Are you not a person of this world?
【Zizi… Zi…】
Like the sound of a signal being interfered with, it echoed finely around Qiu Baiyu’s ear.
But she no longer had the heart to investigate deeply.
Her attention was entirely on the person in front of her.
Yi Wanyue unexpectedly guessed her secret…
Qiu Baiyu’s eyes slightly widened, and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, each beat filled with unexpected anticipation.
Isn’t the secret no longer being a secret exactly the result she wanted?
Her eyes were bright, like the starlight of hope falling into them, her breathing involuntarily lightened, but in the next second, her expression suddenly became serious, without revealing her own trump card, just sitting there staring at Yi Wanyue, as if she didn’t know what she was talking about.
“What do you mean by these words?” she asked.
How did Yi Wanyue know she had a system?
The most important thing is, why does Yi Wanyue know about the system’s existence, and how does she know what this thing is?
Before the other party reveals their own identity, she cannot rashly reveal all her trump cards; otherwise, it would be too foolish.
She is a foreigner to this world, so being a bit cautious and keeping a wary eye will never be wrong.
Yi Wanyue continued the action of supporting her chin, her gaze unshifting as she stared at her, her eyes filled with an amazingly bright curiosity.
Upon hearing her question, Yi Wanyue only smiled unhurriedly, then lifted a finger and lightly circled it near her temple.
“You should be able to hear the sound similar to a signal being interfered with, right?”
Qiu Baiyu paused for a moment, not speaking.
Yi Wanyue continued: “If you can hear it, then we can continue our next conversation.”
Qiu Baiyu couldn’t help but ask: “Why?”
Yi Wanyue straightened her body and leaned back against the chair: “If it is interfered with, it won’t be monitored, and without monitoring, we can conduct our conversation freely. I don’t want your system to hear words it shouldn’t hear, and you also wouldn’t want the system to monitor other things and thus add trouble for you, right?”
“So, can you hear that kind of sound?”
【Zzz… zzz punishment zzz…】
“…”
“Baiyu, you can trust me, just like I trust you.”
【Zzz punishment… open zzz…】
“What do you trust me with?”
【Zzz… end zzz zzz…】
“Trust that you won’t harm me, nor harm others, because you are not interested in this and do not care.”
Yi Wanyue looked at her with a burning gaze, those eyes like a beam of light that could penetrate to the bottom of her heart: “Also trust that you understand the preciousness of ‘freedom’ more clearly than anyone else.”
If Qiu Baiyu did not desire freedom, she would not have been so eager to divorce Jiang Shen.
If Qiu Baiyu did not desire freedom, how would she have happily celebrated with her after gaining freedom, even inviting her to guess her secret?
After the divorce, she also took Qiu Zimin, who originally had no relation to her.
Yi Wanyue thought, this too is a kind of freedom.
Qiu Baiyu helped Qiu Zimin escape from an oppressive and stifling family environment, assisting her to learn to spread her wings and fly high, embracing the free and boundless blue sky. How could this not be considered freedom?
Everything Qiu Baiyu does is in respect of her own and others’ freedom.
Qiu Baiyu looked into Yi Wanyue’s eyes.
Those eyes are still so beautiful, with clear autumn waves, tender and affectionate, but at this moment, they carry an additional sincerity—hoping she can believe in her own sincerity.
She has no reason to harm others, likewise, Yi Wanyue has no reason to harm her.
She is now merely an unnamed, powerless supporting role, not yet as wealthy as the heroine. How could she possibly harm the heroine?
“I can hear.”
She took a step back, and curiosity followed.
“How do you know I can hear this kind of sound?”
Yi Wanyue seemed happy with her entrusted trust, her brows and eyes curved as she leaned close to her and said, “Because… I did this.”
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Qiu Baiyu: “???!!!”
She simply couldn’t believe her own ears.
Just as she was about to ask further, the room door was suddenly knocked on.
“Knock knock knock!”
Qiu Zimin’s voice sounded from outside: “Auntie, I brought the Ten Thousand Flower Oil! Why did you close the door?”
Her voice was like a hand reaching out from the real world, suddenly grabbing Qiu Baiyu and forcefully pulling her back to reality, sweeping away the feeling of illusion.
Qiu Baiyu looked clear-headedly at the person in front.
Their posture hadn’t changed, the chair under Yi Wanyue hadn’t moved, and her room door was still locked.
They said something very extraordinary.
—This is reality.
Yi Wanyue responded: “Xiaomin, wait a moment.”
Turning her head, she looked at Qiu Baiyu’s leg.
Qiu Baiyu inexplicably followed her gaze toward her own leg.
“Will your leg still be ‘bumped’ into later?” Yi Wanyue suddenly asked.
Qiu Baiyu recalled the faint system sounds that had just been mixed into their conversation.
“Punishment,” “open,” “end”… as if the punishment function had been interfered with, causing a determination error, and it had already prematurely determined an end.
She said uncertainly, “It should… not happen anymore?”
“Then let’s discuss it in detail later.”
Yi Wanyue said this as she stood up a step ahead of her.
At that moment, Qiu Baiyu’s ears suddenly cleared, the buzzing sound disappeared, and the system’s voice became particularly clear:
【Punishment ended.】
【Next time, the punishment condition will be reduced to fifteen task determination failures.】
【Hope the host can actively complete the task next.】
Qiu Baiyu: “?”
For a moment, she didn’t know how to react to either side.
Finally, she looked at Yi Wanyue, confused, as she opened the door.
