Chapter 1

The world that Song Zhehao traveled to this time is also a parallel world that runs simultaneously with the real world. The specific era is probably the Republic of China era in the original world.

There are just some differences. There is no humiliating history of invasion by foreign powers, but the era of warlords ruling their own territories has been prolonged. Song Zhehao traveled to that era.

The city where the original owner lived was called Lake City, a relatively prosperous city in the south. The corrupt feudal regime had just ended, and the new life and new atmosphere were slowly being accepted by people.

In the past ten years, a new trend has just blown into Hucheng. Many new-style schools have been established in Hucheng. Men have begun to go to school from private schools, and there are also many cases of girls going to school.

Women, like men, appeared in public, walked through the streets and alleys, and went to school with schoolbags on their backs. Even some girls' schools had men as teachers.

For Lake City, this is a new thing and has caused a lot of controversy.

The heroine of this world, Song Zhuyue, the original owner's younger sister, experienced a life tragedy that began with her missing out on the opportunity to attend the academy...

The original owner's family had been practicing medicine for generations, and Song's father, Song Yutang, was famous for his medical skills. He married a virtuous wife, Yao Xiancao, who gave birth to the original owner in the second year after their marriage.

Two years later, a daughter, Song Zhuyue, was born.

When the original owner was fifteen years old, school became the new trend in Lake City. The original owner clamored to go to school. Although Song Yutang did not trust the school, he did not object.

Because Song Yutang felt that the original owner was the eldest son in the family after all, and would inherit his mantle in the future, so it would be enough for him to be able to read and write. Going to school was just a way to broaden his horizons, and he didn't expect him to learn anything.

Besides, the original owner was spoiled since childhood.

With parents, any request will be met.

The original owner wanted to go to school just for the sake of novelty, and also because his goddess Ni Ning, who he had been thinking about, was also studying in a new-style school.

Although male and female students were separated in the school at that time, at least this gave me more opportunities to see the goddess Ni Ning.

The fifteen-year-old heroine Song Zhuyue, seeing the girls wearing new school uniforms on the street, also developed a yearning for the new school.

Of course, what made Song Zhuyue finally make up her mind was her close friend He Man and He Man’s young and handsome teacher Qu Yangze.

In that era, although the older generation was cautious and even skeptical about emerging young people like Qu Yangze, the younger generation, especially the girls, viewed them as shining stars.

Especially people like Qu Yangze, who doesn't wear silk clothes, but wears a suit and leather shoes, and has a bright backcombed hair. He always stands in crowded places and expounds on new ideas.

When faced with those numb fellow human beings, we always respond with compassion for their misfortune.

Song Yutang has strict family education and does not allow his daughter to have much contact with strange men, but with He Man acting as a middleman, Song Zhuyue meets Qu Yangze and is attracted by his trendy aura.

Similarly, Qu Yangze was also attracted by Song Zhuyue's beauty. He thought that if such a beautiful girl could abandon those outdated ideas and living habits, wear cheongsam and Western dress, hold red wine, and speak fluent foreign language, what a beautiful picture it would be.

This is what Qu Yangze thought at the time, and he said it out loud immediately. Song Zhuyue was so scared that she shook her head repeatedly, but when she returned home, she couldn't calm down the eagerness in her heart to try it out.

In the end, Song Zhuyue made up her mind that she must go to school!

At that time, the original owner had been attending the new school for three months. Given his useless personality, he had not learned anything and felt that this school was really boring!

Because the original owner had looked for Ni Ning several times, but Ni Ning ignored him and instead fell deeply in love with the emerging youth Qu Yangze.

This Qu Yangze is really popular among girls!

Although the original owner had a good appearance, and was even more handsome than Qu Yangze, in Ni Ning's eyes, he lacked that modern style and seemed old-fashioned and conservative, and was simply vulgar.

The original owner was not convinced and expressed his feelings in person, but Ni Ning spoke out all his true feelings!

The original owner was furious and hated Qu Yangze, and hated that trendy style even more.

Just at this time, Song Zhuyue brought up the idea of ​​going to a new school to Song Yutang, but Song Yutang was still hesitant.

As a result, the original owner added fuel to the fire, saying that the daughter of a family in the south of the city was coerced into going to school, but ended up hanging out with male students and got pregnant. Now that the man refused to marry her, she couldn't commit suicide by jumping into the river.

He also said that he had entered the new school and that the things he was learning were not good things. They only taught him things like how children were born, the similarities and differences between women's and men's bodies, and other things that were immoral.

Several of my male classmates also had affairs with students from the girls' school. Such immoral things were simply unspeakable.

The original owner finally said that she would not go to school anyway, and if Song's father wanted to keep the family clean, he must not let his sister go.

