"Our perfectly healthy daughter married into this family, and in just a few years, you've ruined her! Sister-in-law, if you don't give us an explanation, we'll go to the authorities!"

"Third brother's sister-in-law, that's not right. We paid thirty taels of silver to marry into the family of the third brother's family openly and legitimately."

"You're living like widows the moment you step in the door? Does the Jiang family think the Gu family has no one to rely on?"

The noise woke Gu An'an with a whimper. When she found herself lying on a broken bed with a straw mat covering her, she felt terrible.

Memories flooded back like a tide. Gu An'an pulled the straw mat up a little. Can she just pretend she's dead?

Gu An'an transmigrated into a book and became a cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name.

It's inappropriate to simply define them as cannon fodder; a more accurate description would be that they act as catalysts for the villainous bosses.

This catalyst was also quite tragic. The family was poor and there was an older brother who wanted to get married. In order to prevent the Gu family line from dying out, the Gu family parents gave the original owner thirty taels of silver to the third son of the Jiang family.

For a family in the countryside to be able to come up with thirty taels of silver, the Jiang family was truly wealthy.

In reality, this extravagance hides a deep pitfall.

Jiang Laosan isn't even home, so why would he need to get married?

The Jiang family paid to marry the original owner of the body so that she could uphold the family's reputation and become the stepmother of Jiang Laosan's four children!

The original owner was sold by her parents, and the innocent young woman was forced to become a stepmother to four children, which caused her to turn into a villain.

He frequently beat and scolded his four children, raising them to be completely corrupted. As they grew up, they became villains, one after another like the Calabash Brothers, constantly making things difficult for the male and female protagonists, until finally they were uprooted by them.

Meanwhile, the original owner, who had been turned into a human mustache by the four big shots, was rescued by the male and female protagonists of the novel, and the root cause of the villains' corruption was finally found.

In order to cure the disease and bring the original owner back to the light of day, his head was severed.

When Gu An'an saw this, she touched her neck, never expecting that she had actually transmigrated into the book.

Gu An'an, a single young woman, was in a bad mood. Although she didn't plan to contribute to the country's birth rate, she would go to the welfare home to work as a social worker and take care of the children and the elderly when she had time.

An out-of-control truck caused her, an innocent passerby, to suffer. Gu An'an felt that she was already unlucky enough, how did she end up transmigrating into the body of the stepmother of four villainous bosses?

Destroy it.

Let her die.

Gu An'an pulled the straw mat up a bit, the musty smell lingering in her nostrils.

She couldn't hold back any longer. He was already in critical condition; couldn't he at least be given a clean straw mat?

Just as Gu An'an was about to lift the straw mat, she suddenly heard a weak voice, like that of a fledgling eagle, "Third brother, is Mother still alive?"

Amid the noise outside, the boy's voice was utterly cold: "No, she's dead."

The third son of the Jiang family, truly worthy of being a descendant of Medicine King Valley, has already taken life and death lightly at such a young age.

Although this villainous boss is a master of poisons, he's just a little kid now, so Gu An'an isn't afraid at all.

Lifting the straw mat covering her, Gu An'an sat up. "Who said I'm dead?"

The voice, which should have been furious, was hoarse due to the aftereffects of falling into the water, greatly reducing its power and giving it a sinister quality.

The little girl, huddled in the corner, curled up into a ball. "Mother, it wasn't Bao'er who said it, nor was it Third Brother. Mother, please don't be angry."

The little girl with dry, yellow hair was trembling with her arms crossed, tears streaming down her face, which made Gu An'an's heart ache.

This child looks to be less than three years old.

The little boy next to her was a bit older than her, wearing ripped clothes. Although he tried his best to hide his fear, Gu An'an still noticed his little gesture of tightly clutching the hem of his clothes.

Although Gu An'an is a staunch advocate of singlehood, she really likes children; otherwise, she wouldn't work as a social worker at the welfare home on her days off.

Seeing these two extremely cute little cabbages, her heart almost melted.

How could the original owner bear to beat, scold, or humiliate such an adorable child?

After getting out of bed, Gu An'an went to the corner of the wall.

Upon seeing this, the little boy immediately stood in front of his sister, his intention to protect her was self-evident.

But could a five-year-old boy possibly stop her?

Gu An'an reached over the little boy's head and picked up the trembling little girl. She was so light and slender that she looked like she was malnourished.

It wasn't easy for this child to grow up under the original owner's care.

Seeing the little girl trembling in her arms, Gu An'an softened her voice, "Mother won't hit Bao'er, but Bao'er has to tell Mother where Big Brother and Second Sister went."

In the past, whenever I got close to my mother, she would take out a broom and hit me, slapping my bottom and palms.

But today, my mother actually hugged me.

This embrace is soft and warm.

Bao'er couldn't help but speak up, "Big brother, he..."

The little boy, still in the corner, immediately shouted, "Don't tell her, or she'll beat my older brother and sister to death!"

It was her older brother who orchestrated her falling into the water, nearly causing her to drown.

Given this wicked woman's consistent character, she certainly won't let her older brother off the hook.

You absolutely mustn't tell!

In early winter, the two children, both under five years old, were still wearing only a single layer of clothing.

If this happened in the 21st century, it would be child abuse, and the police would have to educate the child, and the Women's Federation would have to intervene.

Gu An'an immediately tucked Bao'er into the blankets and looked at the little boy squatting in the corner, "Do you know why the Gu family came to make trouble?"

A married daughter is like water spilled from a cup; the Gu family took thirty taels of silver as a betrothal gift and didn't care about the original owner's life or death at all.

They're making trouble now because they're only doing it for personal gain.

“This family is very poor and doesn’t have anything valuable. But if we can take your second sister away and sell her to a wealthy family in the county as a maid, we can probably get ten or twenty taels of silver.”

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