Is this my big brother?
The moment she saw him, the girl fell into her memories. In her previous life, her brother had been the family member who stayed with her until the very end. To block the demon king's attack, her brother had shoved her out of the way and taken all the damage alone. His final words were to tell her to run.
What a complete and utter fool.
Thinking of this, her brother's face from her past life gradually overlapped with that of the silver-haired boy in front of her. The girl couldn't help but burst into loud sobs, which left the little boy completely dumbfounded on the spot.
"Please don't cry, little sister."
Just as her brother was racking his brains, trying to make the girl stop crying, the girl suddenly grabbed a fistful of his hair and yanked him straight into the crib, then launched an attack of loving little fists on him, beating him until he howled non-stop. He really couldn't figure out what on earth he had done wrong. But the more he acted like that, the angrier the girl became. She grabbed his hair again and gave him another thorough beating.
You idiot. Who told you to leave me all alone? It's a good thing I can still be reunited with you in this life.
The commotion quickly alarmed the maids. They rushed over and immediately scolded her brother. "Prince Lienne, you must not bully the princess."
Her brother was aggrieved to the extreme. But standing there in the crib, he simply couldn't explain himself clearly. By the time he finally crawled out and pointed at the girl as the real culprit, the scene became unbearably awkward. The maid simply didn't believe that the little princess, who only knew how to drink milk, could do such things, leaving her brother so wronged that he was on the verge of tears.
Seeing how deflated he looked, the girl almost wanted to laugh. So she simply took the initiative and dove into his arms, then quietly leaned up to his ear and threatened him. "Let it go. If you keep pushing this, you're the one who will suffer."
Her brother clutched his ear, his face full of disbelief. He could not imagine that his one-year-old little sister would actually threaten him. Even so, he still silently swallowed this grievance. After all, she was his little sister, and only he was allowed to spoil her.
After several days of trying, the girl finally managed to open the system. The system immediately notified her that a mission had been completed. It turned out that last night's meeting with her brother had unknowingly completed the mission. Tame your brother, and it was completed almost the instant it was issued.
That was just too absurd. Truly worthy of her.
Just as she was about to claim the reward, the system actually started throwing errors again. She was really fed up with this awful system. It always broke down at critical moments. But the girl wasn't planning to give up so easily. After countless attempts, the system finally issued a compensation reward.
Sure enough, whenever there was an error, it would do this, though she still felt inexplicably annoyed. Anyway, she might as well claim it first. To her surprise, claiming the compensation reward went unusually smoothly. The system directly granted her an S-rank skill stone.
When the girl eagerly went to see what new skill she had obtained, she turned to stone on the spot the instant she saw the skill's name.
Encouraging and Growing Bum Bum Smack. When used, it can activate or restore the target's magic circuits, with a limit of five uses.
What kind of ridiculous skill was this supposed to be? But imagining using this move on Uncle Yuming — he would probably get so excited he'd hug her and rub his face against her like crazy. The thought alone was terrifying. She had better seal this skill away for now.
After she closed the skill pop-up, a whole bunch of mission completion notifications popped up. These all seemed to be mission records from shortly after she was born. They were all things she was bound to experience as she grew up. So the system had actually wanted her to grow up properly.
Could it be that in this life the demon king would descend again? But she quickly forced herself to stop overthinking. After all, she hadn't even met her mother yet.
Thinking of the compensation reward just now, the girl started randomly tapping the system again, trying to click it into an error state. After some messing around, it finally threw another error, allowing the girl to obtain an E-rank item: a growth potion.
In her previous life, as an S-rank hunter, she wouldn't even have spared such an item a glance. But in this life, she particularly needed it. So the girl immediately gulped down the whole bottle in one go. Soon she received a system notification. Growth value plus one.
The potion's effect showed up the very next day. When they saw that the girl actually finished an entire bottle of milk so quickly, the maid sisters were overjoyed. Then they tried feeding her some solid food, and seeing her eat so nicely and obediently, they couldn't help but shed tears of excitement. They had failed hundreds of times before, and now she had finally eaten solid food. After this, her growth value increased by another plus one.
The girl began practicing standing, holding on to the crib rails. The nursemaid thought this might be a good opportunity to learn how to walk, so she immediately picked her up and started coaxing and luring her from in front. The girl cooperatively tried walking forward step by step, though in the end she still accidentally fell. Fortunately, there was a little B-shaped pillow strapped to her back, which kept her head from getting bumped.
Even so, the maid sisters were already very satisfied, because she had actually walked a full five steps all on her own. To commemorate the girl learning to walk, one of the maid sisters immediately made a mark on the floor, which made the girl feel extremely shy.
The nursemaid picked the girl up with a gratified smile. "If Her Majesty the Queen could see you like this, she would surely be very happy."
After the nursemaid said this, sadness appeared on the maid sisters' faces. The girl also sensed that something was wrong. Come to think of it, since she was reborn, her mother hadn't come to see her even once. Even Uncle Yuming had already met her early on.
Could it be that because her mother was the queen, she was simply too busy? It looked like she had to find a chance to ask the person most likely to know the truth.
So that day, when her brother came running over to see her, all excited, the girl put on a melancholy expression and kept calling for her mother. Who would have thought that the moment her brother heard this, his face would suddenly change? He snapped aloud, "I don't know," then ran off while calling her an idiot.
Seeing her brother act like that, the girl immediately had a bad premonition. Could it be that in this life her mother was already gone? She couldn't help but burst into wailing sobs.
In her previous life, whenever she cried as a little girl, her mother would always tell her not to cry. She said a woman only cries three times in her life, so unless it's something truly heartbreaking, you mustn't shed tears easily. She remembered her mother's words and became a strong person. But if the very person who said those words no longer existed, what meaning did any of it have?
In her previous life, it was her father who left first. In this life, has it become her mother? This damned system really wasn't going to let her live in peace.
After that, she started losing her appetite. Her mood was always at rock bottom. This made the maid sisters terribly anxious. So they hurried to gather all kinds of toys, trying every method they could think of to cheer the girl up. But the results weren't very good.
And the girl also knew things couldn't go on like this. The maid sisters were probably afraid she would turn back into the idiot princess. For her own sake and for the maid sisters' sake, she had to pull herself together again. At last she took the initiative to walk over to the toys and started to play.