The original novel revolved around the male lead, Lu Zheng, and the female lead, Chen Zhiyi.
Lu Zheng and Chen Zhiyi were childhood sweethearts, and their families had arranged a betrothal between them when they were young.
But after the rustication movement began, the Lu family was framed as capitalists after offending someone, and the whole family was sent to the countryside for reeducation.
It was during that time that Lu Zheng met the village chief’s daughter, Su Mian.
Su Mian was the youngest daughter of the Su family, and their only girl. She had been doted on by her parents and four older brothers since childhood.
So when she fell for Lu Zheng, a capitalist young master from the city, even though they knew the Lu family’s background was bad, the Su family couldn’t bear to stop Su Mian from seeing him.
Lu Zheng, meanwhile, couldn’t bear to let go of the help Su Mian brought him, and he couldn’t let go of his childhood sweetheart, Chen Zhiyi. So he kept stringing Su Mian along.
But within half a year, someone helped the Lu family clear their name, and the family would soon be able to return to the city.
By then, the villagers and educated youths had all assumed Lu Zheng and Su Mian were a couple. Afraid something would go wrong at this critical juncture, the Lu family went to the Su family to propose, saying they would take Su Mian back to the city.
Unexpectedly, Su Mian’s father strongly opposed the idea.
Su Mian didn’t understand. The Lu family’s conditions were so good, why would her father object? So she said a lot of harsh things, fell out with her family, and went to the city with them without looking back.
Lu Zheng probably had some affection for Su Mian. After all, during his hardest times, she had been like a little sun, always helping him and treating him well unconditionally.
But after returning to the city, he saw Chen Zhiyi, and Su Mian instantly became unimportant.
The lethality of a first love, for a man, was not to be underestimated.
Su Mian, meanwhile, had already fallen out with her family, and she didn’t want to face the village gossip either.
She had followed the Lu family to the city alone, with no one to rely on, so she could only cling to Lu Zheng, thinking they had to get married.
But Chen Zhiyi was the biggest obstacle between them, and so the vicious female side character’s exclusive storyline began.
Framing, drugging, spreading rumors, creating misunderstandings. Every method imaginable, one after another.
Lu Zheng, who had originally felt a bit of gratitude toward Su Mian, grew to utterly detest her after all her schemes.
Su Mian’s existence became a tool to advance the male and female leads’ relationship.
In the end, Su Mian decided to make a final gamble. She went to the black market and bought aphrodisiacs and sedatives, thinking she could secure her position through a child.
She did get pregnant, and it also brought about the biggest misunderstanding of the book between the male and female leads.
The melodramatic twist was that the child in Su Mian’s belly wasn’t the male lead’s!
After the male and female leads went through eighty-one trials and tribulations, they finally cleared up the misunderstanding and got together.
Su Mian, meanwhile, was driven out of the Lu family with two nursing infants.
In the end, with no money, she could only live in the slums with the two children.
Perhaps to make the vicious female side character receive her due retribution, the most absurd part was that Su Mian suddenly became dark, fat, and ugly, and she couldn’t even find someone to take her in. The two children, following her, went hungry more often than not.
Reading this, Su Mian was so angry her whole body trembled.
It matched. It all matched.
That transmigrator who had occupied her body had controlled her life according to this novel’s plot.
What grudge did this novel’s author have against her? It was disgusting. Had she dug up the author’s ancestral grave in a past life?
Why not just write her to death? That would have been the end of it. She wouldn’t have to awaken again and face this broken, miserable life of hers.
And they said they’d left her a space? What use did she have for a lousy space!
Just as she thought that, Su Mian’s consciousness suddenly entered a storage room about fifty square meters.
Beside the storage room was a plot of black soil, one mu in size.
Everything within sight was empty. There was nothing at all. What was the point of giving her this space, she’d like to know!
Su Mian was so angry she didn’t even have the energy to be angry anymore. If it weren’t for the two children, she really would have wanted to jump into a river and be done with it.
Just then, someone was suddenly calling her.
Su Mian quickly pulled her consciousness out of the space and saw the two children standing in front of her, bursting into loud sobs.
“Mom… don’t die…” the little boy said, crying.
Su Mian had just suddenly stood there motionless, not responding no matter how they called her, which had frightened the two children.
The little girl was also silently shedding tears to the side, not daring to approach Su Mian. She knew her mother didn’t like her.
Faced with this scene, Su Mian’s nose stung, and big, fat tears instantly spilled from her eyes.
It was so stifling! So absurd! This world was too disgusting!
If it really was to maintain the world’s order, then sacrificing her alone would have been one thing, but what fault did the two children have?
Look at these two children. What kind of life had they lived these past four years!
“Mom… Mom is sorry… I’m sorry. It’s me… it’s me who didn’t have the ability to protect you…”
Su Mian pulled both children into her arms at once. These were her children, her poor two children…
The little girl’s body trembled violently. This… this seems to be the first time Mom has ever held her like this. So warm. Could Mom hold her like this often?
But she couldn’t speak, and she didn’t know how to express what she was thinking. She could only silently reach out, wanting to wipe Su Mian’s tears.
But Mom didn’t like her touching her. At that thought, the little girl became a bit panicked.
Just as she was about to pull her hand back, Su Mian grabbed the little girl’s hand and placed it on her own cheek.
“Mom promises you, from now on, Mom will start being a good person. I’ll definitely raise you well and give you a good life. Okay?”
“Okay. As long as Mom doesn’t hit me and sister, we’ll definitely be good and listen. We’ll go beg for food for Mom.”
Her son’s words stabbed straight through Su Mian’s heart. She really was going crazy. Just which deity had she offended to be treated like this, her and her children?
“No more hitting. I won’t hit you anymore from now on. I’m sorry. I’m sorry…”
Emotions had collapsed, but life still had to go on.
Her own life was already in ruins, but the two children’s futures had to walk a bright, broad road.
Su Mian held the two children and cried for a good while. After finally venting her emotions, she began to think about how to proceed.
“Starting today, Mom is going to change your nicknames,” Su Mian suddenly said.
Hearing this, both children looked up at Su Mian, nervous.
“You’re the older brother, so you’ll be Dabao. And little sister will be Erbao. What do you think?”
Both children looked up, dazed, and then their faces lit up with happiness and excitement.
“Mom, really?”
“Really.”
“Mom, will you forget what you said after you sleep?”
Su Mian felt a bit helpless, but she could understand the children’s distrust of her.
A mother who liked to beat and scold her children, how could she make them believe in a short time that she was a good mother?
“I won’t. You’ll see when you wake up from your sleep. I won’t change.”
She had already taken back control of her life. This time, she would live for herself and for her two children.
“Dabao, Erbao, Mom needs to clean the house first. It’s all moldy. Living in it for a long time is bad for your health,” Su Mian said to the two children.
Hearing this, Dabao said perceptively, “Okay, Mom. We’ll help you~”
Su Mian glanced at her daughter and saw that the moment she looked at her, Erbao’s eyes instantly filled with fear.
Su Mian sighed softly in her heart. She felt that if she wanted to be good to them, she should take it slow.
Before earning the two children’s trust, if she changed too much, it might make them even more afraid.
“Alright, then you two help Mom clean the house.”
Clean the house first. Everything else could wait.
Things would work out somehow. Su Mian refused to believe she couldn’t survive.