"You damned Zhou Bapi! If you keep this up, I'm really quitting! What kind of company can someone who can't even pay wages run? Calling you a capitalist is too kind of you."

Xia Wenxi was cursing under her breath, but her hands didn't stop scrolling through her phone. Just now, the company's finance department notified her that this month's salary would be delayed by three days due to certain reasons.

This isn't the first time salaries have been delayed. Everyone knows the real reasons, but it's just that the boss is deliberately dragging things out, as if he can make a lot of money by delaying salaries by even a day.

But this happens every now and then, and even if it doesn't bite, it's still annoying!

Xia Wenxi glanced at the pitiful number on her bank card, opened BOSS Zhipin (a job search platform) and swiped through it, then—

In a fit of anger, I got up, grabbed my phone, and prepared to go to the bathroom to slack off for a while.

The boss was in arrears with wages, and as an employee, she didn't skip work; she was just slacking off, which was already very kind of her!

Xia Wenxi squatted for a while before getting up. As soon as she stood up, she felt like her legs weren't her own anymore. She put her phone away, pushed open the door, and went out, completely unaware that the floor beneath her feet had just been mopped by the cleaning lady...

The moment she fell, Xia Wenxi was still thinking – could this be considered a work-related injury?

Immediately afterwards, she felt a sharp pain in the back of her head—

You're going to die!

This was Xia Wenxi's last thought before she lost consciousness.

"Xia Wenxi! What are you up to now? Don't think that just because Mom and Dad spoil you I can't do anything to you!"

Parents? They spoil her?

What a joke! Her parents, who favored sons over daughters, were being kind to her by not exploiting her to the bone.

In Xia Wensheng's eyes, Xia Wenxi was not only not afraid or admitting his mistake, but also showed a sarcastic expression. He was furious and directly pulled the person up from the ground.

The tug woke Xia Wenxi up as well. Seeing the handsome man with an angry expression in front of her, she wondered if she had lost her mind from the fall. Just as she was about to ask what was going on, a scene inexplicably appeared in her mind.

"Xia Wensheng, we're not blood siblings, so why can't we be together?"

"I think you've really gone mad, Xia Wenxi. Do you even know how to spell the word 'ethics'? Get dressed and get out of here!"

Xia Wenxi? She has the same name and looks the same, but when did she have an older brother? She clearly only has one younger brother, Yaozu.

The image in his mind continued: the young man shoved away the scantily clad girl who was clinging to him.

"I don't understand. I grew up with my brother since I was little, so why did someone else have to come between us when we grew up? Why can't we be together forever?"

A shadow appeared before Xia Wenxi's eyes, speaking with a sorrowful expression.

"I think I should give up. The system says I can't be with my brother. The problem isn't with me, it's with this world. What's the point of a world where I can't be with my brother!"

As Shadow spoke, he suddenly raised his head and stared straight at Xia Wenxi.

"So from now on, you'll live here in my place. Remember to be good to your mom and dad."

As soon as she finished speaking, the shadow disappeared. Xia Wenxi subconsciously looked down at herself, then gasped. When did she become like this, the girl in the scene she had just seen?

This was indeed quite shocking, but Xia Wenxi had read countless books, spending her days reading intensively on various platforms like Douban and Jianghu. However, novels are just novels; she never imagined that she would actually encounter something like time travel one day.

Or did she really become mentally impaired after the fall?

But the current situation didn't give Xia Wenxi time to think. Seeing that Xia Wenxi hadn't spoken for a long time, Xia Wensheng ran out of patience and spoke impatiently:

"Xia Wenxi, this is your last warning: get out of my house. Or do you want to just leave the Xia family altogether?"

Xia Wenxi then looked up at her "brother," whose handsome face was full of impatience, as if he wished he could throw Xia Wenxi out immediately.

She wanted to leave, but all she had was this sparsely made nightgown, and she knew nothing about the current situation. Even if she wanted to leave, she couldn't do it now.

"Can I change my clothes before I leave?"

Xia Wenxi suddenly spoke so normally, no longer acting crazy, which made Xia Wensheng a little uncomfortable for a moment. However, he didn't have time to think too much about it and said sternly, "I'll give you ten minutes."

After saying that, he went back to his room and slammed the door shut.

Xia Wenxi breathed a sigh of relief. If he hadn't gone back to his room first, she wouldn't have been able to tell which room was Xia Wenxi's.

Xia Wenxi quickly opened the remaining two doors and looked inside. One was a study, and the other should be Xia Wenxi's guest room, where all of Xia Wenxi's belongings were.

Without having time to do anything else, she picked up her phone from the table as soon as she entered the room.

Friday, March 17, 2028.

Xia Wenxi sat down on the edge of the bed, holding her phone, then pinched herself hard. When she opened her eyes again, the same scene was still there.

Then she unlocked her phone with her fingerprint and opened Alipay and WeChat...

"My goodness!"

That much money is enough to buy her life. Even if it was a dream or a hallucination after the fall that made her stupid, she would accept it. Such a beautiful dream; she had rarely dreamt of it before.

After sitting there for a while, she suddenly remembered Xia Wensheng's ten-minute warning, so she immediately got up to change her clothes and then packed the few things she had in the room into her suitcase.

She just checked; the young lady has an ID card in her handbag. In modern society, with money and an ID card, you can go anywhere.

So Xia Wenxi decided to leave first, find a hotel to get a quiet night's sleep, and also sort out her current situation.

Others who transmigrate come with the original owner's memories, but when she transmigrated... the original owner only left her with an angry older brother.

Thanks to Miss, the phone can be paid with fingerprint. After dragging her luggage out the door, she immediately booked a hotel for herself. Only after she got downstairs did she have the mood to appreciate the community. Even if she was a wild boar, she could tell that the community was high-end.

Thinking of what her "brother" had just said, Xia Wenxi sighed. Why did she give up being a proper young lady and go into orthopedics? Well, now look what happened.

The hotel she booked was very close to the residential area. Half an hour later, Xia Wenxi was lying on the soft bed. Only now did she have the energy to think about this series of unbelievable things.

She touched the back of her head just now and found no signs of injury. Before this, Xia Wenxi was a staunch materialist, but faced with everything that happened today, she had to overturn her previous beliefs.

She couldn't quite describe her feelings, but she could sense that what was happening was real, not a dream, nor a hallucination caused by a brain injury.

In particular, through her phone, Xia Wenxi learned that she was currently in a place called Fan City. On its own, that wasn't anything special, but at the same time, she also saw a place called Jinjiang City...

"No wonder the young lady wanted to leave; tomatoes are not suitable for orthopedics."