Chapter 2: Fairy
The flames were blazing and she was about to be set on fire.
With a hiss, Shen Tingyu shuddered, rolled over on the ground a few times, and hid behind the teacup. His fingers gripped the rim of the cup, he raised his little head and said in a frightened voice, "Don't... burn me!"
It can even move. Xin Hongying looked at the rag doll in front of her in surprise. She was alive.
The small figure hid nimbly, picked up the cup lid and used it as a shield. It looked at the flame in his hand warily, shivering as if it was extremely afraid of him.
"Are you a living thing?" Xin Hongying raised his eyebrows in thought. He put down the candle and stretched out his slender fingers towards the doll, trying to grab her out from behind the teacup.
After thinking about it, he paused and withdrew his hand.
"you……"
When Xin Hongying was thinking, his face was gloomy and he looked very fierce. Shen Tingyu already knew that he was the tyrant who killed people without blinking an eye in the book, and he was afraid of him.
Shen Tingyu hurriedly explained: “I’m not a voodoo doll.”
Xin Hongying lowered his bottomless eyes and remained silent, with an expression that said, "Do you think I believe you?" He tapped the table with his bony fingers and spoke slowly.
"Who is behind you?"
"Or who is controlling you?"
"Tell the truth."
Feeling the vibration of the table under his feet, Shen Tingyu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he did not continue to hurt himself, but he did not let down his guard.
She explained again: "I'm really not a voodoo doll. No one is controlling me."
"I don't know any witchcraft, I've never cursed anyone, and I've never harmed anyone."
"I just took a nap, and when I woke up, I was already inside this doll's body."
"You believe me."
She was eager to release her kindness to express her harmlessness.
Xin Hongying didn't say anything, his imposing eyes locked on her, his brows unconsciously furrowed. "How can you guarantee that you're not an enemy placed next to me to influence me?"
"Even if you might be innocent, you might be being used by someone with ulterior motives." The man's voice suddenly became colder.
His fingers moved the candlestick, approaching the teacup where Shen Tingyu was.
Xin Hongying said coldly, "I'll give you one chance. Convince me, or you can choose between the candle and the brazier."
Shen Tingyu opened her mouth blankly. She couldn’t say that she was a person who traveled through a book and no one took advantage of her.
Even if she told him, he wouldn't believe her.
Having experienced the solemn and threatening feeling brought by the flames, the small teacup could no longer bring her a sense of security.
She is a flammable material now. Shen Tingyu was a little panicked and she poked her head out.
The candle's tears happened to fall on the teacup in front of her. She looked up in panic, met Xin Hongying's evil smile, and gave a lame excuse that she herself didn't believe.
"I am a fairy who came down from heaven to transcend tribulation. However, something went wrong when I came down to the mortal world, so my soul ended up in this voodoo doll."
After saying this, Shen Tingyu swallowed her non-existent saliva, thinking that it was miserable, this lame lie was fake as soon as she heard it, and she couldn't help but feel annoyed in her heart, saying something bad, saying fairy, now she must be dead.
"Fairy?" Xin Hongying sneered, and easily waved away the teacup in front of Shen Tingyu with two fingers, "Are you fooling me?"
The empty teacup rolled down and shattered into pieces with a bang.
Shen Tingyu felt that her heart was broken into pieces. Listen to my excuse.
The lie had already been told, so she could only feign composure, straightening her back and placing the cup lid at her feet: "My magic power has yet to recover, which is why I'm like this now."
The man lowered his head, and his handsome face slowly approached, his eyes sharp, as if he wanted to see through people.
Their eyes met, Shen Tingyu raised his head with a fearless expression and looked back unwillingly.
A sexy, low laugh came from above.
Xin Hongying's fierce expression softened. He stretched out a finger and pressed it on her head. "I will trust you for once, baby...fairy."
What! The tyrant actually believed it. The ancients were really superstitious.
She silently turned her head away and thought to herself: He is indeed a tyrant, so moody. His face was gloomy just now, as if he could kill her at any time, but now he smiles as gentle as jade, acting like a brother next door.
She will hide the tyrant's end in her heart because it is her last life-saving talisman.
"What kind of fairy are you in heaven?" Xin Hongying asked curiously.
Shen Tingyu’s mind was spinning rapidly, what kind of fairy was she?
Xin Hongying hummed in a neither light nor subtle tone, urging him invisibly.
Shen Tingyu's mouth is faster than his brain: "I am the little fairy serving wine beside the Queen Mother."
Xin Hongying looked at the doll that called herself a fairy. The puppet's facial features were clever and vivid. She covered her mouth with an expression of annoyance that could not be hidden on her face. She looked cute and silly, with a twinkle in her eyes.
Shen Tingyu had read the novel and understood Xin Hongying's personality. He possessed all the sensitivity and suspicion of an emperor. When he said he believed, he only believed 10%.
All in all, she had barely made it through this phase.
She calmed down, sat down cross-legged, and pointed at the clothes on her body with her fingers.
"Your Majesty, could you give me some clothes? This dress is too ugly and uncomfortable for me to wear."
Xin Hongying called Gao Tang in and gave him a few instructions, while Shen Tingyu lay motionless on the table, pretending to be dead again.
"How many clothes should I make for it?"
Eunuch Gao has been serving Xin Hongying since he was a child, and grew up with him. He is loyal and can be said to be the person who knows Xin Hongying best, but now he can't figure out the emperor's mind.
He left in confusion. Before leaving, he wanted to take the voodoo doll away to measure its size, but was stopped by Xin Hongying.
"Leave the doll here, don't take it away."
Gao Tang had a smile on his face the whole time, not showing any surprise in his heart. He bowed respectfully and left.
As soon as he left, the puppet Shen Tingyu came back to life.
A whoosh sound.
She jumped up.
Xin Hongying said, "Gao Tang has been with me for many years and is my confidant. You don't have to act in front of him."
Shen Tingyu chuckled twice, “When I look like this, it’s easy to scare others.”
Of course, the fewer people who know about it, the safer she will be. She can be easily killed now, so it's not easy for her to stay alive.
[Ding! System binding successful, tasks being issued, system loading...]
A cold mechanical voice sounded in her mind, the voice was very clear, and she felt like she had seen a relative.
Shen Tingyu was so excited that she almost jumped up. Was her golden finger finally going to work? She could finally get rid of this tattered puppet body.
[7788 system at your service!] A cheerful childish voice rang out.
[Hello host, I am Xiao Qi from the Mingjun Cultivation System. I am very happy...Ah!!!]
[Host, how did you become a rag doll? How could this happen?! Did I make a system-level mistake and bind the wrong host?]
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