Chapter 161: How Are You Going to Repay Me?

Chapter 161: How Are You Going to Repay Me?

The little mouse naturally noticed the disdain in Yu Mingze's eyes and wanted to retort, but it had no choice but to back down under the circumstances.

At this moment, Yu ZhiLi, who had been silent until now, finally spoke.

"So, it was you who paired with someone else and deliberately took over my wife's body?"

"No! It wasn’t on purpose!"

Fu Yining hugged Fu Xiaomi tightly and said with a frown, "So you meant to do it?"

"No! I bound to the wrong host and had no choice but to... make the best of it."

If not for the fur covering its face, they would have seen that the little mouse's face was very red.

It wasn’t some rookie system, but this time it made a huge mistake and couldn’t undo the binding, so it had to tough it out and keep going.

The mission ultimately failed, and it was punished by being turned into a mouse tiny as a sesame seed, even caught by a cat.

This was downright humiliating!

Fu Yining, drawing from her vast novel-reading experience, asked, "Where’s the host you were paired with before? And why did you choose me?"

The little mouse shook its head.

"I don't know where she is. After the bond was broken, we lost contact, but she’s the one who picked you."

"Why?"

"I'm not sure, maybe because you were the closest person to him at that time."

When it mentioned "him," the little mouse glanced at Yu ZhiLi.

Yu ZhiLi’s fingers twitched, his face darkening.

He hated being treated like prey.

Yu Mingze glanced at his dad, then his mom, opening his mouth but saying nothing.

The topic they were discussing was too complicated, even harder to grasp than what the little mouse had said before. He felt a bit lost.

So Yu Mingze quietly pulled out his phone to look up what a "system" was and what a "host" was...

"So, what is your mission?"

Fu Yining was curious.

"You’re a system, so you’ve got a mission, don’t you?"

"That’s top secret. I can’t tell you."

"Fu Xiaomi, get it!"

"Meow!"

"I'll talk! I'll talk now!"

The little mouse sighed: "We’ve got main missions and side missions. Just one main mission, but tons of side ones, and sometimes extra missions pop up at the right moment."

"What is the main mission?"

"Well, I am a protagonist pursuit system, so my main mission is to pursue someone."

As for who to pursue, it didn’t say, but they already knew.

Fu Yining suppressed a smile and looked at Yu ZhiLi.

Who knew he was so popular!

Meanwhile, Yu ZhiLi, visibly disgusted by the little mouse and its previous host, wore a grim expression.

He took a deep breath: "Ningning, they're treating me like this, and you're laughing?"

"Sorry, my mistake!"

Fu Yining rubbed her nose and continued to ask the little mouse about their side missions.

The little mouse scurried around the cage's edge to Yu Mingze and pointed at him: "There are plenty of side missions, but they're straightforward: turn Yu Mingze into the perfect man!"

Yu Mingze, who had just finished researching, felt as if he'd been hit by an arrow.

"Huh? What's this about me?"

Fu Yining was at a loss for words. "How do you define a perfect man?"

She didn’t see Yu Mingze as perfect at all.

The little mouse replied: "Like a successful career, happy marriage, etc. I've got a full training program."

But since it was a side mission, its host didn’t fully commit to it.

She seemed more focused on the main mission.

Sadly... she failed.

"I never should've bound with her; I wouldn't be in this mess otherwise!"

The little mouse regretted its decision.

Fu Yining thought it served the mouse right.

"Let's change the subject. What did you mean by binding the wrong person at first?"

The little mouse paused, awkwardly touched its snout, and said: "Well, when I first arrived here, I got lost. By the time I found Mr. Yu, he was already with you."

Fu Yining was puzzled. "What do you mean?"

Was Yu ZhiLi with someone else besides her?

The little mouse didn’t answer directly but cautiously asked: "May I ask, are you the original one?"

"Yes, I'm the one who was wronged."

"Exactly!" The little mouse sighed. "I hate breaking up couples, so I wanted to contract with you directly, but it didn’t work, and I ended up bound to someone else."

"Why didn't it succeed? Who did you bind to then?" Yu ZhiLi asked.

The little mouse shook its head helplessly.

"I don't know why it didn't succeed. As for her... she was a wandering soul from somewhere else, without a name."

Even when it bound to her, it was out of necessity.

If only it could have bound to Fu Yining, given how sweet their relationship seemed at that time, their task would have been completed quickly and perfectly!

Fu Yining, however, was lost in thought.

Perhaps the binding failure was because she came from another world?

Seeing her silent, Yu ZhiLi looked down at the little mouse and demanded coldly, "You couldn't bind successfully, so you joined forces with her to seize my wife's body? Is your task that important?"

"Right, you can just possess someone at will! That's outrageous!"

Fu Yining snapped out of her thoughts, looking at the little mouse with anger.

Because of them, she had lost outright twenty years of her youth!

The little mouse avoided eye contact, apologizing meekly in a small voice, "I'm sorry, but I can't let the host directly take over someone's body; I must choose when the original owner is mentally or physically weak..."

Its voice grew smaller, clearly aware that it was at fault.

Fu Yining sneered, patting Yu Mingze, who was sitting beside her, "So you chose right after I gave birth to this child?"

Yu Mingze: "...?"

He did nothing and still got dragged into this?

The little mouse raised its hands, sincerely saying, "I admit it! That person said she didn't want to endure the pain of childbirth, and I was also in a hurry to complete the task, so I chose that time!"

But Fu Yining was indeed very weak at that time, both physically and mentally, so the invasion was easily successful.

Fu Yining couldn't find it funny: "Where was I when you were using my body?"

"You, you were actually always in the body; I just kept you in a sleeping state..."

Yu ZhiLi's face darkened further, his anger seemed to be about to burst from his eyes.

How dare they treat her like this!

"Don't be angry."

Fu Yining reached out and gently placed her hand on the back of his hand, easing his clenched fist.

Yu ZhiLi took a deep breath and shook his head quietly. "I'm fine."

He had suspected these things before, but lost his composure after actually hearing them.

But if he knew what they had done to his wife and didn't feel angry, he wouldn't deserve to be her husband!