She could tell just from the way Lin Ran had walked those two steps through the door.
Things must have gotten pretty intense last night. There was no way she could have come out of it without any marks!
Sure enough, once the collar was pulled open, Lin Ran’s collarbone was covered in finger marks, bite marks, and large patches of bruising…
“Ah!”
Lin Ran hadn’t expected Lin Xi to suddenly make a move. She screamed and hurriedly covered her collar.
Lin Xi raised an eyebrow, looking thoroughly entertained. Crossing her arms, she stood to the side and added fuel to the fire.
“My dear sister, why don’t you tell us which wild man you were fooling around with last night?”
Lin Ran turned her face away in embarrassment.
Lin Xi snorted.
Then she clicked her tongue at Lin Jianguo. “Dad, instead of worrying so much about family reputation, why don’t you go check whether something’s wrong with our ancestors’ graves?”
That one sentence left Lin Jianguo so speechless that the veins on his forehead bulged.
There was no evidence that Lin Xi had been fooling around.
But the marks all over Lin Ran’s body were undeniable.
“Lin Ran!”
Unable to save face, Lin Jianguo slammed his hand down on the table.
Lin Ran immediately hid behind Li Yufen and burst into tears. “Mom, I wasn’t fooling around! I was with Zhao Mingze last night!”
Zhao Mingze?
Li Yufen instantly froze in shock.
“How could you possibly—”
Lin Ran didn’t let her finish.
“You were already arranging a marriage between Mingze and me anyway! We’re just getting married two days earlier than planned! Zhao Mingze—I’m marrying him no matter what!”
Lin Ran wanted to swap marriages?
With the original novel’s plot already changing, Lin Xi immediately guessed that the Lin Ran standing before her was probably a reborn person.
As for why Lin Ran, after being reborn, had chosen Zhao Mingze—
Lin Xi figured that Lin Ran probably didn’t know what kind of person Zhao Mingze really was.
After all, that bastard Zhao Mingze was always very good at putting on an act in public.
Now this was getting interesting.
After being tossed around like a rag doll by a man for half the night, Lin Xi yawned. She was sleepy.
“You guys discuss the marriage. I’m tired, so I’m going upstairs to sleep.”
The living room was already in complete chaos. At this point, no one had the time to pay attention to Lin Xi.
At the end of the second-floor hallway was her bedroom.
Although her stepmother, Li Yufen, had plenty of schemes up her sleeve, she was quite meticulous when it came to keeping up appearances.
The bed was covered with a satin quilt. When Lin Xi lay down, it felt wonderfully soft and comfortable.
This little Western-style house had originally been left by the original owner’s grandmother to her mother, who had then left it to her.
Now that she had inherited the original owner’s body, Lin Xi planned to find some time to figure out how to take the house back.
But today had been exhausting.
She would sleep first.
She got up and took off her clothes.
The moment her collar brushed against the wound on her neck, she hissed in pain.
That bastard!
Did he never get to eat meat or something? Why did he like biting so much?
Wanting to see how badly she had been injured, Lin Xi sat up and walked over to the vanity. She began examining the wound in the mirror.
The faint teeth marks actually weren’t nearly as serious as Lin Xi had imagined.
All right. Apparently, the original owner’s body was simply too delicate.
Lin Xi sighed.
She was just about to turn around when she suddenly noticed—
There was a small red mole in the shape of a five-pointed star beneath her collarbone!
Having inherited the original owner’s memories, Lin Xi was certain that this mole had not been there before.
She raised a hand and rubbed it.
But after only a couple of rubs, she suddenly felt her consciousness being pulled away into a sea of white mist.
A cheat ability—a space!
Wasn’t this the standard package for transmigrated female protagonists?
She instinctively squeezed her eyes shut. Once she had managed to shield herself from the dazzling white light, she opened them again.
She was already standing on a strange piece of land.
With a background in agricultural science, Lin Xi immediately recognized it as the black soil of Northeast China.
Rich, fertile soil with excellent adaptability for growing crops!
This was practically paradise for an agricultural science student!
