A string seemed to snap deep within her consciousness. Su Ruanruan felt as if she had just experienced a deep-sea drowning, and she suddenly gasped for air.
Her lungs were refilled, and a sense of soreness, as if her entire body had been reorganized, radiated through her limbs.
She instinctively reached up to rub her temples, but the moment her fingertips touched her cheek, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
What kind of sensation was that?
Her fingertips felt skin as delicate as the finest mutton-fat jade, and her cheeks were so supple it felt as though water might squeeze out with the slightest pinch.
‘Did I… reincarnate into another world?’
Su Ruanruan snapped her eyes open. What met her gaze was a ceiling both familiar and strange.
It was pink.
Not just the ceiling; the entire room was filled with a suffocatingly sweet, girlish atmosphere. There were lace bed curtains, limited-edition dolls piled in corners, exquisite Lolita dresses hanging on the walls, and a high-end strawberry fragrance that seemed to have permeated every inch of the air.
‘Did I… remember everything?!’
She struggled to sit up, her gaze sweeping across the giant full-length mirror at the foot of the bed.
In the mirror, a girl with silver hair and red eyes stared back in shock. She looked 15 or 16 years old at most, and her figure was excessively petite, barely over 5 feet tall.
She wore silk pajamas that were comically large, the collar hanging loosely off one shoulder to reveal a large patch of snowy skin and deep collarbones. Those legs… they were thin and white, with a faint pink hue at the knees, looking like a fragile porcelain doll in a display window.
As her vision focused, the depths of her brain felt as if they were being split open by an axe named “Past Life.” Two distinct sets of memories collided violently in her mind before finally merging perfectly.
The All-Female World, the Gene Sequence, and the Top-Bottom Law.
Countless fragments of information flooded in. This was a world without men, where women reproduced through a fusion of technology and genes.
In this society, while everyone was equal on the surface, a cruel “Law of Strength” was still inscribed in their genes. The strong were like wolves or tigers, controlling resources and power; the weak were delicate and soft, often reduced to mere subordinates or playthings for the strong.
And she — Su Ruanruan, who had been reincarnated in this world for 15 years — possessed the classic Weak Receiver constitution.
She was sensitive, prone to crying fits, and her skin would leave red marks if touched with even a little force.
“Are you kidding me…” Su Ruanruan clutched her throbbing head, her voice trembling. “What kind of terrible adult-rated setting is this?!”
But compared to this desperate constitution, what truly made her vision go dark were her actions during the 15 years before her memories awakened.
In those years, without the suppression of a mature mind from her past life and relying on her cute face, she had grown into a Mesugaki with an extremely foul personality!
Not only had she acted recklessly at school, offending all the older girls who tried to get close to her, but she had also picked up a nasty habit of gold-digging.
To maintain a high-consumption lifestyle, the unawakened her had used her cuteness to borrow money at school without ever paying it back. She had even exhausted every black market online loan possible; if she remembered correctly, there were at least sixty platforms.
Su Ruanruan’s hand trembled as she grabbed the latest Fruit of Radiance phone from beside her pillow — the highest-end phone brand in this world, retailing for 50,000 Federal Coins.
Facial recognition unlocked it.
The first text message that popped up on the screen almost made Su Ruanruan’s blood freeze.
[Peacock Loan]
Collection Reminder:
“Dear Miss Su Ruanruan, your bill for this period is overdue. Including your ‘Rice God’ mobile game top-ups, the deposit for the ‘Geni-Guer’ limited-edition Lolita dress, and your consumption in the private booth at the Tsukuyomi Club last week, the total principal and interest amount to 3,420,000 Federal Coins. Be advised that financial companies under the Gu Group have the right to execute ‘Forced Labor Compensation’ measures against dishonest personnel.”
3,420,000?!
Su Ruanruan felt the world spinning and wanted to slap herself. In her memory, the unawakened her would casually drop 6,480 for a ten-roll pull just to get a rare SSR character in a game, doing it dozens of times in a single night. As for those designer bags and custom-made dresses, she bought them without even blinking.
‘Where did I… where did the money come from?’ Su Ruanruan frantically flipped through the last 15 years of memories.
