Chapter 6: Thieving Female Lead

Chapter 6: Thief = Female Lead

"Yu'er, promise Grandma, okay? If there is a chance, help your eldest brother and younger brother." Having received no answer, the old lady gripped her hand tightly, pleading for a response.

Mu Yu nodded. "Okay, Grandma, don't worry. I definitely won't let anything happen to my brothers," she promised.

Hearing this, the old lady felt a sense of relief in her heart.

She didn't know if she was saying this to comfort herself or to comfort the girl.

She knew full well that Yu'er was just a girl; what ability would she have to help Xiao Bin and Xiao Jie?

She was merely grasping at a shred of hope.

After going out, Grandma Mu told Mu Yu about the mechanism.

However, Mu Yu could never have imagined that shortly after they left, a sneaky figure would arrive at the Mu family's backyard.

The backyard was uninhabited and generally used as a storage area; most of the open space had been planted with vegetables by Grandma Mu.

The figure was quickly revealed by the moon hanging high in the sky. It was none other than the person who had been eavesdropping outside the courtyard this afternoon.

And she was the female lead.

"Why isn't it here? Why isn't it here?" She searched everywhere, but fearing she would make a sound, she only dared to feel urgent in her heart.

She remembered from her past life that the Mu family had leaped to become the wealthiest family in Haishi thanks to this specific fortune. Not only that, but because of the money, the Mu family's younger brother had used that momentum to spread the Mu family's scientific research across the entire country.

They became the saviors of all humanity.

The things researched by the Mu family were not only affordable but also irreplaceable.

For example, the special medicines researched by Mu Jie—every single one was something the public needed, yet the prices were very low. No one could substitute the medicines from the Mu Pharmaceutical Company with anything else.

They were deeply loved by the masses.

When she watched the news reports back then, she clearly heard Mu Jie say that back in the day, it was because the family had hidden the items well; otherwise, such beneficial items might never have been released to the world.

He even said that these things were hidden together with the Mu family's wealth, right inside the Mu family's old residence. How could they not be here?

Feng Miaomiao was nearly going mad, pacing back and forth in the backyard vegetable garden.

She had originally planned to come and investigate this afternoon, but unfortunately, she hadn't seen anyone from the Mu family go to retrieve the items.

But there were only a few rooms in the backyard, and they were quite dilapidated, looking nothing like a place where important things would be hidden.

As for Mu Yu, just after sending her grandmother back to her room, she discovered movement in the backyard.

Without a word, she directly used her mental strength to investigate, and then she saw a girl wandering around in the vegetable garden.

Without even thinking, she knew who this person was: the female lead, Feng Miaomiao.

"Heh, quite a bold one. In that case, then..."

Before she could take action, as if sensing danger, Feng Miaomiao performed a somersault and directly leaped out of the backyard.

Such agility.

Mu Yu rubbed her chin with interest; naturally, this was also an old habit of hers.

"This female lead is not simple."

Since the night ghost had left, it was time for her to do some real business.

Collecting treasure.

This time, she didn't dare to be overconfident. She kept her mental strength projected outward without retracting it, fearing the female lead might return.

She opened the mechanism and went down the stairs. Her mental strength still hadn't been withdrawn, but since she had just transmigrated, no matter how strong her mental strength was, her current body couldn't get used to it. After a short while, she began to feel the strain.

But she still didn't dare to relax even a little, so she could only speed up the collection of the items in the secret chamber.

There were quite a lot of items. Although much of the Mu family's wealth had been donated over several generations, what remained was naturally the treasure among treasures, the most precious of the precious.

Setting aside everything else, the gold bars were piled in a corner like a small mountain, not to mention the antique items kept in boxes—any one of them would be worth a fortune in peacetime.

She wasn't envious of the other things, but those gold bars made her eyes burn with desire.

With these things, whatever she did would be much smoother. At this moment, she thought of how smooth the female lead's journey had been in the plot.

"So that's how it is."

They say money makes the world go round, and there was truly not a shred of falsehood in that saying.

Presumably, the female lead used these gold bars to pave her way in the early stages, which allowed her to become someone worthy of that powerful and influential male lead.

As expected, the Mu family was the hardest stepping stone on the female lead's path to leveling up.

With so many gold bars, she could live a prosperous life in this lifetime without doing anything at all.

If she worked a little harder, becoming the world's richest person wouldn't even be a problem.

She kept collecting, and kept collecting, until soon only one small box remained. Her mental strength could no longer hold out and automatically retracted; otherwise, it would damage her brain.

Using the space also required mental strength. At this point, exhausted, she could no longer put the box away into the space and could only pick it up and leave.

The area below, which was originally full, was now empty.

Leaving only traces all over the floor.

Without alerting the mission target, she returned to her own room.

With the box in hand, she collapsed directly onto her bed and fell asleep.

Mu Yu's guess was correct; Feng Miaomiao's ability to climb so high was inseparable from the Mu family's assets.

Otherwise, her fate would have gone through countless hardships.

What a pity—Mu Yu's arrival had directly severed Feng Miaomiao's path to heaven. As for what happened next, it was hard to say.

On the other side.

As soon as Feng Miaomiao returned home, the lights in the room were turned on by someone, nearly making her scream in fright.

Fortunately, having lived a second life, she suppressed the shock.

When she saw the person standing near the switch, her expression shifted. "Dad, why aren't you asleep yet?"

Her father—heh—in her past life, to protect the younger brother, he had sent himself to the Great Northern Wilderness, while telling the outside world that he had high political awareness and was letting his children contribute to the country in the harshest lands.

Could the country not benefit from a woman like her?

It was all for the sake of his own reputation.

If she hadn't had good luck later and clung to a certain "Red Glove" figure, there was no telling when she would have died on that vast land.

"Where did you go?" This daughter's temperament had changed since her last fever.

Although he didn't know where she got the information to bring down Researcher Mu, since the matter benefited him, he didn't mind listening to her and making a recommendation.

But his daughter had been very abnormal lately, always leaving early and returning late.

After watching her for several days, he finally caught her today. "Where did you go?"

Seeing that she didn't answer, Feng Yuanshan asked sternly again.

Having lived a second life, Feng Miaomiao could naturally deal with her angry father.

"Dad, I went to the Mu family." She knew she couldn't hide this matter; primarily because she had gone to look for it herself today and failed, so she needed this face-saving father to help.

The matter with the Mu family wouldn't take long; there would be movement at the latest by tomorrow or the day after. If they didn't act now, who knows who would benefit from those things.

"Why go to the Mu family?" Hearing her say she went to the Mu family, Feng Yuanshan's tone softened.

The Mu family was a family he could never hope to reach before.

Now, just thinking about how he was the one to bring them down made his heart race with excitement.

This time, Feng Miaomiao did not hide it, but directly stated her purpose. Naturally, she didn't mention that she was reborn; she only spoke of her suspicions and her guesses. She understood her father.

Even the slightest movement would cause him to make many associations.

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