The first rays of the sun were just gracing the sky.
Chen Ying opened her eyes and turned to the side. What greeted her was a sky full of fluffy white clouds alight with warm light through the airplane window.
It took her a moment to process that it had actually worked. 'I'm really back' she thought to herself.
Looking at the stunning view through the airplane window, Chen Ying marvelled over the fact of how she had not only come back, she had been reborn to the time before the reality show.
'The reality show' had been a literal nightmare for her and had ultimately led to her death.
Chen Ying really had to give some brownie points to her system. Even though most of the time it was utterly useless and infuriatingly stingy, it had finally come through.
If she had been reborn any later, she might not have been able to redeem her image and take revenge like how she wanted to.
Even if she managed to do it, it would have been really troublesome because the previous time, her reputation had been destroyed beyond repair while on this reality show.
Wang Bai, that white lotus had already started her schemes before they even landed and in her previous life and Chen Ying had been fully oblivious and helpless.
This time though, she would be prepared. Not only prepared, she would be ready to give everything back tenfold. Chen Ying was confident in herself or all her previous hardships would be for nothing.
Chen Ying stretched to loosen her muscles and looked around. She was sitting inside her family's private plane. Her family was a major investor in the show so under their pressure, the production team had let her and Wang Bai arrive on the island in the private plane.
It felt really funny to her how she was criticised for taking the private plane online but Wang Bai who had travelled with her on the same plane had been praised for being a real phoenix.
Wang Bai was just a maid's daughter but everyone online thought that she was the real eldest miss of the Chen family while she herself was the 'fake' one.
Chen Ying had only come to know about this in her previous life because after landing on the island, they had been allowed a last call to their family and she had been scolded by her eldest brother on the call for 'ruining' the family reputation. He had also briefly told her about all the things circulating online.
The last thing she heard from him was a warning not to destroy the family reputation.
Chen Ying remembered feeling angry about the fact that she was labelled as the 'fake' daughter and going to Wang Bai so that she could help her clear this misunderstanding online.
She started wondering why she didn't end up doing it. All she could remember was feeling dizzy when she wanted to talk to Wang Bai and she later forgot about it all.
Chen Ying was almost sure that Wang Bai had a hand in it but the question was how. She was sure that she hadn't eaten or drank anything after landing before going to find Wang Bai, so how had she managed to make her forget it. She had to figure it out somehow so that she wouldn't fall for her tricks again.
Chen Ying was wracking her brain trying to remember if she had noticed something odd about Wang Bai in her previous life but it was to no avail. She was thinking of what to do when she remembered something. 'Why don't I ask my system'?
She could just communicate with the system in her mind without having to say anything aloud. Hence, Chen Ying immediately called for the system. The system also responded almost immediately."What do you want, host"?
Listening to the system's bored voice, Chen Ying wanted to curse at it.
At first when the system had picked her soul after her death and promised to help her get her revenge, Chen Ying had been really grateful.
She had quickly agreed to bind herself to it and even agreed to give the system half of her 'points', although at that time she didn't have any ideas how she would even get those said points.
It was only later that she found out that she had to accumulate points by completing 'missions' in different worlds.
Chen Ying didn't have a say in these missions at all. After painstakingly completing each mission, she still had to give half off her points to the system which had been of little to no help.
After completing missions non stop one after another for who knows how long, Chen Ying was finally able to accumulate enough points to return to her original world.
Just thinking about how the system had been almost useless to her during her missions, Chen Ying could feel her blood boil but she quickly calmed herself.
The system was not completely useless and she might need its help in the future as well.
"Can you find out if there is anything unusual going on with Wang Bai"?
"Sure", the system answered affirmatively, which surprised Chen Ying. She had thought that the system would try to scam her out of her remaining points.
About a minute later, the system's voice sounded again, "Wang Bai seems to have an artefact".
Chen Ying was not too surprised upon hearing this as she had already suspected it.
"What does the artefact do, exactly?" She asked the system.
"5 points" the system demanded.
'Aha, I knew it. Of course this stinky system wants to take my points again,' Chen Ying thought to herself.
"2 points", she also stated directly. She was used to bargaining with the system for everything.
"3 points and I will reveal another secret related to Wang Bai" the system said with a smug voice.
"Fine, deal", Chen Ying accepted as the offer was really too tempting.
After the system was done deducting the points, it told Chen Ying, "The artefact helps Wang Bai manipulate others, if someone is exposed to it for a long time, they might get completely brainwashed. As for the secret, Wang Bai's mother was the reason behind your mother's death. She somehow got ahold of the artefact and later passed it on to Wang Bai".
The system's words shocked Chen Ying to the core. No wonder she had been so muddled and brainless in her previous life. She had been manipulated by Wang Bai all along.
Everyone in the Chen family thought that Chen Ying's mother had died while giving birth to her but it turned out that she was murdered.
Thinking of the despicable mother and daughter pair, she felt her blood boiling.
Just when she was lost in thought, Chen Ying heard a sugary voice call her.
"Yingying, come out...".