The White Moonlight Subdues Everyone with a Suona - Chapter 5
Chapter 5 : Na Na Na Na Na
The Heavenly Law was truly crying.
It had never expected that it could be outsmarted by Ji Bingyu once again. In an instant, it was filled with shame and anger, a surge of fury suddenly rising in its heart as it swore to teach Ji Bingyu a lesson!
Thus, in the next second, Ji Bingyu found herself walking into a cloud of white mist without warning. There, a plump and tender toddler, resembling a soft little steamed bun, was staring at her with puffed-up cheeks.
Ji Bingyu narrowed her eyes, countless guesses flashing through her mind.
It had to be said that when she wasn’t sleepy, Ji Bingyu’s mind was extremely clear, and her brain worked very fast.
As if sensing that Ji Bingyu had finally detected its presence, the little bun turned down the corners of its mouth. Under Ji Bingyu’s guardedly watchful gaze, it sat down on the ground with a thud in the next second, crying so hard it was gasping for breath, twitching and sobbing, looking utterly wronged and pitiful.
Even while crying, it didn’t forget to hurl accusations.
“Waaaaah Ji Bingyu, waaaaah, you, you’re bullying me!”
Ji Bingyu, …
Ji Bingyu, ???
For the first time since they met, it was Ji Bingyu’s turn to fall silent.
“Hold on.” Ji Bingyu’s mouth twitched, “Stop crying first, and answer my questions.”
The Heavenly Law’s crying softened a bit. It peeked at Ji Bingyu through the gaps of its five fingers, a subtle sense of triumph rising in its heart.
Tsk, I knew humans couldn’t resist the offensive power of a cute baby. Following standard tropes, this woman will pick it up and comfort it any moment now…
Heh, even if she holds it and comforts it, it won’t forgive her previous offense! Unless, unless she rubs its arms that were hurt by the lightning punishment earlier, then it will reluctantly forgive her!
The Heavenly Law was dreaming a wonderful dream.
However, reality was destined not to go so smoothly.
“So, the green jj website’s book really is the foundation of your world.” Ji Bingyu stood before the Heavenly Law with her arms crossed over her chest, sizing up the toddler from top to bottom with considerable disdain. She pondered for a moment, and the serious question she had intended to ask suddenly took a turn right before coming out.
“You…” Ji Bingyu paused, deciding to follow her heart and ask sincerely, “Speaking of which, is the age of your current body only three and a half?”
For a moment, the Heavenly Law even forgot to cry. It widened its eyes to look at this cold and ruthless woman. In the other party’s purely curious gaze, sadness welling up from within, it instantly cried even louder.
This cold and ruthless woman was its partner moving forward. The Heavenly Law could already predict the scene of itself being bullied by her to the point of having no power to fight back!
Facing the continuous weeping, Ji Bingyu pondered for a few seconds and began looping titles in her brain like The Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Crybaby Heavenly Law, The Domineering Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Little Crybaby, and The Runaway Heavenly Law Is Three and a Half.
“…Shut up!” Secretly trying to peek into Ji Bingyu’s thoughts, the Heavenly Law turned red with embarrassment and rage. If it only had thirty percent true sorrow earlier, it was now hundred percent provoked by Ji Bingyu.
After a long while, the Heavenly Law finally stopped its crying with a few hiccups. Having received no comfort from Ji Bingyu from start to finish, its tender white face was filled with the worldly weariness of having seen through all mortal affairs.
No one could imagine what kind of ups and downs its heart had gone through in just a few short minutes.
Expressionless, the Heavenly Law sniffled its nose and actively took tiny steps with its short legs to run up to Ji Bingyu, throwing caution to the wind, “Whatever you want to know, I’ll just tell you everything.”
It couldn’t outsmart Ji Bingyu, nor could it compete with her in angering people. The only way to barely maintain an appearance of peace was to lay all cards on the table.
…
Ji Bingyu organized the information in her head.
She had indeed transmigrated into an old-fashioned web novel titled The Black Lotus’s Long Path to Immortality.
