boyutpedia Chapter 29: I Choose C!
Chapter 29: I Choose C!
That night, Shen Qing had a nightmare about giving birth to ten children. In the dream, she was having a difficult childbirth and shouted: "What use is my worthless life if I can't give birth to a son!"
I woke up in the middle of the night with my clothes soaked through.
It felt sticky and uncomfortable. I touched it casually, and under the bright moonlight, my bare hand was covered in blood.
"what--"
As Wen Ying took out a menstrual belt filled with fine linen gauze for her, *crack*—her Dao Heart shattered.
Shen Qing took sick leave again, this time for real; she was so frightened that she fell ill.
He had a high fever, chest tightness, and nausea. He lay in bed with a wet towel on his forehead.
A crowd gathered around him as the physician took his pulse through a handkerchief, his eyes closed and his beard stroking him with composure.
Li Su was extremely worried: "Doctor Sun, how could Qingxi suddenly become like this?"
“It’s nothing serious,” Dr. Sun said, withdrawing his hand. “The pulse is wiry and hesitant, indicating stagnation of Qi and blood.”
Then he picked up his pen and wrote a prescription: "I will now prescribe some food supplements to promote blood circulation and regulate Qi. Once the Qi flows smoothly, you will recover after a few days of rest."
After seeing the physician off, Li Su sat by the bedside, held Shen Qing's hand, and said gently, "Yu Chu, is something on your mind?"
Shen Qing gave her a resentful look, thinking to herself, "You tell your husband to change the laws of Xuan Kingdom, and I'll perform a backflip for you right now, as healthy as you can be."
"Hmm?" Li Su asked again, "Or have you suffered some injustice? Don't worry, tell Mother everything."
“If your mother can’t help you, there’s your father and brothers, and if all else fails, there’s your uncle.”
"..."
What could Shen Qing say? She used her charm and nagging to trick Li Su into leaving in a few words.
"Sigh~" Li Su sighed softly. A daughter is beyond her mother's control once she grows up. She instructed, "Wen Ying and Fang Yu, take good care of the young lady. If anything happens, come to Jin Garden immediately to report back."
Feeling the authoritative gaze, Fang Yu and Wen Ying's scalp tightened, and they repeatedly agreed.
Li Su's only daughter is exceptionally well-behaved, even to the point of being spoiled, but she still cannot escape the limitations of the times.
Shen Qing waved her hand, signaling them to leave. Fang Yu hesitated for a moment before Wen Ying pulled her out.
Fangyu was still a little worried, "Will it be alright to leave the young lady alone? What if the mistress asks..."
"We work at Yilan Courtyard, and the lady's orders are the first priority."
Fangyu nodded as if she understood, and quietly stood guard outside the house with Wenying.
At this moment, Shen Qing slumped on the bed, staring at the ceiling with a lifeless look, as desperate as if it were her first day after transmigrating.
I was careless.
Since transmigrating, Shen Qing has been at the top of the aristocratic class, like a princess. She doesn't need to worry about making a living or work hard to get rich like San Ya. At this level, any further effort would only lead to rebellion.
Aside from dissatisfaction with his gender, inability to pick up girls, and a lower standard of living, things have been going smoothly for him. For the past month, he has been busy with various tasks and has been quite fulfilling, temporarily forgetting about the potential crisis.
Li Wan's matter and Li Su's words yesterday were like a bucket of cold water, waking him from his comfortable illusion.
This is still a feudal dynasty, and it is illegal for women not to get married! Yes, this only applies to women. Men, as the beneficiary group, are a very small minority who are unwilling to get married, and these extreme cases are not worth legislating to force them.
As the saying goes, your perspective is determined by your position, which even made Shen Qing want to curse: Men are really no good!
Although Shen Ershao is a philanderer, he is a straight man of steel. Unlike those frivolous women who use love as an excuse to seduce both men and women, he respects and blesses other people's fetishes, but he absolutely cannot accept having sex with men!
If it really comes to that, Shen Qing will definitely slit his throat and restart, and no one can stop him. This is one of the important reasons why he has always refused to bind to the system.
Besides the fact that the system's statements are often misleading, the more crucial point is that once you're bound to a man, it's practically the same as selling your soul. How can you win a man's heart just by singing a song, dancing, and saying some sweet words?
While it's possible that such Casanovas exist, Shen Qing, as a man, knows all too well that fishing requires meat and vegetables!
Just as Shen Qing's mind was racing, the system's cheeky voice rang in her mind again.
Women in feudal times suffered terribly. Not only did they have to manage the daily needs of an entire family, care for their husbands and bear a brood of children, but they also had to help their husbands take concubines and care for the concubines' children.
[And they are more susceptible to various diseases. Fun fact: men can carry bacteria without contracting diseases, while women are physiologically more vulnerable.]
The scariest thing is childbirth; with current medical conditions, it's truly a brush with death.
Even if they survive, they'll be confined to the inner quarters for life, vying for favor with a group of concubines, dealing with mother-in-law relationships, and handling trivial matters...
……
The system tirelessly explained the history of suffering for women in feudal dynasties, causing Shen Qing's veins to throb. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and said, "Stop talking nonsense! What do you want?"
Hehe, of course I'm giving you advice!
"Hehe~ Besides making me bind and activate the system, what other new tricks do you have?"
[Oh dear~ As long as the new trick works, that's fine. As long as I have enough strategy points, I can escape this world.]
"Since you love martial arts so much, sending you to a high-level martial arts world isn't out of the question," the system coaxed patiently.
"Is your high-martial-arts world the Bitter Realm? Are you sending me there to be an NPC that refreshes at midnight?"
【…】
"Furthermore, what's the difference between doing your mission and getting married?"
The difference between prolonged pain and short-term pain.
"..." means he has to choose between sleeping for a while or sleeping for a lifetime?
As a seasoned system, it has encountered hosts with exceptional virtues before, and it has ways to deal with Shen Qing's psychological issues.
[Don't worry, host. This is a ethical and ethical green and healthy system. It won't force you to sell yourself like those unscrupulous and degenerate systems.]
Shen Qing grasped the key point: "Is there really a system that forces its host to sell themselves? In other words, the system can use coercive measures against its host!"
A series of mind control methods, such as electric shocks, flashed through my mind in an instant.
[...Trust in your charm. If all else fails, there are items to help. If you encounter a particularly difficult target, you can use "A Dream of Spring Night" to create an illusion.]
"So you have to buy the props yourself?"
[...] He was really fed up with this magnetic rooster. Other iron roosters were just stingy, but this one wanted to attract something else!
"Is there ever a situation where you have no choice but to give in, but you don't have enough strategy points to buy items?"
[...Perception shielding is free! (??????w????)????]
"..." There really is! Just imagining the scene that needed to be censored, Shen Qing couldn't help but get goosebumps all over.
The system sighed, this host was far too cautious. It couldn't help but miss some of the hosts it had taken over before. Although they were foolish, they were very obedient. When you're young, you don't know the sweetness of a fool!
Fortunately, Shen Qing is now clearly wavering, so we should push her a little harder.
[Choose A or B? Time waits for no one!]
Shen Qing jumped out of bed, shouting, "I choose C!"