[You were young and didn’t know what the surname “Gunnhild” meant in Mondstadt, so when you saw the gorgeous, neat and clean Gunnhild Mansion, you were so shocked that you were speechless.]

[In this mansion, you also met your two "sisters", six-year-old Barbara Gunnhild and eight-year-old Jean Gunnhild. The two girls had no objection to having a younger sister. Instead, they were very happy because they had an extra playmate, especially Barbara. Jean often had to practice swordsmanship, so she couldn't play with Barbara often. So Barbara sometimes felt lonely, and your appearance just solved this problem, so Barbara liked you very much.]

[You gradually adapted to life in the mansion under the care of the two sisters, and your face gradually became more smiling. Frederica not only allowed you to visit the old thief frequently, but also promised you that after the old thief's sentence was over, he would be allowed to settle down in Mondstadt, so that you could visit him frequently in the future.]

[It seems that everything is going in the right direction, and you are looking forward to your future life. ]

[However, amidst the daily laughter and joy, the seeds of conflict have already been planted...]

[Simon Page was once a famous adventurer on the continent. After arriving in Mondstadt, he fell in love with Frederica and eventually they got married. He became Frederica's husband and Jean and Barbara's father. He is currently the bishop of the Church of Favonius and is known as the "Cardinal of the Dawn" in Mondstadt.]

[Simon has no problem with you, but he has a lot of problems with Frederica taking you in as her daughter without consulting him.]

[Simon thinks that Frederica's adoption of you as a foster daughter without permission is very irresponsible to Jean and Barbara. You should know that Frederica has a large fortune. If she casually adopts a foster daughter like this, will the foster daughter compete with Jean and Barbara for the family property in the future?]

[Even if the adopted daughter does not have the right to inherit the family property, facing the huge amount of property, it is inevitable that she will have some crooked thoughts. What if the adopted daughter wants to kill Jean and Barbara and inherit the Gunnhild family's property alone after she grows up? ]

[Simon's original intention was to let Frederica realize this problem in advance, so that she would not adopt other orphans in the future, or in other words, she should seriously consider the problems that might arise in the future before adopting other orphans, or at least talk to herself about it first, and not adopt other orphans without authorization and without any consideration.]

[But when these words reached Frederica's ears, they completely changed their meaning. She thought Simon just had a problem with her adopting you. She accused Simon of being a cold-blooded animal without emotions. The two had a big fight over this matter.]

[And all of this was overheard by you who had just sat down to rest after playing tired. ]

[That night, you secretly found Frederica and cried and said that you didn't need the inheritance right of the family property. You also said that you would leave with the old thief after he was released from prison, and hoped that she and Simon would not quarrel because of you.]

[In response, Frederica hugged you and kissed you gently on the forehead, telling you not to worry about it.]

[From that day on, you began to change. You no longer continued to enjoy your carefree life in Gunnhild's house, but began to take the initiative to do some maid work. You no longer claimed to be Jean and Barbara's sister. When playing, you always gave way to them and treated yourself as their subordinate.]

[Frederica noticed your change, so she went to Simon to debate again. As a result, the two of them had another big quarrel and left unhappily. This quarrel made the conflict between Frederica and Simon completely public. Everyone in Mondstadt knew about it, including the two sisters Jean and Barbara.]

【After the two sisters learned the reason for their parents' quarrel, their attitude towards you also changed a little. 】

[Barbara, who often plays with you, knows that you have no ill intentions, so she often comes to comfort you who feel guilty. On the contrary, Jean is a little upset about this, and her attitude towards you is a little colder than before. As the conflict between their parents intensifies, Jean's attitude towards you becomes colder and colder. Finally, when Simon takes Barbara away from Gunnhild's house, Jean completely ignores you.]

[After a while, Frederica and Simon, who had already left the Gunhild family, officially divorced. From then on, Jean's attitude towards you became completely disgusted.]

[In Jean's opinion, it was your arrival that broke up her happy family. So after her parents divorced, Jean often deliberately ordered you to do some dirty and tiring work. Although Frederica often criticized Jean for this, Jean never thought she had done anything wrong. Instead, she took out her mother's criticism on you.]

[Jin's actions have undoubtedly deviated from the chivalry she pursued, but the young Jin didn't care at all. To her, there was no need to talk about chivalry for you, the guy who destroyed her family. She just wanted you to leave Gunhild's house as soon as possible, so that her father and mother could make peace with each other, and then they could become the familiar, happy and warm family she was familiar with, instead of this incomplete and broken home.]

[However, although Jyn tried every means to drive you out of this house, you still endured all kinds of punishments from Jyn and continued to live in Gunhild's house.]

