novelraw Chapter 2 : Is This the Golden Finger I'm in Love
Chapter 2 : Is This the Golden Finger I'm in Love
Just as Jiang Feng was feeling regret and despair over her impulsiveness, the pain actually began to slowly fade away. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at her wrist, surprised to find that the wound previously cut by the fruit knife had already healed, showing no trace of ever having been injured.
After brief confusion, she figured it out—thanks to her own stupidity, she was now a vampire. Although her constitution was delicate, she seemed to possess powerful external wound recovery abilities.
To verify this guess, she carefully walked to the window and tentatively extended her arm, which seemed like it could break at any moment, outside the window.
Then... she understood what it meant to not court death and not die.
"Hiss! It hurts!"
The morning sunlight fell on her arm, and the instant burning pain like being roasted by fire made Jiang Feng suck in a cold breath and tearfully retract her hand.
If the morning sunlight was already like this, if she were exposed to noon sunlight for a while, she'd probably die on the spot—although she didn't know if sunlight actually had lethal power against her, she felt she would at least be knocked unconscious by the pain.
Perhaps being sunburned itself wasn't that painful, but this body, which was extremely sensitive to pain, would amplify the pain dozens of times.
She was screwed!
Jiang Feng sat on the ground covering her face, wanting to cry but having no tears. This was Earth, not another world—vampires shouldn't exist here at all!
If she accidentally got exposed someday, wouldn't those crazy scientists capture her for dissection and experiments?
At this moment, Jiang Feng really wanted to chop off her own hands! Why had she been so perverted as to make so many sick requests for this body!
If she had a time machine, she would definitely go back to last night and give herself a few hard slaps while making that wish.
Great, now look what happened. This body was really super lame. Not only was her physical strength and constitution incredibly weak, but she was also especially sensitive and afraid of pain, and even carried the absolutely unacceptable label of being non-human.
What happened to vampires all having superior constitutions? How did it become a super weakling who got out of breath from jogging two steps when it came to her?
The only thing she could hope for now was that the timid and tsundere traits wouldn't affect her anymore—the physical level was already hopeless, and if the mental level continued to become more timid, then really anyone could bully her as they pleased.
Hugging her knees and curled up on the ground, Jiang Feng felt extremely wronged in her heart. Her nose felt sour and her eyes were slightly moist, as if she might cry at any moment.
"No... I can't be like this." Jiang Feng wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, pursed her lips, and said firmly, "Jiang Feng, you're a man who stands tall between heaven and earth. How can you bow your head because of such small difficulties!"
Taking a deep breath, she supported her limp body and stood up, trying hard to encourage herself: "Jiang Feng, if you're still a man, you absolutely cannot submit because of physical weakness. Pain can be gotten used to and endured, weak constitution can be strengthened through training. Believe in yourself—my fate is in my own hands, not heaven's!"
After such self-hypnosis, Jiang Feng immediately felt full of confidence about her future life.
Jiang Feng got up and found a mop to simply clean up the blood all over the floor, but this little task that couldn't even be considered physical labor left Jiang Feng panting heavily. A small mop felt like it weighed ten thousand pounds in her hands.
"9:12 AM, May 17, 2020."
The time on the clock was perfectly fine. It seemed only her body had changed, and she hadn't returned to the past or traveled to the future or anything.
The biggest problem facing Jiang Feng now wasn't actually those various things, but a very realistic and important issue that had to be taken seriously: how should she survive in this society.
This was 21st century China. Without a legal and proper identity, life would be truly impossible. She couldn't even go to an internet cafe without being kicked out—though with her obviously underage appearance now, she probably couldn't even enter an internet cafe.
But when she pulled out her ID card from her wallet, Jiang Feng was completely stunned.
"Name: Xifeng
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Han
Birth: April 4, 2006
Address: No. 666 Luoyu Road, Tianshui District, Crescent City
Citizen ID Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
Except for the address and ethnicity being the same as before, all other data had completely changed.
The name had changed, gender had changed, even the birth date had changed. The photo on it had also changed from a 21-year-old otaku to a 14-year-old white-haired loli—at least she was 14 according to the birthday on the ID card, though her actual age was still debatable.
It seemed Lillian had very conscientiously forged a proper identity for her, which made Jiang Feng breathe a slight sigh of relief. At least she wouldn't have to live as someone without legal status.
But when she noticed a clear key scratch on the corner of the ID card, a horrifying feeling enveloped her. A chill ran from her back straight to her spine, making her break out in cold sweat instantly.
That familiar scratch made her instantly understand that this ID card was definitely the same one that had accompanied her for many years!
