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Bab 2: Bandits’ Attack

"Father! Mother!" The young woman reached out to her parents and struggled to break away from the bandit's arms but was slapped by the robber sitting behind her.

He grabbed the woman's chest wantonly and licked her neck as his hot and foul breath enveloped her when he said, "Little slut, be obedient. Otherwise, I will do you in front of your parents' corpses!"

The young woman was so frightened by the bandits' actions and words that she could only tremble all over and cried in silence. Besides her, most of the young women in the village suffered the same fate. They were either caught by bandits or died protecting their innocence while the men were being killed.

Amidst the panicked screams and the sound of horse hooves, Duan Yixin felt a headache that made her ears ring. She groaned and slowly opened her eyes, only to see raging fire destroying the houses made of straw and wood.

She felt dizzy and confused when she saw people running for their lives as if devils chased them. Before she could sort out her chaotic thoughts, someone grabbed her arm and pulled her up from the ground forcefully.

"Xin Xin, get up! Hurry up!"

She looked at the young woman who grabbed her arm while dragging her as the two of them ran towards the mountain. Duan Yixin became even more confused when she saw the frail young woman in front of her desperately run and turn around in panic from time to time.

More than an hour later, the two of them were hiding under a bush in the mountain foothills, breathing heavily. The young woman looked at Duan Yixin, saw the blood on the back of her head, and exclaimed in horror, "Xin Xin, you are bleeding!"

Duan Yixin reached out and touched the back of her head. When her fingers touched the sticky spot on her hair, she hissed in pain. Seeing her painful expression, the young woman panicked and asked anxiously, "Xin Xin, are you alright? Can you hold on for a while? We must hide here and wait until the bandits leave our village before we can go home."

Before Duan Yixin could answer her, she felt her headache getting worse. The next second, her vision went dark, and she fell to the ground and then fainted, shocking the young woman.

"Xin Xin! Open your eyes, Xin Xin!" The young woman exclaimed as her face instantly turned pale.

A few hours later, when Duan Yixin regained consciousness, it was already morning. Before she could clearly see the situation around her, she heard the voice of a young woman next to her sighing in relief.

"Thank God, you are finally awake, Xin Xin. You really scared me to death. I thought you would die of high fever like my younger brother."

Duan Yixin turned to look at her and asked in a hoarse voice, "Who are you?"

The young woman's eyes filled with tears after hearing her words. She grabbed Duan Yixin's hand and said worriedly, "Xin Xin, don't you remember me? I'm Chi Xinru. We grew up together, and our grandfathers are also good friends."

Duan Yixin stared at Chi Xinru for a while, shook her head, and said, "I'm sorry, I really don't know who you are."

Hearing her answer, Chi Xinru cried anxiously, "What should we do? The fever really burns your brain."

While Chi Xinru was crying and talking to herself, Duan Yixin closed her eyes, trying to recall what had happened before she lost consciousness. When she remembered that she was dead after the injection of the liquid chip, she opened her eyes suddenly, frightening Chi Xinru.

"Are you– are you okay, Xin Xin? What's wrong?" Chi Xinru asked as she patted her rapidly beating heart.

Duan Yixin pushed herself up, sat on the cold ground, and then looked at her body, which was covered with only a few scratches, and thought to herself, 'I had injected the liquid chip into my body, and it is impossible for me to survive without going through the synchronization process. What happens after I die? How am I still alive?'

Full of doubts, she looked around and found herself sitting in a small cave. She glanced at Chi Xinru and her clothes again, then she frowned, lowered her eyes, and thought, 'I have never seen this kind of clothes. Could it be that I was transported to another place without knowing it? So what about Captain Yu and the others? Are they still alive? If that is the case, then I have to find them as soon as possible.'

Seeing that her best friend was deep in thought, Chi Xinru said carefully, "Xin Xin, the bandits have left our village. We should go back now."

After coming back from her thoughts, Duan Yixin glanced at Chi Xinru, nodded, and said, "All right."

Duan Yixin stood up from the ground with Chi Xinru's help, and then the two of them left the small cave. They walked for nearly two hours before they saw the village in the distance. Seeing the thick smoke still rising in the village, Chi Xinru's eyes turned red, but she still smiled and said, "Can you hold on for a little longer? We're almost there."

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Not long after, the two arrived at the village. When the villagers saw them, a middle-aged woman quickly shouted, "Madam Chi, your daughter is still alive! She is back!"

Soon, Chi Xinru's mother rushed over. Her face, which was covered with black ashes and dirt, was full of joy. Seeing that her mother was still alive, Chi Xinru let go of Duan Yixin's arm and rushed towards her mother.

"Mother!"

"My daughter, you are still alive! Thank God! If something happens to you, mother won't be able to live anymore!"

Watching the mother and daughter hugging each other and crying, Duan Yixin looked away. She looked calmly at the villagers who had survived the bandits' attack and saw that most of them looked sad, and their eyes filled with despair.


