Chapter 62: I Like You the Most

“Don’t go playing around like that in the future. It isn’t easy to save up money, so you should find a wife and live a good life.”

Azure Star, Upper City, Superintendent Department.

Shao Hua was currently lecturing the seven little girls standing before her.

The seven little girls lowered their heads, looking exactly like primary school students being scolded.

As Shao Hua continued her lecture, she suddenly had the illusion that she was a kindergarten teacher.

“If we could’ve gotten wives, we would’ve done it long ago,” one yellow-haired girl muttered.

These seven little girls were sisters.

No one knew just how much free time their mother and second mother had every night.

Their names were also quite haphazard, named in order of age: Da Miao, Er Miao…

The yellow-haired girl who just muttered was the second sister, Er Miao.

Er Miao’s complaint wasn’t wrong.

Young girls didn’t fit the mainstream aesthetic of the Witches, making it very difficult to find a wife.

Furthermore, there were seven of them, and they were all little girls; any normal Witch would have been scared off long ago.

If someone married one of them, wouldn’t the other six just pile in to join the fun every night?

“You sure have a lot to say. Fine, you didn’t actually do anything last night, so just pay the fine and get out.”

Shao Hua glared at Er Miao and then impatiently waved her hand to dismiss these seven troublemakers.

The seven little girls immediately felt a wave of relief and vanished in a flash.

“Ahhh, we really took a massive loss this time! Our secret savings from the last six months are just gone!”

In a corner further away, the blue-haired girl, Da Miao, acted as if she were going crazy.

“Don’t lose heart, Big Sis! We’ll just save up again. Let’s work hard so that all seven of us can marry a wife in the future!”

The gray-haired girl, Wu Miao, clenched her small pink fists to cheer them on.

“But the problem is we don’t have any work! I told you all long ago that there was no future in Civil Engineering, but you just had to sign up for it,” Er Miao said with a resentful look.

The Era of Great Infrastructure for Witches had ended long ago.

Moreover, The Company constantly exported Automaton engineers, leaving them with absolutely nowhere to apply their skills.

“Who says there’s no work? Look, what’s this?”

The smartest of them, the youngest sister Qi Miao, shook a feather fan and pulled out a poster.

It was the poster for the Astral Grand Competition hosted by the Andromeda Witch Academy.

“This is?”

“Hehehe, Andromeda is going to hold the Astral Grand Competition. They’ll need infrastructure and equipment, right? Our chance to make money has arrived!”

Qi Miao shook her feather fan and puffed out her meager chest with a look of pure pride.

“Haha, Seventh Sister, you’re so smart! Let’s go to Andromeda! We’ll make money and get wives! One for each of us!”

“Hooray! Make money, get wives!”

The immature, soft voices of the seven little girls were filled with fighting spirit.

Watching the surveillance footage, Shao Hua was speechless.

Whatever, as long as these seven troublemakers weren’t causing chaos on Azure Star, it was fine.

“Boss, the Bureau Chief is looking for you!”

At that moment, Xiaoyuan pushed the door open and entered.

Shao Hua nodded, took her organized documents, and walked toward Yun Liuxue’s office.

Ever since Yun Liuxue became the Bureau Chief, Shao Hua had also been promoted to Deputy Director.

As for the Director, it was that annoying woman, Banxia.

Yun Liuxue had somehow secured funding from somewhere to resurrect the colleagues who had sacrificed themselves previously.

She hadn’t even blinked when spending 100 million for each new physical body.

Xiaoyuan had sighed more than once, saying she should have just sacrificed herself too.

After all, the physical functions of a new body would definitely outperform an old one.

At least for Xiaoyuan, that was the case; she stayed up every night playing Gold Miner, so her body was already incredibly weak.

The arm she had lost previously had been healed by a Witch of the **[Life] Sequence**.

Xiaoyuan constantly showed off her new arm, saying it was much better for mining than her previous one, having more strength and better “feeling.”

This had led to her looking even more exhausted over the past few days.

Shao Hua shook her head, tossing the stray thoughts from her mind.

“Reporting!”

“Come in.”

To her surprise, Meng Lingneng was also in Yun Liuxue’s office.

Standing beside her was a purple-haired girl with twin-tails who looked like she had just swallowed a fly. It was Meng Dalei.

“Don’t mind her. She’s my little maid now. Just treat her like air.”

Meng Lingneng was currently lying on the sofa reading a manga.

However, was the well-endowed big sister on the cover, whose chest was larger than her head, for real?

