The male supporting character was actually myself.

"Ha! Good people?" Qin Xiaoyao didn't give them a chance to explain. Pointing at the twenty-odd people, she said coldly, "Murderers, arsonists, those who poisoned people over a few words, and those who abused girls—who among you feels wronged? Step forward!"

"Host, are these all big bad guys?" The fluffy little dumpling rubbed its sleepy, fluffy eyes and asked with a bewildered look, "Since they're such evil guys, why not just kill them? Why not give them food and water and let them go?"

Black wings slowly flapped, and Jiang Chen, who was suspended in mid-air, revealed a wicked smile. "I am a demon who specializes in harvesting sinful souls. Qin Xiaoyao has killed all the bad guys. How can I lure people into corruption and harvest their souls to become stronger?"

Besides, I don't want to turn a perfectly good female warrior into a tyrant who indiscriminately kills innocent people without any proof.

First, let them go, giving them a glimmer of hope, then harvest their souls, plunging them into despair—that's what demons love to do most.

Little white cat: (●—●)

Demons are truly terrifying!

Thankfully, my host is a good devil, otherwise this mission world would probably be in complete chaos!

"Pah! Who wants to join the resistance? Let's go!" Those who were pointed out for their crimes were a little guilty. They grabbed their food and water and ran out of the mine, disappearing into the jungle.

Jiang Chen looked at the marked black threads flashing in various directions and a smile appeared on his lips.

After reaping this wave of rewards, my mana bar will probably increase significantly, and I won't have to worry about being overshadowed by the angels anymore!

The sky gradually brightened.

Jiang Jinfeng looked up at the towering city wall that seemed to reach into the clouds.

Upon seeing such a magnificent sight for the first time, he couldn't help but exclaim, "My God, was this built during the reign of the Holy Heavenly King? It's absolutely breathtaking!"

"There's a lingering scent of magic on it," Andrea said with a smile after glancing at it. "It was probably built by the demon that the Holy King summoned."

Forget all that nonsense, quick, start making a wish! We'll soon be able to join forces with the resistance and do something great!

The angel's smile became even more tender when she thought of the little devil's face.

We'll be doing some fun things together soon, I'm so excited!

Chapter One: Little White, please quit gambling!

"Hey, host, how about we make a bet?"

As soon as she returned to the script selection space, the fluffy dumpling scratched her ear with her hind foot with a smug expression, "The mission world that should have been completely wiped out last time was able to continue smoothly thanks to the host's great efforts in turning the tide."

This is an act of salvation; it is an act of immense kindness and good deeds that will surely be rewarded.

So, I'm betting on becoming a catgirl—I'm betting we'll get a really good script this time!

Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow and asked in return, "What are the standards for a good script? Given the scriptwriting team's track record, I don't think you can win with such a small probability."

"What are the criteria for a good script?" That's a good question, host. It even stumped me, the auxiliary system.

It frowned, scratched its little feet, thought for a few seconds, and then its eyes darted around, "Why don't we just set a standard?"

A good script should be like... the host taking in a cat son!

The plot flows smoothly and logically, and the best supporting actor helps the protagonist turn the tide and gains friendship. Wouldn't that be great? It aligns with the positive energy of a harmonious society.

If this script again casts the Best Supporting Actor as a mere simp, contributing to the happiness of a despicable couple, then I'll admit defeat!

Hearing this, Jiang Chen didn't even bother to choose, just grabbed a book, waved it around, and laughed, "Isn't this fairer? I didn't look at the cover or guess any stories, I just picked it randomly."

"Mmm-hmm!" The fluffy little dumpling nodded with a smile, looking just like an adorable emoji.

He only glanced at the cover after getting the script—there were no characters, and most of the space was blank except for a cauldron in ink wash style in the lower middle, which was obviously not an ordinary object, with faint smoke floating on it and forming a faint pink auspicious cloud pattern.

"Meow?" The little white cat cared a lot about winning or losing the bet. It jumped onto its host's shoulder, glanced at the cover, shook its fluffy big ears, and muttered, "Is it going to be another pill refining story? Or some kind of fantasy cultivation stuff?"

Jiang Chen pointed to the finely drawn cauldron and guessed, "The picture is simple but has a lot of details."

Look at this red silk, it looks like it's been pressed under the lid, right? But look here, it looks more like a red garment that melted into red liquid near the lid.

The surrounding area was filled with peach blossom petals, creating a harmonious overall effect, but the other side of the cauldron was black, resembling a piece of clothing.

Beneath the cauldron lay a jade pendant, a token, and lines resembling molten, dark blue liquid.

After a few seconds of contemplation, he grinned mischievously. "Little Bai, I have a feeling you're going to lose this time."

