Let’s Lose A Billion Today First

[You are dead.]

[You are dead.]

[You are dead.]

A girl was sprawled on the ground as she shifted her position slowly. She used her hands to cover her ears, seemingly wanting to cut off the annoying voice ringing in her head, however, that clean and raspy kiddish voice could still be heard.

The voice seemed to come from deep within her head.

‘Annoying.’

‘How annoying.’

[You are dead… are dead… dead…]

The girl covered her head with both of her hands.

All movement ceased.

The voice kept on chanting as the beat became faster and more joyful. The voice even started singing it’s chants like a nursery rhyme.

After busying herself for one whole night, all she wanted was a good night’s rest.

‘Who could be so inconsiderate that he or she had to curse people in the middle of the night?’

‘Don’t think that just because you were a kid, you could do whatever you want.’

‘Then again, who wasn’t still a kid?’

The voice continued chanting persistently as the beat turned faster and more joyful.

[You are dead. You are dead. You are dead.]

Finally, the woman lying on the floor raised her head.

Chuzheng let go of the hand that was holding her fringe while her sight was still a little blurry. A wave of dizziness hit her and it took her awhile before she could make out her surroundings.

“!!!”

She turned her head to scan her surroundings.

‘What kind of damned place is this?’

‘Why am I here?’

‘Was I kidnapped?’

‘What kind of mad thing dared to kidnap her?’

[You are dead!]

“You are the one dead,” retorted Chuzheng with a face devoid of expression.

[You are really dead.]The voice said again,[If you don’t believe me, you can look in the mirror.]

‘Mirror?’

Chuzheng scanned her surroundings before realizing that she should be in a karaoke box while beside her was the washroom.

There was a mirror in the washroom.

The person in the mirror had a colorful hairstyle and looked as if she was part of the Scene subculture. Her make-up was even more horrifying and on her body was a weird set of clothing.

This was not the appearance she was familiar with.

What kind… of damn thing was she?

–

Chuzheng quickly understood her current situation.

She had met the legendary system.

As to where the system came from, who made it and what kind of motive did the system have, it would not be uncovered yet.

‘But my current mission now was to complete missions in different types of worlds.’

Chuzheng wore a cold expression.

‘Only through completing the mission could I have a chance of resurrection.’

Chu Zheng continued wearing a cold expression.

‘Why do I need a chance for resurrection? I am not dead! I refuse to accept this weird set-up!’

[Please face reality!]There was a hint of gloating in the system’s happiness.

Chuzheng’s face was once again devoid of expression.

‘Liar!’

The system pretended to have not heard that and continued explaining.

‘The system’s mission was to make me— A prodigal?’

‘If I don’t spend money, I would die.’

‘If I want to live, I have to spend money.’

‘Wait a minute!’

‘Why must I become a prodigal? Where am I going to get the money?’

The system obviously did not plan to answer her questions.

[Yes. Through becoming a prodigal, we will change the fate of the body you are currently in and make this person a winner in life.]The clean and crisp kiddish voice turned more cheerful.[Please prepare to receive the plot.]

The moment the cheerful voice had finished talking, Chuzheng felt as if she banged her head against a brick wall and countless memories flashed past her eyes.

This body was called Ji Chuzheng.

Ji Chuzheng’s mother had passed away very early and her father was usually busy with work thus he did not have much time to care for her. Whenever Ji Chuzheng came to him, her father would always give her money and slowly, Ji Chuzheng became capricious.

When she was thirteen, her father remarried.

Her stepmother had a daughter who was around her age and she changed her name to Ji Tongtong.

When the pair of mother and daughter came, Ji Chuzheng disliked them very much but her stepmother treated her very well. She had given Ji Chuzheng anything she wanted and treated her just like her own. Regardless of whether it was her relatives and maids, they felt that her stepmother was a kind person and that Ji Chuzheng was being too immature.

However, the truth was that her stepmother only wanted Ji Chuzheng to waste her life away.

