The system makes me so beautiful that I don't care about anyone else's life or death.

Hospital burn ward.

"The opening ceremony is tomorrow, how are you going to go to school with your face like this?!" Wang Xiaoxia was furious at the hospital, so angry that she wanted to tear Su Ran apart!

“Then I won’t go.” Shi Youyou’s eyes were filled with resentment.

If the school knew that Shi Youyou looked like this, how could she still call herself Mr. John's best student?

Even before she entered Qingcheng Academy, she had already begun cultivating her reputation as a talented woman on the school's bulletin board.

She even had a bunch of her beautiful photos displayed on the school's confession wall, all in order to make herself a prominent figure at Qingcheng College.

Everything was proceeding normally according to her plan that day, but Su Ran defied all expectations and broke the rules.

Fortunately, she covered her face when she left the dormitory, so no one saw her.

Suddenly, the voices of a mother and daughter came from the next bed.

"Mom, do you still have those fat-reducing pills you bought last time?"

"What do you need that for? Didn't you say it's an intelligence-based product that doesn't work? And you said I'm wasting money."

"Mom, it was my fault. I shouldn't have said that to you. You're the wisest mother."

"Hey, why are you being so sweet-talking today?"

"Mom, that fat-reducing pill really works. I tried one, and look, my old scars have faded. I'm counting on it to treat the burn scar this time."

"Is it really that effective? I just couldn't resist buying a bottle because the girl in the ad was so pretty."

"It really works, Mom, please give me the rest of the bottle."

……

Shi Youyou looked up at Wang Xiaoxia.

"Mom, why don't you buy a few bottles and try them out?"

"I would never support a product endorsed by that slut."

"Mom, just think of it as me."

Wang Xiaoxia looked at her daughter's face, which was red from the burns and covered with blisters, a dense and unsettling sight.

She took a deep breath.

"Ok."

Advertisements for the fat-reducing pills are everywhere on Douyin (TikTok), so finding a place to buy them is easy.

Wang Xiaoxia clicked on the link with practiced ease and then clicked "buy".

Sorry, you are not eligible to purchase.

Nine bold red characters on the screen were alarming.

Undeterred, Wang Xiaoxia ordered another one.

Sorry, you are not eligible to purchase.

Sorry, you are not eligible to purchase.

Sorry, you are not eligible to purchase.

!!!

A gust of wind blew through the room, and Wang Xiaoxia's mind was in turmoil.

"Mom, what's wrong? You look so pale."

Shi Youyou looked at Wang Xiaoxia's expressionless face with a strange expression.

"It's okay, maybe the software is just not working properly."

She switched to a different online shopping app, but because she hadn't linked any personal information, it prompted her to upload her ID card and undergo facial recognition when making a purchase.

After she finally managed to get all that sorted out, the result was still those familiar nine big characters!

In an instant, all the anxiety surged up, and the incidents of being beaten, her daughter being burned, and her husband's opportunism flashed through her mind one after another.

Even buying something cheap for fifty yuan feels so frustrating these days!

"What kind of junk is this?! It's just a bottle of medicine, and they want my ID to buy it? Do they think they're some kind of rare treasure?!"

Wang Xiaoxia was furious, wishing she could reach through the screen and tear Su Ran's exquisite face off on the advertisement page!

"Mom, is it because you can't buy it?" Shi Youyou frowned when she saw Wang Xiaoxia so angry.

Wang Xiaoxia looked at her daughter with heartache and sighed.

"Youyou, the doctor said you have second-degree burns on your face. As long as you take good care of them, they won't easily develop into scars. Once the wounds scab over, I'll take you to a hospital abroad to see a specialist. That way, you'll recover faster. I'm not counting on those fat-reducing pills."

"No, the doctor said it will take at least a month to recover. If I go back to school then, it will be too late." She didn't dare to speak loudly, her lips burning from the strain, but her eyes were filled with determination.

Seeing that her daughter was unresponsive to reason, Wang Xiaoxia patiently explained:

"What's so useful about a little thing that costs fifty yuan a bottle?"