"Impossible!" The fluffy dumpling said with a serious expression, pressing down the script she was about to open with her little paws. She changed her mind and said, "I'll revise the criteria for a good script again. Hmm... as long as the logic is sound and it can make sense, a little bit of being love-struck is acceptable."

The little guy got really serious about winning.

Smilingly agreeing to the new standards, Jiang Chen glanced at the script and burst into laughter, "Xiao Bai, you should quit gambling! There are logical flaws on the very first page. You shouldn't believe in metaphysics, and you certainly shouldn't place your hopes on those guys in the scriptwriting team."

The cat paws eagerly flipped open the script, but it froze after just one glance.

This is a love-hate story that blends warlords, monsters, Taoist priests, and love triangles, involving elements of human relations, magic, and taboos.

The story is set during the warlord era of the Republic of China.

The mission world is fictional, which leads to a strange scene—the entire country has achieved great unification and standardization, but the warlord titles are still retained based on military achievements. In reality, the best supporting actor played by Jiang Chen is more like a general who protects the country and is also granted territory.

Within a certain scope, they are subject to state control, but within their own territory, they possess unimaginable power.

The whole story unfolds within a strange and bizarre framework. The best supporting actor, Xiao Jiangchen, is the youngest and most famous warlord. Because of his fondness for beautiful women, he has already married eighteen concubines in his mansion.

On his way back from hunting, he encountered refugees and fell deeply in love with a little beggar in the crowd. He took her in, cared for her carefully, and raised her into a beautiful young woman.

Unexpectedly, the female protagonist that Xiao Jiangchen picked up was not human.

She is a demon with an immortal soul. Each time she gets tired of occupying a body, she can use a secret technique to switch to another body. However, this secret technique obviously consumes a lot of magic power and rare treasures, and it also violates human ethics, making her a target for being hunted down.

Therefore, the female protagonist, who was injured in her previous life, was unable to successfully change to a mature body. Instead, she waited until the energy occupying the body was completely exhausted before "dying peacefully" and entering reincarnation with all her memories.

This is what caused the female protagonist, who originally possessed extraordinary abilities, to fall into misery and become a little beggar—before her body could absorb enough energy to mature, her magical power was weak and could only protect herself, unable to make much change to her fate.

Xiao Jiangchen, a victim of a great injustice, fell in love with the little beggar at first sight. After taking her home, he ignored the concubines who had been fighting over him since she was brought into the house. He devoted himself to the female lead with great enthusiasm and joy.

As a powerful demon who has experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes, the female lead Zhang Xiyue would naturally not be moved by a mere mortal.

So she spent the whole day coldly enjoying Xiao Jiangchen's various ways of groveling before her, acting like she could do anything and everything. In order to "mature" as quickly as possible, she would also occasionally have sex with a few other people.

A simp will naturally grant any request a goddess might make.

Xiao Jiangchen was not afraid of the strange creature at all; on the contrary, he fell more and more deeply in love with her. He offered up all eighteen concubines, servants, maids, and the entire household to help his beloved girl heal her wounds.

Zhang Xiyue has no interest in ordinary people; she has a crush on someone she doesn't love.

The main male character is a Taoist priest known as Lingquan.

He was upright and kind, and deeply loved by the people, but he had a secret: his body was immortal.

Once the soul power is exhausted and the person "dies," the soul will absorb the pre-selected soul, inherit some of its memories, and become a new self.

Because the male protagonist, Lingquan Daoren, always selects pure souls with serious, incurable diseases and a strong will to live for each soul exchange, and the two parties reach an agreement before using the secret technique to exchange souls, the consumption is not large and the fusion is successful every time.

Zhang Xiyue believed that only someone who was immortal and indestructible was worthy of her.

However, choosing to inherit and become the new Lingquan Daoist means that the other party is wholeheartedly dedicated to expelling evil spirits and contributing to the righteous path. He has no interest in romantic relationships and would never stoop to colluding with a demon who constantly seeks out new bodies and forcibly devours the souls of others to obtain new bodies and identities.

On the contrary, Daoist Lingquan had long heard of the evil demons harming people and had been searching for Zhang Xiyue's whereabouts, intending to seal her soul to prevent her from causing further evil.

Zhang Xiyue, relying on her extraordinary talent, constantly changed her body, sometimes male and sometimes female, always leaving Lingquan Daoist with no clues and unable to track her down.

The two sides were entangled in a complicated love-hate relationship.

In her previous life, she barely escaped death by possessing a man's body. However, her soul was slightly damaged by the Taoist Lingquan, which meant she could only reincarnate and start a new life. For the first eighteen years of her life, she could barely protect herself and lived a very difficult life.

