[Beep beep beep]
[A heavenly Salted Fish System has descended. Does the host wish to bind? Please choose yes or no.]
[Friendly reminder: Binding the system grants a Newbie Gift Pack tailored specifically for the host~]
Just as Qiao Yan’s consciousness was slipping away, a cute, milky little girl’s voice rang out in her mind, startling her back to awareness.
She looked weakly around her. Aside from the stiffened corpses on the ground, she saw no one else.
But that milky voice seemed to know what she was thinking and spoke up again.
[Beep~ Dear host, I’m in your Sea of Consciousness. In the unbound state, you can’t see me~]
Ha, so this was her deathbed flicker—she was hallucinating!
Qiao Yan let out a soft laugh, thinking her mind was playing tricks on her, but that little milky voice piped up again, this time with a hint of urgency.
[Host~ I’m real, I’m not a hallucination!]
Qiao Yan was startled. It really did know what she was thinking!
[Host, please choose whether to bind as soon as possible. Otherwise, your little cutie will fly away~]
After the little girl’s words, Qiao Yan decided to try binding. After all, even if things got worse, it probably couldn’t get much worse than this. The little girl had just said she was a Salted Fish System—could it be that she was supposed to be a salted fish?
Thinking about it that way didn’t seem so bad!
Qiao Yan’s eyes lit up, and she spoke softly, “Bind.”
[Okay~]
The little girl’s voice was filled with joy, sweet and warm, making Qiao Yan smile despite herself.
[Binding Salted Fish System now. Host, please wait a moment~]
Qiao Yan felt a dazzling flash of light in her mind, and then a pink little room appeared in her consciousness. Inside the room was an adorable little ball of a child.
The little ball was about four or five years old, wearing a fluffy pink princess dress, with little hair buns on her head and sparkling eyes. She spoke in a milky voice.
[Host~ Can you see your system?]
Qiao Yan’s mouth twitched. Why did her system seem a bit… different?
But seeing the little kid’s bling-bling eyes, Qiao Yan answered awkwardly, “I see you.”
The little system hopped around joyfully in the space, then fiddled with her little hands and conjured up a huge pile of items.
[Dear host, this is your Newbie Gift Pack! There’s labor-inducing medicine, milk powder, diapers and other baby supplies, a hundred jin of rice, various seasonings…]
Another wave of labor pain hit. Qiao Yan clutched her belly and grimaced, listening to her little system list the items. She sighed—truly tailored to her needs, since who in their right mind would need labor-inducing medicine otherwise!
She interrupted the little system: “System, hold on a second. Give me the labor-inducing medicine.”
[Okay~]
The little system obediently handed the medicine to Qiao Yan. She took it, read the instructions—it was oral—and immediately swallowed it without hesitation.
The medicine worked quickly. Before long, Qiao Yan felt the little one inside her sinking down.
She took deep breaths, pushing with steady rhythm, veins bulging on her face from the pain.
Seeing her host in so much pain, the little system’s heart ached. Her tiny hands clutched at her dress, big teary eyes cheering Qiao Yan on.
[Host, you can do it~]
After shouting, she sniffled a few times in a whimper.
Qiao Yan was covered in black lines. Seriously, I’m the one giving birth here. I’m not crying—why are you crying?!
The little system activated her body-scanning function, scanning Qiao Yan’s belly, and was amazed to discover that her host had two babies inside—one boy and one girl. She immediately cheered up again.
[Host, you have two babies in your belly~ One boy and one girl]
Qiao Yan understood. No wonder it was a difficult labor—twins!
But seeing her little system’s red, teary eyes from crying just now, she gritted through the pain and praised, “Not bad, little system.”
The little system spun around happily on the spot. Of course! She was the most amazing system ever!
Having cheered up the little system, Qiao Yan focused on giving birth. Finally, as dawn broke, two babies were born!
Both babies wailed at the top of their lungs. Qiao Yan was utterly exhausted, her sweat-soaked face breaking into a relieved smile before she passed out.
The little system looked at her unconscious host, then at the two wailing babies, and suddenly felt a great weight of responsibility.
Using her remaining few Points, she triggered the Physical Manifestation Function, searched for postpartum care knowledge, cleaned up the placenta for Qiao Yan, cut the babies’ umbilical cords, dressed them, and fed them.
After finishing everything, the little system collapsed onto her pink princess bed, panting from exhaustion.
Wow! Today’s system had been a hardworking system!
Qiao Yan slept from morning until sunset, waking to the sound of babies whimpering and fussing.
She opened her eyes, dazed, feeling a throbbing pain below. Turning her head, she saw the two babies sleeping beside her and snapped fully awake.
That’s right—she’d given birth. She was a mother of two now.
Having slept for so long, she felt as if she’d been lost in a dream.
A young girl, also named Qiao Yan, was stunningly beautiful but foolishly dim-witted. Others could lead her around by the nose with just a few words. At the age of fifteen, she was married by imperial decree into the prince’s household, yet her husband showed her no favor, and the two lived like strangers.
Later, manipulated by treacherous schemers, she foolishly sought to win her prince husband’s affection by drugging him. Once he was knocked out, she boldly forced herself on him. Enraged, the prince banished her to a desolate farmstead, where she scraped by on the money she had brought along.
Afterward, she became pregnant and was overjoyed, thinking that if she bore the child, she could rise in status through her offspring. But one day, while heavily pregnant and buying cosmetics in town, she caught the eye of a local thug, who followed her home and ultimately took her life.
Qiao Yan rubbed the bruise on her side from where the thug had slammed her into a counter corner yesterday and let out a soft sigh. She knew that wasn’t a dream—it was the original owner’s memories.
A foolish woman had drugged a man and forced herself on him, and in the end, it had left her with two little ones in her belly. Now she was the scapegoat, left to clean up this mess on behalf of the original owner.
The babies’ cries pulled her back to the present. The two infants were likely hungry, their little mouths puckered as they wailed loudly.
A boy and a girl, each wrapped in blue and pink swaddling cloths respectively, dressed in tiny clothes and wearing diapers. Qiao Yan knew these must have been handled by her little system companion.
Thank goodness for the system—otherwise, by the time she woke up, everything would have been long past saving.
Thinking of the little system, Qiao Yan focused her mind and looked, only to find her little companion sobbing with red, puffy eyes, its tiny mouth trembling.
Qiao Yan panicked and quickly asked in a gentle voice, “System, what’s wrong? Who bullied you?”
But the little system only cried harder: “Waaah~ The system is useless! Boohoo…”
Qiao Yan was utterly bewildered. After soothing the little system and learning the reason, she found it both amusing and exasperating.
It turned out the little one had a Physical Manifestation Function—the ability to release its physical power into the outside world—and it had used this power to take care of Qiao Yan and the babies.
However, using this function required Points to purchase, and the little system had already spent all its Points. Seeing the babies crying again while Qiao Yan was still unconscious, it had burst into tears, feeling utterly useless.
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