《Shared System》16. Show but not show
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Of the nine continents of the Nine Cloud Kingdom, there is a strange sight in the ninth continent, even though it is the lowest of the nine continents, therefor should be the lowest in cultivation.
There is a peak expert on the ninth continent, descended from the very Royal Court of the Zhang empire. His cultivation was sealed in the process of descending. Not many know of this, only that he was an expert from a higher continent. No one expect him to be from the very first continent. And currently that person is...
"Uncle Lei, I wanted a red horse that can run for thousand of kilometers."
He got the red horse for the little lady next to him.
"Uncle Lei, I saw the lady of the Hua family yesterday wearing a beautiful red dress, get it for me."
Lei Xingyue orders the servants to make red dress for the little lady next to him.
"No! I don't want this dress. I want the Hua family heir's dress."
The little lady throws the dress in the face of the peak expert before running away.
"Uncle Lei, I want a playmate."
Lei Xingyue orders the servants to gather heirs and heiresses from the highest and most noble families within the ninth continent to play with the little lady. The next day,-
"Zhang Yating! What is the meaning of this? Why did you hit the heiress of the Hua family who came to play?"
Lei Xingyue was furious. The bruises on the heiress of the Hua family was vicious. If he isn't going to teach the young lady from when she is young, she is going to grow up to be tyrannical.
"They were laughing at me! Uncle Lei, get me new playmates. The red horse is also dead, get me a new one. I don't want to wear my red dress anymore, get me another equally elegant dress."
Suddenly, Lei Xingyue has enough and slap the little lady in front of him.
"U-uncle Lei."
"You also know that I'm your uncle and not your servant huh? Vicious little thing, did you know the heiress of the Hua family is going to be bedridden for months. Just where did I go wrong."
Zhang Yating widens her eyes at his words.
"B-but I didn-"
"You didn't? Then who just admitted to hitting the Hua family's heiress? Servants-"
"Yes." The servants of the house come out and looks at Zhang Yating with amusement. Finally the little lady is going to get it.
"I forbid anyone from helping Yating for the next three weeks. She is going to stay in her room to reflect on what she has done. Anyone who interfere with my order is going to be punished. Understand?"
"Yes." The servants chorus. Let alone disobeying someone as scary as Lei Xingyue, in the first place, none of them like Zhang Yating. That parent-less girl... always acting reckless and high and mighty with the backing of Lei Xingyue. Now, she finally gets what she deserves, now she is finally one of them, not some lady that was born with a golden spoon named Lei Xingyue in her mouth, now she is just some parent-less girl.
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Seeing the look the servants in the house give her, while sniffling, Zhang Yating runs back to her room.
"Wait-" Lei Xingyue tries to stop her, thinking that he was too harsh. But then he stops, in the place of her father, he has to disciplined her so that she won't grow up abusing her power.
"Hmm!"
He sits back on his seat, drinking tea. A memory from a long time ago comes back to him
"Uncle Lei. When is father visiting?"
Lei Xingyue looks toward the fading figure of the little lady, he shakes his head.
It's important to balance his treatment and discipline of her. In the end, Yating has a very pitiful fate.
...
It has been a week, Zhang Yating stays obediently in her room. Strangely, she was quiet, too quiet.
Peak expert Lei Xingyue himself comes to her room to check up on her, in fact, he was worried.
"Yating. Come and eat dinner with me."
Suddenly he heard sound of Yating in her room quickly doing something. 'She must be doing her make-up' He thinks. He was fully expecting the girl to be angry when she sees him, but when she comes out, she was respectful.
"Yes, uncle Lei."
Instead of the heavy make-up, Yating was plain. Lei Xingyue thinks that she resembles her mother very much, that woman never need make-up or anything to be a beauty. It was a natural kind of charm. Yating was also wearing a plain white dress to accentuate that natural beauty of her. No more obsession with red Yating has. Normally, that girl prefers everything in gaudy red color. Red horse, red dress, red lipstick, red decoration.
"Very well." He didn't comment on the change, though he finds it to his liking.
Perhaps this girl has finally grown up.
For a week, Zhang Yating stays obediently in her room without any complaint. Even the servants found it strange, they expect she would have grown bored by the third day, however, she stays extremely quiet.
Little did they know, she already has a very receptacle listener inside her room.
"Princess Yating: I didn't do it. I only punch her one for insulting my mother and father. But then the next day uncle Lei punishes me for hospitalizing the Hua heiress and beating her until she was bruised and bloodied."
"System Notice: Princess Yating was given a warning point.
Note: Please respect the anonymity of other while using the Heavenly Dao Discussion. Reminder: For the safety and anonymity of the participants...."
"Princess Yating: What is this warning point thing. Is this System Notice trying to bully me to?"
"Fairy Yijun: There there. Just don't use real name and the System Notice will not pop up."
