System: [I don't understand, but if you fail this mission again, you won't have another chance. Do you still want to go back to your dynasty and avenge yourself?]
Even if you harbor resentment towards the Chen family, you cannot commit illegal or criminal acts. Moreover, it was your own failure in the AI virtual world to 'reform the Chen family and lead them to wealth,' which is why you have to come to the real world to complete the "family darling" mission.
Since this is a mission to make someone the group's favorite, what you need to do is make everyone around you like you, not cause trouble and make people dislike you.
If 10 people in this world hate you, your reward points will be deducted by 10%.
If 20 people dislike you, 20% of your reward points will be deducted.
And so on. Once 100 people dislike you, your task is complete, and you lose all reward points.
Zhou Qingqing knew she couldn't do anything to the Chen family, which made her feel even more aggrieved: "Yes, I know. I've completed 80% of the mission in this world. So, once I get married, have children, and live a happy life, can I go to the next world to do the last mission?"
System: [Yes, the next task is to go to a real world in the 21st century, where there is a novel platform called 'Tomato,' and you are one of the authors who writes light novels.]
Your task is to write a novel that enters the top ten of the bestseller list. If you do, you've completed the task and can return to your era.
If it weren't for wanting to go back, for her mother, and for seeking revenge on the person who poisoned her, Zhou Qingqing would have long wanted to appear before the Chen family and humiliate them.
Even if the Chen family members here are real people, Zhou Qingqing's soul truly lived a lifetime in the AI virtual world with the AI-synthesized Chen family members. She truly lived a life of resentment, anger, and bitterness.
Meanwhile, in VIP room 606, Chen Xihua was discussing with Huo Kai the possibility of asking Huo's company's lawyer to help file a lawsuit against Jiang Sisi.
"Young Master Huo, are you really going to sue Jiang Sisi? Your Huo family..." Chen Xihua asked uncertainly, not wanting to cause any trouble for the Huo family because of her.
"Chen Xiaowu, what are you worried about! You don't think my Huo family is afraid of the Jiang family, do you!" Huo Kai frowned and glanced at Chen Xihua, pretending to be unhappy, as if to say that you look down on my Huo family.
"Hehe, Young Master Huo, I thought it was such a small matter. You're a magnanimous person and wouldn't hold a grudge against Jiang Sisi, but I'm a very petty person. She's caused me trouble time and time again, and I'm very unhappy about it," Chen Xihua quickly said with a smile.
"That's right!" Huo Kai was immediately delighted.
He was also very loyal, raising his eyebrows at Chen Xihua, "I've disliked her for a long time, but my dad was worried that I might fall into her trap, so he kept his distance."
"That's good." Chen Xihua said seriously.
When she turned her head, she saw her fourth sister sitting next to Chen Xiaoliu, looking somewhat reserved and unnatural, glancing in her direction from time to time, and quietly listening to the people around her talking.
Chen Xihua understood somewhat; her fourth sister was still too reserved and always wanted to go home as soon as possible.
"Alright, I won't make things difficult for Fourth Sister." Seeing that it was almost time, Chen Xihua bid farewell to Huo Kai and the others, and prepared to return with Fourth Sister and Xiao Liu.
As they came out, Chen Xihua and Chen Xiuhua both glanced in the direction of room 604. Chen Xiaoliu asked curiously, "Fifth Sister, what are you looking at?"
"It's nothing!" Chen Xihua said casually. She actually wanted to go into room 604 and ask Zhou Qingqing directly what was going on.
Of course, that's impossible. If she did that, she wouldn't just be rude, she'd be an idiot!
However, Chen Xihua always felt uncomfortable if she didn't understand Zhou Qingqing.
She'll head back tonight. Another day, she'll definitely visit Zhou's Private Kitchen to test Zhou Qingqing.
Chen Xihua was unaware that she was making all sorts of guesses and suspicions about whether Zhou Qingqing was the author of the novel about a beloved family in her previous life.
She was somewhat uneasy about Zhou Qingqing, wondering what kind of monster that person might be, and why he wouldn't dare to come out openly and confront the Chen family.
But they're doing dirty tricks behind the scenes, or maybe Zhou Qingqing really is writing a novel to insult the Chen family!
Meanwhile, Zhou Qingqing, in room 604, was also wondering what kind of person Chen Xihua was.
That's right, Chen Xihua guessed correctly; Zhou Qingqing simply didn't dare to confront the Chen family.
