“Last night, you were pretty bold!”
A low, hoarse male voice echoed through the room.
Lin Jingwan’s entire body felt sore and weak, and her mind was still hazy.
She turned her head and met a pair of deep, dark eyes.
The man was leaning against the wall, his short hair slightly disheveled. His features were sharp and cold, and there was still a trace of gloom between his brows.
The dark purple bite marks covering his bare chest made it clear just how intense last night had been.
Li Zhaoye.
The man who had arrived in the village by car!
Lin Jingwan collected herself and said calmly, “You weren’t exactly well-behaved either.”
At her words, a dark current flashed through Li Zhaoye’s black eyes.
“Then what do you want to do about it?”
“What do I want to do? Ha! Comrade Li, we were both victims of circumstances. We simply helped each other out.”
Li Zhaoye’s voice dropped slightly.
“Simply?”
“Yes. You beat up the woman who was lusting after you, and I kicked the man who drugged me. We both benefited from it and helped each other get through the ordeal.
“If anyone is really at fault… you should actually be thanking me!
“Otherwise, you…”
Lin Jingwan’s gaze fell on a certain part of the man’s body.
“That was a drug meant for livestock. Without me, you wouldn’t have survived yesterday!”
With that, she got up decisively. She had no intention of getting entangled with him, and she didn’t care about the man’s gaze or about her own nakedness.
They had already slept together. What was there left to be embarrassed about?
Li Zhaoye stared at her unusually calm retreating figure, a hint of amusement flickering deep in his eyes.
He had met plenty of women.
Some were sycophants who chased after wealth and power. Others pretended to be weak and delicate.
But he had never met a woman who had spent a night with him and yet wasn’t embarrassed, angry, or flustered instead remaining this calm and rational!
In reality, Lin Jingwan wasn’t nearly as composed as she appeared.
Inside, she was already cursing up a storm.
Damn!
It hurts!
It hurts so badly!
It hurts down there whenever I move!
Even my inner thighs hurt!
Damn, damn, damn!
My legs are trembling!
For crying out loud!
She had finally gotten a second chance at life, and yesterday she had nearly died all over again!
Was this man a freaking ox? Why had he been so rough?
Back to yesterday.
The back mountain of Dala Horn Village.
The sky was gloomy, and the waning moon gave off no light.
Beside a tombstone, a frail young girl was kneeling.
Her clothes were worn and tattered, her body covered in mud, and her shoulders trembled incessantly.
“Dad… what should I do…? Your seventh-day memorial hasn’t even arrived, and Grandma already wants to marry me off to that bald man!
“What’s even worse is that they’ve locked up my younger brother and younger sister. If I refuse to marry him, they’ll sell them!
“Wah… what should I do?”
Her desperate sobs had barely faded when a harsh voice suddenly rang out.
“Found her!”
The person who appeared was none other than Old Madam Lin, Lin Jingwan’s grandmother.
Her face was gaunt and shriveled, with hardly any flesh on it, making her triangular eyes look even more cold and ruthless.
Two burly men followed behind her. It was obvious they had come to capture someone.
Old Madam Lin put her hands on her hips and cursed.
“You little wretch! So you really were hiding here!”
Seeing the group, Lin Jingwan couldn’t stop herself from trembling.
“Grandma, Gao Daniu is bald, and his face looks like the skin on an old woman’s feet. I won’t marry him!”
Old Madam Lin’s expression immediately hardened.
“Marriage is a major matter, and the elders get to decide! You don’t have the right to be picky!”
“Grandma, my father wasn’t your biological son! And he just died. Aren’t you afraid you’ll be struck by lightning for doing this?”
“Hmph! Struck by lightning?
“If Heaven really had eyes, it would strike your mother dead first!
“She killed my second son’s entire family five people! She didn’t even spare the dog!
“And then she ran away!
“If she hadn’t killed those people, do you think your father would have died from the shock? All of this is your mother’s fault!
“Dayong, Daqiang, grab her!”
Lin Jingwan was seized by the arms and struggled desperately.
“No! I won’t marry him! I… ah!”
She couldn’t finish her sentence. Old Madam Lin withdrew her walking stick.
“Grandma, her head is bleeding!” Lin Dayong said when he saw the blood.
“Don’t worry. She won’t die! Hurry up and carry her away. Take her to the Gao family tonight and put her in the bridal chamber.”
“Yes, Grandma!”
The two brothers hoisted Lin Jingwan onto their shoulders and prepared to carry her down the mountain.
Suddenly, a blinding flash of lightning illuminated the sky.
The next second.
CRACK!
A thunderbolt struck directly beside Old Madam Lin’s feet.
She was so frightened that her legs went weak, and she collapsed onto the ground.
Lin Dayong and Lin Daqiang witnessed it with their own eyes and froze in terror.
Could Heaven really be angry?
Others might not know the truth, but the two brothers knew at least part of it.
The deaths of their second uncle’s family of five were because…
“What are you two standing there gawking at?!”
Old Madam Lin suppressed the panic in her heart and hurriedly said,
“Heaven was trying to strike that girl! It just hit the wrong spot!
“She has been cursed with an unlucky fate since birth. Now her father is dead and her mother has fled all because of her!
“Go, go, go! Carry her away!”
“Why aren’t you moving? Don’t you want the 100-yuan bride price anymore?”
At the mention of money, Lin Daqiang and Lin Dayong exchanged glances.
Their consciences weren’t worth a single cent anyway!
To hell with it!
The cold wind wailed, and the grass around the graves swayed.
