Chapter 18: The Fake Heiress of the Wealthy Family (Part 18)

The little newbie was young, with a fiery temper, but she was truly beautiful.

Although the System was not human, its creators had installed an aesthetic recognition program in it, and it also possessed human-like emotions.

So it found the little newbie’s pouting face particularly adorable.

After a moment of silence, confirming that Tasker 56417 would not pay it any attention,

The System said: [If you find it troublesome, you don’t actually need to help the protagonist. Many taskers in this world have done so before, and they basically all cleared it perfectly. You just need to wait, and the plot will develop on its own. Then you can leave.]

It was not lying to the little tasker. Taskers who had come to this world had also played the role of the fake heiress.

After being kicked out, without losing any performance value, they had lived comfortably for a few years, and the task completed itself automatically.

Because once those people were kicked out, the Shen Family cut off all contact with them completely.

Shen Ke wrinkled her little nose: [System, are you an idiot?! I said I want to leave early!]

[I don’t want to stay in this world anymore, and I don’t want to help that lunatic Feng Jian! Hurry up and think of another way.]

[You’re the System, aren’t you? You brought me here, so you can accelerate the time in this world. Just use that skill again.]

Listening to Shen Ke’s arrogant and willful words, the System’s cold, mechanical voice grew even icier: [Tasker 56417, you’re the one doing the task, not me.]

[This isn’t your original world. No one here will indulge you. If you want to leave early, figure it out yourself instead of throwing a tantrum at me.]

[It was just a couple of kisses. Taskers in other high-martial worlds have had their hearts dug out and bones extracted.]

[I’ve already given you extra special treatment by staying here with you for so long, managing many other taskers as I do.]

Shen Ke was so furious she nearly passed out. What did it mean by “just a couple of kisses”? Right now, the System was the thing she hated most!

And what right did it have to speak to her in that tone? So harsh.

She hated it!

Shen Ke’s face flushed red with anger, and she felt deeply wronged at the same time.

The first thing she saw upon opening her eyes after dying was the System, and it was also the thing she relied on most.

But she had only thrown a little tantrum, and the System spoke to her like that.

Shen Ke’s hands trembled with rage.

[Then don’t stay with me! I didn’t ask you to!]

[I hate you the most.] Her tone shifted from high to low, sounding utterly aggrieved.

Shen Ke bit her lip, her ten fingers clenching the book in her hands tightly.

The thin pages were crumpled into a ball by Shen Ke.

Looking at Shen Ke like this, the System’s core inexplicably heated up, making it feel uncomfortable.

Its high-speed processing program couldn’t handle the current situation.

Had it said something wrong? It had only stated the facts.

Why was Tasker 56417 acting like this, as if it had said something outrageous?

Forget it. It had only come to check the situation, and since nothing else had happened, there was no need for it to stay.

The System vanished again, leaving Shen Ke to vent her anger on the book.

She forced her tears back with effort, but Shen Ke was still furious.

Fine, if it wouldn’t help her, then it wouldn’t. It had even compared her experiences to others’.

She hated it so much!

That entire afternoon, Shen Ke stewed in her anger until after school, when she saw Shi Xu proudly showing off the necklace around her neck to the others.

“See? My Baby put this on me,” Shi Xu said to her classmates as she walked.

A classmate twitched her lips and nodded toward the side: “Your treasure is up ahead.”

Shi Xu scoffed: “Don’t tease me.” Though she said that, she still honestly looked over. Upon seeing clearly, Shi Xu’s eyes lit up, and she immediately broke into a grin, jogging toward Shen Ke in double time.

Reaching Shen Ke, Shi Xu’s smile became even more genuine: “Baby, why did you come all the way to the bottom of my teaching building today?”

“You could’ve just waited for me at the school gate.”

Shen Ke’s teaching building was very close to the school gate, so she usually waited there for Shi Xu after school.

But today, she had come all the way here.

“It’s so far. Aren’t you tired, Baby? I—”

Before Shi Xu could finish, a slender figure suddenly pounced into her arms.

Soft and fragrant.

Shi Xu’s mind went blank for a moment. Was today some kind of lucky day? Shen Ke had actually hugged her first.

