“Why is Jiaojiao taking so long to come out? Does she not want to see my mom?”

As Gu Jiaojiao stepped out of the room, she was greeted by a voice as melodious as a nightingale’s.

“In-law, please wait a moment. Jiaojiao said she would come out after changing her clothes,” Su’s mother said cautiously.

“It feels like it’s been a long time~~”

“What do you mean ‘long time’? She’s been unconscious for two days and nights, and she is so squeamish that she doesn’t let us help her change her clothes. Who knows if she’s fainted again?”

Su Chunni, fiery as a firecracker, lashed out at anyone in her path.

This infuriated Sheng Xinglian. Why was this country bumpkin siding with that wretch?

“Mom~ I’m here.”

“Hmph!”

The middle-aged woman sitting on the wooden sofa turned her head away, refusing to look at Gu Jiaojiao.

Gu Jiaojiao: …

Actually, she had been calling out to Su’s mother, as she had already done so several times today.

If it were the original host’s adoptive mother, Gu Jiaojiao might not have been able to call out so easily.

Her adoptive mother was dressed in a white dacron short-sleeved blouse with a small western collar, paired with black straight-leg pants, exuding an air of elegance.

She glanced at Gu Jiaojiao, let out a “hmph,” and turned her head away without responding. Her eyes held both resentment and pity.

A pang of pain shot through Gu Jiaojiao’s heart. She knew it was a lingering trace of the original host’s unresolved emotions.

She silently comforted herself: It’s only natural for your adoptive mother to feel this way. The deeper the love, the sharper the hatred.

Your adoptive mother loved and cared for you for eighteen years, while her biological daughter suffered for ten years on the farm.

It’s normal for her to feel resentment. If she didn’t love you so deeply, she wouldn’t feel so guilty toward her biological daughter.

This is human nature. If your adoptive mother continued to love you as before, disregarding her biological daughter’s feelings, that would make her an unreasonable person, unworthy of respect.

Since you’ve already passed on, rest in peace and hope for a life filled with love and care in your next reincarnation.

If you had continued to live, you would only have added to your sorrows day by day, ultimately meeting a tragic end.

After silently reciting this in her heart, the pang of pain dissipated, and in that moment, she felt her body become much lighter.

It was as if a long-standing illness had vanished, leaving her feeling incredibly refreshed. Her soul had fully integrated with this body.

Tears welled up in Gu Jiaojiao’s eyes. From now on, this body truly belonged to her, Gu Jiaojiao.

“Sister~ Mom isn’t really angry with you. Don’t cry~” It was the same melodious voice as before.

Gu Jiaojiao followed the voice and looked over. Wow! This was the female lead from the book, dressed in a white dress.

At first glance, she was stunningly beautiful.

The pure, clean white, free of any complicated or fussy designs, relied solely on its classic versatility.

A bow tied at the collar added an elegant and sophisticated touch, paired with matching sandals. She looked truly beautiful!

But her face was another story. The powder on her face was as thick as the whitewash on the Su family’s walls.

A thick layer, and upon closer inspection, it was clumpy, as if she wanted everyone to know her family was wealthy.

“Sister~ What are you saying? It’s only right for Mom to be angry with me.”

Gu Jiaojiao still softly called out, as the female lead had addressed her as “sister” first.

If she didn’t call her “sister,” it would be improper, and Gu Jiaojiao didn’t want to stand out.

Sheng Xinglian: …

Shouldn’t Gu Jiaojiao have cried even more bitterly after hearing her words?

In the past, whenever she said something like this, Gu Jiaojiao would cry and lament that her mother no longer loved her.

Then the Sheng family would dislike her even more. Why was it different this time?

Could it be that marriage makes people smarter?

What she hadn’t expected was that even after marrying a cripple, this wretch could still look so beautiful.

While others would look vulgar in a green dress, she, wearing this earthy green, looked like a green fairy who had mistakenly wandered into the mortal world.

Seeing Gu Jiaojiao like this, Sheng Xinglian was reminded of some very unpleasant memories from her past life.

In her past life, she had been admitted to Qingcheng University on July 9, 1981. There, she had coincidentally met her third brother.

He said she looked a lot like their mother. After a long process of identification and verification, she finally returned to the Sheng family in the autumn of 1982.

By the time she returned to the Sheng family, Gu Jiaojiao had already married Song Zijin, the eldest son of the Song family, a top-tier wealthy family in Qingcheng.

Later, she found out that the engagement with Song Zijin was supposed to be hers, but she had been switched at birth.

How could she accept this? Although her father pitied her and helped her find a relatively outstanding young man.

But what about her?

She had grown up on a farm, always looked down upon as a “black category” since childhood.

After returning to the Sheng family, she, the true daughter, didn’t dare to hold her head high. She always walked on the edges, afraid of getting in anyone’s way.

Meanwhile, the fake daughter, Gu Jiaojiao, had the backing of a top-tier wealthy family. Her second and third brothers doted on her as if she were the apple of their eye.

Her father and eldest brother were kind to her, but it was more out of pity and compensation. Already deeply insecure, she became even more so after returning to the Sheng family.

She married a man who was considered outstanding in others’ eyes, but he was far from being an outstanding husband.

Her in-laws looked down on her for growing up on a farm, reeking of earthiness, and being timid and unsophisticated, unfit for high society.

Their disdain was blatantly displayed on their faces. They only treated her kindly when her father and eldest brother were around.

And she, unwilling to accept her fate, lived a chaotic and tumultuous married life.

Meanwhile, Gu Jiaojiao, married into a top-tier wealthy family, was always smiling, living a blissfully happy life.

She would often send her this and that, as if to spite her.

In comparison, Gu Jiaojiao was like a celestial maiden, while she was more like a piece of filthy rat droppings in the mud.

She lived her days in resentment and bitterness, and at a young age, she was truly driven to death by her mother-in-law.

Since heaven had given her a second chance, allowing her to be reborn in the winter of 1979, she returned to the Sheng family two years earlier.

Gu Jiaojiao, this wretch, had been raised by the Sheng family for eighteen years. Her father and eldest brother couldn’t bear to send her away.

She had always hated Gu Jiaojiao for stealing eighteen years of a wealthy life that should have been hers.

After being reborn, she didn’t want to make things difficult for Gu Jiaojiao. She just wanted the wretch to willingly return to the farm and suffer.

But the wretch showed no such willingness and was as inseparable as glue with Song Zijin. This time, the wretch would never marry Song Zijin.

Since Gu Jiaojiao was blocking her path to marrying into a wealthy family, she couldn’t blame herself for being ruthless.

The wretch, who had been pampered since childhood, had never experienced the treachery of human hearts. She had been frightened into a state of constant anxiety.

The eighteen-year-old, naive and love-struck, had, under her guidance, done many inappropriate things.

This made the second and third fools of the Sheng family dislike her even more and dote on her instead. Ha!

Those two idiot brothers, hadn’t they doted on Gu Jiaojiao as if she were the apple of their eye in their past life?

This time, weren’t they also disgusted by Gu Jiaojiao, the wretch? This pleased her greatly.

The only miscalculation was her father and eldest brother, the two people who had treated her the best in her past life.

After being reborn, she had thought her father and eldest brother would treat her just as well as before.

But they didn’t…

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Her face twisted with rage, though it was fleeting.

But Gu Jiaojiao, who had been watching the female lead closely, saw the look of someone who seemed ready to devour her flesh and drink her blood.

Damn it!

Didn’t the book say the female lead was a kind and lovely fairy?

What kind of fairy wants to drink someone’s blood?