Soon, she found the source.
It was an app called Pure Stream Finance. Before, she hadn’t had the brains to look closely, but now, through the eyes of an adult from her past life, she saw it clearly. This wasn’t some shady black market loan app; it was a formal lending platform backed by a super conglomerate. Not a single cent could be dodged!
Initially, she had only borrowed a few thousand, and the procedure was as simple as a face scan. Later, the limit grew higher and higher — 100,000, 500,000, 1,000,000… The female auditor would always smile and approve it in seconds, even saying sweetly, “Miss Ruanruan is so cute. You deserve this limit. If it’s not enough, come find your older sister again.”
‘This is a total pig-butchering scam!!’ Su Ruanruan wailed in her heart.
What kind of world-class idiot had she been before awakening! She hadn’t realized at all that she had long since become a pig raised by others, fed until she was plump and tender, just waiting for the day of slaughter!
“Ruanruan? Are you awake?”
A soft, sweet voice suddenly came from outside the door, interrupting Su Ruanruan’s desperate thoughts.
The door was pushed open.
A “legal loli” who looked even more petite than Su Ruanruan walked in. She was wearing a professional office uniform, but because she was so short, the uniform that was supposed to look sharp instead gave off the feeling of a child secretly wearing an adult’s clothes.
She held a breakfast tray, a warm but slightly timid smile on her face.
This was Su Ruanruan’s mother in this life — Su Wenrou.
A 31-year-old single mother, but in terms of appearance, she looked 12 years old at most.
“Mom…” Su Ruanruan looked at the mother before her, who worked so hard for their livelihood, and a massive wave of guilt surged in her heart. The version of her before awakening was truly a piece of work, squandering money behind her mother’s back while her mother still thought her darling daughter was a top student at school.
“Eat quickly. Mom made your favorite strawberry toast today.” Su Wenrou stood on her tiptoes and dotingly patted Su Ruanruan’s head. “Mom has to work overtime today. President Gu said there’s a big project to rush, so I might be back very late.”
Hearing the words “President Gu,” Su Ruanruan’s heart skipped a beat.
“President Gu?”
Su Wenrou’s cheeks flushed slightly, a hint of admiration flashing in her eyes. “Speaking of which, President Gu is truly a good person. Not only did she give me this high-paying job, but she also looks after me at the company…”
Having the experience of her past life, Su Ruanruan instantly and keenly caught something unusual in her mother’s words.
“Looks after you?”
“Yes.” Su Wenrou tugged at her skirt a bit awkwardly. “Sometimes when I work too late, Miss Gu personally drives me back. She says she really likes ‘hardworking’ employees like me.”
Boom!
Alarm bells rang loudly in Su Ruanruan’s mind.
It was over. The logic loop was closed.
So this Gu family wasn’t just targeting her; they weren’t even letting her mother go!
She definitely knew Su Ruanruan was Su Wenrou’s daughter, which was why she had intentionally indulged that “idiot” with unlimited loans.
“Ruanruan, what’s wrong? Why are you so pale?” Su Wenrou leaned in worriedly, her defenseless, childlike face inches away.
Su Ruanruan looked at her mother’s innocent face, her heart aching so much she could hardly breathe. How could she dare to tell her mother that she had sought death by racking up millions in debt? If she let her mom know, this fragile little home would collapse in an instant.
“It’s… it’s nothing, Mom.” Su Ruanruan forced back the urge to cry — damn this top-tier Weak Receiver body, even the tear ducts were overdeveloped — and lowered her head to take a bite of toast, which tasted like wax. “I just… didn’t sleep well last night.”
“Then eat more. Mom is leaving now.” Su Wenrou glanced hurriedly at her watch. “If I’m late, the company will dock my pay.”
Su Ruanruan’s hand tightened around her milk glass. She didn’t dare think too deeply. She only knew that since her memories had awakened, she had to solve this mess she had left behind, no matter what.
Otherwise, not only herself, but even this naive loli mom would be swallowed whole, skin and bones!
“I’m heading out!”
With the sound of the front door closing, the house fell into dead silence once more.