She was very familiar with the name "Huang Wenxia".
Look, she has been following the story "90s: The Pretty Girl Was Pampered by the Officer" on Tomato Novel for the past week.
The novel tells the touching love story between Huang Wenxia and Han Jianye. Even though her family often brings some minor troubles, which makes Huang Wenxia feel headache and guilty, Han Jianye always supports her, spends money and effort to take care of her relatives from her family, and helps his wife solve her problems, making their married life full of happiness.
Huang Wenxia was born in the year when the Family Planning Commission was established. When Huang's father learned that his wife had given birth to another daughter, he was so angry that he didn't even go home. He just asked someone to tell Huang's mother to give the child away.
Huang's mother felt sorry for the young child and wanted to raise him first. However, right after her confinement, Huang's mother was taken away by the family planning office and forced to have an IUD inserted. This completely ended Huang's father's dream of having another son.
Huang Wenxia was the fourth child in her family, with an older brother and two older sisters. Despite being the third daughter, she won her parents' affection with her sweet talk and intelligence. Furthermore, her excellent academic performance earned her admission to a university in Hunan Province, where she met Han Jianye, a military academy graduate from a cadre family. This made her the pride of her father.
However, unlike Huang Wenxia's smooth sailing, the lives of her three older brothers and sisters were full of ups and downs.
The eldest brother, Huang Wenbin, was lazy and often got into trouble. Nearing 40, he was facing unemployment due to the bankruptcy of his company and had to rely on his parents for support. In order to allow his brother to support the family, Huang Wenxia had to use her connections to help him find a job.
The eldest sister, Huang Wenrong, was the school's most beautiful girl with excellent grades. Just as she was about to enter university, she suddenly brought home a young gangster, saying she wanted to get married. Huang's father naturally disagreed, but she unexpectedly eloped for love. After marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, but her husband abused her and refused to divorce. Huang Wenxia had no choice but to help her out.
Huang Wenjuan, the second oldest sister, was a sweet and obedient child, but her life was filled with misfortunes. After graduating from high school, she joined an insurance company and rose through hard work and talent to manager. However, she later became obsessed with investing, and each venture, from health supplements to alcohol sales to financial companies, was a rollercoaster ride of adventure.
In the early 2000s, I worked at an investment and financial management company, dragging friends and family to attend classes all day long. Seeing that the deposit interest rate was several times higher than that of a bank, my relatives and friends all started to deposit money. Seeing that the company's advertisements were everywhere, my father gritted his teeth and deposited 50,000 yuan.
At the beginning, I did receive high interest for a few months, but suddenly one day the company was closed down and I couldn't withdraw the money. My second sister Huang Wenjuan and several others who were part of the company's management were also taken away by the public security bureau for investigation.
When Mr. Huang heard that he couldn't breathe, he was immediately admitted to the hospital. He cursed and cried, feeling sorry for his pension money and also worried about his second daughter.
It was Huang Wenxia's husband, Han Jianye, who finally secured her release. The company involved in the illegal fundraising operation had been operating, and the owner had absconded with the funds. Although Huang Wenjuan was not convicted, she lost all her money. Her family and friends also suffered heavy losses due to her "high-interest deposits."
The husband was disappointed and the son was rebellious, so later the father and son rented a house to live in separately.
She became the target of public criticism and was left alone.
Huang Wenxia discussed it with her husband and lent her 100,000 yuan, hoping she would mend her ways and overcome her difficulties. However, she fell for another scam, buying virtual currency and losing her money once again. Her family, completely disappointed in her, no longer cared about her affairs.
When the novel reached this point, Xu Mengyao was still sighing: "A hemp rope only breaks at the thinnest part, and misfortune only finds the unfortunate." The life of the heroine's second sister is really going further and further downhill!
Who would have thought that upon waking up, she would find herself as Huang Wenjuan in the book? The same sadness she felt when she first read the book, the same despair she felt now. Suddenly, she was overwhelmed with grief, tears streaming down her face.
After the despair, I felt a little relieved that I was not an only child and that I had my parents and younger sister to take care of me.
After trying various methods to return to reality but failing, she slowly calmed down and told herself that although she was still the frail Huang Wenjuan, since fate had arranged for her to travel through time, she couldn't give up easily. She had to use the "script" in her hands to change things that hadn't happened yet.
Thinking of this, Xu Mengyao stood up and began to look around the unfamiliar environment.
The house was a large rectangular room, divided into three doorless rooms using dried corn stalks. The east and west rooms each contained a large bed and a large wooden box for clothes.
In the central hall, a small bed was placed. Facing the main door, against the wall, stood a three-drawer cabinet, about 1.5 meters long and 1.2 meters high. On it were teapots, teacups, and teapots decorated with large floral patterns, a white enamel plate with a red border, and an old-fashioned clock. On either side of the cabinet stood a large jar filled with grain.
As I walked out of the house, the afterglow of the setting sun shone across the yard, casting a long shadow on a large tree to the west. There was a pressurized well and a cow in the yard. Against the northwest wall stood a chicken coop, filled with about twenty chickens.
"With cows and so many chickens, this family seems quite wealthy." He muttered as he walked towards the kitchen in the east where the voices came from.
When she entered the kitchen, she saw Huang's mother cooking, her eldest sister Huang Wenrong lighting the fire at the stove, and her youngest sister Huang Wenxia playing with stones on the floor. When she saw her come in, Huang's mother said as she picked up steamed buns from the bamboo basket with chopsticks:
"Let's eat, Juan, go to sleep after you finish eating, you have to go to school tomorrow."
Dinner was a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, a plate of potato slices, and a white steamed bun. Yes, a white steamed bun. Xu Mengyao breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that life was still bearable.
However, the harmonious atmosphere in the kitchen was soon broken by a loud shout. Then a loud old lady's voice was heard, full of energy, cursing:
"Which bastard stole my chicken? You dare to steal my chicken? Aren't you afraid of eating it and having your intestines rotten?... You stole my grandson's food and must be damned! If I catch you, you bastard, I'll show you how I'll deal with you...!"
"My grandma has started again." The eldest sister shook her head.
Huang's mother sighed helplessly, "Alas, when you were in school, I brought a chicken to your grandma, saying it was for your health."
"Why? It wasn't stolen from my family." The younger sister Huang Wenxia shouted unconvinced.
"Because she's your grandmother, if you don't let her have her way today, when your father comes back, our family will lose more than just one chicken."
"My grandma is just partial." Little Wenxia muttered in a low voice.
The eldest sister took a chicken and went out, and sure enough, the scolding stopped after a while. She followed the youngest sister to the well to wash up. The water in the basin was warm. She felt Huang's mother's attentiveness, but she was still shocked by the old lady's domineering attitude.
At night, Xu Mengyao lay in bed unable to sleep. She pinched her thighs several times to confirm that what she saw was real before she fell asleep with a heavy heart.