...YOUNG MASTER QIN KEEPS COVETING ME AFTER I BEAT HIM UP...

Chapter 1: The Jiang Family Is A Bunch Of Bastards

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Jiang Xun looked at the room before her with a splitting headache. There was a wooden table and chair, and she was lying on a hard bed. She could glimpse the blue sky outside the plastic windows, accompanied with the chirping of insects and birds.

Where was this?

Jiang Xun held her head and found that it was wrapped up in a bandage.

Wasn’t she dead?

She’d died in a crowd of zombies.

She was the leader of the zombie-clearing team during the apocalypse and had been on a mission when she’d run into a horde of zombies. To protect her team members and to secure their escape route, she’d lit up some explosives and died together with the zombies.

However, before the explosives had been detonated, she’d been bitten.

Jiang Xun reached up to touch her neck, but there was no wound at all.

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What was going on?

“Hello, Host. I’m the Merit System, Number S00356.”

Jiang Xun jumped up from the bed in shock. “What the hell? Who’s talking?”

“It’s me, the Merit System! You can talk to me in your mind. There’s no need to use your voice.”

After processing the situation for a bit, Jiang Xun asked in her mind, “...What is this...Merit System?”

“You killed countless zombies during the apocalypse and saved many people. You even sacrificed yourself to save your team members. You have accumulated enough Merit Points, or MP, so you were able to be reborn in this normal world without any zombies.”

Jiang Xun was excited. “A normal world without zombies? Is it a world in which humans destroyed the zombies and rebuilt after the apocalypse?”

The system said, “No, this world is not in the same space and time as your original one. It is in its own timeline. It is still unknown as to whether or not it will enter the apocalypse in the future.”

Holding her head, Jiang Xun got off the bed and walked to the window, opening it. The air outside was fresh and clean, so unlike that of the apocalypse, which was almost always permeated with the smell of rotten flesh.

She took a deep breath.

It smelled so good!

Right at that moment, however, the door was pushed open. She turned to see a middle-aged woman glaring at her coldly. “Since you’re awake, then come down and eat.”

When she turned around and left, Jiang Xun heard her mumble, “Imagine rolling down the stairs and having no problem afterwards. How unfortunate.”

Jiang Xun asked the system, “Who is she?”

The system’s calm and emotionless voice rang in Jiang Xun’s mind, “She is the Host’s aunt, Lu Huixian. The host was pushed down the stairs and died just a second before you came here, which was why the system allowed your soul to enter her body.”

After that explanation, the system transferred the original Host’s memory to Jiang Xun.

The Host also happened to be named Jiang Xun. However, according to the system, there were many people who were also named Jiang Xun across at least 3,000 worlds, so it would always prioritize transferring souls to bodies, also known as Hosts, of the same name.

The original Host was 18 years old and was a high school student. Her father was named Jiang Chenya, the president of the famous Chengye Group.

The original Host’s birth mother passed away when she was one year old. A month later, Jiang Chengye remarried, and the new wife, Feng Nianzhen, brought a daughter into the family. It turned out that Jiang Chengye had cheated on his wife while she was pregnant, and so the woman he’d cheated with, Feng Nianzhen, gave birth to a daughter, Jiang Yuexi, who was only two months younger than Jiang Xun.

It was precisely because Jiang Xun’s mother found out about his actions that she fell sick from heartbreak and passed away.

After Feng Nianzhen entered the house, two years later, she gave birth to a son, Jiang Jixuan.

When Jiang Xun was seven years old, Jiang Chengye’s business was not doing well. After Feng Nianzhen poked at him a little, he’d gotten someone to read his fortune, which ended with him sending Jiang Xun to the countryside to “stop his business from falling into disaster.”

In the end, not long after Jiang Xun was sent away, Jiang Chengye’s business started booming, which made Jiang Chengye believe in fortune-telling. After that, he only allowed Jiang Xun to stay at her uncle’s house. He would give her uncle enough living expenses so that he could take care care of her.

