Hearing the Conquest System's Voice Before Confessing

Wen Yichu was an odd one out in that circle.

An orphan supported by the Song family, she naturally became the little follower of their eldest daughter, Song Yinghuan.

Born mute, she was always quiet, clutching a book and trailing at the back of the crowd.

"Such a quiet little mute." Song Yinghuan would narrow her beautiful fox eyes, lift Wen Yichu's chin with her slender fingers, and teasingly savor her flustered reaction.

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At first, Wen Yichu only wanted to finish school properly, find a job and support herself, and stay as far away as possible from everyone in the Song family.

But Song Yinghuan was like a stubborn vine, drawing close with her bewitchingly beautiful features. She leaned by Wen Yichu's ear and laughed softly. "Little mute, why are you always avoiding me?"

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The lofty Miss Song saved Wen Yichu from danger again and again. Like a blazing flame, she forcefully burned across Wen Yichu's entire world.

Song Yinghuan took a blow meant for Wen Yichu.

Song Yinghuan carefully planned a grand birthday banquet for Wen Yichu.

Song Yinghuan stood in the rain all night to pray for a talisman engraved with Wen Yichu's name, wishing her safety.

Beneath a sky filled with fireworks, Song Yinghuan pressed her palms together and made a gentle wish: "May Wen Yichu enjoy peace and safety, year after year."

Everyone said that the Song family's most unattainable rose had finally fallen into the little mute's hands.

So the usually timid little mute decided to stop running away. She wrote a love letter full of girlish feelings, eager and hopeful to confess her love to Song Yinghuan.

But before she could give it to her, she suddenly heard a jarring electronic voice speak at the same time as Song Yinghuan's.

[Conquest progress has reached 90%. Host, please keep working hard.]

Song Yinghuan's voice was cold. "This ridiculously boring game is finally coming to an end."

"The little mute was so easy to fool. Her progress was faster than I expected. How dull."

On the other side of the door, Wen Yichu's face turned deathly pale.

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In her third year of college, the Song family's little mute ran away.

Wen Yichu applied for an exchange program abroad. From then on, they were separated by vast distances, and years passed in a flash.

Song Yinghuan had thought that conquering Wen Yichu was just a little game to amuse herself when she was bored.

Even when the System announced that the conquest had failed, she merely raised an eyebrow with indifference, despite the electric current of her punishment.

Until, years later, at a banquet where glasses clinked and guests mingled.

Song Yinghuan saw Wen Yichu again.

The woman wore a blue-green qipao, her smooth, long hair swept up into a bun at an angle. With her head turned slightly, she listened intently and smiled tenderly at someone else.

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Song Yinghuan had never imagined that one day she would make a quiet plea in the most humble of voices:

"Wen Yichu, all I ask is that you treat me as you once did."

Tip: Her muteness will be cured later in the story.

Blurb written on 2024.09.12, screenshot preserved.

Theme: Love can only flourish without secrets.