Chapter 1 The Medium
"Brother Qiang, I beg you, please don't sell my granddaughter to the red-light district! She really didn't mean to lie to you, please, Brother Qiang, don't sell her..."
Before Chu Ci could fully regain consciousness, his body jolted awake by the sound of an old man crying and the thud of someone kowtowing.
Red-light district? Human trafficking?
During this period, their police station is cracking down on human trafficking and prostitution, and yet someone still dares to commit crimes against the wind?!
Years of vigilance made her open her eyes instantly, and the unfamiliar surroundings startled her.
The floor is very characteristic of the era, and the exquisitely designed small altar is enshrined with statues of Guanyin, Guan Gong, the God of Wealth and the Earth God. Incense, candles, talismans and rice bowls are placed all around.
The strong smell of burning paper money and incense mingled with a faint stench of blood...
This isn't the police station where she's worked for so many years!
How did she end up here?
Just as doubt arose in her mind, she heard a male voice shout, "Brother, that gossip is awake!"
Gossipy woman?
Chu Ci frowned and looked over, and sure enough, he saw a man with a "Young and Dangerous" hairstyle pointing at him.
That "gossip" was referring to her.
"You old hag, you're finally awake."
The man called "Big Brother" had dyed yellow hair, a fierce expression, and a sleazy demeanor. He kicked aside the old woman blocking his way and strode towards Chu Ci.
Watching the old woman with gray hair and a hunched back being kicked to the ground with a muffled groan, Chu Ci glared at the blond-haired man who was walking towards her.
He said coldly, "You're a grown man with hands and feet, how dare you bully an old lady?"
As soon as she spoke, the whole room fell silent, and the blond-haired man raised an eyebrow in surprise.
The old woman who was kicked acted as if she had said something outrageous, crawling over on her hands and feet to grab her pants and urge her to kneel down.
"You brat, have you lost your mind? You can't even figure out who killed Brother Qiang's older brother, and you still dare to talk back to Brother Qiang!"
She tugged at Chu Ci's pants while begging the blond-haired man for mercy.
"Brother Qiang, my granddaughter is definitely scared out of her wits. Please, have mercy on her and don't argue with a fool!"
Chu Ci gripped his belt tightly, frowning at the old lady, "Grandma, he treated you like that, and you're still begging him?"
"You naughty girl..." The old lady was so anxious when she saw her like this that tears were about to flow.
I don't know if she was faking it or if she was really stunned by the beating, but she just kept kneeling on the ground and pulling hard on her pants.
"You'd better apologize to Brother Qiang right now! Brother Qiang is a magnanimous man and won't bother with a fool like you. Kneel down right now!"
Chu Ci grabbed his waistband and took two steps back to try to avoid the old woman's clutches, but she held on tightly.
Her brows furrowed deeper and deeper. She reached out and pulled the old woman up. "Grandma, stand up and talk. If you encounter someone like this, call the police!"
"Call the police?"
The old woman stared wide-eyed in horror, but before she could say anything, the arrogant blond-haired man burst into laughter.
"Hahaha! Ask Mimi, are you out of your mind?! Looking for the police? Do you think they'll arrest me or you?!"
As he spoke, he arrogantly pointed his finger at Chu Ci, cursing and swearing.
"I paid you five hundred yuan for fortune telling to help me find the murderer who killed my older brother. And what did you do in return?"
He pointed to two bruised and swollen henchmen behind him, "You told me that there were White Tiger Gang spies among my henchmen, and that they were the ones who killed my boss. I almost killed them, do you know that?!"
"You took my money, tricked me into hurting my men, and now you're planning to call the police? Go ahead and call the police!"
Chu Ci looked completely bewildered, but Huang Mao mistook her confusion for guilt.
He grinned crookedly and reached out to touch her face.
"Since we're going to sell you to the red-light district anyway, let's find someone this pretty first. Let Brother Qiang give you a try. If he serves you well, we'll let you stay and be our sister-in-law."
His henchmen behind him laughed and cheered.
But before his hand could touch Chu Ci's face, it was suddenly pulled back by a tremendous force.
The blond-haired man was stunned, and his vision spun instantly.
By the time he realized what was happening, he had been forced to change direction, kneeling on the ground and staring at his standing underlings, a sharp pain shooting through his arm.
He knelt on the ground and moved his hands, only then realizing that his hands were actually tied behind his back. With the slightest movement, his joints ached terribly.
Chu Ci held him down, pressing one leg firmly against his neck, her beautiful features solemn and dignified.
"I didn't do any of those things you're talking about, so you better behave yourself!"
She tightened her grip on the blond-haired man's arms behind his back, and he let out a bloodcurdling scream like a pig being slaughtered.
However, the moment she touched the blond-haired man, a voice suddenly rang in her mind:
[Having made contact with a key supporting character, the "Spiritual Medium Detective" system is now linked.]
[New Player Quests Released]
[Help Wang Qiang find the murderer who killed his older brother Bai Feng]
[Quest Reward: Spirit Medium's Workbench]
What is it?
