Transmigrated & Triumphant: Defying Destiny's Chosen One
Chapter 30: Public Opinion 18 Years Later

Chapter 30: Chapter 30: Public Opinion 18 Years Later

Sister Gao’s sense of justice seemed as inflated as her curiosity at that moment.

Right now, innocent Old Chen was at home receiving her re-education.

"Hasn’t Little He suffered enough? What kind of parent acts like this... and you still have the nerve to say the kid came home to ask for money and ended up like this — I spit at that!"

The last two words were quintessentially sarcastic, and Old Chen felt a chill down his spine.

Indeed, as expected.

Sister Gao pointed angrily at Old Chen:

"It’s you!"

She glared at Old Chen:

"I’m talking about men like you!"

"Don’t think I don’t know. Did your heart just soften? Were you thinking about helping send Chu Fugui to the hospital?"

"I’m telling you, Old Chen, try it if you dare!"

Sister Gao’s frustration was justified.

Anyone faced with such a wretched family and a pitiable child can’t help but feel affected.

But the way things are in our country, the way public opinion is, and how complex most people’s economic conditions and social relations are, over time, everyone tacitly agrees that you can lend a hand in situations like this, but don’t meddle too much.

However.

The kid practically grew up under the watchful eyes of their neighbors.

Now that she’s finally got the chance, Sister Gao naturally wouldn’t let go of this topic easily.

"Old Chen, tell me honestly — why did you soften towards Chu Fugui?"

"Do you think Chu Fugui wasn’t wrong?"

"Do you want to hit people too?"

"You wouldn’t happen to have any domestic violence tendencies, would you?!"

This soul-searching barrage left Old Chen retreating again and again, soon opting for peace of mind by hiding in the bedroom to play computer card games.

Meanwhile, Sister Gao was filled with indignation —

This biological mom shaming her daughter like that, what a worthless person!

As an honorable member of the neighborhood committee, she quickly shared the incident in the community group chat, tagging a card-playing colleague who worked at the Women’s Federation.

"Sister Xu, let me tell you, you know about the Chu Family — this is real! You must find time to do a home visit and file a report on this..."

She analyzed it thoroughly:

"I saw it, last night’s ’Ace Mediation’ was about a daughter not taking care of her parents, and that idiot host was mediating!"

"You see, this is precautionary, in case those shameless old folks later drag Little He into it, we need to have some legitimate evidence, right?"

Every television enthusiast has a passionate heart, and in these few words, Sister Gao had even planned out the retirement battle and the public opinion strategies 18 years into the future.

With a kind heart, she resolved firmly:

"It’s almost exam time, we can’t let anything affect the kid’s future!"

...

The matter of how the Women’s Federation and the neighborhood committee collaborated the next day can be set aside for now. Just mention Chu River, walking in the blazing sunshine with a big portion of beef, feeling immensely satisfied —

Look, as a chief, Chu River is truly competent, even without Chang Geng to clean up the mess, she can handle things beautifully!

The weather was hot, but wrapped in her Spiritual Body, she didn’t feel even the slightest discomfort, instead, she really liked the intense heat of the sun.

After all, in the Star Sea Era, they had long since jumped to a strange planet in another star system.

Mountain and Sea Star, as a resource-abandoned star, was already buried in history, used only for archaeological purposes.

Now witnessing history again...

Chief Chu thought she should take a good look —

Well, the beef is really tasty.

It seems the people in this family aren’t completely useless!

The braised beef is quite soulful.

The only downside is this family is quite poor, just those a few nuts and bolts; Chu River really didn’t think much of it.

She looked at the big mobile phone brand store on the side of the road, unable to resist the temptation —

She really misses her smart brain.

Of course, it’s just nostalgia.

With the current phones, she already had a feel from Zhou Bai and a few sisters around her.

Honestly, aside from initially looking up some information, she really didn’t want to touch it in everyday use.

Even touching it felt like damaging her Spiritual Body!

It’s just too trashy.

But...

Thinking about the 2 million she’s about to get, Chu River, holding the braised beef, still walked into the phone store.

They all connect to the internet, so of course, she’d take advantage of the free connection.

The saved internet fee was enough to add an extra poached egg.

The salesgirl in the phone store was very polite, not getting impatient seeing her as just a young girl, instead enthusiastically approaching:

"Hello, what would you like to take a look at?"

Chu River didn’t have much money in her pocket, but she was very confident.

Looking around, she had only seen such ancient phones in museums.

But the models weren’t so complete and spanned a wide range of years...

What did she know about what she wanted to see?

Her history knowledge wasn’t good, and she skipped the museum exhibition back then...

Ahem.

So she asked calmly:

"What’s the most expensive model?"

...

The most expensive one?

The sales clerk was taken aback:

"The most expensive is our Nebula flagship model, currently only available in black, others need to be pre-ordered."

Before she had finished, Chu River’s spiritual power had quickly locked onto the smoothest one, and she took three steps over to a display model:

"Is it this one?"

The sales clerk nodded.

Ignoring the 19,888 price tag next to it, Chu River picked up the demonstration phone, her fingers adapting to the current screen, and her spiritual power quickly surged.

From an angle unnoticed by the clerk, strange documents kept popping up on the screen, overlaying continuously as images.

As data and characters interlaced with each other, the back of the phone heated up alarmingly, as if it was about to explode at any moment.

Yet within just 5 minutes, Chu River had thoroughly examined every part of the phone both inside and out.

At the moment the phone was returned, although it was plugged in, it suddenly gave a terrifying warning —

[Battery low, shutting down automatically in 30 seconds]

Sales clerk: ...???

What the heck? Was the charging cable faulty??

It was clearly always kept fully charged!

And Chu River sighed, muttering:

"It’s really not very handy..."

But, fortunately, she had saved on internet costs and directly figured out the actions of two rookie kidnappers.

With today’s financial management, she truly outdid herself.

Smug JPG.

As for the kidnapping scheme...

Ha, can that even be called a plan?

Chu River really thought it was a bit of an eyesore.

...

Zhao An and An Xiaoxue weren’t actually kidnapping for the first time.

But why say they’re rookie kidnappers?

It’s simply because their previous act wasn’t very much a professional kidnapping — it was just a rope game followed by a false alarm extortion setup...

Of course, specific details are not open to minors, so this will be omitted.

In short, they made quite a big profit, enough to tempt them to target another wealthy second generation and try the old trick again.

If only Zhou Bai wasn’t so foolish...

Actually, it was mainly the fault of those two useless kidnappers.

Falling in love with a rich kid and still wanting to portray oneself as a pure and flawless self-reliant flower.

In this way, money was handed over eagerly, giving a psychological advantage.

But the problem is, no matter how you look for the opportunity, there’s no way to legitimately conduct the binding game without breaking the chosen image.

A girlfriend who doesn’t want to marry into a wealthy family isn’t a proper kidnapper.

An Xiaoxue also wanted to maintain her chosen image a bit longer.

...

For criminals, the courage to commit crimes grows step by step.

As the interests continually change, criminal behaviors expand from small acts to larger ones accordingly.

Changing the false alarm extortion to an actual kidnapping, naturally, posed no problem.

And as Chief Chu made a nifty profit from this, it seems, perhaps, probably...

there’s no real issue either.