"Where am I?" Jasmine's eyelids fluttered open, revealing fused eyes that swept across her surroundings. She found herself led in a soft bed, surrounded by an expansive emerald ndscape that stretched endlessly before her.

  "Sky Poison Pearl?!" Jasmine suddenly remembered what happened before she lost sciousness. She had been schemed against by Qianye Ying'er, who leaked fake news about the Heretic God's iance, leading to her being poisoned by the Southern Sea God Emperor.

  However, trary to everyone's expectations, she had uncovered the Heretic God's iance, which resulted in her beilessly pursued from the Southern Divine Region all the way to the Eastern Divine Region.

  Unfortunately, she was already poisoned by the Absolute God Sying Poison, and her only hope was finding the Sky Poison Pearl, a hope that seemed utterly hopeless and futile.

  With no other option, she directly traveled to the p indicated by the iance. Just as she was on the verge of succumbing to the poison and losing her life, a man appeared before her, and unbelievably, he possessed the Sky Poison Pearl!

  However, even with the Sky Poison Pearl, it was already too te for her.

  Her body was pletely poisoned, and her soul was also ied, leaving her with only one desperate option. Decisively, she chose to abandon her body and bind her soul with that man's body to save herself and use the Sky Poison Pearl to purify the poison in her soul.

  Jasmihat fate was cruelly mog her. After enduring tless risks to secure the Heretic God's iance, she discovered she couldn't eve. And in the most bitter twist of irony, just as death approached, she found the Sky Poison Pearl, the only thing iire universe capable of saving her life.

  Does this mean she was the protagonist with plot armor, or merely a plot device to help the real protagonist grow stronger?

  ...

  More than two weeks had passed since Yun Wuji found his portable Star God, I mean, Jasmine...

  Nothing major happened; Yun Wuji kept himself busy with training, sending his subordio hunt for Divine Crystals, and spending quality time with his beloved wives.

  With the Om Domain, Yun Wuji could noear in multiple pces at once, letting him spend more time with each of his wives.

  At the same time, he tio remotely trol his devil body, using it to py with You'er while steadily rec his cultivation.

  In short, he was living a fulfilled life. If not for the looming catastrophes threatening to destroy the universe, Yun Wuji would not want to leave this p.

  "Master, that little girl has woken up," the Evil Infant suddenly appeared and informed him, just as Yun Wuji was grilling a drago steak.

  "Oh? It's almost time for her to wake up." Yun Wuji's hands froze for a moment before tinuing with what he was doing.

  "Hmm, right, who cares if she's awake or not? This smells delicious," the Evil Infant said, pletely ued in Jasmine's state. Her attention was entirely fixed on the meat, and she took a deep whiff, her mouth-watering.

  "Wipe that drool off, that's unbeing of a dy," Yun Wuji scolded, lightly tappiiny head with the spatu.

  "But I'm hungry," the Evil Infant protested, floating around him.

  "Did you fet that you're punished? You won't be eating any of this anyway," Yun Wuji reminded her sternly.

  "Euuuuuuh?!!! No! Master, please five me! I'll be more obedient iure!" The Evil Infant's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as she grabbed his shoulder, shaking him in desperation. "Please, Master! I'll be the most obedient!"

  "There's so much meat, Master won't be able to finish it alone! Please, Master, pretty please!" The Evil Infant pleaded, her voice dripping with desperation as she fshed an exaggerated pout.

  "Stop! Stop! Alright, but remember, just this oime!" Yun Wuji groaned, uo bear her stant barrage of pleading. With a relut sigh, he finally gave in, allowio have her way this time again.

  "Hehe, master is the best~" The Evil Infant cheered, her excitement overflowing as she hopped around in delight. She then leaned in and pnted a quick kiss on his cheek.

  Yun Wuji pced the grilled meat oes and took a seat at the table, though there were oddly three portions instead of two.

  The Evil Infant, without missing a beat, began dev her share hungrily, practically inhaling the meat, while Yun Wuji ate at a much slower pace, sav each bite.

  Suddenly, a girl appeared before them. Her hair was a deep, scarlet red, almost as if it were stained with the color of blood. and her eyes were the same shade. She wore an exquisite dark red dress made of silk.

