I Turned the Villainess System Over to the Government - Chapter 4
Who was Xiao Heng?
Some said she was a masterpiece Nuwa herself would be proud of. Her face was smooth and delicate as a peeled egg, and her skin was so sensitive that a single pea beneath eighteen layers of bedding would leave her aching.
Some said her waist was like a willow under moonlight, her legs carved from white jade, her skin softer than silk—so beautiful even women’s hearts would flutter at the sight.
The old rumors that slandered and insulted her collapsed without anyone needing to refute them.
In their place came extravagant, flowery praise.
Meanwhile, I watched Xiao Heng intercept my chopsticks with hers, snatch the last chicken drumstick with her free hand, and start gnawing on it. Her oil-smeared face beamed at me in triumph.
Officer Li sat down beside us with her cafeteria tray.
“What are you fighting over? They just brought out another batch of fresh drumsticks at the serving counter. There are plenty.”
“You’re with the organization now. You think we’re going to let you go hungry?”
Xiao Heng grinned broadly.
“Hehe. I grew up scared of being poor…”
Good or bad, everything people said online was just fantasy they had projected onto her.
She was simply herself.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Over the next few months, the Villainess Project proceeded at full speed.
We rented an extremely high-end banquet hall, hired a huge number of extras, and staged a scene in which Shen Yi arrived with Xiao Heng, only for me to ruin the gown she had rented at enormous expense. She then had no choice but to tutor the male lead to repay the cost of the dress.
The reward was [Memory Alteration], an item capable of altering one designated memory. The modification would be permanent, but the item itself could only be used for twelve hours.
We issued an official announcement and recruited volunteers who wanted to forget something.
We had assumed such a bizarre proposal would scare people away.
Instead, an enormous number of volunteers showed up.
Using [Memory Alteration], I erased painful memories tormenting patients with severe depression, which helped improve their mental health to a certain degree.
I erased memories of trauma from victims of serious violent crimes, and memories in which family members had witnessed their loved ones being brutally killed.
Unexpectedly, many victims wanted their memories erased, while very few family members were willing to forget the hatred and grief surrounding a loved one’s death.
As for the volunteer who showed up clutching a textbook and asked me to stuff all the knowledge inside directly into his brain—Officer Li mercilessly kicked him out.
After I kidnapped Xiao Heng and forced Shen Yi to marry me, we obtained an even more extraordinary item: [Child of Fortune].
[Everything you encounter will develop in a direction favorable to you. Effective duration after activation: 48 hours.]
For those two days, even the nation’s leading experts and scholars had no choice but to set aside their pride before me and admit defeat.
“Professor Wei, this is a map of Hua Country. Take a look for us. Where do you think there’s oil? Where are the mineral deposits?”
I closed my eyes and pointed at random.
The head of the natural-resources exploration department wrote furiously.
“Professor Wei, this is our research team’s work on highly effective cancer-cell inhibitors. After ten years of preliminary testing, we’ve narrowed it down to three major directions: tyrosine kinase inhibitors, mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway inhibitors, and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway inhibitors… Which one do you think has the most promise?”
I could practically feel extra folds forming in my cerebral cortex.
I waved grandly.
“The tear-it-apart-and-cremate one.”
“Professor Wei, please take a look at our team’s Alzheimer’s research…”
“Professor Wei, here are the design directions for our newest generation of fighter aircraft…”
“Professor Wei, we also need your guidance on controlled nuclear fusion…”
Scientific research couldn’t be finished in a day. I had no idea whether any of my random pointing was actually right.
But only three days later, the natural-resources exploration department struck oil at the location I had chosen.
By then, I had completed most of the missions assigned by the Villainess System.
We stared at the few that remained and developed a collective headache.
[Cut the fetus out of the female lead’s body while it is still alive.]
[Remove the female lead’s corneas and transplant them into yourself.]
[Push the female lead off a cliff, then undergo plastic surgery to look like her and take her place.]
Every one of them required inflicting real harm on Xiao Heng.
The organization racked its brains and devised one workaround after another, only for the rigid system to reject every single one.
After repeated failures, I sprawled flat in the apartment the organization had arranged for me and waited for the next version of the plan.
Then the voice inside my head cracked like thunder, making me shoot upright.
[Host has failed to complete missions for an extended period. Negative execution determined. Level-One Electrical Punishment initiated.]
I didn’t even get my middle finger all the way up before electricity ripped through my entire body, leaving me utterly helpless.
Bzzzt—
When Xiao Heng came to call me for dinner, she found me unconscious and lightly charred from head to toe.
When I woke in the hospital, Officer Li and Xiao Heng both looked tense.
“What happened?”
I pursed my lips helplessly.
“The system punished me.”
