Big System: [Nan Nan, someone's stealing my energy!!!]
[Who? Who is it?! Drag them out and give them a good beating!!] Jian Ruonan demanded.
[They actually dared to steal from me!]
Dantai Mo nearly stopped breathing. He glanced at the black tortoise system in his mind.
Didn't you say your level was high enough that you wouldn't be discovered? Huh?
Then what was going on now?
This useless system really was useless!
The black tortoise system dared neither speak nor go offline. It silently maintained its most basic functions, terrified that any larger fluctuation in its current would alert the other system.
Host and system stared at one another, holding their breath, neither daring to speak.
Dantai Mo was as gracious as a clear breeze beneath a bright moon, upright and honorable all his life. Now the black tortoise system had led him into stealing Lamp Oil, nearly ruining his lifelong reputation in a single stroke. He cursed it ten thousand times in his heart.
Black Tortoise System: [Your Highness, you agreed to steal the Lamp Oil!]
This had been a joint undertaking!
He couldn't expect one system to take all the blame!
[Shut up!] Dantai Mo snapped.
Were you afraid we wouldn't get caught?!
Being useless was bad enough, but you couldn't even read the situation!
I must have suffered eight lifetimes of rotten luck to be bound to such a miserable thing!
[There aren't other systems here, are there?] Jian Ruonan asked.
Big System: [Probably not. One book only has one system. This is a steamy, sweet-and-angsty romance where the man has to suffer to win his wife back. If there were more systems and everyone had superpowers, wouldn't it turn into a fantasy novel?]
*[What? Steamy? Don't corrupt me! I haven't