Chapter 101: The Depressed Daughter 1

“Hello, may I ask, are you the one who can help me fulfill my wish?”

Xie Hui initially didn’t want to take on this kind of task, but when this middle-aged woman cautiously made her request, he saw the unease and timidity in her eyes. The words of refusal reached his lips, but somehow he couldn’t bring himself to say them.

“Yes.”

After responding, Xie Hui noticed she was already nervously clutching her clothes, so he slightly curved his lips to appear more approachable.

“What wish do you have? You can tell me.”

By answering ‘yes,’ Xie Hui had already indirectly accepted this task. After accepting the task, he could see the past and present lives of this Entruster.

Entrusters who could come here all carried some merit with them. They did good deeds and were good people. If they weren’t full of merit, they wouldn’t have been able to meet Xie Hui.

The Entruster sitting in front of Xie Hui, looking somewhat uneasy, was a princess in her past life who, through her own efforts, changed the relationship between her country and the grassland tribes, persuading her husband to avoid countless wars.

After her death in her past life, people even built a temple for her, calling her the Living Bodhisattva, and countless offerings were made for her peace.

“Perhaps, would you like to see everything my daughter has gone through?”

As the woman spoke, her voice began to choke with emotion.

Others said she was unfortunate, having given birth to two children. Her eldest son was a delinquent who didn’t understand anything, just like his father, and would even berate her when drunk.

She was born in a rural family that favored boys over girls. When she reached marriageable age, she married a man from the same village as arranged by her parents. After giving birth to her eldest son, she had a daughter.

When her daughter was not yet a year old, her husband said he wanted to go out to work, leaving her in the village to take care of the family.

Three years after her husband left, he returned and asked for a divorce. After her son mentioned divorce, her mother-in-law wanted to kick her out. She had no means to take the children with her, so she had to leave them with her mother-in-law.

When others said she was unfortunate, she remained silent, but in reality, she felt her daughter was even more unfortunate than herself.

For Xie Hui, this request was not excessive, but he rarely encountered such Entrusters. Most Entrusters would narrate their past and the wishes they hoped he would fulfill.

“Okay.”

Xie Hui observed the woman, who was clutching her clothes tightly, tears streaming down her face, her face deeply lined with sorrow.

At this moment, she seemed overwhelmed with grief, unable to speak a complete sentence.

Following her request, Xie Hui opened the electronic screen and watched her daughter’s experiences with her.

In a dim and shabby room, aside from a bed less than a meter wide, there were many miscellaneous items piled up, and the only light came through the cracks.

“Why did you buy this kind of eraser? You actually spent fifty cents on an eraser? Can’t you use a twenty-cent one? Haven’t you seen other kids making mistakes and needing erasers?”

“Can’t you save some money? Your clothes are torn again? If they’re torn, just wear them; torn clothes can still be worn.”

“Why buy a school uniform? It’s expensive and useless.”

An old voice scolded, and the scene on the electronic screen gradually brightened. An old lady with a basket filled with pigweed pushed open the door.

When the door opened, Xie Hui saw that there was even a pot in the small house. The old lady placed the pigweed she had brought back aside and began chopping it on a wooden block.

“Grandma, but the teacher said we need to pay for…”

“Teacher, teacher, all you know is what the teacher says. Since your teacher said it, go ask your teacher for money. I have no money.”

The little girl’s clothes were already worn out, revealing her ankles, and her shoes had holes, with her big toe sticking out.

“Grandma, the teacher also said… we need to pay for exercise books.”

“Money, money, all you know is to ask me for money. No money! You’ve used the exercise books; can your teacher take them back? Hurry up and sweep the yard! Don’t be lazy every day.”

Just these few words gave Xie Hui a suffocating sense of oppression. He turned his head to look at the woman sitting there, who was already in tears.

“Please help my daughter, I beg you to save her.”

The scenes on the electronic screen were selected by the System, and after showing her childhood, it moved on to her later years.

The Entruster worked outside, sending all her wages back home. Because her mother was biased towards boys, she thought that since her daughter was her mother-in-law’s own granddaughter, and she sent all her wages back, her mother-in-law wouldn’t mistreat her.

Her son, after finishing compulsory education, went to curry favor with her husband’s mistress in the city. By shamelessly currying favor, he managed to live quite well.

When the Entruster’s life improved slightly, she wanted to bring her daughter to live with her. At that time, her daughter had just finished high school, and when the Entruster went to the station to pick her up, her daughter was carrying a sack, introverted and timid, not even daring to speak loudly.

