After the Second Playthrough, the CP-Less Female Lead Kneels and Begs Me for Forgiveness [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 50.1

Pei Xi was trapped in an illusion.

She looked at her tiny hands, staring blankly.

“Bang!”

Something fell, hitting the floor with a crisp shattering sound.

Pei Xi turned her head and saw a young Pei Ming, with a shattered dragon-green jade carving at her feet.

“Sister, you broke this. Father will blame you.”

Pei Xi could not control her movements. She understood now—she was merely inhabiting her own memories and could not interfere. These were events that had already happened, etched deeply into her mind.

Young Pei Ming looked at her and ran to her side: “What should we do then?”

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and a younger Pei Qing walked in.

Scene after scene, the memories replayed.

She and Pei Ming were caught by Pei Qing together.

However, Pei Ming was the first to speak, claiming Pei Xi broke it. Their mother, without understanding the situation, blindly supported Pei Ming.

Then came the servants; everyone pointed the finger of blame at her.

Pei Qing didn’t care to investigate who actually broke it; in his uncontrollable rage, he simply wanted an outlet for his anger.

It was happening again—that feeling of utter helplessness.

Pei Xi felt the tears wetting her cheeks; her limbs felt as though they were pinned to the wall.

Her younger self cried in despair. The silhouette of Pei Qing before her was strong and terrifying. He held a wooden staff and struck her body with force.

Trapped in this young body, forced to experience this pain once more, an infinite desire for violence rose within Pei Xi’s heart.

Everyone in the Pei family deserves to die.

Her vision blurred. The pain on her body vanished, replaced by a sense of suffocation.

She had fallen into the water.

“Help… help me… cough… save, save me…”

Her younger self struggled to call for help, but the people on the shore were just watching the spectacle. Finally, a servant who couldn’t bear the sight rescued her.

Yet, that servant was punished for it.

She remembered this too. Back then, Pei Ming and her friends invited her to play, but she was pushed into the water by someone.

It happened to be Pei Qing’s birthday, and many guests were invited.

Pei Qing felt that her falling into the water on this day was a slight against him. That night, she knelt in the courtyard in her wet clothes until she fainted.

Her young self finally buckled under the weight and lost consciousness; Pei Xi’s vision went black along with her.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw Madam Pei inches away.

Madam Pei stared at her deathly, her hands clutching Pei Xi’s neck, screaming: “Why are you so useless!!!”

“Mother, I—I’m sorry.”

Everyone in the Pei family deserves to die!

In reality, Shao Xibei had just pierced Madam Pei’s chest, but in an instant, the large hole in her chest mended itself.

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Pei Xi’s furrowed brows, but she couldn’t break away.

Countless times she wanted to seize Pei Ming directly, but the puppet before her prevented any breakthrough.

Human strength is limited; Shao Xibei was finally starting to tire.

As she dodged once more, her speed was visibly slower, and Madam Pei’s sharp nails grazed her arm.

In the illusion, subjected once again to the punishment of the whip, Pei Xi could no longer suppress the urge to kill. Her mind screamed: I want to kill them.

She discovered she could control the body now.

The small body grew rapidly, becoming her current form.

The strong Pei Qing before her became small in comparison. Without hesitation, Pei Xi tightened her fist and swung at him.

But the punch felt like hitting air; it had no effect on Pei Qing.

Pei Qing grinned maliciously: “Your wings have grown, eh? Daring to hit your old man.”

Pei Qing raised the wooden staff again and struck her body hard.

The intense pain made her body tremble.

She punched again, but just like before, it passed through air.

Madam Pei’s figure suddenly popped up, followed by the young Pei Ming and everyone who had ever bullied or mocked her.

Surrounded by these faces, the atmosphere was suffocating. Pei Xi’s eyes turned blood-red as if she had lost her sanity.

She picked up a wooden staff nearby and swung it at their leering faces.

The staff passed through their bodies, causing no damage.

Those people kept shouting: “Look at her eyes, they’re so weird.”

“Is she a monster?”

“We don’t want to play with her.”

“I heard Pei Ming say her father always hits her mother because of this, suspecting Pei Xi is a bastard.”

“Don’t play with her, she’s a monster.”

“…”

Sentence by sentence, word by word, they bored into Pei Xi’s ears.

All the most humiliating scenes buried in her heart were laid bare before her eyes.

“I—am—not—a monster! Ahhhh!” Pei Xi cried out. If only I didn’t have these eyes. Countless transparent threads probed out from her mind as if it were exploding.

Controlling her trembling hands, she reached toward her own eyes.

This time, Shao Xibei’s shoulder was slashed. She frowned deeply, noticing Pei Xi was actually trying to gouge out her own eyes with her hands.