Jiang Xun’s uncle and aunt also had a son, who was one year younger than her. They spent all the living expenses Jiang Chengye sent them on their son. In their eyes, as long as Jiang Xun did not starve to death, it would be fine.

Due to the circumstances of her upbringing, the host’s personality was rather awkward. She had low self-esteem and was sensitive and narrow-minded. She would always misinterpret someone else’s words, so she was very unpopular at school and would often be bullied.

It came to a head when she was finally pushed down the stairs and lost her life, and this was where the current Jiang Xun came in.

Jiang Xun sneered at this newfound knowledge. “The Jiang family is a bunch of bastards. The father cheated on the pregnant mother with someone else and then named that daughter Jiang Yuexi, which means ‘delight’...It’s no wonder that the Host’s mother was heartbroken when she found out. Not only that, the Host grew up in such an awful environment and only ended up with an awkward personality? It’s already a miracle that she didn’t end up with a crooked one!”

It was then did Jiang Xun remember to look at the original Host’s appearance. When she looked at her reflection in the mirror, she realized that the Host looked exactly like her. However, she lookedmalnourished; her face was yellowish and her cheeks were sunken.

Not that Jiang Xun was any better off in the apocalypse?. But in her case, they simply couldn’t afford to eat a lot most of the time. Simply being able to scavenge for food was already considered a blessing, so she hadn’t paid too much attention to nutrition.

This Host, however, was living in a peaceful and prosperous era, and yet she still looked half-starved and pitiful!

Without saying anything, Jiang Xun turned and left the bedroom. When she arrived at the dining room, she saw that her uncle’s family had already started eating.

The meat was placed right in front of their son, Luo Zhenhao, while there were a bunch of vegetable dishes in front of where Jiang Xun was supposed to sit.

In the post-apocalyptic world, Jiang Xun didn’t even get to eat fresh vegetables, let alone meat.

But since there was meat available, who would want to eat any vegetables?!

Jiang Xun picked up his chopsticks and picked up the braised pork ribs in front of Luo Zhenhao.

Lu Huixian reached out her chopsticks to smack Jiang Xun’s hand, but Jiang Xun quickly evaded them. Was this a joke? To her, killing zombies back in her world was akin to a seasoned chef chopping up vegetables?—there was no way she would lost to Lu Huixian!

“This is for your brother. You’re not allowed to eat it!” Lu Huixian said angrily, about to throw away the spare ribs that Jiang Xun had picked up.

She would rather waste the food than allow Jiang Xun to eat!

However, Jiang Xun threw the spare ribs into her mouth and spat the bones right into the bowl of chicken soup in the middle of the table. A few drops of soup splashed onto the table.

Jiang Xun snorted coldly. The chicken soup now had her saliva in it. Would this family eat it, she wondered?

“Jiang Xun, you’re courting death!” Luo Zhenhao might be younger than Jiang Xun by one year, but he still was a big guy. He stood up and raised his hand, moving to smack her, but Jiang Xun moved quickly and kicked him to the ground.

She frowned. This body wasn’t as physically strong as her old one. She’d forgotten that this wasn’t her own body.

Back in her world, humans had also evolved in response to the zombies. Their brains were fully developed, and their physical fitness and mental strength were much higher than the current level of humans.

In addition to the rigorous training that she had participated in after enlisting in the army, her physical strength was much higher than that of current humans, so it was only natural that the Host’s body wouldn’t be as efficient.

If she were at her original level, Luo Zhenhao would have been kicked through the wall and sent flying.

Even so, Jiang Xun’s sudden change of attitude gave the Luo family a shock.

“Haohao!” Lu Huixianhurried to Luo Zhenhao’s side to help him up. “How are you? Are you injured?”

Her uncle, Luo Zhongren, went to grab Jiang Xun with a red face. “You blasted girl! I’ll beat you to death today!”

Jiang Xun kicked him to the ground in response.

“What you are eating now comes from the living expenses that Jiang Chengye gave me!” she spat. “This meat was bought with?myliving expenses, so why shouldn’t I eat it?”

