Chapter 48 – The Female Supporting Character Whose Life Was Taken Away by a Transmigrated Woman

After Su Quihe saw Xiao Liu for the second time, she completely put Zhou Wenhai, her husband, out of her mind. She rarely even thought about the son she had with Zhou Wenhai.

Su Quihe felt that the child was the result of a wrong choice, and she also believed that when she was pregnant, not long after, she had been so disliked by those animals, being bitten by dogs and scratched by cats. This was a sign from heaven that her choice had been wrong. At that time, she should have cut her losses and aborted the child.

If she had aborted the child back then, she would still be an unmarried young woman, and even if she lost her virginity, it wouldn’t have mattered. But having a child was different. Men usually didn’t care whether a woman was a virgin, but they did care if she had children.

Especially after living in the courtyard for so long, Xiao Liu had only visited twice, and she became even more certain of this belief. It had been two or three days since Xiao Liu’s last visit, and Su Quihe was feeling anxious. She was afraid that Xiao Liu might be disgusted by her.

Having been unable to sleep all night and thinking for a long time, Su Quihe asked the person who took care of her to arrange a meeting with Xiao Liu.

It happened to be a day off for Xiao Liu. He had just returned from buying wedding supplies with his fiancée, who was also his mother-in-law.

His wife’s family was well-off, and they had installed a telephone at home early on. The department’s call had been received by his fiancée at her house. After answering the phone, Xiao Liu’s fiancée rolled her eyes. “The people from the small courtyard want to see you.”

Xiao Liu’s fiancée was also from the security department, but she worked in information technology, which was a different team from Xiao Liu’s. They were colleagues from the same department, so Xiao Liu couldn’t hide such tasks from her.

Xiao Liu’s fiancée trusted him very much, but as a woman, she couldn’t help feeling displeased about such matters. When Xiao Liu thought about having to deal with Su Quihe, he looked pained.

“Nana, what kind of brain does that person have? Why is that woman’s thinking so different from others?”

Nana rolled her eyes. “Go quickly and finish the task. Don’t dawdle. We’re about to get married, and I don’t want you to still be handling such tasks after we’re married.”

Their wedding was scheduled for October, during the National Day holiday, and it was still a long way off before May Day. Xiao Liu felt that completing this task would definitely not be a problem. Moreover, their department would never delay a task for so long, because the courtyard was borrowed from someone, and their department had tight funds. The demands from the courtyard were becoming more frequent, and their department was running out of money.

Now, Teacher Zhang in the cafeteria had stopped making stir-fried red and white radishes. They had been eating stir-fried sour beans for several days in a row. Although sour beans were good with rice, it was hard to bear eating them every day.

Xiao Liu and Nana were affectionate for a while longer, and by the time they were done, it was three in the afternoon. Xiao Liu changed into his clothes and went out. When Nana saw him change clothes and put on a disguise, she clicked her tongue and felt a little sorry for the woman locked up in the small courtyard. Her husband was really handsome and was said to be an important asset to the National Security Department. Even before he started grooming himself, he looked great. Now, with a little extra effort, deliberately trying to seduce, could the woman endure that?

As for Su Quihe, she certainly couldn’t. She was obsessed with Xiao Liu’s cold face. Ever since she had met Xiao Liu, all the male leads from the novels she had read before had faces in her mind, and just looking at Xiao Liu’s face made her want to eat a few more bowls of rice.

Su Quihe was completely love-stricken, and after handing over her heart to Xiao Liu, she tried to make herself more important to him. While chatting with him, she casually revealed many things to him, pretending it was unintentional, things she hoped would happen in the future.

Xiao Liu pretended to be interested in these things, which made Su Quihe more excited to talk. Within less than a week, everything she knew was now known to Xiao Liu. Fortunately, Su Quihe still had some sense; she didn’t tell him that she was transmigrated into this world. She still fantasized about the spiritual water pendant, hoping it would someday return to her hands. So, she didn’t mention the pendant at all.

