NOVEL NEXT Chapter 622 Hope
Seeing Lu Jiawei's hesitant expression, and considering he really didn't receive any merit.
Shen Siyuan couldn't help but feel curious about what unfulfilled wish he still harbored.
Upon hearing this, Lu Jiawei quickly recounted his situation to Shen Siyuan, leaving nothing out.
Upon hearing this, Shen Siyuan felt a bit enlightened, and internally marveled at the complexity of human emotions.
Who would have thought that a woman who was once a virtuous wife and loving mother would, after her husband's death, undergo a 180-degree change and become a completely different person, doing things that were cold and heartless, even abandoning her own daughter.
"Do you want me to help you take revenge?" Shen Siyuan asked, somewhat intrigued.
"No, no..." Lu Jiawei quickly waved his hands.
"When I was alive, she... she did nothing wrong to me and fulfilled her duties as a wife, so there's no need for revenge. I just want... I just want her to give up half of the inheritance, which should belong to my daughter..."
"With that half of the inheritance, my parents wouldn't struggle so much to take care of Meizi in the future..."
To say Lu Jiawei didn't resent his wife at all would be untrue.
But what good would hatred do? It's not like he could really kill her, right?
The person in front of him is a god; could he really ask a god to kill someone for him?
Besides, she would always be Meizi's mother. They once shared the purest, sweetest love, and he didn't want to be too extreme.
"Alright, I'll get someone to handle this."
Shen Siyuan thought for a moment and readily agreed—this was not a difficult matter.
Whether it was asking Tao Guangsha to intervene or Zhong Xiaonan, he believed they could handle it well.
Seeing Shen Siyuan nod, Lu Jiawei said nothing further and knelt down, bowing his head to him.
This time, Shen Siyuan did not stop him.
At that moment, several golden threads descended from the air, entering Shen Siyuan's Sea of Consciousness.
With this, the two people's wishes were completely fulfilled, and without further ado, Shen Siyuan directly absorbed them into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, awaiting the reopening of reincarnation to send them back into the cycle.
However, there was one thing Shen Siyuan didn't quite understand: it was about Granny Cui.
Although he had intervened, it was really Tao Guangsha and his wife who had helped Granny Cui fulfill her wish.
Yet now the merit was attributed to him, and if it was truly so, then he was right to instruct Tao Guangsha and Lin Libo and their spouses to perform three thousand charitable deeds.
And he hadn't received any merit because neither party had begun their work yet; three thousand good deeds couldn't be accomplished by randomly finding someone on the street to help.
It required screening for those truly in need, and three thousand benevolent acts didn't involve three thousand people, but rather three thousand families, which was a considerable workload.
Furthermore, such large-scale charity work must be legal and compliant, so lately, both parties had been busy assembling teams, and had not yet begun any actual activities.
But because of this strategic move, Shen Siyuan saw hope.
Previously, he had always been troubled by how to quickly purify the evil in the Netherworld, relying solely on Divine Fire.
However, the Divine Fire was too slow, requiring the passage of time and patiently waiting.
Now he saw hope, and that was to fully restore the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
As long as he could gather enough merit, restoring the Ten Thousand Soul Banner would be within reach.
Once the Ten Thousand Soul Banner was complete, it could directly devour all the evil and residual souls in the Netherworld.
Moreover, a Ten Thousand Soul Banner restored with merit had numerous benefits.
First, it allowed him to refine the Ten Thousand Soul Banner more quickly, unlock all restrictions, and gain complete mastery over it.
Secondly, in his current low state of cultivation, he needn't worry about any backlash from the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
In the Great Wilderness, the Ten Thousand Soul Banner has passed through many hands and created quite a few Demon Lords.
This was because it is inherently a supreme treasure of the Demon Path, subtly affecting one's mind and magnifying all negative emotions.
Not to mention that after absorbing many yin souls, the negative emotions could overwhelm someone, and if one was not careful, they could fall victim to the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and become a soul within it. There were many such examples.
Obtaining the Ten Thousand Soul Banner was an enormous opportunity, but not everyone could withstand such fortune.
Shen Siyuan could control the Ten Thousand Soul Banner because, under the calamity, it was severely damaged and its power was barely a fraction of what it once was; otherwise, with his ordinary soul, he would have struggled to master the banner, let alone avoid becoming its puppet.
He only learned of this after absorbing the Jiu You Netherworld Lord.
That's also why Shen Siyuan never used the Ten Thousand Soul Banner to massively absorb dead souls.
Even those souls within the Ten Thousand Soul Banner were good people like Granny Cui or Lu Jiawei.
Because such people carried fewer negative emotions, they had little impact on Shen Siyuan.
"What has made you so happy?"
Taozi walked over, squeezed next to him, and despite there being so many chairs, she insisted on sitting close to Shen Siyuan.
Shen Siyuan found that once this girl put her heart into a relationship, she became especially clingy. Optimistically speaking, she was naive and pure, but pessimistically, she had a romance-obsessed mindset.
"Nothing much. Have you finished fighting with Dou Dou?"
"→_→ What do you mean by fighting? Do I sound like a kid to you?"
"Aren't you?"
Shen Siyuan chuckled and reached out to ruffle her hair.
Taozi looked quite youthful, and perhaps mimicked Ruan Hongzhuang deliberately, curling her hair into big waves to appear more mature.
Whether she appeared mature or not, Shen Siyuan couldn't really tell, but the contrast was beautiful, and her soft, fluffy hair felt nice to the touch.
Taozi pulled away from Shen Siyuan's hand with some disdain.
Shen Siyuan didn't mind, smiling as he asked, "Did you win?"
"That was when...wait, is it worth taking a kid seriously?"
"You weren't serious already?"
Taozi: ...
"Do you think I'm childish?" Taozi asked somewhat dejectedly.
Actually, even asking this question was childish, and the more childish someone was, the less they wanted others to call them childish.
"A little, but I like it," Shen Siyuan whispered in her ear.
Taozi, initially a bit unhappy, immediately perked up with joy upon hearing that.
Then she glanced towards the living room and whispered, "When do you and Ruan Ruan plan to go back?"
"The flight is tomorrow afternoon."
"Then...how long will you be gone?" Taozi hesitated for a moment before asking.
"Not sure, it depends on Ruan Ruan," Shen Siyuan said.
"Oh," Taozi said, deflating like a balloon, feeling another wave of disappointment.
Shen Siyuan found her emotional fluctuations amusing and couldn't help but pinch her cheek.
Taozi's skin was already good, and after taking the "Leg Stretching Eye Bulging Pill," it became even more delicate, like satin, so Shen Siyuan particularly enjoyed pinching it.
"I'll definitely be back before the Spring Festival."
"But that's still a long way off."
"How about this, you come with us?"
"No, no, this time you're going to meet Taozi's elders; how would it look if I tagged along?" This much Taozi understood.
"Then we'll sneak you in," Shen Siyuan whispered, leaning into her ear.
Upon hearing this, Taozi blushed deeply, her face lighting up with excitement.
"What are you two talking about?" At this moment, Ruan Hongzhuang walked out from the living room.
"Nothing," Taozi quickly stood up, looking nervous.
Shen Siyuan: ...
Ruan Hongzhuang: →_→