In fact, since Liu Changning’s transmigration, she had only inherited the memories of the original main personality. She knew nothing about the secondary personality.

If it weren’t for the stimulation of the contract in Mr. Tian’s hand, these memory fragments of the original host might still not have awakened.

Everything began with poverty and ended in sin.

The original host’s secondary personality couldn’t appear often. Every time it took control of the body was when this family treated the original host inhumanely.

The main personality had lost hope of living, muddling through life like a walking corpse.

Although the secondary personality still had the fighting spirit to resist, it didn’t appear for long and gathered all the dark emotions of the original host, being vicious and violent.

A month ago, Liu Zheng’s family squeezed the original host for the last time. In the end, they provoked the original host’s violent temper, and the secondary personality gained control of the body.

Using all her strength to kick over Liu and Mr. Tian, she escaped to the town. Because the original host was malnourished after all, even though the secondary personality was violent, with her own physique, she definitely couldn’t beat Liu Zheng.

So that night, she fled Xiqiao Village overnight, which was better than letting the main personality take control and submissively let Second Aunt’s family squeeze her and sell her to human traffickers.

As a woman, if she became a female eunuch, losing the alluring fragrance that attracts men and unable to bear children for them, she would completely lose the dignity of being a woman.

Therefore, women sold to the palace as eunuchs would never take this step unless they had no other choice.

The original host, possessed by the secondary personality, still had some fighting spirit and fled to Beihuan County overnight.

Penniless and without any skills, because she had lived in Xiqiao Village since childhood, even though the secondary personality was more capable than the main personality, she was still inexperienced.

She didn’t even know that beyond Beihuan County, there were broader states and prefectures.

The original host wandered in Huashi Town for three days, hungry and in a sorry state, when she met the bargain husband who was out shopping.

The bargain husband at that time was the kept man of the daughter of County Magistrate Guan, living in the county, always traveling by carriage.

The original host, due to her weak body, was dizzy with hunger and bumped into Pei Yuanshao’s carriage on the street.

Almost everyone in the county said that Young Master Yuanshao was arrogant and domineering, flaunting his status as the kept man of County Magistrate Guan’s daughter, parading through the streets with no regard for others.

But the original host saw his gentlest side. At that time, she looked disheveled, her hair a mess, dirty and smelly all over.

His ink-like eyes looked at her without the contempt of the county’s nobles, calm and accommodating. He glanced at her calmly and ordered his small servant to give her one tael of silver and several steamed buns.

The original host had never seen such a noble man in her life. Being looked at by those eyes that contained no impurities, she felt that she was still a person.

Her world was originally very small, and that fleeting glance of ink-like eyes made her feel like she had gained everything.

Therefore, the next day, when the original host, who had cleaned up and changed clothes, voluntarily went to that gentleman’s mansion to thank him, she unexpectedly encountered the daughter of County Magistrate Guan.

The county magistrate’s daughter took her into that red-robed gentleman’s residence, and they made a contract with her.

The content of the contract was the one that the bargain husband mentioned on the day of the divorce.

The original host needed to take the bargain husband home and let him temporarily be her nominal husband. When Lady Guan dealt with the chaos in her inner chamber, the bargain husband would leave on his own.

As a reward, Lady Guan gave her a full hundred taels of silver.

The original host, controlled by the secondary personality, actually didn’t want to return to the village. But she couldn’t violate the contract. After glancing at the bargain husband, she gladly agreed.

After all, with these hundred taels, if she gave them to her greedy Second Aunt’s family, her crisis would be resolved.

More importantly, taking that gentleman home for nothing, even with the restrictions of that contract, in such a remote place, no one could control what she did to him.

Human desire is endless. The original host’s main personality was weak and honest, but the secondary personality gathered all the resentment.

That contract was thrown to the back of her mind on the second day after the original host brought the bargain husband back.

On the second night, the original host sneaked into the bargain husband’s room, attempting to do that kind of thing to him.

Unfortunately, the original host’s weak body was no match for the bargain husband. With a sweep of his whip, she was thrown out of the door.

After this incident, perhaps due to shock, the secondary personality never appeared again, and the main personality took control of the body.

Inexplicably obtaining a husband, she was overjoyed at the sight of him.

The original host, controlled by the main personality, loved obsessively and humbly, working tirelessly, giving all her love to him at once, begging for a moment of attention, only to be disappointed time and time again.

However, the original host seemed to gain some inexplicable pleasure in this hopeless devotion.

Liu Changning lowered her head, finished looking at the fragments in her mind, and narrowed her eyes. The aura around her became inexplicably cold.

She had originally thought that the bargain husband was the source of the original host’s miserable life.

Although she later understood that he was good at pretending, she still felt that he should bear some responsibility for the original host’s death.

But now with the memories of the secondary personality, her mind filled with the original host’s joy for this man called Yuanshao.

She surprisingly discovered that the bargain husband might possibly be the entire focus of the original host’s love and hope. Because of his flamboyant appearance, unrestrained personality, and attitude of disregard for others’ opinions, he lived the life that the original host wanted.

Thus, she would secretly watch him from the shadows, try every means to work hard in the fields, attempting to buy him a box of perfume. She would rack her brains to make him a meal whenever possible.

Even though he never applied rouge or powder, even though he left early and returned late, hardly ever eating at the old house.

The original host, in this distorted, hopeless devotion, repeatedly imagined his presence. Longing to be looked at one more time, if she could have one more moment of his attention, she could also experience self-elation in those ink-like eyes.