"I saw that the online reviews were pretty good."

Wang Xiaoxia scoffed, "Hmph, only poor people believe in this kind of stuff. It's probably some counterfeit product from a small workshop. Anything that works fast must contain some kind of chemical ingredient. It might work fine at first, but problems will definitely appear after a while. Only those who are desperate and ignorant would think this kind of stuff is good."

She tried to persuade Shi Youyou: "Mom has been through it all, what haven't I seen? Trust me."

Wang Xiaoxia's words made the patient next door uncomfortable.

An elderly woman who looked to be in her sixties yanked open the partition curtain and retorted to Wang Xiaoxia with a look of disdain.

"What's wrong with fifty yuan? Fifty yuan is just right for us ordinary folks! Only you rich people are willing to be suckers; you're all show and no substance!"

She looked Wang Xiaoxia up and down a few times, chattering away.

"Look at you, you can't even spend fifty yuan on something. I think you're just pretending to be full on an empty stomach!"

The old lady's words were like chili peppers on a hot pan—quite pungent.

She had just successfully placed an order based on her youngest daughter's advice. Wasn't Wang Xiaoxia's comment going to annoy them?

"You old hag..."

Wang Xiaoxia was left breathless by the old lady's words. She had spent half her life speaking politely and rarely used vulgar language, but now the old lady's scolding made her want to explode.

"Who do you think you are, the chives in the little vegetable garden? I'm a few years older than you, and you can't even call me 'sister'? It's like a fly falling into a bucket of paste, all smeared on its head and body, does it even know what number it is?"

The old lady extended her middle finger.

"You old hag! You wouldn't happen to be that poor person I was talking about, would you! Poor people are just ignorant, rude, fierce, barbaric, and unreasonable! You deserve to be poor your whole life!"

The old lady smiled dismissively, pointed at Wang Xiaoxia, and said to her youngest daughter on the hospital bed:

"They have no fighting spirit whatsoever; all they do is complain about being poor."

The younger daughter nodded in agreement.

"With her stubborn, rubber-headed brain, how could she possibly out-argue you? I bet she couldn't buy the fat-reducing pills. She's just eating bayberries with vinegar, they're so sour!" As she spoke, she waved her hand in front of her nose, as if she could really smell the sourness.

Wang Xiaoxia was so angry she almost fainted.

Then the old woman's youngest daughter spoke again:

"I saw an official announcement from SR stating that the Fat-Reducing Pills are limited in purchase and require real-name registration with an ID card. Each bottle contains only 10 pills, and each person is limited to purchasing 2 bottles. Anyone who deliberately defames the product will be blacklisted."

After the old lady's youngest daughter finished speaking, she deliberately raised her voice again:

"There are still 20 bottles left that are sold out. I think it must be because someone offended SR and got blacklisted, hahahahaha."

After saying that, she covered her mouth and laughed loudly.

You laugh at my poverty, I laugh at your inability to buy fat-reducing pills.

Seeing that Wang Xiaoxia was about to get really angry, Shi Youyou quickly spoke up to calm things down.

"I'm sorry, my mom didn't mean anything by it. I've been hurt like this, and she's in a bad mood. She might offend people if she says anything. If she has offended you in any way, I apologize on her behalf. I'm so sorry."

Shi Youyou is good at handling people; she eased the tension with just a few words.

Only the old lady's youngest daughter gave a cold laugh and turned her head away.

So Shi Youyou asked the old lady, whose expression had softened somewhat, "That fat-retaining pill... does it really work? Could you help me buy a bottle? I can pay for it."

Based on the old lady's youngest daughter's words, and considering that Su Ran was the spokesperson for SR Skin-Nourishing Pills, Shi Youyou could roughly understand that her family must have been blacklisted.

If you can't buy it yourself, it's not unreasonable to ask someone else to buy it for you, right?

Before the old lady could respond, her youngest daughter interjected:

"It's useless! Absolutely useless! Don't buy it! It will ruin your face, your heart, and your belly! It will rot until all your teeth are broken and your bones are shattered! It seems your face will never get better."