The system hurriedly tried to console her. “Host, don’t be angry. Listen to my excuse. As far as I know, due to declining birth rates, most systems have been updated into ‘reproduction systems.’ If you find a suitable marriage partner, you can unlock the laboratory; getting married unlocks the farming area, and giving birth unlocks the entire space.”
The more Li Jiyue listened, the angrier she got. She just wanted to go crazy and smash this stupid dog system. “It’s the 1970s! Every family has at least two or three kids, some even eighty or ninety! There’s no shortage of birth rates! Birth, birth—why don’t you just update into a reproductive system? Where am I supposed to find a reliable man?”
Good women are easy to find; good men are nearly impossible to come by, even under a microscope. The male lead of this book, Fu Chunsheng, was a high-quality man who seemed normal and devoted to the heroine. But didn’t he eventually cheat? People change. Even if it’s just a novel, art imitates life. Whether the laboratory opens or not doesn’t matter.
With this large mall, her combat skills, and medical expertise, she could survive. If nothing else, once her parents returned from treating the pig plague in the northwest, she could rely on them. She wouldn’t starve. Other female leads managed to thrive in the 1970s with just a small supermarket; as the eldest daughter of the Li family, she was definitely not inferior. She weighed 100 jin; at 101 jin, she’d be rebellious. If pushed further, she’d just find a man who couldn’t continue the family line, letting this disgusting, unwashed, poop-slinging system be ridiculed by others.
After struggling for a while, Li Jiyue got tired and lay down on a bed in the mall’s lounge, drinking the laboratory’s spiritual spring water secretly delivered by the dog system through the microphone. It was delicious and sweet. The laboratory had a large pool of spiritual spring water, totaling 1,000 tons, costing ten million per ton. Healthy people drank it for beauty and detoxification, while sick people could be cured. After a quarter of an hour, she expelled most of the toxins from her body, which oozed black fluid through her pores, filling her body with a foul stench.
She bathed in the spiritual spring water within the space and changed into a set of old-fashioned grayish clothes from a retro-style shop in the mall. Looking in the mirror, her height was 168 cm with a well-proportioned figure, curvy in all the right places and slim where appropriate. Her face resembled her past life’s about eighty to ninety percent. A delicate oval face, faint dimples, willow-leaf brows, a high nose bridge, and long, fox-like eyes. A tear mole under her eye added a trace of allure, giving her a disenchanted yet captivating charm—seductive but not vulgar, enchanting but not gaudy.
Due to hunger and lack of warmth, her complexion was slightly sallow, and her hair was coarse and dry. A few more days of the spiritual spring water would restore her to her past life’s flawless beauty. Thinking this, her mood improved slightly.
“Dog, how would I survive without you?” she said.
The system, which had just installed the microphone, spoke in a conciliatory tone, “Host, have you forgiven me?”
She PUAd him: “I’ll forgive you for one second, for now. Let’s see how you behave later.”
“Okay, host. I’ll behave well from now on,” the reproduction system obediently replied, like a tamed dog. A beautiful host is always easy to deal with; it must behave well to complete its mission soon.
The system whispered, “Host, there’s a situation.”
Li Jiyue also heard movement next door. She pulled out a voice amplifier from her space, stuck it to the wall, and picked up all the conversations from the adjacent room.
Next door, the Lin family of four were all bruised and battered, heads or arms bandaged, speaking with crooked mouths and squinted eyes, looking ridiculous. Lin Tianbao, touching his heavily bandaged arm, said fiercely, “That bitch suddenly got super strong and went crazy, hitting people. She must be possessed. We need to marry her off quickly, or our family’s days are numbered. This house is hers without me, and mine without her. It’s a blessing if Director Liao fancies her; even if she doesn’t want to, she has to marry.”
He was the pride of the family. A worthless adopted daughter dared to hit him? Absolutely outrageous!
Wang Aihua said, “She hasn’t given back the money in her hands. We can’t let Director Liao get it for free.”
Lin Fugui thought for a moment: “Once Director Liao sleeps with her, we immediately threaten her to hand over the money. After she gives it up, we’ll call all the neighbors to catch her in adultery. If she still refuses to marry, there’s no way out.”
“Fine, that plan works.”
Once they agreed, Lin Yuzhu pretended to intervene. “This isn’t good. Xiao Yue just doesn’t understand. If we teach her properly, she’ll reform.”
