Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The rickety wooden door could not keep out the cold wind to begin with, so now the wind and snow immediately poured into the house, scattering the straw on the already shabby bed.
But he didn’t care too much and forced himself to go out, stopping at a place near the courtyard wall with the teapot in his hand.
The cold wind made his thin clothes rustle.
Su Xi looked at the reaction of the little man in the game in confusion. What was going on? Why did he suddenly run out of the yard after drinking a sip of water?
Wasn’t he cold?
Can you please go back soon?! I worked so hard to build up your stamina bar, but now you’re almost destroying it!
The little man in the game reached out his hand and searched in the snow, and suddenly found a few small insects that looked like stink bugs.
He poured the water from the teapot onto the ground and threw the bugs in.
Then he went to see how the bugs reacted.
He saw those insects struggling desperately in the water, but soon they swam out, shook off the water on their bodies and hid underground, but did not die.
Although the character in the game didn’t move much, Su Xi could clearly feel that he was relieved.
The white breath he exhaled condensed into frost, then he wiped his face wearily and turned back to the woodshed.
Su Xi: …
Su Xi understood that the little man in the game was afraid that someone had put something in the water in the teapot, but he drank it directly when his head was dizzy. After drinking it, he came to his senses and turned furious. He threw a few insects into the water, and only felt relieved when he saw that the insects were not dead.
– Damn, do you have to be so smart?!
Su Xi was so shocked that her scalp went numb for a moment. When she downloaded the game, she thought it was poorly made, but she never expected the characters’ reactions to be so vivid. They didn’t look like paper people at all!
The little man in the game returned to the woodshed and closed the door tightly.
His face was pale and looked sick. He stood by the windowsill, put the teapot back, and looked at it for a moment.
Lu Huan still felt dizzy and his head felt heavy, as if it was on fire.
He did find it strange. He had never poured water into the teapot, but why was there water in it? Could it be that he had forgotten to pour it out yesterday?
He guessed he might have gotten confused because of the fever.
However, those two had done many things like poisoning the water and putting laxatives in it to play tricks on him.
A barely perceptible coldness flashed across Lu Huan’s dark eyes. He then frowned and returned to the bed, holding onto the wall.
Seeing that he finally lay back on the bed, Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he lay down, his physical strength bar would not drop but would recover.
But as Su Xi looked at the young man curled up under a thin blanket on the screen, she felt curious and a little sad. What had he been through that made him so alert?
She originally opened the game just to kill time, so he directly skipped the opening animation, which was about the character’s childhood experience.
But now she had some desire to explore. Since she was free anyway, Su Xi couldn’t help but turn back and watch the opening animation while the game character was sleeping.
There was no background information for this game character at the beginning. So, she thought his background should be revealed later. But since the system said that the real identity of this game character was a prince, he must be the prince who was left behind. She just didn’t know how he became the bast**d of Ning Wang’s mansion.
The animation shots switched very quickly, but Su Xi could still see the miserable childhood of this thin boy from the few scenes.
The walls of Ning Wang’s mansion were deep. The mistress didn’t say anything, but he was always short of food and clothing and she treated Lu Huan harshly.
The half-grown boy was still growing up, not having enough to eat or sleep, he felt like he was hiding in a dark gutter. So, he could only secretly help the servants do some hard work in exchange for some dry food.
The second young master of Ning Wang’s Mansion, Lu Wenxiu, was the most arrogant and vicious. He often ordered his servants to tease and insult Lu Huan. If Lu Huan offended this man without care, he would receive more than a dozen whip wounds. Over the years, he had countless marks on his body.
The eldest son of Ning Wang’s Mansion, Lu Yu’an, appeared to be upright and righteous, but in fact he was hypocritical and, like Ning Wang, turned a blind eye to these things.
In addition, there was an aunt in the Ning Wang Mansion who had a daughter. She was weak and incompetent and was also bullied. She thus always needed Lu Huan’s help.
Several scenes flashed by, and the character in Su Xi’s game was either covered in blood or holding on with his teeth gritted in all of them.
Su Xi felt a little uncomfortable watching and couldn’t bear to watch any further. Maybe the game was too realistic, which made her feel as if there really was such a game protagonist who was stranded in Ning Wang’s Mansion, suffering a lot, just waiting for the day when he would grow strong enough to ascend to the throne of the supreme ruler who could call the wind and rain and decide life and death.
