The contestant sleeping in the basement was naturally Mo Jiao.
Because his beast form was a snake, and the original owner feared and loathed snakes, worried about encountering Mo Jiao slithering darkly on the ground, she had only allowed him to sleep in the basement.
Xiao Jinsheng looked at Mo Jiao, whose killing intent had been dispersed by her outrageous behavior and who was now shrouded in confusion. "You don't have to sleep in the basement anymore either. You can choose your own room."
Mo Jiao's purple eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked with a cold smile, "So, should I thank you?"
"Of course. It's your honor," Xiao Jinsheng replied.
Since these five men all harbored murderous intentions towards her, she knew that simple flattery wouldn't be enough to ease their relationship.
It was highly likely that these five men would suspect her of plotting something again, wondering if her deliberate attempts to please them were just a smokescreen before she sold them off.
Feeling so stifled, Xiao Jinsheng decided it was better to just act crazy.
Since she had the role of the vicious supporting female character, there was no problem with actually being a vicious woman, right?
The first step of a vicious woman: instead of these five men forming an alliance like in the plot and each giving her a fatal blow, Xiao Jinsheng chose to make them fight among themselves first.
Xiao Jinsheng lifted her chin, her cold gaze sweeping disdainfully over the five handsome faces. "I already know I was wrong, so I'm changing. But my changing alone is useless. You all need to cooperate with me, right?"
"So then, the six of us, as husband and wife, will help each other succeed. I will change my past faults, and you will try to forgive your hatred for me. Whoever performs best, I will divorce."
With that, Xiao Jinsheng looked with satisfaction at the five men who, because of her words, stood frozen in place with stunned expressions. She pulled out a dining chair and sat down, only to be immediately choked by the burnt smell of the spicy rabbit head on the table.
The spicy rabbit head she had specifically requested only revealed a few bone fragments and meat scraps in a pot of burnt chili peppers.
This dish was even more unscrupulous than a black-hearted boss.
"Su Ye, I know I was wrong. Since you're not good at cooking, you don't have to cook in the future. You can do the dishes instead," Xiao Jinsheng apologized with a sincere expression.
Su Ye only saw her arrogance, relying on the terminal's rule of shared life and death in marriage, which prevented them from harming her.
Apology?
There wasn't a shred of sincerity.
"My thanks," Su Ye said with a foul expression, clicking his tongue coldly.
"You're welcome. This is what you should be thanking me for," Xiao Jinsheng chuckled, waving her hand. "So, you all need to perform well. Whoever performs best, I will divorce."
"Has she gone completely mad?" Yu Yunxiao muttered softly.
Que Zelian looked at Yu Yunxiao. "Shouldn't we be asking you that? You've been with her all day."
"And you're the one who constantly brings up divorce," Su Ye added.
If Yu Yunxiao hadn't been constantly clamoring for divorce, this vicious woman wouldn't have been inspired to come up with such a terrible idea to use divorce to dangle them and threaten them.
The thought that he might have indeed given Xiao Jinsheng the inspiration to blackmail them made Yu Yunxiao's cat ears droop in frustration.
Xiao Jinsheng ate her meal as if no one else was present, watching with satisfaction as the five men showed signs of starting to argue.
Mmm hmm hmm!
The first step of a vicious woman was to first shatter the fragile alliance of these five men.
She needed to make them fight among themselves so she would have more time to repair their relationships and avoid the ending in the plot where she was stabbed five times to death.
Besides repairing relationships, she also needed to improve her own strength.
Although the females of the Misty Continent lacked physical self-defense, their mental energy, which allowed them to link to the terminal, could give them a very high status among the males.
Because mental energy could only be awakened by females, and males who wanted to obtain star stones to improve their strength could only go to the other side of the Misty Continent through terminal tasks.
The poisonous fog of the Misty Continent had a strong corrosive effect. Even the most powerful beast-transformed humans would be turned into a pile of white bones upon touching it.
The Misty Continent was divided into two parts. The east was the human habitation area, with the danger of zombies and mutated beasts.
Killing zombies and mutated beasts could yield crystal cores, but crystal cores couldn't help people improve their abilities.
Only in the west of the Misty Continent, the area shrouded in poisonous fog, could star stones for upgrading abilities be found.
Items that could suppress the poisonous fog could only be issued along with terminal tasks.
Before marriage, males relied on temporary tasks issued by the terminal to enter the west of the Misty Continent.
But after marriage, males could only enter the west of the Misty Continent by receiving star chart tasks through their wives on the terminal.
However, Xiao Jinsheng had been married to these five men for half a year, and due to her dislike, she hadn't given them a single star chart task.
Without upgrading resources, the five men's strength had been stuck.
This was also the reason for the disharmony and mutual disgust among the six of them.
So, this was something Xiao Jinsheng could change.
As soon as she was full, she put down her chopsticks. Noticing that some of the five men were drinking tea and others were eating meat, she suddenly said, "Tomorrow, I will accept star chart tasks for you."
"Cough cough cough!"
Some of the five men choked, and others were caught off guard, all looking at this woman who had suddenly changed her mind with shocked expressions.
"You're being this kind?" Yu Yunxiao had just been tricked by her today, and his trust in her was already negative. "Since marrying you, I've forgotten what the west of the Misty Continent even looks like."
"Then your memory is quite bad," Xiao Jinsheng smiled at him. "So, stay up less late playing games. Even little cats shed fur."
"Xiao Jinsheng!" Yu Yunxiao was furious with her.
"Are you serious about this?" Even Que Zelian, who usually didn't bother with Xiao Jinsheng, spoke at this moment.
His beast form was a Dragon-Sparrow, and he was the only beast-transformed human among Xiao Jinsheng's five men who had awakened the bloodline of a rare beast.
His desire for strength was immense; he desperately needed it.
If possible, he wouldn't have wanted the marriage arranged by the terminal at all and could have received tasks from the terminal while remaining single.
But there was no way. The terminal was invisible and intangible, yet it could control the life and death of beast-transformed humans.
"Those who don't believe me won't get any tasks," Xiao Jinsheng didn't choose to explain further.
Sure enough, upon hearing this, even Mo Jiao, who harbored murderous intent towards her, replied, "I believe you."
Regardless of whether Xiao Jinsheng had another bad idea to trick them, as long as he could receive star chart tasks, he would endure!
"Very good. Since everyone agrees, then we'll see you all tomorrow morning." Xiao Jinsheng gracefully stood up, smiling brightly as she waved at the five men. "Good night, little kitty; good night, very good brother."
Yu Yunxiao and Su Ye, who had been addressed, gritted their teeth at her.
Xiao Jinsheng waved at the other three men as well. "Good night, Huai Qing; good night, Mo Jiao; good night, Que Zelian."
"Why do they get their full names?" Yu Yunxiao protested.
Having long anticipated Yu Yunxiao's outburst, Xiao Jinsheng said good night before swiftly ascending the stairs and locking her bedroom door.
Sitting on the bed, she familiarized herself with the information about the Misty Continent through the terminal while also taking the time to mentally curse the lunatic system that had caused her to transmigrate into this apocalyptic novel.
That lunatic system had simply mistaken her identity; Xiao Jinsheng wasn't its intended host.
So, after compensating Xiao Jinsheng with five butchers and sending her to the Misty Continent, it had already fled.
Fortunately, before leaving, it had sent her the original plot, allowing Xiao Jinsheng to know her ending in the book.