When Su Wan returned home, she saw Su Lei organizing firewood in the yard, stacking bundle after bundle neatly.
The moment Su Lei saw Su Wan come back, he asked, “Why were you in such a hurry today? I was shouting after you from behind, but you completely ignored me.”
“Well, I saw she got bitten by a snake, so I was anxious!” Su Wan said awkwardly with a laugh.
“But you’re not even close to her. Why were you so worried?” Su Lei clearly did not believe her.
“We may not be close, but when they first came to the countryside, Dad told them to come to me if they had any problems,” Su Wan said confidently. “So tell me, after seeing her faint, how could I not worry? Since I accepted this responsibility, I have to be responsible for them.”
Pretending to grow impatient, Su Wan added, “Believe it or not! What other motive could I possibly have?”
Sure enough, seeing Su Wan getting annoyed, Su Lei stopped questioning her. He rubbed her head and said, “Wasn’t I just asking a few questions? Look how fierce you got. Alright, alright, I won’t ask anymore.”
Su Wan smiled immediately.
Then she grabbed Su Lei’s arm again and said, “Brother, help me with something. I have this stone here. Smash it for me, the more broken the better.”
Su Lei watched as Su Wan pulled out a black stone strung on a red cord. She removed the cord and handed the stone over.
After taking it and looking it over, Su Lei asked in confusion, “Why are you wearing a stone around your neck? And now you want to smash it? If you don’t want it anymore, just throw it away.”
Su Wan tugged on his sleeve and acted spoiled. “I just want to smash it. Are you going to help me or not?”
“Fine, fine, I’ll smash it, alright? Let go already. You’re about to tear my sleeve off,” Su Lei said helplessly while pulling his clothes back into place.
Grinning, Su Wan said, “My brother really is the best.”
As Su Lei went to get a hammer, he remained completely unmoved by her praise.
After all, he had heard those words countless times growing up.
Whenever Su Wan got into trouble or wanted his help, she always used the same line. The first few times, Su Lei had happily fallen for it, but later he realized her routine.
Even so, there was nothing he could do about it. Who told him he could never bear to refuse her?
Su Lei placed the black jade on the ground, raised the hammer, and took aim. Su Wan crouched beside him, staring intently.
The hammer came crashing down.
After hearing the impact, Su Lei lifted the hammer and looked.
The black jade was still completely intact.
Awkward.
It actually had not broken.
Su Lei rubbed his nose and glanced at Su Wan awkwardly. “Heh… I didn’t use enough force. Not enough force.”
This time, Su Lei silently used all his strength.
I refuse to believe I can’t smash one tiny stone!
Another loud impact rang out.
Su Lei instantly felt something was wrong.
Sure enough, it still had not broken.
Unwilling to accept it, Su Lei rolled up his sleeves and started smashing wildly with loud bangs.
The moment Su Wan saw that her brother had failed to break it the first time, she already had a bad feeling.
Her expression turned serious as she thought deeply.
She knew her brother’s strength well. Even if he was not exceptionally strong, smashing an ordinary stone should have been effortless. Yet no matter how he struck it, it would not break.
Could it be that, as the heroine’s lucky koi jade, it was impossible to destroy?
No!
How could she possibly leave behind such a huge hidden danger?
Su Wan’s face grew solemn, her brows tightly furrowed.
Su Lei, who had finally stopped after tiring himself out, saw his sister looking like that. He thought she was looking down on him for failing to even smash a stone and was just about to explain himself—
When Su Wan suddenly spoke.
“Brother, let me try.”
“If I can’t smash it, then with your tiny strength it’ll be even more impossible,” Su Lei said, though he still handed her the hammer.
“Where did you even get this stone? No matter how hard I hit it, it won’t break. This really is—”
Before Su Lei could finish speaking, Su Wan brought the hammer down once.
The stone shattered into tiny fragments.
Su Lei froze in shock.
The unfinished words “…what is going on?” were swallowed back down.
He crouched down in disbelief, rubbed his eyes, and looked carefully.
It had really shattered.
He looked at Su Wan with utter disbelief.
Su Wan herself was stunned too, standing there blankly with the hammer in hand.
Actually, she had only wanted to try.
She never expected it to really break.
It actually broke!
The moment it shattered, Su Wan suddenly felt her entire body and mind relax, as if a huge stone pressing down on her had finally been lifted away.
Her emotions were extremely complicated right now.
It broke just like that?!
Only moments ago, she had been worrying endlessly and imagining all kinds of terrible outcomes.
Yet now the problem had suddenly been solved.
Coming back to her senses, Su Wan smiled brightly, as though she had just stumbled upon an enormous bargain.
Seeing the joy written all over Su Wan’s face, Su Lei seemed to realize something. He suddenly shouted loudly:
“Su Wan! Were you tricking me? You specially found a stone like this on purpose, didn’t you?!”
“Brother, no! I wasn’t trying to trick you.”
Su Lei looked unconvinced. “If you weren’t smiling so happily right now, maybe I’d believe you. Look how happy you are!”
Su Wan coughed lightly and said seriously, “No, really, Brother, I didn’t trick you. Besides, where would I even find a stone like that?”
“Then what was that just now? Why did it shatter the moment you lightly hit it?”
Su Wan explained with complete seriousness, “Well… maybe after your last hit, it was already about to break, so when I lightly tapped it, it shattered.”
Seeing her brother crouching there with a completely bewildered expression, Su Wan could not be bothered to explain further.
Even though it had already shattered, it was still best to deal with it quickly.
Su Wan spread her handkerchief on the ground and carefully swept all the shattered jade fragments onto it. She did not even spare the layer of dirt underneath.
After wrapping everything tightly, she carried it back into her room.
When she came back out, she saw her brother still sitting there in frustration. So she walked over, pulled him up, and deliberately joked around to coax him.
Only after Su Lei finally stopped dwelling on what had just happened did Su Wan secretly sigh in relief.
Her own brother—she still had to coax him no matter what!
At the exact moment Su Wan shattered the black jade, far away in the educated youth dormitory, Liu Rongrong, who was sitting on the bed, suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest.
Then she felt an emptiness in her heart, as though something precious had left her forever.
Clutching her chest, Liu Rongrong felt extremely uncomfortable.
But when she tightly grabbed the jade hanging on her chest, she immediately felt much better.
As long as it was still there, everything would continue to go smoothly!
That night, Su Wan lay in bed feeling extremely excited, completely unable to sleep as she replayed the events of the day in her mind.
She felt that the reason she had been able to so easily destroy the black jade was because she herself had transmigrated into the book.
Unlike her brother, who was a native of this world and therefore constrained by the story itself, Su Wan was an outside variable that did not belong to the novel.
That was why she could successfully change the plot.
Now that the heroine no longer had this great support, no matter what trouble she caused in the future, she would no longer be able to harm others.
Actually, the current Liu Rongrong was also someone who had transmigrated into the book. As long as she stopped obsessing over the original plot, then with all the knowledge and memories she had from the future, she would definitely still live well in this era no matter what.
Thinking about all this, Su Wan gradually drifted off to sleep in a daze.
A smile still lingered on her face.
A long-awaited good dream.