Chapter 2 – Shock! They Were Reborn Too!

After leaving Yuncheng with Lin Zhiqing, she followed him to Lin City. Not long after their arrival, she was trapped inside an abandoned factory by Lin Zhiqing and Su Wenjing.

From then on, she was brutally beaten once every single day.

Ten days later, Su Wenjing came up with another vicious scheme—she planned to sell her off to a remote mountain area.

It was only right before they were about to sell her that she discovered Lin Zhiqing and Su Wenjing had long been fooling around together.

The only reason Lin Zhiqing had kept stringing her along was because he wanted to use Father Su to get himself back into the city.

But things didn’t go as he hoped—Father Su ended up marrying her off to Lu Hanchuan.

Without Su Zhiyi as a long-term provider to supplement his nutrition, Lin Zhiqing soon grew thin and emaciated, and his hopes of returning to the city vanished completely.

As a result, he harbored even greater hatred for Su Zhiyi and the Su family.

But heaven still threw him a bone—half a year after Su Zhiyi left, the national college entrance examination was reinstated in 1977, and he successfully got into university.

After returning to the city, he and Su Wenjing plotted together to exact a cruel revenge on Su Zhiyi.

That led to the horrifying scene where she was first imprisoned and beaten, then nearly sold off to a remote mountain village to bear children for some old bachelor.

Upon learning all this, Su Zhiyi was filled with deep regret. She recalled the kindness the Lu family had shown her.

And she thought of Lu Hanchuan—the man who had treated her as his entire world.

She regretted it all! She hated herself for it! But now, what face did she have to return to the Lu family, to go back to Lu Hanchuan’s side?

Still, she absolutely could not let herself be taken away by that old bachelor!

Resolving herself, she gritted her teeth and, in a moment when Lin Zhiqing and that old bachelor weren’t paying attention, suddenly dashed toward a large stone by the roadside. She smashed her head against it with full force, blood bursting forth, and died on the spot.

A year after her complete disappearance, her eldest brother Su Junyi died heroically during a mission.

Father Su and Mother Su could no longer bear the blow and both fell gravely ill.

It was Lu Hanchuan who took the elderly couple into the Lu household, giving them meticulous care and looking after them until the end of their days.

During that time, Lu Hanchuan searched for her like a madman. It wasn’t until two years later that Father Lu finally found her remains.

But Lu Hanchuan never once stood openly before her tombstone.

Every time he returned from a mission, he would only look at it from afar, then quietly sit beside it for an entire day.

Just because he was afraid. Afraid that if his Zhizhi saw him, she might feel unhappy.

He carried that profound love for her to the grave—never marrying, and ultimately taking his own life out of love.

Back when she’d slammed herself to death, that old bachelor had cursed her for bringing bad luck. Fearing trouble, he dug a shallow pit nearby and hastily buried her.

As for Lin Zhiqing—after she collapsed with a head injury, he took advantage of the old bachelor’s distraction to run off as fast as he could.

After that came the scene at the cemetery.

Returning from her thoughts, Su Zhiyi exhaled heavily.

“Lin Zhiqing, Su Wenjing—you despicable pair, may you be locked in misery for life!”

She quickly thought of a way to deal with them.

It turned out that while she had been unconscious, everything from her previous life had played before her eyes like a film.

Just two days from now, Lin Zhiqing and Su Wenjing would secretly meet at the village drying field.

She was determined to catch them in the act.

Fortunately, she and Lin Zhiqing were still in the ambiguous stage of their relationship and hadn’t yet pierced that final layer of the window paper.

In this life, she swore they would never even get close to her again!

And then there was Su Wenjing’s whole family—those ungrateful White-eyed Wolves! Eating Father Su’s food, drinking Father Su’s water!

All because Father Su wasn’t the biological son of Old Master Su.

That family simply believed everything they received was rightfully theirs!

From now on, they could dream on if they thought they’d ever get another benefit from Father Su!

Thinking once again of that man who had died for her, that hopeless romantic, Su Zhiyi made a quiet vow to herself:

“Lu Hanchuan, wait for me. In this life, it’ll be my turn to love you and protect you!”

Not long after, Mother Su came into her room carrying a steaming hot bowl of egg-and-meat-sauce noodles.

“Zhizhi, come eat.” a gentle voice rang in Su Zhiyi’s ears.

She opened her eyes, slowly sat up, her delicate brows curving as she looked at Mother Su. “Smells so good. Thanks, Mom.”

Hearing that, Mother Su gave her a kind and loving smile in return.

Then she got out of bed and sat down at the table, eating the noodles in big mouthfuls.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

After days of anxious waiting, the time had finally come—after dinner.

Once they had eaten, Father Su and Mother Su retired to their room to rest.

