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“My goodness, the Huo family really gave face to Song Tan by calling all men of marriageable age to come.”

“The one in the lead, isn’t that Huo Yanlin?”

“Has Old Master Huo gone crazy? Does he really want Huo Yanlin to marry that sickly girl Song Tan?”

“But didn’t Song Tan clearly say that she wants to marry Huo Yanlin?”

Song Tan’s original words were : “If I, Song Tan, am to marry, I will only marry the most outstanding man.”

Isn’t Huo Yanlin the most outstanding man in the Huo family?

“Song Tan really dares to dream big.”

“What does she have to be afraid of? After all, she holds the prescription that Grandpa gave her.”

Speaking of which, Song Tan’s several cousins were somewhat unwilling.

When Grandpa Song was alive, he was a famous master of traditional Chinese medicine and held several prescriptions that he had independently developed.

These prescriptions are of immeasurable value.

According to reason, such precious prescriptions should have been passed down to his own sons.

However, he left them to his granddaughter, Song Tan.

Song Tan has had poor health since birth, being a sickly girl who frequently falls ill. On days with unfavorable weather, she can’t even stand and has to rely on a wheelchair to move around.

What can such a sickly girl do?

But the Old Master Song insisted on giving her the most precious prescriptions!

And now, with the prescriptions in her hand, the Huo family is practically rushing to marry such a sickly girl.

What’s more, Song Tan is not content, boasting that she will marry the most outstanding person from the Huo family…

The jealousy of Song Tan’s several cousins is bubbling up inside them.

At this moment, Song Tan takes a deep breath.

She… has finally returned!

Three years, three long years, she had been in that inhumane apocalypse world for three years!

Every day, she could only worry whether she would wake up to see the sun the next day after closing her eyes.

The feeling of a knife hanging over her neck all the time was even more unbearable than being directly stabbed.

Fortunately, fortunately.

She had completed her mission and returned.

Her heart was filled with excitement, her hands trembling…

System 007 (retired version) : [Host, your heart rate is too fast, please control your emotions.]

The voice rang out in Song Tan’s mind, made her feel like a bucket of cold water was poured on her forehead.

[Why are you still in my mind?]

007 was the system that had taken her to the apocalypse world.

Although without it, she wouldn’t have been able to survive in the apocalypse world, she still held a grudge against it for exploiting her like a capitalist.

System 007 (retired version): [With the completion of the host’s mission, 007 can retire now.]

After it finished speaking, Song Tian noticed that there was a “retired version” added to its name.

[What’s the use of a retired version?]

System 007 (retired version) : [These are all can no longer be used, but these can still be used.]

Song Tan looked at the mission panel.

The mission column had all turned grey, which meant she would no longer be urged by the system’s urging voice to complete missions.

On this point, Song Tan was quite satisfied.

However, the reward pool had also turned grey.

[If the reward pool is also useless, then what are you good for?]

System 007 (retired version) : [I can still remind you when your heart rate is too fast.]

Song Tan couldn’t help but say : [Then I might as well buy a smartwatch.]

System 007 (retired version) : […]

The retired version of 007 definitely had more functions than a smartwatch. Even though the reward pool had turned grey, this system still needed her to rely on it to support its retirement.

If she had it support her during its retirement, she would inevitably have to pay something in return.

Furthermore, the system could retire, but she couldn’t.

The three years she spent in the apocalypse world were only three hours in real life.

She still had to face reality.

Let her think… What was she doing before she left?

Before Song Tan could remember, her uncle, Song Zhiwen, came over.

“Song Tan, Old Master Huo has summoned all the unmarried men of the Huo family. You better pick carefully.”

Song Zhiwen said the latter sentence through gritted teeth.

But Song Tan didn’t have the energy to pay attention to his tone right now.

She was suddenly pulled back into her distant memories.

Before her Grandpa passed away, he was worried that she would be too weak to take care of herself after he was gone, so he left her some precious prescriptions to have something to rely on when she had no one else.

Her uncle, Song Zhiwen, was a businessman who had been trying to get her to hand over those prescriptions, but Song Tan had refused.

Until the Huo family came knocking.

Old Master Huo had fallen ill with a condition similar to the one her Grandpa had treated before.

Her Grandpa had passed away, but the prescription was still with her.

The Huo family wanted that prescription.

Originally, the Huo family wanted that prescription, and Song Tan was willing to sell it to them.

However, if that were the case, Song Zhiwen would have nothing to do with it.

So he intervened and proposed a marriage alliance between the Song and Huo families.

For the Song family to marry into the Huo family would be a significant climb on the social ladder.

Song Tan didn’t want to use marriage as a business deal, but Song Zhiwen threatened her. If she didn’t agree, she wouldn’t be able to live with her body that relied on precious medicinal herbs for survival.

She, Song Tan, was proud and arrogant.

She thought that if she must enter into a marriage alliance, then she would choose the most outstanding man from the Huo family.

She made it clear to the Huo family that she wanted to pick the most outstanding man for marriage.

As a result, the Huo family indeed brought all the men of marriageable age for her to choose from.

Now, it was the time for her to choose the person to marry.

System 007 (retired version): [According to the original plot, you should choose Huo Yanlin.]

Even without the system’s reminder, Song Tan remembered.

It was because of this Huo Yanlin that she was selected by the system to go on a three-year journey to the apocalypse world!

When the system bound to her, it told her that the selected person was a female supporting character with a not-so-good brain, and she would need to undergo transformation in the apocalypse world.

