Chapter 40: The Train to the Countryside Begins a New Story

Night fell.

The train station platform was crowded with a steady flow of people.

Bustling and lively.

A tall young girl, dressed in a green short shirt, black long pants, and flat soft cloth shoes,

carried a large wooden box in one hand and a big woven bag on her shoulder.

Following the crowd boarding the train, she squeezed her way in.

“Hey, please make way! Please make way!”

Her voice was clear and crisp, her short hair cut to ear length.

She covered half her face with gauze, revealing only a pair of bright and beautiful apricot-shaped eyes.

In the crowded train carriage, she forced a path with her body.

After finding a seat, she placed the wooden box on the luggage rack and the woven bag under the seat.

Lin Xiaodou took a deep breath.

These days, even just catching a train was no easy task.

Luckily she was agile; otherwise, she wouldn’t have even squeezed in.

Just after sitting down, a sincere voice came from beside her:

“Comrade, you’re also a sent-down youth, right?”

The speaker was a young man wearing a gray short-sleeve shirt.

Lin Xiaodou: “Yes.”

The young man smiled and said, “I just asked — everyone in this carriage is a comrade heading to the countryside. We’re all revolutionary comrades.

Just thinking about going down to the countryside to expand the world and show our skills makes me excited!”

Seeing the hopeful expression on his face,

Lin Xiaodou’s mood was a bit complicated.

It was summer 1970 now, and the grand sent-down youth movement had only been going for a little over a year.

Many educated youths knew little about rural life, only enthusiastically going down with burning passion.

They naively thought it was really about building and developing the countryside, and after two or three years, they’d be able to return to the city.

But they didn’t know their best youthful years would be spent facing the yellow earth, working the fields.

Regarding this decade-long movement, she made no judgment.

Every piece of history has its significance, no need to label it good or bad.

Lin Xiaodou couldn’t help but glance around.

The young men and women in the carriage looked somewhat sad to leave home, but more on their faces was excitement.

She guessed it wouldn’t be long before this group would be crying out to return to the city.

Lin Xiaodou reined in her feelings, lowered her eyes.

All this had nothing to do with her; she just needed to live her own life well.

Signing up to go down to the countryside was a plan Lin Xiaodou had made long ago.

Both her foster family and birth family were torn apart by her actions, and everything at home had vanished.

Both things were connected to her, so inevitably someone might suspect her in the future.

Moreover, the scar on her face at this time couldn’t be healed medically.

She could only go somewhere else and show a different face.

Before boarding the train, Lin Xiaodou had already taken the “Ice Muscle Jade Skin Pill” from her spatial stash.

She looked in the mirror once at that moment.

Just one glance left her deeply amazed.

Her appearance…

She was at a loss for words to describe it.

If she were a man, she’d fall in love with herself at first sight.

To avoid causing a stir, Lin Xiaodou chose to cover her cheek with gauze.

She was already used to wearing gauze over her face.

Even though it was summer and hot enough to sweat, she didn’t mind at all.

The original owner’s hair had been long and dry, hard to manage.

Luckily Lin Xiaodou didn’t like washing hair much either.

So she just got a student-style haircut at the barber shop a couple days ago.

It was truly a universal youth-reducing hairstyle.

With the new haircut, her whole temperament seemed much younger.

If not for her height of 170 cm, someone might think she was fourteen or fifteen.

But she was only seventeen now, not that old.

Compared to her previous life as a 22-year-old in modern times, she was five years younger.

Lin Xiaodou was quite satisfied.

Before the old green train clattered off,

three empty seats opposite her were finally taken.

By the window sat a girl with braided pigtails.

The moment this person sat down, she wouldn’t stop chattering.

From the sound of it, she was trying to curry favor with the girl sitting in the middle.

On the outermost seat by the aisle sat a male comrade.

He leaned forward, wearing a flattering smile, and also tried to strike up a conversation with the girl in the middle.