[Because although you are young, you are very smart. Everyone in Mondstadt knows that because of you, Frederica and her husband, who were once in love, divorced. It is impossible for anyone in Mondstadt to continue to adopt you. You can only continue to live in Gunnhild's house. This is the last place in Mondstadt that allows you to exist.]

[Of course, you carry guilt towards Frederica and hatred towards Jean in your heart, and continuing to live in Gunhild's house has become a torture for you. The reason you continue to stay here is because you are waiting for the old thief to be released from prison. You have already made up your mind that as long as you wait for the old thief to be released from prison, you will leave Mondstadt with him and never plan to come back.]

[But not long after, you heard the next bad news—the old thief died in prison.]

[Originally, the old thief was already over sixty when he adopted you. Now he is nearly seventy, which is already longer than most Mondstadt people. Moreover, you and the old thief have been running around in the past few years, and his health has become worse and worse. Finally, in the prison of Mondstadt, the old thief closed his eyes and never opened them again.]

[This news is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for you. Ever since you can remember, you have been dependent on the old thief. You have long regarded him as your own family. Now that the old thief is dead, you find that there is no one in the world who cares about you anymore.]

[In a blink of an eye, another week has passed. Ever since you learned that the old thief had died, you have been living in a daze. Frederica has searched for doctors in Mondstadt and Liyue for you, but they are completely unable to do anything about it.]

[Except for the physical weakness caused by long-term malnutrition, you don't have any disease. The reason you became like this is entirely because of the great mental shock. The doctor can't do much except help prescribe some drugs to stabilize the mind.]

[Therefore, Frederica can only place her hope on time, hoping that your mental condition will improve with the passage of time.]

[If there is anything relatively good during this period, it is that Qin finally stopped deliberately asking you to do all kinds of dirty and tiring work - anyway, you can't do it with your current mental state, and her attitude towards you has returned to its original coldness. ]

[6 years old: After a year of careful care from Frederica, you finally came out of the shadow of the old thief's death. Although you became taciturn after that, you finally stopped living in a muddle and began to think about what you should do from now on.]

[You are undoubtedly at the lowest point in your life at this moment. Logically speaking, no matter what you do, it is better than just living a life of idleness and waiting to die... Just as you are thinking this, fate proves that you still have room to fall further.]

[One day, when you finished cleaning the old thief's grave and returned to Gunhild's house, a hand subdued you from behind, and then a sack fell from the sky and covered you, and then a group of people tied you up and threw you on a carriage and drove away.]

[That's right, you were kidnapped by human traffickers.]

"Oh my god! Is the goddess of luck holding a grudge against me this time in my life!?"

Abandoned by his parents since childhood, he was adopted by an old thief and lived a hard life. He was finally adopted by Frederica, but the couple divorced him after just a few days. He was hit hard by the death of the old thief, and he finally got back on his feet, but was kidnapped by human traffickers again...

Kujo Tsumugi was already considering whether or not she was destined to be unlucky in this simulation.

So you are destined to have a bad life.

[The traffickers who kidnapped you are the ones who occupied your treasure-stealing group's camp. That's right, after being wiped out by the Knights of Favonius, they finally gathered enough strength to start taking action after lying dormant for several years. Their purpose in kidnapping you is to avenge Frederica for leading the team to wipe out their camp.]

[These human traffickers also knew that Frederica would desperately come to look for you after you disappeared, so they transported you to other countries without stopping after you were put on the carriage. It took nearly two months before you were finally sent to your destination - a hidden human trafficker transit station in Xumi.]

[Although the human traffickers are not as widespread as the treasure-stealing gangs, they have also secretly formed a network that can smuggle people in various countries. The transit station in Xumi, located in the center of the continent, is the most important place for the human traffickers. ]

[Here, you see many boys and girls who are in the same situation as you. These people have different looks and hair colors. You can see that they are all transported here from other countries on the continent. You overheard the conversation of the traffickers in the carriage and learned that the country of Zhidong in the north of the continent has been buying a large number of children in recent years. I don't know what they are doing.]

"Buying children...haha, it turns out that guy is still doing this kind of thing." Seeing this message, Kujo Tsumugi narrowed his eyes.

The "guy" that Kujo Tsumugi mentioned refers to the Fatui executive "Doctor", who often conducts various human experiments to test the effects of his latest evil eye. He has also conducted human experiments in Mond before, and some people from Inazuma were also captured and taken to the evil eye factory for experiments. Therefore, Kujo Tsumugi hates this guy very much.

Of course, what Kujo Tsumugi hates most are "stragglers". After all, traitors are always more hateful than enemies.

[And the one who caught your eye the most in the crowd was a girl who looked about the same age as you. She had short purple hair and stood out in the crowd.]

