Chapter 1: Time-travel to the '70s
*This story is set in an unspecified timeline, please do not compare with history.*
1972,
Inside a room with green bricks and tiles.
Fu Xiao sat on the bed, staring blankly at the surroundings filled with an air of a bygone era. To tell the truth, she was a bit flustered.
What happened? Did I... time-travel?
The memories belonging to the previous host unfolded in her mind like watching a movie.
Oh, such a poor little thing.
This girl was also named Fu Xiao and she was twelve years old this year.
It was now 1972 in the city of Shanghai.
The young girl didn't have any memories of her mother and father.
Her mother died giving birth to her.
Her father...
Unknown?
Although she didn't have a father or mother, the little girl was still raised with love and care by her grandparents.
Her grandfather was the deputy director of the hospital, the family was well-off, so materialistically she was never neglected since she was a young girl. Added to the over-indulgence by the elders, the young girl had a bit of naivety.
Actually, to say she was naive isn't entirely accurate.
It would be more apt to say she was rather foolish.
Being parentless since childhood, she's often been bullied and talked about, the young girl has developed an introverted demeanor, with hardly any friends.
The current circumstance is as follows:
Her grandfather sacrificed himself in a fire to protect important hospital documentation. The grandmother, unable to bear this blow, followed him soon after.
At present, it must only have been a couple of days since the grandmother's demise.
The young girl, not even able to notify her hometown in time, managed tenuously to organize funerals for the elders with everyone's help, caught a high fever due to extreme distress, and couldn't make it through.
This has advantaged her - a soul that arrived from the end of the world...
In the apocalypse, acid rain corroded the surface, water resources were heavily contaminated, and food was in scarce supply. To live well in the apocalypse, one must have personal resources.
Fu Xiao was fortunate enough to awaken her spirit series and healing abilities in the apocalypse, in that cannibalistic world.
Supported by her powerful abilities, she became the strongest medic in the base.
When others were suffering from starvation and thirst, she lived comfortably with the food from her space.
Not spatial ability, but a jade pendant she had been wearing since childhood.
During a fight against the undead, she accidentally scratched herself. The blood that dripped onto the pendant revealed its secret as a spatial container, and from then on, she secretly stored things in it.
She had been living in the post-apocalyptic world for ten years without revealing a single thing. It's not that she didn't trust her teammates, it was simply her nature. She always liked to give herself a way out in everything she did. It was precisely because of this mentality that she was able to avoid countless perils in this apocalyptic world!!
Her thoughts returned to the present.
Fu Xiao sorted out the memories of the original host in her mind, including the memories from the previous life, and found many unusual points.
The original host's grandfather, Fu Qingshan, had died in a hospital protecting key research materials.
By rights, her grandfather was a martyr.
Even in this tumultuous era, she should be able to live in peace.
So why was the life of the young Fu Xiao in her previous life so miserable?
Such disastrous experiences without cause did not make sense.
As she sorted the memories of events, a few names that popped into her mind caught her attention, feeling very familiar.
After pondering for a while, she finally remembered. Li Xixi, Ouyang Hong, these two names seem to be the names of the male and female leads in a book. As she recalled, it was during the post-apocalyptic era when they were having a base meeting, a team member was discussing. The female lead went down to the countryside to work as a city youth, then enrolled in the university with the male lead, it was just a period novel. Elements of the story included family ethics and wealth accumulation.
During the post-apocalyptic time, she was only interested in potions, of course, she didn't read that book. She only heard that team member say that there was a character in the book that had the same name as her, who was merely a cannon fodder supplying the female lead with equipment.
Remembering the fate of the original host in her previous life, wasn't that just a cannon fodder character?
Thinking about the miserable life of the previous host makes her uneasy. Even if she had given the golden finger to the female lead, Fu Xiao was not a fool, so how did she mess up her life like that?
Thinking back to the series of unfortunate events that befell the original host, she always felt that there was a guiding hand behind it. But who could the host - a lone girl - have possibly offended?
She decided to stop dwelling on it - once the path is chosen, one must remain calm.
Now it is she, not the original host, who resides in this body. She would like to see who is manipulating things behind the scenes.
She sensed the current state of her body. After all, it was a new body, but her special abilities were still intact.
They were all at level one, however. In this era, there were no crystal cores, and she didn't know whether it was possible to level up. This body was quite weak now, having just recovered from a high fever. She activated her healing ability to stabilize herself a bit.
A level one healing ability could only restore a bit of strength.
Fu Xiao stood up and walked out of the room, giving the Fu family's mansion a basic once-over. It was a split-level western-style house, with a rather large backyard. The mansion's total area was somewhere over 400 square meters, with over a dozen rooms of varying sizes.
