A few minutes later, they quietly slipped inside, ready to take action.
Sure enough, they saw a group of human traffickers conducting a deal with another gang, several children caught in the middle.
Just as the transaction was about to conclude, Su Muxue and her teammates surrounded the area.
She tossed a smoke grenade, and in an instant, the room filled with dense smoke. As the traffickers panicked, her team quickly shielded the children behind them.
“Who… who dares ruin our good deal? I think you must be tired of living!” growled the tall leader, his voice full of malice.
Su Muxue replied coldly, “It’s your auntie here. Who told you to act like pigs and dogs instead of humans?”
“Today, you’re not going anywhere. Kidnapping children so brazenly—get ready to rot in jail!”
“Oh, I want to see how capable you really are. Since you’ve delivered yourselves to us, you won’t be leaving alive,” the traffickers sneered, raising their weapons.
A fierce fight broke out between the traffickers and Su Muxue’s team.
The traffickers had always thought themselves untouchable, even the police couldn’t catch them. What they didn’t realize was that Su Muxue and her team were rigorously trained operatives. Taking down these scumbags was child’s play for them.
Soon, the traffickers were beaten to the ground.
“Wow, weren’t you just so tough? Why are you down already?” Su Muxue taunted.
The gang leader roared, “Who are you people? I’ve been at this for years, and no one has ever caught me, yet today, a few girls take me down?”
Su Muxue replied, “Who we are is none of your concern. What matters is that you’re in our hands today. Consider yourselves unlucky.”
“Since you refuse to do honest work and instead commit these heinous acts, you’ll spend the rest of your life in prison.”
Just as Su Muxue’s team prepared to escort the traffickers to the police, another trafficker grabbed a lighter and set a nearby barrel of oil ablaze.
By the time Su Muxue realized it, it was too late. She pushed her teammates away, urging them to take the children and escape. She couldn’t save herself.
A loud BOOM!
A massive explosion occurred. Su Muxue was obliterated, and the traffickers died in the blast. Her teammates and the children were knocked unconscious by the shockwave.
The police arrived shortly after and sealed off the area.
Meanwhile, in Hua Country, September 1975…
The mechanical factory staff quarters were in an uproar.
The deputy factory director’s eldest daughter, unwilling to go to the countryside for the “Down to the Countryside Movement,” had deliberately injured herself, remaining unconscious for a full day and night.
Tsk, tsk…
That was certainly a harsh way to fight back. Did she really think she could avoid going to the countryside? The higher-ups had decreed that anyone without work had to be sent down.
Urban resources were so scarce that the idle could not be supported. Everyone knew life in the countryside was harsh—those who returned often looked completely different from when they left.
But there was no choice. Unless parents were the type to favor sons over daughters or wanted to toughen their children in the countryside, no one would willingly send their kids to suffer.
Meanwhile, no one visited the girl lying unconscious for a whole day. She might as well not have existed.
It wasn’t until around 7 AM the next morning that Su Muxue slowly woke up.
She opened her eyes and looked around, feeling a throbbing headache and weakness all over.
Huh? Wasn’t she blown up? Could it be… she really had traveled back in time? This must be where she had landed.
Suddenly…
Her mind flooded with the memories of the original Su Muxue.
It turned out she was in Hua Country in 1975. Though names were different, the world was much the same as the future.
With the original memories, she now understood why the original Su Muxue had been injured.
Her cruel parents, not wanting the younger two daughters and the son to be sent to the countryside, forced her, the eldest, to go instead. They even signed her up to lose her job, taking her savings.
When the street office notified her that she had only a few days before being sent to the countryside, the original Su Muxue felt hopeless.
When she confronted her parents, she, a young girl, could not fend off so many adults. During the struggle, she was pushed down the stairs and died.
And the explosion that had just happened? That was how she had crossed over.
Heh.
Now she was in the body of the original Su Muxue. She would no longer be bullied or wronged. She would avenge the original Su Muxue.
But her head still throbbed and felt dizzy, and her stomach growled.
Su Muxue took some medicine from her space to treat the wound and ate something to relieve dizziness.
After drinking a cup of Lingquan water, she felt much better. She then had braised pork, chicken soup, and rice.
To avoid arousing suspicion, she still disguised herself even after her head wound healed.
Before the others returned, she needed to fill her stomach. Otherwise, they would return soon, and she wouldn’t have a quiet moment to eat. Besides, she needed the energy to deal with these scumbags.
She still didn’t understand why the original Su Muxue’s family treated her this way. Was it just because she was the eldest that she had to give up her job, hand over her savings, and go to the countryside for her sisters?
Weren’t they her biological family? Otherwise, they wouldn’t have treated her like this.
She had never doubted it before, but judging by their ugly, misshapen appearances, there was no way they could have produced such a beautiful, fair-skinned daughter like her.
The two younger sisters and the brother were all replicas of them: ugly, with yellow teeth, pockmarked faces, and dark skin.
The original Su Muxue was different: curvy in all the right places, fair-skinned, and exceptionally beautiful—like a celestial maiden descended to earth.
The two sisters constantly mocked her for her enchanting face, jealous that she could attract so much attention outside.
They deliberately cut her clothes, saying she only deserved to wear rags, to let others in the street “admire” her.
Because, apparently, her face was meant to seduce men, and they wanted people to notice.
Heh.
What vile creatures. Crawling out of the filth, less than human in every way.