“You two young ladies, what on earth were you thinking? Those were human traffickers with no conscience at all, weren’t you afraid you’d get yourselves dragged into danger too?”
The train conductor sat behind his desk, brows tightly furrowed, staring at the two girls standing in front of him with their heads lowered.
Gu Panpan and Gu Li looked exactly like students who had done something wrong and been called into the office by a teacher for a scolding, obediently bowing their heads and taking it.
In reality, though, their little movements never stopped, perfectly embodying the attitude of “you scold yours, I’ll do mine.”
Gu Panpan’s eyes darted around as she secretly glanced at her best friend, quickly winking and even sticking out her tongue to make a face.
Gu Li held back her laughter and signaled with her eyes for Gu Panpan to tone it down.
Seeing this exasperating scene, the conductor felt his head throb; the two of them together were truly a handful.
Fortunately, luck had been on their side this time. The child had been rescued safely, and neither of the two women had been injured.
One of them was even a military wife. Soldiers were on the front lines defending the country, and if a soldier’s family member were to come to harm on a train under his responsibility, he would have no face left to show anyone.
When the train had stopped at the previous station, the two traffickers had already been handed over to the local police, and the child had been sent to a clinic for a checkup.
That said, the girls’ brave act of standing up for justice truly deserved praise.
Their plan of splitting up to lure the traffickers and then dealing with them one by one had been clever as well.
But their actions had been reckless, showing far too little regard for their own safety.
If they weren’t taught a proper lesson this time, who could guarantee they’d be so lucky again if they encountered something similar or even more dangerous in the future?
Thinking this, the conductor suddenly slapped the desk with a loud bang. The old, already rickety train table shook even more with the motion of the train.
He tried to keep his expression stern, his voice severe. “If you run into something like this again, do not charge in recklessly. Go find the railway police or the public security officers immediately. Understood?”
Gu Li, the model student, quickly tugged her best friend along and nodded repeatedly like a pecking chick. “Comrade leader, we know we were wrong. We won’t dare do it again.”
Gu Panpan nodded vigorously as well. “Yes, I was truly wrong!”
What she had done wrong was not switching places with her best friend. She should have been the one to seduce that male trafficker. She would have made sure he turned into a eunuch!
Seeing how sincere their apologies were, it was hard to be too harsh on them.
The conductor nodded in satisfaction and, at the right moment, offered praise along with a promise. “You two young ladies have admirable courage. Once we reach the destination, I will report this to my superiors and strive to secure the recognition you deserve.”
Recognition?!
Gu Panpan and Gu Li were stunned by this unexpected delight, their eyes widening as they practically sparkled with excitement.
It was as if they could see money symbols reflected in each other’s eyes. They exchanged a glance and a smile, both restraining themselves from asking further.
After all, one shouldn’t be so shallow. This was the 1970s, where honor mattered far more than money.
After the scolding, the two walked back to their carriage arm in arm.
“Panbao, did we really transmigrate into a novel?”
Gu Li pinched Gu Panpan’s chubby cheek, still feeling as though she were dreaming. It was too unreal for something so absurd to happen to them.
Gu Panpan grimaced in pain as her soft cheek reddened at the slightest touch. She rubbed her face and complained, “Ow! Damn it, Fox, let go! Otherwise I’ll slap you and see how you like it. If it hurts, then it must be real.”
“On second thought, maybe not.” Gu Li shrank back at the eager look in Gu Panpan’s eyes. If Panbao really slapped her, her delicate, beautiful face might not survive it.
Gu Panpan scanned Gu Li from head to toe like an X-ray, her gaze finally stopping at Gu Li’s chest before glancing down at her own B-cup. She let out a sigh. “Sigh… Fox, didn’t we agree to share blessings and hardships alike?”
Heaven was just too unfair!
Their current appearances were about seventy to eighty percent similar to how they had looked before transmigrating, only now they were even more beautiful, like upgraded versions.
Gu Li’s chest had skipped right past a C-cup and looked to be a D-cup.
Gu Panpan practically drooled with envy. Her hand seemed to have a mind of its own as she poked the soft fullness in front of her.
Mm, the feeling was really nice. No wonder men went crazy over it.
Gu Li froze for a moment, then burst into laughter, clutching her stomach.
“Not bad yourself.” Gu Li took the opportunity to give Gu Panpan’s shapely backside a playful slap.
Two beauties with completely different styles laughing and fooling around in the carriage, even making such shocking gestures, attracted quite a bit of attention.
If not for the vivid impression they had left earlier while fighting the traffickers, they would surely have been criticized.
At that moment, everyone wisely chose to stay silent…
Seeing the carriage suddenly fall quiet, Gu Panpan and Gu Li awkwardly rubbed their noses and returned to their seats.
After their playful antics, the two finally accepted the reality that they had transmigrated into cannon fodder supporting roles, not the female leads.
Gu Panpan leaned closer and whispered, “Fox, don’t tell me you’ve bound yourself to a system?”
“Panbao, do you have a portable storage space?” Gu Li leaned forward, her face full of anticipation.
With perfect tacit understanding, they both asked each other about the essential skills for transmigrating into a novel at the same time.
Their eyes met, and they both shook their heads angrily.
“You didn’t even get a cheat ability!”
“You don’t even have a spirit spring!”
Well then, as expected, they were destined to be cannon fodder supporting characters. Without the protagonist’s halo, they weren’t worthy of having any of those standard transmigration perks.
Both of them looked utterly dejected. In this fake heiress novel, the two cannon fodder female roles had been neatly taken up by them.
Gu Panpan looked at the equally unlucky true heiress in front of her with a constipated expression, once again confirming that this was indeed her best friend.
“Your ending is going insane!”
“Your fate is getting killed off early!”
“Peh, peh, peh…”
With perfect synchronization, Gu Panpan and Gu Li blurted out each other’s tragic endings in the fake heiress novel, then pretended to spit to ward off bad luck.
With her fox-like, seductive face, Gu Li spoke in a coy, flirtatious tone, teasing her best friend. “Panbao, how about we just run away? You shouldn’t go looking for Qin Dazhu. He doesn’t even protect you.”
“Fox, your biological parents may be rich and powerful, but they send you to a mental hospital. And your fiancé is pretty crazy too. How about we elope?”
“Panbao, do you have money or ration coupons?”
Gu Li, who had only twenty yuan and five jin of grain coupons to her name, looked at her best friend with hopeful eyes.
Could it be that after transmigrating, Panbao had finally turned things around and would now support her instead?
Gu Panpan shook her little head like a rattle drum, clasped her hands together in front of her chest, and blinked cutely. “I don’t. But I can write novels! In this dull and boring era, I can write stories for you to read.”
“Fox, you’ll keep tipping me, right?”
Gu Li rolled her eyes. Sure enough, she was destined to be an office worker; even after transmigrating, she still had to support her best friend.