"pain..."
Zhou Qiqi was sleeping soundly when she suddenly felt a burning pain in her back, as if she had fallen hard.
She groggily opened her eyes and saw a dimly lit bathroom in front of her.
A man was standing at the door, looking down at her.
The man had just taken a shower, with a towel casually draped over his shoulder. Water droplets, not yet dried, trickled down his bulging chest muscles, converging into thin streams at the creases of his abdominal muscles, leaving dark water stains on his army green polyester trousers.
On his side, a hideous old scar lay dormant, rising and falling with the man's breath.
"you..."
The man's thin lips were pressed into a straight line, his Adam's apple slid heavily in the shadows, and his eyes gleamed with cold light.
Zhou Qiqi felt a burning sensation in her nose, swallowed hard, and reached out her hand as if possessed.
"It's only natural that this devout woman, who has accumulated good deeds throughout her life, would dream of such an exceptional man!"
But the moment she touched the man's cold skin, the door behind her was slammed open with a bang.
She instinctively snuggled into the man's arms, only to hear a piercing shout behind her.
First, a man said, "Zhou Qiqi! You are the childhood sweetheart of the Xu family, how can you be hugging and cuddling with other men?"
Then came a woman, "Shen Huaichuan! You...you...weren't you here to get my marriage certificate? What are you doing?!"
What's going on?
Zhou Qiqi turned her head to look at the doorway and saw a man and a woman standing there wailing and howling.
One of them was wearing dark blue overalls, and the other was wearing an outdated floral dress.
Behind her, a crowd of onlookers stood around, pointing and whispering, their eyes filled with disdain.
This dream... was so exciting!
In her dream, she was actually a married woman?
They were caught in the act of adultery? That's outrageous!
She shook her head, trying to wake up from the dream, but a strong sense of grief welled up in her heart for no apparent reason.
Immediately afterwards, a flood of memories that did not belong to her rushed into her mind.
These memories came too suddenly; she didn't have time to process them before everything went black and she fainted.
Before she lost consciousness, it seemed as if a pair of strong arms were holding her in their embrace.
......
When I woke up again, it was already the next morning.
The location was no longer a hotel, but a hospital filled with the smell of disinfectant.
Having been unconscious for so long, Zhou Qiqi had a general idea of what had happened.
Everything that happened last night was not a dream.
Instead, after staying up all night, she traveled back in time to 1982 and inhabited the body of a woman with the same name as her.
Zhou Qiqi is a child from a blended family. Her father doesn't love her, and her mother doesn't care for her. She has been independent since childhood and has an exceptionally strong ability to adapt.
Knowing that self-pity was useless and that living one's life well in the present was the most important thing, she quickly accepted the original owner's memories.
After learning about the original owner's experiences, she really wanted to carve the word "miserable" on the original owner's forehead.
Actually, the original owner of this body had a fairly happy childhood.
Her mother was a primary school teacher in the village, and her father was a hunter. Her parents doted on her deeply.
But when he was seven, his parents fell seriously ill one after another, and there were no other relatives in the family.
Before she died, her mother entrusted her to the Xu family, her neighbors, and took all of the Zhou family's belongings with her.
The original owner moved into the Xu family and became the child bride of Xu Shu, the eldest son of the Xu family, who was five years older than her.
Initially, the Xu family treated the original owner fairly well, considering their family fortune.
But the Xu family had many children, and the work points they earned were simply not enough to feed so many mouths.
Gradually, Mr. and Mrs. Xu's attitudes changed.
They treated the original owner of this body like a maid in their household, not only making her cook for the whole family, but also dumping all the heavy and tiring work on her.
If anything goes wrong, they'll be beaten and scolded, and they won't even be given food.
Fortunately, Xu Shu treated her fairly well, often secretly saving her food and taking her out to catch fish and cicadas.
Seven years passed in this way. When Xu Shu was nineteen, he was recruited by a provincial construction team and went to work in the city.
At first, he would go home to visit during holidays.
But later, the construction team traveled all over the country for projects, and he followed them all over the country. Apart from occasionally sending money home, he never went home again.
The original owner was eighteen years old. Xu's mother was eager for the two to get married and have a grandson, so she wrote more than a dozen letters to Xu Shu, but he declined on the grounds that he was too busy.
The original owner was twenty years old when Xu's mother couldn't wait any longer. She made the original owner travel thousands of miles to find her husband and even demanded that she bring back a child.
After going through many hardships, the original owner found Xu Shu and arranged to meet him at a hotel.
But who could have imagined that that night, she went to the wrong room and was caught in bed with another man in public?
After this incident, the original owner felt "impure" and proposed to Xu Shu to break off the engagement.
Xu Shu, using her status as a member of her maternal family, forced the man to take responsibility for the original owner of the body.
Coincidentally, the man was also at the hotel to see his fiancée.
His fiancée witnessed the scene, and their engagement was called off.
The man agreed to marry the original owner of the body, but said that he still had a mission to complete. He left only a letter and identification documents, asking the original owner to go to the military base to find him.
For the past thirteen years, the original owner had always regarded Xu Shu as the only light in her life, so how could she accept such an ending?
Overwhelmed with shame and indignation, she committed suicide.
It was under these circumstances that Zhou Qiqi transmigrated.
Perhaps due to a fluctuation in spacetime, she traveled to a slightly earlier time, arriving at the scene of being "caught in the act" of adultery, but the situation remained largely unchanged.
After she fainted, everyone else involved, except for her, had already concluded the matter.
The current situation is that she slept all night, the officer has left, and only Xu Shu is by her bedside, waiting to explain things to her and then send her to the army.
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