"So... this was actually my fault?"
Wen Li clearly wasn't so easy to fool.
After the talk about how everyone hated her had shaken her up, she finally came out of her silence and realized there was another way to interpret the earlier incident with her family trying to marry her off.
"Not long after I got home, my father and the others started acting strangely..."
"I tried my best to calm them down. I didn't even dare leave, but it turned out that didn't help much..."
"After I really did leave home, my father and the others went back to normal..."
As she murmured to herself, her gaze fell on the notebook beside Fu Qian. She remembered what had just been erased from it.
Her father and aunt might have been acting strangely, but it was actually her own will that had affected them...
So I'm the desperate-to-get-married one?
If she hadn't still been wearing the head cage, Wen Li would have been tempted to make a run for it.
"Yes."
Fu Qian confirmed her guess without the slightest tact.
"Was it because of that earring?"
Although Wen Li's cheeks burned at the demigod's confirmation, she wasn't too embarrassed to face reality. She quickly began thinking through the cause.
"But I really didn't feel much. Was that earring such a high-tier item? It affected me without me even noticing."
The more Wen Li thought about it, the more alarmed she became. She couldn't help reaching for her earlobe.
"Don't worry. The item itself isn't that powerful."
"It's just that a demigod on the other end used it to locate you, then sent over a little resentment."
Playing with the thin shard in his hand, Fu Qian spoke casually.
This strange polygonal shard was what he had picked up from