“Lu Zhenzhen, you are already married, and I have a wife. I told you not to disturb our lives anymore, so why are you still clinging to my house and playing dead?”
The man’s cold voice was laced with disgust, striking her ears like hailstones.
“Sister Zhenzhen, I beg of you, please just let us go. Brother Yanqing and I are already married; it’s impossible for us to divorce~”
The woman’s delicate voice carried a sob. Even though Lu Zhenzhen hadn’t fully woken up, she could hear the aggrieved tone of someone being harassed.
“The Xu Zhiqing couple is so pitiful, being pestered by this shameless woman every day.”
“Lu Zhiqing, it was heaven’s will that you entered the wrong bridal chamber on your wedding day. What kind of behavior is it to come and make a scene at their house every day?”
“Exactly. She’s supposed to be a city person, yet she has no sense of decency at all. Stop playing dead and get up already.”
“…”
The voices were filled with obvious contempt and schadenfreude, buzzing like annoying flies. What made it even more unbearable for Lu Zhenzhen was someone kicking her.
Clutching the back of her aching head, she propped herself up from the mud and saw a group of people surrounding her.
The elderly women and aunties in the crowd were dressed in very period-appropriate clothing, all of them staring at her with curled lips.
The most eye-catching man among them wore a white shirt. He was very handsome but his face was contorted with rage.
Beside him stood a petite, beautiful woman with a face full of grievance, tearfully begging her not to destroy their marriage.
Waves of dizziness and weakness clung to her like maggots on a bone. Lu Zhenzhen was so angry she laughed.
Although she had been an 18th-tier starlet in her past life, she was gorgeous and had kept her reputation clean despite being pursued by countless elite men.
How could she possibly intervene in someone else’s family as a homewrecker?
Who was spreading rumors about her? She would sue them until they were bankrupt. The disdainful voices around her made her head hurt even more.
Lu Zhenzhen closed her eyes in disbelief. As the curses swirled around her, a flood of memories that didn’t belong to her surged into her mind…
When she opened her eyes again, the scene remained the same, and she was indeed curled up on the muddy ground.
Oh, Heavens!
Where the hell had she been sent?
Sorting through the memories in her head—holy crap—she really had died and come back to life, but she had become a “max-level love-brain.”
The original host and Xu Yanqing had a child betrothal, but Xu Yanqing grew up to fall in love with her cousin.
Just as the two families were discussing breaking the engagement so he could marry the cousin instead, Xu Yanqing’s entire family was sent down to the countryside. The cousin immediately went on blind dates to marry someone else.
However, the original host jumped out and said she was willing to continue the engagement and follow Xu Yanqing’s family to the countryside.
Naturally, her parents were unwilling to let their daughter go and suffer, and they tried their best to persuade her.
They told her Xu Yanqing didn’t like her and there was no need to go and suffer, but the original host insisted that true feelings are seen in times of hardship and that she would surely move him.
She even claimed she would be a Zhiqing for three years, and if Xu Yanqing still didn’t want to marry her, she would return to Hushi to get married.
Lu Zhenzhen’s mother had no choice but to give in, thinking that her daughter would only be twenty-one in three years, and it wouldn’t be too late to come home and find a husband.
During those three years, Xu Yanqing treated the host with hot and cold indifference, never showing any intention of marrying her.
Then one day, Xu Yanqing suddenly took her into his arms, whispered many sweet words, and told her the most beautiful thing: he really wanted to marry her.
Unfortunately, he claimed he had “defiled” the village belle and would go to prison. This sent the original host into a panic, and she tearfully asked what she could do to help him.
Xu Yanqing then “hesitantly” told her to swap places with the bride on their wedding night, asking her to handle the wedding night for the village belle.
What does “max-level love-brain” mean? It means being completely subservient to the other person.
Forget just handling a wedding night; if he had asked for her life, the original host would have offered it up with both hands.
The original host agreed without a second thought. Little did she know the scumbag had bought medicine meant for breeding cattle but told her it was a sedative.
The next day, the whole village knew that two brides had entered the wrong rooms and that both marriages had been consummated.
Lu Zhenzhen’s father was very satisfied with Gu Ye, and the village chief couldn’t sway his daughter. The parents on both sides could only make the best of a bad situation and got marriage certificates for the two couples.
As soon as the marriage certificate was in hand, Xu Yanqing’s face changed. Even after such a deception, the top-tier love-brain didn’t hate the scumbag.
Instead, she fought for a divorce from her new husband. How could a military marriage be so easy to dissolve? So, the original host began to throw massive tantrums.
Ignoring public opinion, she went to Xu Yanqing’s house every day to cook and wash clothes for his family.
No wonder these people were cursing her. In the eyes of the villagers, her behavior was shameless.
Everyone had entered the wrong room, yet others were living their lives while she clamored for divorce every day.
It was one thing to make a scene about her own divorce, but she even went to someone else’s house to offer warmth and insist on interjecting herself into their family.
Pestering Xu Zhiqing to divorce Li Xuemei was simply scandalous and intolerable. The original host had become a rat that everyone wanted to hit.
The village grandmothers, aunties, and children would all come to watch the excitement whenever they were free, under the guise of “breaking up a fight.”
As Lu Zhenzhen thought deeper, she felt a chill. This scumbag was not only enjoying the money, coupons, and labor sent by the host’s family, but he also wanted to ruin her reputation.
His goal was so obvious. The original host could endure it, but she certainly couldn’t.
She stood up abruptly, rolled up her sleeves, and went straight to work, using all her strength to deliver several fierce slaps to the scumbag’s face.
Slap— Slap— Slap—
The crisp sounds were so loud they sent the birds in the surrounding trees fluttering into the air.
The original host from three years ago might have been frail, but after three years of labor, this body had grown much stronger.
Combined with Lu Zhenzhen’s powerful soul, she struck until her hand was red, hot, and swollen, stopping only when it went numb from pain.
Those slaps were brutal. Xu Yanqing was dazed, even forgetting to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth.
He looked at the woman before him in disbelief. Her eyes were wide with fury, looking as if she could devour him. How did she dare?
Her hand had struck his face like a gust of wind, leaving it stinging, numb, red, and swollen.
Lu Zhenzhen shook her wrist as if no one else was there and said through gritted teeth, “Xu Yanqing, the only reason you can stand there and let me hit you is out of guilt.
“Or perhaps it’s out of the thought that if I hit you, I won’t hit her. But I’m not hitting you because you and Li Xuemei are ‘in love.’
“I’m hitting you because you owe money and won’t pay it back! Everyone, listen to me before you start cursing again. We entered the wrong rooms; you all say it was fate and that no one was at fault.
“But Gu Ye is a soldier. A military marriage report must be reviewed and approved. Yet, we both got our marriage certificates the very next day.
“Doesn’t that mean my name was already on Gu Ye’s marriage report long ago? Then whose fault do you think this is?
“I’m telling you, my marriage to Gu Ye was premeditated. As for by whom, everyone knows in their hearts.
“As for why I still come to the Xu family to eat after getting married, it’s because they owe me money and refuse to pay it back. Tell me, shouldn’t I come to their house to eat?”
As soon as Lu Zhenzhen finished, a villager chimed in, “If Xu Zhiqing’s family owes her money and won’t pay it back, it seems only right for her to eat at their place.”
“Now that I think about it, Gu Ye submitted his marriage report as soon as he returned, three months ago.”
“Oh my! If it was three months ago, then it really might have been premeditated!”