Jiang Mingyue was startled awake by the sound of heavy rain outside the window.
Huh! Didn't she die in Wuyun Mountain Grand Canyon? Where is this place now?
What she saw was a small, unfamiliar room, with an old wooden table by the window, holding a red peony thermos and an enamel tea mug printed with "Serve the People".
As Jiang Mingyue was still trying to figure out the situation, she heard footsteps approaching the door.
She quickly closed her eyes.
The door was violently kicked open by someone.
"Brother Hai, don't you think Ming Yue is such a big girl now, why is she so thoughtless? Why can't she just talk things over properly at home instead of trying to drown herself? Now, the neighbors might start thinking we're mistreating her and spread rumors about our family."
Entering the room was Jiang Mingyue's sister-in-law, Zhou Ye, who had long been displeased with this sister-in-law. Previously, she dared not say anything because her sister-in-law was supported by their parents-in-law.
Now, everything is different.
"You should say less."
Jiang Yihai was annoyed in his heart, as their parents were determined to kick this sister out of the family.
Yet he was the one chosen to play the villain.
"Brother Hai, we treated her well before because she was our true sister-in-law. Now that it's confirmed she's a fake, she has nothing to do with our family. Keeping her would just be a burden; it'd be better to quickly let her go."
"I said, shut up!" Jiang Yihai interrupted again.
Zhou Ye wasn't afraid of Jiang Yihai and continued to complain on her own.
"Think about it, how much money have we spent on this sister-in-law over the years? I've heard that Mom and Dad still want to buy her a house and add to her dowry. Brother Hai, all this money is our family's joint property; we can't let outsiders take advantage of it anymore."
"Zhou Ye, I must have been blind to have chosen such a foolish woman as you."
Zhou Ye was momentarily silenced, shocked by Jiang Yihai's sudden outburst.
With all this noise, Jiang Mingyue on the bed couldn't pretend any longer.
And she had just finished receiving the original owner's memories.
She figured out one thing: not only had she transmigrated, but she had also transmigrated into a book.
Just her bad luck to become cannon fodder in that book.
The book seemed to be called "The Real and Fake Daughter Contrast Group."
The story used her, the fake daughter, as a contrast. Although living in a wealthy environment, she ended up as an ant to be crushed by everyone and was ultimately trampled to death.
By contrast, the real daughter...
Despite being deliberately swapped by her rural foster mother and growing up in a difficult environment, she still managed to finish high school through her own efforts.
Inspirational!
Later, after recognizing her biological parents, she worked even harder. This perseverance won her love and then success in her career. The story's ending mentioned that Jiang Zhenzhu eventually became the founder of a multinational corporation, renowned at home and abroad.
The epitome of a life success story.
In contrast, every mention of the original owner was always met with sighs by others.
At the moment, Jiang Mingyue felt like cursing the brain-dead author. After spending a month fighting with the original, Jiang Zhenzhu, who was full of devious tricks, didn't possess the qualities described in the book at all.
Success was granted, but how it was achieved was debatable.
If it weren't for Xiao Qingting dragging her to read it as a bedtime story, she would never have picked it up.
Brain-dead, utterly illogical.
...
"Ming Yue, are you awake?"
Unconsciously gritting her teeth, Jiang Mingyue... was thus forced to "wake up."
Jiang Mingyue slowly opened her eyes, wanting to first test her spiritual power. Fortunately, her spiritual power had come along with her.
The shocking part was that this couple really was despicable.
"Hmm, Brother, are you here to bring me food? Great, I'm starving." She reached out to receive it, only to be met with Jiang Yihai's embarrassed face.
"No, little sister, I... I..."
Tsk, even in ancient times, they provided a full meal before execution, but here she was as a modern person still left hungry.
"Alright, you just want me to leave, right? I'll just leave."
Talking to these people was really pointless.
Now it was their turn to be stunned.
Knowing that the reason this fake sister had tried to drown herself was that she didn't want to return to the countryside, stubbornly refusing to leave and unable to tolerate her real sister Zhenzhu,
She had been causing a commotion for the past month, turning the household upside down and filled with chaos.
But now she suddenly agreed to go back, so how could they not be shocked?
"I say, Brother, since you want me to leave, you should let me pack up by myself first!"
"Uh... okay, okay... No, little sister, do you really agree to return to the countryside?"
"Absolutely."
Jiang Yihai's tense heart finally relaxed since he had completed the task his mother entrusted to him.
"Sister, actually, I don't want you to leave. Why don't you go beg our mom, she likes you so much, she'll definitely be reluctant to part with you."
However, inside he thought: Go ahead, it's futile anyway.
Jiang Mingyue, continuing to track with her spiritual power: what to do when you really don't want to talk to self-righteous people?
"Oh dear! Little sister already asked us to leave, what are you still standing around for?" Zhou Ye, who had been treating herself as air, suddenly went to drag Jiang Yihai, directly pulling him out of the room.
After the door closed, Jiang Mingyue quickly got out of bed and saw that her room was almost empty.
The original owner's clothes and such were all gone.
However, she saw a green bag in the corner and a net bag filled with things.
Jiang Mingyue didn't need to confirm to guess those were the original owner's belongings.
Looks like Mrs. Jiang was indeed determined to make her leave.
If the original owner were alive now, she would certainly be very sad, right?
Luckily, she wasn't the original owner.
She came from the year 2422, a time of world chaos when the population of tens of billions dwindled to a few million overnight, on the brink of extinction.
The times were predictably tough, but she was fortunate, having excellent abilities and a cousin devoted to protecting her completely. Through life-and-death situations together, he had managed to create a shelter for her in that chaotic world.
The incident happened when her cousin went to the southern headquarters to escort the latest antibodies, and there was suddenly a riot led by someone at Base B. By the time she calmed the situation, Xiao Qingting was missing.
To find Xiao Qingting, she disregarded her cousin's warning before he left, secretly leaving Base B, and chased all the way to Wuyun Mountain, only to realize she had fallen into her archenemy's trap.
The archenemy's sister died earlier, and the blame was pinned on her cousin.
By capturing her, they intended to use her as bait, setting a huge trap to lure her cousin. Seeing through their plan, she deliberately angered them, causing them to push her off a cliff while she was tied up, her body shattering into pieces, her soul clustering just before death, only to awaken as the current Jiang Mingyue.
In fact, she wanted to leave even without them pushing.
According to the timeline, in another month... all schools in Nanxi City would also suspend classes.
By then, the city would be in chaos, while the countryside would be safer, and college entrance exams would be canceled. She might as well return to the countryside.
Moreover, if she didn't leave, Jiang Zhenzhu would propose that she got married three days later.
The book stated that the protagonist's rural father died early, and her mother raised two sons and two daughters. If Jiang Mingyue went back, she would fill Jiang Zhenzhu's place, ranking as the fourth.
However, according to the book's ending, the other three siblings didn't have good futures and eventually went astray. Jiang Mingyue wanted to see if her joining the Old Jiang Family in the countryside would change the course of their fate.
But before she left, she had three things she needed to do.