Chapter 82. Meddling in Affairs? The Wipes-Out-the-Entire-Village Kind (6)
[188: “Wan Wan, you’re putting this system in a difficult position. I’m just a single system, I don’t understand human emotions at all. Asking me is useless. Aren’t you good at making things up? Just make up a reason for Bai Weiwei to hear.”]
Shen Wan: “…” What use was this system?
Faced with Bai Weiwei’s half-smiling, half-serious gaze fixed directly on her, seemingly waiting for an answer, Shen Wan cleared her throat and said, “Well, I don’t like Fu Yunkui anyway. As for what type I like, I’ll only know when I encounter it.”
“Is that so?” This answer somewhat surprised Bai Weiwei. She found it unconvincing, feeling that the true answer wasn’t like this. Of course, she didn’t dwell on this suspicion.
“Yes, that’s how it is. In this vast sea of humanity, just meeting someone is already a great fate. Finding someone who can touch your heart is even more difficult. Before encountering that person, why set all sorts of conditions and frameworks to constrain your own heart?” Shen Wan explained seriously. “Without any constraints, you might instantly like someone at first sight. If they feel the same way, it must be a beautiful thing.”
“If you set all sorts of frameworks for what you like, it’s easy to miss that person who touches your heart. After missing them the first time, you might encounter them again later, but more often than not, you won’t.”
Hearing these words, Bai Weiwei smiled softly and said, “What you say seems to make some sense.” She raised her eyebrows slightly, her clear eyes meeting Shen Wan’s gaze. “You seem to understand these things well. Have you experienced them? If not, how could you come to these conclusions? If I didn’t know your bone age was less than twenty, I’d think you were some old monster pretending to be young, having run out from some deep mountain forest.”
188: Counting the time spent in these small worlds, Bai Weiwei wasn’t wrong. His host really was an old monster pretending to be young, having run out from some deep mountain forest.
[188: “Wan Wan, Bai Weiwei called you an old monster, haha! Old monster, nyah nyah… She called you an old monster, do you still want this kind of partner?”]
Shen Wan frustratedly told 188, “No matter how old I am, I’m not as old as her. We both know who the real old monster pretending to be young is!! Neither of us should look down on the other!”
188: What a pitiful sight! If he didn’t often feel that the other side was also being suppressed, he would have thought his host was an eternal bottom. Looking so pitiful, who would have thought she could be both top and bottom.
“Miss Bai is joking,” Shen Wan said with an awkward smile. “I’m only seventeen this year. Look at my tender, delicate little face. How could I possibly be an old monster pretending to be young?”
Bai Weiwei glanced at Shen Wan’s little face that was thrust close to hers and burst out laughing. This was quite amusing. She had just said it casually, but the other party took it seriously.
188: This was the first time he’d seen someone praise their own little face as being tender and delicate.
“Alright, let’s not talk about that. You mentioned before that you had a way to find the location of the treasure. Do you have any news now?” Bai Weiwei had always believed that Shen Wan wasn’t simple.
But Shen Wan had been by her side for quite some time, and she hadn’t noticed any mysterious figures appearing around her. Moreover, the baked flatbreads and chicken legs Shen Wan bought for her – later she had asked Luyi to look for them, but couldn’t find exactly the same ones.
Every time she said she wanted to eat them, Shen Wan would tell her that if she had time, she’d buy more for her. After a few days, Shen Wan would bring some baked flatbreads and chicken legs to her, but Bai Weiwei never noticed when they were bought. Even though she had instructed Luyi to pay attention to where Shen Wan bought them, they still couldn’t catch any clues.
Now she wasn’t interested in that anymore. Yang Yanqing’s current situation was becoming somewhat desperate. She feared that he might use other methods to obtain the treasure map and find the location of the treasure, which wasn’t what she wanted to see. If possible, it would be best to find the treasure’s location first.
“I’ve already sent people to inquire. I believe we should have news soon,” Shen Wan lied without changing her expression, secretly asking 188: “Brother 8, do you have any leads on the treasure? My wife is waiting for me to accompany her to dig for treasures. Brother 8, you need to work hard. The Valentine’s Day limited edition skin has a purchase time limit. The sooner we find the treasure, the sooner you can wear the nice skin.”
