Gu Qianqian's childhood experience really was like the system said, a rather classic protagonist template.
When she was around six years old, her parents unfortunately passed away, so long ago that the appearance of her father and mother in her mory had completely turned into two vague outlines with only their titles remaining.
She couldn't rember how they passed away either. After that, she had been living at her uncle's house. According to her uncle, they had encountered desperate criminals being pursued by the police, who were fleeing in panic.
Her uncle was in the futures business, and their family was well-off. When she first moved in, they even lived in a two-story villa, and her room was located on the second floor where she could see the small rooftop garden.
Her uncle and father had a very good relationship, and he treated Gu Qianqian very well. Her elder brother was also very gentle. Their family protected her very well.
Growing up in such an environnt greatly helped Gu Qianqian fade away the shadows in her heart.
Looking back now, the years she lived at her uncle's house were the happiest tis she could rember.
But good tis didn't last long. The day before her fifteenth birthday, her uncle's entire family disappeared.
That day, she was full of anticipation for the various preparations her family would make for her birthday tomorrow, tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep.
Perhaps because she was too excited, she didn't notice that the entire house was terrifyingly quiet that night, and she kept playing on her phone until very late before falling asleep.
By the ti she woke up the next day, it was already near noon. As soon as she pushed open the door of her room, a cloud of choking dust rushed out, and what t her eyes was a scene of decay and desolation.
The wooden floorboards on the second floor seed to have been damp for a long ti, bulging with bumps of various sizes everywhere. The few remaining pieces of furniture were covered in thick dust, cobwebs hung in the corners, and the walls were stained with water, covered in large patches of mold that piled up together, looking like distorted, struggling figures.
The entire house looked as if it had been abandoned for a very long ti.
At first, Gu Qianqian still held onto a glimr of hope, thinking that everything before her was just a birthday surprise prepared by her family, although she didn't like it very much.
However, when she went downstairs and searched around, she only found a tattered, pale paper figure and a stack of paper money that hadn't completely burned.
Her uncle's family had truly disappeared just like that, completely vanished, as if they had never existed.
Their phone numbers were disconnected, no one in the neighborhood had seen them, and they didn't even have household registration records at the police station.
When she walked out of the police station, Gu Qianqian walked ho in a daze.
At that ti, she thought that as long as her ho was still there and she stayed, they would co back soday.
Then.
By the ti she got ho, she discovered that her ho was also gone. No matter how many tis she took the elevator, she couldn't reach the floor where she had lived for many years.
Thus, overnight, she beca a holess, wandering girl with no relatives.
She lived a very difficult life, working various odd jobs, sleeping in parks, and living under bridges. Because she was born beautiful, she was almost deceived and sold to Pattaya, a famous ghs city in Asia.
If it weren't for the fact that she was too poor to buy a train ticket, and she fainted from hunger in the park the night before departure, she probably would have really gone.
After experiencing major changes, people's personalities often go to two extres: gloomy and twisted, or silly and comical.
Gu Qianqian was clearly the latter.
Of course, the reason Gu Qianqian beca like this also has a great deal to do with eting the system later.
As long as the system doesn't disappear, she might continue to be this simple...
...
Hua City, Xuefu Road Police Station, an office.
Hearing that her family was coming to pick her up, so mory fragnts that made Gu Qianqian feel very uncomfortable flashed in her mind. Unconsciously, she felt her eyes inexplicably moisten.
Noticing Gu Qianqian's abnormality, the Officer quickly comforted her, "Little Girl, don't be scared. We've explained it very clearly to your family. The responsibility for this accident isn't yours, so they shouldn't bla you."
"Mm, mm..." Gu Qianqian stamred a reply but showed no intention of walking out of the office.
She stood frozen in place, silently calling out in her mind.
"System? Are you there, system?"
...
After a brief silence, the system's response sounded in Gu Qianqian's mind.
"Gu Qianqian, I suggest you'd better not et those so-called family mbers. We both know the situation with your family; we don't know what kind of strange situation it is now!" the system said.
Maybe it's the Disaster's doing!
After speaking, it secretly added another sentence in its heart.
"But..." Gu Qianqian hesitated.
Just at this mont, there was a knock on the door.
"Knock, knock, knock—knock, knock, knock—!"
"Who is it?"
"We are Gu Qianqian's family," the person outside the door replied. Gu Qianqian's heart instantly leaped into her throat. She involuntarily clenched her fists, and her bewildered, helpless eyes made her look like a lost kitten.
"Oh, oh, please co in."
After getting permission from the Officer inside the office, the door was pushed open. A seemingly vigorous Old man, leading a delicate-looking girl who appeared to be fourteen or fifteen, or even younger, appeared at the office doorway.
Seeing the two people who suddenly appeared at the office doorway, Gu Qianqian froze in place.
They... are my family?
The girl was Lu Yibei; she naturally recognized her. But who was the Old man next to her?
...
Professor Ma didn't know what sin he had committed to get involved with a monster like Lu Yibei and get on her pirate ship.
He actually caused himself, such a well-respected People's Teacher, to lie to the police twice in one day!
It's really too difficult!
