Back home.
An old, ordinary seven-story residential building. Si Huaixi lived on the highest floor. It is a rare place in the imperial capital that still hasn’t undergone a transformation. It takes an hour or two to get to the city center by car.
But Si Huaixi is now poor. He can only take the most energy-consuming and cheapest gasoline-powered bus. The fastest hovercar may reach there in ten minutes.
Si Huaixi’s room only has some simple daily necessities and clothes. It is so clean that the place doesn’t resemble the interstellar technology era. There are no electronic products. At most, there is an outdated TV set. But this is better, the room is clean and translucent.
The house is not big. A single bulb shines all over the room.
Si Huaixi put his hands on the balcony. His sea-blue eyes were happy and bright.
Looking at the bustling and lively city center in the distance. Tall buildings that are almost upright in the sky. Enormous screens playing advertising products endorsed by different celebrities. Hovercars shuttling in midair. There were also spaceships flying above the sky.
Without the neighing of zombies in his ears, without the despair of opening his eyes every day, not knowing the future direction. This is the age of peace.
Washroom.
Si Huaixi took a bath in pain. The scratches on his back brought out a trace of pain from the flowing water.
Si Huaixi looked at his naked back reflected in the mirror. Full of scratches left by Pei Zhaozhou last night. It looked hideous on the cold white skin.
“Hiss— Brother Pei’s hands are really strong.” Si Huaixi sighed.
You must know that after Si Huaixi was promoted to a high-level spiritual power user, the toughness of his body’s skin was so high that even if a zombie wanted to cut through his skin, it would take some time.
Si Huaixi’s current body is under the influence of his soul. He is constantly moving closer to his previous body.
Including appearance.
The original owner was born in a remote garbage star. A troubled life made his appearance gloomy. His facial features are beautiful from a distance, but his skin is very rough at a close look. His hands are covered with calluses left from tiring work, like a piece of rotten cabbage. A rotten cabbage that grows hardly in the cabbage field.
Although their facial features are very similar, they give people a completely different appeal.
After recovering Si Huaixi’s spiritual abilities, the whole person was a few centimeters taller than before. Originally, the original owner was just stepping up to a height of 1.8 meters, but now he is almost rushing to a height of 1.9 meters.
The rough facial features were polished like washed lead, out of their original stunning appearance, and the skin became fair and smooth. The clear and crystal sea-blue eyes shone brightly, like a newborn little white husky, giving people a feeling of vitality.
Si Huaixi was about to eat. He, who had come to the interstellar peace era, was cooking for the first time with great interest.
Si Huaixi worked on the buttons in the kitchen for quite some time before finally making a bowl of noodles.
A few green onions floated in the clear noodle soup. The white and round noodles and the poached eggs fried with the right flavor were delicious no matter how they looked.
As a result, Si Huaixi took the first bite of the noodles. The strange taste of the five flavors in the noodles almost made him think for a moment that he was back at the end of the world.
Si Huaixi’s expression was distorted, his brows twisted. He was a little nauseous.
This does not make sense. Even in the last days, Si Huaixi used to cook for Yanhuang’s children and grandchildren. He makes an entire table full of delicious dishes with potatoes, sweet potatoes, and taro. How could it be so bad after cooking a bowl of simple noodles?
Si Huaixi cautiously took a bite of the poached egg with his chopsticks.
The flowing egg yolk exudes a seductive luster, and with a gentle bite, it has a taste that is no different from ordinary eggs. It’s perfectly crispy and delicious, which makes Si Huaixi relaxed.
The raw materials are fine, it can only be a matter of noodles.
Si Huaixi picked up the packaging bag of noodles and glanced at it.
The raw materials for noodles include flour, eggs, spinach, crab meat, sugar cane peel, black shell fruit, Kodama ostrich, insect eggs, and trace metal elements.
The front looks normal, but something is wrong with the behind. What the hell are Kodama ostrich and insect eggs?!
Si Huaixi took a look at his memory and found that people in this interstellar era liked these synthetic foods very much. Even if they have strange flavors, they feel that these synthetic foods are nutritionally balanced.
From the nobles and wealthy merchants to the common people, they all eat these synthetic foods. Soldiers who enter the army also eat special synthetic food nutrients.
But there are also interstellar people who like to enjoy authentic food. They visit expensive ancient cooking restaurants once in a while. But, the cost of eating once in these restaurants is the same as the cost of eating synthetic food dozens of times. If you are not an interstellar rich man, you cannot eat there frequently.