[188: “I’m scanning now. This world is quite large, and the novel doesn’t mention where the treasure is, so I can only scan slowly.”]
In the original novel’s plot, Yang Yanqing’s scheme was exposed shortly after he obtained the map. He was then eliminated by the male lead in collaboration with others, and the mysterious treasure map was destroyed at the same time. Naturally, Shen Wan couldn’t possibly know the location of the treasure.
Bai Weiwei didn’t seem to know whether to believe Shen Wan’s words or not. Although she appeared very concerned about the treasure when she spoke, her expression remained indifferent, as if she didn’t absolutely need to obtain it.
“Miss Bai really looks like an immortal.”
Shen Wan had originally meant to praise her in her heart, but unconsciously said it out loud. Because Bai Weiwei’s carefree and detached manner of playing with the mortal world really did resemble an unworldly immortal. Of course, this excluded the times when she treated patients and demanded exorbitant fees. At those times, Bai Weiwei was probably more like an immortal who had fallen into the mortal world, experienced hardships, eaten stale steamed buns, and become afraid of poverty.
Hearing Shen Wan say she looked like an immortal, Bai Weiwei laughed delightedly. She took out a stack of banknotes and placed them in Shen Wan’s hand, saying something particularly un-immortal-like, “Shen Wan, when you have time, buy me some baked flatbreads and chicken legs. It’s been a long time since I’ve had them, and I really miss that taste.”
She knew that only Shen Wan could buy baked flatbreads and chicken legs with that particular taste. She no longer cared where Shen Wan bought them from, as long as she could eat them.
Looking at the stack of banknotes, 188 silently said: Not enough! The banknotes from this small world were worthless in their high-level space, not even worth a penny.
To think that his Valentine’s Day skin set only cost 188 space coins, while one of Bai Weiwei’s baked flatbreads cost 188, and a chicken leg cost 288. Each time, his host bought ten baked flatbreads and two chicken legs.
Damn, why was his heart bubbling with sourness?
Just as 188 was internally spilling a jar of vinegar, he suddenly received a notification that something new had appeared in his system backpack. He quickly opened it to find a Qixi Valentine’s Day limited edition skin set – the Magpie Bridge Immortal Outfit.
He put on the skin almost without consideration. At that moment, the entire system space changed. The system’s notification sounds turned into magpie calls, faintly accompanied by ethereal immortal music.
While the system was too happy to know what to say, Shen Wan’s voice rang out: “Brother 8, I’ll leave the treasure hunting to you. I’ll buy you the next limited edition skin when it comes out. If there are reruns of past limited skins in the future, I’ll buy those for you too. I’ll try to complete your collection of all limited editions. Are you satisfied now?”
Satisfied, very satisfied, extremely satisfied.
[An overjoyed 188: “Wan Wan, you can rest assured about finding the treasure. Within a month, I’ll definitely be able to scan every place in this small world. No matter where the treasure is buried, I’ll be able to find it. It won’t escape my scan.”]
With the Qixi Valentine’s Day limited edition skin, the system was different now. His efficiency would increase many, many times over. But before that, he definitely needed to go to the forum and make a post to show off. It had been a long time since he greeted the boss. He might as well meet the boss wearing his new skin.
Within a month?
Shen Wan’s smile deepened. She had been by Bai Weiwei’s side for about two months now, hadn’t she? So 188 also understood what it meant to comply publicly but oppose in private. He could actually find the treasure in a month, yet he had dragged it out with her for so long. Never mind, she wouldn’t argue with him about it, lest he get angry and refuse to work.
In the current Time-Space Department, systems as pure and easily fooled as 188 were rare.
Shen Wan was accompanying Bai Weiwei as they ate baked flatbreads and chicken legs. Seven out of ten flatbreads belonged to Bai Weiwei, three were for Luyi, and the two chicken legs could only be Bai Weiwei’s.
Despite this unequal treatment, Luyi wasn’t angry. She was already very satisfied to get three flatbreads. She had previously tried to find places selling such delicious flatbreads but couldn’t find any that compared.
Bai Weiwei sat in her seat, slowly biting into a flatbread as if she were eating some rare delicacy. On the table, besides the flatbreads and chicken legs, there were also dishes from this restaurant.