Class had just ended, and there were still many students passing by, all kinds of gazes turning their way, but Shi Xu didn’t care at all.

She wished everyone would think Shen Ke belonged to her.

“Baby, what’s wrong?” Shi Xu asked.

Shen Ke nuzzled into Shi Xu’s embrace and whispered: “I want to eat mango cake. Get me a big one.” She actually wanted to throw a tantrum, but facing Shi Xu’s smiling face, she couldn’t bring herself to do it.

She could only bury her face in Shi Xu’s chest to calm her mood.

This coquettish action and tone melted Shi Xu’s heart into a puddle.

“Is it just mango cake you want? Anything else?”

Shen Ke hummed in response, released Shi Xu, and looked up with reddened eyes, pouting unhappily: “I said mango cake, so mango cake!”

Of course, Shi Xu agreed without condition. Lowering her gaze to Shen Ke’s reddened eye corners, Shi Xu felt a pang of heartache. Shen Ke must have heard some gossip again, which was why she was so aggrieved.

She was so useless. If only she had the kind of power and influence the Shen Family had.

Shen Ke and Shi Xu left the school.

Shen Ke stood by the roadside, waiting for Shi Xu to bring the car over.

“Shen Ke.” A hoarse voice suddenly sounded in her ear.

Shen Ke put down her phone and frowned toward the source of the voice.

The face that came into view made Shen Ke’s gaze turn fierce: “Feng Jian, you still have the nerve to show up in front of me!”

Although Feng Jian was the protagonist, she wouldn’t give her any good looks.

Feng Jian stared unblinkingly at Shen Ke. It had been many days since she last saw Shen Ke, and her longing made it hard for her to control herself.

Shen Ke definitely didn’t like being stared at like this, but she missed her too much.

Feng Jian’s dull black eyes seemed to gain a spark of life, even the mole under her left eye appearing more vivid.

At least she looked like a living person now.

Feng Jian’s skin was very pale, and having just recovered from a serious illness, she had lost even more weight, her whole frame as thin as paper.

She didn’t dare get too close to Shen Ke, afraid of making her angry.

Clenching her fingers nervously, Feng Jian rasped: “Shen Ke, I just… just want… want to make you happy a little.”

“You hate… hate me so much. I thought if I got… hurt, you’d be happy.” Her rapid speech made her stutter even worse.

“I didn’t… think things would turn out… like that.”

“Shen Ke, what do I… have to do to make you happy?”

Feng Jian stopped talking after that. She saw Shen Ke cross her arms, her expression displeased as she walked toward her.

Feng Jian held her breath.

Such a close distance, close enough to almost feel Shen Ke’s warm body heat.

Shen Ke snorted coldly and kicked Feng Jian’s calf directly: “Make me happy? Someone like you with no money or power could never make me happy in a lifetime.”

“You think you’re so great just because you got into the Shen Family? You can’t beat Shen Yi at all. In the end, you’ll still be that poor wretch.”

“What do you have to make me happy!”

“And you framed me! Heh, you have no idea how badly I’ve been cursed at. Everyone thinks it’s my fault! Feng Jian, you’re disgusting!” These were all Shen Ke’s true thoughts. She had been living perfectly fine in the Shen Family and could have enjoyed it for much longer, but it was all this Feng Jian’s fault for rolling down the stairs.

One kick wasn’t enough to vent her anger.

Shen Ke followed up with several more kicks: “You wicked thing.”

Feng Jian didn’t dodge, her gaze fixed on Shen Ke’s face the whole time.

“Baby, why are you kicking her!” Shi Xu parked the car and, the moment she opened the door, saw Shen Ke viciously kicking Feng Jian several times.

Shi Xu hurried over. “Baby, stop kicking her.”

Shen Ke glared at her: “What, can’t you stand it?!”

Shi Xu shook her head quickly. “Of course not. I’m just worried someone will see and say you’re bullying her again.” Shi Xu knew exactly how to add fuel to the fire. Sure enough, after she said that, Shen Ke’s gaze toward Feng Jian grew even more disgusted.