The names of people and places that sounded familiar earlier were no coincidence after all. This novel was so excessively absurd and bizarre that Ji Bingyu’s roommate had once read it out of curiosity, resulting in months of non-stop ranting to her afterward.
Therefore, even though Ji Bingyu had never read it herself, she was very familiar with several story characters.
The Black Lotus’s Long Path to Immortality, just hearing the name made it clear that the female lead was no easy target.
Indeed, in this novel, the female lead Yan Liusu appeared gentle and dignified on the surface, but was calculating and ruthless in secret. She never pulled her punches when harming others to snatch opportunities. Later, she gained countless followers, using her “keen intuition” to repeatedly take first prize in various secret realms, ultimately reaching the peak of the immortal path and standing supreme over all.
Meanwhile, the Yan family’s young master Yan Yiduan, whom Ji Bingyu had beaten up earlier, was Yan Liusu’s younger brother, and also one of Yan Liusu’s brainless simps in the original text. According to the original description, although this young master Yan “occasionally had extreme emotions”, he was actually “innocent, pure, and lacking scheming”, a “spoiled young boy”.
A question mark slowly formed in the depth of Ji Bingyu’s heart.
“…So an ‘innocent, pure, and lacking scheming’ young boy would constantly find trouble with his half-sister, even leading a group of playboys of similar age to humiliate her, to the point of putting her in a trap?” Ji Bingyu frowned, “This little beep-beep clearly wants to harm people. What era is this, to agree on taking someone to be gang-raped at the slightest disagreement? And it’s gang-raping his biological older sister who shares blood ties?”
Simply absurd.
Her fists tightened.
What kind of infuriating trash is this.
Ji Bingyu only regretted that she hadn’t hit him harder just now.
[Ahem, according to the original author’s logic, these things precisely reflect Yan Yiduan’s ‘innocence, purity, and ignorance of human ways’.]
Seeing the killing intent on Ji Bingyu grow heavier, the Heavenly Law feared she might do something shocking again and hurriedly added, [Of course, we do not advocate such actions, and these are merely the encounters set up by the original owner according to the book’s trajectory…]
Ji Bingyu didn’t bother listening closely. She flipped through the information received in her mind, her whole face scrunching up into a ball.
Ji Bingyu, [Old Man on the Subway Looking at Phone.jpg]
To summarize, the original owner Ji Bingyu was gentle and kind, with a personality so good it could practically be described as a Holy Mother. If Ji Bingyu were to summarize it, the original owner’s life could be wrapped up in a tear-jerking, touching, and speechlessly overwhelming long TV series—
The Sister’s Way
If expanded further, that would be Ji Bingyu, The Life of a PUA’d Woman.
(T/N: The Sister’s Way is a satirical play on traditional, melodrama title tropes (like the famous Chinese drama Mother’s Way). In those traditional tropes, a woman endures endless suffering, humiliation, and self-sacrifice for the sake of her family while being expected to stay sweet, compliant, and forgiving.
The Life of a PUA’d Woman= In modern internet slang, PUA (originally Pick-Up Artist) refers to psychological manipulation, gaslighting, and emotional coercion.)
Yes, the original owner Ji Bingyu was bullied and mocked since childhood due to her identity. Clearly a child born to the Yan family head Yan Gongtao and his first wife—the legitimate daughter of the Ji family—she was not recognized due to the destruction of the Ji family and other reasons, her background even deliberately downplayed.
Did you think Ji Bingyu would start resisting after learning about her background?
No, too naive.
After learning her background, the original owner Ji Bingyu wept silently for a long time, and then, guided intentionally or unintentionally by others, actually felt that she had ruined her biological father Yan Gongtao’s current happy family. Thus, she became even more subservient, lowering herself into the dust, just short of blooming a white lotus to announce her innocence, kindness, and purity to the whole world.
And that “younger sister” Yan Liusu, who was actually eleven months older than her, took full advantage of this trait of the original owner. As a black lotus female lead who paved her way with ruthlessness in the original text, she was completely unsparing in exploiting the original owner from childhood to adulthood.
Ji Bingyu flipped through the memories just received from the Heavenly Law.