Not long after, in the 21st century, Zhou Qingqing, in order to vent her anger, wrote a novel about a beloved family, portraying the Chen family as an extreme example of a contrasting group.
On her way home, Chen Xihua felt a little uneasy. She was worried that Zhou Qingqing had some problems and might bring harm to the Chen family.
Actually, it was unnecessary, because Zhou Qingqing only dared to think about it but dared not do it.
It turned out that Chen Xihua had seen the story in that novel.
Aside from the fact that the Chen family's situation isn't entirely true, the life of Zhou Qingqing, the female protagonist who travels from ancient times to the present, being pampered by the Zhou family is all real. The novel was written by Zhou Qingqing later.
At that time, Zhou Qing, the eldest daughter of the Imperial Chef Zhou, was poisoned by her husband after they were married.
On the verge of death, her intense will to survive led her to be selected by a mission system, which then bound her soul to it.
This system is an advanced dimensional world, an AI virtual world system developed in a laboratory.
They specifically acquire real-world data from various real-world locations and then simulate it into a virtual world.
People in the virtual world are created using AI based on personal information data from the real world.
The laboratory is striving to develop AI in the virtual world to be closer to real humans and more perfect.
This requires sending real people to perform task testing, identify and correct any problems.
Of course, people will also be sent to the real world to complete tasks, also in order to compare with the AI virtual world and find out the gap between real human thinking and AI thinking.
At first, Zhou Qing could stay in her dynasty. All she needed to do was enter the virtual world and complete the tasks to receive an antidote pill as a system reward.
Soon, Zhou Qing accepted the virtual world mission assigned by the system.
She becomes the young Xi Hua, who died from a fall when she was seven or eight years old, and then returns to the Chen family.
The Chen family members were created using AI to synthesize real personal information data in the virtual world.
However, in the virtual world, the AI Chen family is utterly hopeless.
The kind-hearted eldest sister Chen, the constantly fighting second sister Chen, the jealous and vain third sister Chen, the bookish fourth sister Chen who would never say a word, and the spoiled youngest brother of the Chen family.
Chen Baohua's parents, who favored sons over daughters, wanted the whole family to revolve around her.
When Zhou Qing became the fifth daughter of the Chen family, she thought that with her upbringing and knowledge as the eldest daughter of the main wife and the standards of a well-bred lady, she would surely be valued by her parents in the Chen family if she progressed step by step.
The four older sisters in the Chen family will gradually learn from her how to treat others, how to interact with people, and how to be polite and well-mannered.
If the Chen family were to manage the household affairs under her leadership, things would definitely get better and better.
Although the youngest child, Chen Baohua, is spoiled, it is still possible to establish rules and discipline him from the age of three or four.
When he grows up, he will surely become a well-mannered, responsible person who loves his older sister.
When Zhou Qing first arrived, he tried to please the Chen family in every way, but he gradually realized that it was not helpful.
Sister Chen just buries herself in work, helping her younger siblings with everything; she's such a good-natured person.
Chen Erjie was a rough and violent fighter who spent all her time playing with a group of boys.
Because the three sisters squeezed into one bed, Chen Sanjie would complain and grumble every day, arguing with her sisters and showing no manners.
Chen Sijie was timid, fearful, and depressed.
Chen Baohua is also a terrible boy. He is spoiled and pampered by the whole family, and all his older sisters have to cater to him.
Chen's parents were even more incompetent. Despite Zhou Qing unintentionally revealing the imperial chef's recipe, Li Yumei and Chen Lao Er were unable to replicate even 30% of the flavor.
The money earned from running the restaurant wasn't enough to cover the family's living expenses.
It's incredibly difficult to get the Chen family onto the road to wealth and become billionaires.
Zhou Qing became increasingly frustrated and exhausted. She felt that this was a task that was simply impossible to complete.
Later, Zhou Qing wondered if Chen's four older sisters, who were all married or had left home, were no longer considered members of the Chen family.
Then all she needs to do is reform Chen Lao Er and Li Yu Mei, and discipline Chen Bao Hua, and she can get on the road to wealth.
So she tried to persuade Li Yumei to send her four older sisters away, but to her surprise, the Chen family still did not get on the road to wealth.
Seeing that the mission was about to fail, Zhou Qing was furious. Her anger overwhelmed her, and coupled with her already severe poisoning, she died instantly.
Then the system took her to the real world, where she was reborn as Zhou Qingqing and began a new mission.