Song Yutang was originally an old-fashioned and conservative person. He always believed that women had no talent. He valued the original owner very much and listened to his son's words without any doubt.

Although I love my daughter, I always feel that girls are different from boys and must be strictly disciplined, otherwise she will easily do things that bring shame to the family.

When Song Yutang heard this, he became furious, as if Song Zhuyue had done something similar. He scolded Song Zhuyue and told her to give up the idea as soon as possible. If she dared to mention this matter again, he would immediately find her a husband and send her away.

Song Zhuyue ran back to her boudoir crying, but the original owner was smiling with glee.

Although Song Yutang did not allow his daughter to go to school, he did not stop her from going out. So Song Zhuyue often went to see He Man, and naturally she could often see Qu Yangze.

Qu Yangze sympathized with Song Zhuyue's situation very much and encouraged her to resist the stubborn parents, but Song Zhuyue didn't dare to do that. She was so scared that she shook her head repeatedly when she heard this.

Helplessly, Qu Yangze secretly became Song Zhuyue's teacher and began to impart new knowledge and new ideas to Song Zhuyue.

Song Zhuyue was smart and quick to learn, and soon her old ideas changed.

At the same time, the relationship between the two has changed greatly...

Qu Yangze fell in love with Song Zhuyue's intelligence and outstanding appearance; Song Zhuyue admired Qu Yangze's trendy, bold and unconventional style.

A few years passed quickly, and the original owner had reached the age to get married and start a family. Song Zhuyue was not much older than the original owner, and the old society was extremely harsh on women. Women who were a little older and had not yet married would be rumored by outsiders to be unable to get married.

Song Yutang thought about it and decided to find a husband for his daughter. The first family he thought of was a wealthy family named Wang in the city.

However, Song Zhuyue had already been brainwashed by new ideas at that time. She was determined to be a new woman, advocated freedom of marriage and love, and refused to accept her parents' arranged marriages.

More importantly, Song Zhuyue has been in love with Qu Yangze for a long time, so how could she possibly commit herself to marrying someone else?

Song Zhuyue cried and told Qu Yangze the news that Song Yutang was going to marry her off!

Qu Yangze exploded when he heard it!

What era is this? There are still such feudal remnants, wanting to sacrifice their daughter's happiness in exchange for more wealth and status for themselves.

They are simply beasts! Beasts!

Qu Yangze immediately contacted several classmates and exaggerated the news of Song Yutang's daughter's marriage, vilifying it. He described Song Yutang as a cold-blooded and profit-driven father, and Song Zhuyue as a helpless and poor daughter who was exploited at will.

Soon, this seriously distorted news was published in the Lake City Newspaper at the time.

Hucheng is not a big city, and Song Yutang is quite famous in Hucheng for his superb medical skills. Now that the newspaper has seen the news, Song Yutang's reputation has been ruined and he has no face to see anyone.

Song Yutang was so angry that he suffered a stroke and became paralyzed on the one hand.

This incident caused a sensation in the city. The mayor of Hucheng County criticized Qu Yangze and his colleagues for their inappropriate behavior. Qu Yangze and several accomplices attacked the mayor.

As a result, the security was too strict and his companions were unfortunately arrested. Qu Yangze fled Hucheng overnight.

Qu Yangze came to find Song Zhuyue on the night he fled from Hucheng. He wanted to take Song Zhuyue away with him, but was stopped by the original owner.

Qu Yangze had no choice but to escape alone, leaving Song Zhuyue to clean up the mess he had created.

Song Zhuyue and Qu Yangze's love affair was exposed. After Song Yutang knew the truth, he was extremely disgusted with his daughter. He called it a misfortune for the family and asked the original owner to send her away quickly and not keep her to bring harm to the family.

The original owner was eager to do this!

The original owner found Song Zhuyue and said earnestly that he did this for Song Zhuyue's own good. Qu Yangze was not a good person at all, and he would find a good husband for his sister.

What the original owner said was actually half true and half false!

Really, it’s because Qu Yangze is indeed not as perfect as Song Zhuyue thinks.

Qu Yangze appears to be righteous on the surface, but in fact he is a man of many evildoers. He flirts with different girls under the pretext of freedom of love. Even when he escaped this time, he took six or seven girls with him, all of whom were deceived by him. The reason he said this was fake was because the original owner prevented Song Zhuyue from eloping, and he was not afraid that his sister would be entrusted to the wrong person, but rather wanted to keep Song Zhuyue to get married so that he could receive a generous betrothal gift.

Now facing such a situation, Song Zhuyue has long given up.

She seemed to have known about the original owner's selfishness for a long time. When she heard the original owner's persuasion, she just smiled coldly and said that it would be fine if she sold me for a good price. It would be her final way of repaying her parents!

