Plan A
Old Shadows of the Republic of China 14
Fourteen
Shen Xiangting looked at the closed door with an ice-cold expression.
Such a heartless person deserved to be □□.
Should she lock her up and let her experience her high skills again, to see if this little ungrateful person dares to speak like this again.
【Host, it’s the fourth time already.】
Fourteen covered its face in Su Xin’s mind, wondering why every time she gets involved, she says such words.
What?
【That sentence “no relation,” you’ve said it four times already.】
I don’t remember, have I said it to each of them?
Su Xin’s memory was blurred; she only remembered that there was once such a person, she completed tasks, but didn’t know the specific details.
【Hmm】
Su Xin indifferently made an “oh” sound; it looks like she hasn’t changed much.
Then when I say it for the fifth time, don’t remind me.
【Host…】
Hmm?
Fourteen found it seemed to have misunderstood; the first time was no emotional intelligence, the second time was low emotional intelligence, then for the third and fourth times, forgetting is a good excuse that can always be used.
It also cannot understand why the host can always so lightly say this sentence, the coldness making people feel chilled.
Clearly, at the end of each story, she works hard to like another person, completely devoting herself.
Yet she often quickly escapes before things even start.
She also does not struggle, quietly enjoying.
Truly very contradictory.
【You are scum.】
Fourteen finally used this word.
Su Xin didn’t answer; she no longer looked at Shen Xiangting’s reaction, walked out of her room, returned to her own room, closed the door, and began to pack her things.
Actually, she is the one who understands the least.
She felt the familiar aura; this time, no matter what, she should not be like the previous times, it’s better to leave early. She is just here to do tasks, not to fall in love.
At the very beginning, it was beauty that confused her, and later it became a habit.
Actually, Su Xin wants that kind of relationship where they are in sync in bed and out of bed, a non-lover relationship without responsibility.
Maybe it is scum-like; Su Xin admits she likes the new and dislikes the old, lacks patience, and does not like responsibility.
But if together, she can only guarantee her complete loyalty to feelings; she simply cannot give the other person the same level of emotion in return. In the previous few worlds, she forgot the details of them before, but she knows they must have been very painful in the end.
So she actually doesn’t need to provoke; quietly doing her own tasks is fine, why create more complications.
Su Xin revealed a smile because she couldn’t hold it in; she just liked Shen Xiangting’s face. Shen Xiangting was her type, and she thought that such a rational person like Shen Xiangting would understand.
Treating each other as important but not as lovers—isn’t that okay?
Su Xin patted her own face; she is not a good person, so don’t fall for her.
【Very complicated.】
Fourteen said.
I also think it’s very complicated. If it could be like a program always following instructions, wouldn’t there be fewer issues?
【Host, you are wrong. Even if it’s a program, there can be garbled code, there can be viruses.】
Su Xin tugged at the corner of her mouth, squatted down to stuff clothes into her suitcase.
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When Su Xin lifted the suitcase and opened the door, Shen Xiangting stood at the doorway.
“In such a hurry to leave?”
Shen Xiangting steadily looked at Su Xin, surrounded by a low pressure.
“Of course, the faster the better.”
“Are you avoiding me?”
Shen Xiangting blocked her path.
Su Xin put down the suitcase in her hand and smiled at Shen Xiangting.
She tiptoed and held Shen Xiangting’s face, lightly touching her lips.
Shen Xiangting blankly looked at her, somewhat not understanding her meaning.
“You are a very good person, do you understand?”
Shen Xiangting blinked, accepting the compliment.
“But I am not a good person, so don’t like me; I am not worthy of you.”
Such a beautiful and smart person should not fall into the hands of someone like me, this time.
“Whether you are worthy or not is for me to decide.”
Shen Xiangting thought Su Xin had no heart, so she could say such cruel words, but it wasn’t true; her girl, in front of her, with a very indifferent expression, was belittling herself.
Shen Xiangting did not understand.
“What is good about me?”
“Good-looking, smart, strong, considerate, in sync, so why do you think we can’t?”
“Because I am unfeeling and unjust.”
Su Xin spread her hands and said directly.
I can really like you now, but I can also forget you completely in the next moment.
Shen Xiangting laughed, leaning on Su Xin’s shoulder, her whole body shaking.
Su Xin’s face darkened, what nonsense.
“You are really cute.”
Shen Xiangting, after laughing enough, pinched Su Xin’s face.
“Still a little pervert who doesn’t dare to take responsibility.”
Shen Xiangting pinched the tip of Su Xin’s nose.
With an annoyed expression, Su Xin slapped her hand away, clearly stating she was seriously talking about things, not joking, okay?
“No matter, as long as you like me, if you only like me half as much, then I’ll give you three-quarters of my affection, okay? That way, we are still equal.”