Once Xiao Liu realized he couldn’t get anything reliable from her anymore, he submitted the organized materials to his department leader. The people in the courtyard began to leave one by one. One night, while she was asleep, Su Quihe was taken to a sanatorium deep in the mountains. This sanatorium was different from the one on the eastern outskirts of the provincial capital. The people here, just like Su Quihe, had strange experiences.

They were kept under close supervision, and apart from the guards, they saw no one else.

Su Quihe was a little naive, but not completely foolish. After being brought to this place and seeing soldiers with guns every day, she slowly realized what had happened.

She wasn’t a kidnapped little canary of some rich CEO; she was a time-traveling person who had exposed herself. The country had discovered her, and now they wanted to study her.

Su Quihe requested to see Xiao Liu, but Xiao Liu, after finally getting rid of her, was not about to see her again.

Her request was rejected, and she fell silent.

The days of being imprisoned were boring. Su Quihe’s range of activities was limited to the small courtyard she lived in. There wasn’t even a single stone to be found in the yard, and there wasn’t a sharp object anywhere in the entire room. Su Quihe felt as though she were trapped in darkness, with no escape.

She began to resent both heaven and humanity. Why was it that other transmigrated and reborn women could thrive in any era, having one person fall in love with them after another, ending up with both fame and fortune, reaching the pinnacle of life? But why was it that she, when she came to this world, was captured by the state? Why was the person she had fallen in love with just a fraud who deceived her emotions?

Su Quihe became desperate in this world. She thought back to the book she had read before she transmigrated, wondering if she had followed the fate trajectory in the book, if she had become a good friend of Wen Xin like in the novel, and comforted and saved her when Wen Xin was upset and distressed, then maybe she wouldn’t have been captured.

Upon closer thought, she realized that the reason animals had disliked her was because she married Zhou Wenhai, and when Wen Xin was forced away, it had all started to go wrong. Su Quihe covered her face. If fate couldn’t be changed, then what was the point of her transmigrating into this book?

And Wen Xin… in the book, she was never recognized by her family until old age, but in this life, she had found her family, and her relatives seemed to be powerful and influential. Why? Was it just because Wen Xin was the female protagonist, the one with the “female protagonist halo”?

And what about the spiritual water pendant? If it wasn’t close to her, the spiritual water pendant wouldn’t produce any spiritual water. As soon as she left the village, the pendant ran off with her. Why? Was it just because she was the female protagonist?

Su Quihe refused to accept it. If she couldn’t live a good life, if she was imprisoned, then Wen Xin shouldn’t expect to have an easy life either! She was a transmigrator, and Wen Xin was the female protagonist. If she was imprisoned, then Wen Xin shouldn’t think she could live freely outside.

Su Quihe made up her mind, and the next day, she asked to meet with the leader, claiming she had something important to report, something related to her secret.

The guard immediately reported this, and within half an hour, Su Quihe was facing a female officer, dressed in a sharp military uniform.

The female officer sat down across from the interrogation table and opened her notebook. “Go ahead, what do you have to confess?”

Su Quihe glanced at the two soldiers standing behind her and sneered. “Let me confess. I’m from 2019. I transmigrated into the body of Su Quihe, and the reason I transmigrated is because I read a book…”

Su Quihe slowly told the officer about her origins. The female officer listened attentively to her words, her heart stirred with turmoil, but she didn’t show any emotion on her face. Even the hand she used to take notes didn’t tremble.

When Su Quihe finally finished confessing, it should have been a moment of relief, but when she got to the part about the spiritual water pendant, she found that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t bring herself to say those four words. Even when she tried writing them on the table with her hand, she couldn’t manage it. Su Quihe’s face turned pale with despair.

She hurriedly finished the rest of her confession, and was then escorted back to the small courtyard where she was staying. It was a small, square courtyard, bare and empty, with only one room and a bathroom. There was nothing else.

