The improved female villains regained their memories.

Shi Guijia roared angrily.

"That's not how it is; this can't be considered happiness at all!"

Everything was forgotten, even the warm touch turned cold.

Shi Guijia was unwilling to accept this!

"I see……"

The last words of persuasion were useless; the blonde girl's pain was palpable. If Zhi Zixun didn't intervene, she might die here.

She's already ruined one villain; now, she can't ruin another.

"I will help you..."

She pulled out a box filled with rewards for completing the mission, but she didn't touch any of them. From inside, she found a small orb of light.

This is the residual power from each time she uses her system to cast spells, which she collects using special energy.

She placed the orb of light in front of Shi Guijia and said, "Touch it, and you will remember everything, but..."

Before Gardenia could finish speaking, Shi Guijia eagerly touched the sphere of light.

The other person originally wanted to say, "However, you will also have an additional memory."

That was the memory of the Gardenia system.

Shi Guijia froze there, her head held high, her eyes devoid of light.

……Fake?

Everything was fake...?

All those encounters and beautiful moments were fake, all because she was the villain.

All of this is for... the so-called Human Chess Project?

Zhi Zixun sighed, unable to bear watching what was about to happen.

"...Human chess piece, villain, system."

"What, what's going on here? Hey, what's going on here?"

"What he said—that demonic cultivators, that devouring spiritual roots—it's all fake. It's all just for..."

At this point, black had already stained the blonde girl's pupils: "...Just to make me wish I were dead?"

Zhi Zixun remained silent. Once upon a time, she had been a member of the Human Chess Project.

She watched helplessly as the boy went mad, fell into depravity, and finally died.

He was no longer the proud man he once was; he spent the rest of his life living alone in the abyss.

When the girl bid farewell to the system and returned with the so-called "reward," the boy committed suicide.

He made a wish at the wishing well, wishing for the girl to return, but the dragon did not respond to him, so that night, he committed suicide by the lake.

The proud boy drowned in the lake, and from then on, a girl as beautiful as a gardenia appeared beside the wishing well.

Now, the gardenia-like girl looked at Shi Guijia, watching her go from pain to disappointment, and then to despair, unable to offer any words of comfort.

She is also a murderer; she has no right to comfort another victim.

"The Way of Heaven, the Way of Heaven? Haha ...

Shi Guijia suddenly burst out laughing.

All the grievances, despair, and pain were transformed into Shi Guijia's unrestrained laughter, a hearty laugh that echoed to the heavens.

"Everything is for the sake of Heaven's Way, the human chess piece, hahahahahahahahaha, the human chess piece, hahahahahahahaha!!"

She suddenly sprang up and smashed the ball of light to pieces.

"Human chess, human chess, hahahahahaha!"

She pounded on it with her fists again and again, until her knuckles were covered in blood.

"Heavenly Dao! Heavenly Dao! To hell with your Heavenly Dao! Hahahaha, Heavenly Dao, hahahahahaha!!"

Blood splattered everywhere, and the sphere of light slowly dissipated.

The blonde girl seemed to calm down, her chest heaving as she gasped for breath.

"Hehe, Yang Pingsheng, you're a human chess piece, aren't you..."

"You think I'd live like a widow for a dead man like you? Ha, that's hilarious."

"You think you can make me depressed because of this kind of story from a novel? Bah! What makes you think you can?!"

"A mere human chess piece, nothing more than a mere human chess piece, hahaha, hahahaha, that's hilarious, so hilarious, it's made my stomach hurt from laughing."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

She muttered that her mood didn't affect me, then got off the bed and walked towards the door like a walking corpse.

"Human will, human strategy, the way of heaven, the system, hahaha, how interesting, how interesting..."

Zhi Zixun watched the blonde girl's retreating figure in silence.

This was the first time the two met, and now they meet again after several years apart.

The intensity, struggle, and pain of that time have been washed away by time, leaving only the scars that still ache faintly.

Beside the railing, the blonde girl and the flaxen girl met again, facing the lake, neither of them speaking.

"...I think I stayed at your place for about a month back then? I have to thank you for helping me resolve the biggest hidden danger. Thank you."

"It was just a small favor. It's wonderful to see Miss Shi Guijia living such a happy life now."

……happiness?

Shi Guijia thought of the past few years and pursed her lips.

After returning from Zhi Zixun's place, Shi Guijia was in a daze and spent his days drinking.

Having lost her memory, Shi Guiyan grabbed her and asked what was wrong. She just yawned, tossed her the jade plate with the records, and showed it to her.

When she lost her memory, she forgot about this thing. Now that she remembered it, looking at the jade plate only made her feel disgusted.

Shi Guiyan learned everything from her, and from then on, their sisterhood was reversed.

The one who always took care of others became Shi Guiyan.

When the time is right, one indulges in a life of pleasure and decadence, until one loses all sense of day and night.

Meanwhile, her daughter, Yang Luoyi, had grown up.

Chapter 326 Achieving Happiness

The former villain and the former chess player are standing together chatting.

“I think you must be in a lot of pain. Even though you don’t say it, I think you must have had a very hard time these past few years.”

Zhi Zixun ruthlessly exposed the side that Shi Guijia was trying so hard to hide. If it were before, she might have been furious, but now, she just smiled indifferently.

"At least I think it's pretty good."

"That child, she was with you, wasn't she? I can tell she's in just as much pain as you are."

"..."

The topic shifted to Yang Luoyi, which meant Shi Guijia could no longer pretend to be stupid.

What's the child's name?

"Yang Luoyi".

"His surname is Yang..."

"What kind of expression is that? Pity? Pathetic? Don't make that face, or I'll think you're looking down on me."

"...That's not true."

Looking at the lake not far away, Zhi Zixun said steadily, "I just think you're amazing. After all, you accepted that child and those memories, didn't you?"

Shi Guijia's body stiffened.

"Human intentions contain a great deal of emotion, which affects the players and the villains. This is not something that can be removed simply by wanting to."

Zhi Zixun sighed helplessly: "That's why I said that forgetting might be a good thing for you."

"...Perhaps."

The previously irritable person was no longer irritable and tacitly agreed with what the person beside him had said.

She turned her gaze to the depths of the lake.

"I understand this kind of pain all too well."

Zhi Zixun said calmly:

“I am a person of this world. Because Grandma found me among gardenias, I was named Gardenia.”

“I have never seen my parents since I was a child. My grandmother passed away when I was seven years old. You know, at that time, I was all alone and even survival was a luxury. So I thought, if someone could save me, I would do it even if it meant killing someone.”

"Then, I met the system."

As if atoning for her sins, Zhi Zixun murmured her story.

"It said that I have a mission to save the world."

"There is a demon king, a terrifying demon king, who will destroy the world in the future, and I am the savior. As long as I can complete this task, it will grant me everything I want."

“You agreed,” Shi Guijia interjected.

“Of course.” Zhi Zixun smiled gently. “If I hadn’t agreed, there wouldn’t be the Zhi Zixun I am today.”

This is indeed a very sad story.

A young girl, having bid farewell to her loved ones, encountered the system in her most helpless moment.

The system told her that if she could complete this task, she could not only save many people, but she could also make a wish and get what she wanted.

The girl didn't want anything except money.

All she wanted was money, lots and lots of money, because that's what the old lady talked about most all the time.