Laige Lingxiang gently bent down, removed her underwear from between her legs, and then sat down on the cold golden toilet seat.
Throughout the entire process, she was careful, pressing down her skirt to avoid any exposure.
Rustle~ Rustle~ Rustle~
But she had been holding it in for so long that the crisp sound of flowing water couldn’t be hidden.
Laige Lingxiang just silently kept her head down, even the roots of her ears turning bright red.
Even without looking at her face, one could clearly know that her expression was filled with humiliation at this moment.
And at that very moment, Laige Yulian’s system task was also completed.
“Are you happy now? I’m done. Can I leave?”
After finishing, Laige Lingxiang quickly stood up and pulled her underwear back on.
Her voice trembled but carried a bit more strength, apparently accumulating a lot of anger.
“No…”
‘But after a brief mental brainstorming, I keenly sensed that something was wrong. Because for this wave of humiliation toward the heroine, we three sisters had witnessed the entire scene. Therefore, the hatred value generated was evenly distributed among each of us. No one could stay out of it. If everyone is resented, doesn’t that mean I’m not hated? That cunning Yulian, in order to complete her own system task, didn’t hesitate to drag her sisters into this mess, pulling everyone into troubled waters. How insidious and despicable! But what could I say? I could only swallow my grievances.’
Having completed their tasks, Laige Caicai and Laige Yulian both stayed silent, leaning against the sink pretending to touch up their makeup, ignoring their fourth sister, completely disregarding her.
“You… Ugh…”
This made Laige Lingxiang even more angry and embarrassed.
She turned around to leave this place of trouble.
Slap~
But just as she turned her back, the third sister, Laige Fuling, who had been silent all along, suddenly threw a lightning-fast whip punch and harshly slapped Laige Lingxiang’s shoulder.
She seized the moment and completed her task in an instant.
“Ah!”
Laige Lingxiang cried out in pain and spun her head around sharply.
But she found the three sisters all standing in front of the large mirror touching up their makeup.
For a moment, she couldn’t tell who had hit her.
She could only stare left and right in panic, tears welling up in her eyes.
Finally, she stormed out in frustration.
“Fuling!”
“Third sister!”
The heroine didn’t know who did it, but Big Sister Caicai and Second Sister Yulian clearly saw the third sister’s incredible move through the mirror.
She punched her, then instantly moved between them, creating the illusion that she hadn’t moved at all.
Laige Fuling also directly split the hatred value among everyone.
The villain sisters shared the blame together.
“Fuling, what are you touching up for? I’ve never seen you wear makeup since we were kids. You little trickster, now you’re putting on airs.”
Laige Caicai scolded the third sister.
“Hmph, same to you.”
Laige Fuling patted Second Sister Yulian’s shoulder and smiled.
“We’re lifelong good sisters.”
Laige Yulian’s words were even more sarcastic.
Laige Caicai gritted her teeth in anger.
Because in this round of bullying, only she had lost out.
The two younger sisters had both split the hatred value.
Next, the three sisters returned to their own rooms.
Almost simultaneously, they all immersed themselves in exploring the mysteries of magic.
Each of them flipped through the magic tomes they had obtained, took out notebooks, and quickly recorded key points.
Soon, only the rustling of pages turning, the scratching of quills on parchment, and the occasional murmurs of incantations filled the rooms.
Everyone was single-mindedly focused, completely absorbed in their own magic research topics.
The outside world was temporarily irrelevant to them.
They deeply understood that in this complex and ever-changing fake modern city, only mastering magic was the unshakable truth, the fundamental reliance for survival and achieving their goals.
Although the family magic tomes inherited by two of them were not outstanding in power, precisely because of that, they needed to put in double the effort to study diligently.
For a while after that…
Laige Lingxiang absolutely detested these three sisters.
However, she also noticed that their daily focus on magic training was exceptionally high, almost to the point of being single-minded and forgetting to eat or sleep.
This almost obsessive learning ability, in stark contrast to their unpleasant words and actions, made Laige Lingxiang, despite her disgust, also feel a complex emotion of admiration.
But whenever she developed a bit of respect for her sisters, they would gang up and prank her.
Yet she couldn’t hate them too much.
The three sisters’ behavior, though strange and causing discomfort, was far from bullying.
At least for her, it was too childish.
Her previous life had been much more miserable and painful.
“Lingxiang, you little tadpole, eat this.”
Laige Caicai would occasionally share some delicious little cakes with the fourth sister to build goodwill.
“Big Sister, can you stop saying such awkward weird words? Do you really think that’s insulting? And if you’re going to give her a nickname, why call her by her name?”
But at times like this, Laige Yulian would also stick by the big sister, acting as a tsukkomi, scolding her to divert goodwill.
“This spell progression can be optimized here.”
The usually unsmiling Laige Fuling, when bored, would even give some magic knowledge pointers to the lagging and incapable fourth sister.
…
“Fuling, are you stupid? Why teach her magic?”
“Yeah, yeah. We are orthodox mages. She’s just a half-baked newcomer.”
When the three sisters held a private family meeting later, the third sister inevitably faced harsh criticism from the stern Big Sister and the dissatisfied Second Sister.
“I’ll teach if I want.”
Laige Fuling sipped her tea calmly, ignoring her sisters’ words.
“You gloomy weed!”
Laige Caicai gritted her teeth in anger, but she couldn’t beat this younger sister, so she just cursed her.
“I know a newly opened hot spring place. Want to go enjoy it?”
Laige Yulian suddenly changed her expression and asked.
“Eating is fine, but baths are out of the question.”
Laige Caicai originally thought these two were also secretly doing system tasks like her, but sometimes they would act out strange plots in character.
She really couldn’t tell.
“I know a very good massage parlor. Let’s go together, all three of us.”
Laige Yulian suggested again.
“Call Lingxiang too.”
Laige Fuling said lightly.
“Okay?”
“Then… forget it.”
Laige Yulian didn’t want to cause trouble for herself.
“It’s so comfortable drinking tea at home.”
Laige Caicai smiled.
Anyway, Second Sister’s plan for a bath-and-tofu-grinding scheme, which she had been planning for several years, had never succeeded even once.