The beautiful woman in the quick transmigration novel has been targeted by the male lead again.

She remembered this incident because when she went to pick up the goods, she was arrested by the police as part of a smuggling ring and had to pay bail of three times the transaction amount.

I never thought I'd run into this culprit again!

Changning was furious.

She explained the reason, and the people around her laughed, "Boss, that's not fair!"

Jiang Xingchen clapped his hands: "Where's Xiao Bei? Tell him to take out all the gems from that box!"

After the others brought it over, he opened the box and pushed it towards Chang Ning: "See if there's anything you like."

Some people said, "Why bother choosing? Just take them all!"

Chang Ning said, "That's so embarrassing!"

"Your eyes are practically glued to it!" Jiang Xingchen chuckled. "Take them all, we don't need them anyway."

Chang Ning would be lying if she said she wasn't tempted. This bunch of red, green, blue, and yellow colors—she had never thought that such vibrant colors could be so beautiful!

Even in the interstellar age, women's fascination with gemstones has never waned.

She tried to refuse again, but Jiang Xingchen simply closed the box and shoved it into her arms, saying, "Alright, take it!"

Changning was in a daze.

Then Jiang Xingchen asked, "Didn't you say you were researching some kind of inhibitor? Have you figured it out yet?"

Chang Ning subconsciously felt a pang of guilt. Her eyes darted around, and she stammered, "Well, maybe. I'll only know when I remember!"

Jiang Xingchen raised an eyebrow: "Alright, then I'll wait!"

Two days before the spaceship was about to arrive in Nidra, Chang Ning sat in a corner of the porthole, looking at the magnificent starry sky outside.

In the vastness of space, there is no direction, and even a massive spaceship seems insignificant. When one looks up at the immensity of the universe, one feels a deep sense of insignificance and is prompted to contemplate an ultimate question.

What is the meaning of life?

To become an awakened one, to improve one's spiritual power, to earn more money, and to live a life of luxury.

Or simply live life according to your own wishes?

Two "da-da" sounds.

Chang Ning snapped out of her daze and saw Jiang Xingchen walk over and hand her a glass of wine. "It's from Bird Island, have a taste."

He then sat down next to her.

Chang Ning took a sip and tasted rum and lemon. She took another sip and said, "Not bad."

"I remembered?"

Chang Ning looked at him, and he was slowly drinking a glass of wine.

"So obvious?"

Jiang Xingchen chuckled: "In our line of work, if we didn't even have this basic ability to read people, we would have been scammed countless times already."

His words piqued Chang Ning's curiosity: "How do you know how to make this?"

"look down?"

Chang Ning quickly waved her hand. She herself had once thought about raising more fish and trying to catch one ashore, so how could she have the right to look down on others?

"There's no particular reason," Jiang Xingchen said, his expression unchanged. "I just couldn't make ends meet, so I was trying to find a way to survive."

He didn't say anything more, and asked Chang Ning, "What are you planning to do next?"

Chang Ning was just thinking about this problem. We are already very far from the central star. Even spaceships need to fly for more than ten days.

However, as the memories returned, everything about the Central Star came back to his mind.

The laboratory, the inhibitor, and Gu Yanzhou.

She logged back into her social media account and found that Gu Yanzhou had only sent her a message on the day she was forced to leave, asking where she was, and then there was no further contact.

She didn't even know what she was feeling at that moment. She re-examined their relationship and was horrified to discover that they had no emotional foundation. They had met so nervously and married so hastily.

She couldn't even tell how much of Gu Yanzhou's affection was genuine or ulterior motives.

And wasn't she the same way towards him?

When people say they like him, how much of it is actually from coveting his value?

It's as if they built a castle in the air on a whim, and now it's visibly crumbling.

After drinking that glass of wine in Changning, she finally made up her mind.

"I plan to go back to my hometown."

Return to the place she once desperately wanted to leave.

Two days later, the spaceship landed on Nidra, a planet shrouded in yellow sand.

It's windy here all year round, and you can only see blue skies a handful of times a year. Most of the time it's like today, gray and hazy, but it's not real fog, it's just fine sand and pebbles in the air.

Chang Ning had to cut a piece of clothing to make a shawl to cover her head and face, leaving only her eyes visible. She was still carrying the box of gems in her hand. She turned to look at the people following behind her and said, "Thank you for bringing me back, but you don't need to get down, right?"

Jiang Xingchen had already put on sunglasses, which accentuated his superior nose bridge, while the people next to him were not so good-looking. Every time they opened their mouths, they spat out a mouthful of sand, one after another.

A moment later, Jiang Xingchen pulled out a face mask from somewhere and covered his face completely. "Oh, we're planning to investigate the market here."

Chang Ning looked at him with a complicated expression, pointing to a small tornado that had just flown away: "This market, do we even need to investigate it?"

"It's alright, much better than my hometown."

The people behind her had no choice but to take off their coats and put them over their heads. "Can we stop talking here? Little Aning, where do you live? Let's go to your house!"

The spaceship is waiting to find a place to land!

Chang Ning was speechless. So they were all planning to stay at her house?

"It's a pity," Chang Ning said, lifting the box in her hand. "This is my home. I don't even know where to plant them."

She's an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. She talks like she owns a house, and she's even planning to come back and buy one!

However, the housing prices here are cheap; this pile of gems is more than enough to buy a house.

After she finished speaking, the group stared at each other in the wind and sand, and finally looked away. "Alright, let's find a hotel first."

They landed not in Nidera's capital, but in an ordinary city. There were large tracts of wasteland far from the city center, so the spaceship was parked there. They then drove a car out of the spaceship and went to the hotel.

Chang Ning really didn't want to walk with them. They were a group of burly men; anyone who didn't know them would think they were gangsters. In the end, they had no choice but to split into several groups and leave separately.

In the following days, Chang Ning didn't need to lift a finger; they had already helped him buy a large piece of land as requested. Of course, it wasn't in the city center, but in the suburbs, where the neighbors were far apart.

Because land prices in Nidera are cheap, it didn't actually cost much.

After buying the land, a dozen or so able-bodied men began building the house with great enthusiasm. In less than a month, they had built a large country villa on the flat land, surrounded by walls.

Chang Ning looked at the house, unsure of what expression to make. Even if she slept in a different place every day, she wouldn't need so many rooms.

"We've gone to great lengths to help you, you can't expect us to stay in hotels every time we come!"

Chang Ning choked up, speechless.

After the house was completely cleaned up, they had a barbecue party. They didn't use robots because they didn't have any. They bought the ingredients themselves, washed them, chopped them, and skewered them.

At first, because they had no experience, the food was either undercooked or burnt. Every failure would inevitably cause a commotion, but the group was having a blast. They bought a lot of alcohol, and in the end, everyone raised their glasses together: "Wishing Xiao Aning all the best in her new life!"