“Luckily, I have you by my side. I feel incredibly fortunate,” Ye Qinglan said with heartfelt gratitude.
“Oh, right. I still have fifty thousand yuan left. I’ll transfer it to you so you can buy food.”
As soon as Jia Ni finished speaking, Ye Qinglan’s phone received a notification.
“Great! This should keep me going for a while longer.”
Ye Qinglan suddenly felt the urge to go shopping again.
Have I become a shopaholic lately?
“Qinglan, no matter where you end up, you have to live well. If you ever run out of money, just message me on WeChat. Stay with me for now—you already know the password to my apartment.”
Jia Ni couldn’t bear to part with her best friend.
After all, they had grown up together.
Sigh… I just don’t know when I’ll transmigrate.
Suddenly, Ye Qinglan realized she had forgotten to stock up on stinky tofu.
Having nothing else to do, she started reading the novels Jia Ni had recommended.
Coincidentally, the cannon fodder supporting character at the beginning of the story was also named Ye Qinglan.
She was killed off almost immediately, while the female lead, Ye Bailian, was sent to the countryside.
After meeting the male lead, they broke up and got back together several times. She eventually got into college, flirted with numerous men, and finally helped the male lead become rich and successful.
After skimming through the story, Ye Qinglan dropped it.
The male lead was far too weak, and the female lead was far too hypocritical.
After finishing their hot pot meal, Jia Ni received a call from her family and drove home in her sports car.
Ye Qinglan took a taxi to the night market.
She bought two hundred servings of stinky tofu to take away, along with two hundred pounds of every flavor of crayfish.
She also bought grilled squid skewers, fried chicken cutlets, sushi, guokui flatbread, oden, roasted sweet potatoes, and many other snacks.
She spent every last cent left in her bank account.
Finding a spot with no surveillance cameras, she stored all the food inside her space.
Just then, her biological father called.
“Qinglan, I heard you sold all your shares. Did something happen?”
His voice sounded fake and full of hypocrisy.
“Nothing happened. I’m completely broke now, so stop thinking about my money.”
She hung up immediately.
Ye Qinglan walked along the main road.
Jia Ni’s apartment wasn’t far away, and she decided to walk there to clear her mind.
Not far away, her stepsister was sitting inside a car, talking to her mother on the phone.
Moments later, her stepsister drove straight toward her.
Ye Qinglan was thrown high into the air before crashing heavily onto the ground.
Blood quickly pooled beneath her.
Everything was captured by the street surveillance cameras.
Darkness swallowed her consciousness.
In the end, her stepsister paid the price.
She was arrested for intentional murder and eventually died in prison.
Ye Qinglan hadn’t left behind a single cent.
Her biological father and stepmother found it impossible to believe.
Later, after checking every account, they realized there was truly no money left.
They couldn’t understand where everything had gone.
She had bought so many supplies, yet all of them had mysteriously vanished.
The shock aged them overnight.
On top of that, their daughter had been imprisoned for murder.
The couple nearly turned gray overnight.
With all that wealth gone, the emotional blow was unimaginable.
Jia Ni took care of Ye Qinglan’s funeral arrangements.
She believed her best friend had successfully transmigrated, so although she missed her dearly, she wasn’t overwhelmed with grief.
…
Ye Qinglan struggled to open her eyes.
The back of her head throbbed with pain, and she could feel a large bump.
She looked around.
The walls were painted pale green and white, and the air smelled strongly of disinfectant.
This was obviously a hospital ward.
However, the furnishings looked exactly like those from the 1970s.
Even the enamel mug on the bedside table looked decades old.
She had probably really transmigrated.
Just then, she heard two women talking outside the door.
“Mom, I really don’t want to go to the countryside. Give me her job instead. Let’s register her under my name and say I’m Ye Qinglan, volunteering to be sent to the Northeast. It’s freezing there. She’ll freeze to death and never come back.”
The voice belonged to a young woman.
“Alright. That’s the only thing we can do now,” another woman replied.
The two hurried away.
At that moment, a flood of memories surged into Ye Qinglan’s mind.
Like scenes flashing before her eyes, they were all the original owner’s memories.
The original owner’s mother had died from complications during childbirth.