...YOUNG MASTER QIN KEEPS COVETING ME AFTER I BEAT HIM UP...

Chapter 2: If In Silence You Don’t Explode, Your Mind Will Warp Instead

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Luo Zhongren clutched his ribs. Where did this wretched girl get so much strength from?

It didn’t matter; the only reason she’d managed to land a hit on him was because he was careless!

Luo Zhongren got up, then raised his hand, trying to hit Jiang Xun again, only for her to nimbly dodge out of the way and smack him in his already bruised ribs, following it up with another kick.

He screamed and rolled on the ground in pain.

“You accursed girl!” Lu Huixian screeched upon seeing that her husband and son had both been kicked to the floor. In a fit of rage, she flung herself at Jiang Xun—

“Bang!”

—And was sent flying by Jiang Xun’s kick.

After the system had given her the Host’s memories, she knew that this family would always abuse and beat the Host up, so she spared no mercy on them.

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“Yes, we did spend the money your father sent us!” Lu Huixian said, clutching her stomach in pain. “And so what? Why don’t you go tattle to your father if you have the guts? He left you here for 11 years without paying you any attention, so what’s he going to do even if you tell him?”

“He might not care about me, but do you think he’d let an outsider take advantage of him?” The Host didn’t have any deep memories of Jiang Chengye, but Jiang Xun could still judge the man’s character accurately enough.

If she didn’t have this ability, how could she have stood out in the army and become a squad leader in her past life?

She wasn’t all brawn and no brain.

Sure enough, Luo Zhongren and Lu Huixian’s expressions froze, and they were unable to say anything in response.

Jiang Xun ignored them and got herself a new bowl, which she promptly filled with braised pork ribs and roast chicken, then picked up the bowl of chicken soup on the table and brought it back to her bedroom.

Luo Zhongren grimaced in pain. “That wretched girl, how did she suddenly become so unreasonable? She’s allowed us to beat and scold her for the past 11 years, but she didn’t even dare to eat a single mouthful of meat.”

It was then that Luo Zhenhao thought of a saying. “‘If in silence you don’t explode, your mind will warp instead.’ So maybe...she’s become abnormal...?”

Both Luo Zhongren and Lu Huixian remained silent, contemplating his words.

In the meanwhile, after closing the bedroom door, Jiang Xun took a sip of the chicken soup, then grabbed the roast chicken and took a big bite of it.

Who could’ve known that such a delicacy existed? She was so touched that tears almost started flowing down her face.

In the post-apocalyptic world, eating meat like this so casually would be unthinkable—who knew whether the meat was infected with zombie viruses or not?

“Host, what should we do next? Go back to the Jiang family and make trouble?” If she wasn’t hearing things, the system’s voice sounded as if it?wanted?to cause trouble.

Jiang Xun rolled her eyes. “Why should I go back? Jiang Chengye is the host’s father, not mine. Besides, he doesn’t treat her well, so why?should?I go back? I’ve come to a peaceful and prosperous world, so I wouldn’t just stir up trouble for no reason.”

The system was rendered speechless at her words. Why was it that of all people, it had to be assigned to such an unscrupulous person?

It quickly regained its composure, however, and said, “Host, I forgot to tell you: According to the predetermined trajectory of fate, the host will be brought back to the Jiang family before the college entrance exam this year. After seeing that her life was completely different from that of her younger sister Jiang Yuexi’s life, the original host got angry.”

“She was rather narrow-minded and thought that this kind of lifestyle was the one that she should’ve had, and so she started to resent Jiang Yuexi and made her life difficult, to the point where at the age of 20, she was killed in retaliation by both Jiang Yuexi and her fiancé.”

“In this timeline, however, she was unexpectedly killed earlier than projected, so now you are tasked with making sure the original Host returns to the Jiang Family in accordance with the original timeline. If you don’t do it on time, you’ll be sent back to the time just after you were swarmed by zombies.”

