Master Was Far Too Beastly

Meanwhile, Ji Chuxing had left the Wen Family home.

She didn't really have anywhere to go.

But she really didn't want to stay in a place like the Wen Family home any longer. At the same time, she felt sorry for the body's original owner.

In her previous life, the original Ji Chuxing had jumped to her death in despair in her twenties, never receiving a scrap of warmth from her mother in her entire life.

But this time, when the original owner was seventeen, just six months after coming to the Wen Family, she fell into a swimming pool and lost consciousness with a high fever. That was when Ji Chuxing's soul attached itself to her body.

Those tragic accidents had yet to happen.

In her previous life, the original owner had cared too much about the maternal love missing from her entire childhood. That was why she had swallowed her anger and endured so much in the Wen Family. Because she cared about Zhou Ru, she had borne her birth mother's displeasure even when she was clearly not at fault.

When Wen Liyang bullied her, she could only swallow her anger and endure it.

In her previous life, Wen Xinyue had misled her into making a grave mistake, earning the Wen Family's disgust. In the end, she had been sent away and lost the use of both legs, leaving her to jump to her death in despair.

The original owner had been abandoned by her birth mother at the age of four. Her longing for a mother's love ran so deep that it outweighed even her own life. That was why she feared she wouldn't do well enough and would be sent away, and why she had swallowed her anger and endured it all.

But what good had it done her to do everything so well?

She had won international dance awards, but she had always worn a mask. Those so-called awards and honors had all gone to Wen Xinyue, the South City socialite.

She had been nothing more than a tool for Wen Xinyue to win people's hearts.

No one knew her name.

Now, Zhou Ru's real daughter was dead. The one living in her place was a perfect human created in a genetics laboratory in another world-another Ji Chuxing. She was a genetic product of that other world, with neither father nor mother. The only person close to her was the old doctor.

It was said that he had founded the laboratory in the other world.

She had grown up in the laboratory, with no time to experience anything in the outside world. Her high IQ made her like a robot, unable to feel the emotions of an ordinary person.

Others had feared her as a monster and dared not approach her lightly, yet her unmatched strength had left them no choice but to obey her.

Thinking back on that so-called laboratory explosion now, perhaps it hadn't been an accident either.

Reborn in a place where technology was only at the laboratory's elementary level, she wasn't the real Ji Chuxing, yet in a short time she had felt the joys and sorrows that belonged to her.

It was unfamiliar to her.

But since she had taken this body, she would live well for both the original Ji Chuxing and herself, making the most of every day and never following the same disastrous path. Of course, her arrival had already rewritten the original owner's fate, and those tragedies could no longer happen.

It was just... she didn't know whether the old doctor would find someone else to play with him now that she was gone.

Before long, though, Ji Chuxing dug through the original owner's memories for an understanding of the new world and found one crucial prerequisite-money. Ultimately, the original owner had been in such a bad position because she had no money.

"Hmm..." Ji Chuxing rubbed her chin. "I need to make money first."

Now that she was no longer in that wretched Wen Family home, there was much less hostility about her. Come to think of it, that hostility had only been the last bit of emotion left over from the original owner. Ji Chuxing rummaged through her schoolbag and was soon struck by a bolt from the blue!

In her schoolbag-

There were only two yuan!

The little tuft of hair on Ji Chuxing's head stood on end!

Still, it made sense. The original owner hadn't had much money to begin with. Half a year ago, her grandfather had died after a serious illness, and only then had she been brought back to the Wen Family. His treatment had used up nearly all the family's money, leaving her with just over two thousand yuan. Over the past six months, she hadn't spent a single cent of the Wen Family's money, scrimping and saving until she had two yuan left.

Uh... wait, no.

There were another five hundred yuan, some earned by the original owner handing out flyers and some left over from before. She had put the money in a drawer in her bedroom at the Wen Family home, but it had slipped her mind, and she'd forgotten to take it when she left.

This was a terrible story.

Ji Chuxing decided to go back and get the five hundred yuan first.

The Wen Family villa was up on a mountain. Although she had walked a while, she hadn't actually gone very far, and Bo Yanchen's car soon caught up with her as he came down.

"Master... it's that young girl," Fang He couldn't help saying.

Although Fang He had spent more than twenty years with his master in the Bo Family and was used to seeing its open and covert power struggles, he still felt that Ji Chuxing was rather pitiful.

He had naturally heard that Madam Wen had brought back her daughter with her ex-husband to raise. Others only praised her gentleness and kindness, but he knew that Miss Ji hadn't had a good day since she was brought back. Anyone could see that from what had happened today.

"To bully a young girl like this—the Wen Family has no shame!" Fang He said indignantly.

Bo Yanchen smiled. "The girl has no one to depend on, and her own mother has mistreated her like this. If Elder Ji knew in the underworld, even his coffin lid wouldn't hold him down."

Fang He: "..."

Master, you have a point, but why does that sound a little off?

Ji Chuxing squatted on the ground, counting her money one jiao at a time. She planned to go back to the Ji Family home to get her money, then use the five hundred yuan as capital to earn her first hundred million. After that, she would retire, enjoy her old age and travel.

Mm! I'm going to travel the whole world!

Everywhere I go, I'll buy a great big villa and live off my wealth while I wait to grow old!

She was planning how to make her money multiply, but to Bo Yanchen, it looked as though the girl had been horribly bullied and was squatting there in misery.

His heart stirred slightly, and the car stopped beside Ji Chuxing.

