Chapter 1: Failure of Tribulation

"...Jin Luo, Jin Luo."

"Don't be ungrateful, do you know who President Liu is? His favor on you is a blessing."

On the sofa lay a young and beautiful girl, passed out from intoxication.

The manager, noticing that she was drunk, gestured to some people behind him, "Help her to President Liu's presidential suite."

Immediately, two men came up, took her by the arms, and left the private room.

As the girl was taken away, the manager said, "Jin Luo, don't blame me. If you please President Liu well, there'll be plenty of resources for you..."

...

Inside a five-star hotel.

In the room stood a forty-year-old man, leering at the beauty on the bed with a fascinated and sleazy smile.

"Miss Jin really is as beautiful as the rumors say..."

Unable to contain his excitement, President Liu rubbed his palms together, his pig-like hands slowly reaching towards the girl.

Just as his hand was about to touch her face, suddenly, the girl on the bed opened her beautiful eyes, and the next second, a pink fist shot out, smashing toward his old face.

"Slap! Bang!"

President Liu was sent flying instantly, hitting the television and crashing down hard.

Covering one of his panda-eyed halves, he angrily got up from the ground, "You ungrateful girl, such an ingrate. Do you even want to keep working in this live stream industry?"

Meanwhile, Jin Luo looked at his chubby, big-eared face and spat out two words, "So ugly."

President Liu, "..."

Jin Luo looked around to see the place was glitteringly gold and luxurious, almost blinding her cat-like eyes.

As a member of the Fortune Cat Demon Clan, she had never lived in such opulence before.

"Where is this?" Jin Luo agilely jumped out of bed, scanning her surroundings, her head still a bit dizzy.

At that moment, a rush of memories that were not her own flooded her mind.

Was this a book?

The original owner of the name Jin Luo was just a dispensable character of this story, coming from a moderately well-off family.

Because of her beautiful appearance, she was fortunate enough to be signed by Banana Platform to become an internet celebrity.

Initially, she could rely on her beautiful looks to reap some rewards, but she was later scrutinized for always clinging to the fame of big stars, and her reputation was tarnished.

This caused her personality to become more sullen, and she even got labeled as a scheming bitch.

When the Banana Platform manager saw she no longer had any value to use, he sent her to accompany drinks to exchange for resources.

President Liu, looking at Jin Luo who was ignoring him, his face turned dark. He was about to explode in anger when he saw her staring intently at a plate of spicy fish on the side table, his swollen eye squinting, "You want to eat fish?"

With shining eyes and drooling, Jin Luo nodded, "Mhm, can I eat it?"

"You can," President Liu quickly forgot the punch he had just received and smiled lecherously, "As long as you make me comfortable, you can have as much as you want."

Jin Luo shook her head, "No, you need to make me comfortable first, then I can accompany you."

Upon hearing this, President Liu was taken aback, and then burst out laughing, "Alright, I'll accompany you!"

He ordered a whole cart of fish to be brought in, with every variety—fried, deep-fried, steamed, braised...

Looking at the feast of fish before her, Jin Luo's mouth watered profusely.

Seeing that a table full of fish had appeased her, President Liu thought to himself: Turns out this girl is easy to deceive, which spared him the effort.

When she had almost finished eating, President Liu, impatient, broke in, "Now it's your turn to accompany me, right?"

Having eaten her fill, Jin Luo touched her belly and smacked her lips, "I'm too full right now, I can't play with you yet. I need to move around to digest. Why don't you play hide and seek with me first?"

"Hide... hide and seek?" President Liu wondered if this person was an idiot.

He then had another thought and came to a realization, a wide grin spreading across his face, "All right, all right, you like this kind of game, huh."

He took out a towel and blindfolded himself, rubbing his palms together in excitement, "Baby, here I come!"

As he spoke, he reached out with both hands towards the spot where she had been standing and slowly groped around, but after a long while, he didn't even touch the hem of her clothes and finally ripped off the towel in frustration.

The room was empty, with no sign of her anywhere.

"Baby…" he called out tentatively.

No response.

Then he searched the entire presidential suite, but still couldn't find her.

"You little devil, how dare you trick me!" Realizing he had been duped, he kicked the foot of the bed in fury.

The next second, he heard laughter coming from above and looked up to see her lying on the ceiling.

"How… how did you get up there?" he asked, astonished.

Seeing her about to jump down, he quickly dodged to the side, for fear she would land on him.

Jin Luo landed squarely on the ground, her interest waning, "You're really useless, not even sticking to the rules of the game."

She remembered the days spent within the Cat Demon Clan, where they would often play hide and seek together, such joyous times.

President Liu's face darkened, his patience gone, "You little devil, I don't have time to play with you right now."

Saying this, he immediately lunged towards her.

But Jin Luo, nimble like a cat, dodged in a flash.

President Liu missed and couldn't stop his momentum, his huge body tipping forward and swiftly sliding under the bed.

Due to his corpulence, only his head made it under, getting stuck and unable to come out.

"You dare to attack me?" Jin Luo was furious.

Soon, the room filled with a series of pig-like screeches of agony.

The two bodyguards at the door, hearing the commotion inside, looked at each other, at a loss.

"…The boss won't be in trouble, right?"

"The boss must be enjoying it. I heard that our boss is a masochist and likes this sort of thing…" whispered one bodyguard, sharing a little secret he had heard elsewhere with his companion.

"Oh…" his companion nodded, giving an I-totally-get-it look.

After the beating, Jin Luo walked out of the hotel feeling invigorated and refreshed.

The two bodyguards, seeing the girl who came out, inexplicably wore faces full of admiration.

They thought: She's a tough one.

At that moment in the sky, thunder crackled, and suddenly, in the midst of the starry night, a bolt of Heavenly Thunder struck straight down, hitting Jin Luo squarely and knocking her unconscious.

The Heavenly Thunder, realizing it had struck the wrong person, hurried into the dark clouds. It was puzzled as to where the Fortune Cat Demon it had been targeting had gone.

The night was dark, not a soul in sight on the road, only Jin Luo lying there all alone.

Her hair had been singed and was standing on end, and her face was pitch black, making it impossible to see her clearly.

Ahead, a young man in black attire with handsome features happened to pass by.

Gu Jinshen stopped when he saw the girl lying on the ground.

A flicker of surprise appeared in his indifferent eyes. The girl's face was blackened, as if she'd been struck by lightning; he looked up at the sky, which was clear and star-filled.

Not only that, he felt the same kind of aura from her that he possessed himself, a strangely familiar feeling.

After hesitating for a bit, he decided to take her back and called a familiar doctor to see to her.