[Ah-]
[Oh, you poor prince-]
Jian Ruonan had merely spaced out for a moment, and that scummy turtle Black Tortoise started wailing again.
She had no words.
[Stop, stop, stop. Quit your wailing. Doesn't he have you for company? How is he lonely?] Jian Ruonan said, [It's so cold out. Aren't you two freezing?]
Black Tortoise System: ??
My poetry actually failed to move her?!
Still, the Fifth Miss had some conscience. She cared whether Xiaosi was cold.
It must have been the influence of its poetry!
The Black Tortoise System continued:
[We're freezing! We're about to freeze to death! Especially the Fourth Prince. He's so pitiful!]
[His handsome face is frozen ice; for love, the prince pays any price!]
[Where did yesterday's heartthrob go? Delivering takeout through ice and snow!]
[His handsome...]
Jian Ruonan said, [...Stop-]
She had the urge to stuff a handful of glutinous rice into its mouth. If she let it keep talking, it felt as though it might turn into a hopping corpse.
[Looks like you really are the poet of the system world.]
The Black Tortoise System wagged its tail. [You flatter me, Fifth Miss!]
Jian Ruonan said, [I wasn't praising you. I was mocking you!!]
[I'm warning you. No more poetry! Recite another verse, and I'll go tell the Fourth Prince you sold him out. Try me!!]
The Black Tortoise System said, [...]
Why was the Fifth Miss just like Xiaosi, threatening a system with harsh words at the drop of a hat?
Jian Ruonan said, [Coming out to swindle energy in this cold-you two really are disabled in body but unbroken in spirit.] One was brain-damaged, the other physically impaired.
The Black Tortoise System coaxed her gently. [Fifth Miss, would you like to go see the Fourth Prince?]
*The Fourth Prince was