Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Quick Transmigrator - Chapter 37

​​Shi Peirou was very anxious. She couldn’t help imagining in her mind how the emperor and the empress would deal with her after this. Would they make her disappear from the inner palace without a sound?

However, what Shi Peirou worried about didn’t end up happening. She anxiously waited for the other shoe to drop, but it never did. They didn’t seem to have any intention of punishing her. In fact, they seemed to have completely forgotten about her.

Yes, she completely ignored her.

They ignored her!

They treated her as if she didn’t exist. She was still given the things that she was entitled to, according to the rules, but she was ignored otherwise. Emperor Hui also never went to her place anymore.

What was the way to cause the greatest destruction to one’s soul? One must ignore one’s target. No matter how happy, furious, desperate one’s target got; no matter what they did because of how they felt, one must ignore them. When all their actions didn’t cause any reaction from the people they thought would care, that was when they would be thoroughly destroyed.

They would definitely kick a fuss and shout loudly to attract the attention they desired, but all they would get would be indifference.

To destroy a person, one only needed to ignore them, like they didn’t exist at all.

Even when Imperial Concubine Shi kicked up a fuss in front of the empress, and even though she uttered outrageous remarks while doing it, the empress continued putting up with her, saying that Imperial Concubine Shi was, after all, the little prince’s birth mother.

Nanzhi looked at the smiling empress, and then at the angry and crazed Imperial Concubine Shi. Fear grew in her heart. The scene in front of her both puzzled and horrified her.

When she asked Brother System, Brother System only told her that the empress was defeating and crushing Imperial Concubine Shi. If Shi Peirou couldn’t endure it, then she would be reduced to nothing.

Nanzhi’s chubby hands grabbed her hair, opening and closing her grip from time to time. The dimples on the back of her hands made her look very cute. However, her face remained very tangled and puzzled. She said, “But, Imperial Concubine Shi is from the modern era!”

“Just because she is from the modern era doesn’t make her superior compared to the people from this era. When a person is born, they are born with a heart, which is then shaped by the environment that they grow up in. They use that heart as they navigate through life. Can someone who grows up in a comfortable environment really compare to someone who survives in harsh struggles?

“She doesn’t have a ruthless heart. She is mediocre in her evil and calculating in her kindness. Since she also didn’t have the capital to support her arrogance, her failure is inevitable.”

Nanzhi didn’t fully understand, but she was scared all the same.

Nanzhi stumbled over her left foot. As she walked like a drunk, and with a dazed look on her face, she said, “The grown-ups’ world is so complicated, I can’t understand it. I want to go home, aaah…”

Meanwhile, Zhou Youning—the princess, ran back to Yongchun Palace, where her consort-mother was busy flipping through some books. With tears welling up in her eyes, she ran over and hugged her consort-mother tightly, before she started crying out loud.

“What happened? Why are you crying again?” Consort Xian put down her brush. She held her daughter, who was sobbing uncontrollably in her arms and hiccuping through her tears. “What’s wrong? Did someone bully you?”

“Mu… mufei, I missed you. I missed you very much.”

Zhou Youning couldn’t control her emotions. Her body trembled slightly. 

Consort Xian put down the book in her hand and asked, “What’s the matter?”

Zhou Youning wiped away her tears. She revealed her millet-like teeth as she cried and laughed at the same time. “I missed you, Mufei, I missed you so much.”

Consort Xian wiped her daughter’s tears. “Don’t cry anymore, Mufei is right here, in front of you. Are you going to keep crying in front of the person you say you miss?”

As she looked at her crying child, Consort Xian felt her heart ache a little. She felt as if she had lost something and found it again. With a gentle smile on her face, she told her daughter, “Don’t cry anymore, alright? Don’t cry anymore.”

Zhou Youning quickly wiped away tears. Then, like a small spinning top, she eagerly busied herself to help Consort Xian. She held books and ground ink for her mother. It was a very heartwarming scene.

In this lonely and dark deep palace, they relied and depended on each other.

As long as the emperor was alive, and as long as he didn’t go mad, then all would be fine and well for Consort Xian and Princess Youning.

