There was a mirror in the room that perfectly reflected her appearance. The girl was wearing a silk dress, her face was beautiful, like a flower reflected in water. When she didn't speak, she looked aloof. These days, beauty can't put food on the table.

In about ten minutes, Jiang Shufen brought in a bowl of tomato and egg noodles.

Chopped scallions floated on top as a garnish, and there were some finely chopped green vegetables underneath the noodles. She quickly placed them on the bedside table. "Xixi, hurry, eat it while it's hot."

The aroma of egg noodles wafted to Lin Yuxi's nose. She couldn't remember the last time she had eaten a bowl of hot noodles since the apocalypse.

"Thank you, Mom." She suppressed the bitterness in her heart and ate the bowl of noodles clean, leaving not a drop of soup.

"I'm sorry to have worried you."

Jiang Shufen responded, "It's good that you can see things clearly. There are plenty of three-legged toads out there. If you can let go of that, Mom can introduce you to other potential partners anytime, guaranteed to be better than that ingrate Zhuang Zhenhua."

The phrase that had crossed Lin Yuxi's mind when she first regained consciousness flashed through her mind: a handsome, muscular man...

She quickly shook her head, "No rush, I'm not thinking about that right now."

The original owner was eighteen years old, but her body was twenty-four.

Moreover, I have important business to attend to now.

Zhuang Zhenhua's absence was obviously due to her being busy writing a complaint letter; otherwise, she would have simply tied him up. After all, she has plenty of strength and means.

But he wasn't the only one keeping an eye on the Lin family. Otherwise, they wouldn't have even bothered to verify the authenticity of the whistleblower's letter before their entire family was relocated to the countryside.

Lin Yuxi's entire body was cold, and her expression was solemn. "Mom, where are Dad and the others?"

...

They lived in a Western-style house with a small courtyard. Compared to others who were crammed into bungalows and tenement buildings, weren't they the ones being spied on?

The family sat together with the doors and windows tightly closed.

Lin's father, Lin Weidong, and his wife, Jiang Shufen, are in their forties. Lin's grandfather, Lin Zhenbei, and grandmother, Pan Hong, had their son late in life, so they are now almost seventy years old.

After Lin Weidong went to the countryside, all the heavy lifting was on his shoulders, and he soon fell ill. During the famine, Jiang Shufen had no rice to cook, and she couldn't support four people by working alone. In the end, Lin Zhenbei and Pan Hong starved to death in order to save food.

“Actually, I had a dream. I dreamed that Zhuang Zhenhua only wanted our family property, which is why he got engaged to me. He kept using sweet words to deceive me in order to find out the details of our family property. I couldn’t think straight and that’s why I chose to jump into the river.”

"Luckily, I survived. According to the progress in my dream, he is currently writing anonymous letters of denunciation at home, slandering us as traitors who worship foreign things. Tomorrow, our family's property will be confiscated, and the whole family will be forced to go to the countryside."

She said, slowly and deliberately, "This is a very important matter, and we need to prepare for it well in advance."

Jiang Shufen gasped in surprise, her eyes widening.

Lin Zhenbei frowned, shook the tobacco in his hand, and his eyes instantly turned cold. "How dare he! That bastard! Child, you've been wronged!"

“Xixi, it’s not your fault. Blame him for being so despicable and despicable, and for fooling us too…” Jiang Shufen never expected it to be like this. The rumors outside were horrible, saying that her daughter was willing to die for a man, and that she would have been cruelly abandoned if she hadn’t been so promiscuous.

How much suffering her daughter has endured!