Chapter 2
Chapter 2: That soft little face is perfect for wiping my shoes
The young girl heard what Jiang Tea Tea said and did not feel fear at all. There was no terror in her eyes. Instead, a smile of relief slowly appeared on her face as she looked at Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea met her gaze. Her two hands slowly turned into Green Tea Girl tree branches. One branch wrapped around the girl’s lower body. The other coiled around her head and covered her skull, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.
For a tree spirit, the soul and karmic merit of humans were a great tonic for cultivation, and human bodies were the richest fertilizer. A body that was offered up willingly as a sacrificial offering was even fatter and richer.
Under the young girl’s steady gaze, Jiang Tea Tea ate her body clean, blood, flesh, and bone. Her branches stabbed into the ground, and she did not even spare the blood that had splashed onto the dirt. She absorbed every last drop.
She took in the young girl’s soul, her karmic merit, and everything that had belonged to her.
Her branches slowly turned back into human hands. Her fingers were long and thin, like scallion stalks. About twenty percent of the spiritual power she had lost returned to her.
She lifted her fingers in a graceful, exaggerated orchid pose and used her thumb to wipe the corner of her mouth where there was no saliva at all. All at once, the memories that belonged to the young girl flashed through her mind like a slide show.
The young girl had the same name as her. She was also called Jiang Tea Tea and had just turned eighteen, the age of adulthood.
This Jiang Tea Tea lived on the Capital Planet of the Zhen Lin Empire in the M31 Star System. She was the Jiang Family’s mistakenly raised fake young miss, who had never awakened any supernatural abilities.
The M31 Star System had many mixed races. The average life span ranged from about 150 to 480 years. There were Beastmen, half Beastmen, the Insectoid Race, and the Human Race.
No matter if they were Beastmen, half Beastmen, Insectoid Race, or humans, when they reached ten years old, they would awaken supernatural abilities and spiritual power.
There were all kinds of supernatural abilities: water element ability, fire element ability, lightning element affinity, electric element ability, illusion technique, healing type abilities, and many more strange and varied supernatural powers.
The stronger a person’s awakened supernatural abilities and spiritual power were, the higher their level, the more powerful they became, the more respect and importance they gained, and the higher their social status rose.
The fake young miss had never awakened any supernatural abilities and had no spiritual power at all. Before her identity was exposed, the Jiang Family had spoiled her and held her in their palms. She was their princess, given anything she asked for.
After the fake young miss’s identity was exposed and the true young lady returned, she went from a pampered princess to someone her father did not love and her mother did not care about. Her eldest brother found her an eyesore. Her younger sister glared at her. The true young lady bullied her, framed her, and stole her fiancé, treating her like a piece of trash.
She lived under their cold violence, bullying, false accusations, and stingy treatment for three years. When she finally turned eighteen, she passed the exam for the Royal Military Imperial Academies and entered the Pacification Division for humans, Beastmen, and half Beastmen.
She stayed on campus and was far away from the Jiang Family, but at the Academy she was still bullied by the true young lady and by her own fiancé.
She had no supernatural abilities. Her body was weak, and she was not suited for fighting. All she could do was swallow her anger, bow her head, and save up a little money. When vacation came, she planned to break off the engagement with her fiancé, return to the Jiang Family, and cut off ties with them.
She never expected to overhear that they planned to make use of this “waste” by sending her to someone as a gift in exchange for business cooperation and profit.
Scared out of her wits, she ran away and decided to just go back to the Academy. On the way, she received a call from her fiancé and the true young lady. They told her that they had left a “gift” on her flying device.
As soon as the call ended, her flying device malfunctioned. It fell out of control and crashed. Her body was cut in half at the waist, and her upper body was thrown out.
After Jiang Tea Tea finished reading all of her memories, she felt the unwillingness, anger, and overwhelming hatred that the girl had left behind.
She bent down, picked up the light-brain wrist terminal from the ground, and fastened it around her wrist. At that moment, she was both the Green Tea Girl tree spirit Jiang Tea Tea and the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea of the M31 Star System.
Only by fulfilling the terms of the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea’s sacrificial offering could she completely erase the consciousness the girl had left behind and cancel the sacrificial contract between them.
Jiang Tea Tea turned and looked at the ruined, smoking flying device that had crashed. Just then, a strong beam of light shot down from the sky and shone directly into her eyes.
She raised her hand to shield her eyes from the glare and looked toward the source of the light. A red flying device with two wing-like tail fins landed in front of her.
The true young lady, Jiang Yi Zhu, climbed down from the flying device, her face full of fake concern, and said: “Elder sister, are you alright?”
[The flying device crashed like this and still did not kill her. This wretch is really hard to kill.]
Jiang Tea Tea looked at her. The leftover consciousness of the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea stirred and turned wild and furious as soon as it saw Jiang Yi Zhu.
Jiang Tea Tea smiled and said, “I am fine, thank you for worrying about me, younger sister.”
As soon as Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, she raised her hand and brought it down.
With a crisp slap, her palm landed hard on Jiang Yi Zhu’s face.
The fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea’s consciousness froze for a moment in shock, then finally quieted down.
Jiang Yi Zhu covered her face. Her eyes widened in shock and disbelief as she stared at Jiang Tea Tea. She could not believe it and thought: Jiang Tea Tea actually slapped her?
After hitting her left cheek, Jiang Tea Tea flipped her hand over and struck her right cheek with the back of her hand.
[Her skin is really thick. Good thing I am a demon, or my hand would really hurt from hitting her.]
Jiang Yi Zhu kept stepping back while holding her face until she backed up against the flying device with nowhere left to go. She stared hard at Jiang Tea Tea and shouted: “You hit me, Jiang Tea Tea, you hit me?”
Jiang Tea Tea walked toward her step by step. She blinked her pretty eyes and asked in an innocent tone: “Yes, I hit you. Was I wrong to do that?”
[This is how you humiliate humans: you slap their faces, take away their bowls when they are eating, and curse their ancestors for eighteen generations.]
[I am following the right steps, so what is with that shocked, clueless look on her face?]
Ever since Jiang Yi Zhu had been brought back home, she had always been the one slapping this fake, this wretch, and humiliating her. Now that things had turned around, how could she possibly let it go?
She raised her hand to hit Jiang Tea Tea and snapped: “You fake, low-quality thing, who gave you the guts to hit me…”
Before Jiang Yi Zhu could finish saying the word “me,” there was a bang. Jiang Tea Tea slammed her raised hand down against the red flying device.
There was a sharp crack. Her wrist broke.
Jiang Yi Zhu, who had a B grade water element supernatural ability, let out a muffled cry of pain, and her face turned pale.
Jiang Tea Tea did not let go. She yanked hard, pulling her away from the flying device, then lifted her foot and kicked her hard on the butt.
Jiang Yi Zhu flew through the air and crashed heavily onto the ground. Her head buzzed from the impact, and she had no time to react at all.
Jiang Tea Tea stepped on her delicately made-up face and ground down hard as she said: “Good younger sister, your face is so soft. It is perfect for wiping the bottoms of my shoes!”