Startled, Shao Xibei ignored everything else. With a few leaps, she reached Pei Xi’s side and gripped her hands tightly.

“Pei Xi! Wake up!”

Pei Xi did not react. Shao Xibei felt Pei Xi’s hands continuing to exert force; if she let go, Pei Xi would surely continue her actions.

She couldn’t let go, but the puppet wouldn’t leave her alone and was already closing in.

“How annoying!”

Shao Xibei thought to herself. She simply picked Pei Xi up and leaped away to dodge the puppet’s attack.

Seeing this, Pei Ming couldn’t help but laugh: “You really are devoted to my sister, protecting her even in this situation.”

“How about this? I’ll have Mother kill Pei Xi first.”

She looked forward to seeing what kind of expression this woman would make when that happened.

Pei Ming wore a smile, full of interest.

No one noticed that the accessory Pei Xi was wearing began to heat up and vibrate slightly.

Shao Xibei, holding her, found it increasingly difficult to dodge.

Her spiritual power had no effect on the puppet. Strictly speaking, a puppet does not contain malevolent energy.

On the contrary, a puppet is filled with “living energy,” whereas a celestial master’s power is mostly for exorcising evil.

“Pei Xi, wake up!” Shao Xibei shouted.

Now the puppet stopped attacking her and focused its attacks on Pei Xi in her arms; this made no difference to the difficulty.

Every time Shao Xibei dodged an attack, she called out Pei Xi’s name.

But Pei Xi was currently deep in the illusion. The voices around her were noisy, but there was one unique voice that drew her in, though she couldn’t hear it clearly.

She looked around with bloodshot eyes. No, one person is missing.

There is a very important person. Who is it? Who…

“Pei Xi, wake up.”

That unique voice faintly entered her ears again.

Who is it?

Pei Xi stood in a daze; the people around her seemed to have been blocked out.

She pondered that voice. The more she thought, the more her head ached.

Something seemed to be resisting her memory.

Pei Xi clutched her head and crouched down. It hurt so much.

The heat from the accessory Pei Xi wore grew higher, and the shaking intensified.

Even Shao Xibei could feel it.

She struggled to carry Pei Xi while dodging attacks, her body already covered in several small cuts.

Shao Xibei took a deep breath and roared: “Pei Xi! If you don’t wake up right now, I’m going to marry someone else!!!”

This voice shot straight into Pei Xi’s ears. Suddenly, the crystal-like accessory Pei Xi wore burst with brilliant light, actually floating up before turning into a streak of light that vanished into the space between Pei Xi’s brows.

Simultaneously, the people around Pei Xi vanished instantly, leaving only one person with a faint, beaming smile.

Shao Xibei.

Countless images flashed through her mind as the illusion shattered.

Pei Xi snapped her eyes open, and countless strings of code emerged from her pupils.

“System 00, reboot complete.”

Those sudden words brought joy to Shao Xibei. She was certain the System had returned!

Though it was unexpected, it was a good thing.

“System, you’ve finally recovered!!!” Shao Xibei said happily.

The System nodded. She hadn’t expected Shao Xibei to actually find her and facilitate her recovery.

Back then, she had been blown to pieces by the God-Lord. At the critical moment, she had created a decoy core, used her last bit of strength to take Shao Xibei away, and given her real core fragment to her.

As long as the core remained, she would not perish.

However, she could only completely convince the God-Lord of her destruction by reincarnating as a human.

And that core was the crystal accessory Shao Xibei had been wearing all along.

She had prepared for the worst back then; if it failed, she would have been trapped in this world forever.

The System leaped out of Shao Xibei’s arms.

Facing the approaching puppet, her eyes emitted a faint blue light as strings of code flashed rapidly. She raised her hand, and a massive burst of energy exploded, enveloping the puppet.

“Beginning decomposition.”

In moments, the puppet that had given Shao Xibei so much trouble turned into thin air.

Pei Ming’s expression finally changed.

She stared intently at Pei Xi: “Who are you? You aren’t Pei Xi.”

System: “Target locked: Pei Ming. Shares a blood relation with this body.”

The cold, mechanical voice of the System was so nostalgic to Shao Xibei that she jumped straight onto Pei Xi—no, the System—clinging to her back and wrapping her legs around the System’s waist.

“System, waaaah, I missed you so much.”

“Mm.” The System gave a faint hum.

That flat electronic tone made Shao Xibei pause. Wait, has Pei Xi disappeared? At that thought, her mood suddenly plummeted.

She didn’t notice that the System had reached back to hold her thighs, supporting her better on her back.

Pei Ming said: “System? What a strange name. Have you taken over my sister’s body?”

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