Chapter 31: The Urban Shenhao System (30)

Based on the location tracking, the police found Niannian in less than half an hour.

The kidnappers hadn't even received the next set of instructions from Wu Tianyu yet.

"Daddy!"

Little Niannian had only just bitten into the second piece of the candied hawthorn, which was as long as an adult's arm, when he saw his father and excitedly threw himself into his arms: "Are you playing hide-and-seek with Niannian? Niannian wants to play more!"

"..."

Xie Xudong's heart, which had been in his throat all morning, finally settled. He pinched his son's chubby cheek, feeling both annoyed and amused: "You little glutton, you'd eat anything without even checking who gave it to you! If you keep being this greedy and playful, one day you'll be sold and still be helping them count the money!"

"Money money!"

The little guy opened his small palm and happily handed the one-yuan coin he had been clutching to his father: "Niannian found it, for Daddy!"

"..."

Seeing this scene, everyone smiled with relief.

Xie Yang lowered her head and looked at the text message Wu Tianyu had sent again: 【Have you considered it, Miss Xie?】

Rolling her eyes, she turned around and sent the evidence she had collected over the past period, neatly and efficiently packaging it all up to report him with one click.

No wonder this person would throw the original world into collapse; if people didn't cooperate with him, he would use a two-year-old child as a bargaining chip. This person's way of thinking was not just ordinarily dangerous, but extremely dangerous.

A few days later, the news was flooded with reports that businesses opened by the Gangcheng Wu Family in the mainland were suspected of money laundering.

Overnight, the Wu Group became a cockroach that everyone wanted to stomp on.

Wu Tianyu was also taken away by the police in handcuffs because he was involved in a massive case of falsified accounts and was also implicated in several homicide cases.

When He Dongli received her daughter's phone call, she nearly died on the spot.

"What did you say!!! Your husband was arrested by the police? All the houses under his name have been sealed? What on earth is going on? Suspected of illegal fundraising? Then what about your father's and my retirement savings? And what about all that money I borrowed at high interest rates?"

Whatever was said on the other end of the line made He Dongli's head spin; she couldn't catch her breath, everything went black, and she fainted.

When she woke up, she was already in the hospital receiving an IV drip.

Xue Tao sat by the bed, tears and snot streaming down her face: "Mom, he's inside, what am I supposed to do! And what about the baby in my belly..."

He Dongli interrupted her anxiously: "What about your father's and my retirement savings? And all that money I borrowed on your behalf? What do you plan to do?"

"Money, money, money! All you know is money! Why don't you think about me?"

"..." This daughter was beyond saving!

It was only afterwards that Xie Yang learned that Xue Tao's husband had been working for Wu Tianyu all along, not only involved in illegal fundraising but possibly having blood on his hands as well.

The money raised was all transferred by Wu Tianyu to an overseas account to spend on a so-called God-Level Project.

Even if a verdict was reached in the end, the money could not be recovered, and the victims could only accept their bad luck.

Not to mention how many times He Dongli fainted or how many times she wailed, even Bai Xuanxuan was distraught for many days.

Ever since she gave her first time to Wu Tianyu, she had decided he was the husband for her life, and she had even sweetly planned how to decorate their future home after marriage.

This sudden blow left her with no energy to go to work.

She made mistake after mistake at work, was criticized by her supervisor several times, and lost her eligibility for this year's excellence award.

Every day when Bai Xuanxuan returned home, she would hide in her room and cry silently, eventually crying herself to sleep.

In her dreams, she discovered she possessed a very magical system.

Every time she completed a Task, the system would give her a very lavish reward—sometimes a luxury mansion, sometimes a luxury car, and even various assets worth hundreds of millions.

In her dream, she told her boyfriend about this.

Her boyfriend was naturally gifted and skilled at utilizing and integrating these assets.

Money begot money, interest rolled into interest, and eventually, it grew into a super-large financial group that could rival the government...

"Hoo!"

Bai Xuanxuan woke up from her dream, touched the hard wooden bed beneath her, and looked up at the dim, yellowish incandescent light; for a moment, she couldn't tell which side was the dream and which was reality.

Only when she was fully awake did she realize she was still in the cheapest rental room in the urban village.

There were no luxury mansions or luxury cars.

Those were nothing more than a beautiful, extravagant dream!

It was just that everything in the dream was so real, so real that she couldn't bear to open her eyes and wake up.

If only everything in the dream were true...

She had previously envied Xie Yang for having a biological father who left her a massive inheritance after he died.

When life wasn't going smoothly, she would always find herself fantasizing: would she also have a billionaire relative who would one day send her a huge inheritance...

Until she had this dream...

She couldn't help but start fantasizing: would she one day really be struck by lightning and then possess an unparalleled Shenhao System, bringing her endless, inexhaustible wealth?

She searched for "Shenhao System" online, and a whole bunch of web novels related to "Shenhao System" popped up.

She clicked into them in a daze and read a few, finding them very similar to the dream she had.

Then, she used her spare time to write her dream into a novel, and although it didn't become a massive hit, it did bring her unexpected income.

Two years later, at a gathering for web writers, she met a humorous male writer and fell in love again...

Xie Yang was neither aware of nor interested in Bai Xuanxuan's new romantic developments.

She took the time to attend the trial of Wu Tianyu and the others and heard the judge read the verdict.

Death penalty with a two-year reprieve.

It was not an immediate execution, which meant Wu Tianyu might have a chance for a sentence reduction later on.

But he had several innocent lives on his conscience and was the ringleader of a multi-billion-dollar illegal fundraising case; even with good behavior during the reprieve, he wouldn't be able to reduce his sentence by many years and would basically spend the rest of his life in prison.

Once Wu Tianyu's matter was settled, Xie Yang's life became much more peaceful.

She focused her career on Xiaoling County and hired a team to help her manage it.

Zhang Ouming also came to apply for a job; seeing that he had good social skills, Xie Yang threw the general projects to him to handle.

Only then would she have time to return to Shengshi Taoyuan in Nancheng to enjoy the leisurely life that belonged solely to her—

When the weather was nice, she would sit by the lake to fish and watch the sky, and she would personally cook the fish she caught into a delicious meal;

When the weather was bad, she would soak in the hot springs and drink tea;

She even asked the bodyguard captain to help her create a training plan, setting aside two hours every day to learn from him some fighting techniques and life-saving moves suitable for a modern city.

She had not encountered much of this during the few hundred years she was led by the Saint System to complete Tasks.

Perhaps saints came with their own halo; as long as she followed the Task list to complete them, she could turn danger into safety even in adversity, and difficulties would be easily resolved when encountered.

But this time it was different; the Main System seemed to only know how to issue Tasks, and the rewards given were only points, which could only help her solve minor problems like looking up information or checking backgrounds.

Main System: 【...】

Do you perhaps have some misunderstanding about this system?

Xie Yang: Did I complain wrongly? Next time, if I transmigrate to an extremely dangerous plane, what can you give me? A Safe House or a Diamond Shield?

Main System: 【...】

Therefore, Xie Yang felt that for major matters like personal safety, she still had to rely on herself to be more attentive.