The wedding night had arrived.
Lin Baozhu looked at the simply arranged bridal room, a faint sense of dissatisfaction rising in her heart.
She also noticed something strange. Even after she and Gu Shicheng had officially married, the uneasiness in her chest had not lessened at all. Instead, it seemed to grow stronger.
Because of that, the plain furniture in the room only made her feel even more unbalanced.
At that moment, Gu Shicheng, who had been drinking heavily at the banquet outside, staggered back in. The moment he saw his beautiful bride, he moved toward her without hesitation.
Lin Baozhu genuinely liked Gu Shicheng. After the two of them got undressed, they quickly fell into the intensity of their newlywed intimacy, losing themselves in the long night meant for husband and wife.
In the adjacent room, Li Wenxiu and Gu Shiye were staying next door. When the bed boards in the neighboring room began creaking nonstop, Gu Shiye, affected by the atmosphere, leaned in and kissed Li Wenxiu’s lips.
From time to time, they could hear Lin Baozhu’s uncontrollable, heated sounds from the other room.
Li Wenxiu pushed Gu Shiye away. “I don’t like this.”
Gu Shiye had also drunk quite a bit that day. His body was warm, but he still tried to coax his wife gently. “Be good, let’s go into the space, alright?”
Ever since they transmigrated here, the two of them had not been intimate for several days. In the past, they would at least have it six days out of a week.
Li Wenxiu frowned slightly, pretending to be reserved as she looked at him. “But I’m pregnant right now.”
Gu Shiye pinched her soft cheek in dissatisfaction. “When your monthly visitor comes, haven’t we used other methods to help me before?”
Of course, during those times it had usually been Li Wenxiu who initiated things out of curiosity. If Gu Shiye were truly that shameless, she would have been disgusted with him for life.
Li Wenxiu asked softly, “So are you being influenced by someone else now, or…”
That question mattered a lot.
Gu Shiye impatiently took her hand and kissed her fingers. “My dear wife, don’t you know how I feel about you? We haven’t been together for so long, I miss you. If you’re not in a convenient condition, I still want to make the people next door feel utterly ashamed of themselves.”
She clearly had no such interest.
Blushing, Li Wenxiu gently pushed him. “Let’s go into the space first.”
However, Li Wenxiu quickly lost interest after barely two minutes. She pulled out some of the tickets and items they had obtained through recent sign-ins and said, “Husband, let’s move out and build our own house. The people living next door are the male and female leads. We should move further away from them.”
Gu Shiye, still unsatisfied, pulled her back into his arms. “My good wife, just pity me a little. I’ll keep the house-building plan in mind. I’ve also found out some information about the black market. Once I exchange a few gold bars for cash, we’ll build our house immediately.”
Seeing that he was being cooperative, Li Wenxiu finally allowed her hands to go back under the blanket.
Late at night, the Gu family had all gone to sleep.
After their passionate night, Lin Baozhu suddenly woke up from her dream.
So that was it.
She had dreamed that this world was actually a novel written by someone else. She was the female lead, and Gu Shicheng was the male lead. He was a rugged country man, and she was his lucky koi wife. Together, they would live increasingly prosperous lives.
She and Gu Shicheng were destined to be the true couple of fate. Tomorrow morning, she would receive a jade token from Mother Gu that could unlock her space. Now she finally understood why she had been so eager to marry Gu Shicheng. It was because they were the protagonists of this world.
But… why was she still feeling so uneasy?
She told herself not to panic. According to the plot, she would definitely receive the jade token to activate her space from Mother Gu the next morning.
Slowly, she began to piece everything together.
The problem was that the Gu family had been separated, but in the novel, the Gu family had never split. The three branches above were all honest, hardworking villagers who were a bit slow-witted but fundamentally decent. In the original story, on the day of her wedding, something major had happened: her pregnant third sister-in-law had suffered a miscarriage due to poor health and accidental bleeding.
But after carefully recalling, none of that had happened at her wedding banquet yesterday.
And in the novel, her dowry had been a full eight hundred yuan without any discount, along with forty-eight pieces of furniture that filled her bridal room completely.
But now, everything has changed.
Even her younger brother, who in the novel had only ever gambled lightly for entertainment, had now accumulated a gambling debt of one thousand yuan.
After sorting through all of this, Lin Baozhu finally understood what had been making her uneasy. The plot she was living in had deviated from the original storyline.
She clasped her hands together and prayed silently, hoping that tomorrow morning she would definitely receive the jade token from Mother Gu.
After that, she tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, repeatedly reviewing the plot she had seen in her dream.
In truth, she had already vaguely guessed where the jade token came from, but she did not want to believe that it might originally not belong to her.
Because she was the female lead of the novel. She was the lucky koi wife. Only she could activate that wonderful space that supposedly allowed people to draw big rewards every time.
So logically, that jade token should belong to her.
Finally, she waited until dawn.
Hearing the rooster crow in the courtyard, her heartbeat quickened. She lay in bed counting the time, waiting for breakfast to end so she could go find Mother Gu.
At that moment, she suddenly heard Wang Lihua shouting from outside the courtyard with her hands on her hips.
“Fourth daughter-in-law, don’t you grow roots in the bed and wear out your man! Since you’ve married into the Gu family, act like a proper wife. Today it’s your turn to get up and make breakfast for us!”
Lin Baozhu lay in bed, furious to the point of trembling. She knew very well this was Wang Lihua deliberately humiliating her.
In the novel, she was supposed to be the cherished female lead. The three sisters-in-law were all honest, hardworking, and simple-minded. How could they be acting like this now?
She waited for a while, thinking Mother Gu would come out to support her.
But she did not.
Instead, Wang Lihua’s voice grew louder and harsher, as if she were the mistress of the house.
Li Wenxiu, who was also awake in her room, felt equally uneasy. If Wang Lihua could bully the newlywed fourth sister-in-law so openly, it was clear her future in the Gu family would only become harder.
Unable to wait any longer, Lin Baozhu shook Gu Shicheng awake.
In truth, Wang Lihua’s loud voice had already woken almost everyone in the courtyard.
“Acheng, wake up! Did you hear how your eldest sister-in-law is bullying me?” Lin Baozhu cried out.