Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

Chapter 5: Going Home

Jiang Shuxuan had the skill of face reading, and so he promptly observed her face to check her fortune.

Her brow bone was slightly raised and her forehead was wide, while her eyes and eyebrows were well proportioned. Her lips were plump and when she smiled it showed two shallow dimples. Normally, this sort of person would be righteous and have great fortune, and could be said as a child blessed by the heavens, but for some unknown reason, his face reading showed that her life would come to an abrupt and horrible end.

Jiang Shuxuan frowned as he contemplated on why this was the case.

He didn't bring her back because of a simple whim, but because of...

Gu Xiqiao didn't know what Jiang Shuxuan was thinking about but replied to all the questions that he asked afterward honestly.

Seeing how carefully she was replying to the questions and glancing at him from time to time to see his reaction, his heart immediately softened.

'She is really a child,' he thought.

And as she talked, the last bit of hesitation in her eyes disappeared.

Gu Xiqiao was a likable girl—Good looking, with a clear and intelligent demeanor along with a fresh air to her like a fairy that made her way into the human world. Mrs. Zhang had already been grateful to her for prescribing medicine for her, and now that they had interacted she liked this girl even more.

In a mere two days, Mrs. Zhang had started regarding Gu Xiqiao as her daughter.

Gu Xiqiao could finally have a good night's sleep, and the next day she was woken up by a bright light. Her long eyelashes fluttered slightly before she opened her eyes, and as she saw her whereabouts she hid away the instinctive coldness in her gaze.

The light had come from the curtains that Mrs. Zhang had drawn open, and the elder gave her a bright smile when she saw her stir. "Good morning Miss Gu, get yourself all cleaned up and downstairs for breakfast. Master Jiang has been waiting for you."

Gu Xiqiao raised her eyebrows before finally reacting, saying good morning to Mrs. Zhang too.

She hadn't had the chance to have such an uninterrupted sleep for such a long time that she almost forgot what it felt like. In the last moments of her past life, even sleep became a luxury for her while when she was in the virtual space, she didn't even need sleep. To be able to sleep in such an unguarded state was once unimaginable for her.

Downstairs, Jiang Shuxuan was sitting by the table with a laptop, and when he saw her come down he asked his servant to bring them their breakfast.

[Ding! Daily Good Deed Mission activated: Jiang Shuxuan has been bothered by hackers and has lost a piece of secret data. Help him reclaim it!]

[Mission completion reward: 10 Points]

"This is out of my depth..." Gu Xiqiao stared down the bowl of noodles, before registering the system's voice in her head.

Be a hacker? This was not her area of expertise.

The system spirit made a proud expression. [This system is the strongest virtual system in the universe, and the technology of Earth is merely child's play in my eyes. All the strongest firewalls in the world are useless in front of me!]

Suddenly, it thought of something that Gu Xiqiao would be interested in.

[Beauty Qiao, look at this!]

A semi-transparent screen appeared in front of Gu Xiqiao, and there was a Weibo web page on it with a bunch of densely packed words along with some pictures, and it scrolled itself too. Gu Xiqiao looked at it and realized that they were pictures of Gu Xijin's torn up clothes. The ones that posted about it were all well-known accounts, and there were a lot of heartless comments by the people that came by it.