Chapter 617: Chapter 191: Worthy of Reward!
Chapter 191[Deserved Reward!](6400)
Alive?
A living... jade?
"I’ve forgotten the exact day.
In any case, it was during the first semester of my college days, when I was nearly out of money. During that time, I secretly studied that piece of jade every day.
After many days of research, suddenly one day, it came to life."
Hearing this from Lu Xiuting, Chen Yan suddenly became spirited.
He subconsciously sat up straight and looked at Lu Xiuting, "How did it come to life, Aunt Lu? Please explain carefully."
"Well, suddenly one day, when I was holding it and staring at it, I suddenly heard a voice in my head."
When Lu Xiuting said this, her fingers gently pinched together, and her mood was a bit nervous: "That voice asked me if I wanted to make a deal with it."
"What kind of deal?" Chen Yan immediately asked.
Lu Xiuting had a slightly strange smile on her face: "That’s the exact question I asked it: What kind of deal?"
After pausing for a moment, the woman continued, "It said it could grant me three wishes, help me with three things.
But as an exchange, after the three wishes were granted, it would require a small favor from me.
At that time, I was both scared and nervous, yet filled with curiosity. I asked what small favor it wanted me to do, but it refused to say, only saying that it would fulfill three wishes first, and then tell me after."
So, with a complicated feeling, I made a wish to it."
Chen Yan became interested—such matters were quite reminiscent of those mythological stories.
"At that time, what I lacked the most was money, so for my first wish, I asked it for wealth.
But it told me that it didn’t have much power available at that time, and the extent of what it could do was limited; it could only lend me luck in acquiring wealth for three days, and the money wouldn’t be great, but it was enough to solve my immediate dilemma.
So, for three days, I went to places far from the city every day to buy a lottery ticket.
For three days, I went to three different lottery stations.
The kind where you scratch off instantly... I didn’t dare to buy the regular lottery because the draw needed several days. The voice in the jade told me that my luck with wealth would only last for three days, so I only dared to buy the instant scratch-off type tickets.
In the end, over the three days, I won over two hundred thousand at the three lottery stations.
Over two hundred thousand isn’t much, but for me at the time, it was more than enough to get me through four years of college, cover tuition and living expenses."
Chen Yan nodded: "The first wish for wealth, that thought is quite genuine. So, what was your second wish?"
"I..." Lu Xiuting suddenly showed a slight blush on her face, but then she took a deep breath: "I wished to become... prettier."
Uh... Well, that’s not very surprising.
Most girls do care about their looks.
"Chen Yan, you’re with Sisi, you know her well... Actually, she does look like me, but Sisi is much prettier than I am.
When I was young, I was even uglier than I am now, just a country bumpkin."
Chen Yan thought, no need to explain, I’ve seen your high school photos, indeed very plain.
"There were very beautiful female students at school, and I always envied those girls. They always had people around them, teachers liked them, classmates liked them, and beautiful girls, wherever they went, would always receive some form of preferential treatment.
Since I solved the money problem, naturally, I wanted to become prettier myself."
"And then?"
"Then, the voice in the jade told me that, actually, I was supposed to be prettier, but because my Life Chart and aura were tainted with some unpleasant impurities.
That’s why I didn’t grow into what I should have been.
It didn’t have much power at the time, couldn’t directly change my appearance, but could temporarily suppress the impurities in my Life Chart and aura, so that my appearance wouldn’t be affected by them. That way, gradually, I would become prettier, at least be restored to my natural state."
Chen Yan nodded, understood.
So the reason Lu Xiuting’s looks suddenly improved after high school was because of this.
"But it told me it could only temporarily suppress the impurities in my Life Chart, couldn’t clear them completely; its power wasn’t strong enough, only able to suppress for about twenty years. Also, in the later stages, the suppressing power would gradually weaken, and my looks would gradually diminish.
But I thought at the time, it doesn’t matter, after all, a woman’s youth is those few years. Being beautiful for ten or twenty years was enough. After twenty years, I’d have reached middle age, and it wouldn’t matter if I became ugly again then.
So..."
With a reminiscent look in her eyes, Lu Xiuting softly said, "After the first year of college, I started becoming prettier, my temperament and appearance slowly changing day by day. A few months later, male students began to discreetly pass me love letters and gifts.
By the second year, when the students in school talked about the pretty girls, my name would definitely be included in those discussions.
I even had a boyfriend in college—he pursued me fervently, he was handsome, played guitar, wrote articles, quite talented."
Listening to his "future mother-in-law" speak these words, Chen Yan felt a bit awkward.
Hmm... because of the Truth Talisman effect, Aunt Lu spoke about such matters in front of him, perhaps?