After Yun Hua finished speaking, everyone’s eyes remained fixed on her.
Li Jing gave a light cough, and only then did everyone look away.
Li Jing stared at Yun Hua without blinking.
“That’s wonderful, Yun. We’re all from Beijing. It would be great if we could end up as educated youths in the same village.”
Yun Hua vaguely echoed Li Jing’s words.
But her mind was focused on something else entirely.
Liu Xuejiao. Yu Hongwei.
Weren’t those the names of the male and female leads in a period novel she’d read recently?
What was that novel called again?
It seemed to be Winning Over the Male Educated Youth: A Sweet Wife.
Yun Hua had even complained about the author when she read it.
What kind of nonsense is this?
The novel belonged to a young nurse at the hospital. Yun Hua didn’t know what had gotten into her, but she’d secretly read a few chapters.
Her workload was already overwhelming, yet she’d somehow managed to squeeze out time to read.
It really proved the saying: If you squeeze hard enough, you’ll always find the time.
The novel seemed to be about the female lead, Liu Xuejiao, and the male lead, Yu Hongwei.
They met on the train while being sent to the countryside. They fell in love at first sight, and as luck would have it, they were assigned to the same people’s commune.
After spending a long time together and overcoming various difficulties, the two eventually got together for a brief period.
However, the male lead always had plenty of admirers.
Female educated youths and village girls fought over him, practically tearing one another apart.
The male and female leads had to go through countless twists and turns before they could finally end up together.
But all of that happened several years after they returned to the city and met again.
Many educated youths would seize the opportunity provided by the college entrance examination to return to the cities.
After going through several relationships, the male lead, Yu Hongwei, still felt that Liu Xuejiao was the best.
Several years later, when he and Liu Xuejiao reunited in the city, he realized that Liu Xuejiao was indeed the kind of urban girl with a university education who was worthy of him.
Liu Xuejiao believed that her years of waiting had finally paid off, so the two quickly got married.
A few years later, they had a son and a daughter and lived happily ever after.
And the original owner of Yun Hua’s body was one of the female educated youths who pursued the male lead, Yu Hongwei.
Yun Hua was speechless.
If she’d known that complaining about the author a few times would cause her to transmigrate into the novel, she never would have complained.
But then she thought about it again.
If she hadn’t transmigrated, she probably wouldn’t be conscious anymore.
For a moment, Yun Hua didn’t even know what the right thing to do was.
But there was one thing she knew she needed to deal with immediately.
She had originally read the novel because the original owner shared her name.
But when she saw that the character was nothing more than a lovesick cannon-fodder supporting female character who did nothing but chase after the male lead, Yun Hua had immediately dropped the book.
She had even bluntly declared that the original owner had something seriously wrong with her.
She was a perfectly good rich young lady, yet she insisted on throwing herself at a man and acting like a lovesick fool.
Not only did she give the male lead all her money, ration coupons, and food, she even wanted to give him the most precious thing she had.
When Yun Hua saw the original owner wanting to give herself to the male lead, she nearly blacked out from disbelief.
Forget being a cannon-fodder supporting character—even if Yu Hongwei were the male lead and she were the heroine, Yun Hua still wouldn’t like a man like him.
In the end, her curiosity got the better of her, and she took a look at the ending of the cannon-fodder character who shared her name.
Good grief.
The original owner had only been in the countryside for a short time when she became the target of hostility because she was competing with other female educated youths for the male lead.
Those female educated youths and the local village girls thought she was the prettiest and came from the best family.
They banded together to ostracize and target her, leaving her without any friends.
Later, a local peasant became crazily obsessed with her and pursued her relentlessly.
Yun Hua rejected him.
Humiliated and furious, the man actually tried to force himself on her.
Unwilling to suffer such humiliation, Yun Hua fought back with all her strength.
In the end, the peasant accidentally strangled her to death.
When he realized Yun Hua had stopped breathing, he lost all interest.
He carried her body into the mountains and threw it off a cliff, creating the false appearance that she had accidentally fallen to her death.
And that was how the original owner came to be believed by everyone to have died from an accidental fall.
