Chapter 3477: Diva, Diva (34)
Chapter 3477: Diva, Diva (34)
Qiao Ling’er wasn’t ready to die. She cherished her life far too much. Since she’d been reborn once, the longer she lived, the more she feared death.
But right now, it seemed like death was the only escape. She was at a dead end.
“Why don’t you help me change my face one more time? I’ll sneak out of the country and build my career abroad. You must have works from foreign countries, right?” The more Qiao Ling’er thought about it, the better the plan sounded. She could start over. She was being humiliated in this country, but she could return once she had made a name for herself.
Foreign songs, foreign TV dramas, foreign movies—it was a massive market.
Beyond this country, there was a vast world. Qiao Ling’er suddenly realized why she had been banging her head against a wall here.
If she just took one step out, everything would change. She had found the solution. Qiao Ling’er let out a long sigh of relief. When she returned, she would make sure Yue Wenlun suffered for what he did.
Truly, the road never truly ends for the determined. Qiao Ling’er told the system, “This time, make my features more Western. Give me sharp, deep-set features but keep a hint of Eastern softness. Basically, make me look multiracial.”
The system: …
What made this woman think it would help her change her face again? Every transformation required a significant amount of energy, and it had no desire to waste any more. She was simply mud that couldn’t stick to a wall, and it didn’t want to support her anymore.
Did she think its energy just fell from the sky?
“Once I’m abroad, I’ll work hard on the tasks. I’ll capture the men there. There are plenty of ‘gods’ in other countries—tall, muscular men with deep features and great looks. They’ll be well-endowed, talented in bed, and incredibly handsome.” Qiao Ling’er promised the System.
The system remained silent. It was a bit tempted. It had spent so much energy on her and lost so much already. Much like a gambler, it wanted to win back its losses, feeling it could still turn things around.
But if it cut its losses now, it would hate to lose everything it had already spent.
It couldn’t accept it!
The system was conflicted!
Seeing that the system wasn’t responding, Qiao Ling’er grew terrified. She wished she could cut out her heart to prove her resolve. She truly had no one else to rely on.
“I’ll do exactly what you say from now on. If you tell me to go left, I won’t go right. If you tell me to go forward, I won’t go back. I’ll follow your every instruction. We’ll have better opportunities abroad. Unlike here, where everything depends on connections and social networks; without resources, you can’t get far.” Qiao Ling’er analyzed the situation for the system.
“And I suspect someone else in this country has a system like yours. That’s why we need to lay low and build our strength before we deal with them.”
Hearing this, the system suddenly remembered something and made up its mind. It was going to leave this woman. Not only was she useless, but more importantly, this world seemed to have other ‘invaders.’
If they came into conflict, it would be a major headache. Besides, since its chosen host was incompetent, it would simply pick a new world and leave this one behind.
Qiao Ling’er never imagined she had just shot herself in the foot. Her soul might even be devoured by the system.
There was nothing to hesitate about now. The system was going to abandon this woman who couldn’t do anything right.
Ning Shu had spent five points of merit to track Qiao Ling’er’s location. It was an apartment complex. Ning Shu sat in a cafe across from it.
The red dot on the positioning system was glowing, showing that Qiao Ling’er was still at home.
However, Ning Shu noticed the dot was growing dimmer. It was turning from bright red to dark red and shrinking.
Since the dot represented the soul, its fading meant something specific. “Is the system leaving her? And is it devouring her soul?”
It seemed this system was particularly ruthless. It didn’t just manipulate its host into a slave. It even stripped the puppet of its final value.
Ning Shu had even seen systems that made hosts sacrifice the souls of their own family members.
2333 said, “Most likely. Souls are valuable things. They contain soul power and soul origin.”
“So what do we do? Just watch it eat Qiao Ling’er’s soul?” Ning Shu asked with a frown.
“What else? Are we supposed to save her? We’ll just wait for it to finish devouring the soul and leave the body. Then I can launch a direct attack,” 2333 said bluntly.
“Are you after that soul power and essence too?” Ning Shu asked, stirring her coffee and taking a sip of the bitter liquid. “Everything it eats just becomes yours.”
Ning Shu suspected 2333 had consumed plenty of good things before.
“Forget it. Absorbing such messy, impure soul power and essence only brings trouble. It would lower my standards,” 2333 said dismissively.
Ning Shu curled her lip. What a show-off. He was always nagging her to do tasks, yet now he was acting all high and mighty. Truly, he was getting a bargain while acting like the victim!
“You want to save her?” 2333 asked. “There’s really no need.”
“I’ll save her. Why wouldn’t I? If we can save her, we should.” Ning Shu stirred her coffee as wisps of steam rose from the cup.
2333: …
“Why save her? It’s a waste of time and energy, and it’s complicated.” 2333 didn’t want to save her, or anyone, for that matter. Even if the soul power was impure, something was better than nothing.
“What’s the fun in her being dead? Besides, Yue Wenlun still has a lot of anger to vent. If Qiao Ling’er just dies like this, he might turn his attention back to me. He’s a bit unstable right now. What if he insists on getting back with me? If I keep those two together, I’m giving them a chance for a ‘tortured love’ romance. They should thank me,” Ning Shu said unhurriedly.
Death was too easy. Once you died, everything ended. If the system left her, Qiao Ling’er would revert to her original self.
Returning to square one after all that effort was the ultimate torment. The psychological drop would be unbearable.
2333: …That’s actually terrifying!
Ning Shu: Scram!!!
“Can you do it?” Ning Shu asked 2333.
“I can, but the magnetic field generated by the conflict between two systems might hurt the host. Since I’ll be invading her brain, she might suffer brain damage and become an idiot or a lunatic,” 2333 said. He didn’t want to go through the trouble. He felt it would be much easier to wait for the other system to finish and leave its host’s body on its own.
Ning Shu was indifferent. “Being an idiot or a lunatic is better than having her soul devoured. Qiao Ling’er is more useful alive.”
“Fine,” 2333 said grumpily.
Ning Shu finished her coffee, paid the bill, and walked toward Qiao Ling’er’s apartment building.