Cold… so cold… so hungry…
In the middle of her sleep, Su Qiu suddenly sat bolt upright. What the hell!
She had already dreamed the exact same dream for two days in a row.
In the dream, there was a young girl who looked extremely similar to her. The girl’s little face was waxy yellow, her body trembling nonstop as she kept saying she was cold and hungry.
How strange. Could this dream be some kind of omen?
She was someone who had achieved financial freedom through her own efforts. She had cars, houses, money, all kinds of insurance policies—how could she possibly end up in such a miserable state!
At first, she thought it was just because she had been under too much stress lately. But that night, the same dream appeared again.
Su Qiu felt a chill run down her spine and began to suspect that the dream might really be some sort of warning.
The scene in the dream was blurry, but it looked somewhat like a countryside house. In any case, that little girl who resembled her kept crying that she was cold and hungry.
Could it be that an apocalypse was coming, and she would end up like that?
Although Su Qiu felt the idea was absurd, she still went crazy with online group purchases, buying all kinds of daily necessities.
Perhaps because the dream felt too mysterious, and because she frequently read apocalypse novels, she impulsively ordered all sorts of supplies.
In just three days, her house was practically overflowing with delivery packages.
Oddly enough, ever since she started stockpiling supplies, she had stopped having that dream.
Looking at the mountains of supplies stacked throughout the basement of her three-hundred-square-meter villa, Su Qiu began to feel troubled.
In apocalypse novels, the protagonists always had storage spaces to keep things in. But what about her?
What if—what if none of this was real? How was she supposed to deal with all these things then?
That night,
Half-asleep, Su Qiu vaguely heard a ding.
“Welcome to 098 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Space. Please confirm your identity to log in.”
Su Qiu abruptly opened her eyes and sat straight up. “Hah!”
Was she dreaming, or had something really spoken?
“Welcome to 098 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Space. Please confirm your identity to log in.”
The voice appeared again!
Excited, Su Qiu clenched her fists and cautiously asked, “How do I confirm my identity?”
“Welcome to 098 Fresh Fruit Space. Please confirm your identity to log in.”
The mechanical voice repeated endlessly.
Su Qiu tentatively replied, “Confirm.”
“Login successful. Space activation will begin shortly. Please wait…”
Beep beep!
“Login successful. Space activated.”
While Su Qiu was still confused, she suddenly felt heat in her palm. The moment she raised her hand, ripples like water suddenly appeared before her.
So magical!
She carefully reached out and touched it. The next second, she entered the space.
The place resembled the storage warehouse of a large supermarket, complete with storage shelves. By visual estimate, it was around three to four hundred square meters.
Thinking back to the mechanical voice that had called it a fruit and vegetable space, Su Qiu wondered if the space could preserve freshness.
Even as she was still thinking about how to leave, she was suddenly back outside the next second.
She exclaimed in amazement, then poured herself a cup of hot water and placed it inside the space.
After waiting about half an hour, she went back in to take a look. Steam was still rising from the cup, exactly as it had been when she first placed it there.
Wow, didn’t that mean she could prepare all kinds of hot and cold dishes and store them for emergencies!
Now that even a space had appeared, perhaps the apocalypse really was coming soon.
In an apocalypse, the most important things were supplies and medicine.
Su Qiu immediately rushed to pharmacies everywhere and crazily bought medicine, stocking up on all kinds of daily medical necessities.
Antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs were especially indispensable in chaotic times.
Once the medicine was fully prepared, she sorted all the supplies into categories and stored them inside the space.
After that, she drove to an old-established restaurant in the city and extravagantly ordered thirty banquet tables’ worth of wedding dishes to be delivered. The chefs directly formed a team and went to her villa to cook.
Each table had twenty-eight dishes. Thirty tables meant a total of eight hundred and forty servings, enough for her to eat for a very long time.
To save space, Su Qiu specially found disposable aluminum foil containers for the dishes and even asked them to steam two giant wooden barrels of rice.
Since the space preserved freshness anyway, she could eat hot meals whenever she did not feel like cooking.
The chefs were all utterly shocked. What kind of normal person packed wedding banquet dishes into foil containers and paired them with buckets of rice?
Su Qiu checked the contents of her space. She had all the basic pots, bowls, ladles, rice, flour, oil, salt, and seasonings. There were also all kinds of vegetables, fruits, meat, and seafood.
For drinks, she had purified water, milk, and juice. For snacks, there were candies, chocolates, pastries, desserts, and all kinds of snacks she loved, all stockpiled in dozens of boxes.
As for daily necessities and consumables, she had stockpiled toothpaste, shampoo, skincare products, cosmetics, wet wipes, tissues, sanitary pads, and more.
Afraid that she might not be able to wash up in the future, she even custom-ordered a portable simple bathroom equipped with a shower.
Thinking of how the girl in the dream kept saying she was cold, Su Qiu specially bought ten durable military coats, cashmere blankets, wool sweaters, thick cotton pants, socks, hats, gloves, and several dozen sets of underwear.
Now that all the food and drinks were prepared, it was enough for her alone to live on for decades. This time, she definitely would not end up cold and hungry again, right?
Oh right, money too!
Su Qiu also took all the gold bars from her safe. No matter the era, gold was always universal currency.
After organizing everything in her space, Su Qiu felt completely secure and went to sleep in satisfaction.
……
When she woke up again,
Su Qiu was shocked. What greeted her eyes was no longer the bedroom of her villa.
After getting up to look around, she found herself in a pitifully tiny passageway room. It could barely even be called a room—it looked more like a balcony that had been partitioned off.
This… did not look like an apocalypse at all.
“Su Qiu, that’s enough already. Hurry up and get up to cook. Your younger brother and sister will be back soon.”
A stern male voice suddenly came from outside.
Su Qiu was bewildered and was just about to get out of bed to see what was going on when her head suddenly spun, and memories that did not belong to her flooded into her mind.
Only then did she realize that she had transmigrated into someone else’s body.
However, the other party was only eighteen years old and was also named Su Qiu.
The current era was the 1970s.
The Su Family had three daughters and one son. The eldest, Su Li, and the second daughter, Su Qiu, were daughters born to the deceased former wife.
The third child, Su Ting, and the fourth child, Su Baoming, were born to the later wife.
Su Qiu was the second daughter of the family.
Her biological older sister had married early to avoid being sent down to the countryside.
Originally, Su Qiu had a job and did not need to go to the countryside. But her stepmother, in order to let her own daughter remain in the city, secretly signed Su Qiu up to be sent down to the countryside.
Her biological father, Su Familyzhong, had even directly gone to Su Qiu’s workplace to handle the transfer procedures and gave her job to her younger sister, Su Ting.
Only yesterday, when the countryside assignment office came to notify her, did the sick-for-days Su Qiu learn about everything. Not only had she lost her job, but she was also now facing being sent to the countryside.
She had erupted into an argument with her family, but nobody stood on her side. Instead, they all blamed her for being immature.
After that, somehow, she herself had muddleheadedly transmigrated over.
Su Qiu sighed and went outside to find a mirror embedded in the wardrobe, examining her appearance.
Her height was at most around 1.6 meters, and she was severely malnourished. Upon closer inspection, her features were ninety percent similar to her own.
In her previous life, she had been a stunning beauty with bright and charming looks. When she smiled, she had a pair of sweet dimples that made her look delicate and adorable.
But this girl, despite having the exact same features, was so skinny she looked like skin and bones. Combined with her waxy yellow complexion, her facial features appeared unnaturally sunken and gaunt, making her look haggard and unattractive. Her beauty had directly dropped from a nine to a two.