Good grief, even the original owner’s eventual death from being bitten to death by ice wolves in the wasteland was related to this black lotus sister.
Of course, what was even more unbelievable was the original owner’s fiancé, who was also the original text’s Long Aotian male lead, Xuanyuan Fentian.
Although the original owner spent her life being submissive and brimming with boundless love, to the point of becoming the white moonlight of many characters after her death, she also had a temper.
And the original Ji Bingyu’s greatest rebellion and stubbornness in this life was used on the Long Aotian male lead.
According to her previous weak and incompetent personality, the original owner should have handed the man over when the Yan family slightly hinted that Yan Liusu liked Xuanyuan Fentian. Who would have thought that this time the original owner finally showed some backbone, refusing to let go until her death.
Of course, in the end, the black lotus female lead Yan Liusu and the Long Aotian male lead Xuanyuan Fentian still ended up together.
Of course, because she felt guilty toward the Yan family and Yan Liusu earlier, Ji Bingyu gave away the few good items her mother had left her.
Of course, after Ji Bingyu’s death, the people who used to bully her, laugh at her, and mock her finally came to a sudden realization, “Ah, she was so good! She was my white moonlight!”
Of course, in the end, Ji Bingyu’s supporters were also won over by the female lead’s charm and turned into the female lead’s followers.
Of course, …
…
Of course my foot!
Dying once to make people come to a sudden realization, do you want this kind of blessing if given to you!
According to the Heavenly Law’s explanation, because this world was a novel world, although some minor harmless bugs had occurred earlier that needed fixing, overall there was no major issue.
While the original owner Ji Bingyu’s soul had somehow drifted to an alternate world, allowing her to escape a calamity, Ji Bingyu, who was dragged here temporarily, was in deep trouble.
According to the Heavenly Law’s explanation, Ji Bingyu had to follow the original plot accurately and hit every plot point. She couldn’t intentionally omit a single plot point, otherwise the already weakened Heavenly Law would become even weaker, and this realm might collapse.
Thinking that she had to work like a slave, possess boundless love, and be broad-minded enough to tolerate one, two, three, four, five, six, seven weirdos from the original plot, Ji Bingyu slumped on the chair like a salted fish.
Just destroy it all, neat and clean.
However—
“‘Cannot intentionally omit’?” Ji Bingyu said thoughtfully, “Then what if it’s omitted due to non-plot force majeure factors?”
The Heavenly Law, which had already been forced to overdraw all its spiritual power, listened to her self-muttering in horror. The initial joy of finding a suitable host and the lofty arrogance toward mortals had long vanished. At this moment, the Heavenly Law had only one sentence.
Ji Bingyu! Don’t do anything reckless!
Please, I’m begging you qaq
…
…
Ji Bingyu ignored the Heavenly Law’s cries and screams in her head, pretending the thing didn’t exist.
What a joke. Expecting her to follow that beep-beep script completely? Did it really think her dreams of beating up Godzilla for all these years were done for nothing?
Ji Bingyu fully exerted her instincts as a salted-fish corporate worker, remaining completely deaf to the Heavenly Law’s crying. Seeing the other party growing even bolder, she simply started reverse brainwashing.
Things like “old rules are bound to perish, new rules will surely be established”, “without destruction there is no construction, if breaking down, break down completely”, “since I am here, I am the only variable in this world, we can definitely make you be reborn through fire”…
When Ji Bingyu wasn’t playing the salted fish, she was excessively good at chattering, able to talk non-stop once she opened her mouth.
The Heavenly Law had already expended too much energy from sharing so much information about this world with Ji Bingyu. Being reverse-brainwashed by Ji Bingyu until it was dizzy, it thought about it and actually felt that the other party made a lot of sense?
Ji Bingyu, [Mysterious Smile.jpg]
Three days passed quickly. Ji Bingyu adjusted her clothes and walked outside quite comfortably behind the announcing disciple.
White clouds wrapped sideways around the green mountains. Not far away stood several tall buildings piercing into the clouds. The air was filled with the morning mist that had yet to dissipate. Gusts of gentle breeze blew past, carrying the white clouds up in wisps like smoke and fog, sometimes high, sometimes low, with a few strands appearing ready to fall into the mortal realm.
