Chapter 3 She Has a Golden Finger Too
It is worth noting that most of the maids and servants in the Jiang Family were mere mortals. Only those who served directly by the masters' sides had the opportunity to cultivate.
By the time Jiang Qing arrived, the canteen was already packed.
"Hey! Look, isn't that Jiang Qing?" Someone spotted her immediately.
Because of the original owner's peculiar status, the manor's maids and servants always looked at her strangely. After all, she was neither quite a young mistress nor quite a servant.
In everyone else's eyes, she was an anomaly. But that was fine—at least she had no lingering attachments.
Ignoring the strange glances all around her, Jiang Qing walked straight up to one of the windows to queue for breakfast.
Before she could even reach it, however, two large steamed meat buns and a bowl of lean pork porridge were handed right in front of her.
Without even thinking, Jiang Qing knew whose work this was. Armed with the original owner's memories, she knew it had to be Qin Lingtian.
Sure enough, Jiang Qing looked up and saw a magnified face right before her eyes. The newcomer was seventeen or eighteen years old, with a face as smooth as jade, sword-like brows, and starry eyes. His appearance was quite handsome, giving off a striking and dashing aura.
In particular, his deep, fathomless eyes were the greatest highlight of his facial features, capable of making women unconsciously infatuated and giving him a mysterious, extraordinary air.
Yet Jiang Qing couldn't fathom why she felt absolutely nothing. In the novel, many women had indeed fallen under the spell of Qin Lingtian's mysterious black eyes.
At a single glance, Jiang Qing knew the male protagonist had transmigrated.
Although the original Qin Lingtian had also been good-looking, he had never been this eye-catching. Especially those deep eyes—something the former servant Qin Lingtian had never possessed.
While Jiang Qing was sizing up Qin Lingtian, he was sizing her up as well. Noticing that her expression and demeanor were completely different from the past, Qin Lingtian felt a quiet shift in his heart.
*Tsk tsk tsk... What a waste of such good looks.* Originally, this kind of appearance and her previous timid disposition were his favorite type; otherwise, he wouldn't have bothered running over to fetch breakfast for her. But now, she must have been possessed by some wandering ghost—what a pity.
Qin Lingtian glanced once more at the indifference in Jiang Qing's eyes, growing even more certain of his judgment.
That little girl had always been timid, frail, and pitiful, making one instinctively want to pull her into one's arms and protect her.
Unlike the person before him—even wearing a frail and sickly exterior, she couldn't hide the stubbornness and coldness radiating from her bones, wearing an expression that kept everyone a thousand miles away.
Clearly, these were two different people. Having transmigrated himself and possessing the original owner's memories, he could naturally tell the difference between them very clearly.
If it were a native of this world, they would at most assume she had suffered some trauma causing a drastic change in personality.
As for possession, that was something only cultivators experienced. Besides, who on earth would bother possessing a mortal with defective spiritual roots?
"Haha, go ahead and eat. Don't be polite!" Without exposing her, Qin Lingtian generously handed the buns and porridge to Jiang Qing once again.
Even though the soul inside had changed, Qin Lingtian wasn't petty enough to take back something he had already given away. Besides, they were just two buns and a bowl of pork porridge.
Jiang Qing glanced at the porridge and buns in front of her, making no move to take them. She simply said indifferently, "Thanks, but you'd better keep them for yourself!"
With that, she prepared to head over to the window to queue up.
Before Jiang Qing could leave, however, she suddenly noticed a stat-like panel appearing right above Qin Lingtian's head.
Name: Qin Lingtian (Ascension-path Male Protagonist)
Aptitude: Chaotic Spiritual Root (Top-tier)
Cultivation: Qi Condensation 3rd Layer
Destiny Grid: Destined by Heaven (Gold), Protagonist Halo (Gold), Dragon and Phoenix Among Men (Purple), Turning Misfortune into Blessing (Purple), Personal Charisma (Purple), Benefactor's Assistance (Purple)
Life Script: Cleaving through thorns and thistles, breaking through wave after wave of obstacles, and finally ascending to the Immortal Realm.