At that moment, suddenly a person called Fairy Yijun appeared in the system board and keep Yating's company.
From the point the System appears in front of Yating, she started venting her grievances for Fairy Yijun to hear, the other person was quite a good listener and always responds to her. Yating does not feel bored, having someone to talk to is different from her normal state.
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...That is why she wanted a playmate, but that idiotic uncle of her brought in that bitch from the Hua family.
"Fairy Yijun: Now now. Even though he seems to be an impulsive man hitting you like that, he is still supposed to be the one who hold the patriarch position of the house. He is worried about you."
"Princess Yating: Worried about me? Than why did he hit me like that without investigating clearly?"
"Fairy Yijun: Think about it from his position, as the patriarch of the house, how could he show his face to other patriarch if it was known that you were an unreasonable person like that? It seems to me from your stories, this Hua heiress has been working hard to destroy your reputation throughout the year. Going as far as pretending to be bedridden, she surely has planned this out. It would be hard from a third person viewpoint to not be biased after all her acting through the year. But you have something that she doesn't have."
"Princess Yating: What is it? What is it?!"
"Fairy Yijun: Your uncle is your uncle and not her. She is trying to sway that person to her side, but in the end he is not her actual uncle, he is your. As long as you manage to stay in his good grace, he will be on your side."
...
"Princess Yating: How about this, should I wear this Fairy Yijun?"
Zhang Yating starts describing the piece of clothing in the chat, it would be better if she could show it to the actual person, but she doesn't know where this Fairy Yijun is and this dumb system keeps sending notice every time she asks.
"Fairy Yijun: No need. As a beautiful girl, I know you won't need any of those unnecessary thing. Don't copy that Hua heiress, gaudy colorful clothes is only for lesser women who is not confident in their own natural beauty and need to distract from it using tricks."
"Princess Yating: What about make-up?"
"Fairy Yijun: Dear, you should put it like this. Lightly and softly with the small brush. Under your eyes, you don't want to over apply..."
As an experienced woman, Yijun starts instructing Yating on how to put on make-up. As someone who has a martial-minded uncle as the only parental figure, and servants that hate her as her instructor, Yating was never given proper lesson like this. The servants would never tell her what she did was wrong, they just follow her instruction and then laugh at her when they thought she was not watching. That is when the "silly princess" moniker was born. But now, with someone who slowly instruct her on everything, Zhang Yating was very excited.
"Fairy Yijun: As a girl, when you eat you have to do it like this. Elegant and beautiful, you have to keep the men guessing. Their mind will create their own image of a goddess if you show but not show. Especially if are already beautiful, you don't need to show your beauty, sometime even hiding it is better at arousing curiosity. Why do you think there many legends of cloaked beauties? They cover themselves in many layer of cloth, but it only arouse even more interest. Only a vulgar woman shows it all, and men may like vulgar women, but it is only for one night, not for their whole life."
The more Yating follows Yijun's instruction, the more she feels excited. She also feels extremely grateful. There was also another feeling within her
"Princess Yating: Fairy Yijun, you feel just like my mother! Even though I'm sure you are a youthful beauty, you truly feel like my own mother talking to me. Thank you."
At that moment, Fang Yijun almost drops her broom. Princess Yating was exactly on point about a woman who practiced an art that reverse her aging, making her look younger and more beautiful.
"Fairy Yijun: Yeah. I already know I'm am a youthful beauty!"
"Shi Xiang: Yes, senior Yijun is very beautiful." At that moment, Shi Xiang comes out of nowhere to comment. It looks like he has been busy lately, a week after entering the PvP world. A fire was started within him after seeing Zheng Jie and Yan Yu's battle.
"Princess Yating: Ah! Shi Xiang is here. I wish to see Fairy Yijun too! It's not fair."
At that moment, Fang Yijun was down. Seeing Yijun in real life huh? If Princess Yating saw her as she is right now, surely she will be disappointed.
"What are you doing Fang Yijun?! Sweep harder! Just because the higher up pay attention to you does not mean you are anything more than an outer gate disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect you slut."
An angry woman in charge of disciplining the outer sect disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect yells at her.
Half a month after the PvP battle, Fang Yijun has managed to escape from the pursue of the lustful Dong Yu, she also entered the Heavenly Sword Sect like Zheng Jie's suggestion.
However, she was nothing more than a lowly yard sweeper right now.
That is why she thinks to herself "If Princess Yating sees me right now, she will be disappointed."
And just like that she went back to sweeping. She has good memories the last few day, talking to the young girl. As a woman in her hundreds, talking to a young girl about matter like that did arouse the long dormant mother instinct within her.
However, the cultivator's life was hard.
She didn't want any children back then because she was afraid it would affect her concentration while cultivating. She didn't have any children.
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