Chapter 4: Points

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Shen Qingyao felt her blouse pocket and found a single cent, which she used to buy an ice pop. As she ate, she walked toward her grandmother’s house.

According to the story, Shen Qingyao was now idle, having unlocked all the key characters and pushed the plot forward. It was time to have a chat with the system.

[Points can be exchanged for any item in the supermarket system, but doing so will trigger different events that affect the novel’s development.]

[I’m completely broke right now. How can I survive without spending points?]

[That depends on the host’s efforts.]

The system’s cold, mechanical voice drained half of Shen Qingyao’s spirit. Wasn’t this something nearly impossible even with effort? Judging by the system’s attitude, the supermarket must be a rip-off.

Suddenly uneasy, she put the ice pop back down just as it reached her lips.

“Watch out!”

“Someone’s been hit! Someone’s been hit!”

“Move aside, quick…”

Hearing the screams, Shen Qingyao turned around. Before she could fully see what happened, she instinctively lifted her leg to move away.

A bicycle rushed toward her, and the load it carried crashed into her.

People nearby came to help, pulling Shen Qingyao out of the way.

“You can’t be careless! That cut on your forehead will need stitches.”

Hearing this, Shen Qingyao touched her forehead and felt sticky warmth. Her vision was filled with vivid red.

Although the collision didn’t hurt much, the boxes nearly swept her away.

Still shaken, blood trickled down her cheek onto her clothes.

She stood frozen until a woman’s urgent voice snapped her back.

“Go to the medical station immediately!”

The woman wrapped a cloth around Shen Qingyao’s wound and helped her walk.

At the clinic, her wound was treated, but the doctor warned she would likely be left with a scar.

Shen Qingyao didn’t care about anything else—leaving a scar was absolutely unacceptable.

“Is there any way to avoid scarring?”

“There is medicine for that, but it’s only sold in Beijing.”

In other words, if you want to prevent scarring, you need money to go to Beijing.

She didn’t have that kind of money.

[What’s in the beginner’s gift pack?]

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[Host, you currently have five hundred points. Do you want to use them?]

Shen Qingyao groaned in frustration.

Ten thousand points were already difficult to accumulate, and now she had to spend points on medicine.

If she didn’t buy it, she risked losing Jiang Yan.

After much thought, she decided to buy it.

[How many points for a bottle of scar removal ointment?]

[Two hundred points. Thank you for your purchase.]

The next moment, Shen Qingyao felt something new in her pocket.

She reached in and found the scar ointment had already arrived.

The scar problem was solved, but now she couldn’t afford the medical bill.

She even used up her last cent on the ice pop, refusing money from her brother.

[How many points for one yuan?]

[One thousand points for one yuan.]

Great, she couldn’t even exchange for a single yuan.

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