“Lin Shuang, whether you want to swap fiances or not, you’re doing it.”
“Your younger sister Lanlan and Linfeng are a match made in heaven.”
“Your Uncle Shen and Aunt Shan like Lanlan better, too.”
“…”
Even after Lin Shuang finished processing her newly acquired memories, the person standing above her kept babbling on endlessly.
Lin Shuang instantly understood that this was her original body’s scumbag father, a live-in son-in-law.
When the original host was ten years old, her birth mother died in an accident.
Her scumbag father could not wait to bring his mistress, along with several illegitimate children he had been raising on the outside, back into the Lin household.
To cover up his blatant, wolfish ambition, he even changed the surnames of all three illegitimate children to Lin.
From then on, the original host lived the miserable life of an abandoned child. Fortunately, she had an aunt who adored her.
After causing a massive scene at the Lin residence, her aunt successfully took the original host away to live with her.
However, the original host had been foolish. Even though her scumbag father had ignored her for years, she still harbored unrealistic illusions about him.
And so, right after her eighteenth birthday, the moment he beckoned, she foolishly rushed straight back.
Her scumbag father had said these exact same words to her last night the moment she returned. But since the original host was head over heels for Shen Linfeng, she naturally refused, and the father and daughter parted on bitter terms.
Unexpectedly, early this morning, the original host caught her fiance, Shen Linfeng, sleeping with her younger stepsister, Lin Lanlan.
Unable to stomach the humiliation, the original host threw a massive fit. During the scuffle, her stepsister pushed her down, causing her head to slam into the corner of a table and spill a large pool of blood.
Yet this whole family completely ignored her pathetic state.
Her scumbag father didn’t bother sending her to the hospital either; all he did was verbally pressure her to yield to Lin Lanlan.
Lin Shuang moved her curled-up body and endured the dizziness to sit upright.
She neatly tore off a piece of her skirt hem to wrap around her head, then poured herself a cup of water and drank it down, finally feeling a bit better.
Qin Hongwen was just about to fly into a rage at his daughter for ignoring him when he heard:
“I agree!”
Qin Hongwen couldn’t react for a moment.
Lin Shuang didn’t bother giving him a second glance.
“I can sign the engagement cancellation document, but I want that set of white jade jewelry belonging to my stepmother.”
“No way!”
Qin Hongwen rejected it without a second thought. He knew better than anyone how much Zhou Qingman treasured that set of jewelry.
“Not giving it to me? Then I won’t sign.”
Lin Shuang made a move as if she were going to pull open the door.
Qin Hongwen felt a gut instinct that nothing good would come of this, so he called out with a cold face.
“What are you planning to do?”
Lin Shuang couldn’t stand her scumbag father’s wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing act.
With a smile that didn’t reach her eyes, she said, “Ever since I came back, I haven’t visited the uncles and aunts who watched me grow up.”
“While I’m at it, I might as well spread the word: How did the gentle and lovely Lin Lanlan in their eyes shamelessly seduce her own brother-in-law?”
Qin Hongwen’s face turned ghastly pale as he cursed in fury.
“You unfilial beast!”
“You scumbag father!”
Qin Hongwen choked on Lin Shuang’s retort. Although he had never heard the phrase “scumbag father” before, he knew full well it wasn’t anything nice.
Thinking of his upcoming plans, Qin Hongwen ultimately held back his anger.
“Fine, I’ll give it to you!”
Lin Shuang quickly received a sandalwood box, opening it to take a rough look inside.
A white jade phoenix bracelet, a white jade bottle pendant hanging from a gold necklace, and a pair of white jade orchid earrings.
It was indeed the three-piece set that Zhou Qingman cherished above all else.
Lin Shuang gloated secretly to herself. This set of jewelry was linked to a hidden treasure cavern.
Zhou Qingman most likely had no idea, otherwise she wouldn’t have flaunted and worn it everywhere like a token of love.
With her scumbag father present, Lin Shuang couldn’t inspect it too closely.
“Sister, Linfeng and I are truly in love. Why don’t you just fulfill our wishes?”
Lin Lanlan’s affected voice came from behind her. Lin Shuang swiftly snapped the lid shut and tucked the box onto her person.
Turning around, she happened to meet Lin Lanlan’s triumphant gaze.
Lin Shuang let out a sneer, snatched the engagement cancellation document from Shen Linfeng’s hands, and scribbled her name across it with grand strokes.
