Ye Chuan stared at the translucent blue window in front of him, blinked, and rubbed his eyes hard.
The window didn't disappear. It still hovered above Angelina's head, the text impossibly clear.
Was this...
"A system?" he called out tentatively in his mind.
There was no response.
He reached out to touch it, but his fingertips passed right through the window, feeling nothing.
It seemed he was the only one who could see this thing.
Ye Chuan suppressed his surprise and focused his attention on the rest of the window.
Sure enough, apart from Angelina's name and that glaring [Demon King?] tag, there was a dense cluster of question marks below it, looking like corrupted data.
He tried dragging the window, and as expected, a larger interface expanded—
[Host: Ye Chuan]
[Realm: Super%&* (???)]
[Status: Space-Time Distortion Aftereffects, Power Distortion Aftereffects, Amnesia]
[Skills: (9999, Remaining Cooldown Time: 1887 years, 23 hours, 56 minutes, 12 seconds)]
[Quest Log: Special Quest — Protect Demon King? Angelina, increase her affection level.]
[Current Affection Level: 5/100.]
Ye Chuan's mouth twitched as he read it. The information felt inexplicably bizarre.
Super? What was that?
And this skill list—over nine thousand skills, but the cooldown time was over a thousand years?!
Was this system broken during the transmigration? Who calculates cooldown times in millennia?
Giving him so many skills, only to lock them behind a thousand-year cooldown.
By the time he could use them, he'd have died of old age long ago.
What a scam of a system.
"Protect Angelina... Demon King?" Ye Chuan looked at the little girl sleeping soundly on the bed. Her brows were slightly furrowed, and her small hand still tightly gripped his finger, as if clinging to her last lifeline.
How could such a frail, pitiful little girl, who even struggled to walk, have anything to do with a Demon King?
And what was a Demon King anyway?
The villain of this world?
Ye Chuan racked his brains but couldn't figure it out, so he simply gave up thinking about it.
Regardless, the appearance of the system at least gave him a direction and made him feel much more at ease.
At least he wasn't a completely ordinary person with nothing; he just temporarily had amnesia.
He gently patted the back of Angelina's hand. Watching her furrowed brows slowly relax, he couldn't help but shake his head.
Poor child.
...
The night passed silently.
The next morning, the rain stopped.
Golden sunlight filtered through the cracks in the wooden door, casting mottled shadows on the floor.
The fresh scent of damp earth filled the air, dispelling the last traces of mustiness in the room.
Angelina woke up from hunger.
She slowly opened her eyes, blinking in confusion, and immediately met a pair of smiling eyes.
Ye Chuan was sitting on a small chair by the bed, his head tilted slightly, clearly having just woken up.
There were faint dark circles under his eyes, showing he hadn't slept well the whole night, yet he still gave her a gentle smile. "You're awake?"
Angelina snapped back to reality, only then realizing her hand was still tightly gripping Ye Chuan's finger.
She quickly let go as if electrocuted, then lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
In all her life, this was the first time she had been so close to someone, and the first time someone had watched over her while she slept.
"Um..." She hesitated for a long time before speaking in a voice as soft as a mosquito's.
"You... you can sleep on the bed."
"The chair is hard, you'll be... uncomfortable like this."
Ye Chuan paused for a moment, then laughed.
He didn't expect this seemingly cold little girl to actually take the initiative to care about someone.
It seemed yesterday's efforts hadn't been in vain; the affection level hadn't gone up for nothing.
"It's fine, I have thick skin, I don't mind the hard chair," he waved his hand. "The bed is so small, if I sleep on it, there won't be any room for you. You should sleep on it, recovering from your injuries is the most important thing."
Angelina shook her head and whispered, "The bed... is usually where Papa sleeps."
The smile on Ye Chuan's face froze, and his heart skipped a beat.
He looked at the small, dilapidated wooden bed, then at Angelina's frail body, and asked tentatively:
"Then where do you... usually sleep?"
Angelina didn't speak, but just looked up and pointed to the corner of the room with her chin.
Ye Chuan looked in the direction she pointed and saw a pile of torn sackcloth in the corner, stained with dirt and dust. There wasn't even a decent blanket.
That was where she usually slept.
The room instantly fell silent.
Ye Chuan looked at the pile of rags, then back at Angelina's eyes, which had grown hollow once again. He felt a sharp pang in his heart.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the bitterness in his heart, and showed a bright smile again. He reached out and rubbed her messy long white hair:
"Alright, let's not think about these unhappy things."
"You must be hungry, right? I'll go out and find you something to eat."
Food...
Angelina nodded gently, looked around, and finally found a wooden stick to support her body as she shakily stood up.
"You have a broken bone, you shouldn't go out. I'll go out by myself."
Angelina, however, replied calmly, "I'm used to it. I can walk."
Pausing for a moment, as if noticing the change in Ye Chuan's expression, she continued, "You... you should leave quickly. If those people come back, you won't be safe."
The girl seemed cold on the outside, but she genuinely cared about him. Ye Chuan thought about it, and finally just gave a helpless laugh. "I have amnesia... I actually don't have anywhere to go either."
"Amnesia..."
"Yeah."
"..." Angelina didn't quite know what amnesia meant, but Ye Chuan did indeed look like he had nowhere to go.
Just then, a rumbling sound interrupted Angelina's thoughts. She slowly came back to her senses and touched her stomach.
"Hungry?" Ye Chuan smiled. "You went to sleep without eating last night."
Angelina just shook her head, supporting herself with the makeshift crutch to walk.
Her body was so incredibly thin, her straight legs almost the same thickness as the crutch, looking as if a gust of wind could blow her apart. Ye Chuan finally couldn't help but press her back down on the edge of the bed. "Alright, I'll go out to find food. You just wait for me here."
"Okay?"
Angelina didn't speak. Her eyes remained hollow as she looked at Ye Chuan.
"Rest up and heal your injuries, I'll be back a bit later." Ye Chuan rubbed Angelina's white hair and firmly pulled the blanket over her.
Angelina gripped the blanket with her small hands and finally said no more.
After doing all this, Ye Chuan walked out of the house. Perhaps because it had just rained, the ground was still a bit wet.
Worried that those people might come looking for trouble, Ye Chuan didn't plan to go far. He just wanted to see if he could get some food on the streets outside.
But Ye Chuan currently had one problem.
He didn't seem to have any money.
iaobai: "Councilor Dad, front me some funds. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!" [Five-Star Mission Issued: Capture the leader of the Blood Heaven Pirate Gang, who is on the run in the Radiant Star Sector. It is said the gang has over a hundred members. Proceed with caution.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, lend me the family's hundred-thousand-strong Lu Army!" [Seven-Star Mission Issued: Subdue a juvenile Void Dragon Beast.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, I'm taking your tamed Void Dragon Beast King out for a family reunion!" I said, System, don't you have any slightly more challenging missions? You're just not up to par! [Nine-Star Mission Issued: Become the Human Councilor.] Lu Xiaobai: "Dad, there's a small matter I'd like to discuss with you..."
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
