• Bing Shi rubbed her eyes to see if she saw right, "Why is everything so expensive?"
• "Wuwu, I don't know," XiaoPu got on all fours, prostrating himself before Bing Shi, he begged for forgiveness exaggeratedly, "Forgive me! Wuwu, I'm the most annoying and useless system in the history of systemkind."
• "According to whom?" she asked.
• "My ex-host," XiaoPu answered.
• Crouching down, Bing Shi extended her palm in his direction, "So does it make me the most annoying and stupid woman in the history of womankind? That's what I should be according to your ex-host, right?"
• XiaoPu looked up and shook his head frantically, staring at her outstretched hand in terror.
• Bing Shi's lips curved up, "High-five? To celebrate... the worst system and host collaboration?"
• "..." XiaoPu raised his little palm, thinking how she wasn't as scary as he thought. There was no dangerous aura surrounding her.
• Bing Shi avoided XiaoPu's touch, "Wait... clean your snot and tears first."
• Xiao Pu took a handkerchief out of his pocket. After wiping off his tears, he blew his nose.
• Then, both of their palms met in mid-air, high fiving each other with big grins.
• "Were you this obedient with your ex-Host too?" she asked.
• XiaoPu nodded his head, then shook his head, and then nodded his head again.
• Bing Shi observed her new companion while praying for everyone's safety, hers included.
• [["You can give me the new mission."]]
• [[Yes!]]
• As someone who spent hundreds of years with an acting pro, XiaoPu was here to help Bing Shi with her new mission.
• Before she could recollect herself, Bing Shi felt as if something ripped her head open with a hammer and poured their memories into her head.
• There wasn't a world story. She couldn't have a body of her choice, and beside her, there was going to be another host too.
• World's rank: C (7500p)
• [[World mission: Learn how to control your presence. Fulfil Silika's dying wish. Become a world-famous actress so she could afford a good life for her father. Perform at least in three different roles: the main antagonist, the side character, and the main protagonist. Stage at four different settings: romance, drama, action, and reality show.]]
• 'Yay!'
• 'Internet!'
• 'Computers!'
• 'Phones!'
• 'Flushable toilets!'
• 'Though I did build one...'
• 'But...'
• 'Planes!'
• 'Cars!'
• 'Now, give me Xuan Mu too, and I'll be a good, good girl.'
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• "You bītch! Open the door!" A few men kicked at the door to the bathroom, laughing like maniacs, "We're going to use your pretty face for a good purpose! Didn't you want to be an actress?! Now you have a chance to show your skills in our bed!"
• Bing Shi opened her eyes abruptly, glancing down at her bleeding wrist.
• Activating her space, she quickly crushed a rejuvenation pill. Wrapping her wrist tightly with a bandage, she grabbed her extendable metal staff. Pressing the button to unlock and release the staff, the stick extended from 2"(5cm) to 47" (120cm) in a matter of milliseconds.
• The HQ had prepared multiple dying bodies for Bing Shi to inhabit.
• Silika, a young woman, had fallen victim to a group of scammers. Faced with mounting debts and overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, she contemplated ending her own life. Little did she know, this decision would have a profound impact on her family as well — burdening them with her debts.
• [["Kur...Sorry, XiaoPu, show me the situation outside..."]]
• XiaoPu showed Bing Shi the situation on the other side and went out to search for an escape route. An unsettling detail caught his attention when he appeared in the bedroom connected to the bathroom — an array of cameras had been set up throughout the room, with lenses strategically placed around the bed and other areas.
• 'Private apartment. Four men. No weapons. My backpack is by the bedside. Keys. Where are the keys?'
• Stretching up, Bing Shi squeezed her weak arms and legs, getting used to her new body in a school uniform as fast as she could. The body's muscle memory had eased the adjustment process, enabling her to adapt more swiftly.
• She looked for another escape route out of this small bathroom. There were no windows, only the hidden services duct and the ventilation system, which was out of the question. As a structural engineer, she'd always laugh when seeing such an unrealistic scene in a movie.
