As for why the original owner, who had only been newly rich for less than a year, died unexpectedly, it involved one of her peculiarities.
It was hoarding.
Perhaps because she lacked anything she wanted in childhood, having none of the things others had, only being able to watch others, envy others, whether it was snacks, toys, or other items. This led the original owner to work in a factory and, once she had a salary, to try her best to compensate herself.
Initially, due to her low wages, she only bought herself some inexpensive clothes, cheap snacks, or occasionally ate a good meal.
Later, when her salary increased a bit, she simply bought more novels and cosmetics that she couldn't afford before, and didn't dare to buy anything good, sticking to relatively cheap domestic brands.
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At that time, her shopping principle was not about how good the items were, but about quantity being sufficient; the more, the more satisfied.
For example, she couldn't afford down jackets that cost over a thousand or two thousand yuan, but she could buy seven or eight cotton-padded coats for less than a hundred yuan at once.
Her sister often told her she wasted money by buying so much.
It would have been better to buy a slightly better one.
This was her state of hoarding when she was working. Due to limited funds, even when buying relatively cheap items, she didn't buy an excessive amount, only three to four times more than a normal person, and it was still too much to use.
But once she won the lottery, her hoarding became somewhat uncontrollable. After all, the main factor affecting her hoarding was financial issues. Now that the financial problem was solved, why wouldn't she buy to her heart's content?
Buying a house and renovating it went without saying. She only bought one house, reluctant to buy more to hoard, as long as she had a place to live.
But she bought a lot of other things, and to save money, she specifically waited for big sales. Food, drinks, daily necessities, beverages, mineral water, clothes, socks, shoes, and the like were all moved into the house in boxes.
How to describe her madness.
She snatched a "1000 yuan off 500 yuan" coupon from a fruit store and then, reluctant to let it go, bought a thousand yuan worth of hand-peeled oranges.
Each box weighed ten catties gross, making it twenty-five boxes.
Calculated, it came to more than two yuan per catty, which was cheap.
After a big sale ended, her once-empty new house was completely filled. The kitchen and dining room combined had three freezers and two refrigerators. One freezer was packed with seafood, another with beef, lamb, and pork, and the third with ready-to-eat meals. The two refrigerators, one below was filled with ice cream and popsicles, and the other with frozen fresh juices like those used in milk tea shops.
As for the fresh-keeping layers above the two refrigerators, they were piled high with all sorts of fruits she couldn't afford before.
As for the cheap fruits.
They were, of course, stored in a cool pantry!
These were only a portion of the food. Another part, snacks and dried fruits, were in the study. Upon opening the study door, besides bookshelves filled with comics and novels, everything else was piled with snacks. Milk, beverages, and mineral water, so that she could drink them anytime she wanted, were all piled up in the bedroom where she slept, saving her the trouble of fetching them in the middle of the night if she got thirsty. The bathroom vanity was covered with cosmetics, and the cabinet beneath the vanity was also stuffed with various daily chemical products, cosmetics, and skincare items.
Toilet paper and other personal items couldn't even fit inside, so they had to be placed in the relatively empty areas of the living room.
They were even stuffed under the dining table.
In addition, clothes, shoes, scarves, and the like were mainly piled up in another bedroom, also packed to the brim, leaving only a narrow path to barely walk through.
A perfectly good house of a hundred square meters.
It was literally turned into a warehouse by the original owner.
Even in her own bedroom, only half of the bed was empty for sleeping normally. The other half was piled with items, such as imported mineral water in glass bottles, which were relatively expensive.
The problem arose here.
She was crushed to death by two cases of bottled mineral water.
As for why this happened, we have to go back further.
Despite the large quantity of things the original owner bought, most of them were actually affordable items, not particularly expensive ones. For example, even though she bought bottled mineral water, it was only ten to twenty yuan per bottle, and she didn't go for those costing thousands per bottle. The skincare products were similar, mostly under a thousand yuan.
Three days ago, she thought she needed one or two high-end skincare sets to maintain appearances. So, she specifically ordered a set of top-tier anti-aging skincare products from a popular streamer's live broadcast, claiming it was the lowest price of the year and that no other place could sell it for less.
It cost eighteen thousand yuan for the set.
This was almost as much as the total cost of all her other skincare products.
It was shipped on the day of purchase and arrived the next day. That evening, after showering, she tried it out. Although there were no immediate visible effects, psychologically, she felt that expensive products were different from cheap ones. Not only did they feel good on the skin and smell good, but they also seemed to have great effects. She was quite happy with this purchase.
Whether it was worth it or overpriced, did not matter.
At least she was happy herself.
But soon, she was no longer happy when she opened her shopping app. She discovered that the official store of that skincare brand was also selling the same set on live broadcast. Although the price was the same as the streamer's, they were giving away three additional full-sized products. Considering the set had only five full-sized products in total, giving away three more was substantial.
Even if it wasn't as exaggerated as a "buy one get one free" offer, it was equivalent to a significant discount.
Let alone the fact that the original owner was already a bit hesitant about buying this set, even if she wasn't, she didn't want to be fooled like an idiot. So, she immediately went to argue with the streamer and then with the official store. Although the streamer was selling products, the link they used was from the official channel, and the words "lowest price in the entire network for the whole year" were written on the flagship store link.
Therefore, the flagship store couldn't possibly be unaware of this.
Then, the original owner was almost angered to death.
The official store's reply was that their price hadn't changed. The price was indeed the lowest, and the free gifts couldn't be counted into the price. As for returning the product to buy again, since she had already used it, how could she return it? A price difference refund was also impossible, as the prices of the two links were the same.
More free gifts did not constitute a price reduction.
Therefore, a price difference refund was not supported.
Who wouldn't be angry? The actual selling price of those three free gifts alone was over ten thousand yuan, yet they were dismissed with the excuse that free gifts don't count as money. The original owner's anger was imaginable. She was on her bed in the bedroom, arguing furiously with both sides, shouting at the official customer service and the streamer's customer service.
In her rage, she became somewhat animated and forgot her surroundings. Moreover, the mineral water she had stacked was so high, reaching from the bed to the ceiling. With a slip, she pushed over those rows of mineral water, and the cases of bottled mineral water directly fell onto her head, leading to her demise.
There was no helping it. What hit her head was not individual bottles of mineral water, but entire cases. Who could withstand that? And they were glass bottles. A case of bottled mineral water must weigh at least half as much again as a plastic bottle.
Some glass bottles were thicker, possibly doubling the weight.
Then, Ding Yun arrived.
After reviewing the memories, Ding Yun sighed for a long time before checking the golden finger she had randomly received this time.
[Era Novel Sign-in System]
"This golden finger can be called an essential item for protagonists in era novels. No matter how poor and difficult your era is, you can easily reach a level of subsistence and moderate prosperity through the Era Novel Sign-in System. Whether it's fine grains, meat, chicken, duck, fish, eggs, or bicycles, radios, and other era novel items, they can all be obtained through sign-in.
Sign-ins are divided into daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and holiday sign-ins. The rarer the sign-in, the greater the reward!
With good luck, you might even obtain era-specific skills!"
After reading about the golden finger, Ding Yun looked at the piles of supplies around her, which she estimated would last for several years, and the six million yuan in fixed deposits and over three hundred thousand yuan in cash in her bank card. She inexplicably felt disdain for this golden finger.
This thing, it was likely born in the wrong era.
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