“My man! Where’s my man? What did you do with my handsome man? Where did you hide him?”
Ren Chaomei stood right in the middle of the room, unleashing a thunderous roar loud enough to be heard dozens of meters away.
“My man is tall and handsome, six feet tall, fair-skinned, with big eyes! And you, you short and ugly toad, actually dared to pretend to be my man! I’ll beat you to death!”
Her booming voice not only stunned everyone in the room but also drew several nearby neighbors over.
After all, who didn’t want to watch a good show?
Just from those few sentences, everyone’s minds went through several twists in the span of a second.
The neighbors had always wondered how Wang Ergou, with his shabby appearance and poor family background, had managed to marry such a pretty wife.
Now it seemed they had their answer.
He had tricked her.
“Shut up! Stop talking! Aren’t you embarrassed?” Wang Ergou lunged forward, desperately reaching out to cover Ren Chaomei’s mouth.
But he was only five foot one, while Ren Chaomei was five foot six. Even jumping, he couldn’t reach her face. And the moment he leaped up, Ren Chaomei kicked him away.
“Shut your own damn mouth! You’re the one who should be embarrassed, not me!”
Ren Chaomei clenched her fists and pummeled Wang Ergou mercilessly, cursing viciously, “I’m not only going to make a huge scene. I’m going to the Public Security Bureau to report you for marriage fraud! I’ll take this all the way to the central government!”
They had already reached the final step of the wedding night. Normally, when a girl discovered at this point that she had been deceived, she could only swallow her tears and accept her fate.
The Wang family had never expected Ren Chaomei to actually dare make such a huge fuss.
Seeing that Wang Ergou couldn’t keep Ren Chaomei under control, the rest of the Wang family, who had originally intended to stay out of the wedding night, immediately rushed over to help. Several people crowded around her, trying to hold her down.
Wang Ergou’s father helped restrain her while cursing his son in frustration.
“You can’t even handle a delicate little girl! Now you need all of us to hold her down so you can consummate the marriage. You useless piece of trash!”
Even at this point, the Wang family still believed that everything would be fine once the marriage was consummated. No matter how stubborn Ren Chaomei was, they thought she would eventually accept her fate.
Their eldest daughter-in-law had cried so hard on her wedding day that she had fainted. Wasn’t she perfectly fine now, having even given their family a grandson?
Ren Chaomei was the second girl their family had deceived, but she was by far the most violent in her reaction.
“Handle? I’ll handle your fucking grandfather!”
The table leg Ren Chaomei was holding had originally been aimed at the man’s head. But when she heard those words, she changed direction and swung it straight at his groin.
“OWWW!”
Wang Ergou’s father’s face instantly went white, and he nearly passed out from the pain.
No one had expected Ren Chaomei to be this strong. Even with so many people trying to restrain her, they still couldn’t hold her down.
Among the crowd, the six-foot-tall, fair-skinned, big-eyed man she had been talking about shrank back when he saw this and quietly took two steps backward, preparing to slip away.
But how could Ren Chaomei let the real culprit escape?
This was the man who had deceived her.
She stopped bothering with Wang Ergou and charged straight toward him, gripping the large stick in her hand.
She tackled him to the ground, then pulled the scissors she had hidden in her pocket and slashed them straight across his face.
“You bastard! So you’ve been using this face to trick women everywhere, huh? You heartless piece of trash! If I don’t ruin that pretty face of yours, then I’ll stop being a Ren!”
The blades of the scissors slashed diagonally across the man’s eyebrows, eyes, and nose.
His face instantly became covered in blood.
“AHHH! My face!”
Ren Chaomei sneered mockingly.
“You only had your face ruined. But you were trying to ruin my entire life—and the lives of so many other girls!”
Her words instantly brought tears to the eyes of Wang family’s eldest daughter-in-law, who was also a victim.
The man whose face had been slashed was Wang Ergou’s distant cousin. He was usually extremely smooth-talking, but at critical moments, he would pretend to stutter.
When prospective brides came to meet the family, he would deliberately appear alongside the actual groom. Whenever the matchmaker introduced him, he would blush and remain silent, neither admitting nor denying anything. Later, he would blame the girls for having mistaken him for someone else.
Because he was handsome, many young women were willing to ask for less betrothal money—or even none at all—to marry him.
