Chapter 4: The Farce Escalates
The old house allocated to the original host consisted of four low, earthen houses standing side by side.
Backed by a mountain, the sun couldn’t directly shine in. Opening the door, a damp and chilly smell greeted the nose.
From the moment Liu Changning entered the room, her brows were tightly knitted. She pursed her lips and raised her eyes to survey the original host’s room, her expression becoming even more unpleasant.
The layout of this earthen house was simple and crude, with items strewn in disarray. Apart from a simple wooden bed, the rest were just sundries and wood. With the door wide open, dust particles could be seen floating in the air throughout the room.
This place was originally a woodshed. Because of her conceited husband, the original host had given up her own bedroom for the male lead to reside in.
She had built herself a simple wooden bed using wood and made do with it. The bed was covered with straw, and the bedding was washed until it turned pale, covered with patches. As one approached, a musty smell assailed the nostrils.
Who knows what the original host was thinking? Marrying a husband but sleeping in separate beds, offering him the best food and drink, serving him tirelessly, while she herself lived like neither a human nor a ghost.
More importantly, the husband seemed to show no gratitude in return, either physically or emotionally, and instead, he became increasingly brazen, placing one green hat after another on her head.
Even though this was a female-dominant society, where women were supposed to support men and bear social responsibilities, such a level of support was truly suffocating.
Liu Changning took a deep breath. Although she had mentally prepared herself earlier, actually seeing the original host’s living conditions, her disgust reached its peak at this moment.
As the first life of the old ancestor and the second life of the modern white-collar worker Liu Changning, both were wealthy and beautiful women with long legs. Handsome men eagerly pursued them, but never had anyone shamelessly enjoyed the original host’s near-life-draining support like the husband of this body, relying on his good looks.
She narrowed her eyes, and just as she was about to move, a dull pain emanated from her stomach in waves.
The original host hadn’t eaten for an entire day. She had gotten up at the Yin hour today and went to the fields at the Mao hour. Under the scorching sun, she had toiled for three to four hours, leading to her death from overwork.
Liu Changning held her aching stomach with one hand and supported herself against the wooden door with the other, shuffling her steps and struggling to walk out of the woodshed.
She needed to replenish her body with food. If this continued, even if she possessed heavenly skills, if her body’s energy was depleted, she wouldn’t have the chance to utilize them.
The kitchen was on the right. She pushed open the door.
The earthen kitchen counter was bare. Entering the room, she searched the entire kitchen, only to find a stale, hard mantou with an odor.
She stared at it with disdain for a long time, closed her eyes, pinched her nose, and ate the “food” with cold water.
As the moldy mantou entered her mouth, her entire oral cavity was filled with an indescribable sour smell of mold. Liu Changning frowned and rinsed her mouth with water repeatedly until her lips were red and swollen before stopping.
With food in her stomach, the fatigue in her body surged like a tide. Even though Liu Changning had experienced two lifetimes and had a strong soul, she couldn’t resist the overwhelming drowsiness.
She dragged her injured ankle back to the woodshed.
Lying on the hard wooden bed filled with straw, inhaling the pungent musty smell, she closed her eyes in a daze.
Thus, when Pei Yuanshao returned to the room after resolving his amorous debts, he went hungry for the first time since his exile.
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Perhaps due to exhaustion, when Liu Changning woke up, it was already early morning the next day.
She was awakened by the clamor outside the house.
Shrill curses came in waves. She propped herself up with her hands, narrowed her eyes, and surveyed her surroundings.
Firewood was stacked in the corner of the room, and wood shavings were scattered on the floor. Beneath her was a hard wooden board that creaked with her movements as she sat up. This place was still that woodshed!
Sunlight slanted into the room, casting upon her somewhat dazed, waxen face, devoid of any beauty.
As she regained her senses, the cursing voices from outside became increasingly clear, pouring into her ears.
“Shameless wretch, debaucherous husband!”
“How dare you seduce my wife-master? Today, I’ll report you to the authorities and have you drowned in a pig cage in the pond!”
“As a husband, instead of assisting your wife-master in educating the children, you spend your days flirting around the village.”
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*Spotlight on Finished Novel Translations*
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Synopsis:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
He even had his eyes on another woman.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
Su Mu expressed her disdain.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
She also wanted to embrace Xie Yi, who had silently stayed by her side in her previous life and committed suicide by taking poison after her death.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
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Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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