Meng Lingneng closed the manga, noticed Shao Hua’s surprised gaze, and waved her hand dismissively.

Meng Dalei looked aggrieved, but she could only endure it.

If Meng Lingneng hadn’t protected her, the terrible things she had done while in power would have seen her thrown into the Anti-Magic Tower for several decades.

The Anti-Magic Tower was the most famous prison for Witches.

It wasn’t actually a single tower, but a stellar-sized planet shaped like a black tower.

“By the way, do you know Su Ling?”

“I do.”

Shao Hua was stunned to hear Su Ling’s name.

She glanced at Yun Liuxue, who signaled for her not to worry.

“Good. I called you here because I wanted to ask about Su Ling’s situation. That brat Dalei really screwed over that little girl before. As her aunt, I should provide some compensation.”

Hearing this, a flash of disdain appeared in Meng Dalei’s eyes.

However, she didn’t expect Meng Lingneng to yawn and manifest a golden whip in her hand.

“Wait!”

*Crack!*

The sonic boom echoed through the entire room, making even Yun Liuxue’s lips twitch.

Meng Dalei immediately fell face-down on the ground with her rear sticking up.

Judging by the sound, that little backside was likely so swollen she wouldn’t be able to sit for a week.

That was harsh.

However, a sense of gratification flashed in Shao Hua’s heart.

Anyone would find it hard to tolerate the things Meng Dalei had done.

“I know many people are dissatisfied that I’m protecting this girl. But there’s nothing I can do about it. Who told me to be her aunt?”

Meng Lingneng sighed.

She actually wanted to throw Meng Dalei into the Anti-Magic Tower herself, but her sister had begged her repeatedly.

Although Meng Dalei was the least favored youngest daughter, she was still her sister’s flesh and blood.

No mother would stand by and watch her daughter enter the Anti-Magic Tower.

“I’ve compensated everyone else; Su Ling is the only one left. I looked at the time—isn’t the College Entrance Examination coming up?”

“Well, I wanted to ask you to check with Su Ling. Ask her if she wants to go to a Witch Academy. If she does, I can write her a recommendation letter.”

A recommendation letter!

Shao Hua looked astonished.

A recommendation letter from a Great Witch was incredibly rare.

Of course, there was a minimum requirement of a score of 300, but it was still a hard-to-come-by opportunity.

For Su Ling, this was like a pie falling from the sky.

Even if Su Ling didn’t reach a score of 300 in the end, with a recommendation from a Great Witch, she would still be able to get into a decent university.

“I’ll ask her right away.”

Shao Hua hurriedly took out her phone.

She had a genuinely good impression of Su Ling.

There was some guilt, but mostly it was pity.

No one disliked someone who worked hard to live.

Although Su Ling was a Fuli Ji, Shao Hua had seen how she used her frail body to support her family, and it made her heart ache.

“No rush. Ask her after her results come out,” Meng Lingneng said, shaking her head.

Firstly, she wanted it to be a surprise.

Secondly, she wanted to see if Su Ling truly needed the recommendation.

If Su Ling only scored around 100 or didn’t even go, the recommendation wouldn’t mean much. I

n that case, she would provide some other form of compensation.

The recommendation system for Witches was mostly about social favors.

It didn’t take up public resources; if a recommended Witch made it into a Witch Academy, all tuition, materials, and housing costs would not be subsidized by the Government.

The recommended individual had to bear the costs themselves.

But despite this, recommendation slots were extremely precious.

Besides the minimum score of 300 for the applicant, the recommender had to be at least a Great Witch.

***

At this moment, Su Ling was lying on the ground, drenched in sweat.

“Ugh… Mo Ran, can we please take a break?”

With Mo Ran’s help, she was finally able to control the Magic within her body.

She could now run 10,000 miles, but it had taken her over six hours.

After finishing, Su Ling felt as if her soul were drifting in the clouds.

‘Seriously, a 100,000-mile run in three minutes—is she even human?’

“Fine.”

Mo Ran was also helpless.

She could only finish a 10,000-mile run in five minutes herself, which was enough.

However, Su Ling’s six hours was practically the same as a score of zero.

“Hooray!”

Su Ling cheered while lying on the ground.

“I love Mo Ran the most!”

Su Ling said sweetly.

Unintentionally, she had let her professional habits slip. It had become a reflex.

The speaker might have been careless, but the listener was not.

Hearing those words, Mo Ran’s face turned visibly red, and her heart began to race wildly.

‘Love… love me the most?!’