“I’m going to submit the divorce application this afternoon.”
Lin Zhiyi was jolted awake by the voice. A sharp pain in her forehead made her instinctively reach up and touch it.
Why did this feel like gauze? Wasn’t she at her cousin’s house?
When she opened her eyes, she realized that the surroundings were completely unfamiliar.
The walls were covered with vintage posters, and beside the bed sat an enamel cup bearing the image of a people’s leader. Standing in front of her was a man wearing a white sleeveless undershirt.
Wasn’t that exactly what her grandfather loved to wear?
The man was about 185 centimeters tall, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and firm, well defined muscles along his arms. His facial features were sharply defined, every angle clean and distinct. Yet there was a red mole at the outer corner of his eye, drawing attention to his alluring, flirtatious eyes.
He was practically the epitome of male perfection!
As Lin Zhiyi thought this, a huge amount of information suddenly flooded her mind.
The time and place she was currently in belonged to the period novel she had been reading before falling asleep, The Delicate Pregnant Wife.
The original owner had the same name as her. She was the daughter of Lin Dongshan, the county magistrate of Qingbei County, and the vicious supporting female character who was the cannon fodder ex wife of the male lead, Wei Shiyu.
Lin Zhiyi and Wei Shiyu could be considered childhood sweethearts. Following her grandfather’s dying wish, she had married the male lead.
After getting married, Lin Zhiyi quit her job as a teacher at the town’s primary school.
She was willful and constantly ordered Wei Shiyu around, treating him however she pleased, yet he silently endured everything.
But two months later, the male lead suddenly became extremely cold toward her.
At the same time, Lin Zhiyi discovered that she was pregnant.
Wei Shiyu’s parents had always worried that something might happen to their son because of the dangerous nature of his work. When they heard that Lin Zhiyi was pregnant, they treated her like the most precious person in the family, willing to give her anything she wanted.
They even planned to hire a professional caregiver from the hospital to take care of her and the baby.
But the male lead suddenly requested leave cancellation and prepared to return to his military unit. Lin Zhiyi had already accumulated a great deal of resentment toward him, so she immediately started demanding a divorce.
In the midst of their argument, Lin Zhiyi slammed her head against the doorframe of the Wei family home and fainted on the spot.
As if things weren’t already bad enough, disaster soon struck the Wei family.
Wei Zhongliang, the male lead’s father, was reported by someone. As the factory director, he was immediately suspended from his position and placed under investigation. The entire family was even ordered to go to the countryside within three days.
Wei Shiyu did not even have enough time to send a telegram asking for help.
The moment Lin Zhiyi heard the news, she became even more determined to divorce him. She even decided to abort the child who had only just begun to develop in her womb.
No matter how much the male lead’s parents tried to stop her, Lin Zhiyi still went to the hospital.
In the end, the original owner successfully divorced the male lead and immediately went looking for Lu Bin, her unrequited love from her youth. She successfully remained in the city.
Rumors spread throughout the village. People not only said that she had never been able to let go of Lu Bin, but also called her an ungrateful woman who could only enjoy good times with others but refused to endure hardships with them.
Yang Shuzhen, who had already been in poor health, became bedridden after falling ill because of this incident.
Just when Lin Zhiyi thought she could finally live happily with the man she loved, Lu Bin took her money and fled with his entire family.
Before leaving, he reported that her family possessed excessive wealth, causing her biological father to sever all ties with her. In the end, she became an orphan whom no one cared about.
At this point, her younger sister, Lin Dongshan’s adopted daughter and the true female protagonist, Lin Youwei, used the excuse of going away for further studies to secretly follow the male lead to the countryside.
Two years later, Wei Zhongliang’s case was cleared, and the Wei family returned to the city, including the female protagonist, who had been reborn.
Wei Shiyu returned to the military, while the female protagonist gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Their lives became happy and fulfilling.
As for Lin Zhiyi, she was eventually sold into a remote mountainous region by Lu Bin, who had become desperate after falling into gambling debts. In the end, she died in a pigsty.
Everything she had suffered was because of Lin Youwei. From beginning to end, Lin Youwei had been plotting to steal her husband!
After Lin Zhiyi finally finished absorbing all the information, the man was already preparing to leave the room.
She was not the original owner. Why waste a perfectly good life by constantly causing trouble for herself?
Where else could she find a man this handsome who was also completely devoted to her?
Men in the future were one strange specimen after another!
With that thought, Lin Zhiyi ignored the pain in her head and hurriedly got out of bed, reaching for the man’s sleeve.
“Husband… don’t go. I was wrong before.”
But in the next moment, her weak body nearly sent her tumbling to the floor.
Wei Shiyu quickly caught her, exhaustion evident between his brows.
“Lin Zhiyi, you don’t need to put on an act anymore. I will do what I promised you. This afternoon, I’ll bring back the application.”
Although the Wei family had now been ordered to go to the countryside, Wei Shiyu was still a soldier, so the divorce required certain procedures and would take some time.
Wei Shiyu helped her back onto the bed. Her palm sized face looked completely harmless, yet those red lips had managed to utter so many vicious words.
After all, their marriage had only happened because of their parents’ wishes and a match arranged by their families. The person in her heart had never been him.
She had never had much affection for him. They had merely been taking what they each needed from the marriage.
But that child…
Wei Shiyu’s gaze fell on Lin Zhiyi’s still flat abdomen, and his eyes flickered.
Although he had never particularly wanted this child to be born, because he loved the family, he could not help but feel some affection for the child as well.
Lin Zhiyi noticed Wei Shiyu’s gaze and remembered what the original owner had said in the book.
The original owner had been desperate to sever all ties with him.
“Don’t worry. I won’t keep this child! I won’t allow anything related to you to remain in my life! I could never let my child have a father like you, a man with such a stain on his name! You don’t deserve to be his father!”
She remembered that in the original novel, Wei Shiyu’s expression at that moment had been rather difficult to decipher.
Thinking of this, Lin Zhiyi placed a hand over her lower abdomen.
“Shiyu, do you want to feel him?”
Wei Shiyu remained completely still, looking at the woman in front of him in confusion.
“Shiyu, I was immature before. I won’t divorce you. I’ve decided to go to the countryside with your family, and I won’t get rid of the baby either.”
Lin Zhiyi’s words left Wei Shiyu completely stunned.
Ever since he had become cold toward her, she had constantly demanded a divorce, even going so far as to threaten him with her life.
How had she suddenly become a completely different person in the blink of an eye?
What exactly was she trying to do?
Could it really be as Lin Youwei had said, that she intended to use the money her parents had given her to support Lu Bin?
Wei Shiyu calmly looked at the woman who had been married to him for less than three months, his confusion outweighing his happiness.
Wei Shiyu’s reaction left Lin Zhiyi somewhat bewildered.
Shouldn’t he be extremely happy right now? She was willing to keep the baby and go to the countryside with him. Wasn’t this exactly what he wanted?
The book had said that the original owner’s fate had been caused by the female protagonist, but why?
As a vicious supporting female character in the novel, the author had never given her much attention.
“I’ve made up my mind.”
Lin Zhiyi spoke again, her eyes filled with an unusual determination.
This was a result Wei Shiyu had never expected.
Yet he was still happy deep down. Given the Wei family’s current situation, the child was the only hope the elderly couple had.
No one knew how long they would have to remain in the countryside or what they would have to endure there.
Had she really made up her mind?