[Just as you were looking at the other person's peculiar hair color, she seemed to be looking in your direction with a sense of something. When your eyes met, you found that her eyes were different from those of others. Unlike the eyes of others that were full of panic, tension, and anxiety, she seemed to be completely unaware that she was in danger. There was only endless emptiness in her eyes, as if she had given up all her desires and fantasies for life. The girl was like a large, exquisite doll, just sitting there and looking at you. ]

[You are very familiar with the look in the girl's eyes, because for a long time after you learned that the old thief had died, you also looked at others with the same look, but the girl's situation was even more serious than yours at that time.]

[You have a desire to help her, but you quickly realize the reality that you don’t even have the power to protect yourself, so how can you help her? ]

PS: There is another chapter of 2,000 words tonight

Chapter 53 Side Quest: The Choice of Fate

[You turned your eyes away from the girl and began to observe the guards around you, planning how to escape from here.]

[This transit station for human traffickers is built in a lush jungle. As long as you can run into the jungle when the guards are not paying attention, the probability of successfully escaping is very high. However, these human traffickers are not fools and know this, so there are many guards around. ]

[There are about 200 to 300 children captured from all over the world in this transit station, but there are nearly 50 adult guards guarding them. All the children are tied to trees and cannot even move, let alone escape. Unless all the children break free from the ropes and run away separately, you will never be able to find a way to escape successfully.]

[And even if they could escape, where could they go? This transit station was built in a place far from human habitation. A child who was unarmed, physically weak, and had no experience in surviving in the wild would surely die if he wandered around in such a jungle.]

[Thinking of this, you gradually become pessimistic. Thinking that you can never go back to the familiar Mondstadt, your eyes start to become moist, your nose twitches, and soon you start to cry.]

[“Oh, it’s so noisy, can’t you be a little quieter?”]

[After crying for a while, the black-haired, black-eyed girl who was tied to a tree with you finally couldn't stand it anymore and whispered to you fiercely.]

【“I…I…” You couldn’t even utter a complete sentence because you were choking with sobs.】

[“Okay, okay, don’t cry. At worst, I can find a way to take you out together.” Seeing your expression, the black-haired girl’s heart softened a little, and she spoke to comfort you.]

[“What’s the harm in running away? Two little kids wandering around in the jungle far away from human habitation will eventually be killed by monsters. It’s better to stay here and pray that you can have a good master in the future.” Hearing the girl’s words, you retorted in self-abandonment. ]

[“Hmm? You actually thought of this, you have a good brain.” Who would have thought that after hearing your words, the black-haired girl didn’t look disappointed at all, but was delighted by your cleverness. “I can protect you when we get to the wild. Of course, the premise is that we must escape.”]

[“Look at that girl over there. I’ve been noticing her for a few days.” The black-haired girl pointed you in a direction. You looked in that direction and saw the girl with short purple-red hair that you noticed before.]

[“Look at the look in that girl’s eyes. You can tell at a glance that she is the type of person who has completely given up hope of survival. If we can convince her, she will definitely be willing to risk her life to help the two of us escape.”]

[“Let’s not talk about whether we can convince her. What makes you say she has given up the will to live? Maybe she was born with the eyes of a fish with life and death.” You couldn’t help but question it, but you said it just to argue with the black-haired girl. You knew in your heart that the black-haired girl was right. The girl with short purple-red hair had indeed given up hope of living.]

[“Hmm? That’s what’s written in the novels I read.” The black-haired girl answered as if it was a matter of course.]

Tsumugi Kujo: “…”

[“The stories in novels are all fake! Why do you take the things in novels as your basis?” You complained, but after the black-haired girl interrupted you, you no longer wanted to cry, and told her your previous guess, “Unless everyone flees separately, I can’t think of a way to leave smoothly.”]

[“Should everyone flee separately?” the black-haired girl murmured, “I just wanted to sneak out by myself before, but after your reminder, it turns out that if everyone flees separately, our chances of escaping will be greater.”]

[“Wait, are you serious about escaping?” You couldn’t help but ask when you heard the girl’s words that didn’t seem to be a joke.]

[“Of course, I don’t want to become someone else’s servant or child bride.” The black-haired girl said seriously, “Then it’s settled, let’s run away tonight.”]

[“Tonight?! Isn’t this a bit too hasty?”]

[“Shh… don’t talk, save your energy.”]

[No matter how you ask, the black-haired girl just closes her eyes and rests, not wanting to answer you at all. You have no choice but to close your eyes and rest as well.]

[At midnight, you felt someone patting your cheek while you were fast asleep. You opened your eyes and saw that the black-haired girl who was tied to the tree with you had broken free from the rope and made a gesture to you to keep quiet.]

[Then, in your expectant gaze, the black-haired girl shows you a sharp iron piece only two centimeters long in her palm. She uses this iron piece to cut the rope.]