After finally graduating from college, life gradually improved. The Entruster, due to working hard for years, had already worn out her body. After a hospital check-up, the illness wasn’t terminal, but she couldn’t afford the medical expenses.

Moreover, the Entruster wanted to save some money for her daughter instead of burdening her for life, so she hid her illness from her daughter until she passed away.

Xie Zhaodi, raised by her grandmother, was introverted, insecure, and somewhat gloomy. She had no friends in high school or college.

What the Entruster didn’t know was that her daughter had long been suffering from depression. Her existence was the only hope keeping Xie Zhaodi going. Not long after her mother passed away, Xie Zhaodi drowned while saving a child and never opened her eyes again.

“My daughter could swim; she could swim. How could she not come up? She couldn’t have not come up…”

Xie Hui looked at the woman crying almost to the point of fainting and reached out, unsure of how to comfort her.

Even people who can swim can have accidents, especially when the lake water was already cold at that time, making accidents possible.

Whether it was truly due to physical exhaustion or because depression had made her lose the will to live, Xie Hui didn’t know, and the System couldn’t provide an answer.

The woman seemed to realize her behavior was causing Xie Hui trouble, forcing herself to calm down, wiping her tears, though her voice remained hoarse.

“Sorry, I lost control.”

“It’s okay.”

Xie Hui poured a cup of fresh tea and handed it to her, softly asking:

“Do you need me to take revenge on your ex-husband and mother-in-law?”

When completing tasks, Xie Hui prioritized the Entruster’s wishes. After death, those who came to this place had clearer minds than when they were alive. Even if Xie Hui personally disapproved of certain things, he recognized his role as merely a tool to fulfill their dreams.

When the woman heard Xie Hui’s words, she was slightly stunned, tears still in her eyes, and shook her head in response:

“My daughter is gone; what use is revenge on them? If you’re willing to help me, I just want my daughter to be safe and healthy.”

“I don’t want her to be particularly capable or successful. I have no education and haven’t studied, so I don’t understand what depression is, but I want her to be happy.”

A simple and humble wish, yet behind it lay a fervent motherly love.

“The System can reverse time to when nothing has happened yet. At that point, your daughter will still be there, and you can make any wishes you want. I’ll do my best to fulfill them.”

Xie Hui kindly continued to remind her. The mother’s merit was something he couldn’t bear, even if she wished for her daughter to become an emperor in modern times.

“As long as you can make my daughter safe and happy, everything else is fine.”

“Alright, happy cooperation.”

Xie Hui took her words as giving him the freedom to act, extending his hand towards her. The mother also extended her hand, stiffly shaking hands with Xie Hui.

After the task began, the chair in the System Space was unusually empty.

The fact that the mother could meet Xie Hui was already an accident. Xie Hui, who had never accepted a commission from a female Entruster, took on her task, which was also an accident.

So, Xie Hui decided to carry the accident through to the end.

Having completed so many tasks, Xie Hui had accumulated a considerable amount of points and merit. When it was time to be stingy, he could scold the System for being greedy over two points. But in situations where stinginess was inappropriate, Xie Hui spent twenty thousand points to let the Entruster herself experience a time reversal.

In the new world, as soon as Xie Hui opened his eyes, he heard a commotion, and someone next to him nudged him.

“President Wang trusts you, which is why he’s given you this opportunity! Don’t let President Wang down; you’re about to go on stage, and you’re still daydreaming here?”

“Sorry, I need to use the restroom.”

“Be quick; it’s about to start.”

The identity Xie Hui assumed this time was unexpected. He thought that after bringing the Entruster back, he would replace the scumbag father, but unexpectedly… he became the Entruster’s eldest son.

The Entruster’s eldest son, after graduating from junior high school, went to find his biological father and followed him to curry favor with his father’s mistress.

Because the original owner could shamelessly kneel in public to clean the mistress’s shoes, allowing her to step on his back to tie her shoelaces, over the years, although his stepmother looked down on him, she trusted him.

This time, it was a new product launch for his stepmother’s company, with many media outlets broadcasting live. The paper Xie Hui held was the speech script.

“Help me find evidence of the original owner’s father, President Wang’s marital infidelity.”

Such matters could also be handled by private detectives, but it would take time. The opportunity before Xie Hui was too good, so he sought the System’s help, despite being a notorious penny-pincher.

“Host, it will cost points.”

“Deduct as you please.”

The System not only helped Xie Hui find evidence from various surveillance cameras in this world but also obtained recordings, photos, and videos, conveniently replacing the new product launch video with this evidence, providing excellent after-sales service.

After the System finished, Xie Hui adjusted his collar in front of the mirror, left the restroom, and took the stage at the launch event, standing in the center.