Zhou Huirong understood all that, but as the dorm head, she felt it was her duty to unite her roommates.
It took a thousand years of good karma to end up in the same dorm. If she could save Xiao Hong, she would. She couldn't just watch her fall into depravity.
"Hmph!"
Bai Xiaoxiao disliked Xiao Hong, but she couldn't stand the dorm head either. Zhou Huirong was a Saint Mother in everything she did, always generous at the expense of others. Bai Xiaoxiao couldn't help but roll her eyes.
Lei Yating was taking a nap on the top bunk, while another girl sat cross-legged on her bed, wearing headphones and playing a video game, completely oblivious to her roommates' bickering.
Watching the two girls, Pei Ye found it somewhat novel.
She couldn't believe a single dorm room could actually cram in eight people! Back when she was in school, a dorm room had at most two students, and later on, she even had her own private apartment.
When Zhou Huirong and Bai Xiaoxiao saw that Pei Ye wasn't joining the conversation, they suddenly lost interest.
It was time for Bai Xiaoxiao to wash off her sheet mask. She was just about to head to the communal washroom in the hallway when the dorm room door opened. It turned out to be the roommate who had gone shopping at the supermarket.
"I'm scared to death!" she said as soon as she walked in. "There was a fatal car crash right next to our school!"
"Another fatal car crash?" Bai Xiaoxiao said. "Isn't this the third one this month? Who died this time?"
"How would I know? I just saw it on my way back from the supermarket. One of the cars was a Maserati—a sports car worth tens of millions!"
"Tch, every car you see is a Maserati. The more affordable models from that brand only cost a few hundred thousand to a million. Stop calling everything a multi-million sports car."
Bai Xiaoxiao came from a relatively wealthy family with a million or two in savings, making her the rich beauty of the dorm. The girl she mocked didn't mind the insult.
"That's not the point. The point is that someone died! I heard he was tall, rich, and handsome. What a pity."
"Any guy with a decent face and the halo of wealth is 'tall, rich, and handsome' to you. That term isn't that cheap."
Bai Xiaoxiao disliked a few of her roommates. They were sheltered, shallow, and made a fuss over everything. Did driving a Maserati of an unknown price automatically make someone tall, rich, and handsome? Lord knew if he had just rented it to show off. Did using a YSL or Givenchy lipstick mean she could brag about using luxury goods?
Zhou Huirong interrupted them. "Alright, show some respect for the dead. It's not right for you two to gossip like this."
Bai Xiaoxiao shot back, "Who's gossiping about the dead? You're the only one trying to play the good guy!"
Such dorm room squabbles happened every day.
"You guys are so loud!"
Zhou Huirong was about to say something else when Lei Yating, who slept on the top bunk above Pei Ye, suddenly lost her temper and kicked off her blanket.
Everyone fell silent. Lei Yating sat up, her terrified gaze darting back and forth among them. After a moment, a sweat-drenched Lei Yating reined in her sleep-induced rage. She muttered a low "sorry," climbed down from her bed with her head lowered, and headed straight for the bathroom.
Dorm 4021 was very close to the hallway bathroom, so everyone could hear the loud SLAM of Lei Yating shutting the door. The noise was so loud that even the neighboring dorms could hear it.
"Tch, what a terrible temper to wake up with!" Bai Xiaoxiao said.
A terrible temper?
Pei Ye glanced at Lei Yating's empty bed, the corners of her lips curling up. She knew Lei Yating wasn't just throwing a tantrum after waking up; Lei Yating had reincarnated. Dying with grievances and being reborn with hatred would naturally result in a fiery temper.
Pei Ye's guess was right. At this moment, Lei Yating was squatting in the bathroom stall, her expression more ferocious than a fierce ghost.
"Hahaha—" Her suppressed laughter rumbled in her throat, sounding utterly manic. "I actually reincarnated and came back!"
Lei Yating had reincarnated—back to the point in time before anything had happened. This year, she was still a naive nursing major. She hadn't yet been tricked out of her virginity by her high-achieving boyfriend from dorm 233, nor had she gotten pregnant and been forced to marry him.
Pah!
What kind of high-achieving student was he? He was nothing more than a shameless social climber!
