1950s: After transmigrating into a capitalist, I relied on military industry to achieve a comeback.

After entering the room, Lin Jiaoyue sat cross-legged on the heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove).

The exchange just now made her realize that physical cheats are ultimately unreliable.

She opened her palm, and the grayish-white pebble vanished instantly, replaced by a shimmering mutton-fat jade safety buckle.

"We must find a way to make it disappear."

Lin Jiaoyue's eyes hardened, and she pulled out a large needle for sewing shoe soles, preparing to stab it hard into her middle finger.

"Disappear? Throw it away? No way, Jiaojiao, that's our whole family's escape route!" Su Wanqing was so anxious that tears were about to fall.

"Mother, don't worry. I have a way." Lin Jiaoyue took a deep breath and helped her mother to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed). "You stay at the door and don't come in no matter what noise you hear. I'm going to try something."

"What method?"

"A miraculous method." Lin Jiaoyue smiled casually and pushed Su Wanqing out of the inner room.

The room was dimly lit. Lin Jiaoyue sat cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed), staring intently at the jade pendant.

She was actually unsure of herself, but the online novel tropes she had read in her previous life were her only lifeline.

"Blood oath ceremony... Could it be that the blood wasn't enough last time?... It's a cliché, but what if it works?"

This time, she didn't hesitate and gritted her teeth to stab her middle finger hard with the needle again.

"hiss--"

The pain was excruciating. A drop of bright red blood oozed out, which she quickly smeared onto the jade pendant.

Bloodstains spread across the jade surface.

However... a minute passed, and apart from getting the jade dirty, there was no reaction. No golden light, no heat, nothing at all.

"Bad review! Netizens are bullying me!" Lin Jiaoyue cursed inwardly, cold sweat streaming down her back.

If she didn't hide the jade pendant inside her body, she would live in constant fear. Lin Jiaoyue had had enough of this kind of life!

"I've died once, and even after my soul left my body for ten years, it can still return. This jade pendant has been with me for ten years; it should have been mine long ago!"

Lin Jiaoyue closed her eyes, clutching the jade pendant tightly to her chest. She abandoned any mystical rituals and instead summoned the extreme focus she had when writing code in her past life.

She screamed frantically in her mind, feeling as if she were desperately trying to salvage core data in the last second before the server crashed.

"Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits! You are my data package, merge it for me!"

The jade pendant still didn't react.

No, let's try again!

"You are my bones, my blood, the foundation upon which I stand in this world!"

……

Melt in!

She didn't know how much time had passed, but just as Lin Jiaoyue was about to give up, she seemed to return to the night she transmigrated, and a tremor ran through the depths of her soul.

Suddenly, a burning sensation came from my palm!

Unlike its previous smooth and warm appearance, this time the jade pendant looked like a red-hot branding iron.

"Ugh!" Lin Jiaoyue groaned in pain, but gritted her teeth and refused to let go.

The burning heat surged through the meridians in her palm, forcefully rushing into her arm and upwards, heading straight for her heart. She felt as if magma was flowing through her veins, and the pain caused her whole body to spasm.

But amidst that excruciating pain, she clearly felt a sense of "fulfillment".

Like a missing code block, it has finally fit perfectly into its place. The vulnerability has been fixed, and the system has restarted.

After an unknown amount of time, the burning sensation in my palms subsided, replaced by a warm current that flowed through my limbs and bones, even warming my body which had been chilled by the cold wind.

Lin Jiaoyue suddenly opened her eyes.

My palms are empty.

The jade pendant is gone.

She frantically touched her chest and neck; her skin was smooth and there was no foreign object in her skin.

"Failed? Failed?"

The panic had just begun when suddenly, with a "boom," a clear panoramic image unfolded in my consciousness—

It was still that same humble garden, still that enormous modern warehouse. But this time, she didn't need to "see" the jade pendant anymore; she felt that she was the space itself, and the space was her.

You can even feel a wild grass trembling slightly beside the Spirit Spring Well.

This sense of control is a hundred times stronger than operating it through the jade pendant before!

"It's a success..." Lin Jiaoyue collapsed onto the kang (a heated brick bed), panting heavily, and couldn't help but laugh.

From then on, even if they stripped her naked and searched her body, no one could take away her valuables!

At that moment, the door was suddenly pushed open.

Su Wanqing rushed in anxiously: "Jiaojiao! What's wrong? I just heard you hum... Where's the jade? Did you really throw it away?"

Seeing her mother's panicked expression, Lin Jiaoyue felt a warmth in her heart. She propped herself up, waved her fair hand in front of Su Wanqing, and winked playfully.

"Mom, watch closely, I'm going to show you a magic trick."

A thought crossed my mind.

Without any warning, a steaming blue-and-white porcelain teacup appeared out of thin air in my palm. It was Su Wanqing's favorite tea set, which she had kept in the warehouse.

Su Wanqing's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. She opened her mouth wide and let out a short gasp, pointing at the cup for a long time without being able to speak.

"In the future," Lin Jiaoyue said, handing the teacup to her still-dazed mother, her eyes crinkling with a smile.

"Our family's immense wealth is completely locked up to us; no one can take it away. Not Aunt Wang, not anyone else."