“A person?”
It seemed that Su Mu had accidentally been mistaken for some strange person by Luo Jialan.
Carefree, these past few days had been exceptionally comfortable.
“Hey, let me ask you, do you actually know a woman named Luo Linglan?”
Regarding such a question, all Su Mu could do was laugh it off and brush it aside with vague answers.
‘I wonder what kind of spectacular expression she would make once she understands the reason behind all this.’
Aside from that, Su Mu was more curious about Tang Nai’s future plans.
Tang Nai clearly couldn’t leave the barrier, yet she had been staying here for quite some time now.
Tang Nai had already found a way to break Su Ya’s dependency on the Bar, and the girl was currently adjusting to a normal daily routine.
But what left Su Mu most speechless was that Su Ya actually called Tang Nai “Miss Landlord” and frequently expressed her gratitude.
Su Ya only occasionally suffered from a headache, at which point she would glance at Tang Nai with a complicated gaze, though she spent most of her time sleeping.
According to Tang Nai, she had fabricated a story for Su Ya about a non-existent great-uncle who had passed away without any children to inherit his vast fortune, resulting in the money falling into Su Ya’s lap.
Of course, she only made Su Ya believe it was true.
The actual money came from Su Mu’s own small savings, as she was unwilling to owe Tang Nai too much.
“Why be so fixated on that? I have a feeling you’ll owe me more and more as time goes on,” Tang Nai said with a relaxed expression.
Su Mu simply ignored her.
Although nearly half of her “little vault” came from Tang Nai’s tips, Su Mu’s account had been banned immediately after her last livestream.
In reality, similar online activities were constantly being monitored by a mysterious force.
If any signs of magic were detected, the stream would be cut instantly, and the person would be tracked down for an offline arrest — they had been warned in advance.
Out of curiosity, Su Mu also asked about Mi Xian.
Wasn’t that girl doing the same thing?
How was she still doing so well?
Tang Nai smiled slightly.
“Unfortunately, Mi Xian’s talent is so mediocre that she was never taken seriously from start to finish.”
“Huh? I thought she was just acting crazy normally.”
Su Mu curled her lip, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with Tang Nai’s answer, and simply changed the subject, “When exactly do you plan on going back? And when do I have to go back?”
Luo Jialan had already returned to B City for school, leaving her bed vacant, but Ye Wanqing clearly had no intention of switching beds.
Tang Nai seemed to have anticipated this; she moved the large bed into Su Mu’s bedroom, as Su Mu’s original small bed was a bit too cramped for two people.
On the night the three girls slept in the same bed, Ye Wanqing had accidentally rolled onto the floor.
She had groaned in pain for a long time afterward, complaining to Su Mu incessantly.
Consequently, Su Mu had no reason to refuse.
Although she claimed to dislike Tang Nai’s scent, she slept quite soundly and without a hint of guilt.
As for Tang Nai, since Su Ya was still at the house, letting her continue sleeping on the sofa seemed a bit excessive.
Thus, Tang Nai simply bought the apartment next door, giving herself a private room.
Her sheer extravagance left Su Mu dumbfounded.
The neighbors next door were an elderly couple with quite stubborn tempers who had lived there for ten years.
They were especially reluctant to part with many of their old belongings, but Tang Nai used her “money power” to force them to move.
When Tang Nai first offered to buy the house at market price, she was flatly rejected.
When she increased the offer to two times the price, the couple began to hesitate.
By the time she raised it to four times the price, the old man blurted out heroically, “Why didn’t you say so earlier? The place is yours!”
Su Mu was surprised, as the old man didn’t seem like the type to be so eager for money in her memory.
Regarding this, Tang Nai’s explanation was simple, “As long as a person hasn’t detached from society and still has attachments, they cannot live without money. Money might not be that important to them personally, but they still have children.”
Only then did Su Mu gradually begin to understand Tang Nai’s authority.
As a Magical Girl who presided over “Value,” she certainly understood these matters much better than Su Mu did.
“Then how much money do you actually have right now?”
Tang Nai thought for a moment and answered, “I don’t know. When money reaches a certain amount, it just keeps growing, even without my involvement. Many people have tried to target this wealth, but in the end, I cut off every hand they reached out with.”
The highest level of business warfare was often simple and unadorned.
Many times, they merely sent one or two individuals who could control Magic Power to attack Tang Nai’s manor, believing their Strange Person was a trump card.
They would then nearly lose their souls from fright the next day when they received the Strange Person’s head in the mail.
What happened after that was easy to understand.
The conspirators, filled with inner terror, would visit her with gifts to apologize, only to be turned away.
They would try to send messages through Tang Nai’s representatives and be ignored.
Finally, left with no other choice, they would surrender to Tang Nai.
Once accepted, they joined the ranks of their predecessors who had been waiting there for a long time.
It was very similar to the situation Edma encountered in B City.
Tang Nai possessed power, so many people naturally gravitated toward her to gain influence.
However, Tang Nai strictly forbade anyone from bothering her, so her life remained quiet, though she seemed to enjoy privileges wherever she went.
Any problem could be solved with a single phone call.
If the authority of Value were held by some reckless Strange Person or Witch, it would likely cause massive chaos.
But the one holding it was Tang Nai — a mysterious Magical Girl.
Her existence significantly suppressed the trend of collusion between power and wealth.
Originally, various business tycoons relied on the transformed humans they clung to to act tyrannically, causing all sorts of disorder.
However, Tang Nai’s wealth empire directly absorbed all such domestic groups under her command.
She replaced all the Strange Persons with Magical Girls from the Combat Division and confiscated the property of anyone who refused to comply.
As a result, Tang Nai was now completely unable to estimate the figure of her own wealth.
“Speaking of which, when I was at the Bar earlier, I seem to have encountered an interesting Witch. She was very cautious. After noticing Su Ya and me appearing together, she hid in a corner alone and continued drinking her wine.”
Tang Nai’s sudden remark caught Su Mu’s attention.
“A Witch? Isn’t that dangerous?”
To this, Tang Nai appeared somewhat indifferent.
“Currently, no Witch is more dangerous than my own existence. If they are cancer cells, then I am the natural limit of a lifespan. Before the cancer cells can even develop, I’ve already dragged everyone to Hell. Is there any need to worry about them? They aren’t interested in ordinary people anyway.”
Su Mu’s lip twitched.
It sounded like the cancer cells were the ones who should be worried.