To be placed into this instance’s plot, it must be a new Guardian and a new Divine Staff Fragment. What kind of fragment? Which Guardian? With this in mind, Wen Nan glanced at the driver’s seat next to him. After taking the medicine, Yu Shujun quickly started the car, continuing towards the office. Wen Nan originally wanted to ask this question, considering Yu Shujun bestowed the key item, she might know something about the Guardian and the fragment it guards. But on second thought, Wen Nan gave up. Since the treasure chest key has been made into a part of the plot, any information about the Guardian and the fragment, Yu Shujun presumably wants to tell Wen Nan, yet the system would not allow it. It seems Wen Nan must figure it out on her own, slowly exploring. However, this isn’t as difficult as it sounds. Wen Nan has already caught some clues, thanks to a not-so-friendly big boss who personally delivered it — Why would Boss Mi hand over the strategy characters from the three instances to Wen Nan? One possibility is that at the start of the instance, the players matched to these three characters coincidentally belong to Boss Mi’s guild. As the guild leader, Boss Mi requires his members to work for him, rather than dealing with the entanglements of a sickly girlfriend/sister/stepmother. Thus, Boss Mi separated the three characters from his guild members, sending them to Wen Nan, to create an emotional entanglement with her, freeing his members. But this explanation has many discrepancies, the biggest being: if given to Wen Nan, what if she doesn’t accept? While Boss Mi knows Wen Nan’s diverse interests, maybe he anticipated that Wen Nan would find it hard to refuse female characters delivered to her. Yet, Wen Nan is not his guild member and wouldn’t follow his arrangements. Merely relying on Wen Nan’s love for multiple-choice to anticipate that she would help his members with strategy female characters? That’s overly irrational. Wen Nan immediately recognized Boss Mi’s identity, making Wen Nan’s subsequent actions too unpredictable. Rather than banking on an unpredictable, opposing player, according to Boss Mi’s usual style, wouldn’t it be simpler to eliminate those female characters altogether? As previously stated in the system’s rules, a refresh point must be activated within 10 seconds of a key item being bound, so theoretically, a player can only bind one character. However, the system clearly stated that a character might distribute multiple key items. Evidently, the character Boss Mi reserved for himself, the only one yet to appear to Wen Nan, "the child sister who watches everyone and everything around you with a hawk’s eye", holds many key items. Boss Mi distributed a child’s sister item to each member he brought in, allowing guild members to collectively strategize on the same character, saving time and effort. The apparent solution is for each member’s "original partner" character to die, which is the most convenient. For a player like Boss Mi, who delights in destroying flowers and lacks humanity, such an action should come easily. Why, then, deliver those three characters to Wen Nan? Wen Nan pondered this for a long time without understanding; surely it couldn’t be to cater to Wen Nan’s hobby of maintaining multiple romantic interests? But now, with Yu Shujun’s hint, Wen Nan suddenly realized a possible intention — Boss Mi wasn’t providing more options for Wen Nan but was, instead, forcing Wen Nan to abandon her existing choice through this method. Because of the 10-second time limit upon activating a refresh point and binding a character, if Wen Nan favors other characters and wants to bind their key items, she must forego her "original partner" Zhuang Yichen’s key item, losing the plot line with Zhuang Yichen. That is Boss Mi’s exact purpose. Why wish for Wen Nan to abandon Zhuang Yichen? It’s likely that Carl Milak foresaw that the Guardian entering this instance and the fragment it guards are very likely hidden in Zhuang Yichen’s home. After all, among the characters, only Zhuang Yichen’s home boasts a massive villa resembling a princess’s castle, most fitting for hiding significant figures. Wen Nan assumes Yu Shujun likely guessed this too, albeit vaguely. Hence, she took on the role of Zhuang Yichen’s assistant, consistently hinting Wen Nan to not get entangled elsewhere, but to focus on strategizing Zhuang Yichen. If that is the case, then Wen Nan must, no matter what, secure Zhuang Yichen — Pondering this, the car drove into the underground parking lot, from afar, Wen Nan noted a familiar figure waiting at the elevator entrance. Wen Nan was slightly taken aback, then brought up the system’s character chat interface, seeing the message Xu Zhenzhen sent about forty minutes ago — [Zhenzhen: Shared a video with you] [Zhenzhen: Little Jiujiu, I saw this video from a friend just now, it’s about a place called Yuanming Garden, something happened, there was a residential explosion] [Zhenzhen: I looked at the crowd on the scene, it seemed like I saw you there] [Zhenzhen: Is that your neighborhood? Are you okay?] [Zhenzhen initiated a call request] [Zhenzhen: Get back to me when you see this, Little Jiujiu?] This message was sent too early and was swiftly buried by the messages from those other three women, Wen Nan hadn’t noticed it.