Having completed her mission, Qingyin took a moment to calm herself down and decided to play around in the small world for a while to relax.
When they came out, the elusive system was already lounging lazily on the sofa like an old man.
"Hehe, I knew our Yinyin was awesome, she completed the task with ease."
Qingyin raised an eyebrow, "Didn't anyone look for them in between?"
"How could that be!" The system cat, who didn't know how it could tell from its small, fat eyes that it was being obsequious, said ingratiatingly, "While you were resting, that second-generation rich kid you saved in your previous life, what was his name, Wu Meng, came over once."
"I saw that you didn't come out, so I sent her away."
"She also left behind a bunch of luxurious gifts. No wonder she's a second-generation rich kid. She even added your system account. Yinyin, you can add her if you want."
Qingyin nodded and casually flipped through some of the gift boxes. The glittering gifts were dazzling to both herself and the system.
Qingyin glanced at the fat system cat, who had secretly slipped behind her and was drooling with envy over the gift, and a slight smile appeared on her lips.
"Here you go!" Qingyin lazily leaned back on the sofa after tossing the gift to the system cat.
The system blankly accepted the gift, and only reacted a second later, "Ahhh! Thank you, Yinyin! Thank you to my most beautiful, greatest, and most generous host, Yinyin!"
After completing these world missions, Qingyin had accumulated some savings, and the loans she had taken out before didn't seem to amount to that much anymore.
Qingyin became a bit lazy.
Watching the system cat happily running back and forth carrying the gift box, Qingyin poured herself a cup of tea in a cheerful mood.
Having grown accustomed to the ancient times, Qingyin even developed a taste for tea when drinking water.
"Alright, let's move on to the next task."
"Yes, Yinyin."
After a thick fog cleared, a dazzling figure walked in.
The woman wore a gorgeous long dress of bright red silk and satin, with various gold trims embroidered on the hem and cuffs. Her hair was adorned with various gold hairpins and jewels. Moreover, her face was covered with heavy makeup, obscuring her features.
Such a gorgeous outfit has one major characteristic: it's dazzling, especially when the woman is tall; she's practically a living, blinding light bulb.
At the beginning, Qingyin, whose eyes were pierced by the wisher, silently stretched out her hand to cover her eyes.
The system's eyes are not human eyes, but mechanical eyes that scan the wishers before it.
[The person making the wish is a woman with rough, calloused hands. She should have been of low social standing, but her life unexpectedly changed.]
The official voice of the inorganic system echoed in the empty system space.
The person making the wish was clearly startled by the emotionless system voice and cowered in a corner, too afraid to come closer.
Qingyin's lips twitched as she watched that scene.
Qingyin tugged at the cat ears of the system, which had done nothing but make things worse and failed to get things done, and waved to the frightened woman in the distance.
"Come here, didn't you come here because of your wish?"
Mentioning her wish, the wisher became noticeably bolder. Looking at Qingyin's incredibly beautiful face, ambition ignited in her eyes, which were heavily covered with foundation.
"This humble woman, Lin Erhua, greets Your Excellency."
"Get up."
Qingyin waved her hand, and an exquisite chair landed behind the woman.
Seeing such miraculous divine methods, Lin Erhua clearly believed in Qingyin even more. She sat down gracefully, her movements seemingly deliberately imitating some kind of palace etiquette. Unfortunately, due to her inner inferiority complex, her attempt to imitate the unorthodox methods backfired, and her movements became somewhat strange.
Qingyin guessed that Lin Erhua probably entered the palace later because of some possibility.
That is indeed the case.
Lin Erhua then slowly recounted her terrible and despicable life.
"Sir, I was born into a commoner family. My family was a well-known poor household in our village. My name is Lin Erhua, and I have an older sister named Lin Dahua. My sister had a bad life. The year we were so poor was a famine year. The fields couldn't grow any crops, so my father sold her. If my younger sister Lin Sanhua and I hadn't been sick that year, I would have been sold too."
At this point, Lin Erhua gave a sarcastic laugh.
"Lin Sanhua had a bad life. She didn't survive her illness and died. Her father dug a pit and sold her into it. After that, there was only me and Lin Tianbao in the family. Lin Tianbao was really good. He was a boy and could go to school. He didn't have to worry about being sold by his father. The family always made sure he had the best food."
“I was starving at the time, and I stole a bite of his steamed egg custard. My mother and father beat me until I was covered in blood.”
"So from that moment on, I vowed that I would make something of myself."
"But what could I, a woman, do? Then I saw an injured man. The clothes he was wearing were made of a material I had never seen before. They were so smooth and beautiful. I knew my chance had come."
“I hid him in a cave in the mountains, and with the few copper coins I had painstakingly saved over the years, I went to a pharmacy outside to get him some medicine. He woke up and agreed to my request.”
"The first time I came to the capital, it was completely different from the village. All the women there were so beautiful. Why did those people say I was disgusting and greedy? I don't believe that if those people had gone through what I did, they could so easily ridicule others like they do now."
"I saved him, so I want to marry him and have a lifetime of wealth and luxury, so what!"
Qingyin raised an eyebrow, "Then how do you know that marrying him will bring you a lifetime of wealth and honor?"
"Or have you considered that you could also gain wealth and status by marrying someone else?" Qingyin asked.
Lin Erhua opened her eyes wide in confusion. No one had ever said that marrying him alone could bring her wealth and honor. She stammered, "But I only saved him. What do I feel for him? He's a prince. He must be rich to marry me. Why would any of the other wealthy young men marry me?"
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