Several elderly women and young wives gathered at the village entrance felt sorry for her. They thought that being taken home would bring them a better life, but they never expected to encounter such a thing.

Taotie didn't understand this.

These people were clearly hostile to Tianning just a second ago, but their attitude changed after Tianning said a bunch of nonsense.

He wouldn't understand how enjoyable it is to listen to gossip, and how it can bring people closer together in a very short time.

Especially after several older women comforted her, the young woman who was initially the one looked much better. They asked her who the Taotie and Tiandao who were with her were.

Tianning immediately blushed and said that Taotie was her family's guard and also her beloved.

Taotie: "..."

Taotie shivered, thinking that Tianning looked better when he was normal.

Several older women immediately wore expressions of anticipation, watching the young people's predicament unfold. However, Tianning's tone shifted so quickly that everyone was stunned: "Taotao and I fell in love at first sight and secretly pledged our lives to each other. But my father's second wife instigated him to marry me off to a sixty-year-old man, just to get rid of this jinx as soon as possible. She even said it was to bring good luck to my sick mother… Waaah… Taotao was worried about me coming out alone to find my sister, so he accompanied me…"

Upon hearing this, someone immediately cursed the second wife as ruthless, saying that a sixty-year-old man could be this little girl's grandfather!

Some young wives, upon seeing Taotie's handsome face, couldn't help but praise him, saying that although he was a guard, marrying him was truly a good choice.

Taotie: "..."

Taotie stood there stiffly, unsure of what expression to make.

Tianning said, "Look how shy he is."

Taotie: "..."

What did he do wrong? Why are you torturing him like this!

As for the Heavenly Dao, Tian Ning gave him the identity of a mother who had a child late in life. After his mother fell ill, this young child was almost poisoned to death by the second branch of the family. Fortunately, the gluttonous attendant ate a bite of the pastry at the time, and the attendant died on the spot, thus escaping this calamity.

Because she was worried that her younger brother would be harmed if he stayed in the mansion alone, she came out with them.

Since everyone was given a tragic backstory, Taotie had no idea what was going on in her head. How could she arrange everyone's identity in such a short time?

After feeling a wave of warm concern, Tianning's casual inquiry revealed to them that the reason these villagers were wary of strangers was because of recent robberies.

As the harvest season for the Forget-Me-Not flowers approaches, the bandits become even more rampant, not only stealing the flowers that the villagers have worked so hard to pick, but also taking lives.

"You call that the Flower of Forgetfulness?"

Looking at the red flowers blooming in the farmland, Tianning's tone, which had been friendly with everyone, inexplicably carried a hint of coldness.

“Yes, this is a wonderful thing,” the old woman said, her face lighting up with joy as she spoke of the Forget-Me-Not Flower. She seemed to recall Tian Ning mentioning that she had only recently been brought to the capital, and continued, “You didn’t know that the place you lived in before was remote and poor. Twenty years ago, we were just barely making ends meet by growing grain. Life was especially difficult when natural disasters or man-made calamities struck. Fortunately, His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the Crown Princess were like bodhisattvas descended to earth, discovering the Forget-Me-Not Flower. This wonderful thing can not only be used in medicine after it matures, but it can also be sold to shops at a high price to make elixirs.”