Li, thinking this, took a taxi to the place she remembered living.  As soon as she stepped out of the elevator, she saw her luggage dumped at the door. The code to the electronic lock had been changed.

At that moment, Li was taken aback.

She realized that all the houses the original owner had lived in were Qiao Yunshang’s premarital property.  This included several houses her parents had bought for her before their bankruptcy and suicide.  The hopelessly lovesick original owner, wanting to show her sincerity before the wedding, had been tricked by Qiao Yunshang into transferring ownership of all the properties to her.

So, she’d been completely left with nothing.

Her landlady dreams were shattered.

Li’s hands trembled as she fought back her anger, wanting to question Qiao Yunshang.  She made a call, only to hear the busy signal.

She’d been blocked.

Standing at the door with her luggage, Li, who only had three thousand yuan in medical expenses after her arrival in this world, fell silent.

Incredible.  Absolutely, unbelievably, incredibly incredible.

Li stood in the hotel bathroom, staring at the woman in the mirror, lost in thought.

The original book described this stereotypical vicious female supporting character’s appearance with only two words: vase.

Therefore, while reading, Li hadn’t seriously considered what kind of “vase” this real-life vase actually was.  Until now, standing before the mirror, she finally understood.  Before her transmigration, netizens calling her a “vase” were blind.

She was just a plain, simple white porcelain vase, two eyes, one nose; at best, she was refreshingly unconventional, falling far short of the standard of a “vase.”

The vase in front of her was truly breakable with a single touch.

The original owner was exceptionally beautiful, the kind that would leave people speechless at first glance.

If you asked an illiterate like Li to praise her, she’d only offer four words: Wow, beautiful woman.

But if you asked someone with a bit of literary talent, comparing her to all the beauty in the world, the stars, and the Milky Way would still fall short.

She was like the limited-edition version that every girl trapped in the beauty anxiety of mass production dreamed of.  After Li entered her body, her once Barbie-like temperament had taken on a complexity, a mixture of charm and coldness in her eyes. Her perfect beauty became an infinite symbol; a single glance was enough to draw one in.

Such a person is suited for the screen.

—Stop.

Li cautioned herself, the entertainment industry doesn’t deserve her.

Landlady is her ultimate dream!

With this determination, Li left the bathroom and returned to the hotel room.  Just as she was about to lie down and think about what to do next, she looked up and saw cracks in the hotel ceiling and a spider diligently at work.

Hmm.

Enlightenment.

This hotel room is unworthy of her beauty.

Beautiful women should live in castles!

“Ding-dong,” a text message reminder about her credit card payment came, shattering Li’s dreams.

Wake up!  She currently only had about ten thousand yuan, and, more critically, this beautiful original owner had two credit cards, Alipay credit, JD BaiTiao (JD installment payments), and Meituan borrowing to repay.

Li learned for the first time that Meituan wasn’t just for ordering takeout; you could also borrow money from it.

Did landladies also have to deal with debt?

Li’s longing for the landlady life faded a bit.

What to do next? Li didn’t want to follow the plot. Who wants to be a vicious female supporting character? She didn’t.

Looking back, the original owner was a graduate of a prestigious university. Although she became a “marriage-focused housewife” after graduation, she still went to the UK for a master’s degree for a year after getting married. 

However, despite her impressive education, her mind was empty.  Besides Qiao Yunshang, she had nothing. Her love consumed her, dragging her into the darkness.

Li, of course, knew the reason for the original owner’s obsessive love for Qiao Yunshang.

Qiao Yunshang was the daughter of Li’s family driver.  Because Li’s parents were kind and pitied her for being a left-behind child in a rural county, they took her into their home, where she lived and ate with the original owner. 

She received the same treatment as the original owner, and they even helped Qiao Yunshang enter the entertainment industry.  From a very young age, Qiao Yunshang, following her mother’s instructions, became the original owner’s protector.

The original owner quarreled with her classmates because of her princess-like attitude, and Qiao Yunshang protected her.

Every morning, Qiao Yunshang rode her bicycle to school with her.

After her parents committed suicide due to bankruptcy, Qiao Yunshang helped her out of the darkness.

So Li completely understood why Qiao Yunshang was worshipped by the original owner. This love was mixed with the hope of a desperate person. Perhaps, what the original owner wanted to hold onto wasn’t just Qiao Yunshang but also her past life as a princess. But that life was also terrifying. If your world only contains one person, you become overly dependent. And because of that over-dependence, fear arises; at least, Li would feel fear.

What if that person disappeared one day?

No wonder the original owner went crazy when Qiao Yunshang filed for divorce.

Even Li herself thought it was cruel that Qiao Yunshang didn’t like the original owner yet stayed married for four years.  Being overly dependent could be suffocating, right?

After all, from the moment the marriage began, the original owner only received coldness. Qiao Yunshang never loved her. 

Being together was at the request of Qiao Yunshang’s mother. Qiao’s mother was a person of strong feelings and loyalty, so after the Li family went bankrupt, she asked Qiao Yunshang to marry the original owner as a way to repay their kindness. At the time, Qiao Yunshang was on the rise in her career and had a girlfriend.

Now, Qiao’s mother had passed away. Qiao Yunshang was naturally free and kicked the original owner to the curb.

The original owner brought this upon herself; she desperately tried to pull down the moon.

Pitiful people can also be hateful.

With this thought, Li convinced herself not to be too angry with Qiao Yunshang. After all, in relationships, there’s no right or wrong, only love and no love. People are complex.