[After cutting your rope, the black-haired girl whispered to you: "Stay tied up, wait for my instructions and then everyone run together."]

[You nodded to show your understanding, and then you saw the black-haired girl began to help others untie the ropes, and then said the same thing to them. ]

[With the help of the cover of night and the jungle, the black-haired girl finally cut the ropes of everyone, then found you again and held your hand. ]

[“You must follow me closely when we start running, understand? It will be dangerous if you fall behind.”]

【“Three…two…one…everyone, run!”】

[Following the girl's order, the rescued children immediately began to flee in all directions.]

"Tsk, it's really me who can come up with such a sinister plan." When the real Kujo Tsumugi saw this message, a trace of pity flashed in her eyes, but she immediately adjusted her mentality.

This is just a life simulation, it's okay, Tsumugi Kujo thought to himself.

The other children were different from themselves and the black-haired girl in the simulation. Although it was unknown what the black-haired girl had the confidence from, she was obviously prepared to wander in the wild...but the other children were not prepared to respond.

It is conceivable that even if these children escaped from the human traffickers' transit station, only one in ten would survive. This strategy was almost like exchanging the lives of all the children for the chance for himself and the black-haired girl to escape. This was why Kujo Tsumugi said that this plan was "sinister."

[Trigger an important plot, then enter the immersive mode...]

"Ok?"

Kujo Tsumugi was stunned for a moment, and then found himself in the jungle. A girl with black hair and black eyes was looking at him anxiously.

"Why are you standing there in a daze at this time? Run!"

At this time, the children running around have attracted the attention of the guards. The transfer station is in chaos and disorder. If they want to escape, they can only take this opportunity.

『Trigger the side quest: The choice of fate』

"Mission content: The plan you and the black-haired girl came up with was successful. The transfer station is currently in chaos. If you want to escape from here, you only have this chance. However, just as you were about to leave with the black-haired girl, your eyes unconsciously looked towards the girl with short purple-red hair..."

PS: I have returned one chapter, and I still owe nineteen chapters

Chapter 54: Dying? Turning point! (4000 words)

What is this? Let me choose whether to save the girl or not?

After seeing the content of this branch quest, Tsumugi Kujo subconsciously looked in the direction of the girl with short purple hair. At this time, the situation in the camp was extremely chaotic, with the shouts of children and the roars of guards mixed together. However, the girl had no reaction to the current situation. She sat on the ground with her hands on her knees, which was out of tune with the current situation in the camp.

Kujo Tsumugi suddenly felt that the girl in front of him seemed familiar. After observing her for a long time, he finally remembered her identity.

"Rosalia!"

That's right, the girl in front of him is Rosalia, who serves as a nominal nun in Mondstadt Cathedral in the game "Genshin Impact". Because her popularity in the game is relatively low, and the girl version of Rosalia in front of him has a poor figure, which is very different from the image of plump buttocks and big breasts in the game, Kujo Tsumugi did not recognize her at first.

However, the short purple-red hair was so eye-catching that it reminded Kujo Tsumugi of her identity.

"Hey! What on earth are you daydreaming about? If you don't leave now, I'll run away alone!"

The black-haired girl's voice interrupted Kujo Tsumugi's thoughts.

"I want to help her." Tsumugi Kujo said, his eyes fixed on Rosalia.

Although he didn't know what Rosaria had been through at this moment, Kujo Tsumugi believed that he needed to help her, not only because of the side quest, but also because characters like Rosaria who had appeared in the game would always be stronger than others in the future. Making friends with more people like this would not only be beneficial to this simulation, but also have unexpected impacts on reality.

Didn’t you see that the lady turned from enemy to friend because of the last simulation...well, or fuck buddy.

Therefore, after recognizing the other party's identity, Tsumugi Kujo made a decision - to save her!

"Huh? You're so compassionate at a time like this?!"

However, the black-haired girl obviously could not understand Kujo Tsumugi's thoughts. After hearing what she said, she let go of Kujo Tsumugi's hand.

"In that case, you can go by yourself. I'm too lazy to run with this burden."

Then, the black-haired girl took advantage of the chaos to leave, and soon her back blended into the crowd and disappeared. Kujo Tsumugi also came in front of Rosalia, smiled kindly and extended his hand to her.

"Hello, my name is Tsumugi, let's run out together."

In the simulation, the wife of the old thief who adopted Kujo Tsumugi was an Inazuma woman. In order to commemorate her, the old thief named Kujo Tsumugi after his deceased wife. Therefore, in this simulation, Kujo Tsumugi's name only has the character "Tsumugi" and has no surname.

Facing the hand extended by Kujo Tsumugi, Rosaria raised her head, and a hint of doubt flashed in her empty eyes.

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