After hearing her explanation, the system became even happier, saying it really liked its new name.
Su Banxia stifled a laugh, naming the system Ao Bai partly to satisfy her own wicked sense of humor and partly as a reminder to herself that she was the villainous supporting female character, needing to be cautious while treading on the edge of danger.
With her hair still damp and not fully dry, she picked up the hairdryer and started drying her hair while asking, “Apart from getting close to Shang Lu to regain luck, are there any other golden fingers (special abilities or advantages) I have?”
Through her interactions with Shang Lu, she believed the system’s words that getting closer to him would save her life.
Typically, novel protagonists have many powerful abilities, like a space with an old man or a cute pet inside, or some top-notch skills.
Didn’t Mu Ruxue, because of her rebirth, have a golden finger like a beauty that could be enhanced by seizing others’ luck, allowing her to become more and more beautiful?
Ao Bai, with its cute childish voice, responded, “Master, there is a gift package in your system’s app. Click to check it, and you will find what you want.”
Su Banxia quickly took out her phone and opened the gift package provided by the app.
There were two items in the package.
One was the popular sign-in system, where daily sign-ins guaranteed various surprise gifts.
The other was a system that collected emotional points from characters, which could be exchanged for various items in the system’s store.
The system was really user-friendly.
“Ao Bai, I don’t quite understand this collection of emotional values. Can you explain it to me?”
Ao Bai quickly explained, “Emotional values include happiness, sadness, anger, etc., of characters. Whether positive or negative, as long as the character has emotions towards you, you can collect them.”
Su Banxia said, “I get it. So if I make someone cry from bullying, and they get angry at me, that means I’ve generated emotional value.”
“Master is right, but…”
“It’s fine, I got it,” Su Banxia, holding her phone and looking very pleased, said, “No matter how, as long as they generate emotional values towards me, I can collect them, right?”
Ao Bai felt as if it saw two little devil horns growing on its master’s head.
Su Banxia immediately set out to test this golden finger provided by the system. Just as she opened her chat app, she received a message.
The original character had marked the sender with a few letters, but she knew who it was just by looking at the avatar, as the sender confidently used his own photo.
The message was from Peng Ziye, a male public relations officer from the hotel a few days ago, a supporting character with some significant plot in the novel.
The original character probably liked Shang Jingyao too much and found a male public relations officer who somewhat resembled him to serve as a substitute, spending money to keep him around, occasionally meeting for drinks.
After fleeing the wedding and wandering abroad for a few days, the original character secretly returned to the country, causing confusion to make it seem like she was still abroad. It was unclear under what circumstances the Su family found out she was actually in the country.
Su Banxia’s father came with bodyguards to capture the original character, who was coincidentally caught in a hotel room with a man. The scandal was quite ugly and even made the news, completely ruining her reputation.
She wondered if it was because she didn’t make a scene with her father and pretended to faint before being taken back home that it didn’t cause much commotion.
Peng Ziye sent her several messages, including some voice messages, not hiding his anger at all.
After parting at the hotel, Su Banxia had not contacted him for days, completely forgetting about him. Peng Ziye probably expected her to seek his forgiveness, but she didn’t send him a single message, which made him frantic.
After waiting a few days, he couldn’t hold back and lashed out at her.
Su Banxia picked up on the main point from his angry messages. He meant that she hadn’t paid for the presidential suite last time.
If she wanted to keep in touch with him, she should obediently transfer the money to him and then spend more to buy him some luxury items. It would be perfect if she could generously transfer the money.
Su Banxia simply chose a package for him, then blocked and deleted him.
After Peng Ziye sent over a dozen messages, his residual anger didn’t subside. He typed a few more lines and sent them, only to see a red exclamation mark on the chat page.
He was no longer her friend.
Peng Ziye stared in disbelief. Su Banxia had actually blocked and deleted him. He gritted his teeth in anger.
At the same time, Su Banxia received a notification from the system that she had successfully collected some anger values.
The key point was that she knew who the anger values came from, as the system provided the name. This meant she knew who had positive or negative emotions towards her.
Su Banxia was satisfied with the golden finger provided by the system. She quickly registered a new account on a public platform, naming it “I’m So Brave,” and went to comment on today’s hottest videos.
She was late, and the top comments were already taken. Her ordinary comments didn’t make much of a splash but still collected some emotional values.
Su Banxia frowned, realizing she couldn’t collect many emotional values this way.
She wanted to get on the top comments to collect a lot of emotional values, but it wasn’t easy to get there. Comments had to be controversial, enlightened, bragging, or silly to be liked into the top comments.
With a learning attitude, she scrolled through videos for an hour and picked up some tricks.
When she came across a video of an internet celebrity performing a trick, she commented sarcastically, “That’s it? I could do that too!”
The comment immediately attracted a wave of likes and comments, bringing in a lot of emotional values from mocking and angry responses. She picked a few to retort back to and didn’t forget to set her account to private.
After another hour of scrolling and actively commenting on various popular videos, engaging in keyboard battles with the ‘gods’ hundreds of times, she finally earned ten thousand emotional values.
Su Banxia’s eyes sparkled as she looked at the system: “What can I get with ten thousand points?”
Ao Bai, who had watched the entire process, came back to reality with a cute voice: “Master, you need to accumulate one hundred thousand points to exchange for items. Ten thousand points can trigger a lottery draw.”
Su Banxia thought completing the system task was simple, but after a busy day, she only had enough for one draw.