Chu Ci frowned, still not understanding what was going on, when suddenly a golden arrow, like a beginner's guide, appeared in front of her, pointing straight at the blond guy she was holding down.
A message box appeared above the blond-haired man's head: [Wang Qiang]
It turns out this blond guy's name is Wang Qiang.
She looked at Wang Qiang, who happened to be looking down, and their eyes met.
In an instant, Chu Ci felt dizzy and her mind was filled with many images that did not belong to her.
The blond-haired man was forced to kneel by a woman, feeling utterly humiliated. He yelled at his still-stunned underlings:
"What are you looking at! Are you all dead?! Hurry up and beat her up!"
The underlings then seemed to wake from a dream and rushed towards Chu Ci with their weapons raised.
Chu Ci shook her head. Having worked on the front lines of the police force for years, she could easily handle these lowly henchmen with their rudimentary skills.
With Wang Qiang under his control, he kicked one of his henchmen to the ground, snatched the iron rod from his hand, and quickly beat the rest of his henchmen to the ground.
Seeing his underlings lying sprawled on the ground, Wang Qiang felt utterly humiliated.
"Damn it! You bunch of idiots, you freeloaders! You can't even beat a woman!"
He stretched out his leg to kick the nearest henchman, but Chu Ci restrained him, saying, "Behave yourself, do you hear me!"
She tightened her grip, and Wang Qiang let out a scream, but dared not move again.
Seeing that he had calmed down, Chu Ci pursed her lips and asked, "Is your older brother named Bai Feng?"
Wang Qiang, his hands tied behind his back, was furious. "You damned old hag! I asked you last week to find out who killed my older brother, and you don't even know my older brother's name!"
However, when Chu Ci pried his hand off, a scream pierced the roof as he cried out in pain and nodded, "Yes, yes, my older brother's name is Bai Feng!"
Chu Ci: "Is there a man in his thirties, bald, with a scar on his face next to your older brother?"
"You mean my second brother?" The blond-haired man's eyes widened. "You suspect that my second brother killed my eldest brother?!"
Chu Ci didn't answer, staring at him coldly.
For a moment, the blond-haired man forgot the pain, lowered his head, frowned slightly, and muttered to himself:
"No wonder, no wonder he always tried to make me think about the White Tiger Gang, and even said that my brother was killed to silence him because our gang had a conflict with the White Tiger Gang!"
He struggled to turn his head, but Chu Ci pressed his knee against his neck, and he couldn't manage it even after struggling for a long time.
"Ask Mi Mei, I'm asking you! Did you figure it out? The person who killed my eldest brother was my second brother, right?"
It was a question, but the meaning behind it was already very certain.
Chu Ci recalled the scene she had just briefly witnessed and continued to ask him questions.
"Does your older brother have an illegitimate child?"
Wang Qiang was truly stunned. "How did you know?"
His elder brother is the leader of the Green Dragon Gang and has many enemies. He only had this one son when he was over thirty, and he wished he could hide his wife and child away.
Only a few close friends of the eldest brother knew about his wife and children.
How did Mi Mei know this?
“That’s it.” Chu Ci slowly released him. “Your elder brother’s wife and children are being hunted down. If you want to save your elder brother’s only son, you should go now.”
Wang Qiang was released, stretched his shoulders, glanced at her, and suppressed the urge to throw a punch back.
"My eldest brother's wife and children are being chased by my second brother. Where are they?"
Chu Ci was unfamiliar with the scene he was seeing, and he couldn't tell what place it was.
but……
"I don't know what that place is, I only know that there is a paper mill there."
Upon hearing the words "paper mill," Wang Qiang's expression changed, and he grabbed an iron rod from the ground and ran out.
The younger brothers looked at each other, and seeing that their leader had already run out, they quickly scrambled to their feet, picked up the sticks on the ground, and ran outside as well.
As he left, he didn't forget to leave a threat: "Wen Mi Mei, you just wait, the White Tiger Gang will definitely not let you off easily for what happened today!"
They arrived with great fanfare, and they left with just as much fanfare.
Several neighbors curiously peeked out from outside, but quickly ducked back in when they saw the menacing approach.
Chu Ci stood in the house, which had been smashed to pieces and was now a complete mess, and sighed, rubbing his forehead.
Her mind was blank, and she couldn't see clearly, so she rubbed her forehead, walked to the dazed old lady's side, squatted down, and said gently, "Grandma, let me carry you to the hospital."
The old woman knelt on the ground, staring blankly at her, and suddenly burst into tears.
"My dear girl, it's me, Grandma! They beat you so badly you don't even recognize me?"
The old lady, speaking with a thick Hong Kong accent, hugged Chu Ci and wept bitterly.
Suddenly being hugged, she froze, and it was at this moment that she finally received the belated memories of this body.
She time-traveled and is now in Hong Kong in the 1990s. This body shares her name and surname, Chu Ci.
This Chu Ci, like her, was thrown into a trash can at birth.
But Chu Ci was luckier than her. She grew up in an orphanage, while Chu Ci was adopted by a charlatan and lived happily until she was twenty.
