Zhang Yu’s vision went black again amid the wails of a bunch of "filial" sons and grandsons.
For Zhang Yu, death was actually a kind of release. After all, once people get old, every aspect really does go downhill.
The ears, taste, sll, stamina, plus a lot of internal organs are all failing. Even though Wei Jiang and the others, for the sake of the money, really did take ticulous care of Zhang Yu, the rot and aging inside her body still made her feel exhausted.
Zhang Yu once again decided that in the future she absolutely could not accept any more "grow old together with your beloved" type missions. Honestly, old age life was just too painful.
Falling into darkness, Zhang Yu felt these missions should count as over-fulfilled anyway. The children and grandchildren the client had given up on, she had of course given up on as well. After all, getting a pack of ingrates to change is anything but easy.
But who could have thought that after she’d given up and stopped bothering with the three siblings, they actually turned filial instead—escorting the old couple everywhere to stroll around, and after the two of them couldn’t walk anymore and returned to Capital City, the three ca to visit every single day.
Of course, they always brought their own food when they ca. When the two elders were in good health, they would take them to wander around the outskirts of Capital City; after their health went downhill, they pushed them in wheelchairs through the alleyways of Capital City.
Even if it was all an act, the fact that they could keep it up for so many years was impressive. In the end, after leaving each of them a two-courtyard siheyuan and a shop in the city center, everything else was donated to a fund for the protection of the hutongs.
Consider it a thank-you for taking care of them, but it still couldn’t erase the harm they’d done to the original owner in the previous life.
Zhang Yu didn’t know how the original owner would have felt about it. Anyway, she herself felt she’d done pretty well.
When she opened her eyes again and saw the familiar backdrop—okay, she was back. She yawned, stretched lazily, then got up and ran through a set of punches. "Being young really is better."
System: Welco back.
Zhang Yu humd in response: Right, next ti don’t take any of those "grow old together with your beloved" missions. Way too much trouble.
The System was stunned for a second, then laughed happily: Ordinary people all hope to live to a hundred. How co you don’t?
Zhang Yu curled her lip: Can’t be helped. For them, life only cos once, so of course they want to experience it properly and hope they can get off the ride a bit later.
Zhang Yu: But for , it’s just a mission. Old people’s lives are really, really miserable.
Zhang Yu: You clearly have a pile of delicious food you want to eat, but your digestion’s bad, the doctor says you can’t eat it. Your eyesight’s not great, your legs don’t work, and your insides are breaking down too. If it’s not this hurting, it’s that hurting.
Zhang Yu: Seriously, for old people, life is just way too painful.
System: Do you have sothing you want to eat? I can provide...
The System had just been about to say it could provide al service. For an almighty System, food is just food—how could that be a problem? There was absolutely no difficulty at all.
Hehehe. Zhang Yu let out a few cold laughs: Forget it. With System-made food, I’m guessing the pictures look great, it slls great, the plating’s great.
Zhang Yu: As for the taste... better not get my hopes up. It’s all catfishing.
Zhang Yu: It’s not like I’m never going on missions again. As long as I go out on a mission, I can get myself good food.
Zhang Yu: Instead of giving you that money to earn, I might as well eat it myself.
Wait. Zhang Yu suddenly rembered sothing. Wasn’t there still food in her storage space? At first she’d planned to put only valuable stuff in there—she already had branded bags in every label you could think of, plus gold bars, diamonds, rough jade, gemstones, jewelry, all of it—just in case she ran out of money, so she could cash them out at any ti.
Later she realized that although those things were nice, they couldn’t compare to food—especially since once food went into the space, it stayed exactly as it was when it went in.
She’d taken food out of there to eat plenty of tis before. She just hadn’t eaten any since coming back here, so she might as well try now.
And then she discovered a huge problem—naly, that she, she actually couldn’t open the space at all. What the hell? Zhang Yu’s face was full of confusion.
She clearly rembered that before she left, she’d opened the space to put in the family portrait from the last mission.
She didn’t know when it had started, but every ti she was about to leave a world, she would put the family’s group photo into the space.
Back then the space had been perfectly fine. How co it didn’t work anymore after she got back here?
Just as Zhang Yu lifted her head toward the space, she heard the System: The space belongs to an auxiliary tool and can only be opened and used during missions. Back here, it cannot be opened or used.
Aaaargh! Zhang Yu really wanted to curse soone. This was too much. But there was nothing she could do; this was the System’s world, and all the right of explanation belonged to the System. If she really wanted to argue with them, there was literally no way to argue.
Forget it, no point struggling. It’s just so food. Not a big deal, I’ll just endure.
Zhang Yu: Right, is the client satisfied?
System: Very satisfied. She said she never expected you’d actually be able to make those kids turn filial.
Zhang Yu swung her hand expansively: I don’t really know why either. Maybe because I wasn’t biased from the start, or because I didn’t have any expectations of them, so they instead felt I was fair?
Zhang Yu: Of course, maybe they were also looking at my assets.
The things she left them, Zhang Yu had left via a will. She had no idea what their mood was like when they heard the lawyer announce the news.
Zhang Yu was honestly very curious, really wanted to know what happened next.
At a ti like this, the almighty System naturally wouldn’t miss its cue: I can live-stream the whole thing—there’ll just be a fee.
She knew the System wouldn’t suddenly be so nice for no reason. After glancing at the client’s paynt, Zhang Yu generously said: Do it.
The System laughed so happily: Don’t worry, you definitely won’t be disappointed—and there’ll even be an Easter egg.
An Easter egg? Zhang Yu smiled. She didn’t have much expectation for this so-called Easter egg: As long as they don’t curse out, that’s enough.
The System fell silent, then stread the entire scene of the lawyer reading out the will and Wei Jiang and the others’ reactions, and even told Zhang Yu everything they did afterward—including their own wills.
Zhang Yu was truly stunned, and at the sa ti understood why the System had said it was worth it. Because they’d taken the properties left to them, plus most of their own assets, and bundled them into a charitable foundation.
This foundation was mainly used to support elderly people abandoned by unfilial children, who had no one to rely on.
Zhang Yu never would have thought they’d do sothing like that. Her tears couldn’t be held back; she wiped at them with her hand: They were doing fine, how did they end up...?
Being abandoned and alone was the client’s experience. In this life, you could say that Wei Dazhi and his wife had never gone through anything like that at all, so she didn’t understand why they would act this way.
The System once again jumped out to claim credit, not letting anyone down: Of course it was your most most most beloved System. I showed them the client’s previous life in their dreams.
System: After they woke up, they originally thought only they themselves had dread it. It was only when the three of them t and talked about it that they realized they weren’t the only ones who knew.
System: So they figured that must be what would’ve happened to you if you’d insisted on not splitting the family up.
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