“Fulfill your wishes? Absolutely!”
“A bitch and a dog last till kingdom come!”
With a flick of her hand, she slapped the engagement cancellation document right onto Shen Linfeng’s face.
“You… how vulgar…”
Shen Linfeng was practically flying into a frenzy of rage, but Lin Shuang tossed a jewelry box into his arms with a beaming smile.
“Hold onto it tight—the trashy token your family gave.”
Before Shen Linfeng could explode, Lin Shuang held out her palm toward him once more.
“Now it’s your turn to return my Shen family jade pendant.”
A brief flash of panic crossed Shen Linfeng’s expression, which was usually as gentle as polished jade.
He was mulling over what kind of excuse to make to gloss it over.
Little did he expect that Lin Shuang was playing a double game. While everyone’s attention was focused on Shen Linfeng, she grabbed Lin Lanlan by the hair with one hand and yanked hard with the other, snatching the jade pendant straight into her grip.
She was catching the enemy completely off guard!
Just now, Lin Lanlan had probably pulled her collar wide open on purpose to show off.
Lin Shuang didn’t bother looking at the hickeys, but her sharp eyes caught sight of the jade pendant carved with her zodiac sign.
Lin Shuang saw through everything clearly!
It would be difficult to make them spit out what was already down their throats.
Instead of waiting, it was better to strike first while they were unprepared.
“Alright, I’m going upstairs to rest. Don’t bother me.”
With that said, completely ignoring the roaring behind her, she vanished like a streak of smoke.
Returning to her room, Lin Shuang immediately went to untie the cloth strip around her forehead. Only when her hand touched it did she realize the blood had already dried.
Biting her finger, she let her blood drop onto the jade pendant.
A flash of white light zipped by, and Lin Shuang found her entire body standing inside a spatial dimension.
Gurgling streams, mist-shrouded bamboo forests, and a two-story building half-hidden within the mountain woods.
Everything felt like a paradise isolated from the world.
In the book, it was only after Lin Lanlan became engaged to Shen Linfeng that she inadvertently activated the jade pendant’s spatial dimension.
The Lin and Shen families were conspiring to move their entire households to Hong Kong, but the transfer of their assets had hit a stalemate without a clear resolution.
Lin Lanlan was the one who stepped up at that time.
She falsely claimed to know a powerful godfather in Hong Kong who guaranteed that every single thread and needle could be safely transported.
Almost overnight, the Lin and Shen residences were stripped bare and left empty. By the time the authorities here noticed, both families had already settled down comfortably in Hong Kong.
Relying on the Lin family’s enormous wealth, her scumbag father’s family lived like fish in water over there.
Shen Linfeng also relied on the Shen family’s assets and his father-in-law’s full support to become a prominent figure over there.
Lin Lanlan became the major contributor and lucky star of both families because of this.
She practically got whatever she wished for.
When she wanted to become a star, the Shen and Lin families built the ladder to heaven for her. Lin Lanlan quickly became a household name and a megastar, adored by countless people, living the life of a wealthy socialite that everyone envied.
After the Reform and Opening-up, the couple was invited back to their homeland to invest, becoming legendary figures worshipped by countless students.
In contrast, as the real heiress of the Lin family, she was ostensibly married off to Lu Jun in a fiance swap on the surface.
Behind the scenes, however, her three stepsiblings conspired to gift her away in exchange for favors, ruining her chastity. The original host didn’t dare seek help from anyone and was eventually driven into the deep mountains.
The mountains were infested with wolves, and Lin Lanlan was certain the original host would surely die.
Turning around, Lin Lanlan cried crocodile tears and wiped her eyes along with her scumbag father.
Her scumbag father immediately played the villain, calling Lu Jun to tell him that Lin Shuang, who was swapped to be his fiancee, was unwilling to marry him and had eloped with someone else, among other lies.
In short, they threw every bucket of dirty water imaginable onto the original host.
How was this a biological father? Calling him a mortal enemy wouldn’t even be an exaggeration.
Lin Shuang washed her wound with the spring water and bandaged it anew.
She instantly felt the pain lessen significantly.
Just as Lin Shuang was about to continue exploring the space, a series of heavy thuds sounded on the door from outside.
Lin Shuang thought it was her scumbag father.
Unexpectedly, upon opening the door, she found an enraged Lin Lanlan standing there.
“Bang!”