A house like this, considering the land it occupied and its exquisite craftsmanship, was beyond the reach of ordinary residents in today's Hu city. No wonder it was coveted by so many!
If the original host's memory was not incorrect, people from the neighborhood would arrive tomorrow.
They would discuss her future as Fu Xiao was still under thirteen, hence a minor.
According to the events of her previous life, her classmate Wang Mei would come to visit her this evening. Wang Mei would wax eloquent about her parents' virtues. As they had been somewhat friends at school, she managed to persuade Fu Xiao, after much cajoling, to allow her temporarily stay in the Fu mansion for companionship.
During this period, Wang Mei would continuously drone on about how miserable life in the countryside was - of not being able to eat until full.
Even of hoodlums taking notice.
In short, everything she said aimed to frighten.
She managed to hoodwink the naive girl into avoiding any contact with her home in the countryside.
When the news reached the family back home, and they came looking for the original girl, she had been thoroughly brainwashed. She treated her blood-related relatives as impoverished distant relatives who would consume her household resources. Although the girl's uncles desired to take care of her, relationships would always require the maintenance efforts of both sides and she persistently rejected them. They could not force her to return to her hometown with them and could only ask others to keep an eye on her. But there were always places that their watchful eyes could not reach.
Wang Mei, indeed, was a great pretender, putting on an appearance of deep concern for herself in front of the neighborhood leaders. At that time, the original girl had lost all her relatives and was emotionally vulnerable. The companionship provided by Wang Mei easily impacted her, leading her to break her principles time and again for Wang Mei's sake.
In the end, all the members of the Wang family moved into the Fu house, and the job placement meant to compensate the original girl from the hospital was taken away by Wang Mei. When she came of age, she was directly sent to work in the countryside, where she met the female protagonist. After being helped by her, she considered the female protagonist as a good friend.
From Fu Xiao's perspective, there were too many absurdities. The first unreasonableness was the assignment to the countryside. The original girl still received a monthly subsidy, and the savings of the Fu family were still under the girl's control; the Wang family would still leech off her, hence it couldn't possibly be their doing. Fu Xiao recalled going to speak with the hospital's head, but couldn't find anything suspicious. In that era, being a doctor was a dangerous profession.
The head of the Chinese Medicine Hospital had just been replaced, and she didn't know any of the people there anymore!
No one could help her, so the original host had no choice but to go to the countryside.
Even in the countryside, with so much money in her hands, she wouldn't have to suffer.
She could return to the city once the college entrance examination was restored.
However, since she went to the countryside, the original host had faced a series of misfortunes that made her weaker and weaker.
She didn't manage to enroll when the college entrance examination was restored and ended up dying of illness in the countryside?
Um....
The cause of the original host's illness was rather strange, as far as she could see, it seemed more like she was poisoned, the kind that weakens people's bodies!
As for who the person behind all this was, of course, Fu Xiao didn't know, she could only wait and investigate after the other party made their move.
Following her memories, Fu Xiao walked into the study, where many medical books were kept, all treasures collected by Grandfather Fu. She recalled the place that Grandfather mentioned before.
Behind one of the bookshelves, she pulled out a few bricks, revealing a small hidden space.
Inside the space was a small box. Upon opening it, she found a letter to Fu Xiao.
The letter detailed where things were hidden in the house and what to do if something happened.
The plan her grandfather had prepared for her painted a touching picture of a grandparent's deep affection for their grandchild.
At the bottom of the letter was a jade pendant, which drew Fu Xiao's attention. Not for its intricate design, but because the pattern on it was identical to the spatial jade pendant of Fu Xiao in her previous life - don't tell her this was a family heirloom passed down through generations.
As soon as she had that thought, she bit her finger and let the blood drip onto the jade pendant. As predicted, the moment the blood touched the jade pendant, it was absorbed immediately, making the jade pendant look even more moist.
With a mere move of her thoughts, Fu Xiao disappeared from her study. Upon opening her eyes again, she found herself in a new location. Staring at the sight before her, she pinched herself in disbelief. Only when she felt the pain in her arm did she come back to her senses.
In her previous life, the space in her jade pendant was only the size of a basketball court, unfit for planting or storing living things.
But the space she was seeing now was completely beyond her expectation!
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*This story takes place in a fictional era, please do not compare it to historical events*
*This story takes place in a fictional era, please do not compare it to historical events*
*This story takes place in a fictional era, please do not compare it to historical events*...
The important things need to be said three times... Little treasures, please don't try to place this story in a standard era, after all, in the real historical texts, there are no such things as space or time travel...
The story takes precedence. Despite being rooted in true historical flow, the plot is full of twists and turns and not to be missed...
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