"12th April 2001"
"Great Xia?"
"Weak body."
"And a university student(male)."
"This is Xu Bai Xue."
"A world that's on a global higher level advancement than yours, not mine. Mine was pretty beyond anything this world has ever seen. Only a small part of it though."
"A month of adjusting to this life and I have also come to the fact that I am not in some reincarnation with this world as my personal achievement."
"Hypothetically, I can rise to the throne, become rich, get into politics, govern a country and end all wars, thus granting ephemeral prosperity and astounding, everlasting peace to the people of the world."
"But..."
"But I had enough of these ants and their problems... plus I am in debt for vandalizing and stealing from the mental hospital along with a few other grievous charges."
"Why did I have to steal money from there as well?"
....
I am Xu Bai Xue. Just call me Bai Xue. I am a small-time college student and a new soul that had come to my current abode after the previous one hanged himself in the aforementioned government facility. Or so I have deduced.
Now a month later, I have to pay for the "damages" that I have caused on the fact that I have illegally 'trespassed into an unfinished government facility along committed adultery' and this had ultimately scarred the public image of whatever it was through my indecent acts.
You know what the surprising thing was, they have found the woman that I was having a scandal with. The woman that was just in my imagination. With such awesome investigation skills, I truly wonder how was the world not free of crime!
Those idiots aren't even registering my statements that it was just amade of joke that I made to poke fun at the Milkman and nothing more than that.
Heck, I don't even know what the previous being was there for. When I wake up, I was just hanging.
The trust between species have been lost to the corrupts and their corruption. They are getting too rational and 'making' some decent judgements.
And as things ended in just a few days I am sure that things aren't as straight as the rest were claiming to be.
The coward milkman snitched on me and then become the witness to frame me further in my own words at that.
What have I even done to him?
As the situations are, I can't even kill him. Heck if he even died, I might be the one that would take the blame.
....
Things are finally out of my system now.
To be fair, Xu Bai Xue's body was garbage. This low specs physique pretty much makes me feels caged no matter what I do.
Xu Bai Xue was the being whose body I am in and due to the strain of my existence, this body is crumbling.
If I don't eat for a day and I get dizzy. Two days and I can't move my body, third day probably be my death knell but I haven't tried the three day fast yet.
As things as though, my body specs weren't even my main concern. It was my reputation among my fellow teachers and whatever students that were staying at the campus.
My reputation had gone down to the gutters after all the things that haf been made public and adding the rumour spreaders and their fantasies, I was basically given the character background of the ugly bastards in THAT types of media.
For all I know, I was apparently making a woman cheat on her husband on her anniversary and while she was pregnant with the husband's son and no one actually knew who that woman was. There were so many descriptions that it was targeted towards that it could be anyone, it could even be their mothers, the teachers, honourable graduates or even their favourite crushes. The public seemed to live in fear of him.
"This is getting ridiculous now!"
But the most stupid thing of all is that they want me to be ashamed and live my life like I have sinned. They want to see me with my head down and voice low, like a nerd talking to someone new. Stupid of them to think so.
The crux of the situation is that my reputation is really needed. I am a college student and half the chances of me getting a good job depends on my college and the relationships that I have created along the way.
To be fair, my starting body in the world was quite great. Mr Xu Bai Xue is quite good at his craft and had really good relations with the rest of the department, along with a decent level side income and savings, I was good to go.
If I had not caused the problems, it would have been a decent time. However it lasted.
It hurts to say but I had single-handedly destroyed the relations Xu Bai Xue had and I was just being me.
Half of it isn't even my fault. He was talented in the arts, I didn't even know that there were seperate needles for light sewing and depth sewing.
Heck I didn't even know that those were actual legit terms that didn't translate well in the language this is in.
Cutting to the previous concern. If I want to get a good job to ensure a good enough future, I am definitely going to need the help of others for I don't know whay I am even studying for and that is another big concern of mine.
One month. A whole one month and I can't even figure out how the heck I am going to earn from this.
