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The System
After Xiao Xing thought she would die from the knowledge she shouldn't have learned—knowledge about the Outer Gods, which is considered tainted—she waited a few seconds, then opened her eyes in shock.
"Why didn't I die? Why wasn't I tainted?" she wondered.
Then she began to think, "Could it be that my soul isn't from this world, so the knowledge doesn't affect or taint me? But that's strange…" She continued thinking, "Will Adam come to me when he finds out an ordinary human knows so much about him? Truly, this world is harsh..."
Suddenly, memories that weren't hers overwhelmed her. They were about a girl named Linda Rachel. She had been a 19-year-old girl, the daughter of a wealthy family working in trade. Her parents had passed away from an illness they contracted during a business trip.
Since Linda didn't know much about trade, she decided to sell the business after a grain merchant offered her 500,000 gold coins. She agreed, then moved from Yceland to Tenigen, deciding to continue her university education there in the history department. Her life was normal until one day, on her way home, she felt something enter her body. She couldn't tell what it was. When everything seemed fine, she went home and ate dinner. But that night, she died in her sleep without any apparent cause.
Xiao Xing found it odd. "Why would the girl die for no reason? Is there really such a thing?" But she also remembered that the girl had been suffering from depression after her parents' death and had even contemplated suicide.
Still, Xiao Xing felt even stranger—why could she remember all these events so clearly? Compared to Klein, whose memories were fuzzy and fragmented, her memories of this body were complete and intact, as if she were the true owner of the body.
Suddenly, as if answering her questions, a loud and powerful voice echoed in her head:
Ding! Ding! The Fate System has been awakened by the host!
When Xiao Xing heard this, she felt even more frustrated. "Is my life a third-rate author's novel?" But she quickly accepted the situation and tried to communicate with the system, hoping to learn something from it.
"System, do you know why I was reincarnated into this body?" Xiao Xing asked.
A mechanical voice replied in her mind:
"Host, I saw your soul. You knew a lot about this world. I had originally decided to choose Linda as my host, but since she was thinking about suicide, I decided to help her and offered her the chance to die peacefully. She agreed, so I transferred your soul into this body to be my host."
Then Xiao Xing asked whether the system was the one who protected her from dying due to the tainted knowledge. The system replied that she was free to think as she pleased, but she wouldn't be affected by any knowledge and didn't need to worry about being discovered by anyone.