I couldn't sleep, my chest felt heavy, and my head seemed foggy.
In a hazy daze, someone whispered into my ear:
"I'm sorry, I saw you fighting fiercely against the Black and White impermanence down there and I pulled you here.
Since your body from the future world has been destroyed, you can take mine!
I give you all of my memories as I don't want to live and bear those pains again.
Let me reincarnate in your place.
You can continue to live here with the memories of your previous life. I believe you will live well.
Also, if you can, please, don't let those people go."
Jiang Wenwan had not yet reacted; who was this girl in front of her?
Wasn't she shot in the head by a teammate during their first joint operation?
Everything went dark instantly, was death swift and painless?
"Smack! Smack! Smack!"
Was someone slapping her face?
Wasn't she dead? Was she being mistreated even in death?
As she opened her eyes, she saw a middle-aged man pinning her underneath him.
Once more, the air still had the scent of halitosis and alcohol which made her feel like vomiting.
Without the time to think about what had occurred, she needed to subdue her opponent first.
In her previous life, she had undergone special training starting from the orphanage, and later became a senior medical postgraduate, also a part-time mercenary.
She had a space used as an armory and medical depot, coupled with her great strength and agile movements.
There were no tasks she couldn't complete, no enemies she couldn't defeat.
Only except for the incompetent, so-called "teammates."
Now, she was slapped by a drunk, and with her instinctual response, she grabbed his hand and "crack!"
She broke his wrist first.
Then she aimed a kick at the man's crotch, and a pig slaughter-like wailing echoed through the room.
Jiang Wenwan rolled over to get up and stepped on one of the man's legs, breaking it.
She grabbed a chair next to her and brought it crashing down on the man with a mighty swing, splintering the chair in the process.
The middle-aged man was left with a bleeding head, looking dazed.
Just as she was about to step on his other leg to break it, the door burst open.
"Wenwan, stop it! How could you raise your hand against your father?"
Upon seeing the middle-aged woman who rushed in, Jiang Wenwan was taken aback.
Memories that didn't belong to her flooded her mind, bringing along the words that the girl from before had said. They seemed to linger in her ears.
This woman was called Zhang CuiFen, her own mother―no, it was the birth mother of her original body.
It was the 75th year of the Da Xia era, and she found herself in a book called 'Darling of the '70s: Pampered Daily by a Crude Intellectual.'
The unwillingness of the original body to live once again was because the novelist had a nonsensical brain.
The original body was merely a cannon fodder. Her younger sister, Hu Qinghua, was the main female lead.
She, however, was a victim of her stepfather's torment, abandoned by her childhood sweetheart who broke their engagement, and dumped into the countryside where she was bullied to death.
The book mentioned that after this cannon fodder was sent to the countryside, she encountered many villains, and eventually died there, never returning.
With the memory of the original body, she naturally knew of all the hardships endured that were never written by the author.
Actually, the original body's family situation was not too bad.
Her biological father was a soldier, who died in a mission to save his comrades ten years ago. The country even gave a special consolation payment in recognition.
The family of the comrade who was saved by her father also sent a sum of five thousand yuan.
However, her birth mother took the money and remarried her first love who coincidentally lost his wife.
Was this even happening?
"My father has been dead for ten years, and who is this?"
Zhang CuiFen hastened over to check on the man, drawing in a cold gasp the instant she laid eyes on him.
Furiously glaring at Jiang Wenwan, she asked in a frantic and frustrated manner:
"How could you be so ruthless when he has raised you for ten years?"
Having sorted out all her thoughts, Jiang Wenwan took a deep breath and chuckled:
"He raised me? He raised me with the compensation money from my father's death?
What was he trying to do when he broke into my room today?
I'll go to the public security and the red rectification team for judgement, I'll report to the neighborhood office."
"You can't go. You just can't go. Your father was just drunk, he was muddled because of alcohol, that's why he acted like this.
Wenwan, your mother begs you, let it go. If it gets out, it will tarnish your reputation as well.
The Wang family will definitely come to cancel the engagement when they learn about this. You don't want to be dumped, do you?"
After all these words, she meticulously avoided mentioning that if things got worse, Hu Jianbang might end up 'eating peanuts'
suffering severe consequences
.
The Wang family? Her fiancé, Wang Jianguo, is the male protagonist of the book.
Wenwan's father saved the life of the textile factory secretary. After her father died, her mother arranged for her marriage with the Wang family.
They only waited for Wenwan to grow up and get married.
When Jiang Wenwan was eight years old, her mother married a man named Hu two months after her father died in a battle. Eight months later, she had a son named Hu Liuzhu.
Mr. Hu also had a daughter who was one year younger than Jiang Wenwan, named Hu Qinghua.
So this family of four is exactly that, and she's just an outsider with a different surname!
Marry into the Wang family? Continue working like an old ox?
Starting from the age of eight, she ate less than a chicken but worked harder than an ox.
She cooked all the family's meals, washed all the household linens and clothing, and cleaned both inside and outside of the house.
Her mom used to say, "A girl should work hard, so she'll be more diligent when she goes to her husband's family. That's how they'll like you.
