Chapter 1: Dignity and the Useless System

As a person, what would you say matters most?

Dignity, of course!

In the twentieth century, no, in this world it’s Star Calendar Year 12, but I, Luo Qingqing, am not that kind of casual person!

“Stop chasing me!”

The other person was clearly wearing high heels, yet ran faster than the wind. If Luo Qingqing hadn’t turned into the maze of crooked alleys and used the complicated route, she would have been caught long ago.

Although it was running, the other person didn’t make running movements. She just walked as if strolling, and still moved faster than Luo Qingqing running.

The Favored. People who awakened talents had such a resounding title.

Luo Qingqing had transmigrated from Earth and lived here for fifteen years, so she naturally knew. Next week’s sixteen-year-old talent test and awakening was like Earth’s college entrance exam, her hope to change her poor life.

She never expected the otherworld cheat would appear yesterday, and it was a useless system that only complained.

“Let me say it again, you should just surrender. You definitely can’t outrun her.” On the pale blue screen, a bratty little girl was eating an apple and watching sweat-soaked Luo Qingqing.

“Surrender my ass. Aren’t you a system? Is there any way out of this?” Luo Qingqing glanced back. The other’s stunning face immediately smiled at her, scaring her steps faster.

“I’m just an accessory, no functions. Besides, why bother? She’s a beauty too.”

“What use are you!” Luo Qingqing panted angrily.

“I am useful. I explain things to you and help you achieve your harem wish! By the way, are you sure you don’t want to consider being kept?”

“Shut up. Don’t you see the whip in her hand?”

“Isn’t a queen even more exciting?”

“Exciting my ass, I don’t like it!”

“Even if you say that, there’s nothing I can do.” The virtual system figure made a helpless expression and continued watching the chase, still eating an apple.

The other was clearly a Favored; catching her would be easy. The current teasing made Luo Qingqing grind her teeth, but she had no choice. She still had to run, and could only vent her anger on this useless system.

“You trash system, unrecyclable garbage!”

“Thank you for the compliment.” The system figure didn’t care at all. She happily switched to a virtual banana and took a bite, then raised an eyebrow at her host provocatively.

“I’d rather not have you. Uninstall yourself!”

“Oh, once bound, I’ll only change hosts if you die.” The system figure excitedly stepped to the front of the screen and danced.

“My existence is to make you cuter and more attractive to girls! For example, make you shy, make you… cough, make you a charming little weak bottom! Your movements and expressions closer to the perfect bottom…”

Luo Qingqing, too lazy to listen, waved her hand and clicked close. The annoying voice vanished.

She had been wrong to think this defective system could get her out of this.

But the pursuer behind her did not disappear…

Turning a corner, Luo Qingqing suddenly bumped into something, her face sinking into a warm, soft, springy mysterious place. When she looked up, she was so frightened she lost strength and was scooped up in a princess carry.

“Haha, run, why aren’t you running?”

Clearly a goddess with a fairy’s face and a devil’s body, yet her laugh had the momentum of a female bandit.

“You, why are you chasing me?” Lying in the other’s arms wasn’t uncomfortable, but after bursting out of the alley, the street pedestrians saw them. Their strange posture drew stares. Especially: a great beauty carrying a little beauty. This scene…

“Wow, look at that.” Passerby A said to Passerby B.

“What is it…” Passerby B followed A’s gaze and froze. “So beautiful.”

“Beauty is secondary. The key is their relationship! No need to say it, definitely yuri, and the little pink one is the bottom!” Passerby A pushed up his reflective glasses.

Passerby B asked, puzzled, “How do you know?”

“Idiot, anyone with eyes can see it.”

“But don’t they say pink means black-hearted?” Passerby B wondered again.

“Black your head. Such a weak-looking cute girl, how could she be pink and black-hearted? Even if she is, that doesn’t conflict with being a bottom!”

“That’s true.” Passerby B thought it made sense, so he and A quickly pulled out phones to take pictures. Such a beautiful moment had to be recorded.

Tang Lingyan heard Luo Qingqing’s question and answered, “If you don’t run, I naturally won’t chase you.”

“You chased me first, so I ran!” Pink Hair got angry. How could this person twist black and white? She had come after her like she was going to eat her, and now she blamed her.

“No, you ran first.”

“You chased first!”

“You ran first!”

“You chased first!”

“You ran first!”

“Even if I ran first, what does it have to do with you? Why chase me?” Pink Hair exploded again.

“Uh, I chased without thinking.”

Luo Qingqing was speechless. “Next time, please think. Also, don’t chase people with a whip!”

“I thought you liked it.”

“Like my ass. I don’t even know you! Put me down!” She struggled out of the woman’s arms, stood on the ground, straightened her messy clothes, and looked at Tang Lingyan.

“Hey, what’s your name?”

Seeing the little girl only up to her chest glare at her, looking adorable, Tang Lingyan smiled. “Tang Lingyan.”

“Tang Lingyan, huh. Fine, I’ll remember you. Hmph!”

A cute girl was cute no matter what she did. Even if she wanted to be angry, or tried to win back with presence after the embarrassment of being chased, the effect only made the other person find her cuter.

Seeing the girl turn to leave, Tang Lingyan stepped forward and grabbed her. “Wait, you still haven’t told me your name.”

“Let go.” Luo Qingqing shook off her hand, turned back, and looked at her smugly. “Why should I tell you?”