— I guess in the point of eating, people in the interstellar age seem to be more miserable than in the end times. They have to eat such bad synthetic foods every day.
However, Si Huaixi was hungry. He couldn’t waste precious food. He swallowed the food with a strange expression.
The taste was so weird that it feels like eating a handful of crushed bitter mulberry leaves mixed with mud and smelly meat.
The taste lingered at the root of Si Huaixi’s tongue even after he had eaten a long time before.
After eating, Si Huaixi washed the bowl.
After a while, the phone rang. Si Huaixi looked at the call. It was a woman named Sun Shaomei.
But there is no impression of this person in the memories of the original owner.
Si Huaixi tried his hardest to remember and figure out who this person was in his clatter of memories.
The newly signed female Beta by his agent Li Zhuo, who is also regarded as his nominal younger sister. But the first meeting with this younger sister, Sun Shaomei, was not friendly.
Because during that time, the original owner and the agent Li Zhuo had a great conflict. They were in a state of boredom with each other, and both sides were waiting for the contract to expire.
When the original owner came into this third-rate entertainment company, the person who signed him was the current agent, Li Zhuo. While Li Zhuo looked at him with kindness and enthusiasm, his thoughts were not right.
The original owner once had great expectations about entering this industry. Before signing the contract, the company said there were various promising benefits, a guaranteed monthly salary, and insurance. They even said that they would send the original owner to learn acting and he would become a first-line star of the company.
But after the original owner signed the contract and entered the company, he discovered that this was not the case at all. They actually sent the original owner to a crash-acting training class on a rotten street. The agent Li Zhuo always took him to wine bureaus and dinners where the tables were full of middle-aged wealthy investors with lewd eyes. The agent wasn’t kind at all.
The original owner was a newcomer with no background. It was unavoidable to be drunk at the wine table, but luckily he drinks very well. He often knocks down a table of people. He was never drunk. Furthermore, he walks home by himself with clear eyes, so he has never been taken advantage of.
But the agent Li Zhuo was not happy. He wished to drug the original owner and threaten him to serve others.
The original owner crawled over from the garbage star. If it weren’t for the company’s initial offers that made him excited, he wouldn’t have jumped into this pit. Li Zhuo wanted to deduct his salary, so the original owner reported to the Imperial Capital Labor Bureau. Li Zhuo wanted to force him into some unspoken rules, so the original owner broadcasted the dinner live. No one dared to act rashly.
After all, the heat of the original owner has not cooled down yet, plus the meeting was streaming live. Jin Yao Entertainment, the company the original owner signed with, still wanted to continue rubbing the heat of the original owner.
The original owner was a hard bone to chew, and Li Zhuo, the agent who was fighting with him, realized it. Then, he didn’t know what method Li Zhou used, he tricked a young girl into signing a contract.
That girl is Sun Shaomei.
That day, the original owner happened to see Sun Shaomei before signing the contract. He reminded her not to sign it.
But unexpectedly, Sun Shaomei was ungrateful and angry. She told him that now the company wishes to support her instead, the original owner should not stand in her way.
Ok! Having said that, the original owner didn’t care about her anymore.
But, because he was also under Li Zhuo, he still saw Sun Shaomei being pulled to cocktail parties and dinner tables from time to time. Her pure face became heavily covered in makeup, and she was full of alcohol.
The memories are over.
Si Huaixi looked at the name of the person on the screen and pressed the connect button: “Hello.”
There was a mournful female voice over the phone. Sun Shaomei burst into tears. The empty wind made her hoarse voice a little misty: “Brother Si, I apologize! I should have listened to you in the first place and didn’t sign in to this company!”
Si Huaixi immediately stood up, tightened his brows, and asked, “Sun Shaomei, what’s wrong with you?”
“Sorry-sorry—-”
The continuous crying on the opposite side made Si Huaixi upset. He noticed that Sun Shaomei’s mood wasn’t very good.
“Where are you now?!”
Sun Shaomei also said to herself: “I’m sorry— I saw everything that happened last night. That fat pig, Boss Chen, drugged your wine, but I was afraid that it would involve me and didn’t dare to say anything.”
“Can you forgive me?”
Thinking of the original owner’s death from this drug, Si Huaixi’s eyes were gloomy. No one could ever forgive these people for the original owner. It was they who pushed the original owner to death step by step, and Sun Shaomei also received the favor of the original owner.
“Won’t you forgive me? Woo-hoo- It turns out that there is really retribution. You escaped last night, but today Li Zhuo asked me to serve that fat pig! You know, that disgusting guy has played with a lot of little stars. He will make videos in private to spread in the circle. I can’t go! I will die!”
