Chapter 3 Regret Stealing the Car

Ling Yu agreed without a word. Cutting ties with such a family was better anyway—at least he wouldn’t have to deal with their disgusting behavior in the future.

In the end, under the witness of the village chief, two documents were drawn up: one was a severance agreement between Ye Wuyou and Old Lady Wang’s family, declaring that from then on whether she lived or died had nothing to do with them; the other was a marriage certificate between Ling Yu and Ye Wuyou. Ling Yu had done this because he feared the villagers would gossip about the girl, and since everyone already believed he had ruined her purity, by making it official no one could say anything else.

Once everything was settled, Ling Yu hurriedly carried the girl in his arms to the village herbal doctor. The doctor only checked her external wounds, prescribed a bit of medicine, and said to Ling Yu:

“Boy from the Ling family, this girl’s head injury is too serious. I can’t treat it here. I can only wrap up the outside wounds casually. If you want to know whether there’s damage inside, you’ll have to go to the county hospital. But I think it’s better to wait until she wakes up and then see. After all, the county is far away, and if you take her there in an ox cart, who knows how badly she’ll be jostled on the way.”

Ling Yu nodded in acknowledgment, paid the money, and carried the girl back home.

At this moment, Ye Wuyou felt as if she were dreaming, watching images play continuously in her mind. In those scenes was another girl also named Ye Wuyou, dressed like someone from the seventies or eighties.

As a child she was bright, clever, and dearly loved by her parents. But in that patriarchal era, being a girl meant facing prejudice. Her grandmother was extremely biased toward boys. Because her mother had been left infertile after giving birth to her, the grandmother constantly nitpicked and tormented her mother. Her father defended his wife, which only worsened the grandmother’s dislike. And since their branch of the family was never favored by Old Lady Wang, her grandmother was all the more partial against them.

One year, when the hometown flooded, the grandmother forced her parents to jump into the rushing waters to save her eldest son’s child. The water was too deep and fierce; though the child was rescued, her parents both drowned together, leaving her behind as a helpless little orphan.

From then on, she had no one to protect her. Her grandmother beat and scolded her constantly. Everyone in the household bullied her—whether grandparents, uncle and aunt, or even the younger cousin. Whenever anyone was unhappy, they’d take it out on her with a beating.

Her last memory before being knocked out was when her younger aunt wanted fish to eat and ordered her to catch some. Fearing another beating, she had no choice but to go. But most of the fish were in the deep waters, and though she was afraid, her aunt forced her. The original host couldn’t swim, so when she went in, she almost drowned, struggling in the water until Ling Yu happened to pass by and saved her. Because she had been under too long, Ling Yu performed artificial respiration. Unfortunately, villagers who rushed over saw it and accused him of ruining her purity.

The Ye family, knowing Ling Yu had 300 yuan of retirement pay, tried to use the incident to take his money. Ling Yu refused to be made a fool of, so he wouldn’t agree. With the village chief testifying that Ling Yu had been saving her, the Ye family didn’t dare push further. But once home, they still considered Ye Wuyou to have lost her purity, and since the younger aunt was about to be married the next month and they feared gossip, they vented all their anger on Ye Wuyou.

That was when the original host’s memory ended—being beaten until unconscious. And that was the scene Ye Wuyou had arrived in when she crossed over.

Although she didn’t quite understand what was going on now, seeing those memories only made her angrier. Her fists clenched tightly, bones cracking with fury.

In her heart, Ye Wuyou thought: if she had really become that girl, she would destroy that whole family without mercy.

Suddenly, she felt something being forced into her mouth. That bitter taste jolted her awake. Ye Wuyou suddenly sat straight up in bed.

Ling Yu, caught off guard by her sudden movement, spilled half the bowl of medicine.

“Hiss…” The ache that coursed through her whole body brought her back to her senses. She looked at the wounds on her hands and at the flat, skinny body she now had.

She forced herself to recall what she had been doing before. Oh right—she had been trying to steal someone’s vehicle at a base, but they had planted a timed bomb in it. She had gotten too famous for robbing other people’s bases, so this time they’d set a trap just for her.

And damn it, the timing was so exact she didn’t even have time to enter her spatial ability before being blown to bits.

Ye Wuyou cursed inwardly. She had been careless. She should have checked more carefully beforehand.

So now… she had crossed over?

Her eyes widened in shock. She had actually become that pitiful little girl? She had only joked about it before!

Looking at this thin, flat body—no chest, no curves, covered in bruises—she suddenly wanted to cry. Her beauty, her full bosom, her shapely hips and long legs… all gone. Nothing left.

She regretted ever letting her greed push her into robbing that vehicle.