In this world, the thing 2333 prayed for most was for Wen Qianshu to live a long life. It had a premonition that as soon as they returned to the Main God’s world, it would surely be held accountable.
As it turned out, its premonition was correct.
Wen Qianshu had just stepped out of the halo of light, returning to the Main God’s world, when she smiled and said, “2333?”
2333 blustered, “What?”
Wen Qianshu sat on a chair and smiled. “Hmm—what do you want to do first? Should we talk about Moonlight first, or should we talk about me first?”
2333: “…”
It didn’t want to choose either.
2333 even started to miss Qin Shu’s face. The young girl had a pair of doe eyes, and even with Wen Qianshu inside, she looked harmless. Not at all like Wen Qianshu’s own body, which carried a somewhat gloomy, sickly air. Her smile was beautiful, yes, but when she stared at someone, it was sharp and intimidating.
Wen Qianshu, however, didn’t seem to be pressuring it. She casually leaned on the table, half-slumped over, and smiled. “Ah, let’s start with Moonlight then. You’re more familiar with her anyway.”
2333: “What? How could I possibly—”
It saw Wen Qianshu’s gaze and paused. “What do you mean?”
“I mean—” Wen Qianshu said, “she’s not a Repairer.”
Alarm bells rang loudly in 2333’s mind, and Wen Qianshu indeed didn’t let those bells ring for nothing. “She’s a system.”
2333: “…”
2333: “…”
If 2333 had a physical body, it would have jumped up and gotten as far away from Wen Qianshu as possible. “What nonsense are you spouting? How could she possibly—”
Wen Qianshu smiled, tapping her fingers on the table, listening to 2333 continue. She didn’t express any opinion, just listened as 2333’s voice grew quieter and quieter, then fell silent, followed by a sigh.
2333: “How did you know?”
Wen Qianshu: “Guessed.”
2333: “…”
Wen Qianshu laughed, but she did explain it to the system. “The standard setup here is one system paired with one Repairer.”
“I originally guessed that you used to be Moonlight’s system, and because she swapped my identity with hers, you ended up following me, yet you were still so protective of her.”
“But then I realized something was wrong. If she gave her Repairer status to me, why was she still in the same world as me all the time?” Wen Qianshu continued, “These world lines are getting progressively harder. You’re clearly so short-staffed, yet even if Moonlight has forgotten everything, you still have her continue to repair world lines. Why not assign her to a different world line?”
Wen Qianshu suddenly changed the subject. “When I was Yan Chengshuang, I made a joke that Yun Cai and I had great chemistry, and it would be nice if she were my system.”
“Do you remember your reaction back then?”
2333 could access its database to retrieve the scene from that time. Of course, it “remembered”—it was so anxious it was jumping up and down, hastily telling Wen Qianshu to shut up.
2333 was so worried it wanted to curse, to complain about Wen Qianshu’s memory, but Wen Qianshu wouldn’t stop. “She’s my system, that’s why we’re always in the same world, right?”
2333 sighed. The sighs it had heaved because of Wen Qianshu were more than all the sighs from all its previous Repairers combined. “Wrong.”
Wen Qianshu lowered her eyes and thought for a moment. “Fine, then I’ll keep guessing.”
“You can’t fool me for long anyway. You might as well just tell me the truth. Maybe I’ll get fired up about work and improve my repair efficiency.”
2333: “…”
Wen Qianshu said unhurriedly, “Think it over, 2333. You need me.”
“You’re very short-staffed for world line repair, but I can complete a repair all by myself, without a system’s help.”
2333 wanted to refute Wen Qianshu, but it couldn’t find the words.
This world was very difficult, but it seemed like it hadn’t done anything at all—
That’s right, it hadn’t done anything?
Every time its heart softened and it wanted to help Wen Qianshu, Wen Qianshu would always manage to infuriate it to death.
2333: “…”
She must have done it on purpose. The Wen Qianshu who didn’t even want to climb a mountain in the first world and wanted to use the system to fly up, had actually refused all help from the system in this world, doing everything herself—
No wonder Wen Qianshu was acting abnormally, being paranoid about everything and trusting no one. In this world, she was truly on edge, purely focused on work, wanting to prove her abilities.
In fact, she had successfully proven it.
World lines like this with incomplete information were desperately in need of people, and Wen Qianshu’s performance in them was outstanding. She was quick to react, had astonishing observational skills, and was utterly indifferent—she wouldn’t get attached to any world, didn’t care about power or money, and was unconcerned with adoration or hatred.
If it weren’t for her persistent pursuit of Moonlight, 2333 would have thought she was more like a system than it was. The third world was the first one Wen Qianshu had taken truly seriously, and 2333 hadn’t lifted a finger. If she was willing to cooperate properly from now on, perhaps even those tricky world lines could be repaired.
2333 resigned itself to its fate. While reporting the situation to the Main God and submitting an application, it said, “Wen Qianshu, why must you get to the bottom of everything?”
“Knowing the truth won’t necessarily make you happy.”
Wen Qianshu: “But not knowing the truth will definitely make me unhappy.”
2333: “That’s twisted logic.”
Wen Qianshu: “If twisted logic is useful, then it’s sound logic.”
2333 was rendered speechless. The Main God’s processing speed was always fast, but when it involved Moonlight, it remained silent for a few seconds before sending a reply.
2333 checked the reply and felt a headache coming on. “I can’t win an argument with you, Wen Qianshu. What else have you guessed?”
Wen Qianshu: “I’ve guessed a lot more, so I advise you not to lie to me.”
2333: “Here, for you.”
A silver letter floated out and stopped in front of Wen Qianshu.
