Su Yuanyuan woke up one morning to discover that she had transmigrated into a novel.
The night before, she had stayed up all night reading a novel, completely engrossed in it. Then she discovered that one of the cannon-fodder supporting female characters in the book had the exact same name as her. The coincidence instantly disgusted her, so she dropped the novel—and before doing so, she left the author a one-star review.
And then, after falling asleep, she woke up to discover that she had actually transmigrated into the book.
And there was a man on top of her.
“This little woman has quite the body. That useless Lu Zheng’an, marrying such a fine woman and not knowing how to cherish her. Once I have my way with her, I’ll find a chance to bring her over to my family. Then you’ll be my wife, hehe!”
The man muttered to himself, his hands roaming all over Su Yuanyuan’s body. He had never even dared dream that such a good thing would happen to him. Just thinking about it made him practically drool.
His mind was completely occupied with what he was about to do, so he failed to notice that Su Yuanyuan had already awakened.
The man grabbed her waist and reached for her clothes.
Su Yuanyuan finally recovered from the shock of transmigrating into the book. The man’s heavy breathing made her feel sick. Her eyes turned cold, and she raised her hand, striking the back of his neck with the edge of her palm.
She had caught him completely off guard, and she had put all her strength into the blow. The man who had been on top of her just a moment ago passed out the next instant.
“Tsk!”
Su Yuanyuan pushed the man off her, sat up, and dusted herself off in disgust.
All the windows in the room were covered with old, tattered curtains, allowing only a faint amount of light to filter inside.
After straightening her clothes, Su Yuanyuan climbed down from the kang, took a deep breath, and hoisted the unconscious man onto her shoulder.
“……”
He was surprisingly light.
The original owner’s body had clearly been accustomed to doing farm work. Although she was in poor health, she still had some strength. People who had grown up enduring hardship were capable of doing physical labor as long as they weren’t seriously ill or had paralyzed legs.
In her original world, Su Yuanyuan exercised every day and had a fairly strong physique. She also knew how to fight, so carrying the man to the doorway was effortless.
There was no one in the courtyard or the neighboring room. The entire household was eerily quiet.
Su Yuanyuan sneered and headed straight for the back door.
Old Man Lu and his family were all sitting beneath the banyan tree outside the front gate, enjoying the cool air. In front of outsiders, they were pretending that they knew nothing. Then, once everything was done, they planned to catch the adulterer in bed.
The back door had deliberately been left ajar by the Lu family so the man could enter the house.
Beyond the back door was a vast wheat field. The wheat had grown quite tall, and during the golden autumn season, the entire field stretched out in a brilliant sea of gold.
Su Yuanyuan carried the man away at an astonishing speed. She went far into the field before dumping him on the ridge behind the wheat field. Then she dusted off her hands without even breaking a sweat.
No one came this way in the evening, but she still had to be careful.
Su Yuanyuan glanced around. After making sure there was no one nearby, she turned and headed home.
The Lu family’s home was a thatched house, with walls built from bricks made of yellow earth.
It was only after Lu Zheng’an enlisted in the army that the family’s life had gradually begun to improve.
Back in the room, Su Yuanyuan fastened the door and swept her eyes around the place. The corner of her mouth twitched.
It was practically empty.
She sat down on the kang, closed her eyes, and concentrated on a single thought.
When she opened her eyes again, she was standing in front of a luxurious five-story villa. Looking out from the villa’s entrance was a vast medicinal herb garden.
Even the breeze blowing toward her carried a faint medicinal fragrance.
Su Yuanyuan’s heart pounded wildly with excitement.
Before closing her eyes, she hadn’t been sure whether her dimensional space had come with her when she transmigrated into the book. She never expected that it really had!
Without her space, even with her fighting skills, it would have been extremely difficult to break away from the original owner’s predetermined storyline while also raising two children and giving them a good life.
But with the space, everything was completely different.
For starters, just the villa inside the space alone could raise the quality of life for the three of them by more than one level.
The villa was fully automated. There was a robot vacuum for cleaning, fully automatic curtains, and a washer-dryer in the bathroom.
The kitchen had a dishwasher and an automatic cooking machine, while the medicinal herb garden was equipped with automatic irrigation.
But beyond all that, there was one thing in the space that Su Yuanyuan was most satisfied with:
The spiritual spring.
Su Yuanyuan narrowed her eyes and smiled. Facial recognition unlocked the first-floor door, revealing a bright and spacious living room.
She walked over to the counter and pressed a switch. The drinking-water dispenser automatically began dispensing water.
The dispenser was connected to the well outside.
The water in the well was a natural underground spiritual spring with special properties. The original owner’s body wasn’t particularly healthy, so the spiritual spring was essentially like nourishing medicine.
Su Yuanyuan poured herself a cup and drank it all.
As the spiritual spring water entered her stomach, she could clearly feel her heavy body becoming lighter. Even the sensation of struggling to catch her breath had improved considerably.
Su Yuanyuan let out a long breath.
