No one supports my lofty ambitions, but I’m not trying hard anyway.
Friendly reminder: This chapter contains adult content and is forbidden for minors.
【Have you forgotten? I was that average girl in elementary school — plain appearance, average grades, average at sports, average height, neither poor nor rich, not many friends, no special talents. After graduation, no one in the class could even remember me. In short, I was a complete background character, right?】
【Have you really forgotten?】
Inside the single-room rental, the living essentials, snacks, clothes, and all kinds of clutter filled the whole room.
The only thing relatively clean was the single bed, but even that was covered with chargers, phone cables, earphones, dolls, and underwear.
Looking at the message from someone claiming to be her classmate on her phone, Gu Shiying lay comfortably in bed wearing only a single piece of underwear, enjoying the air conditioning, her brows twitching.
She had spent a whole day trying to recall when she ever had such a good classmate who would call her after graduation and transfer 1500 yuan.
If it had happened during school days, she might have already knelt down and begged for the existence of a godmother.
But the words of this scammer were obviously unprofessional and absurd.
This kind of scam wouldn’t even fool an old grandma lining up for eggs in a village.
“Wuwuwu (……)”
“Why? Why? Why?”
“I thought it was a male classmate I secretly liked in elementary school, who was also my childhood friend, finding out I’m now poor and struggling after graduation, so he wanted to rekindle our bond, deepen our relationship, and marry me without any bride price, house, or car…just marry me back in our hometown……”
“Why not even leave me with the slightest hope?”
Gu Shiying held her phone and stomped her feet on the bed for a long time before finally calming down, looking at her phone to delete this scammer.
However, after hesitating for a long time at the WeChat delete friend screen, her fingers froze.
In the end, she didn’t delete the scammer and chose to keep chatting.
There wasn’t any big reason — simply, Gu Shiying had used the money this scammer sent to pay her rent.
If the scammer reported her to get the money back, she would have nothing left.
So she had to keep the scammer steady first!
Once she found a job, she would return the money and then delete the scammer from her friend list.
Yes, that’s the plan.
As a Master’s Degree Graduate, Gu Shiying had already mapped out everything in her mind.
【Oh oh oh, I remember now, you’re classmate Zhang Xiaoqian, right?】
【We haven’t contacted each other since elementary school graduation. How have you been lately?】
“How have you been recently?”
Su Moli muttered softly, reaching up to touch her chin, surprised that her random words hit the mark so perfectly.
Originally, she had wanted to say just anything so this person would think she was a scammer and delete her, ending this system-mandated match mission.
But how could a Master’s Degree Graduate be so easy to fool?
Su Moli was troubled. Dealing with one Meng Siyu was hard enough; now there’s another?
【She knows you’re a scammer now.】
Hearing the System’s prompt, Su Moli’s furrowed brow immediately relaxed.
As expected, a Master’s Degree Graduate was not as gullible as a high school girl.
But that was just fine. Since Gu Shiying already knew the truth, and their identities were out in the open, there was no need to hold back anymore.
【Life’s not great now. Jobs are hard to find, or they’re exhausting. I get yelled at by bosses every day. My family keeps pushing me to earn money, get married, save for a bride price, buy a house and a car…】
【It feels like women are born carrying a million in debt.】
Since she was identified as a scammer, Su Moli had no qualms about treating Gu Shiying as a venting bucket for all her negative emotions, replying randomly no matter if she had read the messages or not.
“Hey? Su Moli, why aren’t you eating? What are you chatting about? Let me see.”
Meng Siyu, curious, noticed Su Moli ignoring the delicious burgers, fried chicken, fries, and cola on the table, instead focusing on her phone and chatting enthusiastically.
She peeked over and found the conversation full of adult content, which a high schooler like her couldn’t understand.
“What is this all about?”
Looking at the contact name labeled as [Scammer] — yes, Gu Shiying had renamed the contact to [Scammer] to avoid confusion — she felt a pang of sadness reading about the hardships of life from the scammer’s messages.
As a 26-year-old who just graduated with a Master’s Degree, many of her classmates who started working early were already married with one-year-old children.
And her?
After graduating with a Master’s, her major was too niche, and she had no specialization.
She barely graduated, with no network or connections.
Big companies rejected her, while average clerical jobs paid too little.
Many companies refused her, fearing a Master’s graduate couldn’t handle the physical work of a Haidilao waiter.
【Yeah, working is really exhausting and hard. Why must women earn money to buy a house?】
【I feel like, from college graduation to buying a house, getting married, and having kids, the loans piled up mean I’d have to work hard for 20 years just to pay them off.】
【Not to mention future expenses like raising children, and when you finally get to 40 and the kids graduate college, your parents start failing.】
【And when you’re in your 60s and have just sent off the elders…】
【What will we even have left to live for then?】
Though the other party was a scammer, Gu Shiying was pouring out genuine feelings, lamenting her post-graduation hardships and despair for the future.
She clenched her phone tightly, truly filled with hate.
Hate that she had no money!
Hate that she couldn’t change her fate!
Hate that she lacked the courage to resist her family!
【Detected: Target girlfriend — Gu Shiying is currently extremely low in spirits, with an urge to binge on fried chicken and burgers to fill the inner sadness with hunger.】
【Please comfort her immediately. Success rewards 500 yuan; failure rewards 500 yuan.】
Hearing the System say this, Su Moli almost had the answer handed to her.
What was there to say?
She immediately transferred 500 yuan to Gu Shiying.
【Yeah, why must women be burdened with a million debts from birth?】
【If that’s the case, why get married? How about the two of us just rent a place together and play games?】
【Then your million plus my million makes two million. Doesn’t two negatives make a positive?】
“I’m so bitter!”
“This damn thing is basically trying to scam my money, but really wants my body!”
“This guy is a pervert! So scary ∑(ÖAÖ|||)//”
With a crash, Gu Shiying was so startled by the message that she threw the phone away.
After a minute, curiosity got the better of her, and she picked it up again, looking at the text from [Scammer] and then the 500 yuan she’d received.
For a moment, she was caught in a dilemma.
She wanted to delete this [Scammer] — no, now renamed [Scammer Pervert] — but…the 500 yuan was too tempting.
She was unemployed, had exhausted her family’s savings for her Master’s degree, and her parents were eagerly waiting for her to graduate and find a high-paying job to support them.
But now, she wasn’t earning money; she was drowning in Alipay Huabei debts.
To avoid shamefully asking her parents for money again and to be able to eat and survive until she found work, Gu Shiying finally forced herself to swallow her disgust and silently accepted the money.
Then she immediately closed WeChat, not wanting to see or hear another message from there.