In recent years, An Mingji has been idly wandering the village, with an indescribable wildness about him.
It's a danger akin to a wolf, ferocious as if ready to bite at any moment.
Gu Jin lovingly patted the little wolf cub's head, feeling a myriad of emotions in her heart.
She slowly stood up, surveying her surroundings with both eyes.
At this moment, she was standing at the entrance of Qingshan Village, where she could see the entire village at the foot of Qingluan Mountain, and all the households were in her sight.
This was the place where she had lived for eighteen years.
After she left, this became the memory she least wanted to recall in her life, where she endured scorn and countless humiliations.
Just because, although her surname was Gu, she was not a child of the Gu Family, and there was no Gu blood running through her veins.
She was a child with an unknown father, abandoned by her own mother.
Yet she was clearly dead, why had she returned here?
Gu Jin lowered her head, gazing at An Mingji standing beside her.
The little wolf cub obediently looked back at her, disheveled but with clear eyes, everything was very real.
Gu Jin took a deep breath, raised her hand, and firmly pinched her own arm.
"Hiss!"
The pain brought tears to her eyes.
"Sister Jin, why are you pinching yourself?"
An Mingji quickly stepped forward to pry her hand away after seeing Gu Jin's action.
"Hahaha..." Gu Jin laughed instead, the tears in her eyes turning into scalding droplets falling down.
It hurt so much, she cried from the pain, this isn't a dream!
With tears in her eyes and a smile on her face, Gu Jin looked at An Mingji and asked, "Little An, can you tell me what year it is now?"
An Mingji's bruised face was full of confusion, frowning like a little adult, "Sister Jin, you're not having a fever are you? It's May of '86 now..."
'86... It's actually '86!
Gu Jin's fingertips trembled slightly, she had unexpectedly returned to the year she was sixteen, two years before the Zhen Family would take her back to Beijing, she hadn't become a pawn for arranged marriage yet.
In her past life, she was shortsighted, thinking when her biological parents came for her, she had finally persevered and could live a good life.
Unknowingly stepping into a den of tigers and wolves.
Her biological parents found her at eighteen, took her back home, which was the Zhen Family.
The Zhen Family was quite foresighted, noticing Hua Country would support enterprising businesspeople.
Unfortunately, they had the ability but no backing, trying to curry favor with a government official surnamed Liu through connections, intending for a marriage alliance to show sincerity.
Her biological parents couldn't bear to use their younger daughter, so they came to Qingshan Village to find her, Gu Jin.
At eighteen, she was taken away by the Zhen Family because her dream was to leave this oppressive mountain village and see the outside world.
Coupled with her biological parents' persuasion, going to Beijing meant living a life of privilege, so she left Qingshan Village without hesitation.
In Beijing, she indeed lived two good years.
At home, she learned various knowledge, cultivating her graceful demeanor befitting a family of status, though her learning was superficial, she managed to pick up the basics.
But everything turned upside down at the age of twenty, catching her off guard like a lamb at the mercy of slaughter.
She was forcibly married to a government official surnamed Liu, becoming a discarded pawn of the family.
At the Liu Family, she endured over twenty years of mental torture, her so-called husband held a high position but was impotent, a particularly perverse character.
He kept numerous women outside, and whenever he was displeased, he would go out and physically and mentally torment them.