Not long afterward, her father remarried.
As the saying went, once there was a stepmother, there was also a stepfather.
Fortunately, the original owner had been intelligent.
She managed to protect the money her mother left behind, along with the inheritance from her maternal grandparents.
It turned out that her maternal family had once been wealthy capitalists.
Later, they concealed their identities and moved to another city.
Before leaving, they hid a collection of valuable treasures inside their old residence.
The original owner’s mother had been their only child.
Before they died, the elderly couple made their daughter swear never to reveal the secret.
Not even the original owner’s father knew about it.
Before her death, the original owner’s mother had told only her daughter the truth.
The baby she had been carrying during that difficult childbirth hadn’t survived either.
The real reason for the difficult labor was that her husband had been having an affair.
The woman he cheated with was none other than the current stepmother.
When Ye Qinglan opened her eyes again, night had already fallen.
She was alone in the hospital ward.
Feeling that her space was still connected to her, she disappeared from the hospital bed in an instant.
She drank several mouthfuls of Spirit Spring Water.
The pain in her head eased considerably.
However, no impurities were expelled from her body.
Apparently, the spring water couldn’t cleanse the body or save lives.
It could probably only strengthen the body and restore spiritual power.
“Damn… I’m starving.”
Ye Qinglan immediately ate two meat buns and drank a carton of milk before finally feeling full.
This time, the original owner had been attacked behind her back by her stepmother.
If it had been a direct confrontation, she never would have been injured.
The original owner had been unusually strong since childhood, so she had never been bullied at home.
“Don’t worry. I’ll avenge you.”
“I won’t let that mother and daughter off the hook.”
“I’ll make their lives worse than death.”
As soon as she said those words, she suddenly felt much lighter.
It was as if a soul had quietly left her body.
The original owner’s spirit had finally departed completely.
Going to the countryside?
Then they could all go together.
Only by keeping them close could she slowly make them pay.
Ye Qinglan had learned Sanda martial arts before.
Dealing with ordinary people would be easy for her.
She had been kidnapped once as a child, which was why she learned self-defense to protect herself.
Ironically, she had ultimately been killed by her stepsister driving a car into her.
Her fate and the original owner’s were remarkably similar.
The next morning, the original owner’s father came to the hospital.
Seeing that his daughter was awake, he immediately told her to check out.
“There is no point wasting money staying in the hospital.”
Originally, Ye Qinglan had planned to spare him.
Now she realized there was no need.
He had never cared about his daughter in the first place.
If that was the case, then he shouldn’t blame her for showing no mercy.
“I have to go to work later. Walk home by yourself. In seven days, you’ll leave for the countryside. Once you’re home, stop arguing with everyone.”
After saying that, he turned around and left without another word.
Is he really the original owner’s biological father?
He hadn’t even brought her breakfast.
He hadn’t given her a single yuan or even a food coupon.
Even a neglected child didn’t have it this hard.
The only thing Ye Qinglan had with her was a key.
She got out of bed, neatly made the hospital bed, and prepared to leave.
Even the enamel mug beside the bed had been borrowed.
“Thank you, Nurse, for lending me the cup.”
As she spoke, she quietly slipped two White Rabbit Cream Candies into the nurse’s hand.
“No need to thank me. Are you being discharged?”
The nurse looked at her sympathetically.
Ye Qinglan smiled, nodded, and left.
Walking home along the road, she looked down at the slightly worn clothes she was wearing.
Her appearance was exactly the same as in her previous life.
Still…
Something felt off.
It was as if she had forgotten something important.
When she got home, she unlocked the front door with her key.
The house was completely silent.
No one was there.
She returned to her room and immediately locked the door.
Inside stood a wardrobe.
Hidden within it was a secret compartment.
Inside the compartment was a box.
The box was filled with stacks of cash, along with a key to the old family residence.
Inside were neatly rolled bundles of Great Unity ten-yuan banknotes.
There were thirty-eight bundles, each containing ten bills.
In total, there were 3,800 yuan.
Ye Qinglan took out the key to the old residence.
Then she stored the entire box inside her space.
After restoring the hidden compartment to its original position, she left the house and took a bus to the old residence.