Su Yue was an orphan who had nothing, growing up through hardship in an orphanage. Relying on a spirit that feared neither hardship nor exhaustion, and working while studying, she finally graduated high school and got into university.
If it had been another family’s child achieving this, the whole family would surely celebrate, maybe even take a carefree trip. But she faced a very cruel reality in front of her, the future tuition and living expenses for university.
So when the quick-transmigration system found her, even a single second of hesitation would have been disrespectful to her own life.
There was no newbie bonus, no newbie starter pack. The only benefit was that the first mission was relatively simple. Of course, aside from a fixed beauty-transformation reward, the points were also few, only 50.
Every time she completed a mission, she would get a reward, such as ice-muscle jade-bone skin, or eyes like autumn water, and so on…
There were also point rewards. Points could be exchanged back in real life for cash, at a rate of 1:10,000, or used to buy assistance items in the system mall.
Moreover, while she was doing missions, time in the world she was currently in was paused, so she could carry out her missions without any burden.
She had been dropped by the system into this parallel world for a week already. The original owner was also an orphan, which was somewhat similar to her, except the original owner had it far worse.
She herself had gotten into university through her own effort, while the original owner had dropped out after graduating middle school. At eighteen, the original owner had done every kind of dirty, exhausting work, tasting every bitterness of life at such a young age.
The original owner now worked as a cleaner at a boxing gym, and the male lead the system wanted her to pursue, Du Chengfeng, was a boxer there.
Because this was her first mission, she only needed to reach 70% favorability from the male lead to complete it. The favorability required would only go up after that.
The premise was that she had to complete the mission.
The male lead came from a good family, and his own conditions were excellent. Boxing was purely a personal hobby for him, the kind of person who, if he couldn’t make a name for himself, would have to go home and inherit the family business.
Sword-like brows, bright eyes, sharp features, broad shoulders and a narrow waist, a body of solid muscle, that chest, those abs, that V-line, she shouldn’t keep looking, looking too long would make her drool. At that moment the male lead was sweating buckets as he threw punches.
As for her, her face was plain and unremarkable, not even pretty enough to be called delicate. On top of that, the original owner kept long, thick bangs, so it could be said that half her face was hidden in her hair. The key point was that she couldn’t even complain about it, because this face was exactly the same as her own face from her original world.
She felt the system was really cruel, why did it have to use her face and her body shape to do the mission?
Was it afraid she wouldn’t try hard?
“Host, go for it! The male lead is sweating so much right now, this is exactly when he needs a towel, what are you still waiting for?” The system was anxious. It had been a week since arriving in this parallel world, but the host wasn’t doing anything, being far too passive.
Just needing 70% favorability from the male lead, this mission really wasn’t hard, not hard at all. Any random woman could complete it.
“Do you believe that if I send the towel over right now, the next second that towel will be on my face, and I’ll be lying on the ground, in a state perfectly suited for burial?” Su Yue sneered inwardly at the system. A person had to know their own place, and she was very clear on that.
“Host, how can you be so timid? Besides, that person helped you last time, you can take this chance to repay the favor.” The system continued trying to talk her into it.
“Are you talking about how my mop fell over, blocked his way, and he kicked it aside?” Su Yue was at a loss for words.
“How does that not count? Everyone else walked around it, but he kicked it. Isn’t that something?” The system wanted her to see it its way, not the other way around.
“Fine, even if you say that counts as a favor, are you sure it’s repaying a favor, and not repaying kindness with resentment?” With Su Yue’s plain, unremarkable looks, plus a small frame with no chest and no backside to speak of, if she so much as said one extra word to the male lead, it would count as harassment.
The one bright spot on her entire body was her thin waist, the original owner, just like her, had gotten it from being starved. Too bad, wearing the baggy cleaner’s uniform, none of it could be seen anyway.
“Sigh… no other way. In half a year, the female lead will appear. We only have half a year.” The system was also helpless, after half a year, the male lead would belong to the female lead. They only had until then.
“Cleaner, there’s water here you can’t see? Are you blind? If you can do the job, do it. If not, get lost.” Manager Chen shouted at Su Yue, hands on his hips.
Su Yue flinched instinctively, that was the original owner’s body’s reaction. To keep up appearances, she said nothing and quickly wiped the water off the floor.
“If you’ve got no sense left, get out of here fast. Taking a salary for nothing, doing no work, wishful thinking.” Manager Chen made no effort to hide his contempt, spitting out a string of complaints. Men should show women a bit more tolerance, but that came with conditions, and this ugly girl in front of him didn’t qualify.
Su Yue gripped the towel in her hand so tightly, just to hold back the urge to cut him down with a single blow. This was too insulting. What right did he have?
“The right of paying you 3,000 a month,” the system said quietly.
Su Yue: …
That made so much sense, but… but it still felt so unfair!
“So we need to do our missions well, the future can still be hoped for.” The system: host, drink this bowl of chicken soup first, then wipe your nose.
If it had been Su Yue herself, she would have absolutely quit on the spot. But for the original owner, this job paid more than any job she had ever done before. Besides, she still needed to raise the male lead’s favorability now.
The original owner had been kicked out of the orphanage at fourteen. After wandering for two months, she washed dishes at a small restaurant for over a year, with meals and lodging included but no pay. Still, the original owner was happy, because she finally didn’t have to sleep under bridges or in parks anymore.
Compared to that, this job now was already quite good. When you’re under someone else’s roof, you have no choice but to bow your head. She endured it.
“Forget it, Manager Chen, the little girl has it hard too.” Zhao Cheng saw Su Yue with her head bowed low, as if it were about to sink into her stomach. She looked genuinely pitiful. He’d heard this girl was even an orphan, having to make a living on her own at such a young age, it wasn’t easy.
His own younger sister, though older than her, only knew how to laugh and fool around all day, so he felt a pang of sympathy.
Besides, the water on the floor had been spilled without notice by his good friend Du Chengfeng while drinking water just now.
Su Yue suddenly felt her eyes grow a little damp. When Manager Chen had scolded her just now, she hadn’t shed a single tear. But now, someone else’s unintentional kindness nearly made her lose composure.
She swore she wasn’t a sentimental person at all, it was just that sometimes even the strongest person has moments of weakness.
“All right, don’t just stand there. Don’t let it happen again.” Manager Chen waved his hand as if shooing away a fly, maybe because he felt he’d gone a bit too far on a young girl, or maybe out of respect for Zhao Cheng.
Su Yue turned like a walking corpse, mechanically continuing to wipe down the equipment.
She didn’t use this chance to get close to Zhao Cheng, instead planning to approach the male lead. She didn’t take Manager Chen’s scolding to heart either, she was thinking about how to carry out the mission.
She was eager for the ice-muscle jade-bone reward. As the saying goes, fair skin covers a thousand flaws, if she had good skin, it could make up for some of her other shortcomings.
Right now, she had nothing going for her. It was far too passive.