"Hey, little fool. Get up, you're not dead are you?"
Rosalee felt her body tremble in her sleep and forced herself to wake up, confused and angry. She wanted to know who dared to wake her up in her home!
"Tsk, I thought you were dead."
Rosalee felt a splitting headache, turning pale with dizziness and pain. The thief who broke into her home was courageous enough to curse her!
She moved her hand to rub her forehead, inadvertently noticing the dark-skinned hand and pausing in her action.
She blinked, staring at the hand that resembled the surface of a dead tree bark. She could feel the fingers move and she dazedly waved the hand in front of her eyes, indicating that she was still not fully awake.
"Hey, what are you doing? Did you become stupid?"
When she heard the thief's question, she turned to see a young boy standing beside her, arms folded across his chest.
Unlike the thieves in the movies, who wore black dresses and masked their faces, the boy was dressed neatly in blue shirt and gray shorts. Even though his striking red colored hair looked like it haven't been washed for days, it didn't diminished the beauty of the young boy.
It only made him look like a lazy beauty. Now this beauty was frowning at her with impatience.
Is it true that thieves these days are becoming more attractive and courageous?
"Little fool, stop staring at me and get up!" The boy flicked her forehead, adding, "we have to get to the federal welfare office before it closes at 9 a.m. You do not want to continue drinking expired nutrient solutions, do you?" He rolled his eyes, impatiently yanked her from the bed and almost carried her out of the house. He was oblivious to how rude his actions were.
Rosalee was puzzled. Federal Welfare Office, what's that?
She looked at the boy walking in front of her, then at herself.
Dark and skinny.
These two words could vividly describe her current physical condition.
Was she perhaps.... having a lucid dream?
She let the young boy pull her out of the house and into the streets while she was still half asleep.
As soon as she stepped outside of the house, she saw things that only exist in science fiction films.
Cars flying overhead, street cleaning robots, cryber theme buildings, nanny robots with children, people with bionic organs and so on.
Rosalee even witnessed a man pulling things out of thin air and people disappearing/appearing from their position. She was taken aback by how creative her lucid dream was.
She may have watched a lot of science fiction movies to have such dreams.
The longer she observed as she walked, her expressions gradually shifted from curiosity to shock and a bit of panic.
Her lucid dream was overly detailed and vivid!
She had a terrible guess in her head and did not dare to confirm it.
The young boy's pace slowed as they approached a small building with the words "Federal Welfare Office Unit 05" written on the front.
As they entered, they noticed several counters with people standing in line in front of them. Rosalee and the young boy chose the shortest queue among them and joined it.
"Tsk, if you had woken up sooner, we wouldn't have had to stand in line." Rosalee's mind was in turmoil, and she did not pay attention to what the little beauty said.
Based on her observation so far, she came into a horrifying conclusion.
Maybe she was not dreaming at all!!
The people and things around her were too real to be dreamlike. She have experienced lucid dreams before, and it wasn't as detailed and vivid such as now.
Especially when she could think normally without any disturbance!
She broke out in cold sweats and pinched her palms to remain calm, but she couldn't!
The clear sense of pain transmitted from her palms made her pale in fright. Even the air she breathe in had a strange scent, like a mixture of iron, coal and perfume?
She touched her face, her eyes erratic.
Apart from the sci fi environment, if she had to take a guess about her new identity, then she could sum up in a word.
Poor.
Rosalee felt a buzz in her head, her vision darkened, and she fainted with a heartbreaking scream.
"Impossible!"
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"Felix, how long are you going to sit here like this? I don't want to break your spirit, but you know that you don't have enough money to afford another day here."
The yellow-skinned teenager let out a helpless sigh and spoke to his friend, who was sitting motionless in front of a hospital ward.
The boy named Felix turned his head and stared at the ward for a moment before standing up and leaving.
His friend was right; he needed to do something.
"Hey! Where are you going?" The yellow-skinned teenager hurriedly chased after him.
When Rosalee woke up from her deep sleep, she was greeted by a white ceiling and a beeping sound.
"Oh, you're awake. How do you feel?"
She looked to the side and saw a nurse smiling kindly at her.
"Good." Rosalee heard herself say. Her mind was clearer than usual, and she felt as if her body was filled with endless energy, entirely different than her previous life's body.
Even eating ten bowls of rice would be easy in her current state.
The sister nurse nodded and said gently, "I have informed your brother that you are awake. You should rest until he arrives to pick you up."
Rosalee nodded awkwardly; it seemed strange that she had suddenly gained a brother.
After the nurse left, she took a moment to gather her thoughts.
So this wasn't a lucid dream, neither was she dreaming at all.
She had truly transmigrated into the future.
She raised her left hand, and the dark-skinned reminded her—
Not only did she transmigrate, but she also changed from a little rich woman to a poor young girl!
Rosalee felt her heart hurt and her face was uglier than crying. How could something like this happen to her?!
If she had to choose, she would immediately reject the idea of transmigration without any hesistation.
She didn't deserve this golden opportunity!!
Let her retire in peace!
Rosalee's eyes were cold.
She did not spend 47 years of her life in poverty only to return to it.
She had spent half of her lifetime working tirelessly like a robot in order to achieve an early retirement and just when she was going to enjoy the fruit of her labor, she transmigrated!!
Her heart was bleeding as she thought about the large sum of money in her account that she had not been able to spend.