The fake daughter returns, and the villain cannon fodder becomes the group's favorite

Jiang Nianke was looking at herself in the bronze mirror. Suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her and turned to look.

What came into view was a man standing upright. He was wearing a black tuxedo, with a light-colored vest and a wing-collar dress shirt underneath, and a black peak-lapel dress shirt and black trousers as his outer garment.

He had a beige bow tie around his neck and a pocket square on his left chest. His gray hair was neatly combed back and he wore gold-chain glasses.

The sense of nobility that came over him was like that of a butler of a European royal family. Jiang Nianke was stunned for a moment when he looked at him.

The man smiled and said, "Miss, it is fate that you can enter our store. Please feel free to choose." Then he made a "please" gesture.

Jiang Nianke came back to her senses, smiled politely and looked around casually. Bai Yuncheng followed beside her. When they turned around, the old man looked at their backs with an ambiguous look in his eyes.

[My grandfather likes to collect antiques. His 55th birthday is coming up in a few days. I have to pick a good gift for him.]

Jiang Nian Ke looked around and glanced at the counter next to him. It was a separate counter with an old pocket watch on it.

It was quietly displayed there, watching people coming and going, as if it had gone through several centuries.

The exterior of the clock was covered with fine patterns and was golden in color. Jiang Nianke stared at the clock in a trance.

The man walked into the counter, opened the door with white gloves on his hands, took out the watch and put it in his hand.

"Miss, you have a good eye. This is the treasure of my store." The man held up the pocket watch and explained to Jiang Nianke.

"The treasure of the store?" Jiang Nian Ke looked at the pocket watch and felt that it was indeed a bit special, but why was it displayed in such a conspicuous place?

The man chuckled, as if he saw her doubts, and explained, "You want to know why the treasure of the store is placed in such a conspicuous place."

Jiang Nianke was not embarrassed to be seen through, and nodded. The man continued, "This pocket watch was handed down from my ancestors. It has been passed down to my generation for exactly 50 generations."

"My family has been in the antique business for generations, and this pocket watch has always been with us. It has brought us endless honor and wealth, so we call it the treasure of our store."

"So you put it on the counter because you want to sell it?" Jiang Nianke looked up at the man. Although the man had a head full of white hair, there was no trace of time on his face. His whole face was handsome.

The man chuckled, "It sold itself. It has been looking for a destined person."

The man looked at Jiang Nianke, with anticipation and curiosity in his eyes, and he waited for Jiang Nianke's answer.

"Are you saying that I am the destined one?" Jiang Nianke said in surprise.

"Who knows, Miss, it's fate that you can enter this store, and now you only like this one among so many exhibits. Isn't this also fate?"

The man's tone was steady, without any emotion.

Jiang Nianke thought for a moment and said, "I plan to give it to my grandfather."

The man nodded, "Since you chose it, it is yours." The man handed the pocket watch to Jiang Nianke.

Jiang Nianke took the pocket watch, touched the pattern on its outside, opened it and saw that the pointer inside was still turning, making an old ticking sound.

In today's society, it is rare to see someone owning such an old pocket watch, and the sound of this pocket watch is long-lasting.

Jiang Nian Ke looked at the whole thing again. When he touched it, the golden chain made a pleasant sound, and the back of the clock was covered with fine patterns.

"What I said may be a bit offensive, can I say it?" Jiang Nianke looked at him calmly.

The man still had a smile on his face and made a gesture of invitation. Jiang Nianke looked into his eyes and said, "Is there any curse on this watch?"

Jiang Nianke couldn't find any problem with the watch no matter how hard he looked at it. It was indeed a pocket watch with a long history, but why did it choose her?

Jiang Nian Ke considers himself not to be a lucky person, as he usually never wins a prize when scratching lottery tickets.

The man smiled when he heard her question, "Miss, you are right to worry. You are not the only one who has entered my store with a predestined relationship with me, but you are the first one to notice it. It seems that you chose it, but in fact, it chose you."

"There is no legend of a curse on this watch. It has just been looking for the right person for each generation. Maybe you are different, or maybe something big will happen to your family in the future, and it will help you."

Jiang Nianke didn't believe it at first, but when she heard it say that she was different, or that something bad would happen to her family in the future, it reminded her that she had traveled through time and the Jiang family was a villain family that should have been destroyed.

And this watch just happened to choose her, and her existence itself is a bug, so it doesn't matter if she is accepted like this.

Jiang Nianke smiled again and said to the man, "Okay, I'll take the watch no matter how much it costs."

The man shook his head and said, "Miss, you can take it for free. The choice between you two is fate. There is no money transaction involved."

Jiang Nianke was stunned. He didn't expect that he could get such a fine antique for free.

"Then the other things in your store must cost money to sell." Jiang Nianke looked at the antiques around him.

The man nodded, and Jiang Nianke walked to the side and picked up a mutton-fat jade ring next to him, "I want you to see how much this one costs, too."

The man's smile deepened, thinking to himself, you really know how to choose.

After paying the money, Jiang Nianke handed the ring to Bai Yuncheng, "Take it, it might be useful to you."

Bai Yun took it and took a look at it, and found that the ring seemed to be a device for storing spiritual power, and it was indeed a good thing.

The man noticed this action and glanced at Bai Yuncheng with his smiling eyes.

The man packed the pocket watch into an exquisite antique wooden box, put it in a handbag and handed it to Jiang Nianke.

When Jiang Nianke and the others were about to step out, the man was at the end of the narrow corridor. There was a wide space behind him. He looked at the two people's backs with a smile, "Welcome to visit next time. We will see each other again if we are destined to meet."

Jiang Nianke had already walked out when she heard this. She turned around and saw the house behind the man began to disappear. She blinked, and the entire antique shop disappeared.

She looked at Bai Yuncheng, who also had a confused look on his face. She picked up her handbag and opened the antique box. The pocket watch inside was lying quietly, and the originally black surface had turned golden.

[System, are you there? What's going on? There are no antique points in the original plot. ]

[System: Host, there is indeed no antique shop in the original plot. As for why it appears, I don’t know. Maybe the plot began to change from the day you traveled through time.]

Jiang Nian Ke thought about it and it seemed to be true. Jiang Siyuan, who was supposed to be backstabbed by the company employees, is now fine and the cancer has been eradicated.

Could it be that this antique shop really appeared because of a plot change?

[The subsequent plot will not change. 】

[System: Host, I am still unsure, I need to continue upgrading. Thanks to your ability, after continuous upgrading, I will no longer just be a melon-eating system.]

【What's the meaning? 】

[System: Host, your identity before you traveled through time was different, and your abilities were also different. After the system is bound to the host, it changes according to the host itself. I will upgrade it to a system that is helpful to you.]

[System: In short, eating melons can level me up, and my role besides providing melons also has other auxiliary abilities, so I can better assist the host and complete the task.]

【Understood. 】

[System: Host, please try your best to eat melons. ]

Jiang Nian Ke was communicating with the system in his mind while being pulled away by Bai Yuncheng. After he walked out, a group of people surrounded him.