And she said, "Your Uncle Hu is a good man, he doesn't mind taking care of you, a burden. You should be sensible, do more work, and always yield to your sister, she's still young."
Later on, she had a younger brother.
"You should yield to your brother; he's still young!
What's the deal today? Does she need to yield to her stepfather, just because he is old?
Pondering how her personality differs from the original host's, she might as well take this opportunity to change.
"That's fine~! If you want to cancel the engagement, then do it. I've had enough of this family!
Every day you ask me to yield to this one, yield to that one. Well, I refuse to yield anymore!
Starting from today, I swear, don't even think about asking me to take a step back!"
The hysterical shout from Jiang Wenwan startled the couple on the floor, who looked at her dumbfounded.
"You bratty girl, acting all high and mighty. I'll beat you till you're begging for mercy."
At this point, Hu Jianbang, whose arm and leg were broken, was completely sober.
After finishing speaking, he continued to look around the room for a handy object.
Upon seeing this, Wenwan's face darkened. If she didn't kill the dog, she would be bitten. She simply picked up the last chair aside and was about to smash it towards Hu Jianbang.
But before the chair could come crashing down, her mother threw herself onto Hu Jianbang.
This is the biological mother of the original owner, Jiang Wenwan did not smash down the chair.
She angrily threw the chair onto the ground. At this moment, a man and a woman just entered from the door.
"Aiyah, you scared me!
Jiang Wenwan, what are you doing?"
Hu Qinghua took a look at the broken chair and asked Jiang Wenwan.
The man standing next to Hu Qinghua is Wang Jianguo, the original's fiancé.
Seeing the two of them walk in together, and noticing Wang Jianguo's protective posture towards Hu Qinghua,
She keenly detected the dopamine in the air.
There's definitely something going on between these two. Ah, these were the male and female leads from the book, right?
So they were playing out the scene where the step-sister steals the protagonist's fiancé?
"I'm beating up a scoundrel!"
Jiang Wenwan spoke, glancing over her biological mother, stepfather, and her entering stepsister, shadowed by her own previous fiancé.
Quite the group gathered indeed.
Oh, the little tyrant brother was off at school, missing from the gathering.
"I think you've lost your mind," Hu Qinghua remarked, to which Jiang Wenwan responded,
"Well, I was driven to this madness by you all. I have no more to say. I'm going to report this to the police and tell the local authorities. At worst, we'll end up in a 'fish and net' situation. "
"Stop right there!"
Her mother and stepfather called out almost in unison as she made a move towards the door.
"Qinghua, stop your sister quickly!"
Her mother beckoned Hu Qinghua to restrain her.
Her stepfather was as well in distress. If word spread about such a matter, not only would his job be at risk, he would also face punishment, and possibly even lose his life.
Why couldn't he have just held back today?
"Alright, what do you want exactly?"
Seeing him so desperate, Jiang Wenwan immediately said:
"I want to break our engagement and I want 5,000 yuan!"
Biological Mother: "Are you out of your mind?!"
Step Father: "Why don't you fight for it?"
Jiang Wenwan: "Isn't this what I'm trying to do? These are my only two conditions. If he doesn't agree, I'm willing to go all out. So be it, we can just die together."
Wang Jianguo, standing at the door, didn't fully understand the situation, but he realized that Jiang Wenwan was proposing a divorce to him.
Instantly, his eyes chilled.
Although he wasn't fond of Jiang Wenwan and she did not possess the gentleness of Hu Qinghua,
His father was right, Jiang Wenwan's father has done great favors for their family.
He'd marry her to honor his father's wishes and rescue her from the grind at the Hu's House.
"I don't agree, Wenwan. Our engagement was arranged by your father before his death. How can you call it off so casually?"
Looking at Wang Jianguo, then at Hu Qinghua, Jiang Wenwan nodded.
"So, you don't agree? Well, I won't call off the engagement then."
Wang Jianguo choked at her words.
She wasn't genuine after all.
Hu Qinghua's joy of their separation dissipated when she heard Jiang Wenwan wasn't seeking the divorce anymore, her face darkened instantly.
She gave Wang Jianguo a pitiful look and he tried to reassure her with a comforting look.
"Why can't this Jiang Wenwan be a bit more assertive?
She should raise a ruckus at her own home; wouldn't that solve her marriage issue smoothly?
However these two may flirt with each other, upon thinking of money, Zhang Cuifen shakes her head.
"Our family does not have that much money," she says.
"My father's compensation was five thousand, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for half."
Hearing Jiang Wenwan's words, Zhang Cuifen lowered her eyelids and said with a stern face,
"That was a matter from ten years ago. So much time has passed and there are countless places to spend money on."
Jiang Wenwan sneered. Even though the original body was hardworking and silently endured all, she was not someone foolish despite having finished high school with less than stellar grades.
"Ten years ago, you folks moved from the countryside into the city, you have jobs, you have salary, how did you manage to have no money at all?
Oh, you won't give it? Then I would go,"
"Hold on, it's just five hundred; that's the total worth of our house, we don't have a shred more."