...Madison Harrington stared at the bright red stain on the crisp white silk bedsheet, lost in thought.
In her previous life, Madison was just an ordinary university graduate — a corporate slave who had barely started working, already struggling to afford a decent house and thinking about bride price. Her few moments of relaxation were dragging her exhausted body home after overtime, reading web novels before bed, scrolling through short videos, and occasionally trying to understand calculus.
One night, while she was immersed in a particularly shameless novel called Master Descends from the Mountain, My Beautiful Sister-in-Law — whose author truly understood the essence of the genre — she spilled water on her laptop, got electrocuted, and died.
And then she was reborn into the world of that very novel.
All of this, Madison had only learned two and a half days ago, when she finally broke through the fog of infancy and awakened her past-life memories.
In this life, she was no longer an ordinary girl from a humble background. She was Madison Harrington — someone born at a height that tens of billions of people couldn't reach in ten lifetimes.
The Harrington of Madison Harrington was the Harrington of the Yanxia Harrington Family, and the bloodline on her mother's side came from the powerful Caldwell Family of Yanxia Country!
Only truly top-tier aristocratic families could be named after the country itself!
What Magic City Xiao Family or Imperial Capital Xiao Family? Among aristocratic families, they were merely at the bottom.
Even abroad, anyone with a little insight, upon hearing of the Yanxia Harrington Family and Yanxia Caldwell Family, would immediately understand what colossal entities they were!
The Harrington Family of Yanxia Country!
Rich and powerful for a thousand years, enduring through countless dynasties!
Her paternal grandfather was a Founding Elder, permanently residing in Beihai!
Her paternal grandmother was the Dean of the Imperial Capital Academy of Sciences, with disciples all over the world!
Her father resided in the Imperial Capital, holding sway over the central authority!
Her mother controlled the Harrington Group, with assets worth trillions!
Her mother's Caldwell Family was by no means inferior!
The Caldwell Family of Yanxia Country!
Her maternal grandfather was a Pillar of the Nation, the Soul of the Military!
Her maternal grandmother was a successor of a hidden sect, with unfathomable strength!
Her maternal aunt was a Female War God, the General Instructor of the top special forces Fire Phoenix team, appointed as a general!
Her maternal uncle was a financial crocodile; one bearish statement from him could shake the world economy!
Her eldest female cousin was a national goddess, a global superstar diva, with countless awards and hundreds of millions of fans!
...All her relatives were either filthy rich or nobly powerful!
Madison was a true top-tier rich second-generation! Power second-generation!
An aristocratic noble dwelling above the clouds!
Furthermore, in the third generation of both the Harrington and Caldwell Families, male heirs were extremely sparse. Besides Madison, all were daughters.
It went without saying — she was doted upon like Jia Baoyu, who was born with a jade in his mouth.
Both the Harrington and Caldwell Families spoiled Madison to the extreme!
With her status, even the Crown Prince and Princess of the Imperial Capital would respectfully call her "Miss Maddie" and wouldn't dare show the slightest neglect, let alone offend her!
Unfortunately!
She should have enjoyed a carefree life of luxury.
However, Madison ultimately suffered the ruin of her family and became a vengeful spirit beneath the feet of Ethan Blackwood, the protagonist of Master Descends from the Mountain, My Beautiful Sister-in-Law!
"Hehe… Fortunately, I awakened my past-life memories and broke through the mystery of the womb. Otherwise, wouldn't I have been ridiculed for losing even with a dragon riding my face? What a laughingstock I would have been!"
Madison's eyes flickered with a cold sneer in her heart.
The Blackwood Family of Magic City, to which Ethan belonged, was considered a first-rate family in Magic City, thriving and prosperous.
But five years ago, Ethan's father got carried away, overestimating himself, and competed with the Harrington Group for a new district project worth tens of billions!
Naturally, he was no match for Madison's mother.
However, seeing that he couldn't win, Ethan's father made a crazy move — he secretly caused a car accident targeting Madison's mother.
Fortunately, he didn't know that Madison's mother came from a scholarly family background and had achieved great success in martial arts, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable!
Upon learning the truth, both the Harrington and Caldwell Families were furious. Overnight, the thriving Blackwood Family of Magic City collapsed like a house of cards!
In desperation, the cornered father set fire to the Blackwood Family's old residence, turning it into ruins, and almost the entire family perished!
Ethan Blackwood fortunately escaped, but turned misfortune into blessing. He was saved by a mysterious Master and taught peerless martial arts and various skills.
