“Hello, checkout please.” Yun Li lowered her cap and handed over the vegetables in her hand.
That voice… sounded strangely nice.
The cashier, Xiao Wang, felt a faint sense of anticipation, wanting to see what the woman in front of him looked like.
In less than a moment, his expression stiffened. With no warmth in his tone, he snatched the bag of groceries.
“22.5 yuan. Pay up.”
Yun Li lowered her head even further, curling inward. She quickly scanned the items, then grabbed the bag and fled as fast as she could.
When she reached a brightly lit area, she looked at her reflection on the glass door and unconsciously touched her face.
The woman in the reflection was fat—very fat—so fat that her eyes were deeply sunken into layers of greasy flesh, almost affecting her vision.
Yun Li glanced at a nearby poster showing a beautiful woman with an hourglass figure and compared herself bitterly.
Others stood there like a bright, beautiful scenery; she, on the other hand, looked like a square stone pillar.
She took a deep breath and dragged her exhausted body home on foot, treating it as exercise.
She hadn’t eaten any meat for three months in order to lose weight. Every day, eating “grass-like food,” she felt like a cow.
Yet even so, she hadn’t really slimmed down.
There was a type of person in this world who would gain weight even from drinking water.
Yun Li staggered home under her heavy body. Perhaps because it was summer, she felt like even the air she exhaled was burning hot, and her mind grew increasingly hazy.
In the end, everything went black before her eyes, and she closed her “bean-sized” eyes forever.
……
She didn’t know how long had passed before Yun Li slowly woke up.
The first thing she did was protect her bag of vegetables.
No helping it—she was poor.
But after feeling around for a long time, she found nothing. She had to accept the fact that she was going to go hungry.
“Host, stop searching.”
In the darkness, a pair of glowing eyes stared at her.
“?!”
Overcome with shock, Yun Li’s already unhealthy body immediately gave out again, and she fainted once more.
When she woke up again, it was no longer complete darkness. The difference was like a light being off versus just dim lighting.
She finally saw clearly what that “ghost thing” was: a round fluffy ball with a pair of bright golden eyes embedded in it.
The ball sighed in relief when she woke up and calmly explained its origin.
Host, you are already dead.
The ball looked at her blank expression and jumped onto her head, continuing:
The Quick Transmigration Headquarters detected your strong obsession before death and matched you with me. We are now bound.
Yun Li pinched herself. “So what am I now?”
A consciousness entity—or as humans call it, a ghost.
I am the Face-Customization System. You can call me 001.
Across countless worlds, beings have joys and sorrows, beauty and flaws. Many develop resentful spirits, willing to sacrifice their souls to change their fate. If left alone, their resentment will corrupt entire worlds. That’s why I exist. Absorbing soul energy and fulfilling their wishes—that is your mission.
Of course, if you refuse, it’s fine. You’ll just return to your previous state
Yun Li fell silent for a moment, then smiled faintly.
“So basically I don’t have a choice. Then let’s begin.”
The ball looked at her unimpressive appearance. This was the first host it had ever encountered who accepted everything so calmly—maybe she would surprise it.
It bounced twice.
“Then, host, your quick transmigration journey begins.”
A wave of dizziness later, Yun Li opened her eyes again—and immediately saw a cockroach flying past her face.
Yun Li: “……”
Looking again—she probably shouldn’t have looked.
The room was like a post-apocalyptic battlefield. Barely ten square meters, with only a bed and a narrow path to walk through.
Even worse, that tiny path was covered in trash. If she wasn’t mistaken, that white, blood-stained lump… was that—
Yun Li immediately lay back down, closed her eyes, then opened them again. Repeated the motion.
Host, please do not avoid reality.
The system ball floated in front of her.
“You say that so easily—why don’t you come down here and stand in this trash pile? Floating doesn’t count!” Yun Li rolled her eyes.
To her now, the system looked like a black-hearted boss who only draws empty promises.
Feeling guilty, the system quickly retreated.I’ll transfer the original owner’s memories to you
A wave of piercing pain struck her, and Yun Li finally understood this body’s situation.
The original Yun Li came from a wealthy family. Just as she was about to enter high school smoothly, disaster struck.
Her mother died in a car accident. The culprit was a rich second-generation heir, who settled the matter with a business deal and compensation.
Her father used the compensation to build a massive fortune. Just when she thought the nightmare was over, he returned home with a beautiful woman and a teenage child.
The child looked exactly like her father—and the age made everything obvious.
He had been cheating before her mother even died, and even had a child barely younger than her.
She confronted him in anger, but it only made her father dislike her more.
As the saying goes: “With a stepmother comes a stepfather’s neglect.”
From then on, she became invisible in her own home.
But she didn’t give up. She poured all her energy into studying.
After relentless effort, she got into the nation’s TOP 1 university. Meanwhile, her stepsister was expelled for bullying.
The family atmosphere froze. Her stepmother constantly picked on her.
Thinking she could finally escape once she went to university, she endured everything.
But then—her stepmother secretly changed her college application.
With one “mistake,” her 700-point score only got her into a junior college.
A junior college.
Seven hundred points—reduced to that.
She confronted them, but the entire family sided with the stepmother. Even her father looked at her with disgust, as if the stepmother were the real family member.
Under threats and indifference, she still went to that school.
She once thought about resisting, but her spirit broke under her father’s pressure.
After three years of “lying flat,” she gave up completely.
She rented a tiny room for 500 yuan a month, survived on instant noodles, and earned money by dating online in games—relying on her online boyfriends for support.
But peace didn’t last.
Her father, who hadn’t contacted her for four years, demanded she return home for dinner. Craving affection, she went back.
There, she met her father, stepmother—and three of her online boyfriends.
They saw her true, ugly appearance.
In humiliation and her father’s disappointed gaze, she fainted. The last thing she saw was her stepsister’s meaningful smile.
When she woke up, the room was empty.
In despair, she tried to kill herself—but accidentally discovered the truth behind her mother’s death.
She tried to take revenge on the family but failed, ending up with no proper burial.
Her wish was to destroy her father’s and stepmother’s family, expose their hypocrisy, and avenge her mother.
Yun Li lowered her head, looking at the same obese body as the original owner, and lay back down even more helplessly.
“Ding.”
Her cracked phone lit up. It was her online boyfriend—also known as “simp number one.”
Simp 1: Wanna queue together?
Yun Li immediately replied: “I’m coming!”
Then she let out a long, tragic sigh.
No choice—if she didn’t appease her online boyfriend into ordering food for her, with only 2.50 yuan left, she’d probably have to go downstairs and buy plain noodles.
And she didn’t even have a pot to cook them in—she’d have to eat them raw.