After leaving Chen Family Village, Jiang You went straight to the temple.
Inside the cave.
The enormous, bloated Wen Yu looked like a jellyfish stranded on the ground, his skin stretched nearly translucent.
The blood vessels and flesh beneath his skin were clearly visible. His bones had already pulled apart from one another, like the bones in a baby's palm.
He looked even larger than before.
Those twisted, deformed eyes struggled to turn toward the source of the sound.
His face was still distorted from the swelling, but the area where his mouth had been was now nothing but a blank patch, adding an eerie quality to the disgust.
Jiang You held a piece of soft, squishy flesh in her hand. Without saying a word, she flung it upward.
"Splat~~"
The soft object fell in an arc from above and landed precisely over Wen Yu's mouth.
The flesh on both sides healed on its own. Soon, that mouth began to move.
"You're back—"
Wen Yu spoke.
Jiang You said, "I was gone for less than a month. How did you get so much more bloated?"
She frowned as she stared at Wen Yu's body, which had nearly doubled in size.
"Sis—"
Wen Yu's voice was slow, but he seemed far more lucid than before.
It turned out that after finding Wen Yu, September, who had been immersed in the loss of love, suddenly found a direction in life.
That was to make money—or more precisely, to earn crystal cores.
She used all her wages and dividends from the Chen Ji Wine Shop to exchange for Chen Family Village's wine.
After all, every kind of wine released from Chen Family Village was recorded by weight. She could not take it for personal use, so she had to buy it herself.
And