Riva—oops—before System E099 could open her non-existent eyes, a sudden influx of knowledge forced her to shut them again.
According to the information, the Novel World 553 is a period novel called "The Disabled Rugged Soldier Pampered Me Day and Night."
This novel goes like all other Mary Sue novels. At the start, the heroine is Lu Xue, whose mother died young, and her father married a cruel stepmother who came with a step-sister. Her cruel stepmother doesn't let her study, beats her, and scolds her. The step-sister also bullies her and snatches her things. Not only that, the son of the village chief — who was originally her fiancé — was also snatched by the step-sister. They mother daughter duo were the perfect example of green tea . Therefore even after doing that the stepmothers reputation remain pristine clean.Later, she was forced to marry a disabled retired soldier who was 10 years older than her. At first, he abuses the female lead, but slowly the female lead wins his affection through her unyielding devotion. In the end, they make the stepmother, step-sister, and the scumbag fiancé pay.
The system really wanted to puke at such a cliché Mary Sue novel.
It's not like she had not read a novel before, but she hated this type of Mary Sue novel the most. The thing she didn't understand was why all the female protagonists had masochistic tendencies.
Really. And it's her first mission.
Not only that — usually, systems would bind to the female lead or the characters who were wronged in the novel. But with her luck, she was bound to Su Rui, the step-sister of the female lead.
"When will my unlucky streak end?" she thought before slowly opening her eyes.
According to the data, the stepmother — meaning Su Rui's biological mother, Chen Meixiang — after her first husband died, remarried Lu Hai (the female protagonist's father), which was arranged by her parents. After the marriage, Lu Hai had to leave the next day due to an emergency at his work station, which made her a laughingstock.
As a stepmother, how much love could she give the daughter left by her predecessor? So while loving her own daughter, she started abusing the FL . She fooled everyone by her green tea behaviour while ruining FL reputation.The step-sister also grew twisted and started snatching Lu Xue's things, and later snatched her fiancé.
According to the data, Chen Meixiang hadn't married into the house yet — meaning she hadn't done anything wrong, and Su Rui was also still a child, not yet wicked like in the novel.
After thinking all this over, she opened her eyes and found everything pitch black.
"Huh? What's happening now? Can anyone tell me why is it all pitch black around me?" she screamed on the top of her lungs due to accumulated frustration from all the recent events.
Before anyone could respond, she heard a scream, and light suddenly flooded her vision.
"Who are— Mom! There's a ghost here!"
The little girl who had been sleeping soundly woke up due to the system's screaming and started crying loudly, calling for her mom.
Seeing the situation getting out of hand, the newbie system immediately understood what a blunder she had caused. It seemed her senses were linked to her host — therefore she had been in darkness because her host was sleeping.
"Stop... stop, girl! Don't cry! I am not a ghost," the exasperated system said, trying its best to calm the child down before other people reached them.
But the thing is, how can she be here? Where is this?
The system thought as she surveyed her surroundings. It seemed like a storeroom, and the door also seemed bolted from outside.
"What is happening? Nothing like this is mentioned in the novel. What should I do now?"
The girl, still frightened by the earlier scream of a frustrated system, was crying non-stop and calling for her mother.
The system was now frantic, desperate to stop the child from crying.
"Don't cry, will you? I am not a ghost," the system said in its most sincere mechanical tone.
The little girl asked, hiccuping, "Who are you, then, if not a ghost?"
The system's CPU fried at this question. What was it going to tell her? That it's a system sent to make her a law-abiding citizen?
But it's a period novel — it's 1968. They would never be able to understand what a system is.
After thinking for a while, it said, "I am your father."
The girl, upon hearing this, immediately stopped crying. "Are you really my father? But everyone says my father is dead. Today Mom is going to find a new dad for Rui Rui. Rui Rui has no father. Everyone said I am an orphan."
The system was in a dilemma about what to say. After thinking for a while, it said, "No, don't say that. I am alive. You know, the angels wanted to take me away after I was injured, but I ran away when they weren't looking — just for my Rui Rui. Although you can't see me, you can only hear me, but Dad is always with Rui Rui."
Rui Rui asked, hiccuping, "Will Dad leave Rui Rui? Can't you tell Mom not to get a new dad for Rui Rui?"
The fried-CPU system used its remaining brain cells before responding, "Rui Rui, Baba can't do that. Only Rui Rui can see Baba. And if you tell Mama, then Baba will have to leave from here. So Rui Rui, promise me you won't tell Mama."
The little girl thought for a moment, but then again burst into loud sobs. "But if Rui Rui doesn't tell Mama, then Mama will marry a new Daddy."
The system took an imaginary deep breath before it could respond — the door to the storeroom opened.
A woman in her late twenties opened the door. She was slightly tanned, but anyone could tell that she was also a beauty.
The fried-CPU system thought, No wonder cannon fodder characters in the book are no less beautiful than the leads.