Chapter Forty-Five: Debts Owed (Revision 7)

Heavy darkness pressed down from the edge of the sky. Ling Zhizhi had been busy from afternoon until evening, finally managing to gather everything she needed to showcase during her livestream.

"Ugh, I'm exhausted to death! System, can't you catalog all these items so that when I need them, you can lead me straight to them?"

Taking advantage of the moment she finally lay down, Ling Zhizhi made a request to the system.

Even a useless system needed to prove its worth sometimes.

[Host, the system has no desire to catalog so much junk.]

Ling Zhizhi was rendered speechless. By what possible evaluation standard did it call her items junk?

No wonder their cultural foundation was lost! Such unappreciative things!

Provoked to such anger by the system, Ling Zhizhi even forgot what she originally wanted to say. She casually ate a little something to pad her stomach and went upstairs to sleep.

Detecting abnormal emotional fluctuations in Ling Zhizhi, the system quietly muttered that human emotions really were prone to abnormality.

Only the serene zither remained, emitting a faint glow under the moonlight.

Early the next morning, the system began making noise in Ling Zhizhi's ear without stopping.

No one could peacefully sleep in when something was endlessly nagging right next to their ear. Driven to no other choice, Ling Zhizhi had to get up.

"System, you'd better have something very important to tell me!"

[Host, although this system does not wish to admit it, your livestream seems to have gained a certain degree of popularity.]

Was the system joking? Just that ten-minute livestream—how could that generate any popularity?

If a few people chatting could generate popularity, the whole world would blow up.

"You woke me up just for this? Given our current relationship, you won't drive me with money; it is utterly impossible for me to wake up early for work."

Ling Zhizhi urgently retracted her rising motion and lay back down on the bed.

[Host, you are now in urgent need of studying the internal livestream regulations of Far-View Star. You have gained a certain degree of popularity on Far-View Star, and once you livestream tomorrow, you will be able to make money.]

It was not easy to hear about other places from the system's mouth. At present, Ling Zhizhi only knew that the Prosperous System had three major core planets, and the primary functions assigned to each core planet differed.

Was this Far-View Star some insignificant little place? Still, no matter how small a small place was, it was still a planet.

Ling Zhizhi rallied her spirits, resigned herself to getting up, and went to study whatever regulations the system had mentioned.

In the gap of getting up, she heard the whole story from beginning to end through the system's mouth.

Turns out, a wealthy second-generation heir had seen her video, deemed her so fake it was absurd, and indignantly filed a complaint against the Far-View Star livestreaming platform. Furthermore, it happened to coincide with an era on Far-View Star when technological anomalies in streaming were rampant, which was why such a heated discussion had been sparked.

She could be considered to have stood on the shoulders of predecessors to achieve her current popularity.

Ling Zhizhi couldn't help sighing inwardly: even infamy is fame.

"System, did you notice if there were flowers beside my zither yesterday?" Ling Zhizhi walked downstairs, passed through the living room, and noticed an extra bouquet of flowers on the stool next to the guqin.

[Host, your bad habit of casually leaving things around is not good.]

Ling Zhizhi was quite certain she had not retrieved this bouquet of flowers from the warehouse, so why had it ended up beside the zither?

Could her memory loss have reached such a degree?

Ling Zhizhi shook her head and silently noted the matter in her heart.

"Can I directly access the network of the Prosperous System?" Remembering the system's unreliability, Ling Zhizhi put forward her own demand.

All these things had happened yesterday, yet the system was only telling her today—the delay was far too long. If things continued like this in the future, wouldn't it be terribly difficult for her to keep track of her own public reception at the first possible moment?

[Of course you can. This is your right as the host, but it requires you to unlock it step by step. After you have one successful livestream, the system will issue two books: "System Entry Manual" and "Prosperous System Basic Code" for you to study.]

Okay, okay, Ling Zhizhi once again hid her eager and restless thoughts.

This scumbag system actually had two faces.

Study time always passed with agonizing slowness. Ling Zhizhi found it hard to understand why she had to memorize all these things in her head. Shouldn't this be the system's responsibility?

She had an epiphany and righteously accused the system, "System, are you being overly irresponsible? I want to file a complaint against you!"

The system was multitasking, keeping an eye on the battle situation over at Far-View Star while perfunctorily dealing with Ling Zhizhi.

[Host, you have no channel to file a complaint against me. Secondly, your mistakes yesterday were also due to your unfamiliarity with the livestreaming regulations, which you cannot refute. Lastly, I am teaching you how to become a qualified cross-spacetime anchor.]

Stuck with such an unlucky host, the system was also quite helpless.

[If you are angry because I trapped you at house, there is really no need. I am doing this for your own good.]

Ling Zhizhi's own emotions had been relatively stable, but as soon as the system uttered those words about doing it for her own good, she instantly exploded. "For my own good? You're the one spouting all the logic. Having bound yourself to me for so long, have you ever done a single thing that was genuinely for my good?"

"Fine! At the very beginning, because your binding saved me, I was very grateful to you! But you also saddled me with a debt of one hundred thousand! Regarding the livestream, have you ever offered a single piece of advice? From start to finish, you've just been making sarcastic remarks. I've had enough of you. If push comes to shove, let's just part ways; neither of us has to look at the other's expression to get through the day!"

Having lived this long, Ling Zhizhi loathed nothing more than others saying they were doing things for her own good.

They weren't even her, so how could they know what was good for her?

Especially after being suppressed and wronged by the system for several days, Ling Zhizhi had a bellyful of resentment just waiting to be vented.

[Host, you need to calm down. The system's original intention was not what you think.]

Before Ling Zhizhi finished venting her emotions, she directly sneered in retaliation. "Ha, not what I think? Then what is it? Calm down? How do you expect me to calm down! Can calming down magically make me rich again right now? System, don't be so self-righteous; I won't let you manipulate me forever! You'd better stop using that damn emotion detection on me!"

[Host, the system has accepted the suggestions you put forward, but your authority is currently too low, and there is nothing I can do.]