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With a toilet plunger in her left hand and a dirty rag in her right, Mingxi was cornered in a ladies' room stall by a group of girls, her hands raised in a gesture of surrender.

Her expression shifted from confusion to bewilderment.

“I’m telling you, if you can’t do this job, you should resign early. Look at how dirty this toilet is!

What time is it already? You haven't even done the preliminary cleaning. Are you sure you're serious about cleaning?”

“Sigh, how clean Didilinhua used to clean! Every time it finished cleaning, the toilet would smell so good, especially pleasant.

Now? Everywhere there's a disgusting stench, and I often see the squatting toilets full of poop.

I almost threw up the food I ate this morning, okay?”

“Exactly!

I really don't understand why the school would let this waste replace Didilinhua? Transcendent creatures are capable and useful, aren't they better than useless people who won't lift a finger?”

“Our teacher said she's an orphan, like, both her parents are gone.

She's lived with her Grandma since she was little, and a while ago, her Grandma got a new type of genetic disease, the kind that even healing-type pet beasts can't cure. It can only be treated with rare treasures, so their family is dirt poor, they can't even afford her tuition.

Beauty Jingjing pitied her, so she let her clean the ladies' room as work-study until graduation.”

“...Hmph, isn't this just moral blackmail!

There are countless people in the world more pitiful and miserable than her, can we sympathize with all of them?

Why should we suffer just because she's poor?

Anyway, I'm definitely going to complain to the teacher about her today! Either give the job of cleaning the ladies' room to Didilinhua or another Transcendent creature with cleaning skills, or I'm transferring schools!”

“That's right! I'm going too!”

“Let's go! Everyone together.”

After venting their long-suppressed anger at Mingxi, the girls rushed away, leaving Mingxi, who was still daydreaming, alone.

A long time passed.

Mingxi slowly lowered her somewhat sore hands, her expression indescribable.

Oh, dear heavens, what kind of situation is this?

She had actually transmigrated, and to a Star Beast Taming world at that.

The original owner shared her name, was 14 years old, from Haizhou City, Hujiang Province, Longhua Country, and attended Grade Two, Class 26 of Haizhou Third Junior Middle School.

Her family background was simple yet complex.

What those girls just said about her being an orphan wasn't entirely correct; her biological father had indeed passed away, and she did live with her grandmother, but her biological mother was still alive, she just remarried and never paid child support.

Even when she was so poor she could only eat dry bread and steamed buns every day, even when she was half-dead from exhaustion, the original owner never thought of contacting her mother to ask for the child support she was owed.

She would rather work herself to death than bend her back.

“Sigh!”

Mingxi let out a soft sigh, unsure whether to pity the original owner or be annoyed at her stubbornness.

She had just turned 14, at a crucial stage in her life, yet she stubbornly held three jobs.

Besides cleaning all the ladies' rooms in the school's teaching building during school hours, she also worked part-time at a steamed bun shop and a barbecue restaurant.

The former's working hours were from 3 AM to 6 AM, where ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ she was responsible for making handmade dumplings and steamed buns; the latter's working hours were from 6 PM to 11 PM, where she was responsible for various chores in the shop.

She worked almost non-stop 24 hours a day, busy like a spinning top, tired and bitter, even her studies suffered, but her wages were very low, adding up to less than 200 star coins per day.

Because this was a society where pet beasts replaced human labor.

Take cleaning work, for example.

Many people believed that with Transcendent creatures like Didilinhua, which could do cleaning work quickly and well, and also beautify the environment and purify the air, who would want to hire a slow-moving, unattractive old lady?

If you go to any construction site now, you'll find that those moving bricks are either Mighty Bears or Stone-moving Monkeys; you'll hardly see any humans.

Even professions like delivery drivers and couriers have largely been replaced by Flight-type pet beasts.

To put it bluntly, except for those special talents with a skill, ordinary humans have become the most unvalued and cheapest existence in the labor market; only unscrupulous merchants would hire some ordinary people for super low wages.

And corresponding to ordinary people were Beast Tamers.

Even if a Beast Tamer lay around doing nothing their whole life, as long as the Transcendent creature they contracted was capable enough, they could ensure they wouldn't go hungry.

This was the cruelest and most realistic reality of this world, a Beast Taming civilization society that had existed for thousands of years and was already mature and well-developed.

“Ding-a-ling!”

The class bell interrupted Mingxi's thoughts.

She almost forgot that the original owner came to clean the toilet during break time; her identity at school was still that of a student, and her main job was studying.

Mingxi nimbly put away the toilet plunger and other cleaning tools into the red plastic bucket in the corner, washed her hands, and then followed her memory to the original owner's classroom.

As soon as she entered, the previously noisy classroom became like an old Walkman that had jammed, all sounds instantly ceasing.

Mingxi blinked: ...

This isn't right, is it?

Although many classmates had started to distance themselves from her because the original owner began working part-time as the school's ladies' room cleaner this semester, and friends she used to play with had also drifted away, her appearance definitely didn't have this effect of an emperor on a personal expedition.

Mingxi looked back, following everyone's gaze.

It turned out that the teacher for this class was right behind her.

“Hello, Teacher Zhang.”

Feeling the suppressive power from the people's teacher, Mingxi quickly greeted her obediently.

The teacher named Zhang merely glanced at her indifferently, then nodded perfunctorily and said, “Hurry and go sit in your seat.”

“Okay.”

Mingxi seemed oblivious to the other party's coldness, calmly found the original owner's seat and sat down, ignoring her deskmate's deliberate avoidance, and quickly flipped through a book she pulled from her desk, as if nothing had happened.

“History of Pet Beast Civilization (Volume One)”

What a good book.

She just needed to consolidate her knowledge of this world; the original owner's memories were not something she had personally experienced.

Receiving the memories of this body did not mean she empathized with the original owner's thoughts and feelings; it was more like watching a long, boring, and cluttered TV series, and at fast-forward speed.

Her understanding and common sense of this world were very superficial, with little sense of reality.

Mingxi admitted that she was currently just an ordinary little girl, not a hyperthymesia patient, and did not have the ability to remember everything at a glance.

Therefore, she had to thoroughly digest those memories before the original owner's memories faded, making them truly hers.

She patted the book.

Her expression was sacred and solemn.

Mastering the Beast Taming World starts with studying hard and always improving.

“History of Pet Beast Civilization (Volume One)”, Chapter One: Transcendent creatures (Pet Beasts), Soul Key, and Spirit Pact Chamber.