64. You’re Playing Me?
That’s not your focus?
Gong Yiling blinked, bewildered. “What woman? What cheat?”
Yan Chuyue, struggling, beckoned to her. “I can’t lift my hand. Come here.”
“Oh.”
Gong Yiling obediently leaned closer, and then felt the girl’s hands all over her face.
“This young lady was a beautiful girl author before. Chuyue is a carbon copy of this young lady’s looks. But you…”
Pah!
Does this girl have any shame? Calling herself a national beauty.
“What about me?” Gong Yiling gently grabbed her hand and said impatiently, “Although I’m not exactly a dashing hero, I’m at least a handsome guy. With our mother’s genes, how could she give birth to someone you’re complaining about?”
“You still remember you’re a man?” Yan Chuyue pulled back her hand and couldn’t help but cover her mouth and chuckle. “Actually, I did think about writing a gender-bender story. How does it feel to be a girl?”
“This…” Gong Yiling stroked her chin and mumbled, “Besides not being able to eat popsicles shirtless in the summer, there’s not much difference.”
Yan Chuyue instinctively replied, “If you’re at home alone, you can be naked.”
Gong Yiling: “Have you tried it?”
Generally, someone who could say such shocking things so casually must have tried it and found it to be quite nice.
Of course, in Yan Chuyue’s ears, these words were not so normal.
She instinctively recalled all her previous intimate moments with Gong Yiling, especially the first time they met, when she was groped. Her entire face turned slightly red.
“Don’t get too happy too soon!” Yan Chuyue suddenly said, her words completely out of context. “This young lady hasn’t forgiven you yet.”
“Ah… about that…” Gong Yiling knew what she was referring to and immediately explained, “I was a big fool back then. If I had supported you, things wouldn’t have turned out like that.”
“I was your brother, but I was angry at you back then. You must have hated me later, right?”
“Ah… I don’t know how to say this. I feel like just apologizing isn’t sincere enough, but I can’t find—”
Her words were cut short.
Then, Yan Chuyue removed her hand from her lips and smiled, shaking her head. “Alright, don’t say anymore.”
That sentence just now was just a spur-of-the-moment thing.
And Gong Yiling’s rambling explanation, whether she was still angry or not, should have mostly dissipated after hearing those words.
Whether it was family or friends, there shouldn’t be any overnight resentment.
“I never gave you a chance to apologize, and I was too impulsive back then. I needed to have some achievements before I could bring this up with that old stubborn man.”
After growing up, one’s perspective on many things naturally changed.
Gong Yiling felt that her father’s arrangements were just making her move forward without a goal, while Yan Chuyue, on the other hand, somewhat understood her father’s anger at the time.
After all, this was a path with almost no retreat. How many people had become destitute because they walked this path, and were finally defeated by reality? Even she had only managed to support herself and her mother.
Having a dream was a good thing, but you had to have the ability to pursue it. This was a lesson Yan Chuyue had learned over the years of struggle.
“So, you’ve forgiven me?”
Hearing this, Yan Chuyue crossed her arms, slowly closed her eyes, and put on a thoughtful expression.
After a long time, she quietly opened one eye and saw Gong Yiling staring at her, waiting for her answer.
She quickly closed her eyes again, then coughed lightly and said, “From now on, you’re in charge of all the meals. This shouldn’t be a big deal for Miss Gong, right?”
“OJBK.” (rude way to say ok)
“Rude!” Yan Chuyue complained. “Brother, you’re a girl now. You should have a girl’s temperament. Don’t say such things all the time.”
“Then wouldn’t I really become a woman?” Gong Yiling shrugged nonchalantly. “You don’t think I’m going to find a man and get married, right? Why do I have to follow a woman’s habits?”
Yan Chuyue blinked. “If you don’t like men, then who do you like?”
Gong Yiling: “Naturally—”
Speaking of this, her mind quickly flashed through the girls she had a deep connection with, and finally, it returned to Yan Chuyue’s image.
Uh…
Was this a fated feeling?
Although they were no longer siblings now, but what if… what if they had a way to go back? Wouldn’t that be a German orthopedic drama on the spot? (A Chinese internet slang for incest)
Thinking of this, Gong Yiling scratched her head in frustration.
Although the girl’s gaze seemed to hold a hint of hope, Gong Yiling couldn’t bring herself to say it and suddenly changed the subject.
“Oh, you said I had a cheat. I do.”
“Huh?” This was so abrupt that Yan Chuyue didn’t react at first.
“You said I had a cheat.” Gong Yiling said seriously, “Although it’s not the kind that turned me into a woman, which I don’t think is a cheat, it is a cheat.”
“You really have a cheat?” Yan Chuyue, hearing this, threw her original thoughts to the back of her mind. “I have my own Divine Physician’s space. What’s yours?”
“…A system.” Although Gong Yiling herself was not very willing to admit that this broken thing, which did nothing but screw her over all day, was worthy of being called a cheat.
“A system?” Yan Chuyue was quite interested. “Really a system?”
“I was thinking of writing a system in before, but I thought since I already had the Divine Physician’s space, adding a system might not be good. And system novels seem a bit too cliché. It’s better to let the protagonist have more freedom.”
This girl couldn’t stop talking once she brought this up. “Tell me, what’s your system like?”
“Nothing much. It just gives out quests, and some character attribute stuff. Like that recording stone before, and a pen of mine, they were all quest rewards from this thing.”
She didn’t mention the affection and master-disciple system. It felt a bit embarrassing to talk about it.
However, just as she was about to talk about how ridiculously unfair this system was, she suddenly heard a faint voice in her mind.
“Host has triggered a system taboo. Receiving a random quest penalty.”
“Huh?”
