章 4: She Would Be Fine if They Were Fighting Over a Man With Unmatched Looks
編集者: EndlessFantasy Translation
The original owner of the body was called Chen Mengtian. She was a pitiful child who first lost her mother, then her father as well, which left her with no one to love her.
Right after her father died when she was ten, her aunt sold her to the Jiang family as a child bride.
Now, it was her third year in the Jiang family.
She became a graceful girl and, at the same time, started paying attention to boys.
She might have been the child bride of the Jiang family, but she did not like the good-looking Jiang Zebei.
Their relationship was not great.
They might live in an era in which men were more valuable than women, but the original owner's temper was one that made Chen Mengtian clap for her.
The original owner was fierce and unreasonable, without a single sign of a weak personality.
It was especially so when she faced Jiang Zebei. Both of them had even fought before.
It was as if there was some sort of magnetic reaction between them, and they just kept rejecting each other.
As they grew older, this aversion became even more prominent.
The original owner did not like Jiang Zebei. She liked Chen Qing from the same village, who was just a pretty boy.
His words were as sweet as honey, and he had a loose tongue.
He even talked about sex with the original owner, even though he never responded to her advances.
The original owner was utterly flattered by him, and her heart belonged solely to him. She liked him so much that she wanted to marry only him.
At first, the original owner thought that she would definitely be able to marry Chen Qing.
Even though she was the Jiang family's child bride, she had never slept with Jiang Zebei, and she did not like him either.
That was why she thought that it was only natural that she would be able to marry Chen Qing, but reality gave her a cruel awakening.
Chen Qing was actually engaged to Chen Baozhu, who was her cousin and the daughter of the aunt who sold her to the Jiang family.
When she learned of this news, the original owner was furious.
She first went to look for Chen Qing. When she could not find him, she went to look for Chen Baozhu.
They quarrelled by the village's river.
Their argument soon escalated, and they fought.
The original owner's strength let her down, and she was pushed into the river by Chen Baozhu.
When Chen Mengtian recalled this drama of two women fighting over one man, her lips twitched.
It would be fine if they were fighting over a man with unmatched looks, but he was a weak pretty boy, so she could not understand why they were fighting over him.
The original owner even lost her life because of it, and the villagers would now gossip about her.
In the past, no one knew about her and Chen Qing.
But now, she had fought with Chen Baozhu. Besides, after the villagers appeared, Chen Baozhu reproached her.
She said that Chen Mengtian seduced her fiance despite being a married woman, which was incredibly shameless. She also said plenty of other humiliating things.
Chen Mengtian was a woman of the twenty-first century. Despite that, she still felt embarrassed by those things. Chen Baozhu's cusses even involved the private parts of men and women.
They were the things the original owner heard with what remained of her consciousness when she was saved from the river.
The discussions of the people around her and Chen Baozhu's slander made her so angry that she nearly fainted.
Chen Mengtian wondered whether the original owner died of anger because Chen Baozhu twisted the truth and said all those dirty, shameful things.
Now that she thought about it carefully, she felt that it was possible.
After all, how could a person die once they were brought out of the river?
Once Chen Mengtian familiarized herself with the horrible original owner's memories, she stood up in Green Lotus Dimension and observed her surroundings.
She felt that all the things she received came straight from a fantasy novel.
Even if she was out of the loop, she knew that transmigration was a movie genre that had been popular for years.
She had watched a few such movies.
But now that it happened to her, she found that she had quite the hard time accepting it.
She wanted to return to the twenty-first century, where she had a phone, air conditioning, and all sorts of entertainment.
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