Just a second ago, Lin Xiyue had been swimming in the pool of her luxurious villa. She never expected that after slipping and falling, she would accidentally transmigrate.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Mother Lu looking at her with concern. Lin Xiyue looked around at the mud-brick house with bare walls and at the exhausted-looking Mother Lu. She was so shocked that she could not recover for a long time.
Had she really… transmigrated?
Her mind quickly sorted through the original owner’s memories, leaving Lin Xiyue momentarily unable to react.
Seeing that Lin Xiyue had just woken up and still looked confused, Mother Lu grabbed her hand apologetically and comforted her.
“Good child, I know it has wronged you to make you marry into our family. But don’t worry—if you’re willing to stay, we will definitely treat you well. If you don’t want to stay, we won’t force you. Later I’ll talk to Granny Zhang and have you sent back. But you mustn’t do something foolish again.”
Mother Lu had never expected this girl to have such a fierce temperament—she would rather smash her head against the wall than marry into their family.
Looking at their dilapidated house, Mother Lu couldn’t help but sigh. It was her own incompetence. She had not been able to marry wives for her sons and had almost harmed someone else’s daughter.
Their family was so poor that it was no wonder the girl didn’t want to marry into it.
Lin Xiyue looked at the pale-faced woman before her. She seemed even sicker than Lin Xiyue herself, yet she was still trying to comfort her.
Wait… marry into their family?
Lin Xiyue searched through her memories and quickly understood her current situation.
Good grief—her biological grandmother had sold her to this family as a wife for two taels of silver.
The original owner once had a childhood sweetheart in the village. However, her grandmother despised how poor his family was and that they couldn’t afford any money, so she sold the girl to the Lu family for two taels of silver.
The original owner’s home and Lu Village were only separated by a single hill. Before the matchmaker brought her there, she had not told her whether she was marrying one man or several.
Only when she arrived did she discover that she was to marry three brothers and become their shared wife.
Although she had not yet met them, the thought of serving three men in the future made the original owner feel utterly hopeless. On top of that, she already loved someone else, so she had no desire to marry them.
In the end, in complete despair, she chose to end her life.
She smashed her head against the corner of the wall, blood instantly splattering everywhere.
When she woke up again, however, the soul inside the body had already changed.
Now inhabiting the body was Lin Xiyue, the descendant of a medical family from the twenty-first century.
According to the original owner’s memories, the village indeed used to have the custom of shared wives. At that time, there were far more men than women in the village, and many families were too poor to afford brides.
So if there were many brothers in a family and none could afford a wife, two or three brothers would share one wife. Some families even had four or five brothers sharing a single wife.
But nowadays, most families were doing better. There were gradually more girls as well.
As long as a family could feed themselves, they would not consider arranging a shared wife for their sons.
Yet their family had now become the only such case in the village, and they would surely be pointed at and gossiped about in the future.
As a modern person, Lin Xiyue had once fantasized about the happiness of having multiple husbands. However, she was still fundamentally conservative. Deep down, she adhered to the concept of monogamy.
Marrying three rough village men was absolutely impossible for her.
But compared to returning to the dangerous wolf’s den that was the Lin family, staying here temporarily seemed like a better option.
After all, the woman before her looked kind. Presumably, her sons wouldn’t be too bad either.
Having made up her mind, Lin Xiyue looked at Mother Lu and said,
“Since my grandmother has already sold me to your family, I’m willing to stay. I won’t do anything foolish again. But you cannot force me to do things I’m unwilling to do.”
Lin Xiyue wanted to stay not only because the original owner’s parents were useless, but also because she feared that returning to the Lin family might expose that she was no longer the same person, which could affect her future plans.
In Lujiagou Village, no one knew her. She could live much more freely.
When Mother Lu heard that Lin Xiyue was willing to stay, she was truly delighted.
“Good, good! Don’t worry, our whole family is reasonable people. We would never force you to do anything you don’t want to do. You should rest well for now. I’ll go cook for you. The second and third sons will be back later, and I’ll introduce you to them then.”
With a bright smile, Mother Lu left the room. It was obvious that she was genuinely happy.
After she left, Lin Xiyue finally relaxed. She sat up, only to gasp in pain.
This girl had really been ruthless. The wound on her head might even leave a scar.
Mother Lu had somehow found herbs that could stop bleeding and reduce swelling, mashed them up, and applied them to the wound. Although it looked crude, at least the herbs were correct.
Lin Xiyue was about to remove the cloth wrapped around her head to treat the wound again when she suddenly noticed a red crescent-shaped mark on her wrist.
She had never had such a mark in her previous life. According to the original owner’s memories, it hadn’t existed before either.
Thinking back to before she transmigrated—when she fell, the family heirloom jade bracelet on her wrist had shattered. When it broke, it cut her wrist. She remembered seeing a flash of white light before losing consciousness.
When she opened her eyes again, she was here.
Could that bracelet have caused her transmigration?
She gently touched the crescent mark. Instantly, a small world appeared in her mind.
Fortunately, she was brave enough not to panic.
When she realized what the place was, Lin Xiyue couldn’t help but exclaim,
“A space?!”
Could this be the golden finger that transmigrators always had—a portable dimension?
With a single thought, her entire body instantly entered that small world.
Inside the space were blue skies, white clouds, and fresh air. Beneath her feet was a patch of fertile black soil about one mu in size. Not far away stood a large tree that looked like a fruit tree, though she didn’t know if it would bear fruit.
Under the tree was a spiritual spring.
Lin Xiyue scooped up a handful and tasted it. Just like the springs described in novels she had read in her previous life, the water was sweet and refreshing.
After drinking it, warmth spread throughout her body, and the wound on her head began to itch slightly—clearly a sign that it was healing quickly.
It seemed this spiritual spring also had healing properties. What an unexpected blessing.
She walked further into the space, but after a short distance she seemed to hit an invisible barrier. It appeared that the size of the space was limited—about a dozen mu of land.
Still, it was more than enough for her.
After staying there for a while, Lin Xiyue wanted to drink more of the spring water. However, when she saw the face reflected in the water, she was completely shocked.
That malnourished, sallow-faced, bean-sprout-like girl… was her?
In her previous life, she had been a famous beauty with a perfect figure—curves in all the right places.
But the original owner’s body clearly looked undernourished. No chest, no hips—and that face was truly hard to look at.
Lin Xiyue stared at her reflection again, wondering if smashing her head against a wall would send her back.
A foolishly filial father, a cowardly mother, a vicious grandmother, and a cold home.
Being sold off was one thing—but being sold to a poor family as a shared wife?
With this frail body, she probably couldn’t even withstand a single punch from them.
Wasn’t this the definition of a disastrous starting point?
Looking dejected, Lin Xiyue left the space.
Not long after, Mother Lu came to call her for dinner, saying that their third son had returned from the mountain after gathering medicinal herbs…