After losing weight, Liu Lan still went on blind dates every few days. She would also occasionally ask Ding Yun for money to buy things. Although Ding Yun didn't always give her money, she would give her a little once in a while. After all, in this era, people judge by appearance. She couldn't really let her go on blind dates without makeup, unwashed hair, and unchanged clothes. To marry her off, some initial investment was necessary. Most importantly, her daughter wasn't someone every man would pursue. If she were, Ding Yun wouldn't have to worry.
Despite this, Liu Lan diligently went on blind dates for three years. By the time Hu Huanhuan started middle school, Liu Lan finally found someone she was somewhat satisfied with, and who was also somewhat satisfied with her: Zhu Wen from the town. He wasn't an orphan, but his parents were divorced and remarried, which was not much different from being an orphan. He was younger than her, thirty-one this year. The most crucial thing was that it was his first marriage, he had no children, didn't have much money, and didn't want children. His monthly salary was over six thousand, he was willing to give four thousand to her, worked near home, and his job wasn't one that easily led to sudden death.
Most of these criteria met Liu Lan's requirements. For the few that didn't, Liu Lan had nowhere else to look, so after some thought, she decided to live together with him. After agreeing, they didn't have a grand wedding. They simply queued up and got their marriage certificate. They then treated relatives and friends to a wedding banquet, and that was that. There was no betrothal gift and no dowry.
Ding Yun actually had money. Giving ten thousand or eighty thousand as a dowry was easy, as she had been selling magically refurbished phones for years. However, the source of her money was difficult to explain, so she could only let things be for now. If her daughter ever got seriously ill and couldn't afford treatment, she would definitely step in.
After Liu Lan got married, Ding Yun spent some time comforting her grandson and then had nothing else to do. With her daughter not at home and her grandson attending school every day, it was also very beneficial for her to study various magic spells at home, and even use magic spells to do housework, or prepare three meals a day. In short, Ding Yun was truly at ease. She lived a very happy and free life without any worries.
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Three years later, Hu Huanhuan started high school, and Liu Lan unexpectedly became pregnant and decided to keep the child. Four years later, Hu Huanhuan's half-sister was born. Liu Lan wanted Ding Yun to take care of her, but Ding Yun flatly refused. She stated that unless she went to work and had no time to care for the child, she wouldn't help. Initially, Ding Yun's statement was already a way to politely decline. However, no one expected that Liu Lan, unable to bear the hardship of raising a child, would actually find an eight-hour job, choosing to work rather than care for the child. This achieved what Ding Yun had tried to make her do but failed – getting her out to work. However, having already made the offer, Ding Yun found it difficult to go back on her word, so she had no choice but to reluctantly agree to help care for the child until they started primary school. By then, Hu Huanhuan had already graduated from university.
Having graduated from university, Hu Huanhuan was unwilling to continue receiving his grandmother's pension while earning money through part-time jobs to pay for his tuition and living expenses for postgraduate studies. Thus, he gave up on pursuing a postgraduate degree before graduating and started looking for a job. As soon as he received his degree, he completed the onboarding procedures and became a corporate slave. He also began sending money home regularly, sending over three thousand yuan of his over six thousand yuan monthly salary to Ding Yun, urging her to eat well and get medical check-ups if she felt unwell. At that time, his rent alone was eighteen hundred, and he was only renting a small storage room to sleep in.
Ding Yun initially wanted to send the money back, but he insisted on refusing and sent it back. Finally, Ding Yun stopped bothering and saved the money for him. She planned to return it to him someday if he decided to get married. If it wasn't enough, she would add some from her side.
It was around this time that Ding Yun finally learned the last chapter of the "Compendium of Magic and Witchcraft" and the "Compendium of Immortal Arts and Incantations," which was the chapter on destiny. It didn't contain much content, but it all pertained to fate-related magic and immortal arts. There were Great Arts of Destiny and Great Prophecy Arts. There was the Method of Observing Stars to Investigate Fate and the Incantation of Reversing Heaven and Changing Destiny. It allowed one to observe the fate of people, objects, heaven, earth, and nations. It could investigate events from five thousand years ago and predict realities up to three thousand years in the future. In short, anything related to destiny could be used and measured.
This chapter was very difficult to learn. She had only spent a little over ten years to learn all the previous content, but she spent a full ten years to finally master and be able to use the remaining small portion of the destiny chapter. Then, she began to attempt to use destiny incantations. She started trying to observe people's fates and the fates of heaven and earth. She predicted the future, forecasting for the next ten, twenty, and thirty years. The initial predictions were normal, but when she predicted forty years into the future, Ding Yun saw an endless stream of death energy, endless wails of despair. When she examined the nation's fate, she saw a collapse of national destiny, a world-shattering, earth-cracking, doomsday scene where no country, home, or sentient being would survive. If the transformation device was not faulty, this undoubtedly meant that forty years later would be the end of the world. By then, she would be almost 130 years old, likely long gone. However, at that time, her grandson would be less than eighty.
After some thought, Ding Yun decided to try and see if she could alter the future, or at least slightly change it to save more people. If she didn't have the ability, then so be it; she wouldn't bother. But she had the transformation device and so many magic and immortal arts at her disposal; perhaps she could tentatively do something to change the future. Therefore, in the following days, Ding Yun, after giving a large sum of money to her still unmarried grandson to buy a house and urge him to get married quickly, stopped meddling in other people's affairs. Instead, she began to meticulously study destiny magic, investigating what kind of apocalyptic disaster would occur in the future.
She spent another three years just to understand this. It turned out that in thirty-seven years, the Earth's magnetic poles would reverse, not only causing all electronic communication equipment to malfunction and magnetic fields to become chaotic but also leading to significant crustal changes. This would be accompanied by countless natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and even tsunamis tens of miles high. She even saw through magic that the ocean water was instantly displaced, revealing the seabed, and this water naturally rushed over the land at high speed, only to return to low-lying areas after the geomagnetic reversal ended. A slow geomagnetic transition would have had a significant impact, let alone an instantaneous reversal. Many tectonic plates shattered as a result. Humanity would be almost wiped out, with only individual small groups scattered across different regions. If there were no accidents, they would likely degenerate to the level of primitive tribes within a few generations and slowly develop new civilizations. Perhaps someone would stumble upon relics of the old civilization and become a shaman, an emissary of the gods, or even a god. But that would be the beginning of another civilization.