Heroine: I have three thousand cheats. (Boss expression) Envious bystanders: Too bad none of them are yours—they all belong to the male lead. (Smug faces) Heroine: I have three thousand male leads.
Si Jiu abruptly opened her eyes. What greeted her gaze was the familiar milky-white ceiling and the soft bed beneath her—evidence that she had returned to her own resting chamber at the transfer station. Yet the pain of skin scorched by flames and the suffocating sensation lingering in her throat and nasal passages had not entirely faded, leaving her suspended between clarity and confusion.
Her memory lingered on the pair of eyes that had stared at her through the raging inferno—eyes filled with despair and madness.
[Would you like emotional detachment or psychological counseling?] System 023 spoke up at just the right moment.
“No need.”
The expected answer. The system didn’t insist.
Si Jiu asked, “Have I been officially promoted?”
[Yes, Host. You have successfully passed your internship assessment, and based on the employment intent you filled out at contract signing, you are now officially an employee of the Golden Finger Division of the Dimensional Management Bureau.]
“So what are we waiting for? Let’s head to the next world and deliver the package to the male lead! Let’s go.”
System: […Deploying mission world.]
As the progress bar on the system’s screen slowly reached 100%, a dazzling white light engulfed Si Jiu’s vision. In the next instant, her body felt light, and she vanished from her resting chamber.
Pain surged through her body. Si Jiu opened her eyes slowly; her vision was blurred, unable to focus.
“The host body is blind?” Si Jiu asked the system, exasperated.
[No, just severely nearsight