Her thoughts interrupted, Ji Chuxing looked back, a little impatient, and found a man of graceful, refined bearing behind the lowered car window.

She blinked, instantly becoming a little more well-behaved.

Huh!

A walking rich man!

Although the girl's face was deathly pale and one corner of her forehead bore a dark bruise, as though from a knock, her peach-blossom eyes shone with rippling light. Her palm-sized face made her look a little pitiful.

Bo Yanchen sighed softly. "Kid, get in."

Ji Chuxing puffed out her cheeks and didn't move.

How dare you call me a kid! You might be handsome, but I'll still beat you up!

Bo Yanchen continued, "We're on a mountain. If you don't get in, you won't make it down even by nightfall."

Ji Chuxing: "Hmph."

Bo Yanchen found her reaction amusing. He glanced at the handful of one-jiao notes she held. "You can't get a taxi here."

Hearing his master's coaxing tone, Fang He felt as though he'd been struck by lightning.

Ji Chuxing tilted her head and thought for a moment. "If I took a taxi, how much would it cost?"

How would Bo Yanchen know? He had never taken a taxi. Fang He recovered his composure and answered for him. "Probably two or three hundred."

A moment ago, Ji Chuxing had still been hesitating. Now she whooshed into Bo Yanchen's car in a flash!

Fang He was stunned.

"You asked me to get in so you could give me a ride. I didn't get in on my own," Ji Chuxing reminded him primly, sitting up obediently with her hands folded on her knees.

So whatever you do, don't charge me a taxi fare.

Bo Yanchen was stunned too. Then, seeing how well-behaved Ji Chuxing looked, he couldn't help laughing. "Kid, are you an iron rooster too?"

Ji Chuxing said nothing.

Fang He was also surprised that his master hadn't said anything about Miss Ji sitting in the back seat. But since his master hadn't objected, he certainly wasn't going to say anything either.

Ji Chuxing was just hitching a ride, so she said nothing.

Bo Yanchen turned to look at the girl and saw her sitting perfectly straight, gazing ahead, a little tuft of hair sticking up from the whorl on her head.

He thought the girl had nowhere to go and was wondering what to do. He was about to speak when he heard Fang He ask, "Miss Ji, where are you going?"

A jar of milk tablets sat on the storage tray beside Fang He.

Because of her genes, Ji Chuxing had been a true sweets fanatic in her previous life. She hadn't expected the habit to persist after she was reborn. Ever since spotting the jar of milk tablets, she had been struggling not to drool.

She could barely hold it in!

Fang He's question brought her back to her senses.

She couldn't help slurping up her saliva. "Ah..."

Her attention wasn't on either of the two people in the car at all. "Take me into the city first."

It was as though she could relax around Bo Yanchen, as though she knew he wouldn't harm her.

How strange.

Only then did Bo Yanchen realize that the girl wasn't troubled about having nowhere to go at all. She was completely entranced by the milk tablets beside the driver's seat.

He found it amusing.

Ah, she was a child after all.

"If you want some, take them."

Before Fang He could react, Ji Chuxing's little paws had swooshed over and snatched the jar of milk tablets.

In the blink of an eye, the little jar was open. As if afraid someone might snatch them away, Ji Chuxing stuffed several into her mouth at once, her cheeks bulging as she ate.

She was... rather cute.

Fang He: "..." Why am I finding her so adorable?!

Bo Yanchen sighed inwardly. "Kid, are you really in such a sorry state?"

She was drooling over a few milk tablets. What kind of hellish life had she been living all these years?

Ji Chuxing was in a great mood now that she had something she liked to eat, and in her favorite yogurt flavor too. She narrowed her eyes and comfortably swayed her little head, the tuft of hair on top bobbing along with it. She no longer minded Bo Yanchen calling her a kid.

Kid it is, then. Give me milk tablets and you can call me whatever you like. Back in the laboratory, anyone who dared call her that would have been sent flying with a punch.

Mm, I can't hit this man. He's too handsome.

"Kid, you like them that much?" Seeing her eat so happily, Bo Yanchen felt his own mood improve.

The girl looked better when she smiled, like a little white rabbit. The tuft of hair bobbing on her head was super cute too.

Ji Chuxing slurped. "They're sweet. I like them."

Bo Yanchen was taken aback.

Only a child who had tasted so much bitterness would crave sweetness so much.

It seemed the girl had had a very hard life over the past decade or so.

Of course, Bo Yanchen had no idea at that moment that he'd gotten the wrong impression.

Ji Chuxing's love of sweets was entirely down to her genes. Even she couldn't control it.

She naturally had no idea what Bo Yanchen was thinking either. She was simply in a good mood, and then she heard him ask, "What else do you like to eat?"

Ji Chuxing thought for a moment and answered seriously, "Jelly."

"There isn't any in the car. I'll take you to buy some in a bit."

Ji Chuxing didn't stand on ceremony. "I want fruit-flavored ones."

"All right, whatever you want." The girl's eyes had lit up at the mention of jelly, and Bo Yanchen couldn't help indulging her every request.

Fang He, driving in front, felt as though he'd seen a ghost.

What's gotten into Master today?!

Don't tell me he's trying to pick up the young girl!

Heavens! This is too outrageous!

They say the girl isn't even an adult yet. She's only seventeen this year!

Just as he began to look down on his master in his heart, he heard Bo Yanchen ask, "Little girl, you don't remember me, yet you're still coming with me like this. Aren't you afraid I'll trick you?"