roles to earn a bit more money.

“X” had attached a photo to the email.

It was an identification photo.

The Zhao Chuji in the photo possessed a perfect bone structure. Her temperament was like a pure lotus rising from clear water, with a pair of peach-blossom eyes and clear pupils. Beneath one eye lay a beautiful beauty mark, making her look pure and ethereal.

Even though Yu Yao came from a high-level plane where everyone possessed extraordinary looks, she couldn’t help but stare at the photo a few moments longer.

Her gaze fell to the end of the email, noting down Zhao Chuji’s address. She then closed the email, opened a search engine, and searched the name “Zhao Chuji.”

A surveillance video appeared in the browser, and public opinion had already begun fermenting on the internet.

In the video, Zhao Chuji’s clothes were disheveled, her cheeks flushed red, and she was clutching a middle-aged man at the doorway of a hotel room.

The video was only a dozen or so seconds long, but the publisher had devised a title that sparked wild imagination…

Supporting actress of the “Legend of Demon Slayer” crew visits the director late at night for a role.

This video was quickly spread by marketing accounts, and Zhao Chuji’s information was dug out. Countless people ran to the film crew’s official comment section to boycott her.

Just yesterday, the film crew had released an announcement.

They stated that the director detested people with improper minds, had dealt with the matter severely, and planned to replace the actress, attaching the name of the new substitute starlet.

The comment section praised the director one after another for keeping himself pure and clean, mocked Zhao Chuji for losing both the bait and the fish, and went on to praise the new substitute starlet, saying that although her looks couldn’t compare to Zhao Chuji, she had actual talent and wasn’t a superficial vase…

Yu Yao’s eyelids twitched violently as she watched…

To become the female lead of a world, one must be a kind, upright, and flawlessly moral person. She did not believe Zhao Chuji could be the way people described.

There might be another hidden truth behind this video.

She couldn’t help but rewatch that segment of the video several more times, and she truly discovered a flaw: the video had been deliberately slowed down.

If the video were sped up, it would be impossible to distinguish whether it was a push or an embrace.

Yu Yao couldn’t help but contact “X.”

“Is it possible that the video online was tampered with?”

“Why don’t you try playing it at 3x speed?”

“X” replied very quickly, even sending a frustrated voice message…

“Girl, go fix your love-brain!”

“Your last target was just like this! Even when I got the video of that woman cheating, you still asked me if it was possible they were just friends who kiss on the mouth!”

“And now you’re coming to me talking about 3x speed!”

“Huh? This video actually does seem a bit off…”

The frustration in X’s voice dissipated slightly: “I implanted a monitoring program into that crappy phone of hers. I’ll go look through the playback to see exactly what happened.”

“X” didn’t reply further.

Yu Yao breathed a sigh of relief and posted her own perspective in the comment section, calling for netizens to remain calm, which instead drew a massive wave of ridicule and attacks.

Fortunately, it wasn’t long before “X” sent a message back. This time, his tone was much steadier.

“This entertainment circle is truly disgusting. A bunch of shameless people actually framed a young girl!”

“I’ve sent you the audio recording. You can have the little girl go report it to the police!”

In the audio recording sent by “X,” the director used the role as leverage to force-feed Zhao Chuji alcohol. Once Zhao Chuji drank the liquor, the director told her to come to his room with him to fetch the script.

But when they reached the room door, the director revealed his true colors. He dragged Zhao Chuji, who was waiting at the door, inside the room, even sneering openly: “I drugged the alcohol! Do you find yourself lacking strength now?”

“There are plenty of people who want this role. If you accompany me well tonight, I’ll let you keep it…”

The surveillance video was likely intercepted at this exact moment; Zhao Chuji lacked the strength to resist and almost let the trash director have his way.

However, perhaps the world consciousness was still protecting Zhao Chuji. The boasting director seemed to be suddenly choked by something at that instant; a strange silence fell over the recording, followed only by the sound of Zhao Chuji’s fleeing footsteps—she had escaped.

Presumably afraid that Zhao Chuji would report to the police first, the director preemptively obtained the hotel surveillance, deliberately edited it, and bit back first.

Yu Yao closed her phone, anger surging wildly within her heart…

If she hadn’t asked “X” to investigate Zhao Chuji during these past few days and coincidentally recorded the audio, the basin of dirty water splashed onto Zhao Chuji would likely never have been washed clean.

She originally wanted to observe this world a bit longer, but Zhao Chuji’s encounter left her unable to stand by and watch any longer.

A young girl with such a pitiful background to begin with encountering this kind of thing would very likely harbor suicidal thoughts, causing the world to collapse once more…

She had to find Zhao Chuji as quickly as possible, help her break free from her current predicament, and reclaim the treatment a world protagonist deserved!

After getting off the cable car, Yu Yao gave “X” a sum of money, instructing him to claim he was an obsessive fan who recorded the truth while stalking Zhao Chuji, and to distribute the audio to major marketing accounts.

Afterward, she focused entirely on her navigation, driving her car toward Zhao Chuji’s address.

Winter had arrived, and the sky in Haicheng darkened very quickly. By the time Yu Yao arrived at the urban village where Zhao Chuji was located, darkness had already fallen.

The streets wafted with a foul odor. The alleys extended into the depths like a sprawling spiderweb, with various commercial signs flashing mottled, colorful lights. The occasional pedestrians all bore numb expressions and walked in a frantic rush.

The alleys were too deep, and navigation offered limited help. The car could not drive inside, so Yu Yao had no choice but to abandon her vehicle and walk on foot, initiating a video call with “X” to help guide the way.

After nearly twenty minutes, Yu Yao finally arrived before a residential building.

The brick walls of this building were broken and dilapidated, appearing very old. Most families inside the building had already moved away, with only a few rooms still showing lights.

Yu Yao frowned, softening her steps as she walked into the stairwell.

In the cramped, dimly lit corridor of the third floor, a fat, bald, old man was currently blocking a slender figure from behind, his face brimming with ill intent.

“Chuji, instead of following that director, you might as well sleep with me. You won’t even have to work so hard filming!”

“This house of mine is about to be demolished. When the demolition funds come down, I’ll give you several million, how about that?”

A sickening smile appeared on the old man’s fat, greasy face as he reached out his hand, seemingly wanting to pull Zhao Chuji…

Yu Yao clenched her fists. In an instant, she felt a surge of rage rush straight to the crown of her head—

By the time she reacted, she had already ripped off one of her shoes and hurled it with all her might!

“You shameless old dead man!”

“You only deserve to sleep with a coffin!”

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