Tina_Nwuba

It was the same boring normal lifestyle. 

Waking up as early as 6am, and going to work at 7am. 

Working very hard like a working machine every single day and returning from work at 8pm.

But what was all that hard work for? 

She was controlled and used by her superiors, who had always claimed her merits and great achievements as their own. 

It was late in the night. 

After getting out of the blue bus and walking along the sidewalk, on her way to her tiny apartment, she suddenly halted out of frustration. 

The purse that was hanging around her neck, she removed it and threw it on the floor with an agonizing groan. 

Her pale face, which had dark circles underneath her eyes, looked up at the sky, and pointing her right finger at the sky, she quarreled, “Are you having fun watching my pathetic life?! Huh?! Are you going to mock me like everyone else does?! I overheard everything my colleagues said about me behind my back! They said that I was a naive fool! They said that I was only a tool to them, meant to be used!”. 

“But is that fair?! It wasn't enough that my superiors always took credit for my hard work. But, the colleagues I thought of as my friends had also been taking advantage of me, and I only found out about that today! Every single damn time, they all came to me, behaving pitifully and begging me that I should help them resolve their own work issues, and I, as naive and foolish as I am, helped them out, despite the stress involved in it”. 

“I do not even remember the last time I had a good night's sleep! Why is this world so cruel to me?! Is it because I don't have any people to call my family?! Is it because I don't have parents?!”. She yelled at the top of her lungs and held her chest using her left hand. 

The passersby stared at her and were muttering to themselves, “She must have gone crazy”. 

Yeah, she had gone crazy. Crazy because of her unfair life, that she didn't care at all if it all came to an end.

“What I would give to be the boss of my own life!”. She yelled again, before she broke down crying and slowly sat down on the ground.

Her palms covered her face for a few seconds, not having a single clue that those few seconds would change her life for good. 

“Watch out!!!”. Someone screamed at her, but it was too late for her. 

She removed her palms from her face and silently watched as a car drove recklessly towards her. 

‘See? My life is pathetic’. She thought, before her body was crushed. And before she lost consciousness and died, her body was drenched in blood. 
….

Opening her eyes, she got very confused. 

The first words that came out of her mouth were this: "Didn't I die?”. 

Staring at her surroundings, she got even more confused. 

As she sat up on the bed, she felt a stinging pain in her head as a flood of memories, which she knew didn't belong to her, flashed in her mind. 

“Wait, what? Since when am I the granddaughter of a farmer and the daughter of the great wing city leading superstars? And since when did I have a Cheat Farm System and a fiancè?! I don’t understand any of these, you freak. I am not Piper Graham. You got the wrong person”. 
….

“Hahaha! The old me is dead starting from this very moment! Watch me climb up to wealth using my Cheat Farm System! In this new life, I will become the boss, not the employee!!”. She jumped around her tiny bedroom as she shouted to her heart's content after realizing that she had been given a new shot at life.

Well, I Died, But, I Obtained A Cheat Farm System!

A figure was asleep on a wide bed. She was restlessly rolling back and forth on the bed, and she was sweating.

Beads of sweat escaped from her head and slid down her forehead and the side of her face.

Suddenly, she gasped for air and her eyes swung open.

She was panting fast with her hand placed on her chest.

Staring up at the expensive-looking ceiling, she got extremely confused.

"Didn't I die? What in the world is going on?". She asked herself, before turning to her right side and then her left side.

She got more confused because of the things she was seeing.

"This doesn't seem like the afterlife". She admitted and sat up on the bed.

Before she could make any other movements, she felt a stinging pain in her head as a flood of memories, which she knew did not belong to her, flashed in her mind.

"Aaaaah!". She grabbed her hair and her fingers gripped her hair tightly as she screamed in pain. Different events and pictures of individuals flooded her mind.

This went on for many seconds, and after it finally came to an end, her eyes had turned red, and she let go of her hair with a deep sigh.

<Welcome, new owner, to your new body>

Paola flinched upon hearing the voice that spoke.

She quickly looked around but saw no one. "Who is there?! Reveal yourself!". She ordered the voice, and in an instant, a short chubby orange fox appeared in front of her, on the bed.

Paola remained quiet for a few seconds and blinked twice. She cleaned her eyes, and as she saw that the fox wasn't a hallucination, she screamed, pointing a finger at the fox as she left the bed and fell on the floor after slipping.

Paola rose up from the floor. She pointed a finger at the fox again as she asked, "What are you?!".

Gradually, while looking at the fox, she made her way towards the door that looked like the exit door.

She had already forgotten about the situation she was in because of the appearance of the adorable little fox.

The fox sighed and placed its shorthand on its forehead, before it shook its head.

"What are you talking about?". Paola asked the fox, but the fox slapped its forehead in disbelief.

<Wait a minute. Did I unknowingly speak in parables? What don't you understand?> It asked Paola.

As Paola stepped backwards, at least, a foot away from the fox, the fox added,

"Then explain yourself. What are you? And why am I here? In the body of another person. How is that possible? I am sure that I have died". Paola questioned the fox, before her eyes widened in shock after realizing something.

She ran to the wall mirror that was in the middle of the room. She froze as she saw her new appearance.

The fox jumped down the bed and approached Paola.

The fox, male by gender, said to Paola, <You are Piper Graham. The forsaken fianceè of a business tycoon. And the precious daughter of the great wing city leading superstars, and the granddaughter of a farmer. And I am your humble Cheat Farm System!>

"Wait, what? Since when am I the granddaughter of a farmer and the daughter of the great wing city leading superstars? And since when did I have a Cheat Farm System and a fiancè?! I don't understand any of these, you freak. I am not Piper Graham. You got the wrong person. I ought to be dead by now. How come I have suddenly become another person?! How come I am in Piper Graham's body?! Seriously, what is going on? Have I finally completely lost my mind?!".

Chapter 8) Her new life/ The Cheat Farm System.