Chapter 142: Chapter 142

Yu Manman hesitated for a while, then made up her mind: she was going to open the System Mall!

She could earn back the Luck Value she lost, as long as she did more good deeds, it would return!

Three Dads are more important than Luck Value!

[Detected the host’s needs, now deducting one hundred Luck Value to open the mall!]

A translucent shelf suddenly appeared before Yu Manman’s eyes, visible to her and her alone.

The first thing she saw was the system rewards she once received and their corresponding Luck Value.

Just like the Rejuvenation Pill she once got, which required two hundred Luck Points.

Is there something that can help the Three Dads?

Yu Manman pondered...

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The sound of high heels on marble reached Yu Manman’s ears.

She lifted her head and looked toward the entrance of the banquet hall.

A woman appearing to be in her forties or fifties held her head high and stepped into the banquet hall. The sound of her black high heels hitting the floor seemed like her entrance music. On her, you could see the dignity of someone in power.

The woman’s face bore the marks of time, but through the experiences she’d weathered, she had a unique charm and a calm aura.

Three male Beastmen followed beside her, two of whom looked to be about her age, and the other appeared younger, perhaps in his twenties. Presumably, these were her Beast Husband and son.

The gaze of all three males followed her, which already spoke volumes about the woman’s status.

Her cold gaze was sharp and casually swept across everyone in the banquet hall, finally resting in one place...

Yu Manman blinked, thinking she looked somewhat familiar. Following her line of sight, she realized it was the very place where the Three Dads were standing!

Yu Manman was suddenly enlightened.

Oh, she looked familiar because she bore a resemblance to the Three Dads.

Yu Manman observed back and forth, finding that Song Chen’s eyebrows and facial contours were very similar to that woman’s!

Could she be... a family member of the Three Dads?

"She is the ruler of the Curry Family... Aliya Curry."

With enhanced hearing, Yu Manman heard the woman’s name.

"It’s her, huh? Quite a formidable character..."

Many males still held the mentality that females needed to rely on males, but there weren’t many females that could make them keep quiet without protest.

Guan Lingxue was one, and Aliya was another.

For the former, they genuinely admired her, as she acted with precision and left no loopholes to attack.

For the latter, they feared her cruelty. It was said that Aliya dared to even lay hands on her own son and Beast Husband!

People said that a woman must be ruthless to secure her position, and those who offended Aliya really did not meet a good end.

"Sigh, she’s headed in that direction."

Aliya greeted no one and walked directly toward Song Chen.

"Casius... no, perhaps now I should call you Song Chen?" Aliya examined Song Chen up and down.

This was seeing her son again after more than a decade.

Aliya’s gaze was complicated, with a hint of scrutiny.

She hadn’t expected that the son she abandoned could one day stand before her again. She thought, even if Song Chen survived, he wouldn’t amount to much.

On Song Chen’s face, Aliya saw a shadow of her late Beast Husband, Sina. Her favorite Beast Husband at the time was Sina, and her favorite son was Song Chen.

However, she needed a strong heir.

Song Chen, without a father, was undoubtedly in a vulnerable position.

She knew that back then, her decision involved her Beast Husband’s meddling, but she still chose to abandon Song Chen.

She had worked hard to seize power within the Curry Family and had not yet secured her position. She needed the support of her Beast Husband and their family, and she couldn’t afford to cause estrangement with her Beast Husband over a child with no father.

If she had the power she has today back then, she wouldn’t have minded keeping Song Chen.

But if she had kept Song Chen in the family back then, she wouldn’t have had time to watch over him. Those who wanted to use Song Chen as a tool to challenge her authority could have, with her Beast Husband at most standing by or giving a little push.

So, she might as well have sent him off to the Undersea City rather than keep him in the family and risk his life.

She believed she had been quite kind to Song Chen; after securing power within the family, she severely punished the Beast Husband who had incited trouble! This was in no way undeserving of the protection Song Chen’s father, Nasi, risked his life to provide.

Song Chen fixed his gaze on Aliya, his feelings also complex.

His memories of the Curry Family were scant, and if Aliya hadn’t appeared before him, he’d barely remember what his mother looked like.

But he knew very well that Aliya was a cold-hearted person, colder than anyone else. His father died protecting her, and all she shed were a few tears before using his father’s death to further her pursuit of power...

In Aliya’s heart, nothing was more important than power.

"Is there something you need, Curry Family Head?" Song Chen spoke with a slightly mocking smile.

Back then, she discarded him like refuse, but now that he was of use, she repeatedly invited him back. When he refused, she resorted to threats and temptations.

"How could you speak to your mother like that?" Brenda, the Beast Husband standing beside Aliya, had eyes lacking any warmth, brimming with endless indifference and aloofness.

And the youngest male, Bader, standing by Aliya, had a tense expression, a hint of apprehension toward Song Chen in his eyes.

"Mother? I’ve been living on my own for so many years, and it’s the first time I’ve realized I even have a mother," Song Chen’s lips curled in a smile tinged with sarcasm.

"You say she’s my mother, but tell me, is my name in the family genealogy?"

"Are you blaming me?" Aliya furrowed her brow, her gaze unperturbed, at most showing little more than a trace of impatience.

When they expelled Song Chen, they had long erased the name Casius Curry from the records.

Many even now believed that her eldest son was Bader.

"Blame?" Perhaps he blamed when he was first sent to the Undersea City.

Song Chen looked indifferently into Aliya’s eyes, "We have no connection, so how can there be any talk of ’blame’?"

"Big brother, you are mother’s son; that’s an unbreakable bloodline," Bader, who had worked hard for more than ten years to establish himself as the eldest, struggled to suppress his words. For him to call Song Chen "big brother" was a phrase he would never utter if not for Aliya’s presence!

Bader recalled the recent event when he made a mistake, and his mother blurted out that he was never as smart as Casius his whole life!

Why couldn’t Casius just have died in the Undersea City?

Even after everything that happened back then, he managed to survive like an unkillable cockroach, infuriatingly persistent!