“Ah, that feels so good!”
Breathing the air inside the space made her feel as though her entire body had become lighter.
Su Yuanyuan rolled up her sleeves and went to take a look at the melon garden beside the medicinal herb garden.
A watermelon about the size of a basketball was lying beside the field.
She picked it, cut it in half, and sat beneath the locust tree at the edge of the field, holding half the watermelon and eating it in big mouthfuls.
The Kylin watermelon grown with spiritual spring water was exceptionally sweet and juicy.
After finishing the last bite, Su Yuanyuan washed her hands, stretched lazily, and figured that enough time had passed.
……
Old Man Lu and the others walked back from the field ridge, glancing toward the doorway at the same time. They exchanged knowing looks.
“Dad, should we go in now?”
The eldest son, Lu Zhengning, had a cigarette dangling from his mouth and looked rather thuggish.
Li Hua spat on the ground, twisted her thick waist, walked into the courtyard, and began pounding on the door.
“Daughter-in-law of the eldest son, how long are you planning to sleep? There are so many things waiting to be done in the fields and around the house. Don’t just eat without doing any work! And you’ve got two little burdens under you. Our family can’t afford to feed this many mouths!”
Li Hua pounded on the door until it rattled loudly.
During the years Su Yuanyuan had been married into the Lu family, Li Hua had repeatedly mistreated her daughter-in-law, relying on her status as the mother-in-law.
Especially because Su Yuanyuan was in poor health and wasn’t particularly quick at working, and had also given birth to two little burdens who did nothing but open their mouths and wait to be fed, Li Hua found her even more unpleasant to look at.
On the kang, Su Yuanyuan pulled the quilt over herself and lay down comfortably, pretending she hadn’t heard anything.
There was no response from inside.
Li Hua was secretly overjoyed. Once today’s plan succeeded, wouldn’t Su Yuanyuan be firmly under their thumb? They could make her do whatever they wanted!
Li Hua exchanged a glance with her second son and eldest son.
The two were also excited. They pretended to call out:
“Why isn’t there any response? Could it be that Big Sister-in-law isn’t feeling well? Maybe something happened to her inside?”
After shouting, the two brothers immediately rammed the door. The yellow earth around the doorframe shook loose and fell.
Although Su Yuanyuan had fastened the door from inside, it couldn’t withstand them. After only a few blows, the door was forced open.
The entire family rushed inside like dumplings dropping into a pot.
The person on the kang sat up, looking startled, covering her mouth and coughing repeatedly.
There was only one quilt on the kang. Whether or not a man was hiding underneath it would have been obvious at a glance.
But apart from Su Yuanyuan, where was anyone else?
The room was tiny. Even the wardrobe was missing one of its doors. There was nowhere for anyone to hide.
They searched the entire room, but aside from Su Yuanyuan, there wasn’t another person in sight.
“You!”
Lu Zhengning was just about to demand where Su Yuanyuan had hidden the man when Li Hua grabbed him.
Everyone stared in shock at the woman half-sitting on the kang.
Su Yuanyuan had coughed until her cheeks were flushed red. Her pale face now had some color, making her look even more delicate and charming than usual.
“Dad, Mom, what happened? Why did you rush in without even knocking?”
Su Yuanyuan deliberately waited until they had searched the room before asking, despite knowing perfectly well what they were up to.
Seeing Li Hua and the others still darting their eyes around the room, Su Yuanyuan rolled her eyes inwardly.
There wasn’t a single innocent person in the Lu family.
Just look at them. The moment they entered, they had searched every corner of the room. They might as well have written CATCHING AN ADULTERER across their faces.
The original owner really was pitiful. She had ended up with such a huge family and still hadn’t received any better treatment even after giving birth to two children.
“You’re saying you’re the only one in this room?”
Lu Zhenggang frowned unhappily, wondering whether she had hidden the man somewhere.
A trace of confusion crossed Su Yuanyuan’s pale face.
“Who else could there be? The two children aren’t here either.”
Li Hua unwillingly looked her over.
Su Yuanyuan’s skin was fair and delicate, with no marks on her body whatsoever. Her clothes were neat and orderly too. She didn’t look like someone who had just gone through that kind of thing at all.
Old Man Lu darkly tapped his dry tobacco pipe and snorted.
“You still remember that you have two children? All you do every day is lie around without working. Do you think food will fall from the sky by itself? Lu Zheng’an married a wife, but I think he brought home a Bodhisattva instead!”
Old Man Lu had already searched the room and knew perfectly well that there was no one inside. But he couldn’t let anyone know that they had come here intending to catch an adulterer.
Hearing this, Su Yuanyuan almost laughed.
They really knew how to turn things around and blame the victim.
When they failed to catch an adulterer, they simply found another excuse to make trouble.
Forget the fact that she had two children and didn’t work. Even if she were a little more willful, she would still have every right to eat and live well.
Lu Zheng’an sent home 80 yuan every month, which was more than enough for the three of them—mother and children—to live comfortably and eat well.