There's a literal cloth printer in my dorm and I can *kichi kichi* new clothes like magic. What do I even do with sewing when I can't even find the threadlining on the clothes?
Hence I have given up on pursing sewing as my carrier. It's hard. Extremely hard.
I am pretty sure that sewing isn't what this course is even about and it was just this that I have been able to decipher from the study notes that he had been writing.
So whoever has been spreading the rumours that had ruined my future, if I get you, I will tear their necks from their body.
...I can't. This body isn't even capable of that.
*Hmmmmgh*
"How much do I have left?"
I checked the money that was left with me. 2 Credits. That's all I have...
That's all I have left from the entirety of the savings that Xu Bai Xue had, and it was a lot.
"This is enough for three more meals. I need to do something or I will starve to death."
'That's not the kind of death that I can accept for me. What would I even tell Mother? That I died because I couldn't afford meals. How disappointed she will be....'
*Hmmmmphgh*
"Tch. Useless body."
To be fair, a single credit has a high value. I can buy 5 kgs of potatoes with it, 10 if I were to go to the farmers market but the transportation costs will even out the difference. Anyways,
Just ten credits were enough for a whole month of my food since I ate from the cafeteria and I didn't have the "high class taste buds" to be able to enjoy the cup of weird named coffees of 15 Credits. Totally unrelated but I have to get it out of my system and rant.
I feel a bit better now.
You won't believe just how much I hate the people who visit or run those places, be it in this life of mine or the previous.
I can still remember the Elder's tireless efforts in gathering the money for that wench!
I should have killed her regardless of the cost. Let's not get sentimental. I will just become sad again.
Truly, why do I have to restart a new life in some new one and deal with the past live of the one I am in.
Why not just a complete restart? I can start from a baby. I don't even need my past memories.
*Sigh*
Why did I even joke?
Couldn't I have just shut my mouth and found about the things first before being humourous?
Heck, I don't even know how to cook and I don't think I can eat out for more longer.
If only I could work like a normal human or do not the hunger of six people, I would have been so bitter of this new middle life.
At least get me a girlfriend... even if she breaks up with me in an hour or so. I can at least self revenge/improvement arc for myself that way.
But what do I have!
Sewing!
And it's side quests!
I had a sewing final examination arc after my defamation.
And this is another thing I hate.
Hunger makes me bitter, irritated, angry, anxious, overwhelmed, jealous and the worst of all, lonely.
There is no one in here for me.
...
Half an hour later.
"Two servings of daily special??"
"Yes."
"Pay there."
"I know. It was just one time that I forgot. You don't need to keep reminding me everyday, for the past 20 days. It's getting annoying."
I took my food and left silently. I have a feeling that my food tomorrow will be a bit less than today.
I should seriously stop treating humans as trash just because some of them are.
I sat down at an seat whose table got empty due to my presence and began to ate my food. I have think about how to earn money after this.
Thinking on an empty stomach causes genocide. So that has been ignored all together.
"So how do I earn money?"
I am kinda blacklisted. Not kinda. I am actually blacklisted.
None in the nearby areas had wanted me in the vicinity of their shops.
My infamy has spread high and low, beneath the rug to the elders borough for how else would I be rejected from a mohjang parlour where the youngest was in their 110s.
What kind of rumours have they heard? Kid me not, I am really interested.
But ignoring that, I have no choice but to find a job in some other town. Somewhere far away.
Fortunately, my year end exams has ended and I have four months of leisure time since classes are supposed to be not that serious till the college fest.
"Should I drop out?"
"Not yet. At least until I have some form of long term plan."
I also have to settle out the jobs that I can do. This body may be a serious liability but this is the one only one that I have. There's no point to earning if I am left disabled or something else that makes everyday a battle to live.
I don't think I have the will to live such a life.
It took time but I was able to put out a small list of jobs that I could do and half of them belonged to the group that I hate - streaming and Idol stuff.
"I should try the other half first."