A crowd of several hundred people followed the announcing disciple to an open field.
They were stepping on white jade stairs underfoot. The disciples from noble families were fine, but some disciples who were coming into contact with the immortal cultivation world for the first time were visibly panicked. They pinched and rubbed the corners of their clothes non-stop, taking every step with extreme caution, as if terrified of making any noise to disturb the people around them.
“Pfft, what a bunch of ignorant bumpkins.”
In the crowd, a rather glamorous woman rolled her eyes at a female disciple dressed in old clothes, ridiculing, “It’s just a few steps of white jade stairs, what great thing do you think it is? Sister Yan, look at how ignorant they are.”
That frail young girl’s face instantly flushed red.
Because of the quietness, this glamorous woman’s words sounded exceptionally harsh.
It wasn’t that no one thought this way, but saying it out loud in a public setting like this had a bit of a sharp, piercing ring to it.
The female companion beside her called “Sister Yan” covered her mouth with a soft smile, shook her head gently, patted her hand, and raised her eyes with great apology, “Feishuang is used to being sharp-tongued and speaks without filter, she means no malice. If there is any offense, Liusu hereby apologizes to everyone on her behalf.”
As Yan Liusu spoke, she bowed slightly with bent knees, looking gentle, elegant, and refined, a subtle smile resting at the corners of her mouth. Although everyone was wearing similar disciple robes, Yan Liusu’s demeanor was graceful and dignified, her bowing movement smooth as flowing water, truly giving off the illusion of a lady from a noble family.
Seeing her act like this, the faces of the mortal disciples turned a bit better.
Having felt targeted earlier because of Feng Feishuang’s words, now that a dignified and gracious noble lady had apologized to them, everyone felt they were being respected. Naturally, they wouldn’t take it to heart anymore, even subconsciously considering Yan Liusu, who spoke up for them, as one of their own group.
In the crowd, only a young boy in tattered clothes let out a mocking smile.
“Sister Yan!” Feng Feishuang tugged at Yan Liusu’s sleeve, her face full of resentment. Finally, under the other party’s forgiving and scolding gaze, she turned her head away in huff, “Fine, fine, I just won’t speak from now on.”
“But to make me apologize to these low creatures who can’t even wear neat clothes…” Feng Feishuang pouted with disgust, “Don’t even think about it!”
Once these words came out, not only was the ridiculed girl dying of shame and anger, but many disciples’ expressions also turned ugly.
A person’s origin wasn’t something one could choose for oneself. Even if some people could be considered as coming from immortal sects compared to the mortal realm because an elder in their family cultivated immortals, that was generations ago. The dragons and phoenixes in big families were always few, while ordinary people made up the majority.
It could be said that with just a few simple sentences, Feng Feishuang instantly pulled maximum hatred from the whole field.
Ji Bingyu raised her eyelids, watching this farce.
This was the female lead Yan Liusu’s usual trick of using contrast. Meanwhile, the glamorous woman beside her, Feng Feishuang, was the most useful tool-person female supporting character in the original text.
Vicious and brainless, focused on setting up traps for the original text’s white moonlight Ji Bingyu for a hundred years. When the truth finally came to light in the end, Ji Bingyu at least held the title of “white moonlight” and was reminisced about from time to time, whereas Feng Feishuang took the blame for killing Ji Bingyu and was sent to the western paradise by a single sword strike from the male lead Xuanyuan Fentian.
If you asked Ji Bingyu, both of them were just pitiful people manipulated by Yan Liusu.
However, Ji Bingyu never expected that with just this one glance, she instantly drew all of Feng Feishuang’s attention.
“Yo, who did I think it was back then.” Feng Feishuang didn’t even care about the girl she had originally been ridiculing, turning toward Ji Bingyu’s direction with sarcastic hostility, “Turns out it’s the famous White Moon Beauty, Miss Ji Bingyu.”
Instantly, the gazes of several hundred people present fell upon Ji Bingyu.
