Chapter 314 Becoming My Own Substitute

In the early morning after the rain, the sun peeked through the clouds, and the light faintly passed through the glass, dotted with colorful halos.

Shen Zhichu's brain buzzed, her soul and body gradually merging. She suddenly opened her eyes and first touched her heart. There was a "thumping" sound in her chest. Hadn't she been burned to death in a fire? Why could she still feel her heartbeat, and her hand...

The fingernails on both hands were intact. They were a pair of beautiful women's hands, as white as jade, with slender joints. They were very similar to her former hands, but they were definitely not her hands.

Shen Zhichu got up from the bed and looked down along her hands. She reached out and touched her thighs, pinching herself in disbelief. It hurt. She was not dreaming. She had been dead for three years and now she was alive again.

Shen Zhichu took a deep breath, which almost made her faint. The whole place was filled with the pungent smell of gas.

Shen Zhichu quickly opened the doors and windows, followed the smell to the kitchen and turned off the gas stove valve.

Back in the bedroom, Shen Zhichu stood in front of the dressing table and looked at the mirror. This was not her face, but it looked about 50% to 60% like hers, comparable to her when she was alive, and even a little better looking.

Her skin was sickly pale, her almond-shaped eyes were cat-like, her gaze was clear and bright, her black hair was scattered behind her, and her figure was a little too thin, but better than before. At least she didn't have stomach problems, her hands and feet were not disabled, and she didn't have those indelible scars on her body.

Shen Zhichu quickly looked around the room and adjusted to the environment. There was an empty bottle of sleeping pills under the bed. Shen Zhichu picked it up and threw it into the trash can, then tidied the quilt and found a mobile phone from under the pillow.

If you want to understand a person, looking at his or her mobile phone is undoubtedly the quickest way.

As soon as Shen Zhichu turned on his phone and connected to the Internet, various messages popped up immediately, filling up the entire screen in an instant.

"Why don't you just die, you stinky cousin?"

"Little San, rotten person."

“Mistress Shen, are you finally going to die? This world is so big, but there is no place for you, so die soon, at least there is a piece of land big enough to bury you when you die.”

"How many people have supported you, bitch? How can a woman like you be so shameless?"

"You waste air when you're alive, waste land when you're dead, and waste RMB when you're half-dead. You deserve to be ground into dust and chomped on by pigs."

…

The messages received on the mobile phone were all insults and abuses, and these only occupied the screen, while tens of thousands of them were on the other side of the network.

An indescribable despair and grief arose from the bottom of his heart. Shen Zhichu rubbed his heart uncomfortably. This pain came from his original body.

At the same time, the fragmented memories in her mind began to slowly gather together, becoming yellowed photos, then from photos into comic strips, and finally into a movie played out in her mind.

The original owner's name was Shen Qing. She was born in a poor family that favored boys over girls. Her parents wanted her to go out to work to support the family after she finished junior high school.

The original owner refused and cried and begged her parents, saying that she could earn money for her schooling by herself, and promised that she would never burden the family, and would send money home every month.

Only then did the original owner's parents agree.

So during the three years of high school, the original owner worked while going to school. In order to satisfy his vampire parents, he had to send the little money he had left back home every month. He himself had to hold on to a few dozen yuan and eat steamed buns and pickled mustard greens.

During the three years of high school, which was the time for growth, the original owner was severely malnourished and as thin as a bean sprout.

She attended classes during the day and secretly went out to work until one or two in the morning. She had to run both roles at once. Under such high-intensity pressure, she had no extra time to review the complicated high school studies, and she couldn't concentrate on listening in class.

As a result, his grades plummeted and he failed to even get into a second-tier university in the college entrance examination.

Not only did the original owner's parents not feel sorry for her at all, they also scolded her for being a waste of money and said that she had wasted three years of school. When she turned 18, they immediately found her a husband. The husband was a second marriage with two children and his family was rich.

She was sold, and her parents sold her to a 40-year-old man for a betrothal gift of 100,000 yuan. The original owner was unwilling to accept this, and after pretending to be obedient for two days, she took the opportunity to escape when her family was not paying attention.

Penniless, she wandered around the city for two months. She worked as a dishwasher, cleaned toilets, and even went to a massage parlor to wash people's feet.

The original owner wanted to earn money to repeat her studies, but when she was going to school with the money, she was stopped by the Shen family at the school gate. In front of all the students and teachers, they scolded her for being indecent and said that the money she had was dirty money earned by selling her body.

The original owner was speechless and was in a trance under the glaring sun. At this time, someone appeared in front of her, rescued her and took her away.

…

That person was a scout from X Entertainment Company. He took a liking to her at first sight and wanted to sign her into the entertainment company for training and debut.

The original owner was grateful to him and signed the contract without saying a word without even looking at it, and bought her for ten years for 500,000 yuan.

She had never seen so much money before. She gave 200,000 yuan to the Shen family to buy out the so-called family relationship, and used the remaining 300,000 yuan to buy a small apartment.

She finally has a home...

However, the peaceful life did not last long. Serious flaws appeared in the contract and Shen Qing was forced to change his name to Shen Zhichu.

She was too naive and thought that "Chen Zhichu" was just an ordinary stage name, but she didn't expect it to become a shackle that would bind her for the rest of her life.

She became a substitute and was given to Lu Tingchuan, the president of Lu Corporation.

That year, Lu Tingchuan treated her very well, taught her carefully, enrolled her in violin classes, hired her for private lessons, and gradually transformed her from the cowardly and incompetent "Shen Qing" into the dead "Chen Zhichu".

Things took another turn a year ago. After the original body learned that she was just a substitute, she was still willing to do it because she liked Lu Tingchuan.

But later Lu Tingchuan wanted to give her to Li Jingshen.

She tried to resist and struggle with Lu Tingchuan. She also ran away and committed suicide, but in the end she didn't even have the right to die. She offended Li Jingshen, and Lu Tingchuan also abandoned her.

The original owner had a smooth career after her debut and even became a little famous because of Lu Tingchuan. After Lu Tingchuan didn't want her, she was also abandoned by the company.

Only then did she realize that the economic company had been a trap set by Lu Tingchuan from the very beginning, waiting for her to fall into it.

All kinds of negative information were piled up on her, such as being supported by a financial sponsor, a lover, a mistress, and having plastic surgery...

The hand holding the phone was shaking. Shen Zhichu clicked on the Weibo with the most messages. A Weibo post by the original owner before his death was:

——I’m leaving.

The comments were filled with all kinds of insults, not much better than the ones she had just seen. Many people were even forcibly blocked by the system because their insults were too harsh.

What's even more ridiculous is that the latest post on WeB was about her birthday, and she just turned 21.

Shen Qing, who had a rough life, committed suicide at the age of 21 by swallowing sleeping pills at home, turning on the gas, and falling asleep quietly.

How desperate was she? She even tried two different methods of suicide, fearing she wouldn't be able to die.

The name on the ID card can only be changed once in a lifetime. Even if she dies, it will still be Shen Zhichu. Who will still remember that this silly girl is Shen Qing?

Shen Zhichu's heart ached. She looked at "Shen Qing" in the mirror.

With a hoarse voice, he said softly: "I'm sorry, Shen Qing..."