No one knew that another wronged soul was about to be added to the burial grounds.
Amid the heavy darkness, a woman’s voice repeatedly echoed:
“Help me find my mother. Protect my younger brother and sister… Please.”
Her words lingered in the air.
Lin Jingwan struggled to lift her eyelids.
The next moment, her entire body froze!
On the dim earthen bed, someone was pulling off her clothes!??!!
Her survival instincts from the apocalypse kicked in. She immediately reached up and grabbed the hair of the person on top of her…
But she grabbed nothing.
“Damn! He’s bald!”
In the next instant, her right hand clamped around the bald man’s throat.
She slammed him at the waist, drove her knee into his abdomen, then kicked him sideways—all in one fluid motion!
The man was sent crashing to the floor and immediately passed out.
“Jinniu, tell me, do you think things will work out in there?”
“They will! I taught Daniu all about what to do on his wedding night. Besides, I drugged that girl. She won’t be able to escape.”
“But that girl is incredibly tough. I’m a little worried…”
“Mom, don’t you know whether her mother has killed anyone or not?
“I followed her mother before. Jing Shuning’s identity is no ordinary one. I’m only doing this for the good of our family in the future!”
“All right, then. I hope everything goes smoothly!”
At that moment, Lin Jingwan quietly lowered the broom in her hand. She had heard enough to get the general idea. At the same time, she had absorbed the original host’s memories and finally understood what was going on.
To put it simply, this was the 1970s, in a place called Dala Village.
She had transmigrated into a pitiful girl who happened to have the same name as her.
Her father had just died, her mother was a suspected murderer, and she had been forcibly sold to a bald, dumpy man.
The original owner’s dying wish was to find her mother and take care of her younger siblings!
So be it. She would fulfill that wish.
Life had been difficult in her previous life. Being reborn into a relatively peaceful world was already a blessing.
The only downside was that the laws in this era were strict. Murder was a crime.
She glanced at the man beside her.
Forget it. She would just let him die from his own stupidity!
Having made up her mind, Lin Jingwan planned to escape through the window.
Who would have thought that the moment she poked her head out, she would come face-to-face with two pairs of innocent eyes.
“Big Sister!” Eight-year-old Lin Yihan’s eyes lit up.
“Big Sister!” Six-year-old Lin Luoluo was still clutching a brick in her hand as she chimed in.
Lin Jingwan froze for a moment.
So these were her second younger brother and third younger sister!
“What are you two doing here?” Hadn’t they been locked up?
“Big Sister, hurry and jump down. It’ll be bad if they discover us later,” Lin Yihan suggested.
Lin Jingwan didn’t waste any time. She jumped and landed steadily on the ground.
The three of them didn’t dare delay and immediately ran side by side.
But the drug inside Lin Jingwan’s body was beginning to take effect. Her palms were sweating, her cheeks were burning, and her head was spinning.
“Big Sister, Big Sister, are you okay? Why don’t we go to the village chief’s house and ask him to stand up for us?” Lin Yihan asked worriedly.
“Brother is right,” little Luoluo added. “I heard Village Chief Uncle used to like our mom.”
Lin Jingwan: “……All right! Let’s go to the village chief’s house.”
The village chief had the most authority in the village. Perhaps he could give them justice.
The three hurried to the village chief’s house, only to find the courtyard gate tightly locked and the place completely deserted.
“Huh?” Lin Yihan was puzzled. “Could Village Chief Uncle have gone home to attend a funeral? Otherwise, why would there be no one here?”
“Let’s climb over the wall and hide here for the night,” Lin Jingwan decided.
She wasn’t feeling well and needed to make it through tonight first.
“Okay.”
The three of them swiftly climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard. Just as they approached the main room, they heard a flirtatious female voice coming from inside.
“Brother… would you like me to take care of you?”
Lin Jingwan: “……”
What was going on?
She instructed her younger siblings, “Wait here. I’ll go take a look first.”
She quietly crept closer and cautiously peered inside.
Under the hazy moonlight, a woman inside was in the middle of undressing.
All right! She wasn’t going to spy on someone else’s wedding night.
She turned around and was about to leave when a sudden bang came from inside. The door was violently thrown open, and a figure was sent tumbling straight out.
Before she could move, a large hand suddenly grabbed the back of her collar and yanked her into the room.
A sudden feeling of weightlessness overcame her, and Lin Jingwan was forcibly pulled into a scorching-hot chest.
She abruptly raised her head and met a pair of dark eyes.
Savage hostility surged within those eyes, churning like turbulent undercurrents.
At that moment, Li Zhaoye’s face alternated between pale and flushed, while his skin was unnaturally red with heat.
Lin Jingwan’s first thought was:
Could this man be about to suffocate from holding it all in…?
And at the instant their eyes met, it was as if an invisible fuse had been ignited.
She felt the heat inside her body suddenly explode.
Hot… burning hot…
Her rationality was slowly being devoured.
“Murder is against the law, and forcing someone into sex is against the law too. But if we save each other, then maybe that isn’t against the law, right?” Lin Jingwan gritted her teeth.
Fine!
She would do it!
Once she had made up her mind, there was no need to hesitate.
“I want to be on top!”
Those were the first words Lin Jingwan said to Li Zhaoye.
When Li Zhaoye heard this, his pupils contracted, and the scorching blood in his body surged straight to his head.
(This is a period drama novela satisfying, feel-good story with everyone doting on the heroine. Things get even more exciting later, so stay tuned)
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