The Disabled Overbearing CEO Male Lead (01)

Si Jiu abruptly opened her eyes. What greeted her gaze was the familiar milky-white ceiling and the soft bed beneath her—evidence that she had returned to her own resting chamber at the transfer station. Yet the pain of skin scorched by flames and the suffocating sensation lingering in her throat and nasal passages had not entirely faded, leaving her suspended between clarity and confusion.

Her memory lingered on the pair of eyes that had stared at her through the raging inferno—eyes filled with despair and madness.

[Would you like emotional detachment or psychological counseling?] System 023 spoke up at just the right moment.

“No need.”

The expected answer. The system didn’t insist.

Si Jiu asked, “Have I been officially promoted?”

[Yes, Host. You have successfully passed your internship assessment, and based on the employment intent you filled out at contract signing, you are now officially an employee of the Golden Finger Division of the Dimensional Management Bureau.]

“So what are we waiting for? Let’s head to the next world and deliver the package to the male lead! Let’s go.”

System: […Deploying mission world.]

As the progress bar on the system’s screen slowly reached 100%, a dazzling white light engulfed Si Jiu’s vision. In the next instant, her body felt light, and she vanished from her resting chamber.

Pain surged through her body. Si Jiu opened her eyes slowly; her vision was blurred, unable to focus.

“The host body is blind?” Si Jiu asked the system, exasperated.

[No, just severely nearsighted.]

Si Jiu: “…Transmit the basic data of the host body.”

Moments later, the information of this body flooded her mind.

Tang You, twenty years old, from Cloud City. Her parents died when she was ten, and she and her younger sister, two years her junior, were raised by their grandmother until she was fourteen. When their grandmother passed away, the sisters became true orphans, relying on each other as they struggled to grow up.

Tang You could be said to have filled the role of both sister and parent, raising her younger sibling and even supporting her through university. By all rights, the burden on her shoulders should have lightened. Unfortunately, Tang You’s sister, Tang Xin, was an ingrate who turned kindness into resentment.

Yesterday, on Friday, Tang Xin returned from school, quarreled fiercely with Tang You over buying a new phone, then stormed out and slammed the door. Tang You, both angry and anxious, fainted in the rented apartment and lay on the cold, damp floor for a whole day and night… and died.

Thus, Si Jiu arrived.

“She died after fainting for a day and a night? Does the host body have some hidden illness?”

[Yes, you’re ill.] The system replied flatly.

Si Jiu: “…”

Though she couldn’t help but feel the system was deliberately insulting her.

“So?”

System: [You must unlock the story yourself.]

She had expected some change now that she was officially employed, but the treatment was even worse than during her internship. At least during her internship, Si Jiu had the entire script at her disposal.

“So I need to unlock the male lead’s identity myself in this world too, right?”

The system responded with a cold affirmation.

Si Jiu suddenly felt the urge to quit.

Still, based on her experience in the previous world, she knew the system usually chose host bodies with inevitable connections to the world’s male lead, so she wasn’t too anxious.

Si Jiu picked up the glasses lying on the floor and put them on. Instantly, her vision cleared.

The small room—less than twenty square meters—was dimly lit, the air damp, and the furnishings bare. Though tidily arranged, the musty smell lingered. In her last internship world, she had lived a life of luxury and extravagance, though it ended tragically in a fire. Yet while alive, she had indulged in true opulence.

Now, overnight, she had become a penniless, sickly character, and the urge to quit surged again.

But quitting was out of the question; she hadn’t had enough fun yet.

“Fine.” Si Jiu sighed, rummaging through Tang You’s wallet, then put on a coat and stepped outside.

Though she didn’t know the male lead’s identity, the odds of meeting him out and about were surely higher than staying locked in the apartment.

Most importantly, she was hungry.