"You're breaking up with me just because I don't have any money right now?"
"Yes!"
"Don't look down on a young man just because he's poor! You gold digger who despises the poor and fawns over the rich-you'll regret this!"
A resounding slap rang out beside her ear, accompanied by cold, disdainful words.
Su Mian abruptly came to her senses and immediately realized what situation she was in.
She had transmigrated again!
This time, she had transmigrated into a viral online post titled "Brutally Tormenting the Gold Digger."
She was the gold digger in the post.
An obscure, drama-queen celebrity without a single notable work to her name.
The man who had slapped her was Lu Zhou, her boyfriend of three years.
All the money the original owner had worked so hard to earn over the years had gone into a joint account with her boyfriend.
Now that the original owner's mother was seriously ill, she wanted to withdraw some money.
Only then did she discover that Lu Zhou had lost every penny in the account playing the stock market.
Furious, the original owner had demanded a breakup and planned to find some rich old man to marry so she could pay for her mother's treatment.
That had led to the exchange just now.
Having figured out the situation, Su Mian looked at the handsome man before her as though he were an idiot.
Seriously? You squandered her hard-earned money, and you still have the nerve to gaslight her into thinking she's a gold digger?
Su Mian leaped straight up and delivered a flying kick to Lu Zhou!
"Drop dead! Cheap man! We're through!"
Lu Zhou staggered back two steps and landed on his backside, unable to get up for quite some time.
He stared at Su Mian in disbelief, seemingly unable to imagine that she, who had always meekly accepted everything, would actually hit someone.
And how was she so good at it?
Lu Zhou exclaimed in shock, "Su Mian! This is how you treat me because I have no money? Fine, fine! I'd rather marry a pig than marry you!"
Su Mian said, "You can't marry a pig. Close relatives aren't allowed to marry."
Lu Zhou gritted his teeth. "You... just you wait! You'll regret this soon enough!"
With that, he scrambled up from the floor and hurried away.
Su Mian knew what he meant.
Because he had been pretending to be poor all along.
Lu Zhou's true identity was actually the secret boss of the entertainment company the original owner worked for.
Lu Zhou had lived off the original owner, stayed in her home, and squandered all her money.
All of it had been a test of whether the original owner loved him or his money.
Even when the original owner's mother urgently needed money for medical care, he had still been pretending to be poor!
Of course the original owner had wanted to break up.
And this petty, narrow-minded man's retaliatory face-slapping of the original owner had only begun at that moment.
Using his position as the secret boss, Lu Zhou would soon arrange for her to join a dating show for ordinary people.
Of the three male contestants, one was a food delivery rider, one hauled stock at a supermarket, and one was an anime otaku. None had any money, and even at work, they spent three days fishing and two days drying their nets.
The original owner only wanted to marry someone rich to pay for her mother's treatment, so she rejected them all in the first episode.
Only in the second episode did the three male contestants reveal their true identities.
It turned out that one was a financial big shot, one was an elite doctor who owned a major hospital, and one was a crown prince of Beijing's elite circle!
Lu Zhou had deliberately added the hidden-identity setup so the entire internet would see the original owner's gold-digging face!
The original owner was filled with regret and hoped they would give her another chance.
But all three had already fallen in love during the previous episode with Fang Nuonuo, who was as unassuming as a chrysanthemum and indifferent to money, so they completely rejected the original owner's advances and subjected her to all kinds of humiliation.
The entire internet also called the original owner a gold digger and said she deserved it.
In the end, the distress drove the original owner into depression, her mother died for lack of money for treatment, and the original owner killed herself after her mother's death.
Recalling the whole story, Su Mian cursed the idiotic plot!
The entire plot was nothing but bullying the original owner!
First of all, it never mentioned that the original owner wanted to marry a rich man because her boyfriend had squandered the money she needed for her mother's treatment.
Even without that background, the original owner had been perfectly open and honest about her standards for a partner.
Once she learned that those men had no money, she decisively rejected them.
She hadn't strung them along or deceived them.
Even her complaints about them had stayed in her head.
What right did anyone have to slap a derogatory label on the original owner?
And what made these men think they had any other redeeming qualities besides money?
Su Mian sighed.
But she wasn't in the mood to get entangled with these people right now.
Because she desperately wanted to return to her own time and space!
"System, get the hell out here!"
"When I transmigrated into ancient times before, didn't you promise to send me home once I maxed out the emperor's Affection Points?"
"Why have I transmigrated into another plot?"
After a long while, the system's guilty voice sounded.
[There was a little bug in your last mission, so you need to complete another mission before you can go home.]
The corners of Su Mian's mouth turned down.
The system hastily added:
[The reward for this mission is one billion! Once you get back, you can lie flat!]
The corners of Su Mian's lips lifted.
"Tell me, whose Affection Points do I need to grind this time?"
[This time, you can choose to grind either Disgust Points or Affection Points...]
Su Mian's eyes lit up. "Disgust Points! Disgust Points! I want Disgust Points!"
Grinding someone else's Affection Points was too hard!
Last time, she had transmigrated into ancient times.
She had become the empress of Duan Xuanyu, the emperor of Northern Liang.
Her mission had been to max out his Affection Points.
And so.
When the emperor was still a hostage prince, she had fended off assassination attempts for him every day.
When foreign enemies harassed the borders, she had drawn up blueprints for modern weapons and led troops to fight on the frontier.
When locust plagues and famine struck, she had personally led an army of chickens and ducks into the fields for biological pest control.
Only on the day she was crowned empress had she finally maxed out his Affection Points and arrived here.
She was exhausted in body and mind!
[All right. Once you max out the Disgust Points of every male contestant on the dating show, you can go home!]
"Wait! Not just one male contestant's Disgust Points, but every male contestant's?"
[Yes.]
"..."
She felt scammed.
But at the thought of that billion, she gritted her teeth and accepted the job anyway.
Thinking it over, the mission wasn't that hard.
If she simply followed the plot and rejected them in the first episode like the original owner, wouldn't she easily rack up enough Disgust Points from them?
The original owner had been very good-tempered and had merely wanted to marry a rich man, yet that alone had made them lose it and retaliate maliciously.
Then if she went even further...
Gaslighted them, insulted them, beat them up, and took her poor-despising, rich-worshipping persona to the extreme.
Wouldn't that send their Disgust Points through the roof?
Great, that was the plan!
As for the three hundred thousand Lu Zhou had squandered, she consulted a lawyer. "Joint property between unmarried partners" had even less protection than marital property, and recovering it through a lawsuit would be a very lengthy process.
That goddamn animal! He had so much money, yet he still wouldn't pay her back!
Fortunately, the dating show paid a substantial appearance fee, with payment after each episode, so she could use those earnings to pay for the original owner's mother's surgery.
As for the money Lu Zhou owed her, she would squeeze it back out of him twofold through other means!
Just as she made her decision, an invitation to the dating show arrived on her phone from her agent.
Su Mian signed the contract instantly, packed up, and got ready to leave!
A week later.
At the icebreaker for the contestants of "Heartbeat Radio Waves."
Before the show officially began, all the contestants had to give an interview and state their requirements for a partner.
Backstage, Lu Zhou leaned against a table, staring fixedly at the fresh-faced, sweet-looking Su Mian on the screen.
It wasn't as though he hadn't loved her over the years. That was why he had pretended to be poor to test her.
Unfortunately, Su Mian, you failed my test!
So.
I'll let the whole world see your true face as a gold digger who despises the poor and fawns over the rich!