When her parents, far away in Beijing, received the news, they were devastated.
They were so heartbroken that their health deteriorated rapidly.
Within just a few years, the two of them died as well, following their daughter to the grave.
Yun Hua felt that the original owner was truly pitiful.
Just because she liked the male lead, was beautiful, and came from a good family, those women had decided that she was a threat and targeted her at every turn.
That had ultimately allowed the local peasant to act without restraint.
He knew Yun Hua was always alone, which made her an easy target.
As for Li Jing, who was sitting beside her now, she was one of the few people who had actually treated her well.
When everyone else ostracized Yun Hua, Li Jing had always stayed by her side.
But it wasn’t long before Li Jing got married.
A young man from the neighboring village drugged her and rendered her unconscious.
She was violated, but everyone in the neighboring village claimed that she had willingly slept with him.
In order to survive, Li Jing had no choice but to marry the man through her tears.
After that, Yun Hua was completely alone.
And that eventually led to her tragic fate.
The novel seemed to mention that someone had collected the original owner’s body and even written a letter to her parents in Beijing, telling them that her body had already been buried.
Yun Hua had no idea who that kind-hearted person was.
She was simply deeply grateful to whoever had done it.
Because of that, she only knew the general outline of the novel.
She regretted not finishing the book back then.
At the very least, if she’d known the entire plot, she could have avoided the dangers ahead.
But then again, her arrival might create a butterfly effect.
As Yun Hua thought, she secretly observed the male and female leads.
She noticed the female lead stealing shy glances at the male lead.
Yun Hua thought Liu Xuejiao was rather pretty. She was tall and slender, with delicate features and a gentle temperament.
As for the male lead, Yu Hongwei belonged to the refined, scholarly type.
In modern terms, he was basically a pretty boy with no muscle.
That was exactly the type Yun Hua disliked most.
It wasn’t that she needed some hulking muscleman, but she definitely liked a man with eight-pack abs.
She liked men who were tall, handsome, strong, and physically fit.
She definitely wasn’t interested in a weakling like him.
And on top of that, he was a scumbag who had ambiguous relationships with plenty of young women throughout the novel.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Yun Hua almost couldn’t keep her expression under control.
Then she suddenly noticed Yu Hongwei secretly glancing at her from time to time.
Wait a minute.
Wasn’t the original owner supposed to chase after him without success?
Why is this different from what happened in the novel?
He barely looked at the female lead.
So what did he mean by repeatedly looking over here?
Yun Hua felt uncomfortable.
Perfect.
There was something she needed to verify.
“Educated Youth Li, I’m going to the restroom. Could you please keep an eye on my luggage for me?”
Li Jing was very friendly.
“Of course, Yun. Go ahead. Don’t worry.”
Yun Hua went to the restroom and locked the door.
Then, unable to wait any longer, she took out the jade pendant hanging around her neck.
This was the most urgent matter she needed to investigate.
If she remembered correctly, Liu Xuejiao would eventually get this jade pendant from her.
Once the pendant recognized its owner, it would open a spiritual spring space.
Yun Hua didn’t think any further.
She quickly bit her finger.
The pain made her grimace.
A drop of blood fell onto the jade pendant and quickly disappeared.
Immediately afterward, the jade pendant flashed brightly.
Go inside.
Yun Hua silently commanded it in her mind.
In an instant, she disappeared from the train restroom.
Her body appeared inside a space.
Yun Hua was completely stunned by what she saw.
How had the villa she’d bought in the modern era come with her too?
After starting work, Yun Hua had saved up money and taken out a mortgage to buy a villa in the suburbs.
She liked houses with yards, but houses with yards in the city were far too expensive.
She also had to send money to the director of the orphanage and the children there.
Thinking about the director and the children, Yun Hua felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness.
She could no longer provide them with any help.
Soon, however, Yun Hua pulled herself together.
She couldn’t go back.
Since she had already come here, she might as well live well.
Yun Hua looked at the small spring in the villa’s yard.
This should be the spiritual spring water mentioned in the novel.