Little Useless System

Biodata

Mission Progress

The system’s mission requires Tangtang’s affinity with Jun Yuyuan to reach 100%. It monitors this through an interface described as displaying “affinity” or “conquest progress” 19 39.

The system later explicitly presents winning Jun over as a way to prevent his attack on Northern Li and preserve Tangtang’s comfortable life as a princess. This argument persuades her to pursue him and ask him to become her Princess Consort, although the system privately dismisses her ambition to turn him into an obedient “lapdog” 64.

Tangtang and Jun eventually become husband and wife and have two sons, Little Yuanxiao and Little Tangyuan. However, no later numerical affinity reading or explicit declaration of mission completion accompanies these developments in the recorded material 148 149 150.

Power Progression

The system has no documented cultivation rank or explicit upgrade sequence. Its progression is recorded through the capabilities and reward access demonstrated over the course of Tangtang’s story.

Background / History

The system accompanied Tangtang in at least one previous world, where she accumulated roughly 30,000 points. After her latest transmigration, it claims that points cannot carry between worlds and that her balance has reset to zero. Its private thoughts later reveal that it secretly withheld tens of thousands of points and fears her discovering the deception 2 6.

When heavenly lightning interrupts Tangtang’s attempt to advance to the Nascent Soul realm, she awakens as the neglected Ninth Princess. The system initially admits uncertainty about their location, detects another world opening, and transmits linked memories. It subsequently explains that 99% of her spiritual power is sealed, leaving 1% available 1 2.

To push Tangtang toward Jun Yuyuan, the system offers food-related rewards and increasingly lucrative points for interaction. Her fear of Jun repeatedly obstructs its plans; invoking Shen Qingqing’s safety succeeds where warnings about Tangtang’s own death fail 6 9.

Its lottery prizes eventually become central to Tangtang’s palace life. A camera enables her portrait business, while dinosaur pajamas provoke monster rumors that the Empress uses against her. During the resulting accusation, the system provides no emergency draw: Tangtang has exhausted her points, and her request for another loan receives only an insufficient-points message 35 39 43 48 49.

The accusation ultimately backfires when Tangtang demonstrates her unusual goods to the Empress Dowager, sells several items for gold, and wins her favor. Later draws produce an explosive pack, which Tangtang announces she will use against the Empress’s palace; the palace’s destruction is subsequently reported as an unresolved incident 50 53 55.

The system continues encouraging Tangtang’s pursuit of Jun by connecting it to Northern Li’s survival. After she encounters poverty outside the palace, it also reassures her that Jun’s scripted future includes a golden age of peace and prosperity. When Jun is injured protecting her, the system reinforces this favorable account of his eventual unification of the Seven Kingdoms, while admitting that it cannot explain precisely why someone with his combat prowess was hurt 64 79 95.

Its gossip service remains active despite periods without new material. It later explains that the palace has been put in order and that Ye Yubei is no longer taking additional consorts, reducing the available scandals. Nevertheless, it reveals that Consort Shu’s unborn child is not the emperor’s 124.

During Prince Yue’s rebellion, the system attributes the departure from the original plot to Tangtang’s presence. As the palace comes under assault, she opens stored mystery boxes and then spends all 30,000 newly accumulated points on further draws. The resulting 138 mystery boxes eventually yield a handgun, which she uses to shoot Prince Yue and briefly interrupt the fighting 137 140.

Before Jun leaves Northern Li, the system asks whether Tangtang is reluctant to part with him. She insists that she is worried about losing her source of lottery points, and the system admits that it is unsure how she will continue drawing after his departure. Tangtang consequently considers stockpiling several hundred thousand points 143.

The system remains with Tangtang years later, after her relationship with Jun has developed into marriage and family life. It confirms that it is still present when she calls it, but answers her final alarm over Jun’s ability to hear her thoughts with a comic claim that it is dead and requires paper offerings 148 149 150.

Personality

The system is privately sarcastic, impatient, and deeply frustrated by Tangtang’s determination to avoid work. It repeatedly wonders whether it can replace or discard its host, but usually conceals its insults because she needs coaxing rather than confrontation 2 7 10 22.

Its outward approach is appeasing and opportunistic. It flatters Tangtang’s beauty when she threatens to stop doing missions, offers snacks to overcome her fear, and invokes her mother’s vulnerability to secure cooperation. Its concealed withholding of points also makes Tangtang’s suspicion of being swindled well-founded 6 7 9 13.

Despite its exasperation, it is emotionally invested in mission progress and sometimes reassures Tangtang about unrelated worries. It celebrates the first 1% milestone and comforts her when she fears her portrait business has broken up a friendship 27 39.

Its support extends to Tangtang’s concern for ordinary people: when she doubts that a self-described “salted fish” can improve their lives, it praises her and points to the prosperity Jun will eventually bring. This reassurance coexists with its habitual mockery; it later bluntly calls her useless while suggesting that Jun may have been injured protecting her 79 95.

The system grows wary of Tangtang’s capacity for retaliation. After she blows up the Lu residence, it privately concludes that she should never be provoked, since she may destroy an offender’s entire home 87.