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Bab 3: Break Off The Marriage Engagement (1)

Although Duan Yixin was a little confused at first, after thinking about it carefully, she was sure that her soul had occupied someone else's body. It's a pity that she didn't inherit the memory of the original owner except the language of this world. Therefore, she really has no feelings for these villagers and this ruined village.

Duan Yixin observed the villagers for a long time before walking to Chi Xinru and her mother. She stood a few steps away from them and asked, "Miss Chi, do I still have a family? Do you know where my home is?"

Madam Chi was stunned when she heard Duan Yixin address her daughter as Miss Chi in a polite but indifferent tone. She looked at her daughter and asked, "Xinru, what happened between you two?"

Chi Xinru looked at her mother and said heartbrokenly, "Mother… Xin Xin, she– she has lost her memory. She must have hurt her head when she fell last night. Fortunately, after suffering a night of high fever, she woke up this morning. But… after waking up, she forgot everything."

As soon as she finished speaking, Madam Chi and the nearby villagers who were watching them were shocked. They couldn't believe that a gentle and kind-hearted young woman would encounter such a terrible thing.

Looking at their pity-filled eyes when they looked at her, Duan Yixin thought, 'It seems that the owner of this body is living a pitiful life.'

After calming down, Chi Xinru wiped her tears, turned to look at her, and said, "Xin Xin, you can call me Xinru like you used to. Your grandfather passed away two years ago, and now you are living alone. But don't worry. You still have a fiancé who has been engaged to you since the two of you were young."

Before Duan Yixin had time to ask who her fiancé was, a young man suddenly shouted out of nowhere, "I want to break off my marriage engagement with Duan Yixin!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at the young man who spoke. Duan Yixin saw a young man walking over, and a young woman followed him while holding his hand shyly. She raised her eyebrows slightly with interest and looked at them calmly.

Upon hearing this, Chi Xinru pointed at the young man and retorted, "Tang Zizheng! Do you know what you just said?!"

When the young woman saw Chi Xinru's angry look, she pulled Tang Zizheng's sleeve. She looked at him and called softly, "Elder Brother Zheng… It seems that I would still be better off leaving this village. Now that bandits have killed my whole family, I really shouldn't stay here and become a burden to you."

Seeing her pitiful, reluctant, and scared look, Tang Zizheng felt his heart stabbed by a blunt sword. He patted her hand gently and softly whispered, "Ying'er, don't be afraid. As long as I'm here, they won't dare to do anything to you. Please stop talking about leaving, alright?"

After listening to his words, the young woman nodded obediently, then lowered her eyes shyly. When Tang Zizheng raised his hand to caress her cheek, the village chief, who had just arrived, became furious when he saw how intimate the two of them were when they talked to each other.

He pointed at his second grandson with a trembling finger and asked, "Erlang! What are you doing?! Don't you know you are a man with a fiancée? Look at how you behave right now! Don't you feel ashamed?"

Tang Zizheng was stunned for a moment when he saw that the person scolding him was his grandfather, who rushed over furiously. He thought that his grandfather, as the village chief, would have no time to be here because there were still many problems for him to deal with after the bandits' attack. 

This is the reason why he dared to break off his engagement with Duan Yixin in public. By the time his grandfather found out later, his and Duan Yixin's marriage engagement should have been terminated.

Looking at his shocked expression, the village chief snorted, then looked at Duan Yixin and said, "Yixin, don't take Erlang's words to heart. He is just temporarily confused. I will scold him later. You don't need to pay attention to him."

Duan Yixin glanced at Tang Zizheng and the young woman's hands that intertwined together, then she looked at the village chief and said calmly, "This grandpa, I don't have any feelings for him. If he wants to break off the marriage engagement, I have no objection."

After finishing speaking, she thought, 'This is not even my marriage engagement. It would be better to terminate this troublesome marriage engagement now since I have this opportunity.'

As soon as these words came out, the women gasped in surprise. As women, they know how vital a clean reputation is to women. Even if she is just a village woman, once her reputation is tarnished, there are only two endings for her. The first one was locked in a pig cage and drowned by the villagers, and the second one was banished from her clan and disowned by her family.

Although the second ending sounds better than the first, it is difficult for a woman to survive without the support of her family and clan. Ultimately, she is either forced to live a life worse than death or sell her body to survive.

The village chief was shocked for a moment when he heard Duan Yixin's words before saying, "Nonsense! A wedding is the parents' order and a matchmaker's words. There has never been a rule that a woman can make decisions about her marriage. Moreover, your grandparents are the ones who decided this marriage engagement between you and Erlang when they were alive. Do you want to break this marriage engagement and tarnish your grandparents' reputation and let them be scolded as liars even after they die?"

Hearing this, Duan Yixin calmly pointed at Tang Zizheng and the young woman's hands and asked, "They already behave like this in public, and you still want me to accept this marriage and let them step on my head? Don't you think this is more humiliating to me than breaking off the marriage engagement with your grandson?"

She paused for a moment and added, "Or, do you think that because I am an orphan without a family, you can force me to accept this marriage, even if your grandson is the one who wants to break off the marriage engagement with me and is also the one who breaks his promise first?"


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