As soon as Jiang Xun heard that, she shivered. She didn’t want to be infected and become an existence that was neither dead nor alive.

“Then I’ll just go back. I’ll continue to lie idle in the Jiang family. It doesn’t matter to me,” she decided. In a short while, Jiang Xun had already finished eating the roast chicken and had started on the braised meat.

The system was speechless for a moment. “According to the planned path of fate, even if you are the spirit residing in the original Host’s body, you and her are essentially the same person. Therefore, you will replace the original Host and walk on her path of fate, which means you won’t be able to escape dying at 20,” it said.

After a beat, it continued, pulling up a display monitor in Jiang Xun’s mind. “Unless, of course, you accumulate enough MP to start a new mission, which can potentially gain you a reward. Otherwise, once you die at the age of 20, you will be teleported back to the apocalypse. The moment you are bitten by a zombie, you will be infected.”

Jiang Xun had nothing to say as she looked at the panel displayed to her. Sure enough, there was a grayed out button on the mission panel.

[Basic mission requires 20 Merit Points to start. ]

As Jiang Xun chewed on the ribs, she asked nonchalantly, “Then how do I get MP?”

The system perked up and introduced it like a salesman, “As long as you can make the person who did something wrong realize their mistake and sincerely apologize to you, one apology will net you one MP.”

“Why didn’t you say so earlier!” Jiang Xun suddenly threw away the ribs in her hand and stood up to leave.

While all of that was going on, Luo Zhongren’s family of three was eating vegetables with a bitter look on their faces. Jiang Xun had taken all the meat away.

When Jiang Xun suddenly come out again, the three of them trembled. Was she going to take their vegetables, too?

To their shock, Jiang Xun went forward and grabbed Luo Zhenhao’s collar. “You, apologize to me!” she growled.

“S-sorry?” Luo Zhenhao didn’t understand what she was doing this time.

Jiang Xun narrowed her eyes. Her MP did not increase.

She slapped Luo Zhenhao’s head. “You’re not sincere! In the past, you spent my living expenses and even punched and kicked me. Shouldn’t you apologize to me?”

“I’m sorry!” Luo Zhenhao was beaten until he cried.

[Merit Points + 1]

Jiang Xun released Luo Zhenhao, satisfied, then looked at Luo Zhongren. “You, apologize to me! You’re my biological uncle, but you conspired and even helped your wife and children to bully me. How can you possibly bear to face my mother?”

“I’m sorry.” Although Luo Zhongren’s voice was muffled, she did not expect him to sound so sincere.

[ Merit Points + 1]

“And you.” Jiang Xun looked at Lu Huixian, who cowered under her intense gaze. This time, she didn’t have to say anything before Lu Huixian took the initiative to apologize. “I’m sorry!”

[ Merit Points + 1]

“All of you better behave in the future!” After Jiang Xun said that, she went back to the bedroom.

Luo Zhenhao collapsed back into his chair with a pale face.

How did a Yakuza member suddenly show up in their house?!

As Jiang Xun returned to her room, the system suddenly said, “Host, the injury on your head can also be repaired with MP.”

“Oh?” Jiang Xun had been thinking that the bump on her head was quite a nuisance. She had wanted to strengthen her body as soon as possible, which wouldn’t be possible with that injury still present.

However, looking at the system’s money-grubbing face in her mind, she couldn’t help but feel that the matter was not that simple. “How much does it cost, then?”

“Not much, just 3 MP.”

“...Hey, why are you only telling me this just when I managed to get my hands on 3 MP? You’re doing this on purpose to take them away from me, aren’t you?”

When would she be able to start the first mission?

The system replied, “The price is clearly marked! I’m not lying! Besides, even if you spend your MP, you can still earn more!”

Jiang Xun pursed her lips. “Alright, I’ll cash them in.”

“Alright!”

Then, Jiang Xun saw the Pitiful 3 MP counter on the interface drop to 0 once again.

“Host, your injury has healed.”

Jiang Xun took off the bandage on her head. As expected, there was no injury at all, nor did it hurt anymore.