The original owner had been one of those foolish girls.
When she came to the Wang family for a marriage meeting, the matchmaker pointed toward the space between the two men.
The handsome one blushed and shyly glanced at her.
Who would even notice the ugly man standing beside him?
Besides, according to normal logic, if you weren’t the one being matched, why would you be the one blushing?
The moment he blushed, the girls automatically assumed he was the prospective groom—and not just any groom, but a shy, innocent, pure-hearted one.
During the few occasions they spent together afterward, he continued using his supposed shyness as an excuse to bring Wang Ergou along.
That way, once the marriage was settled, they could claim that the girl had simply mistaken one man for the other and confuse the situation.
The two communes were far apart, making it difficult for the original owner to investigate the truth.
And with such a handsome prospective husband constantly urging her to marry quickly, the original owner hadn’t had time to think things through before agreeing.
After being brought to the Wang family by the wedding party, the original owner had remained in the room, shyly waiting for her groom.
Instead, Wang Ergou had appeared.
She had fought back desperately and accidentally hit her head, causing her to pass out.
When she woke up again, the person inside her body had been replaced.
Ren Chaomei had merely stayed up all night reading a novel. The next thing she knew, a man trying to assault her had suddenly appeared before her, making every hair on her body stand on end.
Acting purely on instinct, she kicked him straight in the groin.
“You filthy pervert! Get away from me!”
“You can make all the trouble you want. You’re my wife now!” Wang Ergou endured the pain and limped toward her again.
“Your wife, my ass! I’m your father!”
Ren Chaomei fired back without hesitation, but her eyes fell on the distinctly old-fashioned objects around the room.
At the same time, the memories that suddenly appeared in her mind made her instantly understand the identity of the man before her.
This ugly toad was the marriage swindler, Wang Ergou.
Although she had already felt that something was wrong with her racing heartbeat when she closed her eyes and prepared to sleep, she had never expected that she would actually die from staying up all night and then transmigrate into the novel she had been reading.
And the novel’s female protagonist was her cousin, Ren Ganying.
Ren Chaomei was merely the vicious supporting female character who fought the heroine over everything.
She was clearly a pitiful girl who had been raised by her uncle’s family, yet she failed to understand her own circumstances and eventually fell into a trap designed by Ren Ganying, ending up married to an old bachelor.
When she had read the novel, Ren Chaomei had thought the supporting character with the same name was rather foolish.
But after receiving the original owner’s memories, Ren Chaomei could only laugh angrily.
Her uncle had raised her, yes—but back then, he had taken the 500 yuan her father had paid him for her upkeep. He had also taken possession of her family’s house.
Even the 500 yuan in private savings her father had secretly left for her had been stolen by her uncle.
And this marriage had been secretly arranged by her uncle’s family as well.
A group of grown adults, all several decades old, had ganged up on a teenage girl who had no parents to guide or protect her.
The original owner was too young. At only nineteen, she had suffered such a devastating blow in something as important as marriage that she had believed her life was over, sinking completely into despair.
But the people who had done wrong were clearly these swindlers!
After sorting through the memories in her mind, Ren Chaomei had no intention of holding back.
Two punches were enough to knock Wang Ergou to the floor, where he curled up in pain.
After straightening her clothes until they were perfectly neat, she stood there and took the moral high ground, loudly demanding that the Wang family return her handsome man to her.
She was strong, and her voice was even stronger.
Every neighbor who needed to hear her had heard.
In the short time it took for the Wang family to try to restrain her, several quick-footed neighbors had already rushed to the entrance of the Wang family courtyard.
“Ergou, what’s going on at your house?”
“Why is your new wife saying your family deceived her into marriage?”
Everyone’s mouths were moving faster than their feet.
By the time they stretched their necks to look inside, they were all shocked.
“Oh my! How did all this blood get here? Don’t let anyone get killed!”
The six-foot-tall, fair-skinned man Ren Chaomei had called her handsome man had blood covering his entire face. No one could tell whether he was still alive.
“Pull them apart! Hurry up and separate them!”
“Someone’s been killed! Come quickly! Someone’s killing people here!”
“Go get the brigade leader and the Party secretary!”
The matter the Wang family had been trying to conceal was exposed just like that.