***

In the corner of the pure white space stood a child who was about three years old. She was fair-skinned and was wearing a layered princess tutu dress. Her face had a faint blush to it. She had soft, curly hair, long eyelashes, and big eyes. All in all, she looked very cute and adorable.

“This is your personal information. Remember it.”

The system’s voice sounded in that space. Nanzhi knew that she couldn’t see him, but still looked around and tried to find where his voice came from. This wasn’t her first time here, so she wasn’t as scared as she was when she first entered this space.

Nanzhi asked, “Brother, Zhizhi wants to see you. Can you show yourself?”

The system replied, “No. I’m just a system.”

Nanzhi asked again, “Are there many like you? Systems?”

The system replied again, “Yes.”

In fact, it was only substituting for another system right now. Nanzhi’s real system took one look at her and immediately applied to leave. That system couldn’t work with the child.

A projection appeared in front of Nanzhi.

Number: 1
Name: Ji Nanzhi
Age: 3
Level: Primary
Experience: 0
Soul: 100
Charm: 50
Luck: 30
Abilities: Ying Ying Ying (Adults cannot ignore a child’s cries.)
Acquired Titles: –
Task taker has completed the task with a 90% completion rate. All obtained experience and attribute points have been deducted. 

Nanzhi reached out to touch the screen, but her hand passed through it. She said, “Wow. This is a projection, right? My dad always used this to show me cartoons.”

Nanzhi didn’t recognise the characters that the projection displayed, so she didn’t care much about what it said. She was rather much more preoccupied by how the projection reminded her of her father and how much she missed him now. In her childish voice, she said, “Brother, can I see my mom and dad now? I was very young when I died. Losing me so suddenly must’ve made them very sad. I’m their precious baby, after all.”

The system refused. He said, “No, you can’t. It’s impossible for me to find anyone without having energy. If you don’t mind, I can also call you precious.”

Nanzhi: ‘???’

Was that the same? No, that wasn’t?

Nanzhi tilted her head. She made another attempt to get home, by saying, “My home is at 183 Feihong Street, Qingdong District. My dad’s name is Ji Beiyu, and his phone number is 1354845362. Mom’s name is Li Xiwu, and her phone number is 1843587586. Is it really that hard to find them?”

The system said, “…Very. Like finding a needle in a haystack.”

“Wahhh…” Nanzhi sat on the ground and before lying down in a sprawled out position. She said, “Brother, I’m tired. I don’t want to move unless I can see my mom and dad.”

In her little head, she still couldn’t understand why she was here.

In response to her words, the system said, “Nanzhi, doing tasks is actually very simple.”

Nanzhi, who was lying down, raised her head. Huh? Huh? Huh?!

Simple?!

The system said, “It is. In your last task, all you needed to do was remove the spirit elixir from Shi Peirou and things got better after that, right? To solve problems in your tasks, you need to see the core problem behind everything, so you won’t be confused by the things that you see on the surface and get flustered by them. Do you understand? Nanzhi, do you hear me?”

Nanzhi stared blankly into the void. “I heard, I heard, both of my ears heard you.”

He was an adult, so she couldn’t say no to him. She’d keep quiet, but he was kidnapping her—a child, alright? She wanted to call the police now!

The system continued, “For your next task, I’ll find you a modern world, with cars, airplanes, cakes, and kindergartens.”

Nanzhi’s clear, black-and-white eyes rolled around, “No. I don’t want to move anymore. I’m so tired.”

The system said, “The world teleport process is a bit uncomfortable. Just bear with it for a little bit. Don’t cry, I’ll give you some candy.”

A round, pure white object that looked like candy but had no packaging appeared in front of Nanzhi.

Nanzhi grabbed the candy. She was hesitant to eat it. Inwardly, she hadn’t fully trusted the system yet.

Besides, Nanzhi knew that she shouldn’t eat things that she got from strangers. She grabbed the candy, but didn’t eat it, and sneakily put it in the pocket of her skirt.

The system saw what she did, but said nothing.

“Initiating the teleportation process…”