CHAPTER 26: CHAPTER 26: WILL THIS AFFECT MY CHANCE TO TAKE DOWN THE SCUMBAG AND FIND HAPPINESS?

Su Yan was somewhat puzzled, "Does it mean that I play an important role in whether they get divorced or not?"

"In a couple’s divorce, children are important roles, but that’s not the point."

Guan Yu and Shi Yuhuai received similar information, but with an added note: [Activate the plot from three days ago].

The plot from three days ago?

Guan Yu looked blankly at Liu Bing, but Liu Bing didn’t say much more, pointing behind her,

"You need to go to where you should be."

Then the strong staff members came on stage and forcibly dragged away their "family of three."

"...Doesn’t this look... too terrifying?!!!"

Zhu Qi and Li Yang clung tightly together, looking scared, "Aren’t they roaming NPCs? Just dragged away like that?"

"Roaming NPCs lose half of their mobility, and might be fixed in one place unable to move, but can communicate with us," Mu Qiu suggested, "Shall we follow and take a look?"

After all, staying here won’t reveal anything, and with a mind full of mush, it’s better to go over and see the situation, so everyone agreed, following leisurely behind them.

Su Yan and Shi Yuhuai, being too tall, were being dragged by the wrist, while Guan Yu was different, with her legs straight and body leaning back, she was truly being dragged along by the staff.

Moreover, she was facing Mu Qiu and the others as she was being dragged, and she could raise her eyes to see their leisurely movements.

"...Isn’t this scene contrast too strong? Director? Director? Can we use a gentler method? It’s embarrassing in front of my male god."

The director ignored her.

Fortunately, they soon arrived at their destination.

The destination was an empty room like the abandoned warehouse Mu Qiu had been in earlier, with two chairs, a table, and a person inside, and a very simple desktop nameplate on the table.

Divorce Consultation Office.

Sitting behind the nameplate was a young woman dressed neatly in a suit, clearly an elite lawyer, with a notepad beside her.

Guan Yu was forcibly seated on the chair opposite her, leaned forward to glance, and read aloud.

"Li Yang, a junior at Hai City Drama Academy..."

Goodness, another formal major student.

Mu Qiu and the others followed behind, stopping about five or six meters away from the Divorce Consultation Office, holding their muddled heads, quietly listening for clues.

The lawyer looked at Guan Yu, furrowed her brows, and sighed, "Big sister, why are you here again? Still wanting a quick divorce?"

As soon as the lawyer spoke her lines, Guan Yu withdrew her hand and sat properly, not daring to speak carelessly this time, pondering and testing, "After thinking about it, I still can’t swallow this anger."

Once the words were out, it was much smoother to automatically assume the identity, and she even began to speak like an elder.

"You should know, big sister hasn’t had an easy life. Thinking about such a big matter as divorce alone is always easy to get stuck in a rut. Sister, watching me, can you give me some constructive advice?"

While she was speaking, the "lawyer" was still sitting upright, listening seriously. Although Mu Qiu hadn’t seen a lawyer specializing in divorce cases, she thought this person wasn’t far off in acting the part.

Mu Qiu tilted her head and whispered to Cheng Zhirang next to her, "This person seems to be a fixed NPC."

Cheng Zhirang nodded, suddenly remembering a question, and asked her softly, "In your book, has there been a setting where fixed NPCs or roaming NPCs compete upwards to become task NPCs? In other words, is there a possibility that someone with a different identity from us has mixed in among us?"

"If it’s a direct switch, that would easily cause suspicion, or do you mean," Mu Qiu hesitated for a moment, "do you think Sister Guan Yu might receive a forced mission to defect, and then interfere with us?"

"It’s not impossible."

"... I’ve actually written about that."

Li Yang and Zhu Qi, who were secretly listening nearby, nearly bumped heads, and gasped at those words.

"Mu Qiu, why is the content you write so convoluted?!"

"So we still have to unlock tasks, find clues, and during the process of being guided by seniors, find spies?!"

Cheng Zhirang paused, tilted his head to look at the two of them.

Mu Qiu was startled by their voices, and the thoughts she had just established in her mind suddenly vanished.

She waved her hand wearily, "I didn’t say there necessarily is."

It was so difficult to discuss some "academic" issues with Cheng Zhirang, only to be interrupted like this, it really was...

Everyone’s attention soon returned to Guan Yu’s small theater across the way.

The lawyer said sternly, "Big sister, my advice remains the same: it’s normal to be unable to swallow this anger, it’s normal for you to want a divorce, but you should consider the consequences of a divorce."

Guan Yu at this moment was a legal naïf: "Wha, what consequences? Will this hinder my ability to cut down the scumbag? Affect my ability to take the child and fly far away to pursue happiness?"

Next to her, Shi＊Scumbag＊Wang Tiezhu＊Yuhuai, who hadn’t had a chair all along: "......"

And Su Yan, the somewhat absent-minded son, "......"

Flying far away and eloping, sometimes you don’t even need to take the child, right?

The lawyer remained composed: "Of course it has an impact."

"What kind of impact?"

"Do you have a formal job? Do you have enough premarital assets? Have you done a property division after marriage? Can you guarantee that after divorce, you can give the child a good life? Can you truly guarantee the child will follow you after the divorce?"

A series of questions left Guan Yu dumbfounded.

"No, I haven’t been divorced either..."

As if anyone here has been divorced.

She was a bit at a loss, looking at the scumbag and child combination over there, "Maybe I should ask the parties involved."

"Child! Do you want to follow your mother?"

Su Yan: ...Not really.

"Better to ask first, does he want a divorce."

Guan Yu then sincerely asked the disapproving Shi Yuhuai, "Wang Tiezhu, at this point, are you still not ready to part ways?"

Shi Yuhuai said his lines stiffly: "No."

"..." Scumbag.

Mu Qiu reminisced about the limited knowledge she’d gained from browsing forums, kindly reminding her, "Sister Guan Yu, if he doesn’t want a divorce and you do, you probably have to file for divorce, and it’s likely the child won’t be yours."

Guan Yu: "If it’s not mine, can it be the mistress’s? Do I not know what I gave birth to?"

"......"

The lawyer sternly knocked on the table: "If you file for divorce and can’t provide the child with necessary living conditions, the child will be awarded to the father."

Guan Yu looked up quickly in shock, raising her voice: "No way?! He cheated, he treats my child and me poorly, and in the end, the child is still awarded to him?! What kind of reasoning is that?! Does the court only care about financial conditions and disregard right and wrong?!"

Her emotions suddenly surged.

The scumbag Wang Tiezhu, who had been implicitly referred to, discreetly retreated another step into the corner.

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Shi Yuhuai: I want to declare that all these disgusting things were done by Wang Tiezhu alone, please don’t project them onto me.