Almost simultaneously, the gazes of the disciples all flashed with stunning awe. The entire area fell quiet for it, such a vast space surprisingly having not a single person making a sound in an instant. Only after a few seconds did several low gasps sound out.
The immortal cultivation world was full of talented people, lacking neither extraordinary geniuses nor beautiful women. It could even be said that beauty was the most insignificant thing in the cultivation world where strength was revered.
However, Ji Bingyu was different.
Everyone’s aesthetic had a subjective color. Just like some loved the national grace and heavenly fragrance of the peony, some liked the high purity and otherworldly chill of the winter plum, while others insisted that the loquat tree in the courtyard had a unique style…
Everyone had their own preferences, but Ji Bingyu’s beauty was different.
Ice skin and jade bones, otherworldly and transcendent.
Ji Bingyu’s beauty was nearly an objective fact. Even if someone didn’t like her appearance or wanted to criticize her personality, they could never say she wasn’t beautiful.
That was why over time, Ji Bingyu gained the title of “White Moon Beauty”. You could say tonight’s moonlight carried a bitterness that didn’t make one joyful, but you couldn’t say this thousand-year moonlight never held half a bit of beauty.
[…White Moon Beauty, outshining frost and surpassing snow. With a single breathtaking glance today, who knows how many people’s dreams she will enter again to become the unattainable white moonlight in their hearts.]
Ji Bingyu shivered all over from the cheesy, cadenced words “White Moon Beauty” coming from the Heavenly Law’s mouth.
Right at this moment, she noticed an exceptionally deep gaze in the crowd that was impossible to ignore. Looking toward the gaze, it was a handsome, quite outstanding young man.
Almost instantly, Ji Bingyu guessed his identity.
The male lead of the original text, Xuanyuan Fentian.
Seeing the two of them looking at each other, Yan Liusu’s smile instantly faded a bit, a hint of sorrow tinting her brows. Feng Feishuang, who kept her eyes on Yan Liusu all the time, noticed it immediately.
Instantly, Feng Feishuang’s displeasure toward Ji Bingyu reached its peak. She went as far as disregarding all thought and blurting out even more vicious and vulgar words directly.
“What are you looking at! You thing born of a mother but raised by none, don’t bring that vixen act from the mortal realm into our cultivation world!”
Ji Bingyu’s face darkened.
Her having a weak sense of immersion in the identity of ‘Ji Bingyu’ was one thing; watching others insult this body’s biological mother was another thing entirely.
Regardless of the reason, she was ultimately using someone else’s body. If she couldn’t even defend someone’s mother, it would be far too cowardly.
However, just as Ji Bingyu was planning to step forward, that man who had been looking at her with an exceptionally focused gaze earlier suddenly strode in front of Ji Bingyu, blocking her path.
“Little Sister Bingyu, don’t be impulsive.” Xuanyuan Fentian said sincerely, “Feishuang is always sharp-tongued and speaks without filter, but her intentions aren’t bad.”
Ji Bingyu took a deep breath.
“Some words were a bit over the top, but some aren’t without reason… In the end, Feishuang did it out of good intentions too.”
Tightened.
Ji Bingyu closed her eyes.
Her fists tightened once again.
If it weren’t for the Heavenly Law inside her head desperately persuading her, begging her on its knees to keep a little bit of the original character’s persona, Ji Bingyu would probably have landed a punch on Xuanyuan Fentian’s punchable face long ago, telling him what the hell a real surprise was.
Yet Xuanyuan Fentian didn’t think so.
He was born handsome and dashing with deep features, carrying the natural poise of a noble family’s child. Doing this whole show made several female cultivators nearby blush all at once, his heart feeling quite proud right now.
In Xuanyuan Fentian’s eyes—
Ji Bingyu taking a deep breath was because she was touched.
Ji Bingyu lowering her head was because she was shy.
Ji Bingyu closing her eyes was because she was about to shed tears, unable to control her emotions.
All in all, Ji Bingyu had already been deeply won over by his charm and no longer had any temper left.
A secret joy flashed through Xuanyuan Fentian’s heart. Winking at Ji Bingyu, he continued his gentle persuasion, pushing further.