If your love for me is only half of mine for you, then I’ll love you a little more.
“But… it’s not worth it…”
Su Xin’s expression was complicated.
If she likes someone, and that person does not return the same affection, she will choose not to like them.
She hates inequality and likes when giving is reciprocated, so she never has secret crushes.
“What is not worth it? As long as I’m happy, even if it will be painful later, I will remember we were once happy.”
【Yes, host, although the previous ones were later very sad, they did not regret it.】
“Little fool, why are you crying?”
Shen Xiangting sighed.
“Move, I am leaving.”
Su Xin wiped her face, took her suitcase, and pushed past Shen Xiangting.
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Why suddenly playing deep affection?
Master Fourteen, perhaps I will not say that sentence for the fifth time.
【Hmm.】
Su Xin sniffled, feeling like an idiot now.
【Never was smart.】
What did you say?
【Sorry, the system just garbled.】
This time, Su Xin took the train, carrying a suitcase with money, feeling the warm, humid air.
Actually, just now she sensed the dangerous aura on Shen Xiangting; that was her professional sensitivity.
Su Xin could guarantee that if Shen Xiangting had acted according to her thoughts at that time, she could have argued with Shen Xiangting until the sky collapsed and the earth cracked.
Being tied up and doing things is very exciting; Su Xin also feels it’s exciting, but that’s just a kink. If in a non-kink state, Su Xin would use the thing she made to shoot the fool Shen Xiangting.
To hell with history or not, anyway, it wouldn’t cause big waves.
Fortunately, she didn’t.
Su Xin lowered her hat, followed the crowd onto the train, and found her seat.
She kept her head down and eyes closed the whole time, chatting intermittently in her mind with Fourteen.
Master Fourteen, will you always work like this?
【What do you mean?】
Don’t I get one year of life for completing a task, excluding deductions?
【Yes.】
What if I want to live to two or three hundred years old?
【Not possible, it violates the range the human body can endure. I checked for you; your body functions can operate without external forces for sixty years.】
So if nothing happens to me, I can only live to sixty? Why? Aren’t there people who live to over a hundred?
【The physical training and injuries you endured when young determine that your body won’t be good when you’re old.】
Fourteen stated the fact.
【The extra accumulated life from your tasks can be used for reincarnation. I will find a body with its life exhausted for you to enter.】
No, no, no, better not.
Su Xin thought, better to do thirty or forty tasks to let herself peacefully grow old.
What would be the point of living so long? She isn’t trying to become an immortal.
Master Fourteen, will you have many hosts in the future?
【I suppose so, until the creator no longer needs the power of their souls.】
When surrounded by newcomers, don’t forget me, the old one.
【I won’t, the database has a backup, permanent preservation.】
Su Xin wanted to ask if Fourteen ever gets tired, then suddenly remembered that no matter how close to human, Fourteen is just a program; how can a program get tired?
Lord Fourteen, do you have your own body?
【I am just a string of code, a program, a segment of brainwave; how can I have a body?】
Fourteen said lightly.
What about gender?
【None.】
Su Xin opened her eyes and took out a sketchbook and pen from her small suitcase.
The train moved steadily, and Su Xin picked up the pen to begin drawing what she imagined Fourteen looked like.
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Master Fourteen should be a serious man in a suit, speaking business-like, occasionally straightforward and sharp-tongued, with a delicate appearance and a very warm smile.
A young man gradually took shape in the sketchbook, and Su Xin called Fourteen to look.
【Host, I didn’t know my image in your mind was so vivid.】
Fourteen silently copied the image from the drawing paper into its database.
Of course, you are the best system.
【Host’s ability to speak sweet words has improved a bit. I thought you would draw me as a girl.】
Fourteen thought, since the host likes girls, it didn’t expect its image to be a young man in a suit.
That would be very scary, okay?
Su Xin chuckled, closed the sketchbook, rubbed her sore eyes, and covered her face with her hat.
In the long system career, Fourteen will only remember two images: one is Su Xin on the train drawing its likeness, the brown hat covering her face, with a relaxed and comfortable expression under the hat; the other is Sun Yixiao smashing a beer bottle on her head, bleeding while crying and saying to hell with love.
It now has two hosts, the first is the passionately loving and hating Sun Yixiao, easily deceived, investing in every love, ending up battered and bruised; the second is the carefree Su Xin, who can unintentionally make those who love her cry, and finally leaves gracefully.
It cannot say who lives better, Sun Yixiao indulges in self-harm, it tried to persuade, but she remained unwavering.
But in one aspect they are very similar.
Sun Yixiao says, if you fancy someone, go for it.
Su Xin says, if you want it, then want it.