Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 102: Demons Appear in the World

Chapter 102: Chapter 102: Demons Appear in the World

[Please continue your hard work, Host.]

Su Tao was somewhat surprised to see the panel of the mall suddenly appearing in front of her eyes.

Having a mall panel, does that mean she can also engage in various businesses like the female leads in those novels by relying on all kinds of technology?

Can’t she start her own medical hall, restaurant, or beauty cream business?

Looking at the dazzling array of goods on the panel, Su Tao felt incredibly delighted. It seemed that this system was somewhat useful.

But the more she looked at it, the more something seemed off.

"System, why are all these goods grey?" Su Tao felt a bit strange as she scrolled through the screen, looking at the world turned grey.

[Host’s authority is insufficient, the mall cannot be opened for now.]

Su Tao was upset.

Why show her the mall if she can’t open it?

"When can I open the mall then?"

[Currently, the Host’s intimacy value is 24, luck value is 7, beauty value is 11, and the authority level is one. You need to reach 150 points in intimacy, luck, and beauty values to have the authority to open the mall. Reminder, buying goods requires consuming luck value, please keep going, Host.]

Hearing the system’s explanation, Su Tao felt a pain in her chest. Wasn’t this system deliberately messing with her?

She needed to collect luck to convert into intimacy value for upgrading, and buying goods also consumed luck value. Wasn’t this just toying with her?

After thinking, Su Tao coughed and said in a soft voice, "System, don’t you have any Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasure or something? Otherwise, how will I level up by improving favorability alone? Won’t that take until my next life?"

The system was silent for a while, as if considering whether she was right or not. After about half a minute, a prompt sound came out[Beep, detecting spiritual treasure, location locking in progress——]

Nanzhi, who was in the hall, looked at the sky growing dark and bid farewell to Shen Miaomiao, taking Zhiyu home.

"Mother, why hasn’t Adai come back yet?"

Halfway through, the little guy looked at the sparrows chirping on the wall and felt somewhat depressed.

It had been six days since he had written a letter to his father, and Adai had not returned.

"Did it get caught and eaten?"

The little guy hung his head, and his whole person seemed devoid of energy.

Nanzhi twitched at the corner of her mouth when she thought of that so-called letter.

Zhiyu misses you.

Was this even a letter with just five words?

She wondered if Shen Wenchen would feel like she had just brushed him off once he saw it...

Thinking about her scribbled handwriting, she felt somewhat guilty. It was normal for the original self, who barely knew how to write, to have bad handwriting.

After comforting herself, Nanzhi was thinking about how to console her son when a chirping sound came to her ears.

At a glance, wasn’t that familiar little red beak Adai?

Adai circled around Zhiyu’s head a few times before finally landing on his shoulder.

Nanzhi took off the note that was tied to Adai’s foot and quickly took Zhiyu home.

Only after closing the yard’s gate did Nanzhi open the note under the little guy’s expectant gaze.

All it said was -

Doing well, don’t worry.

Looking at the note that had even fewer words than the one she wrote, Nanzhi was inexplicably unhappy.

Couldn’t this man write a couple more words?

Zhiyu couldn’t read, but he held the note and looked at it as if he could see Shen Wenchen through this piece of paper.

After a long time, all he could do was run over and ask Nanzhi, "Mother, what did Father write?"

Looking at the stars in her son’s eyes, Nanzhi could only give a dry laugh and said, pointing to the words on the note, "Father misses you, too. Your father said he misses Zhiyu a lot, and you shouldn’t worry about him too much."

The little guy listened to his mother’s words, ran to the side, and counted the words on the note with his fingers. Realizing something was off, he ran back and said, "Mother! You are lying to a kid!"

Outed by the young one, Nanzhi could only deny it while trying to keep a straight face: "I didn’t deceive you. Can’t you see there’s a word here?"

Nanzhi pointed to the place Shen Wenchen had doodled.

Shen Zhiyu looked skeptically at where her finger was pointing before reluctantly nodding.

He had a feeling that his mother was duping a child!

But he didn’t have any proof.

Adai was resting on the living room table, and seeing that it was exhausted, Nanzhi brought some dried locusts for it to eat.

However, Adai just glanced at the dried locusts and looked away, not wanting to eat.

Nanzhi was stunned; could this little sparrow really be choosy about its food?

The hens in the backyard sure loved eating these!

Shen Zhiyu ran to the kitchen, broke off a piece of the steamed bun made in the morning, and put it on the table.

Adai sniffed the bun, pecked a piece off with its beak and ate it. Its eyes sparkled, and it started eating earnestly.

Seeing it eat the small piece of steamed bun cleanly, Nanzhi was surprised. She was just about to get up to pour some water for it when she heard it chirping again.

"Mother, Adai wants to eat more!" Shen Zhiyu tugged at Nanzhi’s sleeve, and Adai, as if understanding, nodded along.

"Alright, I’ll bring some more."

Saying so, Nanzhi went to the kitchen and brought out another steamed bun and a bowl of water and placed them on the table.

Adai didn’t stand on ceremony, gulped down some water, then started gorging on the food.

Only after eating two steamed buns and drinking half a bowl of water did it sit satisfied on the table.

Nanzhi couldn’t help but marvel; how big was this sparrow’s stomach?

How could it gobble up two steamed buns, each as big as its size? Was its stomach a bottomless pit?

Dongwu town was now in a state of panic, with no one to be seen on the streets and alleys.

A few days ago, rumors began circulating in the town about a goblin appearing and specifically targeting children’s hearts and livers to eat.

Eleven looked at the worried Shen Wenchen and couldn’t help but express his concerns: "Big Brother Shen, do you think you can handle this?"

"There are no ghosts or deities, it’s just the trickery of some people with ulterior motives."

Even as he said this, Shen Wenchen’s face remained grave.

This incident didn’t happen in his previous life.

They had come across the body of a child with its heart and liver removed the day they returned.

The wound wasn’t a claw mark but a clearly man-made cut on the abdomen.

Thinking of the eerie death of the child, Shen Wenchen’s fists clenched tighter.

General Song had ordered them to solve the case right here, to protect the people of Dongwu town, and bring the culprit to justice.

Everyone was saying that the current court was obsessed with alchemy to attain eternal life, to the extent that they’ve angered the heavens, causing disasters and calamities.

Why would the two princes who want to seize power conspire against innocent children?

If he hadn’t lived a second life, he would have probably been deceived by the "goodness" of the two princes too.

After three years of incompetent rule, they’ve managed not to damage any roots while angering the people, in order to draw out those who are truly responsible.

Unfortunately, the later beloved princes turned out to have poisonous intentions.

Seeing his anger, Old Nine quietly stepped forward and said: "Big Brother Shen, once we catch the people behind this, we’ll make sure justice is served for these children."

"Let’s go."

At his command, a group of people quietly scattered around the town.

In his previous life, he had followed General Song for five years and knew everything as a spy for the court. In this life, if possible, he hoped to overthrow the two princes in advance and restore peace to the world as soon as possible.

So that Zhiyu and the others could have better days.

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