Chapter 2: A Miser Matched with a Phoenix Man—A Perfect Pair!

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“What is the Spirit Entity Growth System?”

“Host, the Spirit Entity System is designed to help you rapidly increase your spiritual power, enabling you to become the most formidable female in the interstellar universe.”

“As long as you complete the攻略 missions and raise the favorability of your five beast husbands—Xin Bai, Su Yu, Que Qing, Yan Luo, and Ye Xi—you will receive rewards.”

“Rewards? What kind of rewards? Don’t tell me you’re just drawing me a pie! I, Hua Susu, have never accepted empty promises.”

As a nouveau riche who had clawed her way to success through relentless competition, she had always believed in working herself to the bone rather than indulging in empty promises. Otherwise, she would never have managed to move into a sprawling villa at such a young age.

“How could that be? Host, the rewards provided by the Spirit Entity System are entirely real. As long as you complete the missions, you can obtain highly valuable rewards, such as a Wood Element spiritual root or the ability to control another person’s spiritual power.”

“A Wood Element spiritual root? Your spirit entities practice cultivation too? What a pity—I’m not interested in cultivation.”

“Having a Wood Element spiritual root offers countless benefits. With your superior spiritual power, you can attract more high-quality beast husbands. Don’t you want men surrounding you on every side?”

The system had to admit that this line struck a chord with her. She really was rather lustful. Otherwise, she would not have ended up here after dying over a male model.

Seeing that Hua Susu remained silent, the system continued tempting her. “Besides bringing you high-quality men, the system may also give you the chance to inherit an entire planet and become the wealthiest and most powerful female in the universe.”

Money, with men on either side of her.

All right. Hua Susu was successfully persuaded.

“That sounds pretty good. So what do I have to do?”

“Host, Xin Bai’s current favorability has decreased. Please be sure to reject sycophantic behavior and prevent Xin Bai’s favorability toward you from falling further.”

“Host, the system’s recommended course of action is—”

Before the system could finish, Hua Susu walked over, looked Xin Bai up and down, and reached out to wipe the blood from the corner of his eye.

“With eyes this beautiful, no one else deserves them. Don’t worry. I won’t gouge them out.”

She had not needed the system’s reminder. She had long since been unable to stand it.

What kind of nonsense was this? Only someone with a brain full of bubbles would dig out her own husband’s eyes and give them to another man.

Sure enough, such melodramatic garbage belonged only in Mary Sue novels.

“Ding! System warning. Host, please take note: Xin Bai’s favorability toward you has decreased. It has now fallen to minus one hundred.”

“What? It fell to minus one hundred? His eyes are still right there on his face! How did his favorability decrease instead of increasing? Is he sick?”

“Host, Xin Bai has a terrible impression of the original owner. Since you did not gouge out his eyes, he assumes you must have some ulterior motive.”

Hua Susu: “…”

What on earth had the original owner done to them to make their trust in her so low?

Xin Bai gazed at the hypocritical woman before him, his eyes dark and somber.

She did not want his eyes? How could that be possible?

What new trick had Hua Susu devised to torment him?

For the sake of Ruan Nan, she had ordinarily been eager to pluck the stars from the sky and give them to him.

A cold smile flickered in Xin Bai’s eyes. The moment she learned that Ruan Nan’s eyes had been injured, she had rushed to dig out her own eyes and give them to him, terrified that he might go blind.

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She had not even cared whether she herself would still be able to see.

And now she had suddenly changed her tune, telling him she no longer wanted his eyes.

Was she trying to make him lower his guard, only to gouge out his eyes when he was not paying attention?

At the thought, Xin Bai felt a sharp pang in his heart.

If his home planet had not been polluted and required the assistance of Blue Planet, he would never have entered into a contract with her.

She was ten thousand times more disgusting than the insectoids!

He absolutely could not let down his guard around her. Why should his eyes be given to someone else?

“Host, why don’t you say a few comforting words to him? Otherwise, his favorability is dropping in a straight line like someone dancing at a nightclub,” the system suggested.

“Comfort him? What use is comforting someone who doesn’t trust you at all?”

Hua Susu had never believed in coaxing people. In her view, if something failed to produce the desired result, then the only problem was that she had not given enough.

