"I remember it was the dead of winter when we suddenly received news that the young master had taken the woman as his concubine, saying that they were madly in love. We were so shocked that our eyes almost popped out. We didn't understand if the young master was sick or something."
That woman was disgusting to look at, how could the young master bring himself to kiss her? The old lady glanced at her eldest granddaughter, deciding it was best not to say those words aloud.
Third Aunt was extremely anxious: "Mother, what's next?"
"Next, we'll just watch like we're watching a play, seeing the young master and that girl go through all sorts of dramatic love stories, and everyone who gets in their way is a bad guy."
"Even many men who had previously mocked that woman became infatuated with her whenever they saw her after that, as if they had seen some unparalleled beauty."
"As soon as a woman speaks ill of another woman, those men would love to gang up on her and beat her up. Isn't that strange? Someone who used to be universally disliked is suddenly very popular with all the men."
"In the end, the young master almost killed his wife and child because of that woman. Only then did the old lady of the family realize that something was wrong and asked an old monk to help her see if her grandson was possessed by an evil spirit."
"Mother, why didn't the old lady of that family just arrest that woman? It feels like all of this is this woman's fault."
"We dare not move. If we do anything to that woman, that young master will make a scene. What if he goes too far and actually dies?"
"What did the monk say?"
"After the monk came over, he pointed at the woman and said that she was possessed by a demon. Only by killing her could the young master be freed. That young master is capable and has caused a huge uproar."
"In the end, the old master of the house called his servants to knock the young master unconscious, and then found a rope to strangle the woman to death. After the woman died, all the men who had been bewitched seemed to wake up."
"Later, when the young master woke up, he seemed to have forgotten what had happened. He didn't even mention the woman. However, everyone felt that the woman must have been possessed by a spirit, otherwise how could so many strange things have happened?"
"Once that woman dies, everyone will be normal again."
The old lady sighed. "When it comes to people, it's better to be down-to-earth. Is it so easy to climb high branches? In the end, they still lost their lives."
"Then, Mother, did you see any spirits appear on that woman's body when she died?"
The old woman shook her head: "We are all just mortals, so we probably can't see those things. But that old monk spat out blood, so maybe it's true?"
The old lady couldn't decide whether to believe it or not. It seemed so real that it might be true, but to say she completely believed it made her feel uneasy, though she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was.
Perhaps because I haven't seen real spirits, I've never been able to fully believe in these things.
"My goodness, this is really scary, Mom. Do you think Qian Wangcai is the same? I feel like he's the same as the woman you mentioned, the only difference is that one is a man and the other is a woman?"
Auntie thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "Sister-in-law, what you said makes perfect sense. It all seems like it happened in a short while, yet the opposite sex seems to like them very much."
"That's not right, we're women too, how come we're fine? I don't see anything good about Qian Wangcai at all."
Third Aunt nodded: "Me too, I couldn't see anything good about Qian Wangcai either."
The two looked at each other, suddenly wondering what to do if they doubted their own gender. They both looked at Qian Xiao.
Qian Xiao... Why are you all looking at me like that?
She touched her face, then looked at her hands, but there was nothing there: "W-what happened?"
"Erdan, what do you think of Qian Wangcai?"
"Ah! That's how it looks, it's still the same as before. No, that's not right, it feels even more disgusting now. You guys didn't see it, I saw Qian Wangcai today, that guy, there was still unmelted lard on his head, I almost threw up."
"What? Qian Wangcai's head is shiny with lard? How can he be so wasteful?"
"Absolutely. It looks like they used a lot of it; enough to cook several days' worth of dishes."
Qian Xiao... Look at what you're focusing on.
However, it seems that Qian Wangcai's strangeness is targeted and doesn't work on older people. So what's wrong with me? I'm definitely not old, and my gender can't be wrong either. Could it be that I'm the kind of person with particularly strong willpower?
That evening, Qian Xiao waited in the space for Shuang Dan to return from her job.
"Host, were you waiting for me?" Why am I a little flattered?
"Oh, right, I wanted to ask you something."
"What's wrong? Didn't I tell you you can call me anytime if you need anything? It's so late, aren't you sleepy?" It seems like something serious has happened, otherwise the host would already be dreaming at this hour.
"I was just thinking that it wouldn't be good to bother you so much while you were working." What if it interfered with your work? Would she still be able to get her goodies from time to time in the future?
"Tell me what you want from me?"
Qian Xiao organized her thoughts and recounted what had happened that day to Shuang Dan: "I feel like Qian Wangcai is acting a bit strange. He seems kind of familiar. Don't you think Qian Wangcai is like the male protagonist in a fantasy novel I've read before?"
"It's like suddenly having a personal grandpa or some kind of magical system, and a loser suddenly starts to rise up and become a heartthrob. All the women of the opposite sex like him and love him to death, and all the women become his assistants, helping him become an exceptionally powerful person."
"A powerful figure who can make the world economy tremble with a wave of his hand, and then his accompanying old man or system will absorb the world's fortune, and then the world will be over."
"Ah!" Double Egg was completely dumbfounded. There were novels like this? And such a powerful system? How come it had never heard of them before? Was it just too ignorant?
Qian Xiao looked at the bewildered cat face and was a little deflated: "It seems there's quite a generation gap between us, almost as big as the Chilean Trench."
"Huh! What trench?"
"Sigh, why am I telling this to an alien system like you? You wouldn't understand anyway," she thought. She had thought that Shuangdan would be her most compatible partner in the world, but she was just overthinking it.
Oh my god, does the host think it's useless? That won't do, it's the most powerful system.
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