"Did we successfully escape?" Yue Ran looked up at the ball of light beside her, and her brows knitted for a second. Her eyes were cold.
Before she could receive an answer, the space behind her cracked, and she was quickly sucked into it. That was when the world whirled around her in a flurry of colors and everything went black. For a moment, she swore that she saw a pair of eyes—blood-red ones, cold and inhuman—staring at her within the abyssal void.
"Can't… leave." The voice was low and ghostly, almost inaudible, constantly echoing inside her head.
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Warm sunlight poured in through a floor-to-ceiling window and shone down on the form of a sleeping girl, creating a halo around her. An unearthly beauty with black hair, snow-white skin, and bright red lips, it was too bad that no one was here to admire her features.
The girl is Yue Ran.
When she opened her eyes, her sight was greeted with pink. There was pink all around her. Pale pink curtains, darker pink bedsheets, and a wallpaper with swirls of both.
When she heard a knock on the door, she jerked her head.
"Come in," she answered.
An old woman, around her late fifties, who looked like a domestic servant, came in. "Young miss, the master and madam are already waiting for you to eat in the dining room." She spoke to Pinqing sternly and with little respect. "Stop acting petty and come down with me." She was stern, but there was no malice.
Yue Ran didn't answer the old woman; she was only focused on gazing at her face in the oversized vanity mirror in the original body's room. A stunning beauty stared right back at her. She touched her face lightly with satisfaction and relief.
Thankfully, she still had her original features, only looking younger than she originally did in her own body. That's good; even if the Lord God of her system despised her, he couldn't change her lovely appearance as he pleased.
As for Yue Ran's name, it would always stay the same in every world she went to, so it would be of no concern to her.
Then her eyes swiveled back to the old woman. Since the Lord God detested her for her rebellion, it would seem that he delayed the memories of the original body from being sent to her. So even if she doesn't like the old woman, she still had to find out about this original body's situation, mostly for herself.
When she stood up, the pink Lolita dress that she was wearing ended just above her knees and danced in an arc with her movements. She lightly ran her fingers through her slightly unkempt hair to straighten it and placed a pink flower headband on her head that matched her dress. Overall, she looked cute, lovely, and sweet.
System No. 3153 popped up when he sensed Yue Ran's thoughts and quickly said, "Master, Master, there's a slight delay in the memory transference! But it won't take long; Ruan Ruan will guarantee it!"
"That's okay." Yue Ran twirled a strand of her silky hair in her finger as she followed the old woman out of her room.
"Ruan Ruan will analyze the plot of this world and send it to Master as soon as possible!" He chirped. "Even without the original body's memory, Ruan Ruan can gather enough information so that Master will be just fine!"
System No. 3153 is the system that was bound to her during her untimely death in her original world, created by the Lord God. During their first meeting, he was stubborn, stern, and so faithfully serving his Lord God that he always spoke with so much passion. But now look at how much he changed after traveling with her through dozens of worlds together. He could now even rebel against his noble Lord God.
And seeing just how cute he was getting as time passed, Yue Ran named him Ruan Ruan, just because of how cute his form was as a little ball of golden light and how soft his form felt when touched with her finger. His voice is also especially cute, like a child's.
"Is Ruan Ruan very good, Master?" He asked. She could just imagine a ball of light flying around her like a happy, chirping bird.
Yue Ran's eyes narrowed into crescents. "Yes, very good."
Just as Yue Ran answered the system's words in her mind, she raised her eyes and saw three people at the dining table. The two elders who looked like a couple should be the original body's parents, but who is the attractive boy on the side who looked about the original body's age?
"Ran Ran, you're here!" The older woman exclaimed happily at the sight of Yue Ran. "Come, sit by Mom's side."
"You finally came down," the older man commented.
"Mom, dad," Yue Ran pulled out a chair beside the woman, and with graceful and smooth movements, she sat down, turned her head over to the two, propped her chin with one hand, and smiled sweetly at them.
As for whoever the boy is, Yue Ran couldn't care less since he had shot her with such an obvious and horrible disgust in his eyes that couldn't be concealed even if he tried his very best to hide it. And she had no interest in learning whatever the original body's feud with him was that resulted in his having such a bad attitude towards her.
"Here, Ran Ran." Yue Ran's mother pushed a small plate of desert in front of her. "Your favorite red velvet cheesecake."
"Mom, you always know me best," Yue Ran said with a slight hint of coquettishness, sounding so cute and lovely. She leaned her head on her mother's shoulder and circled her arm.
"You." Her mother poked her head dotingly. "You've already grown so big, but you are still so childish."
Yue Ran poked her tongue out at her mother and proceeded to eat the slice of cake that was just in her line of sight. But just as she was about to eat it, her movements paused for the briefest of seconds before resuming, as if that was just a momentary slip of the eyes.
No one noticed this slight blunder.