【You choose option 1.】
【Inside a dark, damp cave, you feel your way forward in the pitch black.】
【At first, it is extremely narrow, barely wide enough for a person. After walking several thousand more steps, it suddenly opens up.】
【Ahead, the light is bright. You have walked out of this natural tunnel between two mountains.】
【After getting your bearings, you continue towards Baiyun County Town.】
【The next day, you arrive at Baiyun County Town.】
【On the street, you see an official convoy of government officers. Prisoner carts are transporting bandit leaders like Xu Hu and Xu Linglong.】
【They are severely injured, on the brink of death.】
【The rank-and-file bandits have long been left to rot in the wilderness, not even worthy of being brought back for interrogation.】
【You don't look for long, quietly retreating into the crowd.】
【You escorted your Third Sister when she got married, so you still remember the location of her home in the county town.】
【"Why is it sealed?"】
【Your Third Sister's small courtyard has been sealed with white paper strips. Written on them is: "Sealed by the Baiyun County Yamen, Baling Prefecture, Qingzhou, Great Qian."】
【You climb onto the wall and see that the inside has long been emptied out, leaving only fallen leaves covering the ground.】
【You find a neighbor nearby to ask.】
【"You mean Shen Qingshan? Oh my, that murderous fiend killed ten households in a single night. He was beheaded at the vegetable market last month. The County Magistrate sentenced his nine clans to exile. What are you to him?"】
【"I... I shouldn't be part of his nine clans..."】
Chen Yi: "?"
What's going on??
How did Shen Qingshan become a murderer?
This Third Brother-in-law, Chen Yi remembers him as being dignified and handsome, full of righteous spirit, an extraordinary man.
Moreover, he was also a government officer, a demon slayer in the county town's Demon Slaying Division.
There must be some injustice, right?
"So, Third Sister was exiled?"
According to the simulation's timeline, Shen Qingshan was beheaded a year later.
He didn't know if the case had already come to light or not.
"She's my only living relative left, I can't just abandon her..."
It was just a pity that right now, he could only be anxious and helpless.
Chen Yi couldn't even guarantee his own safety, not knowing when he could escape the control of the Black Stone Gang.
【You don't know how the Great Qian dynasty calculates the "nine clans."】
【To be safe, you give yourself a new name: Chen Dong.】
【To make a living, you become a waiter at the Yuelai Inn in the county town.】
【The proprietress is a widow, kind-hearted and benevolent. She takes good care of you workers, provides ample food, and doesn't make things difficult or nitpick about daily tasks.】
【It's some of the customers who are the problem. They'll hit and scold lowly mortals like you at the slightest disagreement.】
【Especially certain martial artists who feel superior and look down on ordinary people.】
【Third year, age twenty.】
【Beginning trait draw...】
【Draw successful!】
【「Husbandly Vibe」(White): You inadvertently exude a husbandly aura, slightly improving your appeal to women.】
【Adjust traits?】
【Yes/No】
【You replace「Ji Ni Is Too Beautiful」with「Husbandly Vibe」.】
【A martial artist causes a huge scene at the Yuelai Inn because the tofu pudding is salty.】
【He breaks your arm. The kind-hearted proprietress helps bandage you up while you're bare-chested.】
【"Ah Dong, don't hold a grudge. We ordinary people have to keep our heads down before martial artists. Just being alive is a blessing from our ancestors' graves."】
【You say indignantly.】
【"Hmph! Don't bully the youth for being poor! I, Chen Dong, will eventually reach the pinnacle of martial arts, grinding even the great path to dust!"】
【The proprietress playfully slaps you.】
【"You can't even find a wife, and you're talking about this..."】
【The two of you lock eyes. Somehow, perhaps because「Husbandly Vibe」is working its magic, you two hit it off, sensing the heat and urgency in each other's gaze.】
【That night, despite your injury, you and the proprietress are like dry wood meeting a fierce fire, burning through and through.】
【Later, you and the proprietress marry, transforming into the owner of the Yuelai Inn.】
【Your life suddenly jumps from the bottom of society to the gentry class.】
【Truly, eating soft rice is the shortcut to success!】
"Who says white traits are useless? I won't accept that! I wonder what the proprietress looks like..."
Chen Yi thought happily.
The simulation continued, year after year.
Suddenly, Chen Yi's eyes lit up.
Amidst the black background and white text of the simulation, a touch of green actually appeared!
It wasn't that he was being cuckolded.
It was that his trait had turned green!
【Tenth year, age twenty-seven.】
(Author Liu Zi won't write out the unused traits, but that doesn't mean they weren't drawn~)
【After many years of marriage, you and the proprietress are still deeply in love, treating each other with respect during the day and burning like dry wood at night.】
【Relying on a bit of modern management and scientific knowledge, you and the proprietress run the inn prosperously.】
【It's just a pity that, as lowly mortals, some things you can only passively endure.】
【Such as theft, robbery, martial artists eating without paying, and the government's exorbitant taxes and levies, etc.】
【However, compared to most mortals, your life is already much better.】
【The only regret is that you have difficulty having children.】
【The proprietress often says it would be nice to have a child.】
【Whenever she has free time, she sits there doing needlework, staring blankly at the tiger-head shoes she sewed stitch by stitch.】
【You comfort her, saying these things depend on fate, that having a child is also about predestined affinity.】
【Eleventh year, age twenty-eight.】
【Beginning trait draw...】
【Draw successful!】
【「Luckier with Age」(Green): Starting from your sixtieth birthday, every time you draw a trait on a decade milestone, you are guaranteed at least one rare trait. Additionally, that draw slightly increases the probability of drawing rare or higher traits.】
【Adjust traits?】
【Yes/No】
After so many years of white, it's finally green!
But calculating the actual probability, this draw was also extremely lucky, given the current rare trait probability is only 0.9%.
"This trait can be equipped when I turn sixty. A guaranteed rare is pretty good too."
In the following simulation.
Chen Yi saw how difficult life was for him, a mere mortal, in a world where martial artists ran rampant, demons and monsters brought disaster, and wars raged year after year.
His later life was comparable to Fugui in "To Live," full of hardships and bitter tears.
【Thirteenth year, age thirty.】
【This year, you and the proprietress finally conceive a child.】
【The proprietress cries tears of joy, and you are happy for her too.】
【Fourteenth year, age thirty-one.】
【It's a boy.】
【The Yuelai Inn holds a three-day continuous banquet, feasting all the townsfolk.】
【"Child's father, you're too extravagant. Although we've earned some money over the years, there are always many risks."】
【"Hahaha! Rather than letting thieves steal it or the County Magistrate take it under various pretexts, I'd rather spend it for happiness! Besides, my son Chen Dong is born, how can I not announce it to the whole town?"】
【"Ah Dong, you're getting carried away again. We're just mortals."】
【"Don't bully the middle-aged for being poor! I, Chen Dong, am no ordinary creature trapped in a pond!"】
【Sixteenth year, age thirty-three.】
【Your second daughter is born.】
【You once again hold a three-day continuous banquet, feasting everyone.】
【Twentieth year, age thirty-seven.】
【A son and a daughter, a family business, a comfortable and prosperous life.】
【Gradually, you almost forget you are in a simulation, feeling it's all too real, too blissful.】
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