Song Tan would never admit that her brain was not good.

Even now, she would never admit it.

And after three years, she felt that her decision at that time was not wrong, even when she didn’t know the truth.

If there was anyone at fault, it was definitely Huo Yanlin.

If he already had someone in his heart, why did he come here today?

Even if he couldn’t defy his family’s arrangements, he could have explained it to her. But he chose to remain silent, making her become a tool to hinder the main leads’ romance.

She didn’t think she had a bad brain, she was just a victim of injustice.

The one who should have been taken for transformation was the male lead who listened to his family and married someone else, despite having someone in his heart.

System 007 (Retired Version): [Detected lingering resentment in the host’s heart.]

In theory, she had already completed the mission of female supporting character transformation, so she should have been successfully transformed.

Why does she still have resentment in her heart?

Song Tan didn’t want to bother with it.

“Well, let’s go then.”

Right now, the most important thing was to deal with this absurd plot.

“Let us come to be chosen like choosing concubines here… What was the old man thinking?”

“What else could he be thinking?”

Of course, it was for the prescription in Song Tan’s hand.

Song Tan had many prescriptions in hand, not only prescriptions to treat the old man’s illness, but also many other prescriptions. When Old Master Song was alive, he was a miraculous doctor who treated many difficult diseases. The prescriptions he left behind were naturally very precious.

The Huo family was in the pharmaceutical business, and if they could cooperate with the prescriptions in Song Tan’s hand, it would be like adding wings to a tiger.

So, even though Song Tian was frail and sickly, whoever married Song Tan would be a great contributor to the Huo family. The benefits they could obtain at that time would be immeasurable.

Don’t be fooled by some people’s reluctance on the surface, in reality… who knows how much they secretly wish to be chosen themselves.

Song Tan, however, has a high pride and openly stated that she wants to choose the most outstanding man from the Huo family as her marriage partner.

She had practically call the name directly.

It was Huo Yanlin who was named.

Huo Yanlin has recently gained a lot of favor from the old man and has taken over the core industry of the Huo family not long ago.

So it’s likely that Song Tan has set her sights on Huo Yanlin, but it’s not easy to say it directly, so he's arranged this unusual “blind date” today.

The several members of the Huo family looked at Huo Yanlin with complicated expressions.

As for Huo Yanlin himself, his face didn’t look good at this moment.

He didn’t want to participate in this unconventional “arranged marriage” and certainly didn’t want to marry Song Tan.

But if he doesn’t come, it would be seen as not caring about the old man’s illness.

There’s no way to obtain the prescription from Song Tan’s hands.

The prescriptions in her hands are extremely precious. If all of them are fully developed, it will undoubtedly elevate the Huo family to a height that no competitor can match.

So, he must come.

And, if Song Tan really intends to marry him…

Huo Yanlin’s heart is filled with struggle.

Under the anticipation of the Huo family, Song Tan finally appeared.

Everyone was stunned.

The Song Tan they knew had a poor health and was always getting sick, so they had imagined she was thin and frail, with a sallow complexion, looking like she could collapse at any moment.

But now, the Song Tan they saw, although sitting in a wheelchair and appearing somewhat weak and delicate, but she held a regular transparent umbrella in her hand. Under the umbrella, her fair skin, covered with a misty filter of the foggy weather, looked exceptionally beautiful.

They never expected that Song Tan would look so stunning, evoking a feeling of tender affection at first sight.

—Marrying her doesn’t seem so difficult to accept.

A flicker of a thought crossed Huo Yanlin’s mind, one that he himself didn’t quite understand.

“Yanlin, this Song Tan is not ugly at all. You’re lucky.”

Before going to the Song family, Huo Zhaoxu pitied Huo Yanlin for marrying a sallow, emaciated, and ignorant little girl.

But now, it doesn’t seem like a bad deal if they were to form a marriage alliance.

She has the prescription in her hand, and she’s also the eldest granddaughter of Old Master Song. On top of that, she looks so beautiful…

Plus, her health is poor.

If Huo Yanlin wants to keep a mistress in the future, she probably won’t even have the energy to make a fuss.

Huo Zhaoxu even started to consider marrying Song Tan himself…

However, Miss Song has a high pride and has set her sights on Huo Yanlin.

Huo Zhaoxu clicked his tongue twice in his heart.

As for Huo Yanlin, he tightened his grip on his phone and locked eyes with Song Tan.

Song Tan naturally noticed Huo Yanlin.

As the male lead of the book, Huo Yanlin stood out among the group of supporting characters.

His gaze met hers.

The look in his eyes seemed to had no hints of saying “Don’t choose me,” but rather “Look, I’m the most outstanding, come and choose me.”

Song Tan became even more dismissive of the nonsense the system had told her about the male lead appearing here out of helplessness.

“Tan Tan, the Huo family is really giving you face, they’ve called all the unmarried men of marriageable age, who do you like more?”

Song Zhiwen’s smile on his face was almost twitching.

—She had already made eye contact with Huo Yanlin, so she would definitely choose Huo Yanlin.

Not only Song Zhiwen thought this way, but others also had similar thoughts.

—These two people clearly had eye contact, Song Tan would definitely choose Huo Yanlin, right?

Jealousy, unwillingness, and the desire to struggle again… at this moment, the thoughts of others were diverse.

As for Song Tan, she smiled.

She smiled at Huo Yanlin.

But her hand pointed towards a corner.

“I choose this gentleman.”