Chapter 2: Shenhao System in the City (2)

As a mother, she truly couldn't stand it anymore, so she criticized her daughter severely and cut off her living expenses, thinking that once she had no money in her hands, she would finally go out and find a job.

Little did she expect that this girl first encountered a scammer through online dating, and had it not been for the anti-fraud police officer who came to their door overnight to warn her, she would have almost been tricked into going to Myanmar.

Just as this streak of bad luck subsided, it was revealed that she owed two hundred and eighty thousand in debt to online lending platforms.

It wasn't just one platform; it was over twenty online lending platforms combined, totaling two hundred and eighty thousand in principal and interest.

Today's online lending platforms have gradually become standardized; the interest is higher than ordinary interest, but it doesn't reach the threshold of usury, so calling the police is useless. After all, her daughter is an adult, and she did indeed borrow the money and spend it...

With these incidents piling up one after another, she was truly exhausted.

For several nights, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep, reflecting on whether she was truly suited to raise a child.

She had once wanted to be a preschool teacher, yet she couldn't even teach her own child well.

Was it because she wasn't suited to be a preschool teacher that Heaven forced her to experience that nightmare?

Thereby causing her to drop out, work odd jobs, and bid a final farewell to her preschool education major?

Xie Shuling covered her face and wept suppressively, feeling more and more that her life was like a tragedy.

Xie Yang set down her glass of cold water and sighed softly.

She walked over and crouched down, intending to comfort the other person, but after a moment of thought, she reached out and hugged this thin woman who was only forty years old but looked fifty from toiling day and night for the sake of their lives: "Mom, I'm sorry."

Xie Shuling did not expect her daughter to apologize to her, let alone hug her while doing so.

Since her daughter's puberty, the mother and daughter hadn't even spoken a few words to each other, let alone had any physical contact.

Every time she returned from work, her daughter would already be hiding in her room, either playing on her phone or sleeping. She had the heart to chat with her daughter and pour out her feelings, but all that responded to her were closed doors and endless silence.

After she started living at school for high school and university, the interactions between mother and daughter became even fewer.

Only when she needed money would she call out "Mom" and take the initiative to say a few words to her.

She didn't know how other mothers and daughters got along in their daily lives, but it certainly wasn't like this in her own home, right?

This left her feeling very helpless at times.

But just as they say online: if you pick up work, you can't accompany your child; if you put down work, you can't support your child.

Working and doing overtime day and night all these years, wasn't it just to provide her daughter with better life security?

Why did it turn out like this?

Not only had life not improved, but her daughter hadn't been raised into a talent, and had even become an internet-addicted youth unwilling to step out of the house to work, taking out online loans for games, dating online within games, and being scammed by online romances...

She couldn't figure it out, so she went down a dead end, feeling that she might really not be a good parent and couldn't teach her child; no wonder Heaven punished her by making her drop out of school.

Xie Shuling hugged her daughter tightly, unable to stop herself from sobbing loudly.

Xie Yang didn't speak again; she gently stroked Ms. Xie's back, one stroke after another, encouraging her to cry out and vent the pain that had been pent up in her heart.

Never mind whether the neighbors downstairs might hear, or whether they would mock them if they did.

Life is lived for oneself; why suppress oneself to the point of a mental breakdown just for the sake of so-called face?

Until the wailing gradually weakened into low sobs, Xie Yang helped the thin woman stand up.

She helped her sit on the sofa, grabbed a few tissues to hand to her, and at the same time helped her brush aside the bangs on her cheeks that were wet from either sweat or tears.

Throughout the entire process, neither mother nor daughter spoke.

Xie Shuling's throat was hoarse from crying, and she felt it was shameful enough to be a tearful mess in front of her daughter, so she kept her head down, blowing her nose, with uncontrollable sobs escaping from time to time.

Xie Yang didn't know what to say.

As soon as she transmigrated, she was faced with a stomach full of sleeping pills. Although the Main System that bound to her repeatedly guaranteed that her life was no longer in danger, she still held her dizzy head, found a pot of cold boiled water, and performed a folk-remedy gastric lavage.

Come to think of it, this was the second time she had been bound by a system.

The first time, she was bound by a Saint System, which bound to her soul without her consent, and then dragged her through life after life, forcing her to do good deeds for a hundred lifetimes, achieving the "Hundred Generations of Goodness" achievement.

At the moment the achievement was reached, the Saint System automatically unbound, and because she had done good deeds for a hundred consecutive lifetimes, she gained an opportunity to Ascend to the Immortal Realm instantly.

However, just as she was listening to the lingering immortal music from the sky and joyfully preparing to Ascend to the Immortal Realm to retire, she was intercepted by an unexpected guest—

It was precisely the "Golden Finger Recovery Task Main Execution System," or "Main System" for short, which was bound to her soul at this very moment.

According to its own confession, it was sent out by the Master Brain to recover those sub-systems with minor defects.

The myriad small worlds called these sub-systems "Golden Fingers," and because they came with bugs from the factory, they caused no small amount of turmoil or indescribable sequelae in those small worlds.

The Master Brain received countless complaints and, finding it troublesome, sent it over to recover these sub-systems.

It had originally wanted to scout for an Air of Fortune from the myriad worlds to bind with, but after searching for a long time, it couldn't find one.

Seeing that Xie Yang, the one bound to the Saint System, was not only unaffected by the Saint System's bugs, did not disrupt the order of the small world, and did not cause the small world to collapse, but instead promoted the harmonious development of the small world, and was even very friendly when unbinding from the system, it decided to choose her as the host for this task.

Main System: 【System has chosen you after data analysis and meticulous calculation; it is not just anyone who will do.】

Xie Yang: I really thank you so much!

Without you, I would have already Ascended to the Immortal Realm to be an immortal.

From intercepting her ascension to binding to her soul and sending her to the first task world, it was actually just the blink of an eye.

Therefore, she hadn't yet figured out what the bug system of this task world was or what the specific task requirements were.

By the way, she also wanted to sit down and chat with the Main System, to ask about the compensation for intercepting her ascension, and what the rewards for completing the task were.

She, the Hundred Generations of Goodness Xie Yang, was still the same overworked corporate slave Xie Yang deep down before she was bound by the Saint System.

Since it needed her to complete this job, there must be compensation; otherwise, who would do it?

Xie Shuling finally calmed down at this moment, looking a bit embarrassed; she pulled out a tissue to dab at her swollen eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "I'm going to take a shower. What do you want to eat tonight? Mom will make it after I shower."

"Anything is fine."

Xie Yang didn't care what she ate.

"Then play on your phone for a while, Mom will come make it after I shower."

Xie Shuling went to take a shower, and Xie Yang returned to her room to communicate with the bound Main System in her consciousness.

Upon communicating, she discovered that there was more than one system in her sea of consciousness; there was also a baby-faced toddler shrinking in the corner, crying and fiddling with its fingers. Who was this?

Main System: 【This is the Shenhao System scattered in this plane, and it is also the Golden Finger that you, the Host, need to recover in this world.】

The nursing baby let out a tearful hiccup: "Yes, I am the Shenhao System."

Xie Yang: "..."