She took a couple of bites, then noticed that Shen Wan was only eating the restaurant’s dishes. She suddenly remembered that Shen Wan seemed to never touch the flatbreads and chicken legs. She paused and looked at Shen Wan, asking, “These flatbreads and chicken legs taste quite good. Why do you never eat them?”
“Doesn’t Miss Bai like them very much?” Shen Wan answered naturally. “If you like them, eat more.” Of course the flatbreads and chicken legs were delicious. How could anything sold in the system mall not be tasty? There was a reason they were so expensive. If they weren’t delicious, they would have been complained about and eventually boycotted and removed from the shelves, right?
“Don’t you like them?” Bai Weiwei asked casually.
Shen Wan replied: “I do like them.” But my wife likes them more. Eating is eating, regardless of what it is. Of course, I’ll leave what my wife likes for her. Those things are too expensive; I usually can’t even afford to buy them for myself.
“If you like them, why don’t you eat them?” Bai Weiwei frowned, feeling like she was close to understanding something. She was just a little bit away. She casually put a flatbread and a chicken leg into Shen Wan’s bowl, saying, “Since you like them, let’s eat together.”
Then she saw Shen Wan grinning at her, looking very happy.
Shen Wan stared at the flatbread and chicken leg in her bowl, actually thinking: 188 + 288 = 476 space coins. If only the system could buy them back at the original price. Nearly 500 space coins – it’s fine if my wife eats them, but if I eat them, I’d feel heartbroken with every bite. Each bite is money, money!
“Miss Bai, you should eat them.”
Shen Wan pushed the food back to Bai Weiwei. “I’m happy just watching you eat. You enjoy eating them, so I’m quite pleased.”
Bai Weiwei: She couldn’t eat with someone watching her.
“Then you eat the chicken leg.”
Luyi: If you’re not going to eat them, you could actually give them to me. I can eat more, no matter how much.
After that incident, it seemed that Bai Weiwei’s attention had been entirely captured by Shen Wan. No matter what Shen Wan did, she paid attention. Paying attention became a habit, and in a moment when she couldn’t see Shen Wan, she would actually look around, wondering where that person who liked to revolve around her had gone.
“Where did she go?”
Bai Weiwei frowned, her hand shaking the teacup, spilling tea all over the table.
Luyi answered softly, “Shen Wan said she went to buy baked flatbreads and chicken legs for the Palace Master.”
“Didn’t you follow her?”
Luyi said with a hint of grievance, “Didn’t you say I didn’t need to follow her anymore, Palace Master?”
“When did she leave?” Bai Weiwei asked.
“At dawn.”
Bai Weiwei looked outside. “It’s already high noon. Why isn’t she back yet?”
“Perhaps the place selling flatbreads is far away, and it takes some time to go back and forth. Palace Master, you don’t need to worry. Shen Wan is clever. The fact that she’s gained your favor shows that she won’t encounter any dangers in this jianghu.”
Bai Weiwei slammed her teacup on the table forcefully, the sound startling Luyi. “In this jianghu, cleverness and wit alone are useless. There are plenty of unreasonable people. There are countless experts in the martial arts world. With her little life, it would only take a couple of moves to end it.”
With that, Bai Weiwei walked out.
“Palace Master, where are you going?” Luyi realized something was different. The Palace Master had always been calm and indifferent. When had she become so agitated?
“To find that person who went to buy flatbreads.”
“Does the Palace Master know where she went?”
Bai Weiwei turned back with a smile. “I sprinkled tracking powder on her. I used quite a lot, it’s everywhere. She can’t wash it off.”
Luyi: She knew the Palace Master would do something like this.
Author’s note: 188: Boss, how do you like my Qixi Valentine’s Day limited edition skin?
000: It’s passable, I suppose.
188: My host even said she’d complete my collection of all limited editions, hehe…
000: That’s not bad then.
188: Boss, I’m so happy now.
000: I have something to attend to. I’ll be going now.
…
000: Respected host, 188’s host is going to complete his collection of all limited edition skins.
A certain host: Oh, 188 is still young. As a host, of course you need to spoil him a bit. Not like our 000 who’s already a big system, he doesn’t need these little system toys.
(000: He’s still young, huh!)