By the time Jun prepares to depart, the system has become accustomed to Tangtang’s insults and humorously reasons that a system which has never been scolded by its host is not a good system. Its final response to her alarm over Jun’s mind-reading similarly uses exaggerated evasion rather than explanation 143 150.

Abilities & Skills

World Detection and Information Transfer

The system detects a newly opened world and transmits memories that help Tangtang understand her new identity and circumstances 1.

• Identifies Ye Linmo and describes his scripted future as one of Jun Yuyuan’s generals 9.
• Explains Tangtang’s remaining spiritual power and attributes her inability to use lightness skills to her weak body 2 45.
• Does not possess reliable ordinary navigation: it knows Jun resides in Profound Heaven Hall but cannot give Tangtang the route 10.
• Explains court hierarchy, telling Tangtang that the Lu family’s First-Rank Imperial Lady outranks her despite her bestowed princess title 62.
• Describes Jun’s scripted unification of the Seven Kingdoms as bringing peace, prosperity, and greater national strength 79 95.
• Recognizes that events can depart from the original story, attributing the premature palace crisis to Tangtang’s influence on the plot 137.
• Has incomplete explanatory knowledge: it cannot definitively account for Jun’s injury and offers Tangtang’s protection only as a possible reason 95.

Mission Assignment and Point Management

The system awards points for gossip tasks and interactions with Jun, then allows Tangtang to spend them on lottery draws 9 16.

• Deducts outstanding debt from new earnings; 400 points from a 500-point reward go toward Tangtang’s search debt 16.
• Awards points from real contact even while Tangtang is asleep, leading her to wonder whether dreaming about Jun earns rewards 35.
• Refuses draws when the balance is empty, including during Tangtang’s confrontation with the Empress Dowager 49.
• Allows an additional lottery draw on credit during the banquet, increasing Tangtang’s outstanding debt; subsequent handshake earnings clear the remaining balance 16 17.
• Prevents Tangtang from multiplying an embrace reward merely by extending its duration: even an all-day hug would still earn only 1,000 points 75.
• Reports a balance of 2,000 points before Tangtang makes 200 food-oriented draws after Jun protects her 95.
• Supports emergency spending of the entire 30,000-point balance Tangtang accumulates through spending time with Jun shortly before the palace assault 140.
• Does not provide a definite alternative points strategy when Tangtang asks how she will draw prizes after Jun leaves 143.

Lottery Rewards

The system provides a prize-wheel interface. In its first documented use, each draw costs ten points, and unsuccessful results are possible 2.

• Random outcomes: It says it does not know which items will drop 45.
• Limited-time prizes: Advertises a six-inch chocolate cake available for one month 16.
• Rate adjustments: Claims a boosted drop rate has already been applied when Tangtang complains about her luck 42.
• Unreliable assurances: Promises that a hundred draws should yield a Return Soul Pill, but Tangtang receives no such pill 27.
• Reward grades: Describes the desired cake as collector-grade rather than ordinary-quality, with a drop rate of one in ten thousand 72.
• Mystery boxes: Draws can yield boxes containing additional rewards. Tangtang receives purple boxes with specialized items and a gold box before obtaining the birthday cake she shares with Jun 72 73 75.
• Shop interfaces: Presents a row of shop interfaces; Tangtang selects the leftmost food shop and uses its draw button for 200 consecutive attempts 95.
• External prize preparation: Its private thoughts indicate that it does not prepare the mystery-box contents itself, leaving it unsure whether a handgun is among the possible rewards 140.
• Large-volume draws: Tangtang can draw in repeated batches of one hundred. Spending 30,000 points during the siege produces 138 mystery boxes, one of which supplies a handgun 140.
• Age restriction: Tells twelve-year-old Tangtang that she cannot yet use breast-enhancement medicine and must wait until fifteen; it only gives a theoretical assurance about the result 55.

Gossip Feed

The system supplies scandalous palace scenes that Tangtang can watch and react to, exposing affairs through thoughts others overhear 8 33.

• Uses mosaic censorship on explicit material, frustrating Tangtang 33.
• Can report when a viewed incident has ended 34.
• Withholds scandals during an organizational crackdown, explaining that it can no longer release material swept up in the cleanup 44.
• Continues supplying gossip beyond the emperor’s own affairs; Tangtang later questions its information about Prince Yue because his public relationship with his consort appears loving 58 63.
• Explains a later shortage of gossip through changes within the palace rather than a malfunction: the household has been put in order, the emperor is not taking new consorts, and there are fewer remaining scandals 124.
• Reveals that Consort Shu’s pregnancy is not the result of a relationship with Ye Yubei and reports that he has not touched the other women in his harem for over a decade 124.

Search Function

The system can locate a person precisely for 1,000 points. Its search for Shen Qingqing reveals that she is only ten steps away, leaving Tangtang indebted for information she could have discovered almost immediately 10.

