The moment Su Yue returned to her original world, she used the ice-muscle jade-bone skin reward. After showering, looking at her own smooth, lustrous, flawlessly fair and tender skin, so fine she couldn’t see a single pore, she nearly cried with joy. She had finally become beautiful.
As for all the black water that had washed out, she simply ignored it.
She stood bare in front of the mirror without the slightest embarrassment, and the more she looked, the more she wanted to keep looking, she could never get enough of it.
A fair complexion covers a thousand flaws, that was absolutely true.
“What if I suddenly became pretty and people want to dissect me?” Su Yue asked the system.
“Don’t worry, host. The system will modify other people’s impressions of you, making them think you’ve always looked like this. I’ll also edit your photos online.” The system sounded quite proud, it was omnipotent.
Reassured and satisfied with her beauty, Su Yue put on long pants and long sleeves, threw on a hat and mask, and headed out to buy supplies. It was better to prepare in advance for the next mission, besides, the space was in stasis anyway, nothing would spoil inside no matter what she stored.
Even though her savings were only a little over 1,000 yuan, that was still better than nothing.
She rented in the old district, a pretty run-down place at 600 yuan a month, but for someone with no stable income like her, it was already a significant expense.
“Little Yue, aren’t you hot bundled up like that in the middle of summer?” Even wrapped up this way, the grain and oil shop owner recognized her. Mainly because she came in buying rice by the bag while others bought by the pound.
“To be beautiful, heat is no big deal. Boss, do you have any cheap rice?” Su Yue exchanged pleasantries and got straight to the point. With limited funds, she could only afford cheap options.
“I’ve got aged rice from a couple years back, I’ll sell it to you at a loss, one yuan per pound.” The owner could honestly say he was taking a loss, as living standards had improved, aged rice was hard to move anymore.
He could also honestly say it wouldn’t kill you to eat aged rice, just the taste wasn’t great.
“Any cheap noodles?” Su Yue’s eyes brightened. She couldn’t eat just rice all the time, needed to switch up the flavor, but unfortunately the owner just shook his head.
“Boss, we’ve known each other a while now, could you let me put it on a tab? If you’re worried, I can write you an IOU.” Su Yue rubbed her hands together, speaking a little sheepishly.
“I’ve still got several thousand pounds of aged rice in the back room I can put on tab for you, but nothing else.” The owner thought for a moment, then said so. He knew this girl, actually, all the vendors in this market knew her. She worked temporary jobs here often, came from the orphanage, studied while working and got into university.
If she wanted to put things on tab now, it was definitely because of tuition. Nobody had it easy. He could do her a favor, but he wasn’t some big-shot philanthropist, just a small shop owner.
“Thank you, boss, don’t worry. As long as I’m alive, I won’t skip out on this debt.” Su Yue patted her chest in promise.
“All right, I trust you based on those words alone.” The owner was pleased, he’d finally gotten rid of that batch of aged rice.
Su Yue still had over 1,000 yuan on her, so she also bought some flour, instant noodles, and a large bottle of oil, asking the owner to deliver them to her rental place.
Passing by the two-yuan store, she bought ten watches at fifteen yuan each, and wanted to buy more things but the space was getting full.
“System, for the next world I want to experience the warmth of family, and also convert everything in my space into gold.” Su Yue said to the system while lying in bed. She didn’t want to waste time, she wanted to keep doing missions.
System: do you even hear what you’re saying?
“All right, host, this time I’ll definitely find you a family where you’re the family treasure.” The system thought about the host’s space stuffed full of supplies, it needed to find somewhere those could be put to good use, otherwise the broke host would start plotting to take the points.
Era fiction, let’s go…
When Su Yue woke up, the first thing she saw was a blackened roof. Turning her head: mud-brick walls…
Su Yue: …
“Host, I have some good news and some bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?” The system held its code and trembled.
“Don’t want to hear either, just transmit the plot.” Su Yue already had a bad feeling, but wanted to struggle a little longer.
Plot transmission: The original owner’s name was Su Yue, recently graduated from high school. In the 1970s, a girl graduating high school was definitely a family treasure.
The Su family: Grandpa Su and Grandma Su had two sons. Uncle Er Su was separated from the household. The old couple lived with the eldest son, Su Daqiang.
Su Daqiang married Liu Dani and had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son is Su Jianguo, married to Zhou Xiumei, with two sons, Su He and Su Hai.
The second son is Su Jiandang, married to Chen He, with one son and one daughter, Su Jiang and Su Miao.
The third son is Su Jianjun, married to Liu Li, with one son, Su Hu.
The only daughter is the original owner. Because her cold, fair complexion was nearly identical to Grandma Su’s, she never tanned no matter what, she was doted on by Grandma Su. And Grandma Su was the matriarch-level figure in the household.
Grandma Su was harsh to everyone else, but treated the original owner as the apple of her eye.
Grandpa Su had no backbone and deferred everything to Grandma Su. Su Daqiang was a dutiful son. Liu Dani was somewhat biased toward sons, but she didn’t hold the power in the household.
As for the three brothers, Grandma Su had instilled in them since childhood the idea that they should cherish their sister. After twenty years of this brainwashing, the sister had become closer than any of their wives.
Growing up in such an environment, the original owner became spoiled and willful, everything had to go her way, and the slightest upset would result in chaos.
The original owner was thoroughly pampered, that was the good news the system mentioned.
The male lead, Shen Yue, is twenty-eight this year. He joined the military at sixteen, exchanging his body for scars and glory. He’s been retired for a year now and currently serves as the captain of the Changping police substation.
Shen Yue’s mother and father had two sons. Shen Yue is the eldest, and because he joined the army so young, his mother felt heartbroken about it and wanted to make up for all those years of maternal love he’d been missing.
Shen Yue’s mother was most troubled by her eldest son’s marriage prospects. Her son was nearly thirty already, practically on the verge of forty, and didn’t even have a girlfriend yet. She was so anxious she’d had a matchmaker introduce several girls, but none of them worked out.
The main issue was the long scar running from the corner of Shen Yue’s eye down his cheek. It gave the first impression of a ghastly, ferocious face.
Beyond the scar, there was also his cold, stern demeanor, the kind that made you feel like he wanted to kill whoever he was looking at. What girl would want to spend her life with someone like that?
Since she couldn’t find anyone in the city, Shen Yue’s mother thought to look in the countryside, but she couldn’t just pick any uneducated village girl either. She could accept poor family conditions, but she couldn’t accept poor personal qualities.
Their family’s situation was quite good, Shen Yue’s father was a director at a machinery factory, plus Shen Yue himself was excellent.
Looking for a daughter-in-law from the countryside, the first one they found was the original owner, and only because she had a high school education, otherwise someone this unsuitable wouldn’t have gotten such a good opportunity.
The result: when the original owner first laid eyes on Shen Yue, she was immediately frightened into tears, cried and made a fuss, shouted that she’d rather die than marry him, and both sides ended up losing face entirely.