TSFLIP Chapter 1009

During the daytime in summer, the air buzzed with the constant chirping of cicadas.

Feng Guang was drifting through a palace. And the reason the word drifting was appropriate…

After System-kun had dropped her into this world, the moment she opened her eyes, she discovered that she was floating. The palace walls surrounded her, and palace maids and eunuchs bustled about with their work. She could confirm that she had arrived in an imperial palace. Even when she floated right past someone’s face, they showed no sign of noticing her.

That was when she became certain of something else.

Not only had System-kun thrown her directly into this world, but it also seemed he hadn’t brought her body along.

Feng Guang wanted to throw her head back and howl at the sky. She had actually turned into a female ghost just like that. Did things really have to be this fantastical?

Then again, this world was already a fantasy world to begin with.

She had always been afraid of ghosts. Now that she herself had become a wandering spirit, she suddenly felt that being a ghost was rather pitiful—drifting from place to place with no home and not even a single person she could talk to.

“System-kun, what exactly is going on with me right now?”

“System error detected. Repairing.”

“So…”

“Once the repair is complete, I will deal with the host’s current special condition. Please wait patiently.”

“How long is this ‘waiting’ supposed to take?”

No one answered her.

Feng Guang sat on top of a wall and sighed deeply as she recalled the conversation she had with System-kun a few days ago.

This was the most remote courtyard in the entire palace. Hardly anyone came here. She had already been sitting here for several hours. As for why…

She was bored, so she had been watching a child inside the courtyard.

The boy looked about ten years old and was dressed in ragged clothes. It was strange—this was supposed to be a place as rich and luxurious as the imperial palace, yet there was such a desolate courtyard here, and a child dressed like a beggar. Her curiosity had been piqued.

Right now, he was digging up tree roots from the weed-covered ground. That would be his dinner.

Because at noon, she had seen him gnawing on tree bark.

Feng Guang felt a tight ache in her chest. It seemed that the boy was the only one living here. Although he had been born with good looks, malnutrition had left him pale and painfully thin. She felt that if she kept watching, her sympathy would become unbearable.

Just as she was about to float away, a palace maid walked in carrying a food box.

Oh? Someone actually brought him food?

Feng Guang stopped herself from leaving.

The maid set the food box down on the ground. “I’m already busy all day long, and I still have to come all the way here to deliver food to a little bastard like you. What rotten luck.”

The insult made Feng Guang frown.

“Come eat,” the maid said impatiently. “Finish it so I can take the box back.”

The boy stood up. His hands and face were smeared with dirt. His eyes were dull and lifeless as he quietly looked at the maid in front of him without moving.

“What? Not eating?” The maid picked up the food box and opened it. She dumped the food onto the ground and sneered viciously. “You really think you’re some kind of prince and everyone has to serve you? Let me tell you something—His Majesty has plenty of sons. Forgetting one or two isn’t a big deal. Especially when you’ve got a mother who cheated on him!”

The boy’s expression didn’t change at all.

“Hmph. And he’s a mute too. In this palace, even a maid like me outranks you. Little bastard, let’s see if starving you to death matters to anyone.”

With that, she picked up the food box and left arrogantly.

After a while, the boy calmly turned around and crouched down again, continuing to dig up tree roots.

As for the food scattered on the ground, there were barely a few vegetable leaves to begin with, and the rice was mixed with sand and gravel. If someone actually ate it, they would probably break their teeth!

Feng Guang stood up. She glanced at the child in the courtyard, then looked at the maid who hadn’t gone far yet.

A cold smile appeared on her face as she floated over and followed behind the maid.

A Wan suddenly felt a chill run down her back. When she turned around, there was nothing there.

She muttered to herself that she must be imagining things.