Pain was the first thing she felt.
It wasn't sharp or screaming. No, it was deep — bone-deep. As if her soul had been torn out and shoved into a new body still trying to remember how to breathe.
She gasped.
The air was thick with incense and secrets. Her lashes fluttered open, and what she saw was not fluorescent hospital lights or white walls. No. She was lying on a carved wooden bed, draped in silks, her wrists bound with red thread — a warding ritual.
She blinked.
Her skin was paler. Her fingers more delicate. Her nails were painted with crushed pearls. Her body — softer, younger… but still deadly beautiful.
"Lady Yue Zhenzhen," a hushed voice said.
She turned her head, slowly. A maid knelt beside the bed, trembling. Not with fear — but shame. Disgust. Pity.
Lady?
Zhenzhen?
Memories slammed into her like a carriage at full speed. This wasn't her world. This wasn't her time. She had died — in betrayal, in pain, in silence.
But now…
Now she was reborn.
Into the body of Yue Zhenzhen, fallen daughter of a disgraced minister. Once the Crown Prince's chosen bride. Now a discarded woman accused of indecency, said to have thrown herself at palace guards, called a whore though she had never been touched.
Her stepmother had arranged it. Her stepsister, that porcelain-faced viper, had whispered lies into the ears of the royal court. And the Crown Prince — the man who once swore to protect her — had cast her aside without a word.
Zhenzhen's fingers clenched the silk sheets.
But then, a chime echoed through her mind.
> 🌸 [Lustbound System Activated]
Welcome, Host.
You have been chosen.
Complete tasks. Earn pleasure. Gain power. Rule them all.
🌹 Current Task: Clear your name and humiliate the stepsister who stole your betrothal.
Her lips parted.
She wasn't dreaming.
A low, wicked smile curved her mouth. Not the smile of a victim. Not the smile of a girl scorned.
The smile of a predator.
She stood, ignoring the maid's gasp. Her reflection shimmered in the bronze mirror across the room.
Long dark hair like ink poured over shoulders. Eyes that glowed with cunning. Her curves — now sharper, deadlier. Hips that would topple empires. Breasts that defied gravity. A face no man would forget — and every woman would fear.
She ran her fingers down her new body.
She could feel it.
Power. Lust. Control.
Men would fall to their knees. Women would bite their tongues in jealousy. And those who wronged her?
They would burn.
> 💋 System Reward Unlocked: Charm +10 | Seduction Aura Activated
She turned to the maid, voice low, dangerous, seductive.
"Prepare my robes. The ones in crimson silk. Tell the guards I wish to stroll through the courtyard."
"B-but, Lady Yue… they'll speak ill of you again—"
She stepped close, brushing a hand down the girl's trembling jaw.
"Let them speak," she whispered. "Let them watch."
> Let them see the whore they tried to create…
And let them learn what happens when you try to kill a goddess.