But fortunately it was just a game. Su Xi looked at the little man in the game again – the wind was freezing outside the wooden door. Fortunately it was just a game, otherwise people would definitely freeze to death in such a harsh place.
But, what else can I do?
Su Xi took a look and found that from the reward just now, she still had 13 gold coins.
The system immediately popped up: “The protagonist is currently extremely short of material resources. It is recommended that you start by changing his material conditions.”
Su Xi: “Okay, okay, it’s okay to give the poor little boy a little improvement.”
After saying that, the mall popped up immediately.
In the first row were various brocade robes. The first one was made of fox fur. The gold thread pattern made it look very luxurious. The price below was 13,000 gold coins.
The system said: “It only costs 130 yuan when converted into RMB.”
Su Xi: …
“Goodbye, just pretend I didn’t say that. Let the poor little thing continue to freeze.”
“…” The system seemed a little speechless and scrolled the page back to show Su Xi.
The last item was called “Ordinary warm robe without holes” and cost 30 gold coins.
“It’s only 30 gold coins, which is only 30 cents when converted into RMB. A cup of milk tea costs 15 yuan these days.”
The system tried desperately to give hints, but Su Xi seemed to be completely blind to its hints and ruthlessly swiped straight down the mall.
Are you kidding? Her pocket money didn’t come from the wind, so how could she just spend it on the game? This is just a game, okay? She won’t lose her mind!
Finally, she scrolled to the end, picked and chose, and chose from the mall –
The two items “repair the leaky wooden door with straw” and “replace the thinnest and useless quilt with a very thin one that can still keep you warm” cost 8 gold coins for the former and 5 gold coins for the latter, which added up to 13, just enough to spend all the gold coins given by the system when registering and the reward coins obtained from pouring water just now.
The system seemed to have nothing to say about Su Xi’s stinginess. After she made her choice, it closed the mall.
The little person in the game was still sleeping and knew nothing about the world outside the game.
Su Xi watched him sleep out of boredom for a while and was somewhat curious about the little man’s reaction when he woke up. After all, this game was so realistic, his reaction would definitely be very interesting.
But since the little guy couldn’t wake up in a short while, Su Xi turned off her phone out of boredom, got up and followed the nurse to do leg rehabilitation.
After rehabilitation, Su Xi’s classmates also came to visit her after school with their homework. When she saw the homework, Su Xi sighed and did her homework with a few friends for a while. Then they ate snacks, chatted and laughed, and for a while she forgot about the game.
….
While Su Xi was enjoying the air conditioning, wearing airpods, nodding her head and chatting with classmates about gossip, in the shabby firewood house, it was freezing cold from dusk to dawn.
Lu Huan slept very deeply because of typhoid fever. When he woke up, his back was covered with cold and sticky sweat.
He closed his eyes, raised his hand and wiped his forehead, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he felt that his fever had subsided. He had always been in poor health, and no matter how painful it was, he would just sleep it off.
His mouth however was still dry though.
He struggled to sit up from the hard bed.
The servants outside the door seemed to have noticed that Lu Huan had not appeared at noon, and they loudly discussed outside the door rudely: “He really thinks he is a young master. He didn’t even get up at noon.”
Another person said: “It’s a pity that he has the mind of a young master but not his life.”
Lu Huan’s eyes showed annoyance and indifference, as he ignored them. He lifted the quilt and was about to get out of bed, but when his fingers touched the quilt, he was suddenly stunned, and a trace of disbelief flashed across his eyes –
The quilt had clearly become thicker, as if someone had filled it overnight while he was sleeping.
Could it be his illusion?
Speaking of which, the same went for last night’s pot of tea.
Lu Huan also felt something was wrong. It didn’t seem so cold today, and the cold wind seeped in much less. He subconsciously looked towards the door and windows, only to see that the shabby wooden door had been tightly wrapped with straw at some point. As a result, the gaps for the cold wind to seep in were greatly reduced.
Did someone really break into his room last night?! Lu Huan became alert and immediately jumped off the bed.
Naturally, he didn’t think that anyone in Ning Wang’s Mansion would show him kindness.
He was still a little dizzy and his lips were pale, but he managed to stand still, pulled the quilt off the bed and shook it vigorously.
He looked stern, trying to shake out something like a needle.
But after shaking for a while, nothing fell off. Instead, a few pieces of cotton wool fell off the quilt that was obviously stuffed. Although it was not soft and comfortable, it was clean after all, and it was indeed much warmer than before.
How could this be?
Lu Huan couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.
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