Xu Nian was bored!

A scholar-looking man stood outside the courtyard and called out to her, "A-Nian, A-Nian."

Through the fence, Xu Nian looked at the man, whose gaze was very ardent.

Is this the original owner's childhood sweetheart?

He looked fair-skinned and had a scholarly air about him. It was hard to believe that such a person would end up selling the original owner of the body into a brothel.

“A-Nian, I’m late. I didn’t expect Aunt Xu to sell you. I only found out after asking around in Butou Village that you were sold by the Liu family. A-Nian, are you doing well now? Has that man been mistreating you?” Li Hao spoke sincerely, his eyes filled with concern.

"I'm fine. How did you find me?" Xu Nian remembered that she had been staying at Wang Pu'an's house for a month. She was just wondering when he would show up!

“I only found out you were sold to Butou Village by Aunt Xu, and then I searched all the way here. Niannian, it’s all my fault. If I had married you sooner, you wouldn’t have had to suffer like this,” Li Hao said with a face full of self-reproach.

"Don't be silly, your family won't agree to you marrying me." Xu Nian knew perfectly well that Li Hao was a scholar, and the original owner's parents were greedy. Even if Li Hao's family agreed to marry her, they wouldn't have the money.

"A-Nian, it's all my fault for being useless." Li Hao felt guilty and remorseful, his eyes glistening with tears, which gradually reddened.

“A-Nian, do you want to come with me? We’ll leave here and go to the capital. I’ll sell calligraphy and paintings to make money.” Li Hao’s hopeful gaze made Xu Nian lower her head.

"Go back! I can't ruin your future, let's leave it at that!" Xu Nian said, then covered her face, afraid that her expression would give away her plan.

Li Hao, however, thought she was crying because she was sad, and spoke even more enthusiastically. "A-Nian, what use is my future without you? Come with me, okay? I can't live without you. These days, I can't stop thinking about you."

"Li Hao, stop talking. I'm not good enough for you." Xu Nian continued to cover her face.

"A-Nian, I don't care, I only want you. Please come with me, even if it's to the ends of the earth, I just want to be with you." Li Hao continued to persuade Xu Nian, but she still refused.

"A-Nian, I won't give up. I'll come back tomorrow. I'll wait until you agree." Li Hao gave Xu Nian a deep look, then left unwillingly.

Xu Nian stood for a while, then returned to the chair in the courtyard and continued to sit there, but in her heart she was calling for Yuanbao.

"Host, what's wrong?" Yuanbao put down the game, reluctantly turning his eyes away from the game screen.

"Yuanbao, help me find out who Li Hao, the childhood friend of the original owner, is?" Xu Nian always felt that Li Hao gave her a sense of incongruity.

"Okay, host, please wait a moment."

A short while later, Yuanbao ran back and said, "Host, don't be fooled by that man's appearance. He's a scoundrel who indulges in all sorts of vices, and he's used his looks to cheat on several girls."

"What happened to those girls in the end?" Xu Nian was more concerned about this.

"After he'd had his fill of them, he turned around and sold them into a brothel. Those girls are still being forced to entertain customers by the madam there!" Yuanbao said indignantly. He had never seen such a shameless person.

"Yuanbao, check where there are cliffs or ponds in Butou Village. By the way, can Li Hao swim?" Xu Nian thought of a way to deal with Li Hao.

He wanted to elope with her? Fine, she'd make their escape route his final resting place.

"He can't swim, host, you don't mean to kill him, do you!" Yuanbao also felt that it would be better for such scum to die, so as to save him from harming girls.

"Yuanbao, do you have the place I want?" Xu Nian neither admitted nor denied it.

“Yes, host, there’s a cliff 500 meters west of Butou Village, high enough to kill someone falling from it,” Yuanbao chuckled.

"Yuanbao, who is the female lead in this world?" Xu Nian was very excited. She had completed several missions, but she had never met the female lead.

"The female lead is a time-traveler. Her original self was an idiot. Her parents were afraid that no one would take care of her after they died, so they gave her to Wang Pu'an, whose wife had eloped with someone else. When the time-traveler arrived, things were already set in stone, and she had no choice but to accept that she had an extra husband. Then it's the process of the time-traveler and the male lead developing feelings for each other." Yuanbao sighed inwardly after finishing speaking.

I don't know if the plot of this dimension will proceed normally, but I hope the male protagonist won't have any improper thoughts about his host.

However, as things stand, everything is moving in a positive direction, and the male lead doesn't seem to have changed much.

"Yuanbao, what's the female lead's name?" Xu Nian found out. The main story begins after she eloped with her childhood sweetheart, and she no longer has the chance to meet the female lead.

"Host, what do you want to do by asking so many questions?" It wasn't that Yuanbao was being overly wary, but rather that its host was asking too many questions today, which was unusual.

"I just want to get to know her and see what's so special about her that makes her the female lead." Xu Nian was genuinely curious about what was different about the female lead's body, and why she was able to have nightly revelry with the male lead.

"Host, what are you planning?" Yuanbao didn't believe things were as simple as Xu Nian made them out to be.

“You wouldn’t understand even if I explained it to you, it’s a mosaic problem,” Xu Nian lamented.

"Host, you're a woman, so you absolutely mustn't do anything rash to the female lead!" Yuanbao was only thinking about the male lead; if the female lead got involved, this mission would be impossible to complete.

"Yuanbao, my orientation is perfectly normal, don't overthink it." Xu Nian swore to heaven that she was female and attracted to men.

She doesn't discriminate against homosexuals, but she is not gay.

"Just in case, it's better if you don't know who the female lead is," Yuanbao snorted twice.

"Yuanbao, just tell me!" Xu Nian pleaded, and Yuanbao said it would take the bait.

"Host, the main system is looking for me. Contact me next time if needed."

The voice of Yuanbao in her mind disappeared, and Xu Nian sat in the chair and sighed, her brows furrowing with even deeper sorrow.

She seemed to have something on her mind, sitting there with a worried expression for a long time before she finally got up and went inside.

Wang Pu'an, who witnessed the whole process, stood by the corner of the courtyard wall, his arm veins bulging, and his fists making a "crackling" sound.

Nian Nian, his constant thoughts.

What should he do if he can't keep her?

Wang Puan was sad and unwilling to accept it. He thought he could move Xu Nian and make her stay willingly.

It wasn't until just now, when her childhood sweetheart appeared, that he realized she wasn't aloof and indifferent to everyone.

It's not that the person who could cause her emotional fluctuations was Wang Pu'an.

Should we really give up on them and let them have their way?

Thinking of all the moments he had spent with Xu Nian over the past month, Wang Pu'an felt a burning resentment and a desire to break free of his cage.

He didn't want to; he didn't want to let her go.

A voice inside screamed, "I want her, I want her!"