Chapter 21 The Second World
The large screen went completely black.
However, the space where Xiang Bei was located was not pitch black as before when the big screen went out; it was now particularly bright.
Xiang Bei rested her chin on her hand and looked at the big screen, feeling quite melancholy.
System 9639 nudged Xiang Bei with its paw. "Host, it's okay. I've heard from systems that have performed many missions that it's normal to have these emotions at the beginning. You'll get used to it after seeing it more often."
Xiang Bei never imagined that one day she would be comforted by a cat.
She sighed and hugged the big orange in her arms.
"Host, would you like to begin the next world?"
Xiang Bei nodded, "Let's begin."
Lin Beibei has her own path to follow, and she should also focus on making money.
That's a hundred million yuan.
How can you hesitate when it comes to money?
The large screen lit up again, and at the same time, system 9639 transmitted the original data to her.
The female lead in this story is a rich heiress who falls for the school's poor but handsome boy in high school. However, the boy ignores her. Through her relentless efforts, the rich heiress finally wins over the boy.
Just as the two agreed to take the college entrance exam together, the rich heiress suddenly disappeared.
The school heartthrob thought he had been abandoned and harbored resentment towards the rich girl.
They met again at a club.
The poor but handsome schoolboy has become a tech tycoon, admired by many.
The former heiress has become a waitress.
Someone recognized the rich heiress, knew about her past with the school heartthrob, and even knew that she had dumped him back then, so they began to humiliate her.
The wealthy heiress simply endured it silently.
Later, at a class reunion, someone sent an invitation to this former rich heiress, insisting that she attend.
I heard that the school heartthrob wasn't going, so the rich girl went instead.
When he arrived, he discovered that the school heartthrob had brought his girlfriend.
Everyone congratulated the school heartthrob and his girlfriend, praising them as a perfect match, while the rich heiress sat to the side, ignored by everyone.
Even when people mention her, they do so with sarcasm, saying she's blind to have abandoned such a powerful patron.
Some people even laughed at her to her face, asking her if she regretted breaking up with the school heartthrob. They said that if she hadn't broken up with him, and he was still around, she wouldn't have ended up in such a miserable situation after her father went bankrupt.
The humiliated heiress remained silent, her head bowed, lost in thought.
The school heartthrob's current girlfriend came over to talk to her, but accidentally spilled her juice all over her.
A rich girl went to the restroom to clean her clothes, but when she came out, she was blocked at the restroom door by the school heartthrob.
The school heartthrob asked her, "Shen Jiawan, do you ever regret abandoning me?"
The wealthy heiress Shen Jiawan looked up at the tall man in front of her, her mouth moved, but she didn't say anything.
Then the school heartthrob's girlfriend came looking for her, and thinking she was trying to win him back, she was very wary of her.
Xiang Bei snapped the original data shut. She didn't want to watch the plot anymore; her intuition told her that there might be some more unpleasant scenes to come.
"That's strange. It's a club again. Beibei wants to go to a club to earn money to treat her mother's illness. Why does the female protagonist in this novel also work at a club? Her family went bankrupt. Did she leave nothing behind?"
In Xiang Bei's memory, many bosses who claimed to be bankrupt were actually living quite comfortably.
System 9639 summarized it as follows: "The book's setting is like this: the female lead, Shen Jiawan's father went bankrupt when she was in high school. Later, driven to desperation by creditors, he committed suicide by jumping off a building, and all of her family's belongings were auctioned off. Oh, right, the house her family used to live in was later bought by the male lead after he became wealthy. Moreover, the book also states that the female lead's father went bankrupt before her college entrance examination, so she couldn't even take the exam. Unlike Lin Beibei, she has no formal education and is considered a high school dropout, making it difficult for her to find a job."
Xiang Bei rested her chin on her hand and sighed.
The system added, "The book also says that the female protagonist was able to get into the club because she has a pretty face; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to find this job."
"Forget it, let's just watch it directly. Oh, and switch to before Shen Jiawan's father went bankrupt."
Although Xiang Bei doesn't know how to do business, she is now half a system with a huge database, which should be able to save the Shen family's businesses from bankruptcy.
"No, the playback is randomly selected."
Big Orange jumped over and sighed, "It would be terrible if the plot switched to the male lead punishing the female lead by throwing her into the sea. That's a plot point from much later in the story."
Xiang Bei felt her eyelids trembling.
She covered her ears. "Shut up, don't tell me such a vicious plot."
Big Orange pressed a button with its paw.
Xiang Bei peeked through her fingers and, seeing that it wasn't a scene of the male lead torturing the female lead to death, she felt relieved and took her hand down.
In the dimly lit, cramped room, a person was curled up in the corner.
The girl's face was abnormally red, and her lips were chapped.
She was also holding a photo in her arms; it was a family portrait.
"Dad, Dad, don't die, don't leave me."
Before Xiang Bei could do anything, the system, Da Ju, produced a small handkerchief from somewhere and started crying bitterly, "Waaah, the female lead is so pitiful. In this part of the plot, the female lead wanted to find the male lead after the college entrance exam, but she was retaliated against by her former follower and locked in a small room where she developed a fever. Although she survived, she was left with aftereffects."
Hearing its voice, Xiang Bei rolled her eyes.