2333: “Didn’t you also want to talk to me about yourself? I’m guessing you want to know what that memory you lost is.”
Wen Qianshu raised her eyes to look at the letter. A line of text was printed on it: “File No. 0 【Top Secret】”.
System No. 0—
Wen Qianshu: “Just as I guessed. Her authority is indeed higher than yours.”
That’s why Moonlight could feel the emotions of the person she possessed, but 2333 didn’t know.
2333: “…”
“Will something bad happen if you go one day without mocking me?”
Wen Qianshu didn’t answer, just smiled and said, “No. 0—is she root【Note 1】?”
2333: “Yes, root. She is the system with the highest authority and is the most valued in the Main God’s space. So she isn’t bound to a human Repairer. She is a system Repairer herself. The world lines she handles are all the most difficult ones, passed to her only when human Repairers can’t go on.”
Wen Qianshu: “Then what about the first world?”
Why was it so simple?
2333 was silent for a moment, then said, “See for yourself.”
It entered the key, and the letter immediately dropped into Wen Qianshu’s hands.
Wen Qianshu’s vision blurred, and she found herself standing in a corridor. The corridor was very long, with no end in sight. She could only see photos hanging on both sides.
The people in the pictures were all different, yet they all had the same pair of light-colored eyes. Some wore cheongsams, brewing fragrant tea; some were adorned with silver ornaments, carrying a bamboo basket on their back, walking barefoot on a mountain path; some had their hair in elegant updos, their long skirts trailing…
But most were wearing white coats, all sorts of white coats, worn over shirts, over short-sleeved tops, over sweaters—
Wen Qianshu tilted her head up, looking at them one by one, seeing the different appearances of Moonlight in these times she knew nothing about. Until she suddenly felt a gaze fixed on her, and she followed it, turning her head to look forward.
Wen Qianshu froze.
She opened her mouth, as if she had a thousand words to say, but her eyes stung, and only two words came out: “Mingyue.”
In front of her stood Jiang Mingyue.
Still looking as she did when she was young.
Just like when Wen Qianshu entered the first world and spoke her first words to her.
Parted for years, it felt like a lifetime ago.
Jiang Mingyue’s long hair was still tied back neatly, every strand perfectly in place. She wore her school uniform jacket, her back ramrod straight. She gave Wen Qianshu a calm glance, then turned around.
Wen Qianshu took a step forward. “Mingyue!”
She chased after her, but couldn’t get any closer. With her back to Wen Qianshu, Jiang Mingyue walked alone into the depths of the corridor. Jiang Mingyue was walking while Wen Qianshu was running, yet the distance between them grew wider and wider. Only Wen Qianshu’s footsteps could be heard in the corridor, one after another, hurried and desperate.
The wind stirred by Wen Qianshu blew countless photos away. They flew up like snowflakes, blurring her vision, and scattered down.
Jiang Mingyue got farther and farther away.
Her figure was about to shrink into a dot.
Wen Qianshu couldn’t help but say, “Wait for me—”
Wait for me—
She suddenly fell, scrambled up in a daze, and heard a weak voice: “Who… are you?”
It was Wen Qianshu’s voice.
No, it was the original, truly young Wen Qianshu’s voice.
Wen Qianshu had expected this. She turned her head and saw herself lying in a hospital bed, propped up on a pillow. She was extremely small and thin, looking as if her bones could be broken with the slightest force. She was covered in various casts, hooked up to an IV, her life sustained by bottles of glucose.
Wen Qianshu remembered. That was what she looked like after being saved from her last suicide attempt. That’s right, she should have suspected it long ago. After that time, how did she manage to survive?
How did such a fragile, weak life continue to live on?
The people in the hospital room seemed unable to see this Wen Qianshu who had inserted herself into the memory. Her mother’s gaze passed right through her to the person on the bed. “You’re awake?”
Without waiting for a reply, she turned her head, was momentarily stunned by the unfamiliar doctor’s face, but quickly recovered and asked, “Where’s Doctor Wu?”
“Doctor Wu is sick—” The young doctor had her ink-black hair tied up. Her mask was pulled down, hanging from one ear. She had snow-white skin and thin lips. When she lifted her eyelids, a pair of beautiful, light-colored pupils were revealed. “For the time being, I’ll be doing her rounds.”
Her mother wrung her hands. “Ah, okay. May I ask your surname?”
The doctor: “My surname is Jiang.”
Her mother: “Doctor Jiang.”
Doctor Jiang asked a few questions and checked various indicators. She was looking down at the medical chart, and as she got closer to the bed, she heard the little girl on the bed say something.
She was very weak, her voice was very soft, one had to lean in close to hear.
So Wen Qianshu also leaned in, one on each side with Doctor Jiang, and together they heard her own words from back then—“Oh my god, you’re so beautiful.”
Doctor Jiang was slightly taken aback.
Wen Qianshu: “…”
Wen Qianshu’s mouth twitched. For the first time, she empathized with 2333 and felt that she herself was toxic.
Author’s Notes:
【Note 1】 Root, also known as the root user, is the sole superuser in Unix (like Solaris, AIX, BSD) and Unix-like systems (like Linux, QNX, etc.), as well as Android and iOS mobile operating systems. It is named for its ability to perform read, write, and execute operations on the root directory. —Baidu Baike
OOC Little Theater:
2333: I’m about to be angered to death by you, and you have the nerve to empathize with me???
#Wen Qianshu, as expected of you#
Their flashback arc won’t be too long, there’s still a fourth world after this~ This is also the last volume of this book~ It’s about to end, I’m so excited ahhhhh!
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