Lin Xi immediately crouched down excitedly and reached out to sift through the soil.
An electronic screen suddenly appeared in midair.
【Welcome to the Space.】
Below it was a row of selectable functions:
【One-Click Sowing, One-Click Watering, One-Click Pest Control, One-Click Weeding, One-Click Fertilizing…】
Each function also had a short description beneath it:
【One-Click Sowing: Seeds must be purchased separately.】
【One-Click Watering: Spiritual spring water can greatly shorten the growth cycle of crops.】
【One-Click Pest Control: All chemical raw materials needed to produce pesticides, fertilizers, and other agricultural chemicals have already been stored inside the wooden cabin. Chemical raw materials will be automatically replenished. Please feel free to use them.】
…
Not only was there a spiritual spring, there were also chemical reagents?
Lin Xi excitedly stood up.
Sure enough, at the end of the path, she found a two-story wooden cabin.
There were three shelves packed full of reagents. The cabin was also equipped with the most advanced laboratory apparatus.
Agricultural science students studied basic chemistry in their freshman year.
And Lin Xi knew how to make basic medical and pharmaceutical reagents!
She had just been worrying about how she was going to pack up and take back the property her mother had left behind.
Talk about someone handing you a pillow just when you’re getting sleepy!
She immediately got to work, rummaging through the shelves.
After a round of experimenting, she managed to produce a bottle of low-concentration anesthetic.
Tonight, she’d let those two old geezers try it!
After putting away the anesthetic, Lin Xi finally returned to the spiritual spring.
After a night of indulgence, certain parts of her body were a little swollen.
She needed to soak in the spiritual spring to recover.
Since it was living spring water, there was no need to worry about contaminating the water source.
Lin Xi took off her clothes and leaned against the stone wall.
The broken skin stung slightly when it came into contact with the water.
That suddenly reminded her of the astonishing size of the man she had glimpsed through her hazy consciousness the night before!
Lin Xi suspected that if she hadn’t been drugged with such a potent aphrodisiac yesterday, she might have passed out halfway through!
The spiritual spring strengthened and nourished the body.
Half an hour later, when she emerged from the space, she already felt much more refreshed.
The family of three was no longer in the living room. She had no idea when they had left.
Perfect. It made it convenient for Lin Xi to drug the kitchen.
The thermos had just finished boiling water, and steam was still rising from it.
Lin Jianguo had high blood pressure and took his medication before bed every night. He would definitely come downstairs for some water later.
Lin Xi simply poured the drug into the thermos.
She wasn’t worried about the dosage being too strong. After all, she wasn’t a professional pharmaceutical student, so her purification and concentration weren’t particularly precise.
The drug should only be strong enough to make the few victims sleep for a night.
Just the right amount—enough to knock them out without causing brain damage.
Thinking about it, Lin Xi couldn’t help applauding herself inwardly.
Returning kindness for resentment—she was practically a reincarnated living Buddha!
She clearly had the ability to accidentally kill them, yet she didn’t have murderous intentions.
How could that not count as kindness?
After finishing everything, Lin Xi returned to the second floor.
She had just reached the staircase when the sound of an argument between Lin Ran and her mother suddenly reached her ears from the bedroom.
Drinking the spiritual spring water had actually improved her hearing too!
Since she was already hearing it, she might as well listen.
Lin Xi leaned against the railing.
Inside the bedroom—
Li Yufen was furious.
“Did a donkey kick your brain or something? Do you even know what kind of person Zhao Mingze is? He’s an orphan with no parents!”
“You had such a good marriage proposal with the Yu family, and instead, you actually went out of your way to seduce Zhao Mingze?”
“Mom.”
Lin Ran’s voice was choked with tears.
“Listen to me. I have to marry Zhao Mingze!”
Li Yufen thought Lin Ran had gone crazy!
Lin Ran sobbed as she explained to Li Yufen, “Mom, I’m not crazy!”
“Do you remember how you took me to the temple last month?”
“The temple really worked, Mom. I had a prophetic dream!”