"What is going on today? Even the roof tiles of Cining Palace can just fall off at random?"
Chu Youning could not help muttering under her breath.
"Could these little mishaps be what System meant by losing merit and suffering for it?"
"If this is all there is to it, it doesn't seem like much of a problem. I just don't know how many days it'll last."
"Hmm? Ningning, what were you just saying?"
After instructing Lique Spring to find someone to inspect the roof, Wu Qingyuan heard Chu Youning muttering and could not help asking.
"It's nothing, Mother. I was just thinking that it might not be their fault, so please don't blame them."
For a while afterward, Chu Youning ate breakfast and chatted with Wu Qingyuan, and nothing else unusual happened.
She could not help breathing a sigh of relief.
"Looks like it was just a coincidence. I haven't been possessed by bad luck."
Now that she had relaxed,
Chu Youning collected a little more Snow Wolf Blood, then went to deliver it to Jiang Wanrong herself.
With her incredible flying speed, she soon left the palace and reached the streets.
Then hail suddenly began falling from the cloudless sky.
The hailstones were the size of fingernails, pelting down in a dense, rattling shower and striking her head. Chu Youning was a little stunned.
"Wait... is this really what I get for insisting on killing that bastard?"
"Isn't this a bit creepy?"
Refusing to believe it, she quickly found an overhanging roof to shelter beneath.
Less than two minutes later,
the hail stopped.
Still refusing to believe it, she darted back out and flew at full speed. The hail began falling again, as though it would not rest until it had battered her to death.
Chu Youning gave