The sorceress treated Chu Ci like her own granddaughter, giving her whatever she wanted, which fostered in her a character that was ambitious but lacked practical skills and was lazy and gluttonous.
She barely finished high school, failed the college entrance exam, and refused to repeat a year. Instead, she learned most of the fortune teller's tricks for making money and took over the fortune teller's shop.
However, she was not skilled at deception and was extremely greedy, saying anything for money.
The first three years were relatively peaceful. Even when someone came to her door, she would push and yell at them to leave.
Until last month, a friend suddenly introduced her to a "big job": telling fortunes for a gangster who collected protection money.
The fortune teller advised her not to take the job, but she coveted the 500 yuan fortune-telling fee offered by Brother Hei and insisted on taking it no matter what.
As expected, things didn't go as planned. Instead, the gangster boss and his henchmen blocked her door, threatening to kill her.
Chu Ci transmigrated under such circumstances.
Perhaps because she had received the original owner's memories, Chu Ci softened her heart when she saw the old lady holding her and crying.
He gently patted her back and, mimicking the original owner's nonchalant tone, advised her, "Alright, alright, Grandma! I'm not dead, why are you so mournful!"
"Pah, pah, pah!" Grandma patted her gently. "Quickly spit out all these unlucky words! Who curses themselves like that!"
After her witty remark, Grandma finally stopped crying.
Chu Ci picked her up and carried her on his back. "Wang Qiang kicked you hard; you must have broken your ribs. I'll take you to the hospital first."
She carried her grandmother out of the house, and in the old stairwell, a neighbor opened their door.
In the dim light, a middle-aged woman with curly hair peeked out, cautiously glancing behind them before daring to speak, making sure no one was watching.
"Danpo, I'm not trying to criticize you and Aci, but this group of protection money collectors causing trouble every day isn't a solution. They're disrupting our normal lives!"
“Yes, yes!” Her husband peeked out from behind her. “I think you two should move out!”
He looked at him with disdain and said, "We've been neighbors for so many years, don't cause trouble for us old neighbors!"
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Huo Sheng only realized she was just a spoiled, arrogant, and mentally ill female supporting character in a novel when she was hit by a car and killed.
She was forced offline by the author due to reader backlash.
To quell the readers' anger, the author also portrayed her as a submissive female supporting character in another period drama.
The daily life of a pushover female supporting character:
I start cooking at four in the morning, making eight dishes and a soup for breakfast, and then I get scolded after the family wakes up.
She was scolded by her parents' family before she got married, and she was scolded by her husband's family after she got married.
I get scolded by my family members normally, and by relatives during holidays.
I was scolded by classmates and teachers at school, and by bosses and colleagues at work.
Her purpose in being her is to act as a caretaker for the male protagonist and his adopted sister's happy life, and then get scolded.
Finally, before she died, she received thanks from the male and female protagonists and passed away happily with a smile.
Huo Sheng, who had transmigrated into the body of a bullied female supporting character, was speechless upon opening her eyes.
I'll go to hell!
After a burst of birdsong and fragrant flowers, she tore up the script that portrayed her as a victim.
From then on, all the characters in the book were shrouded in the shadow of her slap.
Her biological parents favored her older brother and younger sister, treating her, the second child, like a babysitter.
I'll go to hell!
If he flips the table and goes berserk, the whole family will get a slap from each other; no one can escape!
During the holidays, both my uncle and aunt's families are waiting to eat, so why should they be made to do all the work?
I'll go to hell!
They caught two kids from each family and forced them to fight. Anyone who dared to stop them would be slapped!
Grandparents stopped them?
I'll spend next year's Mid-Autumn Festival with the anniversary of your deaths, you two old geezers!
The male protagonist's family came to propose marriage, but he had already secretly conceived a child with his adopted sister, the female protagonist, and was just waiting for her to marry into the family and become their slave.
I'll go to hell!
The female protagonist, who adopted a younger sister, slapped the male protagonist with eighteen slaps, and the vicious parents were slapped so hard they were turned into spinning tops!
You dare to scheme against me, Huo Sheng? I'll make your whole family a laughingstock in the city!
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The richest family in the east of the city made a fortune by taking advantage of the reform and opening up policy. However, they couldn't bring themselves to offend their relatives, and their company was riddled with problems because of them.
Hearing that the Huo family's daughter was not to be trifled with, he immediately decided to spend a fortune to marry her.
After Huo Sheng married into the family and met her relatives, she knew that she had found new fun.
During the New Year's gathering, I slapped all my relatives without fail, giving each one two slaps, without bias or favoritism.
From now on, relatives will avoid them!
That evening, her in-laws and sisters-in-law thanked her profusely, while her handsome husband, whom she had been forced into marriage with, looked completely bewildered, his eyes filled with a hint of adoration.
After closing the door, Huo Sheng took the opportunity to make a request, asking politely:
"I'm tired of slapping people's faces, can I have a pat on the butt?"
Honey, your butt is so round and perky!
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