Her words were fake; in her heart, she wanted to marry her off to Director Liao as soon as possible. That way, no one would compete with her for Fu family’s heir and the future wealthy man.
Having been reborn, what did it matter if she had two men?
Wang Aihua poked her head irritably. “Ah, my silly daughter, isn’t your face swollen enough? That little bitch didn’t even treat you as her sister, stealing your bracelets, your room, even your man. It wouldn’t be wrong to kill her.”
Lin Yuzhu looked embarrassed. “Mom, I know… you do as you see fit, just don’t go too far.”
She was a modern woman. Countless men admired her pure and untainted soul like a lotus emerging from the mud. Dirty work was left to others.
Li Jiyue couldn’t help but scoff inwardly. The fake sister! Even a garbage truck isn’t that good at pretending.
The original parents had left the original daughter 2,000 yuan. To prevent “thieves” from eyeing it, she was told to claim she only had 200 yuan, withdrawing no more than 10 yuan per month for living expenses. The original daughter was already on the verge of going dark but wasn’t foolish; she followed her parents’ instructions.
Damn it, it wasn’t enough that they wanted her ruined and disgraced—they even had their eyes on her money. Even vampires aren’t this ruthless. A nest of trash, not hitting them for a moment would be letting them run wild.
The next day, Li Jiyue woke up naturally. No one dared to wake her. When she got up, Lin Fugui and Lin Yuzhu had already gone to work. Lin Tianbao was drinking porridge; his hand was injured, so he didn’t go to work. Seeing Li Jiyue come out, he quickly finished the last mouthful and, after greeting Wang Aihua who was busy in the kitchen, left.
“Mom, I’m heading out first.” Mother and son exchanged a subtle look.
Wang Aihua brought a bowl of warm meat porridge from the kitchen. “Xiaoyue, this is specially for you. Eat it while it’s hot.”
Li Jiyue, having studied medicine, immediately noticed something off—the foam in the porridge was abnormal. She had already eaten in her room. Pushing the bowl toward Wang Aihua, she said, “I’m not hungry. You worked hard making porridge, you should eat.”
Wang Aihua coaxed her gently. “This is your favorite meat porridge. I won’t eat it, all for you. You’re right, the Lin family has what we have today because of you. No one should suffer, especially you. Anything good, I’ll save it for you. Eat it while it’s hot.”
The porridge had been laced with a mating drug. Once she ate it, they planned to send her to Director Liao’s bed to pave the way for her son’s future. With her seductive looks, young men in the courtyard and even older widowers all wanted to marry her. If she refused Director Liao, they’d simply sell her body to make money—any man in the courtyard or nearby who had a need could use her, and they’d just collect the cash.
A young virgin losing her honor would surely be too ashamed to make it public. Wang Aihua, thinking about collecting money to the point of being spoiled, was overjoyed.
Li Jiyue sneered. “Not drinking, huh? Then I’ll feed it to you!”
She suddenly grabbed Wang Aihua’s jaw and force-fed the porridge into her mouth.
“Ugh, ugh, ugh…” Wang Aihua struggled, trying to spit it out.
Li Jiyue quickly closed her mouth to stop her from spitting, knocked her out, and threw her into the storage room. She tied her up with rope and stuffed a cloth into her mouth.
After waiting in her room for a while, Lin Tianbao returned with Director Liao. Li Jiyue spoke obsequiously, “Director Liao, she’s in there.”
Director Liao rubbed his chin, lecherous, and said, “It’s been many years since I’ve had a young virgin. Want to have some fun? Me first, then you.”
Though lustful, he wasn’t stupid—he had made it to a director’s position. He worried that Lin Tianbao would not only settle for a promotion to a level-four worker but also use this incident to blackmail him for life. Throwing away his entire future for temporary pleasure wasn’t worth it.
Lin Tianbao grinned lecherously. “Of course, Director Liao. Whatever you want to do, I’ll cooperate.”
The system commented, “Master, humans really know how to play dirty.”
Li Jiyue muttered, “…Dog, you haven’t seen much of the world. Sister will show you later. No need to thank me.”
She was tired of watching the usual man-woman antics. Time to show them some over-the-top male-male drama. Hehehe!
In the original story, the original heroine was almost sexually assaulted by Liao Haiping and Lin Tianbao together. She even jumped from the second floor, broke her leg, and was blamed for seducing them, ruining her reputation. Those two scumbags were nothing but social toxins.
System: “…”