Zuo Qingya's eyes lit up. Her purpose in coming to the City of Survival was to open a small general store!

Zuo Qingya patted Yanxi on the shoulder to comfort her, saying, "Everything will be alright."

Thank you!

"You're welcome."

"Sigh..." Yanxi began to sigh deeply, "Why don't they open a shop in our survival city? Is our base not good enough?"

"Huh???" How can I say that? I can't exactly say, "I just arrived, I'll open the shop for you in a bit!"

After dinner, Zuo Haijia took Zuo Qingya to choose a room.

"You can stay anywhere here, take your pick."

"Um...Mom, which room do you stay in?"

Zuo Haijia pointed to a room on the left and said, "Look... that one."

"Then I want to stay in the room closest to my mother."

Zuo Haijia nodded, "That works too."

Just after we finished choosing a room, we heard a noise coming from the stairs.

Zuo Qingya looked toward the voice and found it was Yanxi.

"Uncle Yan."

"Hmm...you've already picked out the rooms?"

Zuo Qingya nodded: "Yes... I've picked them all out."

"That's fine then."

"Uh??? Uncle Yan, are you staying in this room?"

"Yeah! What's wrong?"

"nothing."

Is Uncle Yan really pursuing my mom? His room is right across from hers!

At this moment, Tiger and the others also came up.

Zuo Qingya hugged Hu Zi and asked, "Hu Zi, who won your fight?"

"Awoo awoo..."

"Huh??? I don't understand."

Tiger rolled his eyes. It was all for nothing; he wasted his breath.

"Well???"

"Tiger, this is our room."

Zuo Qingya led Hu Zi to her room and began to look him over.

Actually, there was nothing inside; it was practically bare, just four white walls.

"Well???"

Yanxi clapped her hands awkwardly, "Uh??? I'll go ask the housekeeper to tidy it up, and it'll be ready for people to move in soon."

"Alright then!"

Zuo Qingya went to Zuo Haijia's room.

"Mom, this room is nice!"

"Hmm...it's alright."

"Hehe...Mom."

"What's wrong? Why are you calling me that so mushy?"

"It's nothing. By the way, Mom, where did you go after you came out of the secret realm? I didn't see you at the Steel Fortress."

"Huh??? I've been teleported to someone else's sect."

"Huh??? Is that okay?"

"It's alright, it's been resolved."

"That's good."

"How's that sect? Is it alright?"

"It's alright! It's a very small sect."

Zuo Qingya and the others chatted, and time passed little by little.

"Is this my room? It's completely different! It's nothing like what I just saw."

"But could you please change the color? This pink is just... indescribable."

"Why change it? I think pink is perfect."

"Mother."

"Pink is fine, it's all good! Don't change it."

"hehe……"

"It's alright, I have this," Zuo Qingya said, taking out a dark, oily fruit. With that, Zuo Qingya grinned mischievously, threw the fruit on the ground, and tried to run away, but unfortunately, Zuo Haijia had already anticipated Zuo Qingya's move and closed the door in advance.

Zuo Qingya froze, watching helplessly as the fruit fell to the ground. She didn't even have time to return to her consciousness space. Zuo Qingya felt a wave of despair, "It's over."

As soon as he finished speaking, a plume of black smoke enveloped the entire room.

When the black smoke dissipated, the entire room was black, including Zuo Qingya's.

At that moment, the door was opened.

A beam of light shone in and fell on Zuo Qingya.

"Xiaoya?"

Zuo Qingya grinned awkwardly, revealing her gleaming white teeth, "Mom!"

"Oh my god! Who are you?"

"Mom! It's me."

Zuo Haijia shone a flashlight over Zuo Qingya from head to toe to confirm that she was indeed his daughter.

She pursed her lips, her mouth twitching. "How did it get like this?"

Zuo Qingya sighed, "Laugh if you want!"

She chuckled, "Sorry, I couldn't help it."

Several people entered through the door, including the butler, the maid, Yanxi, and a few guards. They all pursed their lips, their shoulders shaking as they tried to suppress their laughter.

Hearing someone laugh, everyone else couldn't help but laugh too.

Zuo Qingya is now truly dark-skinned; there's not a single part of her body that isn't dark, so dark that no one would notice her if she stood in the shadows.

"Xiaoya, how did you do that?"

Zuo Qingya silently took out a fruit, her eyes darting around as she tried to play a trick, but the fruit was snatched away by the quick-witted Yanxi.

Zuo Qingya was taken aback, looking at her empty hands. Did she think she only had these two fruits? She had many more!

Several more fruits appeared in his hand, but Yanxi snatched them all away.

Zuo Qingya was furious, and tears were about to stream down her face.

"Mom! Look at Uncle Yan, he's bullying me."

"Huh???" She wanted to snatch it too, but she didn't because she saw Yanxi snatch it.

Zuo Qingya lay sprawled on the ground, looking utterly dejected, and angrily said, "You can all get out! I don't want to see you."

The group exchanged glances and then walked outside.

Zuo Qingya flashed into her own consciousness space, found a mirror, and looked at herself.

"It's so dark!"

Looking at my teeth and the whites of my eyes, I realized, "Only my teeth and the whites of my eyes are white."

"what to do?"

"Sweetie, are you there? Please help me."

"What should we do?"

"It's so ugly, even darker than a black person."

"And it's also black and oily."

"Host, where are you? I can't see you."

"In front of the mirror."

"oh!"

"Host, what happened to you? Why have you turned into a black person?"

Zuo Qingya sighed, "It's the black lacquer fruit that's causing this."

"What kind of fruit is that?"

With a flick of her wrist, the black lacquer fruit appeared in Zuo Qingya's hand.

"This is it."

"Sweetie, can you help me find something that can make me fair-skinned?"

Little Darling, after scanning Zuo Qingya, said regretfully, "I'm sorry, I couldn't find a way to fix your skin tone. However, the scan revealed that your skin tone can gradually fade over time."

Zuo Qingya was pleasantly surprised, "Really? How long will it take?"

"I don't know, host."

"Fine! I should have just used pink. Why be so fussy? Now look what's happened, I have to consider the timing? You really can't have even the slightest malicious intention."

"My little darling, is there really no way to help you?"

"No host available."

Zuo Qingya sighed, came out of the consciousness space, walked to the window, opened it, and let the light in, finally seeing the layout of the room clearly.

Bang bang bang...

There was a knock on the door.

Zuo Qingya said weakly, "Come in."

Zuo Haijia came in with a flashlight. Although the room was illuminated by sunlight, making it a little brighter, it was still somewhat dark.

Zuo Haijia walked to Zuo Qingya's side, sat down, and patted Zuo Qingya's head. "It's okay, Mom doesn't dislike you."