Lin Huahua’s brown eyes widened so much that they almost turned into two round little buttons the mont she saw the floating hologram in front of her.
For one second, she just stood there stiffly, staring at the familiar face inside the light screen as if she had been struck by lightning from the heavens.
Then the next second, her nose turned sour.
Her eyes turned red.
And her whole small body trembled once like a poor little white rat who had finally found her way back to her nest after rolling through suffering outside.
"Pa!" Lin Huahua cried out, her voice so loud and full of grievance that anyone who heard it would think she had just escaped death by a hair.
If soone did not know the truth, they would definitely imagine that she had crossed mountains of blades and seas of fire before finally seeing her father again.
In reality, Sci-fi supre ruler Lin Zhanshan, who was standing in the hologram with his hands behind his back and his usual stern face, had already seen everything.
He had seen her wake up.
He had seen her complain.
He had seen her stomp around.
He had seen her puff up at people like an angry dumpling.
He had seen her steal glances, act brave, get shy, argue, and even order beastn around with a small face full of seriousness.
To put it simply, he had already watched enough to know one very important thing.
His daughter was alive.
Very alive.
In fact, she was so alive that the amount of yapping stored inside her little mouth was clearly still overflowing.
Sure enough, the mont Lin Huahua confird that the hologram was real, she practically threw herself toward it.
Of course, she could not actually touch it. It was only a projection.
So what happened was that she rushed forward too fast, forgot it was not a real body, almost bumped nose first into the stone wall beside her, then quickly stopped herself with both hands and a sharp little gasp.
Her hide skirt swayed.
Her small fluffy rat tail, which had been hanging behind her in a relaxed curl, instantly puffed up in agitation.
"Pa! You’ve finally decided to contact !" Lin Huahua said, and then before Lin Zhanshan could even open his mouth, she had already started. "Do you know how hard my life has been? Do you know what kind of place you threw your only precious daughter into? This is not training, this is murder! This is attempted murder! This is emotional murder!"
Lin Zhanshan looked at her.
Silently.
Lin Huahua did not care at all.
Her mouth had already entered full speed.
That was the thing about finally seeing a family mber after being dumped into a primitive simulation. The words ca out like a flood that had broken a dam.
She pointed at herself dramatically. "Look at ! Just look at properly! I was walking around all day! Walking, Pa! On the ground! With my own feet! On stones! On dirt! On hard ugly earth that has never heard of technology a day in its life!"
As she said this, she lifted one foot a little as if presenting evidence in court.
Then she imdiately bent down, grabbed her ankle, and showed him the faint marks and little scratches from earlier.
"See this? See it? This is what your daughter has suffered!" Lin Huahua said with a trembling voice full of accusation. "I even got bruised. I nearly fell several tis. Actually, I did fall. More than once. I was basically rolling around outside like a poor abandoned rat cub."
This was, of course, a very shaless distortion of reality.
She had stumbled once.
Maybe twice.
Rolled around like a poor abandoned rat cub?
Absolutely not.
Lin Zhanshan knew this very well, because he had seen the whole thing with his own eyes through the monitoring system connected to the simulation.
He had seen her step carefully. He had seen her pout at the rough ground. He had seen her recover her balance each ti with great drama but no actual rolling involved.
Still, he only stood there and let her continue.
Lin Huahua saw that her father was not interrupting, and this only encouraged her more.
Her eyes beca even redder.
Her voice beca even louder.
She pointed toward the entrance of the cave as though all the evil of the world was gathered there. "And sobody even tried to slap !"
This part had a grain of truth.
Very small grain.
A lonely little grain, sitting in a corner.
But the way she told it made it sound as if she had just escaped an assassination attempt from five hundred enemies.
"I was almost bullied to death," Lin Huahua declared, placing one hand on her chest and looking like she might faint from mory alone. "There were people glaring at everywhere. They looked at like they wanted to eat alive. I have been enduring so much in silence. So much. You do not even know."
Lin Zhanshan’s brows twitched once.
Silence?
His daughter?
What a bold word to use.
In the ti since she had entered the simulation, he had yet to witness even one complete hour of silence from her.
But because he was her father, and because he had long grown used to the way Lin Huahua could take one grain of sand and build a mountain out of it, he rely kept watching.
Lin Huahua sniffled and continued, her little nose red now. "Even the system is useless. Completely useless. I asked it for help and it told it cannot help with cheat codes and it can only make sure I do not die. Why would I want to die? Do I look like soone who wants to die? What kind of comfort is that? It might as well have said, ’Good luck, User Princess, please try not to perish in a ditch.’"
She threw both hands into the air after saying this, looking so aggrieved that if the system had appeared in front of her right now, she probably would have tried to bite it.
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