“But I already told you my name.”

“And?”

“So you should tell me yours. Isn’t that basic courtesy between people?”

“I won’t!” Luo Qingqing looked at her with disdain. “Also, why should I be polite to a female pervert who chased me through several streets and almost made my legs fall off? Ridiculous.”

After saying that, she left without looking back, and glared ferociously at the watching crowd as a threat. The result was more frequent shutter clicks.

Tang Lingyan watched Pink Hair’s petite back leave, silently took out her phone, and dialed.

– Hello? Yes, help me look up a girl. I want detailed information within ten minutes. Yes, pink hair…

At that moment, Luo Qingqing heard her and stomped back angrily. She slapped the phone out of her hand.

“You dare slap my phone? Do you know who I am?” Tang Lingyan raised an eyebrow, but still hung up.

“I don’t care!” Pink Hair fumed. “You’re investigating me and saying it so loudly, afraid I won’t hear?”

“If you won’t tell me your name, I have no choice.” Tang Lingyan put the phone back in her pocket and tossed the whip in her other hand onto the ground. She gave Pink Hair an expression that said, ‘What do you want me to do?’

“I don’t want to see you again. Don’t waste your effort.”

“You hate me?” After saying that, she showed the girl a devastatingly sad expression.

Luo Qingqing only felt her heart clench. The onlookers nearby couldn’t take it first.

“Ah, I can’t stand it!” Passerby A said. “I really want to help my goddess smooth that slight frown and fill that sad pit in her heart!”

“Looks like she was dumped by that pink-haired beauty.” Passerby B, quietly bleeding from his nose, pretended to be calm as he reported his observations.

“This, a conflict between beautiful girls, is hard to interfere with.” Passerby A said. “But I believe yuri is true love. They will definitely make up!”

“Maybe the little beauty can’t stand the whip. I saw the goddess throw the whip on the ground.”

Then the two imagined the story of two beautiful girls and a whip, or perhaps other more embarrassing props. Immediately, they fainted from blood loss.

“Ambulance! Ambulance! Has anyone called an ambulance?” Passerby C reacted first to someone fainting and shouted.

Seeing the commotion, Pink Hair looked at the face so close to hers and swallowed. ‘Hate her? She didn’t know.’

“Hey, tell me, do you hate me? Look into my eyes. Don’t lie.”

At this moment, Pink Hair didn’t know where she found the strength. She pushed the other away and said loudly, “Luo Qingqing. I told you. Don’t come looking for me again!”

Then she rushed out of the street without looking back and disappeared under the streetlights in the night.

For a moment, her mind seemed completely captured by the other. When Luo Qingqing came back to herself, she only wanted to leave this place quickly.

Only after the small figure disappeared did Tang Lingyan return to her normal expression. She felt some regret, but she had gotten the other’s name.

She didn’t know why she cared so much about a strange little girl, but she thought, since she didn’t know, she could just interact more in the future.

Luo Qingqing. She remembered it.

***

After confirming the other hadn’t followed, Luo Qingqing, who had been running hard, finally stopped and braced her hands on her knees, gasping.

Most pedestrians nearby looked at the beauty curiously, but quite a few boys who thought highly of themselves came up to chat. Pink Hair rejected them all coldly and mercilessly.

“Ah, what a waste. According to my arrangements, you would soon have a powerful harem candidate.” At that moment, the system girl’s bratty voice sounded again.

“You, didn’t I close the interface? Why can you still come out?” Looking at the virtual figure floating before her, Luo Qingqing stared in shock.

The system laughed. “Haha, so what? I only pretended to be closed. You think that button really works on me?”

“f*ck!” Pink Hair cursed.

The system looked at her with a disappointed expression. “Sigh, you’re really wasting opportunities. She came to your door and you didn’t want her? Do I have to strip her and deliver her to your bed before you accept?”

“Was this your doing?”

“Just slightly influenced the weaving line of your fates. I didn’t expect such a strong reaction.”

Pink Hair twitched her face. “Fate? Weaving line? You’ve read too many anime and novels, haven’t you?”

“Didn’t you make the wish?”

“Me? When?”

Hearing this, the system suddenly understood. “I almost forgot. That memory was erased by the Main God. It’s normal you don’t remember. It’s fine to tell you now. You wished to be popular with pretty girls. I’m here to help you!”

“If it’s fine to tell me, why erase my memory? You didn’t make it up, did you?”

“I don’t know either. The Main God didn’t tell me to keep it secret from you, so it’s probably no big deal.”

“Wait, let me sort this out.” For a moment, she couldn’t accept it. “I thought you were useless, only good for snide remarks. Sometimes I feel like I’m talking to myself, like an idiot who needs looking after.”

“Even without me, you still need looking after.”

“What did you say!”

“Nothing. I mean, other people can’t see or hear our conversation. Don’t worry.”

“So you’re just a chatting tool?”

“It has nothing to do with getting stronger through a system like you imagined.” The system figure neither denied nor admitted being a chatting tool.

“Since it was my wish, I think you should change your name to matchmaker.”

“That’s true. But shouldn’t you go back first?”

Pink Hair looked around. The street had many pedestrians, bright lights, and noise. At some point, some obviously delinquent-looking youths had gathered in front of several shops and kept glancing at her.

Luo Qingqing finally ended her nonsense with the system and got up to leave.

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