Reborn through an arranged marriage, I awakened the Shennong farming system.

At seven o'clock in the morning, Su Bai woke up on time, and the first thing he noticed was that something was wrong.

Su Bai seemed to smell a cold, chilling scent, unlike any other perfume. It carried a more unsettling aroma. After a moment of stunned silence, Su Bai realized that it was Hua Gengchen's scent.

Hua Gengchen is back!?

Upon considering this possibility, Su Bai immediately looked back at the spot beside him, and unsurprisingly, it was empty. He hurriedly got out of bed, put on his slippers, and ran out the door, calling out as he ran, "Hua Gengchen? Hua Gengchen?" His voice was full of excitement and anticipation.

Hearing the commotion, Hua Jueming quickly came out from the restaurant. "Madam, the master has already left."

Upon hearing this, Su Bai abruptly stopped, his surprised expression freezing instantly. They'd already gone out?!

"Does he really not want to see me?" Su Bai asked himself hesitantly. He suddenly felt that his hasty rush to find someone was ridiculous. It was clearly him who wanted a divorce, and Hua Gengchen was the one who didn't want to, so he was avoiding him.

But now Hua Gengchen is avoiding him and refusing to meet, and Su Bai feels a void in his heart, as if something is missing.

Thinking back to how Hua Gengchen used to follow him around every step of the way, Su Bai felt as if it were a lifetime ago.

"Madam, are you alright?" Hua Jueming asked with concern.

Su Bai forced a smile. "It's nothing." It was all his own fault that this situation had arisen; who could he blame?

He can't blame anyone!

"I'm going back to my room to wash up first," Su Bai said blankly, then turned and walked back to his room. When he got to the bathroom, he looked at his disappointed face in the mirror and gave a bitter smile.

Finished!

Su Bai thought to himself.

Previously, Su Bai had deliberately ignored his thoughts, but Hua Gengchen's sudden return and departure made Su Bai realize that he had actually been looking forward to meeting Hua Gengchen all along.

Su Bai himself couldn't pinpoint when this feeling arose. The only certainty was that he wanted to see Hua Gengchen and hoped to be with him all the time, just like before, inseparable.

Do not!

He can no longer let his emotions control him!

Su Bai suddenly turned on the tap, brought his face close to it, and kept splashing water on his face with his hands. The icy touch quickly reached his brain, calming his feverish mind.

Leaning against the sides of the sink, Su Bai lowered his head, letting water droplets fall from his face and hair. After a while, Su Bai raised his head, his face tense, and faced his reflection in the mirror. He warned sharply, "Su Bai, you can't believe in love! The only person you can truly trust in this world is yourself! Don't forget how you ended up in such a tragic situation in your past life. It was all because you wholeheartedly believed in love. You absolutely cannot walk the same path in this life! This heart is only truly safe when it is kept by yourself!"

Having composed herself, Su Bai took a handkerchief from the side and dried her face, then began her usual morning routine of washing up. As she finished washing up, changed her clothes, and went downstairs, she encountered Hua Jueming at the stairwell.

"Butler Hua, what's wrong?"

After Su Bai returned to her room, Hua Jueming realized that Su Bai's mood was a bit off, so he waited there to explain on behalf of his master, "Madam, the company is really busy. Master just came back to get something and left..." He didn't mean to avoid seeing you.

“I know!” Su Bai said generously. “Hua Gengchen has been busy with company matters lately, so I understand.”

Seeing Su Bai's completely different attitude from before, Hua Jueming was also a little confused. Did Madam really understand?

His master really didn't not come back on purpose; he was just genuinely busy!

The problem with the black energy is much more troublesome than expected. At first, the master was able to come back and rest, but in the last few days he has been so busy that he hasn't even had time to catch his breath. If it weren't for the master and the fairies solving the source of the problem yesterday, who knows how long he would have been busy!

But now things are better. Once the root of the problem is solved, the master will have some free time after a few more days of being busy.

“Madam…” Hua Jueming wanted to say a few more words in support of Hua Gengchen, but Su Bai raised her hand to interrupt him. “Butler Hua, is breakfast ready? I have a lot to do today.”

Hua Jueming immediately changed his tune, "It's all ready, Madam, please."

Su Bai nodded and walked towards the restaurant. It wasn't that he didn't understand Hua Jueming's meaning, but now he no longer wanted to know, nor did he need to know.

While eating, Su Bai suddenly remembered that the seeds he bought online should be arriving soon. Because he bought quite a lot, the seller also sent him a batch of special seedling soil, saying that the survival rate would be higher if the seedlings were grown in the soil.

"Butler Hua, I bought some things online. It's not much, but it's a bit heavy. Please have someone deliver it to my villa as soon as you sign for it." Su Bai planned to resolve the issue of vegetable seeds and seedlings in the next day or two.

“Yes, Madam,” Hua Jueming said, “I will make sure everything is arranged!” As an all-around butler, once something is entrusted to him, Hua Jueming will not allow any accidents to happen.

After quickly finishing his breakfast, Su Bai drank the tonic that had been specially prepared for him, wiped his mouth, and went out.

After Su Bai left, Hua Jueming immediately called Hua Gengchen and told him everything that had happened that morning.

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On the other side, on the night after Hua Gengchen and the fairy made their move, on the first basement floor of the Chiyou Club, a man in a black cloak waited all night in a dimly lit room but no one brought anything. Sensing that something was amiss, he immediately turned around and went to the innermost room, closed the door, and took out his phone to make a call.

"Lord Chiyou, something may have happened..."

