Inside the simply decorated bedroom, the lights were bright. A thin, almost skeletal girl lay on a double bed.
On her porcelain-white face, her eyelashes trembled slightly like two small fans before slowly opening, revealing a pair of dark brown eyes that looked like glass beads.
Under the light they appeared even paler, carrying a cold, metallic feeling.
System: 【Hello Host, you have been selected by this novel-transmigration System. The plot summary is now being transmitted to you.】
It did not know whether choosing this Host was good or bad.
A ancient assassin—could she adapt to modern life and complete the transmigration mission?
The original novel was a female-protagonist “everyone loves her” story. When the female protagonist was twelve years old, her mother remarried the Movie Emperor Shen. Because of that, she became neighbors with the male protagonist, the only son of a wealthy family who was the same age as her.
The supporting male lead, An Zhe, was the biological son that Movie Emperor Shen brought back from outside when the female protagonist turned eighteen.
When An Zhe appeared in the original story, he was already a highly intelligent but lonely and gloomy teenager.
Everyone thought he was difficult to get along with.
When supporting male lead An Zhe was young, he had participated in the same children’s variety show as the female protagonist. When they met again after growing up, he still remembered her and was once again attracted by the warm aura around her.
He fell hopelessly in love with the female protagonist.
But the female protagonist liked the male protagonist, who had also participated in that same children’s show. Unable to obtain her love, An Zhe completely went mad. He designed a plan to lure all the men who liked the female protagonist onto a yacht, then detonated the fuel tank, wiping them all out.
【You are now the biological mother of the childhood-era An Zhe. You are a Female Internet Celebrity with a “single woman” persona. Last night during the Original Owner’s first livestream, Xiao Zhe accidentally appeared on camera, causing your persona to collapse and resulting in a boycott from netizens.】
【Mission: Heal his childhood trauma with love and prevent the annihilation ending.】
The System withdrew, and the sounds around them gradually became clear.
An Shijiu heard a man roaring outside.
“Are your eyes useless? Didn’t you see your mom was livestreaming? Damn it, now the internet exposed that she’s married and has a son. Which big brother is going to send her gifts now?!”
“Damn brat ruining my money-making path! If it weren’t because your mom can make money, why the hell would I raise a little bastard like you?!”
Li Dong was so angry that his face turned red and his neck thick.
Yet the little boy did not look afraid or like he was about to cry. He simply stared at him with pitch-black eyes.
That made Li Dong even angrier. Just as he raised his hand to hit him, he heard the bedroom door open.
An Shijiu walked out from inside.
Li Dong immediately shifted his target. Striding forward, he grabbed her hair and dragged her in front of An Zhe.
“This is all your son’s fault. I don’t care—go cry in the livestream room. Go beg those big brothers. Go sell yourself! I don’t care what method you use—bring money back for me!”
The more he spoke, the more excited he became. Red light flashed in his eyes as he prepared to hit An Shijiu.
An Zhe had seen scenes like this countless times.
Mom would not resist. She would cry and beg again and again.
She would endure it until this person finished venting his anger.
He no longer cried loudly like other children, but he still could not stop himself from clenching his fists.
Just as Li Dong’s slap was about to land—
His mother, who had never resisted before, suddenly moved.
With an extremely swift hooking kick!
Li Dong had not expected her to fight back and fell straight to the ground!
He froze for a second, then instantly flew into a rage. His eyebrows lifted as he reached for a chair.
But he could not pull it.
Looking closer, that little bastard was hugging the chair tightly and refusing to let go, glaring at him viciously.
“Fine then, you little brat. I’ll kill you first!”
The moment he finished speaking, hurried footsteps sounded. When he turned his head, he saw that An Shijiu had somehow grabbed a kitchen knife and was charging toward him.
Li Dong was startled, his mind cooling by three points, yet he mocked, “You think I’ll be scared just because you’re holding a knife? I don’t believe you dare—”
Before he finished speaking, the knife slashed down.
Li Dong’s body reacted faster than his brain. He quickly leaned backward. The blade flashed past his face, slicing open flesh as blood poured out.
The knife struck the solid wooden table beside him, splitting a twenty-centimeter crack into it.
“Ah!” He collapsed onto the ground, staring at An Shijiu as if he had seen a ghost.
Rolling and crawling, he scrambled to the door, opened it, and rushed out.
An Shijiu clicked her tongue regretfully.
This body did not have enough strength. After that strike, her entire arm had gone limp, which was why the speed and power were only at this level.
An Zhe stood there blankly, still hugging the chair. Looking at the cracked table, he muttered, “How did this happen?”
