What is it that's so important?
Zhan Xinjia was actually quite curious, but unfortunately, after eating and taking a shower, she was so sleepy that she couldn't keep her eyes open. As soon as her head hit the pillow, she fell asleep and simply slept through the whole thing.
Lord Shen did try to shake her awake, but although she sat up, her mind was still wandering in her sleep.
"Open your mouth."
Hearing Master Shen say this in a daze, Zhan Xinjia obediently opened her mouth, half asleep and half awake, and a spoonful of warm ginger and brown sugar water was fed into her mouth. She smacked her lips and thought it was quite sweet.
The young man's helpless voice reached my ears.
"How could someone so old fall into the river... You're so careless. What if you get sick and have a fever?"
Listening to Master Shen's nagging, and feeling the spoon, cooled by the wind, brought to her lips, Zhan Xinjia opened her mouth and drank another spoonful. Only after being fed half a bowl did someone wipe her mouth, signaling her to continue sleeping.
In a daze, Zhan Xinjia managed to open her left eye a crack.
Under the lamplight, the handsome young man was patiently and meticulously tucking the corners of the thin blanket around her.
Although summer nights are still hot, you can still catch a cold if you don't cover yourself properly while sleeping on a cool couch.
After he took the bowl out, he heard the faint sound of the door closing, and Zhan Xinjia's sleepy eyelids drooped little by little.
Before long, the door opened again.
Someone took her wrist and carefully applied a layer of ointment to it. It felt cool and refreshing, and the air was filled with a light herbal fragrance. Zhan Xinjia, who was in her sleep, raised the corners of her mouth.
It's just a little bit of redness, there's no need to apply any medicine.
Lord Shen is still too gentle.
My heart feels warm.
Zhan Xinjia doesn't dream often, mainly because she's the kind of person who forgets her dreams completely the moment she opens her eyes at dawn.
However, she occasionally dreams of things she has no recollection of.
For example, before she was seven or eight years old, even though she had a serious illness when she was seven and had forgotten everything from before, this memory was still preserved in her subconscious and would occasionally appear in her dreams.
——
The little pieces of paper that have just started to remember things are actually quite unreasonable.
At three or four years old, she was already very curious about the world. She could walk and run steadily, and her favorite thing to do was to bother Brother Yan and A Yue, although she didn't know why.
It was as if a voice in her head kept reminding her:
When Yan Huishi arrives, he will be the Crown Prince. You must find a way to make him like you so you can use him in the future.
Yan Xiyue, the beloved female lead, is born to steal your things. It's best to use some scheming to make everyone hate her, so that your chances of winning will be greater when the male lead appears later.
Little Paper: "Put some thought into it..."
Little Paper: "What kind of snack? (Starry eyes) (Drooling) (Anticipatory) (Stupid smile)"
The voice fell silent and stopped speaking.
For three-year-old Xiaozhi, the existence of that voice was really annoying. She didn't quite understand whether it was just her who had a strange thing in her head, or whether everyone actually had such a thing in their head.
After thinking about it, she decided to tell Brother Yan.
"Someone is talking inside my head."
"..."
Six-year-old Yan Hui paused for a moment, looking at the serious little girl in front of him with an expression as if she were mentally challenged.
He suddenly remembered something and blushed a little.
With forty-nine feints per second, he started touching his hair, backing away, pretending to turn around casually, covering his mouth with his fist, licking his lips, sticking out his tongue, touching his stomach, and giving an ambiguous, wicked smile.
Finally, under Xiaozhi's questioning gaze, he coughed a few times and leaned closer to her, trying to force a common topic.
"I understand you. Do you often feel like you are the master of this world?"
Do you feel like there's an old man with a white beard living in a jade pendant in your head, teaching you magical arts?
Do you feel like you've mastered the power of darkness?
Her left eye holds the grand principles of heaven and earth, her right eye symbolizes the vast expanse of mountains and rivers; when the Demon Lord rages, blood flows for miles. We, born to belong to the martial world, to the six realms, my beloved sister, entangled in an ominous destiny, shall rise above the entire continent alongside me, the Thunderous Demon Lord! —”
As she spoke, Yan Huishi covered her left eye in an exaggerated gesture.
"Wow, I feel power!!!"
Little Paper: "..."
She didn't speak, but two deafeningly unfamiliar words suddenly surfaced clearly in her mind—words that came from the voice that kept chattering in her head.
It said, "This male supporting character is a complete idiot, I'm speechless... Come on, host, repeat after me, idiot!!"
So the young boy learned the first swear word he should never have learned.
"Idiot!"
"Huh? Huh?? What do you mean? Little sister, don't go!"
When the geese returned, I was completely bewildered.
He thought that Mei Bao had reached the age of fantasizing about being an unparalleled celestial being, so he made up such a long string of domineering, majestic, arrogant and cool words to please her. But she just left like that.
Xiao Zhi really thinks that Yan Gege is mentally ill. Sometimes she feels it's embarrassing to have a brother like that in public...
Hmm, she'll never call him "brother" again.
Let's go find Ah Yue!
Ah Yue is only half a month older than her, and she is currently at the age where she can stand guard with her left eye and her right eye in her thumb.
For some reason, whenever Xiaozhi gets close to Ayue, the voice in her head becomes unusually excited.
"You, go up and bully her a bit!"
The little paper tilted its head in confusion.
"Oh, never mind. You two are going to fight tooth and nail over a man anyway, so might as well have some fun while you're at it. Come on, host, go and push her! Push her hard!"
Although she didn't understand why, Xiaozhi obediently did as she was told.
So A-Yue's swing started to sway, and she turned around to give a grateful look to her little sister Bao, who was pushing her swing with all her might.
The voice: "..."
Seeing that A-Yue had pulled out a piece of candy from somewhere, the voice became excited again.
"Take her candy! Then pretend to fall down, and when an adult asks, just say she pushed you!"
Xiao Zhi was puzzled. She frowned and, with some doubt, snatched the candy from A Yue's hand. Then, she carefully tore open the candy wrapper and fed the peeled candy into A Yue's mouth.
Under A-Yue's even more grateful gaze, Xiao Zhi walked to the center of the courtyard and lay down straight on the ground—
Okay, I'm asleep.
Her father woke her up around dinner time.
The voice: "..."
"Damn it! You're the villainous female supporting character!! Can't you have any professional ethics?!"
But thinking about it now, it's insane. Which genius came up with the idea of having a little girl in a novel, whose teeth haven't even fully grown in, compete for female attention? Holy crap, that's so tacky, utterly disgusting, and ridiculous!
The little paper couldn't understand its rambling.
She had almost gotten used to the voice, and sometimes it was actually quite interesting. Then one day when she was six years old, the voice suddenly became cryptic and appeared more frequently.
"Hey, is there something wrong with the system data? Why is your lifespan, as a villainous female supporting character, only set to be seven years...?"
The little paper looked bewildered.
Then the sound disappeared completely.
The following year, the little paper, which was missing it, lay on the ground gazing up at the sky.
But actually you can't see anything, just pitch black, not even a single star.
Because her eyes were no longer in their sockets.
From her initial breakdown and desperate cries, to the point where she shed her last tear, the unbearable pain gradually became numb, and now she seems to have completely calmed down.
Lying quietly, she was secretly relieved that her father wasn't in the capital and that her mother had taken her brother out to buy her candy.
I'm so sad, she hasn't even had any candy yet.
Her body temperature gradually dropped, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood.
In the final seconds before she lost consciousness, amidst the chaotic footsteps, she heard a piercing cry.
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