“Then call the police.” Si Huaixi said with cold eyes.
Sun Shaomei cried even more tragically: “I can’t call the police! Li Zhuo is holding my pornographic photos. If they spread it, my parents will lose face. Everyone will think that I am a loose girl…”
“Including my friends from school, I told them I was going to be a star in the entertainment industry. If they knew that I was reduced to this. Don’t! Don’t! I would rather die than being laughed at by them!”
Si Huaixi rubbed his eyebrows, his ice sea-like eyes seemed to be able to see through people’s hearts: “So what do you want? What do you want to ask me? You called here specifically to talk about it, right?”
“Ha ha ha- Did you hear the siren? There are a lot of police down there.”
Sun Shaomei suspended half of her feet on the roof of Jin Yao Entertainment Company, looking at the police gathered under. Her heart was sad, angry, and plaintive. There was also a sense of excitement about being watched.
With tears in her eyes, Sun Shaomei grasped the phone tightly in her hand and said, “Brother Si, help me!”
At this time, Si Huaixi also turned on the TV and saw the news broadcast of a woman standing above an entertainment company trying to commit suicide. The girl with her skirt fluttering in the air in the live video was Sun Shaomei.
“That fat pig was not only the one who drugged your wine, later I saw Li Zhuo, that insidious villain also drugging your wine…”
Si Huaixi’s pupils shrank suddenly, and his eyes flashed across.
— It’s no wonder. The original owner died because of cardiac arrest caused by excessive medicine. Boss Chen’s only goal is to play with people rather than killing them. He will never use such intense drugs.
— Unexpectedly, the person who really killed the original owner was actually the insidious and vicious agent, Li Zhuo.
“Brother Si, help me get revenge on them! You hate that guy Li Zhuo too, right? When I die, Brother Si, you have to put Li Zhuo and all those disgusting people in jail for me and ruin their reputation!”
Sun Shaomei yelled angrily on the phone. Si Huaixi calmed down the turbulent thoughts in his heart, and said faintly: “I will avenge, but avenge ‘me’.”
“What do you mean?” Sun Shaomei was disturbed. The policeman who was persuading her had already come behind her.
“Survive and avenge yourself.” Si Huaixi’s eyes were shining.
Sun Shaomei opened her eyes wide, and shed tears at loss: “But I can’t do it…”
If she could do it, she wouldn’t end up where she is now.
Sun Shaomei closed her eyes, her feet half-suspended on the floor on the edge of the roof. The noisy sounds in her ears became extremely quiet as if she had returned to the carefree time on campus, the simple faces of her classmates laughing and having fun.
— If there is another chance, I will definitely stay in school. I will never step into this big, dying tank of the entertainment industry.
She lifted her legs and half-stepped into the air.
As Sun Shaomei loosened her hold on the falling phone, a cold and magnetic male voice came.
“Come back, turn around… walk to the police…”
Sun Shaomei suddenly opened her eyes. Her eyes lost their focus as if something controlled her. Her legs in the air stopped abruptly.
The police behind her are still advising: “Don’t die lightly. You are still a college student who has not graduated. You have a brilliant future waiting for you. Your parents are about to arrive. They all care about you very much!”
Sun Shaomei’s expression was hollow, like a puppet. Her legs turned around, landed on the ground, and strolled toward the police.
A trainee police officer immediately wrapped Sun Shaomei in a towel. All the police officers cheered and calmed down, thinking that it was the police’s advice that persuaded this young girl.
Si Huaixi, who was sitting in front of the TV at home, frowned tightly. His face was startlingly pale. The cold sweat soaked the hair on his forehead, and his lips turned white like a thin paper.
Si Huaixi didn’t stop controlling using his mental power until he saw Sun Shaomei being rescued on the live broadcast. He leaned back in his chair weakly, his bright sea-blue eyes were tired as an exhausted riverbed.
This body has not yet reached the level of Si Huaixi’s previous life. He urgently used his mental abilities and remotely controlled Sun Shaomei’s brain through a phone.
Controlling a person is much more difficult than controlling a brainless zombie.
Fortunately, she was rescued in the end. He also learned the truth about the original owner’s death.
Si Huaixi’s chest is still fluctuating violently. Even if it consumes a lot of energy, it’s worth it.
The image of a man with thin eyes and a hook nose appeared in his mind.
It was Li Zhuo, the agent, who killed the original owner.
A cold light flashed in Si Huaixi’s eyes.
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