“Precisely because Feishuang feels close to you from the bottom of her heart, she reveals her true nature in front of you. Little Sister Bingyu wouldn’t want Feishuang to lose this true nature, right?”
“Now Brother Xuanyuan is cheekily asking you for a favor, so give me some face as well and don’t hold it against Feishuang. Let’s turn swords into plowshares, alright?”
Alright?
Al-right, my, ass.
Accompanied by the Heavenly Law’s screaming “Don’t be impulsive”, with a loud ‘Bang’, the string inside Ji Bingyu’s brain snapped completely
……
When none of the disciples knew it, the heads and elders of various sects had already taken their seats in front of a giant water mirror. Led by the four major sects—Changqing Sect, Xuantian Sect, Lingxiao Pavillion, and Liuming Valley—the surrounding sects sat in order. Before them was a giant water curtain, and following the movements of the four major sect heads, the originally murky water curtain gradually revealed images.
However, there was surprising silence?
“Huh?” The head of Liuming Valley said in surprise, “In previous years, every preliminary selection was noisy and chaotic. Why is it so quiet today?” He paused, joking, “Could it be that a leader has already emerged among them?”
These words were originally an innocent joke, but unexpectedly, someone actually took it seriously.
Taoist Xuanfeng of Xuantian Sect was seen stroking his snow-white beard, the corners of his mouth turning up, clearly in a pleasant mood.
The head of Changqing Sect had an easygoing personality.
Seeing this, he asked, “Does Taoist Xuanfeng know of any talent among this batch of disciples?”
Taoist Xuanfeng glanced at Changqingzi and said unhurriedly, “This batch of disciples is full of talent. Among them, one comes from my own Xuanyuan family, endowed with excellent spirit bones and born with comprehension…”
The competition hadn’t even started, and this old Taoist was already boasting? He was clearly building up momentum for his own nephew.
Li Fuqing, who was standing beside his Master Rong Qingyuan, rolled his eyes slightly.
He detested Taoist Xuanfeng’s style the most, but due to his status, it wasn’t appropriate to talk back now.
“…Therefore, on that day I personally chose the words ‘Fentian’ for him. This old Taoist cheekily says a word, with this child’s temperament, he should be the champion this time.”
With these words of his present, even if Xuanyuan Fentian performed ordinary, it would still attract more people’s attention.
One should know that among the water mirrors of numerous disciples, those that could attract attention were merely a few panels. Sometimes winning attention was already winning half the battle.
Li Fuqing let out a cold snort without hiding it, turning his head to look at his Master.
Rong Qingyuan was lost in thought about something, his eyes half-closed, appearing as though he hadn’t heard Taoist Xuanfeng speak at all.
As Taoist Xuanfeng’s drawn-out final tone fell, the image on the water mirror also grew clear.
The character presented in the image was precisely the ‘champion of this batch’ Xuanyuan Fentian, who had just been praised by Taoist Xuanfeng.
Standing opposite him was a woman with only her back visible.
At the same time, the water mirror that had been silent all along finally transmitted sound.
Everyone only heard a loud “Bang”, and that woman with her back to everyone surprisingly landed a direct punch solid on Xuanyuan Fentian’s face!
The woman throwing the punch was dressed in light blue robes, looking cool and otherworldly.
Standing with her back to everyone, she naturally carried an aura of calm certainty.
Just as everyone held their breath, even thinking they were about to witness a brawl—to the extent of causing both sides to be disqualified from the martial trial—they only heard the woman let out a long sigh of relief and put down her fist.
At the same time, pinching the tone of a standard noble lady, she spoke in a delicate, high-pitched voice—
“Oh~ Dear Brother Xuanyuan, since you said yourself that you have thick skin, I’ll help you trim it a bit thinner~”
Heavenly Law, ?
Is this what I meant by ‘white moonlight roleplay’?!
…Ji Bingyu, I hate you!!!
A surging, chaotic silence filled the hall.
And Li Fuqing ultimately couldn’t hold it in, letting out a burst of loud laughter with a ‘Pfft’.