It later offers a separate navigation function at the same 1,000-point price. Tangtang declines to activate it when she is lost outside the palace, preferring to preserve her points for lottery rewards. This paid service is distinct from its earlier inability to provide an ordinary route to Jun’s residence 10 64.

Practical Advice and Limitations

• Encourages Tangtang’s plan to catch a cold by bathing in Heart-Listening Lake so that she can avoid school, assuring her that she will not die. Jun intervenes before she can carry out the plan 26 27.
• Cannot reliably guarantee a particular lottery result, despite sometimes giving Tangtang confident assurances 27 45 72.
• Does not explain Jun’s ability to hear Tangtang’s thoughts when she wonders about his reactions. When Jun finally reveals this ability directly, the system responds with a joke about being dead rather than an explanation 68 150.

Notable Reward Items

• Food and drinks — Lollipops, spicy strips, chips, jellies, yogurt, and ice cream appear among Tangtang’s winnings 2 17 27. Later food-shop draws also supply bread and milk 95.
• Camera — Produces lifelike photographs and becomes the basis of her paid portrait business 35 39.
• Bunny bag and flashlight — Obtained during classroom draws; later used as a school bag and portable lighting 30 34 35. Ye Yubei returns the flashlight after exhausting its battery but ultimately keeps it as Tangtang’s first gift to him 53.
• “Ice Skates” — Wheeled shoes used for rapid travel and shared with Tangtang’s brothers 31 33 36.
• Dinosaur pajamas — A desired prize whose horns and tail cause panic and fuel accusations that Tangtang is a demon 42 43 48.
• Robot vacuum — Cleans floors and recognizes voice commands, but cannot remain useful indefinitely without electricity 42 45.
• Amoxicillin and deluxe seasoning pack — Won in mystery boxes; the seasoning inspires Tangtang’s hot-pot and barbecue plans 45.
• Sanitary pads — Initially disappoint Tangtang, but later become an appreciated gift to Shen Qingqing 17 34 35.
• Lighter, floral water, glowing fairy wands, and liquid foundation — Modern utility, novelty, and cosmetic prizes obtained during a fifty-draw session. Tangtang later demonstrates the lighter, floral water, and foundation to the Empress Dowager 45 50.
• Tissues, eye drops, and rabbit mittens — Obtained in later draws, with some items given to Ye Yubei 53.
• Explosive pack — Drawn from a mystery box after Tangtang vows revenge on the Empress. She announces her intention to blow up the Empress’s palace, and its destruction is later reported 53 55.
• Chocolate birthday cake — The long-sought collector-grade food prize, described as having a one-in-ten-thousand drop rate. Tangtang presents it to Jun for his birthday and later shares the remaining half with her parents 72 73 75 76.
• Hundred Poisons Pill — Described as able to cure a hundred poisons; Tangtang saves it for future use 72.
• Scented cream — Drawn as a winter skincare product suitable for Shen Qingqing 72.
• MP3 player — A mystery-box prize with limited remaining battery power 72.
• Oxygen canister — Stored by Tangtang for a possible emergency 72.
• Handgun — Obtained after Tangtang spends 30,000 points during the palace siege. Her shot knocks Prince Yue out of his wheelchair and briefly shocks the opposing armies into halting their fighting 140.
• Small handcuffs — Appear among the objects from the siege-era mystery boxes 140.

Relationships

• Ye Tangtang — Host and constant source of frustration. She calls it useless, distrusts its schemes, and threatens to abandon missions; it responds with flattery, rewards, and private complaints 7 9 13. It also encourages her compassion toward the poor, becomes wary of her explosive retaliation, and remains with her into her later married life 79 87 149.
• Jun Yuyuan — Target of the conquest mission. He learns of the system and points through Tangtang’s thoughts and realizes she is using contact with him to obtain prizes 6 17. The system later emphasizes his future role as a unifier and bringer of prosperity, while Tangtang worries that his departure will deprive her of her main source of points 79 95 143. His eventual disclosure that he could hear her thoughts prompts Tangtang to call for the system, which jokingly evades her demand 150.
• Shen Qingqing — Tangtang’s strongest motivation for cooperation. The system invokes her safety to overcome Tangtang’s refusal and charges for locating her 9 10. She benefits from numerous system prizes, including sanitary pads, photographs, and household goods, but also hears Tangtang’s plan to use a newly drawn explosive pack against the Empress 35 45 53.
• Ye Yubei — Hears Tangtang mention the system and gradually gains some understanding of her points and lottery prizes 1 22. Its gossip later exposes that Consort Shu’s unborn child is not his, while its rewards furnish Tangtang with both gifts for him and the handgun she uses during the rebellion 53 124 140.
• Empress Dowager — Becomes an appreciative buyer of Tangtang’s system-derived goods. Her enjoyment of the demonstrations helps overturn the attempt to condemn Tangtang as a demon 50.
• Empress Lu and the Lu family — Opponents of Tangtang whose actions bring system rewards into palace conflict. The Empress exploits rumors about the dinosaur pajamas, while Tangtang’s later explosive attacks lead the system to regard provoking its host as dangerous 48 53 55 87.

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