“Calm down? Calm down my foot!”  

“Damn system, you’ve never been reliable. I must’ve been blind and stupid to believe your nonsense and agree to bind with you.”  

If the system had a physical form, Lin Wanwan would’ve beaten it black and blue until it cried for mercy—just to make sure it wouldn’t dare trick her again.  

The last person who tried to scam her was still digging for ore in Country F and hadn’t returned yet.  

[This time was purely an accident.]  

“Oh? So the previous times were also… accidents?”  

The system sensed the murderous intent in its host’s voice and immediately knelt in apology.  

[Host, you’re beautiful and kind-hearted. Please be magnanimous and forgive this lowly one just this once.]  

[From now on, I’ll follow your orders and serve you faithfully.]  

“Brown-noser.”  

Noticing that the host’s anger had slightly subsided, the system let out a long sigh of relief.  

Honestly, it was genuinely afraid the host would just quit.  

If that happened, it wouldn’t be able to complete the mission assigned by the Heavenly Dao.  

By the time the century performance review in the Celestial Realm rolled around, it would definitely be mocked and ridiculed by other systems.  

At that point, it’d be utterly humiliated.  

So, the top priority now was to coax the host into finding a man and having babies—the more, the better.  

It could even help raise and nurture the babies, turning them into the most outstanding children in the world.  

Just imagining a bunch of little ones running around it, the system was already grinning from ear to ear in its mind.  

Lin Wanwan pinched the layers of fat around her waist and sighed sadly.  

This body was just too overweight.  

Shedding all this excess fat would take a lot of effort—at least six months, probably over a year.  

That was way too long.  

Right now, she urgently needed to get rid of all this fat, so she turned her attention back to the system.  

“Damn system, I’m giving you a chance to redeem yourself.”  

[Host, go ahead.]  

“Help me lose weight.”  

As soon as the words left her mouth, a small black pill—about the size of a soybean—materialized in her hand.  

Without hesitation, Lin Wanwan swallowed it.  

One second.  

Two seconds.  

Three seconds.  

…Two minutes passed.  

Lin Wanwan stared at her completely unchanged body and frowned.  

“Is this pill expired or something?”  

[How could it be? This was personally refined by the Heavenly Dao. There’s no such thing as an ‘expired’ elixir—it’s just slow-acting.]  

Hearing this, Lin Wanwan felt reassured.  

She doubted the system would dare trick her over something like this.  

While she was lost in thought, the system took the opportunity to scan her body.  

To its surprise, it discovered that the host’s obesity wasn’t just due to overeating—she had also accidentally ingested a plant called “Pigweed.”  

This plant thrived in the wild, and any human or animal that consumed it would grow fatter and fatter.  

When Lin Wanwan heard the system’s explanation, she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.  

This was the first time she’d heard of gaining weight from eating grass.  

If it hadn’t happened to her, she wouldn’t have believed it.  

Fortunately, with the system’s help, she was confident she could shed all this excess fat soon.  

To further motivate the host in her quest to find a man and have children, the system generously pulled out a Strength Pill from its treasure bag and handed it to her.

Lin Wanwan immediately swallowed the Strength Pill as soon as she got it.  

The system had boasted endlessly about its miraculous effects.  

To test it out, she stepped out of bed and walked to the large locust tree in the yard.  

The tree was as thick as two of her arms put together, though its bark had been stripped bare—likely eaten by someone during these desperate, famine-stricken times. Such things were all too common now.  

Pushing aside her thoughts, Lin Wanwan clenched her fist and punched the tree trunk with all her might.  

CRACK!

The next second, the massive locust tree toppled over with a thunderous crash.  

Her strength was insane!!!

Before she could even marvel at it, the loud noise startled everyone resting inside the house, and they rushed out in alarm.  

The sight left them all dumbfounded.  

That locust tree had been standing since before the eldest son, Lin Yougen, was even born. How could it have just… snapped out of nowhere?  

This… was downright eerie.  

Wang Xiu’e, the quickest to recover, dashed to Lin Wanwan and began frantically checking her for injuries.  

Only after confirming her daughter was unharmed did Wang Xiu’e finally relax.  

Then, she ordered the rest of the family to chop up the fallen tree for firewood.  

Firewood was essential for cooking and boiling water, and since they were running low, this saved them a trip to the mountains to gather more.  

Li Zhaodi, who had only eaten half a cornbread bun since morning, was so hungry her stomach growled incessantly. She had no energy left for labor.  

Just as she was about to fake a stomachache to sneak off and rest, Wang Xiu’e saw right through her.  

Hands on her hips, the matriarch barked, “Li Zhaodi, you lazy sow! If you dare slack off today, I’ll cut your rations for tomorrow!” 

Already starving, the threat of losing even more food terrified Li Zhaodi. Going hungry was unbearable.  

Deflated like a punctured balloon, she weakly swung the axe, chopping wood while silently cursing her mother-in-law.  

Why won’t this old hag just drop dead already?

The others kept their heads down and worked diligently.  

Wang Xiu’e, ever the doting mother, pulled Lin Wanwan aside. “Sweetheart, you’re delicate. Go rest inside. We’ll handle this.”

Lin Wanwan glanced at the others—their bony frames, sunken eyes, and feeble swings. The axes barely made a dent in the thick branches.  

Of course. How could they work hard when they were starving?  

Besides, this mess was her fault.  

She believed in cleaning up one’s own mistakes. Without a word, she stepped past Wang Xiu’e and joined the work.  

But she had overestimated her current body. Her bloated, overweight frame made even squatting difficult, let alone manual labor.  

Under the scorching noon sun, just bending down left Lin Wanwan drenched in sweat.  

The others panicked, dropping their tools to rush to her side.  

“Little sis, this kind of rough work isn’t for you. Go rest—let me and your sisters-in-law handle it,” said Lin Youzhu.  

Li Zhaodi, who had been half-heartedly swinging her axe, twitched at her husband’s words.  

I must’ve been blind to marry this man!

His sister is a woman—am I not one too?

She couldn’t fathom what spell Lin Wanwan had cast to make the whole family dote on her.  

In all her years as a Lin, Li Zhaodi had never seen her sister-in-law lift a finger—even her dirty underclothes were washed by others.  

Spitting in disgust, Li Zhaodi could only pray for the day Lin Wanwan married out of this house.  

“If you can do it, so can I.”

Lin Wanwan snatched the axe from Lin Youzhu’s hands and, with a single effortless swing, split the thick branch clean in half.  

The others gasped.  

Li Zhaodi instinctively touched her neck, shuddering.  

If that axe had landed on my head… I’d be dead.