Chapter 9
“Can it really be anything?” Hanqiu had not expected that being in a bad mood could be handled like this. Her face was full of disbelief.
“Host! The female lead’s blackening value actually dropped! It’s at 15 now,” 009 said, sounding just as incredulous.
Was the female lead really this easy to coax?
Li Xilian was also a little surprised.
She really was just a child.
“You have twenty-seven minutes and forty-three seconds. Miss it, and the offer expires.”
Li Xilian looked very seriously at the countdown displayed on the system panel.
“I… I want Second Miss to go out and have fun with me.”
Hanqiu could not think of anything better in that moment, so that was all she could say.
“All right. Let’s go.”
Li Xilian’s cool, clear voice rang out.
On the street, Hanqiu looked here and there like a little child. She had never seen so many novel things before.
Li Xilian followed behind her with a dark expression.
She hated children the most.
So childish…
Even though she and Hanqiu were only two years apart, Li Xilian was already eighteen, while Hanqiu was only sixteen.
Sure enough, she was still just a little brat.
At that moment, the system popped up.
“Host, did you forget? The female lead was abducted and sold when she was little. Then, when you passed by, you bought her as a slave and brought her into the Li Residence. It’s normal that she hasn’t seen any of this before.”
But Li Xilian looked a little suspicious.
“009, you said that wrong, didn’t you? The one who bought her wasn’t me. I’m not the original owner.”
“Ahaha, is that so?”
The system brushed it off vaguely, laughed awkwardly, and made its exit.
Li Xilian found it a little strange.
Why had it run off?
Even if it had misspoken, she would not have laughed at it.
Still, because of what 009 had said, her expression softened a little, and she followed Hanqiu with more patience.
“Second Miss! Look, is this pretty?”
Hanqiu suddenly came over holding a peachwood hairpin. The carving on the pin was exquisite—simple, elegant, and graceful.
“It’s pretty. If you want it, I’ll buy it for you.”
“I want to buy it myself.”
Hanqiu turned and asked the shopkeeper for the price.
“Boss, how much is this?”
“Oh my, little girl, you have a good eye. This hairpin is one of a kind. I’ll sell it to you for ten taels of silver.”
The shopkeeper was very shrewd. One look at the little girl told him she had probably never gone out before.
“Ah?”
Hanqiu looked at the money she had.
Her yearly allowance was only one tael of silver. After scrimping and saving with great difficulty, she had only managed to save five taels.
“Boss, can we discuss it? Sell it to me for five taels.”
Hanqiu did not want to give up and tried to bargain.
But the shopkeeper refused to budge and insisted on the original price.
Li Xilian could tell that this man was trying to cheat Hanqiu, yet Hanqiu was still foolishly haggling with him.
“Let’s go. What’s there to negotiate?”
She wanted Hanqiu to give up.
“But I want to buy the hairpin and give it to Second Miss. Second Miss would definitely look beautiful wearing it.”
Meeting the determination in Hanqiu’s eyes, Li Xilian felt her heart give a heavy thump.
Tsk.
Children really were troublesome.
Secretly, she used spiritual energy to transmit her voice to the shopkeeper, telling him to sell the hairpin to Hanqiu for half a tael of silver. Then, just as quietly, she sent him a twenty-tael banknote with her spiritual energy.
“Oh my! Seeing how sincere this young lady is, I’ll sell it to you for half a tael of silver. I’m about to close up anyway. I need to go home for dinner.”
The shopkeeper’s face was almost splitting from how widely he smiled. Afraid she might change her mind, he shoved the item into Hanqiu’s hands, took the half tael of silver, and ran off.
“Eh?”
Hanqiu had not expected him to become so easy to talk to.
“Now that you’ve bought it, keep it properly,” Li Xilian said indifferently from the side.
“Second Miss, can I put the hairpin in your hair?”
Hanqiu asked happily.
Wonderful. She had managed to buy it!
Li Xilian did not speak, only lowered her head slightly.
Hanqiu immediately stepped forward, twisted up a section of her hair, and inserted the hairpin.
“Second Miss looks so beautiful! Like an unreachable immortal fairy.”
Li Xilian wore a simple red dress, and the hairpin in her hair only made her extraordinary temperament stand out even more.
“Thank you.”
She thanked her politely.
“Seventeen minutes and twenty-two seconds left.”
Li Xilian glanced at the system panel again.
“That fast?”
Hanqiu looked a little disappointed.
“Second Miss, what is that place? So many people are going in.”
Li Xilian followed the direction of her finger.
!!!
“That place is… tsk, a brothel.”
Li Xilian was a little speechless.
“Are brothels fun?”
“They’re not fun. You’re still young. You can’t go. Of course, if you really want to go, there’s nothing I can do.”
Li Xilian answered expressionlessly.
“Second Miss doesn’t want me to go?”
“Right.”
“Then we won’t go.”
Li Xilian nodded.
Perhaps worried that Hanqiu would feel upset, she pointed to the teahouse beside it.
“Let’s go over there and listen to some opera to pass the time.”
“Mm!”
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