Li Xinze’s attentiveness didn’t sway Chen Jianan in the least. Too many good men had made promises to her, but Chen Jianan wouldn’t easily entrust herself to someone else again, to allow someone else to control her destiny.

  Li Xinze’s anxiousness had no effect on Chen Jianan. What did it have to do with her?

  Ning Shu: …


  Another bolt from the blue. This was seriously quite the ride.

  A woman had to be strong, respect herself, and love herself. It was only then that others would love her too. A woman must have her own career, since it was only with their own career that they were able to establish an independent personality and dignity.

  Men were things that you should never put all your hopes on.

  Love was a kind of chemical reaction. After the initial chemistry ended, love naturally also dissipated. Was it possible to love someone deeply and tirelessly day and night, day after day?

  Ning Shu smacked her lips. Although the pair of true loves had separated, Chen Jianan’s life still counted as a successful counterattack. A woman’s success didn’t necessarily depend on marrying a good man, there were other forms of success.

  After all, do good men really exist?

  Ning Shu turned off the screen. She felt like she had just watched a heart rending romance, no, a woman’s rise to power story.

  If Ning Shu were to choose, she would rather live as the latter Chen Jianan, whose soul was free.

  The marriage between Chen Jianan and Li Xinze had gone wrong from the moment Chen Jianan agreed to stop working and become a housewife, dependent on Li Xinze.

  Ning Shu let out a long sigh and stretched before pulling down a book from the shelf. 2333 said, “Someone sent you a message.”


  Ning Shu lifted her eyebrows and opened the chat system. It was a message from 696 who she had encountered in the fabricated space earlier.

  “There’s a task to repair a collapsing plane, do you want to come?”


  Ning Shu messaged back, “I’m allowed to participate even if I’m only an intermediate task-taker?”


  There was a ding and another message came, “Yes, you can. Come to the trading hall in the fabricated space for the specifics.”


  “The rewards are generous, and there will be a lot of merit points if we successfully repair the plane.”


  Ning Shu considered it. She had always been doing things solo, it’d be good to go and meet some people. She already had 10 million points, with another 10 million, she would be able to become an advanced task-taker.

  Then she could go to the higher levels to collect resources that would allow her manual to grow into a plane.

  She could also go ask other people about things that she didn’t know. Every time she asked the silver-haired man, she got a chunk of meat cut off of her.

  Ning Shu asked 2333, “What dangers are present in a collapsing plane?”


  “You want to do this task?” 2333 sounded a little skeptical, “That kind of plane is very dangerous. The storylines are very confusing. Although you will receive a storyline, the actual events that occur on the plane may be completely different.”


  Ning Shu: …


  However, she still decided to give it a go. She exchanged for fasting pills from the system marketplace and also got water and some basic medication.

  Because this was a group task, Ning Shu got double the amount of fasting pills and water.

  After taking a deep breath, Ning Shu said to 2333, “Let’s go to the fabricated space.”


  In all honesty, Ning Shu was still a little nervous about doing a task with other task-takers.

  After a moment of weightlessness, Ning Shu was already standing on a cobblestone slab.

  “So where is the trading hall?” Ning Shu planned to ask someone on the street.

  “Didn’t you activate the tracking system? Did you pay five merit points for nothing?” 2333 said.

  Oh right, she forgot about the tracking system.

  A small red dot appeared in Ning Shu’s mind along with instructions on how to get there.

  Ning Shu successfully arrived at the entrance of the trading hall. The trading hall was very large, the building was majestic and was permeated with a powerful pressure that made people hold their breaths.

  There were people coming and going in the trading hall. Some had wispy souls, others had solid souls and were obviously very strong.

  Translator: Kaho