There wasn’t even a single object she could use if she wanted to commit suicide, but a person desperate enough to end their life could always think of a way. The guards outside the courtyard were always present, so the most discreet method of suicide, without alerting them, was to bite her tongue and die.

However, when Su Quihe tried it, the pain was unbearable. She gave up almost immediately.

As a result of Su Quihe’s confession, Wen Xin, the female protagonist of the book, was also placed under surveillance. Old Master Qin noticed this immediately and made a phone call to inquire about the reason. At his level, even though he had retired, there were still things he had the right to know. After getting the reason, he sat by the phone for a long, long time.

He simply couldn’t understand. His granddaughter was only a bit more beautiful, a bit more obedient, a bit luckier, a bit more clever, so how did she end up being the female protagonist in a book?

And Zhou Wenhai, that idiot, was actually his granddaughter’s original husband? Old Master Qin could barely breathe just thinking about it. A person like him, how could he ever deserve his obedient granddaughter? It was almost as if he was just living in a fantasy.

Wen Xin had already secretly prepared for the fact that she too would be monitored after reporting Su Quihe. She acted naturally, doing as she always did. The reasons behind her rise to fame had been thoroughly investigated long ago, even the medicines she had sold had been taken by the National Security Department for research.

The results of the research showed that, aside from the appearance of the herbs being good, there was nothing abnormal about them. As for the pot of Su Guan He Ding that Old Zhang had bought, it wasn’t worth much further investigation.

After all, even though this thing was only found in the southern Yunnan region, the world was vast, and there were all kinds of wonders. Who could guarantee 100% that there wasn’t a single one found elsewhere besides southern Yunnan?

There were no abnormalities with Wen Xin, but Zhou Wenhai was a different case. After all, he was someone who could rise to the rank of a general in a book—what made him different from others?

The leaders were particularly curious about this, and as a result, Zhou Wenhai ended up having a stroke of bad luck. Initially, the National Security Department had assigned two people to monitor him, but after Su Quihe’s confession, the number of people watching him quickly grew from two to five.

Every little detail—when he went to the bathroom, when he ate, even when he sneezed—was strictly recorded.

The leaders were just as curious about the contents of the book, so Su Quihe was interrogated more and more frequently. But when it came to the matter of the spiritual water pendant, Su Quihe simply couldn’t bring herself to say anything about it, and as a result, she grew increasingly numb.

One day, Su Quihe had a dream. In her dream, everything went smoothly after her transmigration. She still slept with Zhou Wenhai, became pregnant, and was able to marry him as she had hoped.

But unlike in this life, after marrying Zhou Wenhai in the dream, she wasn’t disliked by animals. She gave birth to a child safely. Although Wen Xin had run away, Su Quihe found her when her child was over a year old.

Wen Xin hadn’t been accepted back by her family, so Su Quihe controlled her. Every day, she made time to spend some time with Wen Xin, and her pendant continuously supplied her with spiritual water.

With the help of the spiritual water in the pendant, Su Quihe developed a skincare product. The product became a nationwide bestseller, and her business grew larger and larger. She controlled Wen Xin more and more strictly.

Her company was about to go public in M Country, but just before the listing, Wen Xin jumped off a building and committed suicide. Su Quihe heard this news, and it almost drove her mad.

Perhaps her good fortune had run out. After Wen Xin’s suicide, everything Su Quihe had done was exposed by the ever-watchful media. With irrefutable evidence, she was left in a state of panic. At this point, Zhou Wenhai, who was already a general, stepped in to help. He suppressed the news and cleared up all traces of her actions.

The crisis was averted, but Su Quihe’s skincare brand suffered without the spiritual water, and its effects were not as good as before. Sales dropped significantly. Then, one day, her company was suddenly shut down, and Zhou Wenhai was placed under investigation.

It was at this moment that Su Quihe realized that all along, Zhou Wenhai had known about her imprisonment of Wen Xin. He had helped cover up everything. The person who reported him was her cousin, He Xiunian, someone who Zhou Wenhai had never taken seriously.