After I Woke Up to Find I Had a Wife - Chapter 13
With a dark expression, Lin You wore a quick-dry cap on her head. She had casually thrown on a loose sleeping robe, and the water on her face had not even been wiped dry, dripping onto the floor.
She walked out with the aura of a tiger and snorted heavily, glaring sideways at the aggrieved system. “When I need you, you don’t show up. When you do show up, you don’t even look at the situation.” Lin You was truly full of disdain.
The system aggrievedly swayed its tail. Its little blue eyes spun around like garbled code before finally producing a small emoji: ┬_┬
“Did you succeed in upgrading?” That was what Lin You wanted to know most.
The system instantly changed from its earlier grievance and happily nodded wildly. Its blue mechanical eyes switched into an excited emoji as it screamed, “Success! Success!”
“It’s just that Host still hasn’t bound with me.” After its joy passed, the system felt a little guilty. It tried hard to steady itself so Lin You would not notice anything wrong.
Lin You’s face was full of WTF. “You didn’t even bind with me, yet you sent me over here? You’d be that kindhearted?”
“Of course! We systems were created by a higher-level plane. The main system uniformly issues missions to protect lower-level worlds from collapsing.”
“Especially us Great Completion Systems. Everything is based on completion. We firmly refuse to achieve completion merely for the sake of completion!” The system shouted its noble slogan.
Lin You was covered in black lines as she looked at the system floating at the highest point of the room, looking like it was ready to sacrifice itself for the main system. She guessed that if the system had hands, it would be clenching its fists and shouting slogans right now.
Lin You raised her hand and beckoned the system over. Exhausted, she sat on the chair. “Come down from my ceiling first. Tell me how to bind with you.”
She no longer wanted to ask about it. In any case, she could not leave. Her intuition told her that the system bore her no malice. It even seemed to carry some kind of compensation within it.
This intuition had helped her avoid countless dangers, and she trusted it.
The system widened its eyes and excitedly flew toward Lin You. “Ooooh! Host, you definitely won’t lose out by binding with me. Although this is my first mission, you have to believe me.” The system’s eyes turned into puppy eyes as it flew toward Lin You pitifully.
Lin You secretly thought, As expected. I knew it. You really haven’t graduated yet.
Her vision blurred, and a ball of blue light directly rushed into Lin You’s mind. In that lightning-fast instant, Lin You only heard a cold mechanical voice asking her yes or no.
Lin You answered yes. The system instantly unfolded a small blue-white space, close to the color of the sky.
On a blue screen:
Great Completion System:
Bound Person: Lin You
Attribute: Top-grade Alpha / Secondary Differentiation
Pheromone: Black Tea
Combat Value: 3 / Full score 10
Wife: Fu Xinran
Attribute: Top-grade Omega
Pheromone: Snow
Favorability: 40%
Status: Pregnant
Plot: Unanalyzed
Lin You looked at the long string of basic information, her gaze stopping on the favorability. Her brows furrowed. Fu Xinran’s favorability was this high? No wonder she blackened so quickly later.
The time when she had transmigrated into the book was just right. Nothing had happened yet. Everything could still be saved.
“System, what does ‘Plot: Unanalyzed’ mean?” Lin You moved her gaze downward and felt a little puzzled. She knew part of the plot. Could it be that the author changed the story later, causing other unknown events to happen?
The system swished its tail and swam over, standing beneath the blue screen. “This refers to plot points that have not yet been triggered or have not yet begun. The plot Host knows is not complete. The later plot will be triggered at specific times.”
Lin You stared faintly at the system. The look made the system’s hair stand on end, and it almost thought it had exposed itself.
After looking for a while, the system reacted. Lin You’s gaze was saying: What use are you, then?
Before the system could explode in anger, Lin You moved her gaze away.
“Isn’t Fu Xinran’s favorability a little too high? It doesn’t quite match the original plot’s description.” This was what Lin You found most confusing.
“Ah, this. A world generated from a novel doesn’t mean it isn’t a real world once it forms into reality.”
“There will be differences in the data. It won’t develop completely according to the plot. After all, bugs will always exist. The world will automatically modify and patch itself, but the major framework won’t have problems.”
“So Fu Xinran does have a certain amount of favorability toward the current Lin You?” Lin You pointed at the favorability and asked.
“Uh, actually, reaching 40% is more or less already considered…” The system glanced twice at the two hidden words in front of “favorability”: romantic love.
Because Fu Xinran and Lin You were already wives from the beginning, their favorability would fluctuate. It could rise, fall, and even transform.
For example, if Lin You and Fu Xinran had started as friends, then this would now belong to the friendship category. It would not have reached close friends yet, but they would have a very good impression of each other, and it might later transform into love.
But placed within the category of love, it meant that Fu Xinran liked Lin You, and the degree was not low.
If Lin You grasped this opportunity, the favorability would rise all the way and ultimately achieve a Great Completion ending.
But the system would not tell Lin You that now, because Lin You herself did not yet possess that awareness. Right now, Lin You also had favorability toward Fu Xinran, but it was hidden.
Her favorability toward Fu Xinran was currently at 30%, purely placing herself in the position of a prospective bestie. There was pity, sympathy, and a desire to protect her.
In one sentence: one person had opened up, and the other had not.
The system happily decided not to tell Lin You. Instead, it cheerfully said, “It belongs to the category of almost reaching good friends. You need to work hard and make sure the villainess doesn’t blacken. If she blackens, everyone will be unlucky, and you won’t be able to preserve your life.”
