How did I become the Lord of Evil Gods?

Chapter 43 Fog City
  "Apartment Building No. 19 Liuli Street, Unit 2 401"

Recalling the address that Miss Rose had told her, Yun Mu quickly found the location where the editor-in-chief of Frostfall City Weekly, Nathan Harval, lived.

It's about 200 meters away from the Ssilaya Cafe, and it only takes a few minutes to walk there.

With such a close distance, it's no wonder that the editor-in-chief of Shuangluo City Weekly has free time when he goes to work every morning and can come to the coffee shop to drink a cup of coffee before leaving.

With this in mind, Yun Mu walked into the apartment building, climbed up the stairs to the fourth floor, and gently pressed the doorbell of Room 401.

ding dong~
  About fifty or six seconds after the doorbell rang, the door of Room 401 was pushed open.

However, the person who opened the door was not the editor-in-chief of Shuangluo City Weekly in Yun Mu's memory, but a girl who was just over one meter tall with a pair of cute pigtails on her head.

The girl had short flaxen hair, and her dark eyes were watching her curiously.

"Tina, who is here?"

Just when Yun Mu was wondering about this, Nathan Harval's voice came from inside the house.

Accompanied by the sound of slightly hurried footsteps, the middle-aged man whom he had met in the coffee shop this morning walked out of the house wearing a light gray casual gown.

He first glanced at Yun Mu with some confusion, then knelt down and touched the girl's head.

"Didn't I tell you not to open the door to strangers?"

Nathan said to his daughter helplessly.

"Dad, you said don't open the door to bad people." Tina retorted.

"This sister is not a bad person at first glance!" she said.

"This"

Nathan wanted to say that whether a person is bad or not has nothing to do with how he looks, but considering that Yun Mu was still here, it would be rude to say so, so he had to change his mind.

"Next time, don't open the door to someone you don't know, okay?"

He said to his daughter in a gentle tone.

"Yeah, I know!" Tina agreed.

"Okay, you go back to the house and play."

Nathan patted his daughter on the back and motioned for her to go play with her stuff first.

"Oh."

Tina looked a little unhappy, but she still returned to her room obediently.

"That was my daughter just now, it was ridiculous."

After Tina left, Nathan looked at Yun Mudao standing outside the door.

"No, it's because my visit was a little unexpected." Yun Mu replied politely.

"Hey, you are."

Hearing Yun Mu's voice, Nathan suddenly felt that it sounded familiar.

Soon, he recalled the events of the morning.

"Are you the new employee of Ssilaya Cafe?" he asked in surprise.

"it's me."

Yun Mu nodded first, and then took out the Senior Painter Certification Medal of the Painters Association from his arms.

"I see."

After the other party saw the medal in her hand, he immediately understood everything.

"Let's talk first."

Nathan invited Yunmu into the house and asked her to sit on the sofa in his living room.

"Is green tea okay?"

Nathan picked up the kettle on the table and poured a cup of clear green tea for each of them.

He had prepared this for himself a long time ago, and Yun Mu happened to be here at this time.

"I also can."

Yun Mu replied casually.

"Then let's get to the point."

Nathan sat opposite her, his expression suddenly became serious, and he asked her: "You should know my request."

"Honestly." Yun Mu shook his head and said, "I'm not sure." "The commission only said it was related to painting, but there are too many things related to painting."

After a pause, she continued: "At least make it clear what you want to do."

"This"

Perhaps Yun Mu was the first person to take the initiative to ask him what he wanted, but there was actually a look of hesitation on Nathan's face.

After a while, he finally said: "Actually, I don't know what I want."

You don't even know what you want?
  Yun Mu was speechless.

Is this some kind of task from above that he has to do?

But the problem is that he is the editor-in-chief of Shuangluo City Weekly. He is above the editor-in-chief, so isn't that...
  But if that's the case, then Nathan doesn't need to hesitate. Wouldn't it be nice to just find someone he can read and publish it in the newspaper?
  "Dad just misses mom."

"Dad is a crybaby!"

Tina poked her head out of the room behind her at some point. She held a worn-out stuffed bear in her arms and said with a trembling voice:

"Mom doesn't want Tina anymore because Tina is not a good child."

"Tina." Nathan stood up helplessly and came to Tina.

"I said, mom just left for something." He stroked the girl's hair.

"Liar!"

Tina shook off Nathan's hand and went back to her room without looking back.

"Dad is a big liar!"

After the words fell, Tina's room door was closed, and the entire living room fell into a deathly silence.

"Ugh."

After a while, Nathan sighed quietly.

He sat back in front of Yun Mu with a tired look.

"It's funny," he said.

"My wife passed away more than two months ago. Tina didn't understand anything. She just thought her mother didn't want her because she didn't like her."

"This"

Yun Mu hesitated for a while, then asked bravely: "So, this commission is related to your wife, right?"

"Yes."

Nathan admitted it openly at this time. He said: "My wife is also a painter. Before she passed away, she told me that she would prepare a surprise for me."

He rubbed the ring on his ring finger and said with a somewhat reminiscing look, "I don't know what surprise she prepared for me, I just know that it has something to do with painting."

"I have her unfinished work in my room, just..."

"Oh, just come and take a look with me and you will know."

Nathan took Yun Mu and pushed open the door of his room.

After walking into the room, Yun Mu noticed many photos hanging on the wall, most of which were photos of young Nathan and another girl.

In the first photo in which Tina appeared, the wife who had become a mother seemed to be a little pale, and Nathan's expression also looked like he was forcing a smile.

“When Tina was one year old, my wife unfortunately contracted tuberculosis.”

Noticing Yun Mu observing the photos on the wall, Nathan said sadly.

"Those damn factories in the royal capital are releasing thick smoke all the time!"

"Over the years, I have often wondered whether the outcome would have been different if I had moved away from the Royal Capital earlier and came to Shuangluo City."

"It is precisely because of the influence of the Royal Capital that I often call in newspapers to reduce the amount of smoke emitted by factories."

"What a pity." Nathan shook his head.

"Those capitalists don't care about my voice at all. If it hadn't been for the smog case that happened in the Royal Capital two years ago, I'm afraid Shuangluo City would have followed in the footsteps of the Royal Capital."

　ps: We are all familiar with the Fog City Incident, and everyone knows about the real-life cases.

　　August, 4241 in the Herald calendar.

　　The capital of the Frost Kingdom was shrouded in an unusually heavy fog, and 2.6 people died in just five days.

　　Since then, the Frost Kingdom has officially limited the amount of smoke emitted by all factories, and has expanded the city's green belts on a large scale.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)