This meant Lillian hadn't forged a new identity for her, but had completely replaced Jiang Feng with Xifeng!
It was as if she had truly been born as this girl named Xifeng and had lived until today, and the person named Jiang Feng had never existed in this world.
This made Jiang Feng—oh no, she should be called Xifeng now—feel a kind of heart palpitation from deep within. If the demon could replace her identity in everyone's perception, then it could certainly erase someone's existence silently without anyone noticing.
Could there already be people around her who had been erased, only she had already forgotten?
The more she thought about it, the more terrifying it became. Xifeng quickly stopped her wild thoughts.
"Wait... wait, what about my job!?" Xifeng exclaimed.
She had originally been a senior college student about to become a corporate slave. She had signed a work contract and was currently in an internship period. Since today was Saturday, she didn't need to go to work.
But now she had become a 14-year-old underage girl. This contract couldn't possibly remain valid, otherwise that would be child labor, which was illegal.
But if she lost her job, wouldn't she become unemployed!?
She hurriedly went to her desk and frantically searched for her work contract, but to her surprise, she found a student card in the place where the work contract should have been.
"Tianshui District No. 1 Senior High School
Student Card Name: Xifeng
Gender: Female
Class: 102
Student Number: 20200764"
"......Are you fucking kidding me?" The corner of Xifeng's mouth twitched violently.
This student card wasn't unfamiliar to Xifeng, because Tianshui No. 1 High School was exactly the high school she had attended, only three kilometers from her home.
She had suffered greatly at Tianshui No. 1 High School, working hard day and night for three years, finally escaping that sea of suffering to become successful, and now she was told she had to go back and repeat high school?
Starting from the first year!?
Oh cruel heaven, why are you so unkind to me!
This painful reality made Xifeng, who had just perked up a little, instantly become dejected again.
But after carefully considering the pros and cons, Xifeng ultimately reluctantly accepted it. After all, according to the age on her ID card, she was only 14 years old. Besides going to school, there didn't seem to be anything else she could do.
Fortunately, today was Saturday, so she didn't have to think about school for now and could enjoy two more carefree days.
The sudden pressure made her not want to think about anything else. She flopped onto the bed and picked up her phone—why think so much? Better play with her phone for a while first. Whatever problems there were could be postponed.
This was the thinking of a terminal procrastination patient.
She skillfully unlocked her phone screen with her fingerprint. At this time, a strange icon in the corner caught Xifeng's attention.
It was a gear-shaped small icon with the word "System" written below it. She was certain her phone had never had such an application before.
"No way, officer......"
Suppressing the unease in her heart, Xifeng opened the system. What she saw were five colorful buttons.
"[Status]
[Affection]
[Tasks]
[Gacha]
[Warehouse]"
"......"
Her heart sank. Xifeng somewhat tremblingly extended her finger and lightly touched the button labeled [Status]. After a brief loading screen, a row of data appeared before her eyes.
"[Status]:
Satiety: 54.3%
Health: 87.2%
Mood: 33.7%
Shame: 45.2%
Sensitivity: 54.6%
Arousal: 6.7%"
"Holy shit, this system is sick!" Xifeng let out a loud exclamation in extreme shock.
This made her face instantly darken. At the same time, the mood reading quickly dropped from 33.7% to 18.1%, while shame shot up from 45.2% to 81.2%.
All of this confirmed the guess she very much didn't want to acknowledge—this system was exactly the training system for "Xifeng" that she had previously requested from Lillian, and these rows of data were naturally "Xifeng's" body data.
But the plan had a small deviation—now that she had become Xifeng, the target of this system's conquest naturally became herself.
The data in [Status]—the first three items were still relatively normal, but the last three made Xifeng completely ashamed to look directly at them. This was really completely an adult game system!
The only fortunate thing in this misfortune was that although the system's target had changed from someone else to herself, at least the system's control was still in her own hands.
At worst, she could just pretend this system didn't exist. This broken system couldn't force her to train herself, could it?
In her extremely bad mood, she didn't want to look at this system for another second. She directly locked the screen and threw the phone aside.
Screw the system, I'm going to take a nap.
Thinking this, Xifeng once again drew the curtains and directly buried her head in the blankets.
In this cold world, only these blankets still had some warmth.
Perhaps because her constitution was originally very delicate, perhaps because the blood loss had left her body very weak, perhaps because her spirit was extremely exhausted, she almost fell asleep the moment her head hit the pillow.
At this time, the simple and naive Xifeng still hadn't realized what kind of hellish despair a system in her own hands but used to train herself would bring her.