Chapter 1254: The Fool's Daughter (33)

System: So your father was really only supported by your uncle for one year. I checked the rest of the original story as well. After that, for the next several decades, your father spent his life subsidizing their family.

That included helping Tang Liping and his wife find jobs in the city, transferring Tang Zhiming to Tang Guo's school, and later on, no matter what that family did, Tang Lide was always involved and lending a hand.

No matter how outrageous their actions were, Tang Lide never thought they were excessive.

He only remembered one thing—that Tang Liping was his elder brother, the man who had supported him through university.

System: But Host, what about your mother? Why does she seem so similar to your father?

Tang Guo wiped the corner of her mouth before replying, "My grandfather died young. Grandmother had three children—Song Zhenqiu, my mother, and Song Tianling. The four of them depended on each other to survive, and my mother always valued family ties deeply. Even though she wasn't Grandmother's favorite daughter, she eventually got into university, not because Grandmother favored her, but because her grades were good enough. Under the circumstances back then, she was the only one who had a chance to go."

"But she's remembered that kindness for her entire life. And Grandmother constantly reminded her that if my eldest aunt hadn't given up school and married early, she wouldn't have had the opportunity."

System: That's blatant emotional blackmail. Besides, your family has helped your mother's side plenty over the years. You've fulfilled your obligations and repaid the favor long ago.

"What can you do?" Tang Guo smiled faintly. "Most people think debts of gratitude like these can never truly be repaid. The two of them are just putting on a brave face to support other people's households. Just wait. There'll definitely be even more ridiculous things to come."

Tang Guo didn't believe those two fools would stop here.

Although in the original story her family hadn't been reduced to absolute ruin, Tang Lide and Song Jinghua had spent the rest of their lives supporting everyone else.

Especially after the original host died, they became even more desperate to cling to those family ties than before.

They treated the children of their siblings as if they were their own.

Of course, their final years were bleak and miserable. If they hadn't still owned a house, they probably would've ended up with no one even bothering to bury them.

After reviewing the original plot, even the System couldn't help but sigh.

That afternoon after work, Tang Guo met Yuan Shuo at their usual spot.

"Let's try somewhere different today."

Yuan Shuo blinked in surprise. "You're not going home right away? We're eating out again?"

"Of course. I can't take any more vegetarian food at home."

He picked up on something in her tone. "Something happened at home again?"

He hadn't been paying attention. Watching someone else's family affairs every day would either make him a peeping Tom or a lunatic.

"My family originally had more than a million yuan in savings. After my cousin's accident, my parents felt guilty and paid his medical expenses. I don't know how much they spent in between, but afterward they lent his family another five hundred thousand."

Seeing the look of disbelief on Yuan Shuo's face, Tang Guo thought to herself that the truly unbelievable part was yet to come.

"As I mentioned before, my grandmother came over a few days ago and borrowed the rest of the money to buy my youngest uncle a house in the city. She took every last cent. My mother even requested next month's salary in advance."

"From that day onward, she started making vegetarian dishes every day. You can barely see a drop of oil in them. Lunch is one thing, but breakfast is just plain noodles every day. How can anyone stand that? I'm not even trying to lose weight."

"And now something's happened to my eldest uncle's family again."

"I don't know what's going to happen next."

Chapter 1255: The Fool's Daughter (34)

Yuan Shuo subconsciously looked Tang Guo over. Her figure was slender and well-proportioned. She really didn't need to lose weight. As she was now, she was practically perfect. If she became any thinner, she wouldn't look nearly as good.

"Have your parents never thought about their own lives? They're even cutting back on food just to help other people?" In Yuan Shuo's eyes, such a thing was simply unbelievable.

Tang Guo shook her head. "They only care about maintaining those so-called family bonds. Every time I tried to persuade them, they'd accuse me of being heartless and ungrateful. I don't bother anymore. They can support whoever they want. It's their money, after all."

Now, all she had to do was wait until the two of them lost everything.

She was especially eager to let them experience what despair and helplessness felt like.

To discover that the people they had once devoted themselves to helping would abandon them without hesitation when they themselves had nowhere left to turn.

Just imagining it made Tang Guo feel incredibly pleased.

Yuan Shuo noticed that while she was talking, she actually smiled.

He truly couldn't understand it. Her parents had spent their entire lives being suckers, yet she was still able to smile.

When Tang Guo brought him to another private restaurant, Yuan Shuo finally couldn't help saying, "This place is excellent too, but reservations are booked two months in advance. How did you manage it?"

To him, Tang Guo had become somewhat mysterious.

She was obviously an ordinary girl, yet she could somehow secure seats at several of his favorite private restaurants.

These places required VIP cards even to join the waiting list.

So where had she gotten the cards, and how had she managed to reserve seats?

To him, it was an unsolved mystery.

Feeling Yuan Shuo's confusion, the System remained silent and smiled, deeply concealing its merit and fame.

How had they gotten the reservations?

Naturally, through its abilities.

Was Host short on money?

Money was what she lacked least.

It could be said that the wealth stored within the System Space surpassed anything anyone in this world possessed.

But she never used those things unless absolutely necessary.

In her words, her true wealth was everything she had experienced throughout countless worlds. Those experiences themselves were her treasure.

With the knowledge and experience accumulated in her mind, she could go anywhere and, given a little time, never worry about money.

Of course, the fastest way to make money was still when Host casually tossed a hundred thousand into the stock market.

Even without any starting capital, Host knew everything. She could earn money just by teaching a few children artistic skills.

Singing.

Dancing.

Painting.

Playing all kinds of musical instruments.

Achievements in mathematics...

She was practically omnipotent.

Take out any one of those talents, and she could live extremely well.

The System never found Tang Guo's abilities strange.

Even an ordinary person, after traveling through countless worlds and living for thousands of years, would become immensely wealthy—as long as they had been willing to learn in every world.

That wealth didn't refer to material possessions.

Suddenly, the System felt somewhat depressed.

A host this capable...

Did she really need a System at all?

It seemed as though it had no purpose.

"What are you thinking about, Tongzi?"

After being bound together for thousands of years, Tang Guo could naturally sense when something was wrong with the System.

System: Host, I've suddenly realized that with or without me, you'd still live very well. My role in your life is really too small.

"Tongzi, I'm beginning to suspect your gender. You're so sentimental. Don't tell me you're actually a girl?"