Feng Jian looked at Shi Xu, her dark pupils ominously gloomy. She recognized this person—the one who had bullied Shen Ke in the bathroom last time.

Their gazes met, both filled with undisguised hostility toward each other.

Shi Xu chuckled lightly. She deliberately touched the necklace under Feng Jian’s gaze, picked up the pendant, and kissed it next to her mouth.

Feng Jian slowly clenched her fists.

Shi Xu curled her lips, lowered her head, and said to Shen Ke: “Baby, let’s go. We’ll buy the mango cake and ignore her.”

She could only hit and kick her, but this dog-like Feng Jian, absent for days, showed up and stole her Baby’s attention the moment she appeared. So annoying.

Shen Ke nodded, agreeing with Shi Xu. But in the instant she turned, her wrist was suddenly gripped.

The cold, rough touch made Shen Ke’s heart tighten.

Were all Shen Family members snakes in human form? Not a single one had any warmth.

Shen Ke twisted her head, her tone impatient: “What!”

“Shen Ke, don’t go.” The words came out one by one, laced with urgency.

Shen Ke’s eyelashes fluttered. She lifted her long lashes and met Feng Jian’s pitch-black, narrow eyes.

Feng Jian blinked gently, and crystalline tears welled up one by one: “Shen Ke, I just don’t… know how… to make you happy.”

Feng Jian’s skin was overly pale, with gauze still taped to her forehead. When she cried, her eye sockets reddened obviously. Combined with her frail, emaciated frame, she exuded a maximum sense of broken vulnerability.

Shen Ke’s gaze shifted from impatience to hesitation, and Shi Xu’s expression darkened.

Shen Ke had been spoiled too naively, too easily swayed.

Shi Xu sneered and looked at Feng Jian with utter disgust: “The little daughter the Shen Family took back is something else, huh? Skin as thick as it gets. Shen Ke was kicked out of the house because of you.”

“What more do you want, putting on that bullied look? Are you trying to slander my Baby again?” Regardless of the truth, what she saw was her delicate, pampered Shen Ke, forced to live with her.

She had also seen Shen Ke forced to make a deal with that old woman to suppress the rumors.

Someone raised so delicately, living in her tiny, rundown room without complaining about the size or shabbiness.

It broke her heart, so she always did her best within her means.

Shen Ke wouldn’t reconcile with her, and she didn’t mind. After all, she was poor and plain.

She was already thrilled with things as they were.

Today, Shen Ke had even hugged her first.

Her Baby should be the most aggrieved one here, yet this Feng Jian showed up and put on this pitiful act in front of her.

She must know her Baby was soft-hearted. Disgusting.

Shi Xu’s words made perfect sense. Shen Ke glared viciously at Feng Jian, her pretty cat-like eyes wide and round like a puffed-up little cat: “Shi Xu is right! Look at the mess I’m in because of you, and you’re still crying? Then people will misunderstand again and think I’m bullying you!”

With that, she reached out and forcefully slapped at Feng Jian’s hand gripping her wrist: “Let go! Or I’ll hit you!”

Feng Jian’s breath hitched. She released Shen Ke and lowered her eyes, hiding the surging emotions within.

Shen Ke frowned angrily. Shi Xu took her wrist and gently blew on it: “Baby, does it hurt? I’ll blow on it. It’s all red now.”

Shen Ke shook her head. Feng Jian hadn’t used much strength, but her skin was tender, so it reddened easily.

Shi Xu took Shen Ke into the car. Sitting in the driver’s seat, she turned her head and flashed Feng Jian an extremely mocking smile.

She mouthed silently: ‘Trash.’

With Shen Ke’s figure no longer in sight, Feng Jian’s face was expressionless, her dark pupils somewhat eerie.

Click-clack, click-clack.

The sound of high heels on the ground, accompanied by the smell of smoke, finally stopped beside her.

Feng Jian didn’t move, her gaze fixed on the black car driving away into the distance.

“Let me tell you something interesting. A few days ago, I saw Big Sis kissing your little heartthrob.”

“Have you kissed her? Oh, right, you kissed her foot.”

“Don’t you want to taste her lips? If you had Shen Yi’s status, she’d come to you with just a crook of your finger.”