She browsed through the system's shop and found that the fever reducers were free, so she grabbed some without hesitation.
“Host, taking so many fever reducers can kill people,” System 9639 immediately cried out.
"Shut up, or I'll feed you the whole thing."
The system dared not speak again.
Xiang Bei couldn't get out, but she could control Shen Jiawan's things. She poured a glass of water in the space, but it was still cold.
She pulled the system over and said, "Heat it up."
The system dared not resist and turned the cold water into warm water.
She gave Shen Jiawan the fever-reducing medicine with water.
"Mom," Shen Jiawan suddenly murmured.
Xiang Bei naturally didn't have any children, but seeing Shen Jiawan's appearance, she still felt a little sorry for her.
As mentioned in the book, Shen Jiawan lost her mother at a very young age, and her father loved and spoiled her.
Shen Jiawan is a pampered young lady, but she has no bad temper. She's like a little sun, kind to everyone.
Especially towards the male protagonist, knowing that his family was not well-off, she helped him a lot.
The female lead's biggest flaw is that she doesn't like to study.
His grades were terrible; he was always last in his class.
And those extracurricular classes, she learned piano and violin haphazardly, none of them were anything she was good at.
Both her school teachers and her family teachers have raised this issue with her father.
But Shen Jiawan's father didn't care. He thought that if his daughter didn't do well in school, he could just send her abroad to get a degree. Anyway, with him around, his daughter wouldn't have to live such a tiring life.
Who could have imagined that the Shen family would suddenly go bankrupt?
Shen's father died, leaving Shen Jiawan, a useless girl who knew nothing.
Moreover, Shen Jiawan was unable to take the college entrance examination because her father died just before the exam.
But what kind of results can someone who consistently ranks last achieve?
Nobody cares.
Shen Jiawan's villa was also sold to pay off debts, and she was kicked out penniless.
At this moment, Shen Jiawan was kicked out of the Shen family. She wanted to go find her boyfriend, Fu Shi'an, but she was stopped by someone who warned her to stay away from Fu Shi'an or else she would be in trouble.
Shen Jiawan couldn't understand why her friend, who had been so kind to her before, had suddenly changed.
She insisted on going to find Fu Shi'an, but they beat her up.
"Do you really think Fu Shi'an likes you? If your family didn't have some money, why would Fu Shi'an be with you?"
Shen Jiawan still didn't believe it, so those people locked her in a small room, gagged her, and held her down, making her hear Fu Shi'an confessing his love to another girl.
The girl asked Fu Shi'an if he would choose her if Shen Jiayuan wasn't available.
Fu Shi'an said yes.
Xiang Bei asked the system, "Who is that girl?"
The system says that the girl Fu Shi'an confessed to is his later girlfriend, who is also the second female lead in this story.
Shen Jiawan naturally had no idea.
After her father passed away, she thought that Fu Shi'an was her only support, but she never expected that even Fu Shi'an would not want her.
Those people ignored her, left her in the small dark room, and locked the door behind them.
Shen Jiawan couldn't get out. She pounded on the door frame desperately, but no one came.
She was already exhausted, and after her father passed away, she barely ate anything. After being locked in the small room for a day, she developed a high fever.
She had nothing left but a photograph.
The photo shows her parents and her newborn daughter.
My mother's face is now blurry.
She has no memory of her mother.
All the other family photos are gone; this is the only family photo we have.
She felt terrible, as if she could see her father.
Shen Jiawan kept murmuring, "Dad, Mom."
She saw her father climb to the top floor, and before he jumped, he cried and said, "Wanwan, my precious daughter, I'm so sorry."
"Dad, don't go."
Shen Jiawan felt someone gently pat her. Her mouth was very dry, and she wanted to drink water.
Water got into her mouth, and she swallowed hard. She felt warm, as if she were back in her mother's arms.
She can no longer remember what her mother looks like, but she still remembers her mother's embrace, which was just as warm.
She murmured, "Mommy, Mommy."
When Shen Jiawan woke up, it was already dawn.
Beside her was a glass of water covered with a piece of paper. Shen Jiawan peeled off the paper, picked up the glass, and drank from it.
Then she saw a bowl of porridge in front of her, still steaming.
She hadn't eaten for several days because she couldn't eat after her father passed away, and then she was kicked out and had nothing to eat.
But she rubbed her eyes so hard that they hurt.
It wasn't a hallucination; a bowl of steaming hot porridge really did appear in front of her.
Shen Jiawan's first feeling was not fear, but hunger.
She glanced around; the door was still locked, so the bowl of congee had truly appeared out of thin air.
With trembling hands, she picked up the porridge and wolfed it down.
She used to never even glance at this kind of plain porridge.
Her breakfasts were prepared by the family's nanny, who made a variety of dishes.
For a while, she especially loved eating Eggs Benedict and never got tired of it.
But now, nothing tastes as good to her as this bowl of plain porridge.
She ate very cleanly. The young lady who used to think that food was not good after just one bite would practically lick the bowl clean.
However, she carefully scraped the porridge in the bowl with a spoon, and it was almost clean.
Shen Jiawan looked at the spot where the white porridge had appeared. She wasn't full yet. If there really was a ghost, it probably wouldn't have given her porridge.
So she asked again in a low voice, "Is there any more?"
【there is none left. 】
Xiang Bei answered her.
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