The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 374 - 378: The Demon’s Gratitude (Part One)

Chapter 374: Chapter 378: The Demon’s Gratitude (Part One)

In sleep, the graceful young man on the bed slept very restlessly.

His hands beside him tightly clutched the quilt underneath as if enduring unbearable pain.

"Ah..." the young man jumped up like a carp, gasping heavily.

The servant guarding outside heard the young master’s cry and immediately rushed to knock anxiously on the door.

"Young master, what is wrong?"

"Nothing, just a nightmare. You may leave."

The servant outside did not suspect anything and complied.

The young man in the room had already regained his composed and calm demeanor, but if one looked closely, it seemed that at first, one could still see the traces of fissures on his face.

Having received the bizarre memories of the original owner in his dream, Su Li knew that in this life, his identity was that of a man.

But when it actually came time to act in this body, the awkwardness Su Li felt could be imagined.

Standing in front of the bronze mirror, he felt awkward not knowing where to place his hands and feet.

Especially...

Thinking about the two taels of flesh below, his normally calm expression couldn’t be maintained.

If it wasn’t for the fact that this time’s Merit Master was a ten-lifetime good person with an immense amount of merit, Su Li would not have been willing to sacrifice herself by coming to this world.

Indeed, in her view, it was a sacrifice of herself, and she felt terribly aggrieved now.

In previous worlds, she had always been very pure, having never even held a man’s hand, yet this world had upgraded directly to having to support that unspeakable thing while urinating...

Su Li’s face turned crimson and burned intensely.

She paced around the room continuously, giving herself several psychological pep talks, and didn’t sleep all night until she reluctantly accepted at dawn that she was now a man.

The original owner was a delicate scholar, knowledgeable and handsome, precisely the type of scholar image that demons in ghost stories loved.

From a young age, the scholar was kind-hearted, couldn’t even bear to harm an ant by the roadside, let alone on a hiking trip, seeing an old man fishing up a bright red carp that looked extraordinary.

Just thinking about the imminent fate of the carp, the original owner couldn’t bear it and begged his parents to buy the carp for him.

This happened when the original owner was still a child.

After buying the carp, the original owner placed it in the large pond in the garden at home.

Every day after school, the first thing he would do was to go see this carp, taking meticulous care of it.

But who could have imagined that this carp was no ordinary creature, but a Carp Spirit about to undergo a transformation?

And all of the original owner’s tragic encounters stemmed from this Carp Spirit.

On the day before the original owner’s eighteenth birthday, an unprecedented thunderstorm occurred overnight.

No one knew that after that night, the carp in the Su Family’s pond had transformed into a beautiful girl.

The original owner’s kindness towards the Carp Spirit was an extremely valuable life-saving grace.

She needed to repay this karma in order to achieve true enlightenment.

The original owner had grown up to be very good-looking, no longer the little child with a small bun he was in his childhood.

Over these years, the Carp Spirit had developed deep feelings for the original owner.

Since it could not repay him in any other way, the spirit decided to offer itself to him.

Thinking it had found the best way to repay the kindness, the Carp Spirit did not consider whether he would be willing or accept it, and enthusiastically transformed into a beautiful girl and approached him.

When the original owner turned eighteen years old, he found a pitiful girl named Yu Jiaolan on the road who was selling herself to bury her mother.

The kind-hearted original owner could not resist Yu Jiaolan’s desperate pleas and took her back to the Su Residence.

Intent on reading saintly books, the original owner paid no heed to Yu Jiaolan’s affections.

At that time, the original owner’s cousin came to stay for a short visit, and he was very close to her as they had grown up together.

This caught the eye of the Carp Spirit, who naturally felt indignant.

Even though the cousin was more beautiful than her, she was merely a mortal—how could she compare to a demon like her.

The original owner still did not know that his natural closeness with his cousin had become her death warrant.

His cousin was fished out of the pond, already breathless, and the entire Su Family was terrified.

To their amazement, the cousin, whose face had already turned green and pale, coughed out a mouthful of dirty water after a quarter of an hour and surprisingly woke up.

Old Madam Su immediately knelt in the small Buddhist temple, fasting and praying to thank the Gods and Buddhas for their protection.

In reality, this was not the work of immortals at all; it was clearly the Carp Spirit’s doing.

A different soul had already taken over the cousin’s body.

The Carp Spirit did not directly harm the original owner’s cousin but merely helped things along.

Yu Jiaolan kept telling the girl that the lotus flowers after the rain were especially beautiful and that Old Madam would definitely like them.

Hearing that Old Madam liked them, Shi Jiaojiao, a very filial girl, could not stay still any longer and immediately set off to pick some lotus flowers for Old Madam.

The still-wet, very slippery ground could easily cause one to slip and fall.

In her excitement, Shi Jiaojiao, not caring too much, accidentally slid into the pond.

Normally, such garden ponds were attended to by specialized servants, who wouldn’t be far away, but coincidentally that day, the servant guarding the pond happened to have diarrhea and had left only for a short while when the accident occurred.

This caused Shi Jiaojiao to swallow a stomach full of water, and the servant himself was punished with a beating and expelled from the Su Family.

As a demon newly arrived among mortals, the Carp Spirit naturally lacked mortal ethical norms.

She saw her benefactor’s fondness for Shi Jiaojiao and naturally thought of taking her place to repay him.

In time, she would marry her benefactor and have his children, repaying even the greatest boon, then naturally, she could leave.

The Carp Spirit acted entirely on her own whims.

Using Shi Jiaojiao’s identity, she held her family in disdain.

The original owner and his cousin originally had a purely fraternal relationship, how could they accept the Carp Spirit’s confession?

Rejected again, the Carp Spirit became very annoyed and in a fit of anger ran out of the Su Residence, where she met the Eldest Prince outside.

The two got along very well, and spending several days alone together shifted all her affections from her benefactor to the Eldest Prince.

Since the person she wanted to marry had changed, but the debt of gratitude still had to be repaid,

with the help of the Eldest Prince, the Carp Spirit thought of an excellent solution.

She could no longer marry her benefactor herself, so why not send him a fiancée of noble lineage instead?

The Eldest Prince’s own sister was promised in marriage to the original owner, while the Carp Spirit, bearing Shi Jiaojiao’s identity and having been compromised by spending several days alone with a man, had her reputation severely damaged.

The Shi Family, much against their will, had to marry her off into the Eldest Prince Mansion.

Originally a Royalist, the Shi Family was tagged as part of the Eldest Prince faction and came under the Emperor’s disfavor.

And thus, because of this event, a rift formed between the Shi Family and the Su Family.