Chapter 3: Surprising Mall Space

At night, lying in bed, Lin Momo felt a little frustrated. Didn’t the female protagonists in the novels who transmigrated always have systems or spaces? Why did she have nothing?

Of course, in her previous life, she didn’t have any ancestral jade pendants or anything like that. Her demands weren’t high either. She didn’t want any spiritual springs, farms, or trading systems.

She just wanted a space with food and water. In case she really had to go to the countryside, she at least wouldn’t starve.

Before she could finish her thoughts, the environment around Lin Momo suddenly changed.

“What is this?” Lin Momo looked around. Was this her office in the shopping mall? Had she transmigrated again, or…?

No, it couldn’t be. She clearly remembered the big fire in front of the office. Even if she had transmigrated, the office would have been completely destroyed by the fire, so how could it still look the same?

“Could this be… a space?”

Lin Momo felt a surge of excitement and quickly thought to herself, ‘Exit’. In the next second, she was back on the bed.

“Enter.” A second later, Lin Momo found herself back in the mall office. She quickly walked to the office door.

“It has to open, it has to open.” Lin Momo muttered to herself, nervously reaching for the door handle. The door opened.

“Perfect!” Lin Momo was ecstatic. The lights outside the office were on, and she rushed to the elevator. The elevator was in operation.

Instead of taking the elevator directly, she used the escalator and checked each floor.

This mall had 12 floors with 4 underground levels. The 1st and 2nd floors were large supermarkets, some pharmacies, and high-end Chinese medicine stores.
The 3rd floor was a digital product section. The 4th floor was a jewelry and antique shop. The 5th floor was women’s clothing.
The 6th floor was for men’s clothing, the 7th for children’s clothing and children’s goods, and maternity and baby supplies. The 8th floor was for home appliances and textiles.
The 9th and 10th floors were full of restaurants and snack shops. The 11th floor had a cinema, gym, and other entertainment venues.
The 12th floor was for office spaces and rest areas for employees.

The basement’s -1st floor was the parking lot. The -2nd floor was the supermarket’s storage. The -3rd and -4th floors were storage for other shops.

After conducting some experiments, Lin Momo found that she couldn’t access the parking lot on the -1st floor of the basement.

Apart from the 4th floor, every floor would immediately replenish any item taken from it. Even the trash thrown into the garbage bins would automatically be cleaned up.

On the 9th and 10th floors, because it was around meal time when the incident occurred, the restaurants and snack shops were full of delicious food that had clearly been prepared earlier, and they were still steaming. It seemed like time was frozen in the mall.

Lin Momo was delighted, repeatedly experimenting with taking items out of the mall and putting things back in.

“I’ve struck it rich! I’ve struck it rich!” she said to herself.

Lin Momo couldn’t get used to the wooden bed, and she had originally planned to sleep in the bedding store on the 8th floor. However, as soon as she lay down on a bed there, she was kicked out of the mall and back onto the original host’s bed.

After repeating this several times, Lin Momo gave up.

She had spent so much time exploring the mall without any problems, but as soon as she tried to sleep, she was kicked out. It seemed like the mall wouldn’t let her sleep there.

Outside the mall, Lin Momo lay on the bed, thinking about her next move. She needed to confirm whether the world’s Jinghao was the same as the one from her original world. If she did need to go to the countryside, then she’d go.

Originally, she had planned to pretend to marry Jinghao if he had transmigrated too, just to avoid going to the countryside.

With the support of the mall, going to the countryside or anything like that wasn’t a big deal.

With this thought in mind, Lin Momo first opened the iron box in the wardrobe where the original owner kept her savings. Inside were the small amounts of money saved over the years, given to her by her father, mother, and older siblings as pocket money.

She opened the box, and inside were many big bills, as well as a pile of one-yuan and five-yuan notes, along with several government-issued coupons. Lin Momo carefully counted them—there was a total of 136.4 yuan.

Lin Momo couldn’t help but marvel. The original owner really was the family’s little princess. Even in this era, she had managed to save so much money.

Thinking about how the antique store in the mall seemed to have money and tickets from this era as well, Lin Momo went back to the mall. She headed straight for the fourth floor and collected all the money and tickets from that era in the antique shop.

There was quite a lot of money and tickets—4328.7 yuan in total. There were plenty of different tickets as well, and some were even full books. However, all the tickets had dates on them.

Lin Momo organized the tickets by date and placed them, along with the antique store’s money and the original owner’s money, in the supermarket cashier’s desk, leaving only a small amount of change outside. She had originally planned to store them in the office drawer, but every time she thought about the fire that had broken out there, she couldn’t bring herself to go back. She closed the office door and decided not to visit the 12th floor again.

The next day, when Lin Momo woke up, her parents had already left for work, and there was breakfast waiting for her on the stove.

After washing up and eating, Lin Momo put on the original owner’s army green handbag, which contained some small change and tickets, and headed out. She wanted to experience the atmosphere of this era.

As soon as she stepped outside, she ran into Aunt Zhang from next door, who was returning from buying vegetables.

“Aunt Zhang,” Lin Momo greeted her with a smile, following the original owner’s habit.

“Momo, going out?” Aunt Zhang asked.

“Yeah, just going for a walk,” Lin Momo replied with a smile and nodded.

“Alright, enjoy your walk,” Aunt Zhang said, smiling, and went inside her house.

After saying goodbye to Aunt Zhang, Lin Momo walked out of the family compound.

In this era, the streets didn’t have traffic lights, and cars were few and far between—only one or two would pass by, even in Beijing.

Bicycles, on the other hand, were common, but they were all the old-fashioned, heavy two-gear bikes.

Lin Momo watched the people on the street. Most of them wore blue-gray or gray-black clothes, simple and dull. At that moment, Lin Momo truly felt that she had stepped into this era.

By noon, Lin Momo’s parents had gone to the cafeteria at work for lunch, so she made herself some noodles. She didn’t go out again in the afternoon.

Before her parents came home from work, Lin Momo followed the original owner’s habit of making dinner for them.

“Your cooking is getting better and better,” Father Lin said as he ate, giving her a thumbs up.

“Tomorrow, wait for Mom to come back and cook,” Mother Lin said, smiling at Lin Momo.

“Your daughter’s cooking is delicious.” Father Lin wanted more of his daughter’s cooking, but was met with a glare from Mother Lin.

“I taught her to cook not so you could eat her cooking! After women marry, they have to serve their in-laws, take care of their husbands, and have children. Can’t she rest while she’s still at her own home?” Mother Lin scolded Father Lin.

“Yes, yes, yes,” Father Lin nodded repeatedly.

“Mom, don’t worry. I like cooking,” Lin Momo said, smiling at her parents. However, her slightly red eyes betrayed her true feelings. The way her original parents interacted with each other reminded her so much of how her deceased parents used to be.

In the days that followed, Lin Momo got along more and more naturally with Father and Mother Lin. She felt as though they were truly her biological parents.