The positive image I spent decades building among students and Teachers will sooner or later be completely ruined by Lu Yibei. Professor Ma thought.
When he received Lu Yibei's call, he was almost ready to curse on the phone.
But after hearing that soft and cute voice on the phone and listening to Lu Yibei explain the whole story, he silently took out a copper coin.
Heads ant helping her lie, tails ant standing by and doing nothing.
When he saw the copper coin fall on the table with a "clink!" and land heads up, Professor Ma sighed silently in his heart.
Since he had handed the choice over to the copper coin, he could only accept this result.
Go ahead, go ahead. Even if it's not to help Lu Yibei, it's still helping that student he had never t.
At worst, just let this secret rot in my stomach forever. As long as people don't know I did sothing that ruins my reputation, my reputation won't be ruined!
Fortunately, I also know so people in the public security system. If I think of a way, I should be able to smoothly cover this up. Professor Ma thought, staring at the copper coin.
Although it sounds a bit bad, this society is ultimately a society of favors.
Otherwise, what other way is there?
With Lu Yibei's appearance and no real household registration information, if they investigate deeply, there will definitely be big problems.
...
Lu Yibei originally thought that her set of car-stealing techniques, technically guided by Zhou Mouyun from Guangxi, was quite cool. If it weren't for her current appearance after being transford into a Strange Tale, Gu Qianqian would probably have been srized.
But what she didn't expect was that the broken car ran so slowly, so she also ended up following Zhou Mou's old path along with Gu Qianqian.
After being caught and taken to the police station, the first person she thought of was Professor Ma.
After all, up until now, the people who knew her secret could be counted on one finger. That's right, Professor Ma was that one and only finger.
If not him, who else could she find? Was she supposed to resist and face severe punishnt, stay at the police station all night, and wait for the Night Watch to pick her up when the morning sun shone?
At that point, the best-case scenario would probably be turning left out of the police station and heading to Yun Kang ntal Hospital.
So, it's better to contact Professor Ma, right? At worst, I'll just write two more papers!
Thus, after a brief discussion with Professor Ma, Lu Yibei reached an agreent and gained an extra task of helping organize literature and data.
But it's okay, n! It's only right to bear a little more.
...
"System, what should I do now?"
Staring intently at the two people at the door, Gu Qianqian asked anxiously in her mind.
System, "..."
"System?"
System, "..."
"Sys..."
After a long silence, the system finally responded in a very small voice, "Go with them. If you fight here, it will definitely attract the Night Watch."
Just like Lu Yibei didn't want to be targeted by the Night Watch, for so special reasons, the system also didn't want Gu Qianqian to be targeted by the Night Watch.
A child raised by a fierce ghost whose personality surprisingly didn't beco twisted. The system felt that the Night Watch's interest in her wouldn't be lower than in Lu Yibei.
In fact, this was partly the reason why the system chose Gu Qianqian as its host.
Receiving the system's response, Gu Qianqian opened her mouth, just about to step forward and "reunite" with Lu Yibei and Professor Ma, but Lu Yibei was a step faster, walking forward and giving her a big hug.
"Sister, you scared to death! Are you okay?"
"Huh?!"
The sudden hug startled Gu Qianqian. Just then, Lu Yibei's whispered words sounded in her ear.
"Professor Ma is a Professor at our school. Don't be afraid, he will help us handle this."
As she spoke, Lu Yibei took a step back, deliberately examined Gu Qianqian carefully, and said # Nоvеlight # seriously, "Sister, Grandpa is here to pick us up. Let's go quickly?"
This ti, even the system was stunned. Imdiately after recovering, it couldn't help but complain silently in its heart.
See?
This is the true face of the Disaster, a terrifying Strange Tale with a tyrannical nature, bloodthirsty and cold-blooded, yet also a first-class actor who lies and deceives people without an ounce of guilt.
Lying in front of the people's police without even batting an eye! the system thought.
"Grandpa..." Gu Qianqian was stunned for a mont, about to look at Professor Ma with a face full of confusion. Seeing this, Lu Yibei quickly preempted her before the Officer could spot anything, and hugged her tightly again.
Professor Ma, who was sitting at his desk filling out docunts nearby, suddenly heard two girls behind him call him "Grandpa" one after another. His long-cherished wish had been fulfilled, and a warm current couldn't help but rise in his heart.
Hmm~! This feeling is great! Helping out like this was really worth it! Professor Ma thought.
...
After Professor Ma finished filling out the docunts, the Officer, upon learning that he was the Teacher of his own superior's superior, didn't delve too deeply into the authenticity of the information. He casually put the form away and smiled as he sent them out of the police station.
"Hehe, Little Girls, hurry and go ho with your Grandpa! Don't lie anymore if you encounter similar things in the future. How can you say your ho is under a bridge?"
As he saw the three people to the front of the police station, the Officer ntioned it casually with a smile. After speaking, he waved at the three and turned back into the police station entrance.
After hearing the Officer's words, Lu Yibei and Professor Ma both looked at Gu Qianqian, who was still out of the loop.
...
Her ho might really be under a bridge.
It really is... pitiful.
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