Five years later, Ethan, possessing extraordinary abilities and inheriting the vast power of his Master's Netherworld Palace, descended the mountain, showing off and slapping faces all the way, trampling the Harrington and Caldwell Families underfoot, surrounded by beauties, and reaching the peak of his life!
Of course, what many readers criticized was that in Master Descends from the Mountain, My Beautiful Sister-in-Law, after more than two thousand chapters, Ethan was still a "Chu Nan" at the end.
This made countless readers lose their composure.
Cough cough, Madison had read a brand-new version provided by an enthusiastic reader…
"Ethan Blackwood, oh Ethan Blackwood… It was your father's fire that annihilated your family. Yet you hold an irreconcilable grudge against my Harrington and Caldwell Families. Is there something wrong with your brain?"
Madison was somewhat speechless about Ethan.
Wasn't the bankruptcy of the Magic City Blackwood Family self-inflicted by his own father?
Furthermore, it was his father's fire that almost wiped out the entire family.
Yet Ethan harbored hatred for the Harrington and Caldwell Families, spending five years on the mountain, cultivating martial arts in a self-abusive manner, driven solely by the desire to destroy them.
Facing such a madman, Madison couldn't even explain anything.
What worried her even more was that she had only awakened her past-life memories two and a half days ago, and the time for Ethan to descend the mountain was fast approaching.
There wasn't much time to prepare.
Facing Ethan — the Child of Destiny, possessing peerless martial arts and being the Master of the Netherworld Palace — Madison felt extremely troubled!
However, she was not one to sit idly by. She immediately made what preparations she could.
She informed her father, mother, paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, maternal grandfather, maternal grandmother, maternal aunt, and other relatives.
The Harrington and Caldwell Families didn't care about Ethan. A mere remnant of the Magic City Blackwood Family, even at its peak, could be cast into the abyss by a single word from them.
But out of their extreme doting on Madison, they still took precautions.
In addition, Madison was ruthless in her heart. She decided to go all out and take down Elena Whitaker, the most important woman in Ethan's life and the first female lead in the book Master Descends from the Mountain.
Although she had only awakened her memories two and a half days ago, for Madison, it was more than enough.
Even a single sentence was enough.
"Elena, you wouldn't want anything to happen to the Whitaker Family, would you?"
Recalling that sentence, Elena's face lost all color, her pretty face turning deathly pale.
Madison merely found it somewhat amusing.
She wasn't someone who passively waited for death.
Of course, Madison had no intention of making crude threats — that would be boring. It was simply a transaction. Mhm, just a transaction!
Creak!
As the bathroom door opened, a dazzlingly beautiful and charming face was revealed. It was precisely Elena Whitaker — the beautiful sister-in-law that the novel's protagonist Ethan Blackwood yearned for!
Elena bit her red lip with her pearly teeth. Her peach-blossom eyes, full of tender affection despite her anger and grievance, stared intently at Madison. With a trembling voice, she said:
"A gentleman's word, once spoken, cannot be unsaid!"
"Miss Harrington, I have given you what you wanted!"
"You must save the Whitaker Family as agreed!"
The Whitaker Family, to which Elena belonged, was only a second-rate family in Magic City, with assets around ten billion.
Five years ago, after their in-laws, the Magic City Blackwood Family, collapsed, the Whitaker Family was also affected, suffering heavy losses and gradually declining!
The day before yesterday, someone maliciously shorted and suppressed them, and they were on the verge of bankruptcy.
Left with no choice, to save her parents and family, the kind-hearted and gentle Elena could only accept Madison's conditions.
After all, she couldn't bear to see her family in despair!
Madison smiled slightly, picked up her phone, gave some instructions, then looked at Elena and said:
"Alright, with me here, no one can touch the Whitaker Family!"
Upon hearing this, Elena immediately breathed a sigh of relief, forcing a hint of joy onto her face.
She, however, did not notice the playful glint in Madison's eyes.
Because the one who had ordered the suppression of the Whitaker Family was Madison Harrington herself!
If there was no need for a transaction, then she would simply create one! Why resort to crude threats?
One command had plunged the Whitaker Group, with a market value of ten billion, into despair — such was the power of a top-tier noble!
Madison looked at Elena, thinking mischievously: what kind of expression would the Child of Destiny, Ethan Blackwood, have when he descends the mountain and learns all of this?
It would certainly be very interesting...