Desolate Planet DQ008
Su Yue woke amid a burst of harsh, piercing noise. A flood of memories that did not belong to her flashed through her mind like a slideshow.
She… had actually transmigrated.
She had escaped that despair-filled apocalypse, only to arrive in the interstellar era?
But even in this interstellar age, she found herself stranded on a barren planet with backward technology…
“You idiot, get out of my way!”
“Su Yue, don’t think I don’t know you’re hiding inside!”
“What’s the meaning of letting a fool block the door?! If you don’t pay the rent today, then get the hell out of my place!” The shrill voice from outside stabbed at Su Yue’s ears.
“Yue Yueyue isn’t home. Y-you should leave!” a timid voice replied.
A handsome face immediately surfaced in Su Yue’s mind.
The one outside… was her older brother, Su Yi.
“Whether she’s here or not, I’ll know once I go in! Move aside, you idiot!” the woman outside shouted even louder.
Soon, Su Yue heard a series of miserable cries.
“Ow! You fool, how dare you hit me!”
“Just you wait I’m going to the Security Bureau to file a complaint! I’ll have you thrown out of the safe zone!”
Su Yue’s expression changed.
“Wait” she quickly called out.
Both people at the door froze in surprise.
Landlady Zhu scrambled up from the ground, shoved Su Yi aside, and rushed into the room.
Caught off guard, Su Yi was actually pushed away.
Too late to stop her, he hurried after her, afraid she might hurt his sister.
“Well, well! Su Yue, your shameless woman you really are inside!” Landlady Zhu strode to the bedside, rolling up her sleeves as if ready to fight. Her voice only grew sharper.
In a flash, Su Yi stepped in front of the bed, shielding Su Yue completely.
“You’re not allowed to hurt Yueyue! Or I I’ll hit you!” he threatened, raising his fist.
A trace of fear flickered in Zhu’s eyes.
But after thinking of something, she advanced instead of retreating.
“Fine! Not paying rent and still thinking of hitting people? Go ahead! If you dare, I’ll call the police immediately and have you thrown out of the safe zone!”
“You!” Su Yi gritted his teeth, about to strike.
At that moment, someone on the bed grabbed his clothes.
“Big brother don’t” It was Su Yue, already sitting up.
Su Yi quickly turned around and crouched beside her.
“Yueyue wuwu… are you okay? She she’s so fierce…” Seeing his sister awake, he burst into tears.
“Tch” Landlady Zhu rolled her eyes.
Su Yue shot her a sharp glance, making Zhu’s heart tremble.
“I’m fine. Big brother don’t be afraid…” Su Yue gently patted his shoulder, comforting him.
Zhu snapped back to her senses and was just about to start yelling again to demand rent
But Su Yue spoke first.
“Take this. It’s enough to cover four months of rent.”
She handed over a bracelet adorned with two pearls.
This was the last piece of jewelry she had given by that scumbag who cheated on her with her stepsister and framed her and her brother, leading to their exile on this barren planet.
The original owner of this body had clung to hope and refused to sell it.
But to Su Yue now, it was nothing but an eyesore.
Zhu’s eyes lit up with greed.
She had long coveted that bracelet how could an exiled criminal still possess something so valuable?
Without hesitation, she snatched it.
“How could this broken bracelet cover four months of rent? I’ll be generous and count it as one-thousand-star coins! You still owe me another twelve hundred!” she said greedily.
Su Yue frowned.
“Give it back” she said, extending her hand.
Zhu froze for a moment, then quickly hid the bracelet behind her back.
Su Yue felt a bit speechless.
“Either count it as four months’ rent, or my brother and I will take it to a pawn shop. Even if it doesn’t fetch three-thousand-star coins, it’ll be worth over two thousand. I’ll pay you then.”
Zhu was unwilling but
“Heh, why go through all that trouble?”
“Fine! Four months it is!”
“But listen carefully next time you must pay in advance! At the start of the month! Otherwise, don’t blame me for kicking you out!” She didn’t believe these poor siblings had anything else left to sell.
Su Yue let out a breath of relief.
“Alright.”
Zhu was slightly surprised at how straightforward she was but didn’t care. After glancing at them, she left.
As soon as she was gone, the room fell silent.
“Yueyue…” Su Yi looked at her pitifully.
Su Yue smiled gently.
“Big brother, help me up first.”
“Oh.” He quickly helped her out of bed.
Su Yue felt dizzy she knew it was because she was starving.
After being helped to the table, she took out a can of beef and four packs of instant noodles from her space.
Su Yi was stunned.
“Yue Yueyue…”
Su Yue raised her hand and showed him the silver ring she was wearing.
“This is a space ring I hid earlier. There are still some supplies inside.”
“We don’t have food at home right now, so we’ll make do with this first.”
In the interstellar era, space-folding technology already existed, and space rings were real.
But they were extremely expensive something ordinary families could never afford.
The Su family had barely counted as second-tier nobility on the Imperial Star. Before everything happened, she had owned a space ring.
Though it only had one cubic meter of space, it cost as much as 500,000-star coins.
Naturally, she couldn’t keep such a valuable item.
After the incident, her stepsister seized her space ring and everything inside under the pretense of “searching for evidence.”
The only valuable item the original owner managed to keep… was that bracelet.
As for the ring she wore now it wasn’t a real space ring, just an ordinary silver ring from her own space.
She was a dual-ability user, possessing both space and purification powers.
After transmigrating, those abilities came with her including everything inside her space.
Unfortunately, after ten years in the apocalypse, her stored supplies were nearly depleted only enough to last her and her brother a few days.
“Mm!” Su Yi, whose intelligence was only that of a six-year-old, didn’t think much about it.
Su Yue smiled.
She instructed him to open the canned food and prepare hot water for the instant noodles.
Tonight’s meal was unusually rich even luxurious.
But she had no choice.
Because she was pregnant.
Only by eating well tonight and recovering her strength could she go out of the city with her brother tomorrow… and find a way to survive.
After all
She was already four months pregnant.
More than four months ago, her brother had an accident on the front lines. He was sent back to the Imperial Star unconscious
And was branded a deserter.