After she’d eaten her fill, she immediately threw herself into training.

...YOUNG MASTER QIN KEEPS COVETING ME AFTER I BEAT HIM UP...

Chapter 3: Why Does Such A Bug Exist?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

During the weekends, Jiang Xun would always train at a mountain behind the village from dawn til dusk.

Luo Zhongren’s family of three didn’t dare to provoke Jiang Xun after that entire fiasco. They just treated her as if she didn’t exist and didn’t ask her what she was doing.

On Mondays, with her schoolbag in hand, Jiang Xun would run all the way to her campus before dawn. Her high school was situated in town, and she usually stayed on campus. This was fine with her, since she didn’t like staying with the Luo family, either.

The Host had been sent back home due to her head injury. It turned out that Luo Zhongren and his family didn’t bother taking the Host to the hospital and had simply left her in her room. This contributed to the original Host’s death and had allowed Jiang Xun to enter her body.

Wenping Village was more than 30 kilometers away from Wenping Town, so Jiang Xun ran there as a form of exercise.

After working on her test papers for the whole morning, she realized that she was very good at the sciences, like Math.

In the post-apocalyptic era, humans had paid more attention to the development of science and technology to fight against zombies. Jiang Xun’s knowledge of science was much more advanced than what she was learning in this current era.

However, she was not good at humanities subjects like liberal arts and history.

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At noon, Jiang Xun was about to head to the cafeteria for a meal. On the way there, the system suddenly said, “Host, MP can also be added to intelligence, stamina, hearing, speed, and so on. When you add some MP to brain power, these problems will naturally be solved.”

Jiang Xun looked at the interface. “So why didn’t you tell me this sooner?”

“These instructions can only appear after the first mission is unlocked.”

“... Alright, then I’ll settle for 20 MP for now.”

As they were speaking, two boys suddenly charged straight at Jiang Xun. However, even though she was chatting with the system, she easily avoided their attack.

“Jiang Xun, have your injuries healed already? Looks like you can still roll down a few more flights of stairs,” a girl said, her voice dripping with malice.

It was then that Jiang Xun realized she had been surrounded by three boys and two girls. All other students weren’t looking in their direction, pretending not to see what was happening.

Since Jiang Xun had the original Host’s memories, she knew that these three boys were the school bullies, while the two girls would tail them and pretend that they had any semblance of power. They were the ones who had pushed the original Host down the stairs.

One of the girls, Teng Qianqian, suddenly spat out her gum on the ground and held a hand up to her throat. “Oh no. Looks like I accidentally dropped my gum.”

The other girl, Mo Xiaoyu, smiled wickedly at Jiang Xun. “Well? Don’t let it go to waste, Jiang Xun. Pick it up and eat it.”

Jiang Xun looked at the five of them coldly. Yu Tailai, one of the bullies, glared at her and stepped forward. “What are you looking at? Hurry up and pick it up!”

However, Jiang Xun bent over expressionlessly.

The system remained silent.?There was no way this big shot would obey those bullies.

The best it could hope for was that these five wouldn’t start crying.

Just as Jiang Xun’s fingertips were about to touch the gum, Teng Qianqian stomped on it.

“Oh, I’m?sorry. I lost my balance for a bit there.” Teng Qianqian retracted her foot. “Don’t let me interrupt what you were going to do.”

The gum had already turned gray, and it was even imprinted with the pattern on the bottom of Teng Qianqian’s shoe.

The five of them looked at Jiang Xun proudly as she reached out to pick up the gum that had been crushed on the ground.

Just as they were waiting for her to eat it, Jiang Xun suddenly turned his hand and shoved the gum straight into Teng Qianqian’s mouth.

This unexpected turn of events shocked all five of them for a moment.

Teng Qianqian was momentarily unable to react, and she even heard Jiang Xun say, “Eat it yourself, then it won’t be wasted.”

“Ah!” She shrieked and quickly spat out the gum, spluttering out all the dirt in her mouth and feeling thoroughly filthy.