Lin You did not believe it. She felt that Fu Xinran was a good girl. Just based on how Fu Xinran allowed her to act spoiled and gently dried her hair, Lin You could tell. Thinking of this, Lin You could not help blushing.
Whether it was herself or the original body, she was several years older than Fu Xinran, yet she had acted spoiled toward Fu Xinran. Just thinking about it was shameful. She refused to remember it.
“After looking around this whole thing, I feel like there isn’t much difference whether I have you or not.” Lin You temporarily could not find the system’s use. If it was only for checking favorability, it was so useless.
The system froze. Now that she said it like that, it really did seem rather useless. The system became sad. The blue light in its eyes turned into teardrops, dripping down one by one.
“There’s no need to go that far. I was just joking with you.” This was Lin You’s first time seeing a robot cry. Those tears fell from thin air, and the moment they landed, they turned into light and disappeared.
It was both strange and funny. Lin You patted the system’s head. “Actually, I’m quite grateful to you. You let me live again. Thanks.”
“Ang?” Hearing Lin You thank it for letting her live again, the system uncomfortably swayed its tail.
“I’ll issue missions for you. You need to properly accumulate points. They’re very important to you,” the system said gloomily with its head lowered.
Lin You was surprised. So the system could also issue missions? Curious, she asked, “When will you issue them?”
“Right now. Mission One: Find out why the original body’s mother abandoned the family business and her daughter and left. Reward: 100 points. Mission Two: Return to the Fu family with Fu Xinran for dinner. Reward: 20 points.”
“What can I use these points for?” Lin You was curious about this. Would there really be a points shop?
“After reaching 1,000 points, you can open the points shop. There are all kinds of items inside, including medicines for treating illnesses, as well as a retrospection mirror that can look back at your original world.” The system deliberately picked things Lin You would be interested in to bait her.
“Look back at my original world? Can I see Earth?” Lin You asked excitedly.
“Yes, you can—” Before the system could finish answering, there was a click, and the door was pushed open.
Lin You and the system turned around at the same time and saw Fu Xinran pushing the door open with her bag in hand.
“Mm? You fell asleep? Why didn’t you dry your hair again?” Fu Xinran frowned and stepped forward to pat Lin You.
Only then did Lin You realize her body was not here. “How do I go back?”
The moment she said this, Lin You opened her eyes and saw Fu Xinran still lightly patting her.
She quickly grinned. “Ranran, you’re back? Are you tired?” Lin You hurriedly stood up, took Fu Xinran’s bag, placed it to the side, and had her sit down.
“I’m not tired. But you—why did you fall asleep here?” Fu Xinran could not resist Lin You’s enthusiasm and was pressed into the chair Lin You had been sitting in. The warm chair made her feel slightly uncomfortable.
Hearing Fu Xinran say this, Lin You touched the quick-dry cap. She had forgotten about drying her hair while chatting with the system just now.
“Ranran, rest for a bit. I’ll go dry it right away.” Lin You hurriedly ran back to the bathroom to dry her hair. Whenever she thought of drying hair, she remembered what happened last night. Too embarrassing.
Fu Xinran looked at Lin You’s back and could not help smiling. After sitting for a while, she got up from the chair and walked out.
“Dad, what’s wrong?” Fu Xinran answered the phone while walking and closing the door.
“You’re already pregnant. Shouldn’t you come home?” The stiff and rough tone carried awkward concern.
“Ah, all right. I’ll come back tomorrow night. Then can you, old man, spare time to eat dinner?”
“Nonsense. When have I ever not spared time to eat dinner?”
Fu Xinran spoke with Chairman Fu for a little over a minute before hanging up.
Lin You also accepted the first mission: finding out why the former person in power of the Lin Group had left. The second mission was to accompany Fu Xinran home for dinner.
That afternoon, Fu Xinran planned to go shopping and buy something for her father and sister.
She did not call Lin You, because she knew Lin You did not like shopping.
When Fu Xinran opened the car door and sat in the back seat, she heard, “You haven’t fastened your seat belt yet.”
The low, magnetic female voice made Fu Xinran pause. She saw Lin You poking her head out from the driver’s seat, half her body leaning over to tell her to fasten her seat belt.
Fu Xinran did not doubt that if not for the seat blocking her, Lin You would have personally leaned over to fasten the seat belt for her.
As for why she did not get out of the car and directly open the door—judging by how strenuous Lin You’s posture looked, she probably had not thought of that.
Fu Xinran silently pulled the seat belt over and fastened it. Then she asked, “You’re going out with me?”
“Of course. I don’t feel at ease letting you go out alone. If I stay by your side, I’ll feel more at ease.” Lin You was deeply afraid that something might happen to the child in Fu Xinran’s belly. She was also worried that with Fu Xinran’s small frame, what if someone bumped into her in a crowded mall? She also did not realize how ambiguous her words sounded.
Hearing Lin You’s words, a trace of sweetness filled Fu Xinran’s heart and spread all the way to her mouth. She glanced sideways at Lin You without speaking, lowered her head to hide her smile, and pretended to fix her hair.
Under Aunt Gui’s gaze full of encouragement and cheering, Lin You started the car and slowly drove away.
“System, this is when I need you the most,” Lin You solemnly called the system in her mind.
The system nodded hurriedly. Host finally needed it. It was so excited. The system said seriously, “Host, tell me.”
“Guide the way for me. I don’t know the roads. If I use navigation, I’ll expose myself.”
System: “…”
So you only need me as a navigation system?
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