The person on the other end of the phone remained silent, waiting for the man in the black cloak to continue. "I waited all night, but no one came to hand over their goods. They've probably all run into trouble. I noticed before that the amount collected each day was gradually decreasing, but since the quantity wasn't large, I didn't pay much attention. Who would have thought..."

This time, there was no silence on the other end of the phone. A hoarse voice came through, filled with an overwhelming and undeniable anger, "Didn't you care?! You didn't care about something this big! Do you know what the black crystal means to us?"

The man in the black cloak trembled upon hearing this and hurriedly said, "Yes, it was my fault! Please forgive me, Lord Chiyou! I will definitely investigate the matter thoroughly and will not delay the implementation of the God-Making Plan. Please give me some more time."

"one day."

The man in the black cloak dared not refute, nodding repeatedly with a respectful and grateful tone, "Thank you, Lord Chiyou! Thank you, Lord Chiyou!"

The man addressed as Lord Chiyou had no intention of listening to the black-cloaked man's nonsense and hung up the phone immediately. If the black-cloaked man couldn't investigate the matter thoroughly, then death was the only thing waiting for him.

The man in the black cloak slumped his arms helplessly after the call was disconnected. He had indeed been careless! He thought the decrease in the number of black crystals was normal, since the fragile human two-legged creatures could only cultivate a maximum of three black crystals before dying. He had repeatedly emphasized not to cause too many deaths that would be noticed by humans, but it was hard to guarantee that his subordinates wouldn't slack off.

The man in the black cloak slowly clenched his fist. His subordinates were all carefully selected by him. Humans could not possibly have the ability to eliminate them all overnight, unless... it was the fairies who made the move.

But there couldn't possibly be so many fairies in the human world; humans would never allow it!

So who could it be?

The man in the black cloak kept his mind racing, imagining all the possibilities.

"Men, go and investigate this matter thoroughly!" The man in the black cloak returned to the dimly lit room and summoned many of his subordinates. These were people who had never been involved in the black crystal business before, so no one would suspect anything.

"Yes!" everyone responded in unison, and then disappeared from the room in an orderly fashion.

The man in the black cloak waited in the dimly lit room for most of the day, but none of his men returned to report. The man in the black cloak grew increasingly nervous, and his fingers tapped incessantly on the table.

As the sun was about to set and no one had returned, the man in the black cloak grew increasingly impatient. It was just a matter of gathering information; he had absolute faith in his men's abilities. So why hadn't anyone returned yet?

Could the person who did this really be a demon?

But would humans allow fairies to roam freely in the human world?

That's obviously impossible!

Suddenly, the door was flung open from the outside. "Team leader..."

Hearing the noise, the man in the black cloak looked towards the door and saw his subordinate, now in his original form, lying lifeless on the threshold. The man in the black cloak strode over, his brow furrowing. "What happened? How did you get so badly injured? Who did this? Did any humans see you like this?"

The person being questioned tried to speak but coughed up a mouthful of blood. Seeing this, the man in the black cloak pressed several acupoints on his body, which made him feel a little better. Taking advantage of the last bit of time, he hurriedly blurted out everything he needed to say, "My small team was discovered by the fairies when we went to investigate, and I was the only one who escaped back... cough cough, I don't know what happened to the other teams..." Before he could finish speaking, he coughed up several more mouthfuls of blood, grabbed the hem of the black cloak, and stared wide-eyed as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

Seeing this, the man in the black cloak quickly asked, "Who did this?" The human realm is lacking in spiritual energy, so there shouldn't be any demons with such great fighting power.

The man met his end before he could finish speaking. The man in the black cloak angrily put him down, gritting his teeth. Only one person has returned so far, which means the others are likely dead.

The black-cloaked figure had just taken out his phone to call Lord Chiyou when, before the call was even connected, a chilling and terrifying aura suddenly assaulted him.

"Who?!" The man in the black cloak assumed a defensive stance, warily scanning his surroundings.

Hua Gengchen slowly emerged from the shadows, looking calmly at the black cloak, "So you're that big rat."

The man in the black cloak swallowed hard, sensing the terrifying aura emanating from Hua Gengchen. "Who are you?" How could the demonic power emanating from him be so strong, so strong that he knew from the first glance that he had no chance of escaping from this person's grasp?

Hua Gengchen completely ignored the question about the black cloak and focused his gaze on the black cloak's hand, which should be the cell phone the black cloak used to contact the mastermind behind the scenes.

A chill suddenly shot out from Hua Gengchen's fingertips, freezing his black-cloaked body in place, but his hand holding the phone remained intact.

Hua Gengchen stepped forward, took the phone, and, under the shocked gaze of the man in the black cloak, put the connected call to his ear. "Has the matter been investigated?"

A hoarse, cold, and arrogant voice came from the phone. The fear in the eyes of the man in the black cloak confirmed to Hua Gengchen that this person was the real mastermind. "Of course!" Hua Gengchen hadn't expected that the little mouse he had caught by chance would bring such a big surprise.

He had always wanted to take action against the Crimson Nether Club, but he hadn't found any concrete evidence. Even though the people he dealt with who had implanted black crystals in humans frequently visited the Crimson Nether Club, it didn't prove that the Crimson Nether Club was colluding with the demons. But now... the evidence was conclusive, and the humans couldn't say anything.

*Snap!* The phone was abruptly hung up. Hua Gengchen clicked his tongue, put the phone back in his pocket, and prepared to take it back for Bai Ze to study. He lightly tapped the ice sculpture, then walked straight outside. He really didn't like this dim and cramped room.

After Hua Gengchen walked away, the ice sculpture shattered into pieces, along with the person who had been frozen into an ice sculpture, which also shattered into dust.