New and old grudges were mixed together. She both loved and hated Lingquan Daoist, yet she could not have him and dared not get close to him easily, and her mind gradually became twisted.

After winning the undivided love of the sycophantic warlord Xiao Jiangchen, Zhang Xiyue devised a plan—to ask Xiao Jiangchen to lead troops to capture the Taoist Lingquan.

The other party is too benevolent and never uses magic on ordinary people. As long as you can capture them and force them to drink the unique potion you concoct, they will naturally be assimilated and become obedient to you.

Unexpectedly, after failing to capture him time and time again, she went so far as to instigate and provoke Xiao Jiangchen to start a war, plunging the entire country into turmoil and chaos, in order to force the Lingquan Daoist, who had been seriously injured and temporarily avoiding the limelight, to come out of seclusion.

Amidst the flames of war, Xiao Jiangchen waged battles and amassed wealth to win the favor of a beautiful woman.

He was even misled by the other party into believing that this was a test—that as long as he could ascend the throne and become the supreme ruler, he would win the heart of the goddess.

Little did she know that Zhang Xiyue had already encountered the second male lead, Huang Shenglang, during a hunting trip.

Originally, he just felt that the other party's personality was somewhat similar to that of Daoist Lingquan. On a whim, he let him go and took him by his side, imprisoning and teasing him every day. He even treated him as a substitute for his beloved, serving him in bed every night and never leaving his side.

She claimed to the wronged soul that Huang Shenglang was the key to her victory over her enemy, Lingquan Daoren, and that she wanted to refine him into a great weapon, and so on.

Completely infatuated and utterly devoted to Huang Shenglang, Xiao Jiangchen remained unsuspecting, believing himself to be far superior to him in every way. He reasoned that even the seemingly innocent Zhang Xiyue couldn't possibly like such a worthless man. Thus, right under his nose, the female lead and the second male lead began to get together and even develop deep feelings for each other.

Unable to quell the war, Daoist Lingquan, despite the injury to his soul, insisted on leaving the mountain to suppress the rebellion.

Ultimately, he was captured by Zhang Xiyue in collaboration with the second male lead and the best supporting actor through a self-inflicted injury. However, after examining her own heart at the crucial moment, Zhang Xiyue realized that she loved Huang Shenglang's soul and that her feelings for Lingquan Daoren were merely possessiveness rather than love.

With the help of the best supporting actor, she gathered rare and precious materials and used a secret technique to forcibly transfer the soul of the second male lead, Huang Shenglang, to the first male lead, Lingquan Daoren, so that the two became one.

The soul the female protagonist deeply loved and the immortal body she coveted both became her possessions.

Zhang Xiyue was delighted but found Xiao Jiangchen too much of an eyesore, so she jokingly said that she would devour souls to heal her wounds. Xiao Jiangchen, who was kept in the dark, willingly offered his life for her to devour.

Having inherited the empire built by the Best Supporting Actor and an inexhaustible supply of money, the male and female leads finally lived happily ever after...

"Uh, it seems you won't be able to conquer the world and build infrastructure this time, host." The fluffy dumpling decided to play dumb and ignore the previous bet issue, and whispered, "And you'll have eighteen concubines right from the start, how will you manage?"

The cat felt like she'd seen this story before.

There are a lot of characters and their roles are all over the place. She loves him but he doesn't love her; he loves her but she doesn't love him. It's all so messy and gives me a headache. Jiang Chen rubbed his temples with his fingers and said sarcastically, "It's a familiar trope."

It's just old wine in new bottles; it's just a repackaged version, but the core principles of being obsessed with love haven't changed at all.

Little White, remember to turn into a catgirl after you lose!

Velvet dumplings: (￣ェ￣;)

"Where did they lose?" It patted the script with its paw, arguing, "Although it's a bit melodramatic, the logic isn't too bad."

Jiang Chen opened the first page of the script and tapped it, "Look? And you said the logic was flawless."

On this point—why are both the male lead and the supporting male character so keen on picking up beggars?

And you think she's a stunning beauty who can topple kingdoms just by dressing up? Are you kidding me?

The person who made up the story probably never saw what a real beggar looked like, especially a beggar who fled during a time of hardship.

Look at this description—so she's always starving and malnourished, skinny as a rake, and the female lead isn't even as tall as a table! She has blond hair, her face hasn't even fully developed, and she thinks she's a beauty just because she dresses up? ①

This is a blatant insult to beautiful women!

Besides... let me ask you a common-sense question: how tall is a table normally?

The little white cat was taken aback by the question. "The script describes the tables in small restaurants on the street. Excluding those small tables with stools that are less than half a meter long, the larger ones are usually... based on my jumping experience, about 70 or 80 centimeters?"