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Time: Mid-June, summer of 1971

Location: A bungalow in the staff quarters of the An Dingcheng Machinery Factory in Jiangsu Province

“Xile, don’t blame your dad. He’s doing it for the good of our family. Your brother is getting old to get married.”

Let him stay in the city to work; this will not only ease the burden on the family, but also allow your father to hold his grandson.

Ping An and Donghai can also live more comfortably, which is a win-win situation.

Auntie knows you've been wronged by this. If you're really upset, you can scold me a few times or even hit me a couple of times, but please don't go against your dad.

Your dad has worked hard for our family, so please be understanding and don't upset him. It breaks my heart to see him like this!

Jiang Xile felt her head buzzing. Hadn't she just self-destructed and perished together with the zombies?

What's going on here?

What's with this old white lotus next to me, rambling on and on?

At that moment, she felt completely powerless and had a splitting headache. Gritting her teeth, she slapped him hard.

"Smack!"

In an instant, the whole world fell silent!

Jiang Xile immediately felt that she had done the right thing by slapping him, but she never expected this.

A moment later

The volcano has erupted again!

"Waaaaah... Joy, how could you hit me! Waaaaah... Old Jiang..."

The woman tearfully recounted her ordeal, and the man she called out to finally snapped out of his shock.

"Jiang Xile, you think I'm being too nice to you? You even dare to lay a hand on your stepmother! I'll teach you a lesson today!"

[Jiang Xile? Is this man talking to her?]

[After all these years since the apocalypse, no one has ever dared to speak to her, the dignified dual-elemental queen, like this! Heh....]

Still feeling a bit dizzy, Jiang Xile opened her eyes and was immediately surprised by everything unfamiliar in front of her.

[Where am I? Didn't I just self-destruct? Could this be...?]

Before she could think any further, a vast amount of memories instantly flooded into her mind.

[Good heavens! I really have time-traveled!]

Just then, the man opposite her walked up to her and raised his hand to slap her.

Who is Jiang Xile? She is a renowned level eight dual-elemental powerhouse in the post-apocalyptic world. Now, someone actually dares to attack her!

Jiang Xile immediately grabbed the other person's arm, looking at them with disdain and asking:

"You want to hit me?"

Jiang Wanmin never expected that his usually timid eldest daughter would dare to defy him today, and even block his slap.

Although he was somewhat surprised, he was not afraid. His voice was filled with more anger, as if Jiang Xile had done something outrageous and abhorrent!

"I'm going to beat you up! You damned little brat, how dare you defy me! I'm going to skin you alive today!"

While the man was speaking, Jiang Xile had already successfully absorbed all of the original owner's memories.

It has to be said that the original owner's identity was confirmed to be utterly appalling!

Jiang Xile never expected that in her lifetime she would experience a time-travel train journey and actually travel into a period novel she had been reading.

The fierce-looking man in front of me, his face full of anger, was none other than the original owner's biological father.

What biological father would look like he wished his daughter were dead? Ignoring his facial expression, just looking at his behavior, even a stepfather wouldn't be as outrageous as him!

Let's look at the original owner. She was a typical pitiful little thing. She was sensible from a young age, and her mother had been in poor health ever since she gave birth to her younger brother.

The original owner usually took care of all the big and small matters at home. She endured this until she was fourteen years old, when her younger brother had also grown up. But unexpectedly, her mother passed away.

Not long after her mother passed away, her maternal grandparents, who had always doted on her, were reported to the authorities, and her uncles were also sent to a farm for labor reform.

Not long after her maternal grandfather's family had their accident, her biological father married a stepmother. The original owner had to go to school while also taking care of her younger brother and serving the whole family.

The slightest mistake could lead to expulsion from school, and they would also be bullied and verbally abused by the son brought by their stepmother from time to time.

Even her biological father's attitude towards her worsened day by day after her stepmother became pregnant.

The original owner longed to graduate from high school as soon as possible so that she could take over her mother's job and get rid of the constraints of this family.

But unexpectedly, first he was forced to give his job to his stepmother, and now he has to take his stepbrother's place to go to the countryside.

In a moment of emotional collapse, the original owner finally mustered the courage to rebel against her scumbag father, but unexpectedly, she was pushed and shoved by her stepmother and broke her head.

A perfectly healthy young girl died suddenly, and no one even noticed.

When she woke up again, the cowardly original owner was no longer there. In her place lived the life of Jiang Xile, a dual-elemental superpower queen who had struggled in the apocalypse for more than ten years!

The cruel post-apocalyptic life and the survival-of-the-fittest mentality have been deeply ingrained in Jiang Xile's bones.

Even if the original owner's own father was the one who was yelling that he would skin her alive, it was still unforgivable.

Jiang Xile flung his hand and pushed the person away.

"Let me give you a piece of advice: you're getting on in years, don't get so angry. We live in a harmonious society now, and socialism emphasizes civility."

"Always talking about skinning people alive, do you think you're some old landlord? You arrogant jerk!"

Jiang Wanmin stumbled from the push and looked at Jiang Xile in disbelief. When did this girl become so strong?

Zhang Guilian, the stepmother who had just been playing the victim, was also astonished. She cursed Jiang Wanmin inwardly for being useless, for not being able to beat a little girl.

"Xile, no matter how many faults Lao Jiang has, he's still your own father. How could you lay a hand on your own father? That's unfilial!"

Jiang Xile turned her head and looked at her slender and pitiful stepmother beside her. This person was sleazy and cunning, and it was obvious that she was no good.

"You must have eyes covered in shit. Which eye saw me lay a hand on him? I just stopped him from hitting me!"

What? Isn't the wound on my head big enough? Isn't the blood flowing enough? Are you two trying to murder me in this yard?

Wouldn't that mean no one would compete with my stepmother for the job? After all, that job was left to me, my own mother, by my own daughter.

I wonder if the leaders of the garment factory will stand by and watch you bully my poor daughter like this.

My mother, no matter what, was someone who contributed to the factory, even though she's dead now...

I think there's always a place where reason prevails. This world isn't a place where anyone can have their own word these days! It's best not to be too arrogant!