Sure enough! Not long after, Song Zhuyue got married!

Because Song Yutang was extremely disappointed with his daughter, and her mother Yao Xiancao no longer cared about her, Song Zhuyue's in-laws were completely chosen by the original owner.

The original owner didn't have much affection for his sister. He just treated her as a commodity and wanted to make a fortune from her.

The original owner married Song Zhuyue to a wealthy businessman in Hucheng. The wealthy businessman was nearly fifty years old, three of his wives had died, and he had two concubines. He wanted to marry a virgin to fill his womb, and offered a generous betrothal gift.

The generous list of betrothal gifts made the original owner very happy, so he immediately married his sister to the man as a concubine. He also complained that his sister's reputation was ruined and no one would dare to marry her. This marriage was also obtained through his earnest persuasion.

A daughter without parental love is like grass swaying in the wind, with no control over her own destiny.

The original owner received the betrothal gift and his family became wealthy again. Thinking of his old love Ni Ning, he wanted to marry Ni Ning.

Ni Ning's life was not easy either. She was not liked by her parents who favored boys over girls because of her status as a daughter. After Qu Yangze ran away, her ambiguous relationship with Qu Yangze was exposed, so she felt like her life was a year in a day in the Ni family.

Seeing the original owner still infatuated with her, she couldn't wait to marry him!

No matter what, the original owner came from a wealthy family and was even more handsome than Qu Yangze. Why not do it?

Seeing that the original owner was in love with Ni Ning, Ni's father took the opportunity to extort money from her and married off his daughter like a hot potato.

Who would have thought that although Ni Ning seemed gentle and virtuous, she was actually a shrew.

She married into the Song family and, relying on the original owner's love, soon became the head of the family.

After taking charge of the household, Ni Ning's true nature was revealed. She was often dissatisfied with the original owner and was even more abusive and harsh to her parents-in-law. In the end, she forced her father-in-law Song Yutang to hang himself and her mother-in-law Yao Xiancao to want to remarry.

Knowing her mother's situation, Song Zhuyue took her mother out and secretly rented a house to support her. However, her sister-in-law Ni Ning found out about it. Ni Ning was jealous of Qu Yangze's high regard for Song Zhuyue, so she had always held a grudge against Song Zhuyue and told the wealthy businessman Song Zhuyue married about it.

In the past few years, Song Zhuyue's life has not been easy. The rich businessman is a lustful man. He soon got tired of Song Zhuyue and often scolded and criticized her. Sometimes he believed the slander of his two concubines and even beat Song Zhuyue.

Knowing that Song Zhuyue was secretly raising Yaoxiancao, he beat Song Zhuyue severely on the pretext of stealing family property, and then drove Song Zhuyue out of the house.

Song Zhuyue lived on with her mother, barely surviving.

Half a year later, the situation changed suddenly. The generation of the Marshal's separatist rule came to an end and was replaced by a short-lived government. A young county magistrate came to Hucheng.

This county magistrate was none other than Qu Yangze who had escaped earlier.

The first thing Qu Yangze did when he returned to Hucheng was to take revenge on those who had offended him, and the original owner was among them.

Originally, upon learning that Qu Yangze had gained power, the original owner wanted to flee Hucheng, but his wife Ni Ning, in order to please her ex-love and also hoping to rekindle their old love, reported the original owner's escape plan.

The original owner's plan failed and he was arrested. In the end, he was labeled a rebel and sent to the guillotine and shot.

Ni Ning wanted to rekindle their old relationship, but Qu Yangze looked down on her as a broken flower and sent her away with a few sarcastic remarks.

Qu Yangze was thinking about Song Zhuyue and secretly visited her in her hut. When Song Zhuyue saw the man who had ruined her, she wanted to chop him to death.

But! Song Zhuyue didn't have the chance to make a move. Seeing that Song Zhuyue had become an ordinary peasant woman, Qu Yangze lost his last bit of attachment to her and left with disappointment.

That night, her mother Yao Xiancao passed away, and Song Zhuyue walked into the pond, ending her miserable life.

Three months later, a severe flood occurred in Hucheng. After the flood, the bodies were not handled in time, and a major plague broke out.

In that plague, nearly half of the people in Hucheng died. Plague and famine occurred simultaneously. Ni Ning, the widow of the Song family, sold her property and wanted to escape from the city, but she was robbed by the victims and her body was finally thrown into the wilderness and became food for wild beasts.

While dealing with the disaster, Qu Yangze unfortunately contracted the plague. Although he received the best treatment, his life could not be saved.

The story ends here.

"Ding Dong! The mission of this world is to protect Song Zhuyue and change the original fate of the Song family!"