“Jiang Xun, your brain’s malfunctioned, hasn’t it?!” she yelled furiously, lunging at Jiang Xun’s face with her nails outstretched.

With Yu Tailai and the others around, Jiang Xun had never dared to fight back. But this time, before Teng Qianqian’s nails could touch Jiang Xun’s face, she saw the other girl’s eyes emit a cold light.

It was like Jiang Xun was looking at a monster, not a human.

The system thought to itself, ‘Jiang Xun’s eyes were like this when she killed the zombies. She’s looking at her like she’s a zombie, not at a living person.’.

Jiang Xun grabbed Teng Qianqian’s ponytail, causing the other girl to yelp in pain. She felt as if her scalp would be pulled off.

Suddenly she felt something pulling on her scalp, and then she found herself being flung up into the air and thrown across the hallway.

“Bang!”

Teng Qianqian fell was slammed against a wall and crumpled to the ground.

Jiang Xun looked coldly at the remaining four people, silently daring them to make a move. These five were the ones who’d pushed the original Host down the stairs—they were the ones who’d murdered her

However, since she was now in this Host’s body, in the eyes of the world, the original owner was still alive, so they couldn’t bring the five people to justice.

“Jiang Xun, you’re looking for death, aren’t you?!” One of the bullies Zhao Dejia, attacked Jiang Xun. He’d never gone easy on her even though she was a girl.

In response, Jiang Xun launched a kick to his stomach, forcing him to keel over in pain, looking much like a shrimp, after which she promptly kicked him in the face.

With that, Zhao Dejia fell to the ground, out cold.

If Jiang Xun had attacked him with her full strength, he would’ve lost his life, much like the original Host.

However, Jiang Xun controlled his strength. It only hurt him and would not cause him to lose his life like the original owner.

The bystander students let out a gasp when they saw what had happened, but they had no time to process this turn of events when Jiang Xun immediately kicked out at the other two of the bullies and punched Mo Xiaoyu.

In the end, all five of the bullies lay on the ground in agony.

Jiang Xun grabbed Zhao Dejia by the back of his collar and stacked him on top of Tai Lai, then did the same with Fang Zhenghui, Teng Qianqian, and Mo Xiaoyu.

The five of them were like Stacked Arhats, one lying on top of the other.

Jiang Xun pulled Mo Xiaoyu up.

“What... What are you doing?” Mo Xiaoyu was scared out of her wits, terrified at how Jiang Xun had suddenly gotten so bold. Her face was covered in tears and snot.

“Apologize to me,” Jiang Xun said coldly. “You kept bullying me and pushed me down the stairs. I almost died from your little stunt, so apologize, right now!”

Mo Xiaoyu couldn’t help but think to herself, “She looks perfectly fine, though? She doesn’t look like she was on death’s door.”

But she didn’t want to be beaten up again, so she hurriedly said, “I’m sorry! I’m so sorry!”

[Merit Points + 3]

Jiang Xun was surprised at the notification.

So. If someone apologized multiple times, she would also earn multiple MP at once?

What a good feature.

“Continue.” Jiang Xun decided to sit here and farm MP from these guys.

The Merit System was rendered speechless.?Why did such a bug exist?!

“I’m sorry... I’m sorry...” Mo Xiaoyu said repeatedly, like she was chanting.

However, Jiang Xun didn’t receive any more MP.?It seemed that she was so scared that he couldn’t stop apologizing, but her heart wasn’t in it anymore.

Jiang Xun then turned her attention to Teng Qianqian, who froze even as tears continued to flow down her face.

“I’m sorry, I won’t dare to do it again in the future,” Teng Qianqian said while crying.

[Merit Points + 1]

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry...”

Teng Qianqian gave Jiang Xun four MP in total, while the other three boys gave her a total of 10 MP.

Jiang Xun took a look at the system to see that she now had a total of 17 Merit Points.

“It’s quite easy to earn Merit Points, isn’t it?”

“...No, it’s just that you’re very efficient at farming them.”