Recent Turning Point: In five days, he will obtain a storage bag in an abandoned stone cave on the back mountain, which contains a large amount of spirit stones and medicinal pills.
In ten days, he will purchase a black iron piece of unknown material at a low price in the marketplace, from which he will subsequently acquire the Five Elements Escape Technique.
In half a month, his cultivation will break through to the Qi Condensation 5th Layer. While training in the Black Wind Forest outside the city, he will discover a pool of century-old spiritual milk inside a cave halfway up a gourd-shaped mountain peak.
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Th-this... Was she hallucinating? Jiang Qing closed her eyes, then opened them again. Repeating this several times, she found that the panel was still floating there.
Could it be that she had a golden finger too?
If the information displayed on the panel was true, then Qin Lingtian's attributes were absurdly overpowered, a whole string of purples and golds. Although she didn't quite understand it all, purple and gold should represent top-tier grades.
Especially upon seeing Qin Lingtian's recent turning points, Jiang Qing couldn't help but feel envious.
It was just a pity that it didn't contain the ten-thousand-year wood essence she desperately needed—what a shame.
To verify her guess, Jiang Qing shifted her gaze to other people in the canteen and discovered that they had similar panels floating above their heads as well.
Name: Wang Hao (Ascension-path Extra)
Cultivation: None
Destiny Grid: Mediocre and Unambitious (Gray)
Life Script: After growing old, he will buy back his freedom, return to his hometown, enjoy family happiness in his twilight years, and die of old age.
Recent Turning Point: None
After that, Jiang Qing looked at a few more people. Most of them were mediocre and unremarkable, destined to live out plain and ordinary lives, with very few ever stepping onto the path of cultivation.
Qin Lingtian, standing nearby, naturally didn't miss Jiang Qing's changing expressions and behavior just moments ago. For a moment, he was somewhat baffled and unable to figure out what was going on.
Anxious to go back and verify her hypothesis, Jiang Qing ignored Qin Lingtian's bewilderment, hastily collected two steamed buns from the service counter, and left.
Hurrying back to her living quarters, Jiang Qing chanted frantically in her mind.
"System, system, is that you?"
There was no response for quite a while. Just as Jiang Qing began to wonder if she had just experienced a hallucination, a voice rang out.
"Ding! Defying-the-Heavens Destiny System installed successfully. Do you wish to bind?"
Hearing this, Jiang Qing grew excited. So she really did have a golden finger! As the saying goes, how could a transmigrator possibly lack benefits?
Just a moment earlier, she had been agonizing over whether she could cultivate, even thinking that if all else failed, she would simply resort to sucking up to the male protagonist.
Now, with the system, all her problems were solved instantly.
"Bind."
"Binding successful."
Soon, a stat panel materialized right before Jiang Qing's eyes.
Name: Jiang Qing (Ascension-path Male Protagonist's White Moonlight)
Aptitude: Wood Spiritual Root (Flawed)
Cultivation: None
Destiny Grid: Heavenly Chosen Heroine (Purple), Personal Charisma (Purple), Ice Skin and Jade Bones (Purple), Premature Death (Black), Envy of the Heavens (Black), Ill-Omen (Gray)
Life Script: Follow the male protagonist in leaving the Jiang Family, successfully enter the male protagonist's harem, and become his first woman. Afterward, with the male protagonist's help, she will smoothly repair her flawed spiritual root and finally become a cultivator. Regrettably, good times do not last long; during a pursuit, she will sacrifice her life to save the male protagonist and perish.
Recent Turning Point: Today, she will be brutally beaten up by Goodwife Liu together with Goodwife Qian and Goodwife Zhao.
Coincidentally, Qin Lingtian will arrive in the nick of time and save you. You will feel deeply grateful to Qin Lingtian, thereby developing romantic affection for him.
All the information was clear at a glance. Even ethereal concepts like destiny and opportunities were laid bare.
Destiny Grids are categorized as: Black, Gray, White, Crimson, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple, and Gold.
Black and gray represent bad luck or poor fortune, differing only in the severity of misfortune between black and gray.