She remembered that, because the original owner lacked talent, her mother, the queen—a female of S3 rank—would often seek out precious treasures for her, hoping they might help increase her spiritual power.

If talent was lacking, external assistance had to make up for it.

Not long ago, Hua Li had happened to give her a pair of ultra-high-energy protective goggles. They were said to guard against attacks on the eyes by alien creatures. Xin Bai possessed the supernatural ability to see through things, but his eyes were also extremely fragile. These goggles would protect them perfectly.

Unwilling to leave her daughter alone at school, Hua Li had specially assigned her a butler.

Thinking of this, Hua Susu opened her light-brain and instructed the butler, “Go bring me the protective goggles.”

Xin Bai let out a cold laugh when he heard this.

Hmph. He knew it. How could Hua Susu suddenly have become kind?

These goggles could protect the eyes from foreign objects and prevent injury. After hearing that Ruan Nan’s eyes had been hurt, she had immediately decided to give such a valuable item to him.

The butler received the order and brought the goggles over before long.

Hua Susu took them and handed them to Xin Bai. “These are for you. They’ll protect your eyes very well.”

For… for him?

Xin Bai stared at the goggles before him, their surface glowing with a faint blue light, unable to believe what he was seeing.

What kind of fit had Hua Susu thrown this time?

She had actually given him something.

Was this some new way of dealing with him?

Had she poisoned the goggles?

Then she would blind his eyes and give them to Ruan Nan?

He cast a cold glance at them but did not take them.

When Hua Susu saw that he had not accepted them, she pushed them a little closer. “You don’t like them? They’re very good for your eyes.”

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With these protective goggles, he would have an additional safeguard.

Xin Bai acted as if he had not heard her and still did not move.

Hua Susu looked at him in confusion. His eyes remained fixed on the goggles, filled with distrust.

She pouted. Was he suspicious of her?

Without another word, she put the goggles on herself. “Relax. They aren’t poisoned!”

Before Hua Susu could finish speaking, the haughty man beside them looked faintly toward Xin Bai and urged, “Princess, if you delay any longer, it will be too late. Senior Ruan’s eyes may be blind forever.”

She had been so preoccupied talking with Xin Bai that she had forgotten there was another lackey of Ruan Nan’s nearby. She vaguely remembered seeing his name when the information had been uploaded: Fan Tong.

He was no good either—a shameless lapdog who fawned over others for personal gain.

How utterly shameless. He wanted someone else’s pair of eyes simply because he said so, without the slightest hesitation.

She was disgusted and about to curse him back when a thought suddenly occurred to her. Turning to the butler, she asked, “Are there any chickens in the kitchen today?”

“Yes. Would the princess like chicken for lunch?”

“No. I want to know whether their eyes are still there.”

“What?” The butler stared at her blankly, unable to keep up with the bizarre direction of Hua Susu’s thoughts.

“Take out a chicken’s eyes, put them in a box, and deliver them to this barrel of rice here.” Hua Susu nodded toward Fan Tong with an utterly serious expression.

When dealing with a man like him, chicken eyes were the most suitable choice.

If she had not loved dogs, she would have thought dog eyes suited him even better. After all, a dog man paired with dog eyes would be absolutely perfect!

“What barrel of rice? My name is Fan Tong!” Fan Tong’s face darkened as he hurried to correct her.

But in the next moment, he heard something even more unbelievable.

“Chicken… chicken eyes?”

Fan Tong was completely dumbfounded.

Even Xin Bai, standing nearby, could not help but twitch an eyelid at Hua Susu’s outrageous maneuver.

Giving chicken eyes to someone whose eyes had been injured—how had Hua Susu even managed to think of that?

Still, it was rather funny.

“Ding! Xin Bai’s favorability has increased by 0.01. Current favorability: minus 99.99!”

The system sounded excited. “Congratulations, Host! Xin Bai’s favorability has increased!”

Zero point zero one.

She had given him such expensive protective goggles, and Xin Bai’s favorability had risen by only 0.01!

And the system was congratulating her? What was there to celebrate?

This exchange had been a complete loss for her!

Miserly Bai. She would remember him. He had better not fall into her hands next time.

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