• Leaning against the wall, Bing Shi took a deep breath. The moment the door broke, and a man barged inside, she flung her staff at his chest, the kinetic energy taking his breath away.
• Passing by the falling man, she attacked another's groin.
• Sprinting towards the bed, she broke the fourth man's wrists and tripped the fourth man. "Give me your keys."
• When the man tried to utter a word, Bing Shi hit his cheek with her staff to shut him up, "Yes. Yes. Yes. I know. Your BOSS is a big scary man. Now, keys!"
• 'Woah, my new voice is pretty loud.'
• When he tried to move, Bing Shi crushed the bones in his fingers, "Are you deaf? I asked for the keys!"
• She was quite sensitive when it came to this type of peole, and didn't even want to think what would have happened if she didn't appear in Silika's stead.
• "..." The man threw his keys at her with utter disbelief. The authority which oozed out from her order turned them into living statues, which were too afraid to move.
• Showing his head against the floor, Bing Shi picked up the keys and walked to the desk drawer by the window. Taking out a contract out of it, she grabbed a lighter next to the package of cigarettes. She set the contract on fire and threw it into the metal trash bin, "Thank you for uninstalling the smoke detector."
• "..." Nobody moved from their spots as she took out memory cards from the cameras. Sometimes instincts would tell them not to provoke certain people, and this girl was among them.
• "I'd like to ask for a promotion." Dialling a number, Bing Shi pointed the phone's camera at the men on the floor, "When you'll have a role in an action movie, suitable for me, please do contact me."
• After she spoke to their BOSS through the phone speakers, she grabbed her backpack and left the apartment.
• 'What. Just. Happened?' Went through the injured men's heads.
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• Donning a face mask, Bing Shi secured her staff and trailed behind XiaoPu as they ventured outside. In this moment, memories of Ru Quan's intense training methods flooded her thoughts.
• He would push her to the brink, insisting that breaking her training partner's bones was the only way to make her skills and mindset match real-life situations.
•It was a proposition she had vehemently rejected. The idea of causing harm to people she had known for long was crossing her moral line. This had led to heated arguments and tearful confrontations with Ru Quan.
• The overprotective Xuan Mu (old Xuan Mu) would never let her do such a thing, but Ru Quan (new Xuan Mu) didn't back down. Oftentimes, he would let her stay inside a remote village to wait until a group of barbarians arrived to tear it down.
• That was a period, where she would fight back with her tears and teeth. The things those people did were more than horrendous.
• The saying 'treat others how you want to be treated' was thrown into a trash can. Some people simply needed to be enlightened.
• [["XiaoPu, what's wrong with my presence?"]]
• [[Host's presence is too strong. You need to learn how to hide it.]]
• [["And that's bad? That group of people should have some connections in the movie industry. I thought it would be nice to use them. What should have I done better then?"]]
• XiaoPu scratched his little head as he walked alongside Bing Shi, unable to answer her question.
• [[Host you did awesomely! There were no leads nearby, so everything is fine. Host, you have to learn how to incorporate yourself into this world, so even when you end up as a famous person, you won't catch the lead's attention.]]
• [["Aw, you know how to flatter me. You're doing amazingly too!"]]
• [[An addition to her mission, Bing Shi had to appease the previous soul's regrets too.
• [["XiaoPu, do you know some ninja concealment skills?"]]
• XiaoPu shook his head, his chip was burning from trying to come up with a plan on how to suppress Bing Shi's character to such a degree.
• When they passed by a more crowded street, people kept turning their heads in his Host's direction. Despite having half of her face covered, some brazen ones dared to take secret photos as if it was a street fashion show!
• As they waited for the BUS, Bing Shi went through Silika's phone. They looked very similar. If she ever had plastic surgery in the past life, this was how she would look like.
• Proportioned, pointy chin, beautifully shaped nose, and lively big eyes. A face of an idol. The first time this girl went under a knife was on her fifteenth birthday. An illegal, double eyelid surgery.
• After the first procedure, Silika had a desperate need to correct her nose and chin too. Such procedures weren't cheap, thus the reason how she was scammed by a group of people.