“Is that all? Fine then.”
The man walked out of the agency office, slumped by the roadside, eating an egg burger, looking dejected.
Xiao Su’s life in recent years had not been ideal. She graduated from university at twenty-two with fairly good grades and chose to stay in the big city to build her future.
After interning at a company for two years, she jumped to a promising startup, hoping her career would take off.
The promises at the company’s annual party were so enticing, like the city’s nighttime lights—bright and mesmerizing.
Then the pandemic shattered everything the following year.
During the years of unemployment, Xiao Su did all kinds of odd jobs—delivering food, repairing air conditioners, assembling computers in the electronics market.
She tried every scattered gig she could find.
After years of hard work, Xiao Su had transformed into “Master Su,” barely managing rent, living expenses, and the student loan she’d taken for university.
Now, nearing thirty, she felt a profound exhaustion.
“Maybe it’s better to go back.”
Returning to her hometown beyond the fourth or fifth-tier cities, with her honed skills, she was sure life would be easier there.
Xiao Su looked up one last time.
The distant skyscrapers sparkled like stars in the night—seemingly close, yet actually very far away.
“Alright, I’m leaving, going home.”
After finishing her food sitting on the ground, she stood up, her blood sugar rising.
As she stepped onto the road, her foot faltered slightly.
Just then, a small truck came speeding around the corner.
Beep—!
***
“Waaah, I’m dead, waaah.”
Her head ached, her whole body weak—especially her hands, her waist sore, her thighs numb… would being hit by a truck cause these symptoms?
The air carried a sweet girl’s scent, mixed with something strange yet pleasant.
“I won’t play again. Give me back my life, waaah.”
And inside her mind was the voice of a girl crying and speaking, full of grievance.
She struggled to open her eyes.
Above was an unfamiliar ceiling, though vaguely familiar, resembling the style of a university dormitory.
A soft, boneless hand lifted her eyelids. Lowering her gaze slightly, she saw two upright mountains.
A g-girl’s body?
“Stop looking. Don’t look. Give me back my body, you bad thing, waaah.”
Who was speaking inside her mind?
She closed her eyes again and saw the image of a girl—a very pretty one, with long cherry-colored (pinkish-white) hair, a small and cute face, and a tiny fang showing when she spoke.
Though her appearance was somewhat youthful, the prominent chest confirmed she was a college student.
“Who are you?”
“I’m Su Nuo, but now you are!”
The cute, beautiful girl glared fiercely at her. “You stole my body!”
After a while, she got the general picture.
Xiao Su had been hit and killed by a car on the road outside the agency office.
Meanwhile, at Mo Hai University’s female dormitory, a junior-year girl also died suddenly due to an accident. Xiao Su’s soul was reborn in that girl’s body.
She hadn’t expected her wandering life to end in such a twist. It was a bit bittersweet.
Fortunately, she was alone, so no one would mourn her.
As for why she was reborn here—no one knew.
Maybe the two shared some similarities and died simultaneously, intertwining their fates?
In any case, as the girl inside her put it, now there was the new Su Nuo and the original Su Nuo’s residual soul—nicknamed Soul Su Nuo or Su Xiao Nuo, since the spirit inside her mind was tiny.
“Then let’s just call me Su Xiao Nuo,” the girl hung her head. “At least it sounds cuter.”
According to her, her consciousness had almost faded away just now, but suddenly the cold body warmed up, and the chest rose and fell—obviously due to its ample size.
The soul had remained here.
The crying and fussing was just venting.
Su Xiao Nuo herself understood—once a person dies, the soul should dissipate.
But because another soul had revived the body, the residual soul managed to survive.
From now on, she had to rely on the other to continue feeling the world, waaah.
Curious, Su Nuo asked, “How did you die?”
“You got hit on the road, and you?”
She was lying comfortably in the dorm, how did she suddenly lose her life?
Su Xiao Nuo looked a little uneasy, rubbing her hands, eyes darting around.
“That’s a long story…”
“Take your time.”
“…I’m a junior now. Next semester will be senior year. I have to think about graduation and job hunting, right?”
“Yeah.”
Su Nuo had been in the same place during her junior year, though later it turned out no amount of planning mattered—one accident wiped it all away.
“But I heard the job market is tough, and I don’t want to work either. So I planned to take the easiest… ah no, the hardest path.”
Su Xiao Nuo pursed her lips, almost spilling the beans.
But Su Nuo already understood: “You’re planning to find an old man?”
“What old man? No way. I’m looking for a rich and beautiful older sister!”
“Well, that’s basically the same thing,” Su Nuo thought, amused.
After some thought, she said, “With your looks and figure, making easy money isn’t hard. For example, shoot some videos and take Second Dimensional Cosplay Commercial Orders.”
With such a cute face and a voluptuous chest, a natural Second-Dimension Cosplay Saint Body, becoming a big ‘danger zone’ streamer on Bilibili could easily bring in at least ten commercial orders a month.
“No!”
Su Xiao Nuo shook her head frantically.
“There are so many nerds online. What if they ‘do it’ in my head?”
“It’s not ‘what if’—it’s a hundred percent… But you actually care about that?”
“You’re looking for an older woman, yet you worry about that?”
“Of course,” Su Xiao Nuo folded her hands confidently, “I’m pure Hundred Percent Yuri Faction. If this world were only girls, I’d become a Fuli Worker immediately… of course, paid.”
Su Nuo almost laughed out loud.
“Anyway, that’s it. And you’re not allowed to let any man ‘do it’,” Su Xiao Nuo bit her tiny fang, furrowing her brows, glaring wide-eyed.
“Or else, I… I’ll fight you!”
So fierce, but given her current state, what threat could she really pose?
Self-destruct the soul in her mind?
That would be pretty powerful—after all, it could damage the brain.
Su Nuo shook her head.
“You don’t have to say it—I wouldn’t do that anyway. So, back to the main point: how did you die?”
The moment the topic returned to seriousness, Su Xiao Nuo’s momentum immediately deflated.
“The thing is, you know I chose the hardest path, right? It’s a rough road. After many days and nights of thinking, countless efforts and sweat, I finally found a suitable target.”
By “suitable,” she meant a pretty, wealthy older sister.
“But it wasn’t easy. I tried for a long time with no progress. I was about to give up, but then yesterday, after I went all out with my last big move, she invited me to a date this weekend. I was so excited, I couldn’t sleep all night.”
Su Xiao Nuo recounted her emotional journey in detail, and Su Nuo couldn’t help but empathize.
Yes, when someone has worked hard toward a goal for a long time and sees a glimmer of hope just before giving up, it’s sure to be overwhelming.
Like the moment she stepped onto the road—if she suddenly got a message for an interview from a big company, her adrenaline might explode, letting her dodge that truck with a drifting step.
“But this can’t go on, it’s bad for my health. So, for my own wellbeing, I…”
The girl inside the mind shyly rubbed her hands.
“I… did a little… sleep aid behavior.”
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