She had never entered the kitchen or held a knife before.
An Shijiu thought for a moment and explained:
“This is a downward chopping technique. Sink your qi to the dantian, gather the strength of your entire body to drive the blade’s momentum, and strike directly along the gap within the wood grain of the table to achieve this effect.”
An Zhe froze.
The System roared: 【He was just confused, not asking you to teach him! And who told you to use a knife?!】
An Shijiu’s head hurt from the shouting in her mind. She shook her head.
Then she pulled the knife out and headed toward the door.
An Zhe’s expression did not change, but his small body tensed. “Where are you going?”
He hated that man, and he also hated his mother. But he was still very young and could not survive on his own.
“To catch up with him and kill him.”
An Zhe’s eyes, which were always half-lowered, instantly widened. His face turned pale with fright.
He hurried over and hugged An Shijiu’s leg. “Don’t go! If you do that, you’ll be arrested and thrown into prison!”
The System also burst into a sharp alarm.
An Shijiu was forcibly restrained, her mind buzzing.
Unhappily she said, “Stop screaming inside my head.”
“The first principle of an assassin is ‘once the blade leaves the sheath, eradicate the roots.’ Otherwise he will come back later to assassinate me.”
System: …
In less than an hour since bringing this woman here, it had already exhausted all its energy.
【Host, the times have changed.】
【In modern society you absolutely cannot do that. It’s a crime… Forget it, just watch more legal programs in the future and you’ll understand.】
An Shijiu frowned. “Then what should be done now?”
【It’s not easy to send a domestic abuser to prison. Let’s focus on the main mission first. Call him tomorrow and divorce him.】
An Zhe saw that his mother had been silent the whole time, and his heart was wrapped in overwhelming fear.
If Mom were arrested, what would happen to him?
He would have nowhere to sleep. Without tuition fees, kindergarten would not accept him either.
Every time that person lost his temper, he was very scared inside, but he could endure it.
But today, watching his mother suddenly become like a different person and slash at that man with a knife—
He finally could not hold it in anymore. Tears rolled down like they cost nothing, quickly soaking his face.
“Mom, don’t go! Mom, please don’t go!”
Right now, he could not lose his mother. He could not become a child that nobody wanted.
An Shijiu was startled by the sudden crying child and widened her eyes.
“I won’t go, I won’t go,” she said repeatedly.
She reached out, wanting to push the child away. Being hugged like this was extremely dangerous. If someone came to assassinate her now, this would be a fatal opening.
But An Zhe clung tightly to her leg, refusing to let go no matter how she tried to pull him away.
After crying for half an hour, he finally stood up with small sobs, lowering his head.
“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have cried.”
Mom hated it most when he made noise.
She would definitely look at him with the same disgusted expression as before.
“Alright.” Her voice was flat and emotionless.
An Zhe suddenly raised his head, looking at An Shijiu with tear-filled eyes.
There was no disgust—nothing at all.
Had her eyes always been this big? They looked like that chubby tabby cat in kindergarten, calmly watching the world.
Did she not hate him quite as much anymore…?
No!
Mom had said before that he was the person she hated most in this world.
She wished she had never given birth to him.
Sometimes Mom would suddenly hug and kiss him, repeating, “There’s hope, there’s hope.”
She said he was her bet, that in the future he would bring her a lot of money.
But after only a few days, she would treat him even more harshly.
Mom would never truly like him.
An Shijiu saw him glance up at her and then quickly lower his head again.
She did not know what he was doing and did not think much of it. She let out a huge yawn.
So sleepy. It should already be the hour of Hai.
The bedroom was small. Besides the double bed and wardrobe, there were two wooden chairs with backrests placed facing each other in the corner, with a blanket spread over them.
It looked like a small bed.
But with that size, even though An Zhe was only five years old, he still had to curl up to sleep on it.
An Shijiu entered the bedroom, took off her shoes, climbed onto the bed, and within three seconds her mind became blurry.
An Zhe took off the clothes he had worn today and placed them in the laundry basket, preparing to climb onto the chairs to sleep.
The System had originally wanted An Shijiu to interact with An Zhe herself—comfort him or something.
Unexpectedly, she actually! Without hesitation prepared to sleep!
An Zhe was still sleeping on chairs!
【Get up! Let An Zhe come sleep on the bed!】
An Shijiu was awakened by the shout, her head still buzzing. In a daze she got out of bed and walked over to the little boy.
An Zhe nervously gripped the corner of the blanket.
Mom… what was she going to do?
Was she unhappy again? Would she beat him because he cried today?