In her previous life, Lei Yating had been dating the social climber for less than a month before he sweet-talked her into bed. Although she was hopelessly in love, she hadn't wanted to get pregnant at this time. However, the social climber was worried that he wouldn't be able to stay in this city after graduation, so he planned to trap Lei Yating by getting her pregnant.
Therefore, the social climber poked holes in the condoms before they slept together. After getting a hotel room a few times, Lei Yating got pregnant!!!
When she found out, Lei Yating felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She panicked, completely at a loss for what to do. The social climber told her that condoms weren't a hundred percent effective and that their quality couldn't be guaranteed. Since it was an accidental pregnancy, she should just keep the baby, and he would take responsibility!
His display of extreme masculine responsibility reassured Lei Yating quite a bit. In the end, despite her parents' objections, she married the penniless social climber.
After they got married, the social climber slowly revealed his true colors. Using the excuse that Lei Yating only had an associate degree and that a nurse's job was tiring and had no future, he convinced her to drop out of school and become a full-time housewife, thereby saving them the cost of a nanny.
When she gave birth and was doing her postpartum confinement, the social climber brought his mother over from their hometown, claiming that a mother-in-law should take care of her daughter-in-law. Along with her came a dead weight—his divorced sister who stayed at home all day. The house had been bought by Lei Yating's parents, but it became the headquarters for the social climber's family. Lei Yating had less and less of a say in her own home and was constantly dissed by the old hag.
A few years later, when their child was older, the social climber had clawed his way up to the position of department Steward and caught the eye of the CEO's daughter. To become the CEO's prized son-in-law, the social climber and his mother hatched a plan. That vicious old hag actually threw sulfuric acid in Lei Yating's face and grabbed a kitchen cleaver, hacking her to death.
During the few days she spent as a wandering spirit, she saw the true faces of this vicious mother and son. She watched them take over her house, watched her parents—whom she had grown estranged from over the years—suffer the grief of burying their own child, watched her own flesh-and-blood daughter get brutally beaten by the old hag and verbally abused by her biological father, and even watched the mistress and the social climber doing shameless things on what used to be her marital bed.
Rage overflowed in her chest. Lei Yating wanted nothing more than to turn into a fierce ghost and tear that dog of a couple to pieces alive!
In the next second, her weightless body suddenly gained mass, and the noisy sounds of an argument reached her ears.
"You guys are so loud!"
Lei Yating shouted in anger, only to freeze in shock immediately after. She was actually looking at a few acquaintances who appeared more than ten years younger? Just in their early twenties, they were all young and vibrant, their faces full of collagen, completely lacking the exhaustion and sharpness she remembered.
Lei Yating hurriedly apologized and went to the bathroom, hiding in a stall to calm her nerves.
She had reincarnated. The social climber hadn't yet tricked her out of her virginity.
And—
Lei Yating stared blankly at the iPhone 6 in her hand for a long time. Just now, she had been preparing to send a QQ message to break up with the scumbag when she was inexplicably notified by the System that she had joined a QQ group called "Heavenly Court Immortals Group."
Every single member inside seemed to suffer from eighth-grader syndrome, sporting usernames like "Fairy Chang'e," "True Monarch Qingyuan Miaodao," "Primordial Lady of the Mystic Spirit," "Emperor Wenchang," "Mengzhang, Lord of the Azure Dragon"… Oh, Lei Yating's QQ ID was "Suqing Fairy." She guessed that was probably why she had been mistakenly pulled into the group.
She was just about to leave the group when an eighth-grader syndrome netizen with the ID "Upper Yuan First Grade Blessing Heavenly Official" sent a red envelope. Driven by the principle that it's a crime to pass up a freebie, her quick fingers tapped to claim it. The System notified her that she had snatched a [Gathering Luck Talisman] sent by Upper Yuan First Grade Blessing Heavenly Official.
Meow meow meow???
What had she just snatched?
Wasn't it money?
Lei Yating suddenly thought of the red envelope web novels she used to read and tried to withdraw the Gathering Luck Talisman.
The next second, her eyes went wide with shock as she stared intently at the item that had appeared out of thin air in her hand.