Chapter 214: Relationships
This was the first time Jiang Fei felt so helpless.
He had clearly thought of a way to refute every sentence, but Pei Jing was able to divert the focus to a completely different point, and it was impossible to guess what he was going to say next.
"You want me to kill your entire family, but I won't! Unless," Pei Jing raised his chin slightly, "unless you marry me."
For a moment, Jiang Fei was even a little confused.
Shouldn't the normal situation be "If you don't marry me, I will kill your whole family?" Why did it become "If you marry me, I will kill your whole family" in their case?
"Marry, marry, marry," Jiang Fei said, "You decide how to marry me."
Pei Jing thought for a moment, "I thought about it last night. As long as you are not a member of the Jiang family, you can marry me."
Jiang Fei didn't understand the logic behind this, so Pei Jing continued, "As long as you're not Jiang Rufei, you can be anyone. You can be Jiang Fei, Xiao Cui, or even Cao Ya."
Pei Jing stared at her for a long moment. Seeing she didn't understand, he explained, "The royal family actually had a similar experience. In the early years, when the northern border was engaged in a marriage alliance, there was no princess of the right age among the royal family. So they selected a daughter from among the ministers, granted her the title of princess, and recorded her directly in the roster of the Zongzheng Temple."
"With a new name and a new household registration, who cares where she comes from? To put it bluntly, it doesn't matter who you are. What matters is who I want you to be, and that's who the court will recognize you as."
"I will set up a new household in the suburbs of Beijing, or find a distant relative who is clean and have you adopted as my daughter," he said quickly with some joy.
Seeing Jiang Fei looking at him steadily, Pei Jing's heart seemed to be hit. He held her hand tightly and said, "You can be anyone, but you must be my princess, my Xiao Cui."
The system reminded Jiang Fei inappropriately at this moment: "Host, don't you tell him that no matter how hard he struggles, you can't marry him?"
"Shut up." Jiang Fei said to the system, "I'll settle the score with you later."
How could she not know the final outcome? She just couldn't bear to see his hopes dashed.
No matter what, they had tried their best. She didn't need any status, but she was willing to accommodate his persistence.
If she could stay, that would be a matter outside the story. It wouldn't be too late to get married then. It would only be less than a year away.
Jiang Fei smiled back at him, "Okay."
After comforting Pei Jing and returning to the room, it was time for Jiang Fei to settle accounts with the system.
"When did you come online?"
The system timidly replied, "Two days ago."
Jiang Fei snorted coldly, "How many times have I called you these past two days? Are you pretending to be dead?"
The system said, "Isn't that because I know you want to settle the score with me? You remember everything, right?"
As soon as the system came online that day, I loaded the plot of the days I was away. Wow, I remembered everything about my childhood.
This was the system when Jiang Fei traveled through time as a child. Her mission was to stop Pei Jing from turning evil. However, she failed to complete the mission. Due to an operational error in the system, she was sent back to the modern era.
"Why, now that the world line is about to collapse, you want to drag me back to clean up the mess?" Jiang Fei said speechlessly: "I'm just curious, with your business ability, how did you become a system?"
The system member complained: "I, I am a relative."
"..." Jiang Fei: "Whose relationship?"
The system whispered: "Main system."
Jiang Fei almost laughed out of anger, "You are a relative of the main system, and it still blocks your functions. Your relationship is not that good."
"That's right," the system said. "We used to be friends, but he found various excuses to block my abilities. I succumbed to his tyranny and had no choice but to change our relationship."
"What's the relationship?"
System: "A relationship where he has taken advantage of us."
Jiang Fei almost choked on her own saliva, "What?!"
The system complained, "That's why I have so few functions now. The main system said that if I want to unlock all functions, I have to have a good relationship with him."
"Wait." Jiang Fei grasped the key point, "You and the main system both have genders? You can actually use unspoken rules?"
"What else?" The system said speechlessly: "Could it be that we are all transsexuals?"
Jiang Fei was confused.
How do the two systems have such an unspoken rule? Do they rely on exchanging codes to achieve such a change?
"We also have entities in our world, okay?" the system accused.
Jiang Fei thought about it and had a rough guess.
Could it be that the main system had set a trap for the system from the beginning? With this system's idiotic nature and its brains, how could it possibly take on such a complex task? He was completely implicated by this thing.
"Host," the system accused, "You forgot I can hear you again. Can you change 'Hanpi' to 'Hanhan'?"
"Does it make any difference?"
The system said anxiously: "There's a huge difference! Hanhan is cute, but Hanpi is really stupid."
"You are really stupid." Jiang Fei said affirmatively: "How did I end up with a system like yours?"
The system also felt very aggrieved: "It's not easy for me either, okay? I was secretly exploited by the main system, and I couldn't complain to anyone. I went online to cry to my host, and they called me stupid."
Jiang Fei suddenly remembered, "Can the main system hear you crying?"
"Can."
"Then why don't you just start cursing?"
System: "Because scolding him will make his death even more miserable."
As for how miserable it was, the system didn't say, but Jiang Fei probably guessed it because she had already experienced it with Pei Jing.
Jiang Fei asked: "Then you didn't use this relationship to ask him to open a backdoor for you? For example, to open some permissions or something."
"Yes," the system said, "He said he would restore one function for me after one hundred attempts. I'm still forty-seven attempts short."
Jiang Fei: "...There's no need to calculate it so clearly."
This system is completely controlled by the main system, just like coaxing a child by giving her a toy to play with.
No wonder, with mosaics and paid radio, just like Pei Jing, he doesn't even allow other men to see their bodies. All men have the same possessiveness.
Jiang Fei held her forehead and said, "Forget it. I can't count on you. I'll figure it out myself."
"Are you going to arrange where Princess Anping and Jiang Chenglang will go next?"
Jiang Fei nodded, "As long as people outside think they are dead, then it won't ruin the plot."
The little book she traveled into seemed to have created a world, or more accurately, it recorded the life trajectories of certain people in that world, so the things learned in the book were all public knowledge.
Those corners that have not been touched by words are where the details that can really change the situation are hidden.
At the same time, Pei Jing was standing in the corridor, playing with half a dead leaf between his fingertips.
"Your secret book is really useful."
Wen Zhu was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up when he realized what was happening. "Then, Your Highness, could you please elaborate on how this is useful?"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