However, the girl showed no reaction to either of their enthusiasm.

Lin Xiaodou didn’t pay much attention. She was currently using her consciousness to organize the traditional medicinal herbs in her spatial stash.

The more frequently she used the space, the more adept she became.

Previously, she had to physically enter the space to manipulate the items inside.

Now, she didn’t even need to go in—she could control everything just with her mind.

The Lin family of doctors had truly left behind some good stuff.

Deer antler velvet, ginseng, fleeceflower root, lingzhi mushrooms, bird’s nest, cordyceps, seahorses…

All extremely precious medicinal ingredients, each with at least 50 years of age, their value simply incalculable.

Lin Zhengming had been shrewd and stored all of it in a nondescript cellar.

If Lin Xiaodou hadn’t searched carefully, she really wouldn’t have found it.

Once she finished organizing the herbs,

Lin Xiaodou withdrew her consciousness from the space and casually glanced across at the seat opposite her.

But when she saw the floating text above the head of the girl in the middle,

Lin Xiaodou’s entire body went numb.

She never would’ve imagined—

She had just escaped from a melodramatic “fake vs. real daughter” cliché novel.

And now she had entered another period drama novel!

Yes.

Sitting in the middle opposite her,

was the female lead of this new novel: Chu Ling.

Lin Xiaodou could only see the book’s title and synopsis,

but just from the title alone, she was already speechless.

Title: After Abandoning My Husband and Children, I Returned to the City, Only to Transmigrate Back to the Seventies

Lin Xiaodou: ???

Hold on, a woman who abandoned her husband and children… deserves a second chance?

If the female lead had lived a good life in her past life, would she have regretted what she did?

No, of course not.

She probably would’ve forgotten all about that rugged country husband and her peasant kids long ago.

She only regretted it because life hadn’t gone well for her—she missed being loved and cared for in the countryside.

A woman like this, who wants to have it both ways, comes crawling back to the male lead—doesn’t that make him the ultimate sucker?

Lin Xiaodou couldn’t understand.

How is this any different from a cheating man wanting to get back with his ex-wife after a divorce?

Lin Xiaodou then looked at the synopsis.

And… became even more speechless.

The female lead, Chu Ling, had originally held a job in the city. For the sake of a scumbag man, she secretly went to the countryside behind her family’s back.

Even in the countryside, she didn’t keep quiet. Every day, she fought the supporting female character over that scumbag man.

One time, she accidentally fell into a river and was saved by a rugged man from the village, Han Guoqiang. Pressured by public opinion, she had no choice but to marry him.

After marrying Han Guoqiang, the female lead immediately got pregnant—with twins.

She blamed Han Guoqiang for ruining her love life and constantly stirred up trouble, turning the Han household into a chaotic mess.

Later, in 1977, when the national college entrance exam was reinstated, the female lead got accepted into university. She instantly abandoned her countryside husband and children to run back to the city with the scumbag man.

But after they returned to the city, the scumbag changed his heart. He not only swindled all her money, but also got together with her best friend.

In the end, nine months pregnant, cold and hungry, she froze to death in the dead of winter.

At the moment of her death, the female lead finally regretted everything.

She remembered her husband and children in the countryside and suddenly felt incredibly guilty toward them.

Then, when she opened her eyes again, she found herself transmigrated back—

Back to 1970, on the very train heading to the countryside.

After getting off the train, the female lead actively sought out the male lead and pretended to be sweet and obedient in front of him.

The two got along well and were lovey-dovey.

In the end, they got married and lived happily ever after.

As for the scumbag man and evil supporting female character, the female lead used the male lead’s hand to take care of them all.

So overall, this was clearly just another sweet revenge romance set in the past.

But Lin Xiaodou still couldn’t wrap her head around it.

Someone who had been impulsive and selfish in her past life—

You expect her to become wise just because she’s lived once more?

Lin Xiaodou wasn’t buying it.