She pondered that the system tasks were not so easy to complete after all.
“Master, do you want to do the draw?”
“Draw.” Just in case she got lucky and won a big prize.
Su Banxia stared at the task app interface, clicked on the lottery draw, and the wheel began to spin 360 degrees. A few seconds later, it stopped.
“Thanks for participating!”
Huh?
What does ‘Thanks for participating’ mean!
Su Banxia immediately jumped up from the bed to grab the system, but Ao Bai swiftly dodged.
“What does this mean? Is the system also playing these shameless human tricks?”
She wasted ten thousand points just like that?
Ao Bai nervously reminded, “There’s only a one in ten chance of drawing ‘Thanks for participating.’”
Su Banxia: “Are you saying I’m not lucky enough?”
“Master, have you forgotten that your luck value is only at one percent?”
Su Banxia froze, remembering that she had been stripped of her luck by the heroine. If she didn’t regain some luck within a week, she would lose her life.
This time, she felt like she had made a loss all the way to Mars!!!
It seemed she needed to act quickly and start following the plot and completing tasks.
Su Banxia felt that Mu Ruxue’s ‘Earth-shaking Beauty’ golden finger wasn’t a good system, considering that stripping people of their luck was quite immoral. In the original story, the women who opposed Mu Ruxue became uglier and led miserable lives.
Therefore, Mu Ruxue must have stripped more than just her luck.
Su Banxia thought since her character was a villainous supporting female, she should act as she pleased in the storyline, but how the plot unfolded depended entirely on her.
Mu Ruxue liked to strip people of their luck, so she decided to help people regain it.
“Ao Bai, once my luck returns, it can’t be stolen by Mu Ruxue again, right?”
“No.” Ao Bai reassured her. “Once the luck taken by Mu Ruxue through the system is returned, it cannot be taken again. She can only choose a new target.”
Su Banxia: “So she can just strip anyone’s luck?”
Ao Bai: “No, Mu Ruxue can only strip luck from characters who are part of the storyline in the dimension.”
Su Banxia felt relieved. She wanted to help others, but she couldn’t possibly help everyone; she wasn’t some kind of savior.
That night, lights illuminated the villa.
Su Banxia came out of her room and greeted the two bodyguards stationed at the door with a smile.
“Xiong Da, Xiong Er, you’re still here.”
After being brought back to the Su family, her father had arranged these two bodyguards to monitor her. The brothers were tall and robust, resembling bears, so she had given them these nicknames for convenience.
“Miss,” the two bear-like bodyguards responded expressionlessly.
Su Banxia went downstairs for dinner and, upon exiting the elevator, saw several people sitting on the sofa.
Her father and mother were seated in the middle, with Mu Ruxue sitting next to her father. On a smaller sofa, there was a young man in a school uniform, about seventeen or eighteen years old, playing a game on his phone, his face displaying a rebellious demeanor.
Mu Ruxue was chatting with Su Banxia’s parents, making them very happy. The scene made it seem as though those four were the real family.
Every time the original character saw such a scene, she would get very angry, barely holding back her temper. If she showed any displeasure, she would be reprimanded by her father.
Su Banxia approached them and called out, “Mom.”
Everyone looked over, and they were all surprised to see her new appearance. She had cut her long wine-red curls and now sported a shoulder-length bob, resembling a puppet doll stepped out of a display window.
“Xia Xia,” her mother exclaimed in shock.
Su Banxia smiled and sat down, asking, “What’s wrong? Don’t you like my new hairstyle?”
Her younger brother, Su Boyang, glanced at her and commented disdainfully, “Ugly to death.”
Mu Ruxue secretly bit her lip. After changing her hairstyle, Su Banxia looked a bit more innocent. Even though her skin was still pale and her aura gloomy, making her unlikable, she somehow seemed different from before.
In her past life, Mu Ruxue always felt inferior in front of Su Banxia, who had been born into a wealthier family and was more beautiful. She could only harbor jealousy in secret.
The Su family outwardly treated her well, as if she were their own daughter, but in the end, they still chose Su Banxia. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have made her marry Shang Lu in place of Su Banxia, ruining her life.
Thankfully, she had been reborn, and everything was still salvageable.
And this time, it was Su Banxia who was to marry Shang Lu.
She would live a better life than in her previous one, standing in a shining spot, coldly watching Su Banxia suffer, tasting the bitterness she had experienced in her past life.
“Your new hairstyle looks quite nice, sister,” Mu Ruxue praised insincerely.
Su Banxia glanced at her and didn’t respond.
After dinner, her mother came to her room, “Xia Xia, tell mom the truth, do you really want to marry Shang Lu?”
Su Banxia’s parents had a marriage of convenience, and her mother, who had stayed at home after getting married, had always doted on her children, leading them to develop arrogant personalities.
The Su children almost always got whatever they wanted. If Su Banxia didn’t want to marry Shang Lu, her mother would definitely go to great lengths to save her daughter.
“Mom, I like Shang Lu and want to be with him,” Su Banxia lied without changing her expression.
…
Since Su Banxia and Shang Lu had previously held a wedding ceremony, even though the bride had fled and the wedding wasn’t completed, it was still considered a marriage. The next day, her father hastily packed her off to the Shang family’s home.
As night deepened.
Shang Lu, who had moved back from the hospital, entered his room and immediately noticed a significant change.
There was an unidentified lump on the cold grey bed. Frowning, Shang Lu wheeled himself over and abruptly flipped open the blanket.
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