Chapter 85: Forcing Perfectionism to Its Breaking Point
Chapter 85: Forcing Perfectionism to Its Breaking Point
“…spending all day just staring at the phone, not even able to keep an eye on your own son, you are useless…”
“…I work so hard every day, while your job is so easy. Am I less busy than you? As a mother you cannot even take care of your son, why did you give birth to him? What use are you?”
“…If Xuanxuan dies, you should go die too…”
Pei Ye watched this scene, her brows tightly furrowed.
At that moment, a woman in her fifties with fashionable curled hair rushed into the bookstore from outside.
As soon as she arrived, she grabbed the woman by the hair and started cursing. Her hysterical screaming and insults made the surrounding onlookers feel like they were watching a show.
“Who is she?”
When the little girl saw the woman, she shrank back slightly and quietly hid behind Pei Ye.
“My grandma. She likes my brother the most and hates my mom the most.”
Pei Ye could not help but rub her forehead.
Just from the development of the situation, she could already guess the general plot.
The memory of the earlier vengeful ghost Zhou Dachui was still fresh in her mind.
The little girl hesitated for a moment, then covered her mouth with her small hand and whispered, “Yangyang hates grandma the most.”
Pei Ye let out a cold laugh and said, “From her face, she is indeed not someone likable.”
Her forehead is dry and narrow, her cheekbones flare outward, the space between her brows is tight, and her cheekbones are exposed. This kind of face gives a first impression of being sharp-tongued, harsh, and overbearing.
In fact, that was indeed the case. Pei Ye had studied physiognomy on her own, and although her readings were not highly accurate, she could still see the general patterns.
This woman likely had a domineering personality, strong control desire, heavy verbal karma, self-willed, suspicious, and irritable.
Her descendants were sparse, her family ties weak, and her personality itself would also hinder her children’s relationships and family life.
“Yangyang likes mom and brother the most. We must quickly help mom find brother, otherwise they will beat mom to death.”
Pei Ye clicked her tongue and said, “I do not want to deal with emotionally unstable lunatics. Too troublesome and annoying.”
The little girl puffed her lips, her pitch-black ghost eyes looking up at her, seemingly accusing Pei Ye of going back on her word.
Pei Ye added, “If I directly deal with them, I might get entangled. They might even turn around and accuse me of being a child trafficker, too much trouble.”
The little girl silently loosened her hand and lowered her head in grievance.
Based on her understanding of her father and grandmother, that kind of thing was very likely to happen.
Even she knew that making so much noise in public was embarrassing and disturbing others, but adults did not understand this.
Pei Ye said, “I will pass the message to them. Whether they pay attention or not depends on them.”
The little girl nodded heavily.
Pei Ye blended into the crowd, holding sticky notes between two fingers while silently chanting an incantation.
The paper flew away and, unnoticed by anyone, quietly stuck to the man’s clothes.
“This should do it, right?”
The little girl smiled, her mood turning from cloudy to clear.
“Thank you big sister. Big sister is a good person.”
Pei Ye gently rubbed her head.
“You are quite the clever little one.”
Just as the little girl was about to respond with a smile, she suddenly held her head and said, “Do not touch my head, it is dirty.”
Pei Ye looked at her hand and found it stained with black red ghost blood.
Looking at the little girl again, she revealed a fleeting appearance of her death.
“Yangyang is so useless. The nearby uncles and aunties can all maintain a clean appearance, but I get dirty just from being touched…”
The little girl’s death appearance was somewhat strange.
Half of her head was deeply caved in, part of it swollen outward with blood, her skin pale like a wall. Her eyebrows were faded, her hair sparse almost to baldness, and black red blood hung from her nostrils while thick black blood dripped from her head.
Pei Ye froze for a moment and said softly, “Sorry, I did not know your fatal injury was on your head.”
According to Zhu Chun’an’s miscellaneous records, many timid or weak ghosts would involuntarily reveal their death appearance when their fatal injury was touched.
The little girl touched her sunken skull.
A surge of yin energy rose, and she returned to her original clean appearance.
“It was Yangyang who made big sister’s hand dirty. Do you want to wipe it with my clothes?”
“No need.”
Pei Ye formed a hand seal and cleaned the ghost blood from her palm.
“Big sister is amazing.”
Mm.
“This is nothing.”
Pei Ye said it was nothing, but inwardly she rather enjoyed the admiration from something cute.
While they were talking, the three quarrelsome family members finally noticed the sticky note left behind.
Your child has been taken by the people in car plate number Zhejiang S B4848. Hurry and chase them.
When the little girl saw this, she let out a sigh of relief and lightly patted her chest.
“Big sister, I will go protect my brother now. See you next time, bye bye~~~”
Pei Ye responded with an “mm” and did not wave back, to avoid being mistaken as insane.
Just after leaving the bookstore, someone shoved a flyer into her hand. A new self service barbecue restaurant had opened near the Xinhua Bookstore with a great price, 68 per person.
She glanced at the appetizing photo on the flyer and paused, deciding to have barbecue for dinner today.
Eating alone, she managed to create the momentum of ten people, with plates stacked across the table.
“Hm? A task?”
While flipping grilled meat, she took out her phone and saw a red exclamation mark on the Love and Raising a Child APP.
With her previous experience, she knew a mission had been triggered.
Side mission: Your character, Ah Zai’s guardian, Pei Ye, heard about a child trafficking case at the Xinhua Bookstore and is worried about the cute little girl.
Task 1: Find the little girl.
Task 2: Find the whereabouts of the little girl’s younger brother.
Complete the tasks to receive 23 Merit points and 25 Fortune points.
Pei Ye: “…”
First, Ah Zai’s Merit progress is 976 out of 1000.
Second, this mission reward is 23 Merit points.
Finally, completing this mission would push the progress bar to 999 out of 1000.
“This broken task, I am not taking it. No point!”
This broken game system was definitely doing it on purpose.
Knowing she had perfectionism, it deliberately issued a side quest with 23 Merit points.
The previous two missions both gave 50 Merit points, but this one only 23. If there was no trickery involved, she would not believe it.
Grumbling aside, she still did not skip eating.
When the little girl quietly appeared, Pei Ye’s table was already filled with dozens of empty plates. The waiter had even cleared them twice mid meal.
“Big sister.”
“Hello.”
When Pei Ye came back with more ingredients, the previously empty seat across from her now had a familiar small figure.
“Why are you not guarding your brother and running here?”
The little girl looked at the full table of meat and swallowed, her pitch-black ghost eyes flashing with longing.
“My dad and grandma are too useless. My brother still has not been found. Yangyang saw that he has a fever, but those bad people are not taking care of him…”
Pei Ye did not look up. “Not found?”
The little girl shook her head, her expression dim and helpless.
Pei Ye tried asking, “They did not believe the note?”
The little girl replied, “Probably… the bad people have already transferred my brother and several other children to another car…”
Pei Ye rubbed her forehead without speaking.
Recently there had been too many messy matters, and she was about to face the upcoming release and concerns about income and manuscript fees, making her increasingly irritated the more she wrote.
She had absolutely no confidence left.
Sigh.