"Truth is the most heinous thing in the world. And weakness is the greatest sin.
From the darkness of night sky to a dreamer of lonely nights.
Emperor of Hatred.
But what if I can actually become the strongest? I would rather know the bitter truth than bask in blissful ignorance."
— Xiao Cardinal
Life was really unexpected, but never in his life, Xiao had understood the meaning of it more deeply than ever now.
"Ugghh, what is this!? Dammit, why the hell is my head hurting so much? What the hell actually happened?"
A deep groan escaped from his lips as Xiao clutched his head tightly. A terrible pain hit his mind like a giant boulder. It was as though someone had ruthlessly struck his head with a hammer until he had lost control.
'What is even happening?'
Xiao thought in confusion as he tried to look around. His vision was still blurry as he rubbed his eyes before trying to clearly look around his surroundings.
'Wait, why does my bed feel this soft and comfortable? Since when did my bed had become this much relaxing? No, something is wrong.'
He still remembered working late into the night on his home computer regarding his business before finishing it up and eventually going to sleep. But it was then, only a couple of hours later, that suddenly something unexpected happened.
When he tried to wake up, he instantly saw a dazzling bright light that almost blinded him. Before he could understand what was going on, he felt something was different, and just when he was about to check it out, it was then that this terrible pain and headache assaulted his mind.
"Ahhh, it still hurts like hell."
Cursing, Xiao rubbed his eyes a few times before looking around. Although his eyes were still blurry, he could still see things somewhat clearly now. And from what he saw around him in his surroundings, which was supposed to be his room...
His eyes widened in shock and disbelief.
"What!?"
His surroundings, which were supposed to be his room, were no more. Well, he was still inside a room, but not his. Instead, it was a room filled with luxurious furniture, a table with a flower pot, and on the walls there were many elegant, beautiful, and gorgeous paintings hanging on them.
Everything inside this room screamed wealth. And the bed he was on was not normal either. Instead, it was made of extremely premium-quality wood. And his bed mattress was very comfortable and looked very luxurious as well.
Everything in his entire room was exotic and premium, as though he was not born with a silver, gold, or diamond spoon.
'No, a jade spoon. Ah, yes, I might be born with a jade spoon in my mouth.'
Criticized himself in his mind, Xiao was filled with disbelief as He let out a bitter smile.
Of course, he was familiar with this kind of plot. As he was a fan and an active reader of web novels, especially the Xianxia genre. He had lost count of how many cultivation novels he had read where the protagonist would transmigrate into a cultivation world or reincarnate into it.
"Dammit, it really is a cultivation world."
Looking at the room and its furniture, which made the room look like some ancient Chinese architecture, Xiao was even more sure that this was a cultivation world.
'But the question is? Was this some high level cultivation world or some low-level Wuxia world? I hope that it is not a Wuxia world. Otherwise, never in my ten lives can I return to my world.'
Xiao thought this way was because he was very satisfied with his life on Earth. And he didn't want to spend his life in some other unknown world at all. He was not some broke loser who had lost hope in his life.
Instead, he was a successful rich multi millionaire businessman who owned a huge food franchise brand and numerous restaurants across many different countries.
He also had a very beautiful and devoted yandere girlfriend as well. At the same time, he had some very close true friends with unique personalities as well.
So life was going very well and hopefully for him, as he was enjoying it to the fullest, with his life filled with drama thanks to his girlfriend and friends.
But now here he was, suddenly finding himself in a completely unknown world within an unknown place.
'Dammit, whoever is responsible for this, can't you see that I am quietly living my life in peace and enjoying it? Why do you have to choose me out of all people? Damned bastard.'
Cursing whoever was responsible for his transmigration, be it a person or a mysterious force, for some time to his heart's content, he sighed.
'Ah, curse it. Whatever it is or the reason, since I am already here, let's plan my next step now and how I will survive in this world.'
He thought, as to survive and thrive in this unknown world, he needed to plan ahead and calculate things very carefully. As only one wrong move and he would be dead. As this was a cultivation world where many old monsters would pretend to be beggars, and when he would insult or displease them, they might slap him to death.
Also, there was the possibility that there might be those arrogant young masters as well, who would always try to lick and please jade beauties all the time, despite clearly knowing that those jade beauties don't give a damn about them.
But those stupid young masters wouldn't care as they always liked to try their luck and would stick around jade beauties like a fucking leech, always acting arrogant and offending anyone as they pleased.
And then there were those remnant souls of some thousands of years old monster, ancestor, or fallen immortal from the Nine Heavens.
Who would be inside some protagonist's mind, or in a ring, or in a broken artifact, or a sword.
'Dammit, it was always some stupid shit.'
Xiao roared in anger as he felt a headache just thinking about all these average cultivation tropes and stupid crap that he might potentially have to deal with.
Taking some deep breaths, he tried to calm himself down.
'Positive, Xiao, be positive. There is no guarantee that all those stupid things from those novels would be happening exactly the same in this world. Heck, it might be the exact opposite. Since this is a real world and not some story, there might be some insanely smart people with deep schemes and calculations as well.
But there is a possibility that some elements of cultivation novels might still exist out there in this world, as the possibilities are endless.'