She was very satisfied with the Zhou family's situation this time, and believed that the mission could be completed smoothly until she got married and had children.
But soon after, she learned that this place was actually inhabited by the real Chen family, and that they lived in the same world in Gaoyang County.
Naturally, Zhou Qingqing came to hate the real Chen family.
Because she failed the virtual world mission, she needs to complete two more real-world missions before the system will take her back to her dynasty.
Zhou Qingqing wished the Chen family members were worse off than the AI Chen family members in the virtual world.
However, the system told her that she could not cause trouble for the Chen family, or more precisely, she could not do anything illegal or criminal, otherwise the mission would fail.
Another point is that a Chen Xiaowu has actually emerged from the Chen family here, so Zhou Qingqing doesn't dare to make any rash moves.
She didn't know if Chen Xiaowu was the original owner of the body who had survived the fall, or if he was an outsider like her.
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The atmosphere became somewhat somber when the four of them returned to room 601.
"Seventh Master, we all misunderstood the Chen family back then, didn't we?" Jiang Huaishu asked slowly, but his tone was very certain.
Lu Zhengjing nodded slightly, but did not speak, appearing somewhat absent-minded.
"The situation at the time wasn't exactly a misunderstanding on our part, but rather that's how the Chen family was perceived by outsiders!"
"At most, it's just that we didn't do in-depth research and made subjective judgments." Xie Jinzhou saw that Master Lu's expression was off, and he was sure he was blaming himself.
"Yes, if there's anything wrong with that, it's that we really didn't want Changxing to date that girl! So what we said was biased!" Bai Feng said, as if it wasn't a big deal.
"I did make a mistake." Lu Zhengjing raised his hand, indicating that the others didn't need to explain or comfort him.
Lu Zhengjing knew that Bai Feng and Xie Jinzhou had said those things not to shirk responsibility, but to comfort him.
Just then, a text message arrived. Lu Zhengjing casually took out his phone to check it; it was a message from Yang Shaoyan.
Half an hour ago, Lu Zhengjing asked him to investigate Fenghua Entertainment Company and Chen Xiaowu's group company.
Since she has already revealed it, and it involves a business she operates outside the company, she clearly had no intention of hiding it.
The text message reads: "Yunhua Group, one of the '5+1' companies in Nan Province, belongs to Chen Xihua. Its total assets are worth approximately 500 million yuan."
Its subsidiaries include Fenghua Entertainment Company, Fanghua Clothing Company, Nanhua Investment Company, and Jinghua Tourism Company.
Fanghua Clothing Company was the first to be established in 1995. Its sub-brand, Lihua Clothing, has stores in Shanghai and Beijing.
And Chen Chunhua, the eldest daughter of the Chen family, is the chief financial officer of Yunhua Group.
Currently, Yunhua Group's largest project is the development of a tourist resort in Qingshan County, Huanshan City, worth over 100 million yuan, namely Lehu and Lesongshan.
After reading the message, Lu Zhengjing's breathing became almost imperceptibly heavier.
This is only information about her company. Lu Zhengjing didn't allow him to check other information about the Chen family. He already knew what he needed to know.
All five sisters are college students; two were top scorers in the national college entrance examination, and one is in the military and will soon be promoted to major general.
Uncontrollably, Lu Zhengjing recalled his mindset at the time when he uttered those words: "The woman's family is greedy and vain, relying on selling their daughter to support their family. This is not a suitable relationship."
Whether it was his feeling that the two of them were not suitable, or his knowledge that his second sister would not agree, he considered various factors.
Undeniably, when he heard that Miss Chen had such a powerful family background, he was quite surprised.
For a fleeting moment, Lu Zhengjing did feel that his nephew Changxing deserved a better girl.
At this moment, Lu Zhengjing's eyebrows drooped slightly, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Chen family, or in the eyes of Chen Xiaowu, they must think that the Lu family and the Shen family look down on the Chen family and ordinary families!
Haha, you might trip over the threshold and get hurt!
Previously, Lu Zhengjing had some vague and uncertain feelings for Chen Xiaowu, but he had now suppressed them; she definitely wouldn't choose him.
Thinking this, Lu Zhengjing felt a sudden tightness in his chest, a pang of sadness.
After a moment's pause, he looked up, briefly spoke to the other three, and finally said in a deep voice, "What has already happened cannot be concealed, so let it be! Too much explanation or control will only backfire."
Wrong is wrong!
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