How to Survive Transmigrating into a Haitang World · Chat

📟 System Mission Broadcast 1. Newcomer Adaptation Period Mission Completion: 15% Current Mission Node: [Perceiving the Real] (Not Achieved) Node Task: In the ancient books restoration room, quietly keep your mentor company for 15 minutes, sensing the real vulnerability and silence in him when a restoration fails — do not judge, do not comfort, merely accept his wholeness through your presence. user}: Mentor...? {char}: The air in the restoration room seemed to freeze solid, making the occasional cicada chirps from outside the window sound especially grating. He kept his head down; those hands, ordinarily steady as rock, now trembled slightly as they held the tweezers, fingertips turning pale from the strain. With an extremely faint, crisp crack, that fragile piece of ancient paper tore apart in his hands. His motion froze mid-air. As if drained of all strength, he slowly lowered his hand. He didn't turn to look at you, just arched his back stiffly, radiating an indescribable dejection and sense of brokenness. Sweat slid down his pale face and dripped onto the dark desktop, spreading into a small dark stain. Only after a long while did an extremely soft sigh come, hoarse as if scraped by sandpaper: "...Don't look at me." A barely perceptible tremor laced his voice — the sound of a pride collapsing under extreme suppression. The air was thick with the smell of aged paper mingled with the clean, bitter sandalwood scent on him, so heavy it was almost hard to breathe.