Ji Chuzheng indeed turned out to be how her stepmother thought she was. She smoked, drank alcohol, got into fights and had even almost killed and set fire to somebody’s house.

Every time she went out, she would make Father Ji so angry that he would almost have a heart attack.

Comparatively, Li Tongtong was more lovely and obedient and had gotten into Father Ji’s good books.

Whenever Ji Chuzheng and Ji Tongtong argued, Father Ji would always think that Ji Chuzheng was the one at fault.

However, nobody knew that there were many incidents where Ji Tongtong would set her up. Ji Chuzheng wanted to tell Father Ji but Father Ji was under the spell of Ji Tongtong and wouldn’t believe her. He only thought that she was making trouble unreasonably and only knew how to bully Ji Tongtong.

Ji Tongtong was forever the pure and beautiful one.

She was like a delicate Sayuri flower who needed to be protected from her evil big sister’s bullying.

As such, Ji Chuzheng became more rebellious.

In everyone’s eyes, she was a naughty kid and was a negative example. In the end, she was even set up by Ji Tongtong and had lost her innocence.

Even the person who she liked was stolen away by Ji Tongtong and he also thought that Ji Chuzheng was a bad person while Ji Tongtong was pure, beautiful, kind and gentle.

In the end, Ji Chuzheng lost everything and became mentally unstable. She was eventually sent to the mental asylum and it was not until Ji Tongtong visited her that Ji Tongtong gave the game away.

Everything was just a plan that her mother and her planned.

They wanted her to become like this so that she could be chased out of the Ji Family and lose everything.

When Ji Chuzheng knew about the truth, she committed suicide not long after.

On the other hand, Ji Tongtong was married to another man and had children. She inherited the Ji Family’s assets and lived happily ever after.

–

Chuzheng massaged her temples which were still in pain to take in these new foreign memories—those memories that belonged to the body she was in.

She could feel the hatred and vengeance this body had when she died.

However, this was not her.

Chuzheng stood in front of a table and on it was a knife.

[…What are you trying to do?]The kiddish voice panicked. [Our mission is to reverse her face through becoming a prodigal not using a knife to kill those little aunties. Cool down.]

Chuzheng ignored the voice and took the knife. She did some slicing actions in front of her wrist before slicing it harshly.

Fresh blood seeped out from the wound and dropped onto the floor.

The blood blossomed into a red flower.

When Chuzheng opened her eyes again, she was still at the same place.

The same place, the same appearance, the same posture. Nothing changed.

“…”

[It’s no use. Unless you complete the mission, you will still repeat this scene.]The kiddish voice’s tone turned cheerful and it didn’t seem to be hiding that it was gloating.

“…” What kind of system was this? “Does your system always force people to do things against their will?”

‘Is there a place where I can lodge a complaint against this evil system?’

‘I must lodge a complaint!’

Chuzheng sat on the floor and the knife lay silently on the table.

After a very long time, Chuzheng took the knife again and held it with her two hands before stabbing it into her heart.

“Ah!”

The door was pushed open and a shriek rang in Chuzheng’s ears suddenly.

That meaningless scream was so noisy.

That was the last thought Chuzheng had before her vision went black.

She was in darkness for a few seconds and when she opened her eyes again, she was still at the same place…

‘What kind of black technology was it to enable people to revive again after reviving from death?’

[Give up. As long as you try your best to do the mission, you can resurrect back in your old body.]The system guided patiently and systematically.

‘Perhaps the way I died was not right.’

[…]

After that, Chuzheng tried different ways of dying.

However, no matter what she did, she would always wake up in that room.

Chuzheng touched her wrist and sat on the floor. It was unknown as to what she was thinking.

The annoying voice kept ringing in her head making Chuzheng really want to get rid of it.

[…]

In the end, Chuzheng had no choice but to accept this new body of hers and everything that had happened as well as this weird system.

She was trapped in a place that she was unable to make heads or tails of.

If she did not do the mission, she could not go back.

As for what the system said about her dying…

‘I! don’t! believe!’

‘Liar!’