Su Zhiyi quietly approached Su Junyi’s bedroom door and raised her hand to knock.

Su Junyi, just about to head out for his usual evening jog, heard the knock and immediately guessed it was his little sister.

He quickly walked to the door, and when he opened it, he saw her lovely, delicate face and smiled dotingly. “Little sister, what do you need from your big brother?”

Su Zhiyi knew about his habit of running after dinner, so she grabbed his arm and led him toward the front gate.

As they walked, she whispered: “Hurry, I’ll explain in detail later.”

Su Junyi obediently let her lead him to the village drying field.

Just as he was feeling puzzled, Su Zhiyi quickly pulled him behind a pile of soybeans.

No sooner had they crouched down than they saw two shadowy figures approaching from the distance.

When their faces came into full view, Su Junyi looked at his little sister in mild surprise.

Su Zhiyi simply returned him a sly, calculating smile.

At that moment, Su Junyi understood exactly why she had brought him there.

He looked down at her and gave her a questioning glance.

Su Zhiyi directed her eyes toward the messy wild grass nearby, then pulled a box of matches from her coat pocket.

Su Junyi gave her a knowing nod, and just as Lin Zhiqing and Su Wenjing were whispering sweet nothings to each other, he darted out of the drying field with the agility of a panther.

Su Wenjing’s voice drifted across the field. “What should we do, Brother Zhiqing? That little slut Su Zhiyi is about to marry Lu Hanchuan!”

“We can’t let her marry him like in the last life!”

The moment Su Zhiyi heard Su Wenjing’s words, her eyes flew wide open in shock.

Well, well! So they were reborn too!

Just then, Lin Zhiqing’s voice drifted through the air: “We need to find a way to snatch that plain silver ring that Su Zhiyi’s grandmother left her!”

“In the previous life, it was thanks to the space hidden inside that ring that we got to live the good life, eating and drinking whatever we wanted!”

Su Wenjing thought for a moment, then said: “Then tomorrow, I’ll find a way to lure her into the thatched hut in the mountains. I’ll drug her, and then you take the chance to have your way with her. There’s no way she’d escape after that!”

“I remember that wretched girl wore the ring on a string around her neck. Once you’re done with her, the ring will naturally be ours!”

“Hehehe… Just hearing you say that is getting me excited already.” Lin Zhiqing laughed obscenely, then leaned over and puckered his lips to kiss Su Wenjing. His hands, impatient and eager, started tugging at her clothes.

Su Wenjing quickly raised her hands to stop him, her breath becoming unsteady. “N-No… we can’t!”

But Lin Zhiqing, already consumed by lust, wasn’t listening to a single word she said. His hands grew even more aggressive.

Su Wenjing panicked. “If I lose my virginity, how am I supposed to marry Lu Hanchuan?!”

Su Zhiyi, hiding nearby, once again widened her eyes in shock.

So Su Wenjing really was a venomous snake! A truly ungrateful White-eyed wolf!

She actually wanted to replace her and marry Lu Hanchuan? Utter delusion!

Lin Zhiqing seemed to snap back to a shred of sanity at her words. Then he sneered: “Oh? So you’re planning to take Su Zhiyi’s place and marry Lu Hanchuan? You think he’d agree to that?”

Su Wenjing, however, looked completely confident. “He should be grateful someone is even willing to marry him! What right does a cripple like him have to be picky?”

As soon as the words left her mouth, Lin Zhiqing once again reached out eagerly to touch her.

He laughed as he said: “Look at you. Your body’s a lot more honest than your mouth. Don’t worry, I won’t actually take your virginity.”

And with that, he resumed his earlier actions.

After hearing that he wouldn’t really go through with it, Su Wenjing relaxed her body and let him do as he pleased.

Before long, lewd and unpleasant noises began to fill the air.

Su Zhiyi clenched her fists and forced down the raging fury in her heart. After waiting a few moments, she quietly crept over to the patch of wild grass nearby.

She struck a match with a sharp szzzt and quickly tossed it into the dry weeds.

Within seconds, a small flame flared up.

Wisps of white smoke began to rise into the sky.

The pair, still in the heat of passion, were completely unaware of the growing fire nearby.

Moments later, Father Su’s voice echoed from the distance.

“Everyone hurry! There’s a fire—come help put it out!”

By this time, the small fire had already grown slightly larger.

Just then, Father Su suddenly caught sight of two people still entangled together.

He shouted sternly: “Put your clothes on—now!”

His loud voice finally broke through the haze for Lin Zhiqing and Su Wenjing.

Startled, the two screamed, and even little Lin Zhiqing instantly wilted in fright.

The two scrambled apart and frantically tried to put their clothes back on.

Their cries of shock immediately drew the attention of everyone nearby.