  "Ah! It's that little girl!" the Evil Infant excimed upon seeihen casually went back to eating, unbothered, like an unpaid actor delivering a line she had long since memorized.

  "Hello, little girl," Yun Wuji said, ign the naughty Evil Infant as he greeted Jasmih a smile.

  "...Who are you mortal? How could the Sky Poison Pearl reize you as its master?" Jasmine ignored his greeting and asked coldly, her eyes were freezing cold there was even an almost instinctive pt toward this mortal.

  She was the Heavenly Sughter Star God and he was just a lowly creature from the lower realms, Just based on status and level alone, merely fav him with a gaze or speaking a single word to him was already bestowing a blessing upon him.

  *Actually, this was how she had felt when she first met Yun Che, as shown in a fshback from her perspective.*

  "Me?" Yun Wuji raised an eyebrow, as though genuinely puzzled by her question. "Of course, I am me."

  "...Are you trolling me?" Jasmine's cold eyes narrowed.

  "Aren't you doing the same? If you had not met me that night, you would have already been poisoo death. Not only did you fail to show any gratitude, but you're also questionih that attitude of yours as if I owe you something," Yun Wuji shot her a look filled with the same pt she had shown him. Yun Che may tolerate her attitude, but he certainly wouldn't. When it came tance, Yun Wuji wasn't about to lose to anyone.

  The Jasmine who had just arrived in the Profound Sky ti, was like most of the inhabitants of the God Realm, possessing an i disdain for those from the lower realms. In fact, as a Star God, she looked down upon anyone who wasn't from a King Realm with eveer pt.

  At first, she held Yun Che in disdain and pt, but as she observed him, she began to admire his talent. Even so, she still looked down on everyone on the p, unwilling to spare any of them a single ghis included even Yun Che's family and wives.

  This wasn't her only fw, she was self-righteous (something typical for a tsundere), she believed that everything she did was right, and she never bothered to listen to others' opinions, eve ed them. A prime example of this was what happened with her sister Caizhi.

  Annifit fw was her tendency to stubbornly g to the "facts" she believed in, refusing to ge her mind, even if someoried to show her a different perspective.

  After all, she was just a 13-year-old brat, with immense power and an infted ego on top of that; she was a cssic tsundere.

  "Hmph! With your cultivation, you might stand at the peak of this pne, but do you truly believe that I couldn't kill you with a single finger?" Jasmine's lips curled into a dangerous smile, her charming faow radiating a murderous ihat made Yun Wuji's whole body go cold.

  'Shit, her killing i is terrifying! Damn it, it's my fault for not killing billions when my eyes were gleaming!'

  "Of course, I believe you do that, but I also believe that if you do, you'll die with me," Yun Wuji replied, unphased by her threats. He smiled and tinued, "You're poisoned by the Absolute God Sying Poison, and you o as a soul that depends oo survive. Let's not eveion that you'll perish along with me; if you use your profound energy right now, the rebound from the poison could very well kill you."

  "..." Jasmine's cold smile faltered, and her eyes widened slightly in surprise; she hadn't expected him to be able to notice all of this!

  'And how did he know the name Absolute God Sying Poison?'

  "I am the owner of the Sky Poison Pearl, right?" Yun Wuji smiled, briefly gng away from Jasmio look at the Evil Infant.

  "Right! Master is my only owner, and I will serve him alone! Even if you kill him, I won't aowledge you!" The Evil Infant paused mid-bite, her mouth still full of meat as she answered, before returning to her feast, pletely ign both of them.

  "..." Yun Wuji, Jasmine.

  "Cough. Anyways, now you're teically living inside me, relying on me and the Sky Poison Pearl to survive aoxify the poison from your soul. If I were to die, you'd die with me," Yun Wuji cleared his throat, then tinued with a speech he'd clearly prepared for quite some time.

  "..." Jasmine frowned, remaining silent. This was not at all how she had expected things to turn out.

  "So, instead of tinuing this meaningless chat, how about we discuss how yoing to pay the rent?" Yun Wuji csped his hands oable and fshed a business-like smile.

  "Rent?"

  ---

  If you'd like to support me and read chapters in advance, feel free to chey Patreon:

  https://patreon.mortalCockroach