Qiu Zimin was standing outside holding a bottle, quickly glanced at Yi Wanyue who opened the door, then immediately entered the room, handing the potion directly to Qiu Baiyu: “Auntie, you should apply this. It’s very effective for bumps!”
After Qiu Baiyu took the bottle, she asked again: “Why did you all suddenly close the door?”
Yi Wanyue replied: “Because the aunties have something to discuss, it’s a conversation between adults, and children can’t listen.”
Qiu Zimin scratched her head, very curious, but only said: “Alright then.”
Auntie said children cannot listen, so she just won’t listen.
“When I grow up, I’ll come back to listen.”
Yi Wanyue touched her head with a smile.
Qiu Baiyu glanced in Yi Wanyue’s direction.
Even knowing there is still a child in the family, Yi Wanyue did not recklessly continue questioning her, still knowing how to help her muddle through in front of the child.
Thinking this way, Qiu Baiyu’s wary heart gradually relaxed.
Yi Wanyue will not harm her.
But what is Yi Wanyue’s situation?
Why can she interfere with her system?
Is she a native of this world or an outsider like her?
Does she also have a system?
Why couldn’t she detect her system at that time?
There are too many, the problems are really too many.
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She even wanted to say, “Let’s not eat and just sit down to sort these things out first.”
But it wasn’t possible, Qiu Zimin was still there.
The numb feeling in Qiu Baiyu’s leg had already faded, and she stood up, taking Qiu Zimin outside: “My leg is fine, let’s go eat.”
She glanced at Yi Wanyue again: “Let’s eat first.”
Yi Wanyue watched Qiu Baiyu take the child out of the room.
She noticed that Qiu Baiyu’s eyes were very bright, filled with expectation and curiosity, as if she had discovered something interesting.
Coincidentally, she thought the same.
Tonight, this barbecue meal was eaten very peacefully.
Although the food was delicious, the communication between the two adults was very sparse, as if they were worried that their words might be overheard by someone.
It seemed as if an unwritten rule had already appeared between them: if there was no sound of signal interference beside the ear, then they could not speak to each other.
This really puzzled Qiu Zimin.
She held her drink, looking left and right, and couldn’t help but ask: “Auntie, why aren’t you talking? Did you finish saying everything in the room just now?”
Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue exchanged a glance and then looked back at Qiu Zimin.
“Do not speak while eating, do not talk while sleeping.”
“Do not speak during meal time.”
The two spoke simultaneously, their voices overlapping, and faced each other again.
Qiu Baiyu was the first to look away, completing her sentence: “Otherwise, it’s easy to choke.”
Qiu Zimin looked to the left and then to the right again.
“You aren’t having a conflict, are you?”
“No.”
The two spoke in unison, then fell silent together.
“…”
This question was quickly denied.
In their hearts, they still did not want to stand on opposite sides from each other.
Qiu Zimin, hearing them say so, silently bit the straw, drinking her beverage while slightly tilting her head to look at them, saying nothing more.
The world of adults is really complex, ah……
The barbecue was finished.
Yi Wanyue needed to return.
Qiu Baiyu also put on her outdoor slippers, turned to Qiu Zimin and said, “I’ll go see Auntie off. You stay at home for a while, lock the door well, and we’ll wash the things together when I return.”
Qiu Zimin, sitting on the sofa, nodded twice, saying, “You must talk properly and resolve the conflict well.”
She still felt that there was some unhappiness between the two aunts.
“If you can’t resolve it yourselves, then find a teacher!”
Hearing these words, the two couldn’t help but look at her.
Yi Wanyue asked, “Who is our teacher?”
Qiu Zimin immediately stood up from the sofa, proudly patted her own chest, and said playfully, “Me!”
This instantly made the two laugh.
Their thoughts were each different, but all were willing to respond to her with a “good.”
They would certainly resolve this matter well.
Qiu Baiyu closed the door and accompanied Yi Wanyue downstairs.
The elevator went directly to the community’s underground parking lot.
During the descent, the entire space was enveloped in silence.
No one spoke first, and there was no buzzing sound of electricity.
Qiu Baiyu looked up at the surveillance cameras, wondering how many people were sitting in front of them at that moment. Were they working well? If they heard what they said, would they be scared to death? Maybe it was better to talk elsewhere.
Thus, she silently followed Yi Wanyue to the parking lot, to Yi Wanyue’s car.
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Then she watched wide-eyed as Yi Wanyue got into the car.
Yi Wanyue turned on the car’s interior light and signaled to her with her eyes.
Qiu Baiyu understood and opened the door to the passenger seat to get in.
As soon as she sat down, a fine, slight buzzing sound of electricity echoed in her mind again—the system signal had been interfered with once more.
She turned her head to look at Yi Wanyue, who lifted her hand for the second time to gesture at her temple, asking with her eyes.
She understood and nodded lightly: “I can hear.”
Yi Wanyue leaned her elbow against the central armrest box, confidently supporting her chin, and looked at her with enthusiasm. She suddenly asked, “Are you a person of this world?”
Qiu Baiyu’s eyebrows raised slightly.
She didn’t answer but countered with, “Are you not a person of this world?”
Could it be that Yi Wanyue is also a transmigrator?
It couldn’t be so coincidental, could it? One world, two transmigrators?
But she saw Yi Wanyue curve her eyes, full of smiles, and say, “I am.”
“Native born and raised, without a doubt.”
Qiu Baiyu frowned: “Then you are—”
“I also have a system,” Yi Wanyue looked at her and said openly and generously, “I’ve had it since I was young.”
Qiu Baiyu: “…?”
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