Chapter 1: Immediately after transmigrating, a marriage arrangement was arranged.
"Xinli, your sister and Ji Yubai are in love, and their elopement was out of necessity. Please grant them their wish."
"You marry He Mingzhou, and Qingyu marries Ji Yubai. Isn't that a good thing?"
"It's just a change of marriage partner. He Mingzhou is an official, which is more suitable for you than Yu Bai."
Xin Li frowned deeply.
What elopement? Who eloped? Didn't she already fall into a zombie pit and get eaten?
Before Xinli could recover, the woman outside the door was still trying to persuade her, "Xinli, your father and I have discussed it. As long as you are willing to marry He Mingzhou, we will raise three thousand yuan for your bride price."
Seeing the familiar lines and scenes, Xin Li suddenly realized that she had transmigrated into a book, a novel about getting rich in the 1960s, and become the cannon fodder female supporting character, Xin Li.
The original owner was the daughter of a capitalist in Shanghai, whose ancestors had been merchants and were extremely wealthy.
The man who eloped with the stepsister Xu Qingyu was originally the original owner's fiancé, Ji Yubai. The two are the male and female protagonists of this book.
Compared to the original owner's fiery temper and spoiled, arrogant nature, Xu Qingyu was like a gentle and understanding flower in everyone's eyes. However, the original owner had a fiery temper and would explode if provoked by a few words.
So even though Xu Qingyu was always the one who made mistakes, as long as she showed weakness and shed a couple of tears, the original owner would become the one who bullied her.
In those days, elopement was considered a moral issue if it got out. With the political movement underway, the Xu family was in the eye of the storm. Xu Changshan wanted to downplay the matter by having Xinli marry He Mingzhou, Xu Qingyu's fiancé.
The original owner couldn't even get a look at a cultured and romantic young master like Ji Yubai, let alone a poor, illiterate military officer like He Mingzhou.
Xin Li frowned. If the original owner didn't want to marry, she had to.
What's wrong with going to the island with the army? The male protagonist has impeccable revolutionary credentials; he's been on the battlefield and fought enemy agents.
The Xin family will be finished in less than half a year, and He Mingzhou's identity will be able to protect her.
In the book, Xu Changshan ran away with his wife, daughters, and family property before the liquidation. The original owner of the body was directly arrested by the educated youth office, detained and interrogated for two months, and then sent to the countryside, where he suffered all kinds of cold treatment.
Because of her good looks, she was targeted by thugs. During a fight with them, she had her leg broken, and the next day she was accused of having questionable morals.
Unable to hold on any longer, he jumped into the river and committed suicide.
Xu Qingyu and her family thrived in Hong Kong, eventually becoming renowned philanthropic businesswoman.
Thinking of this, Xin Li smiled. Xu Changshan married into the Xin family, and the original owner took her mother's surname.
What decent female lead would elope with her stepsister's fiancé? Those scumbags and bitches must have hooked up ages ago!
After Xin Li's mother passed away from illness, Xu Changshan remarried his childhood sweetheart, Li Xiuhui. Li Xiuhui had never been married, but she had a daughter who was two months younger than her.
The original owner wasn't stupid; she immediately saw through Xu Changshan's extramarital affair and made a scene.
Unfortunately, she was too young to make any significant impact.
Li Xiuhui is quite formidable; for so many years, she has maintained a gentle and virtuous stepmother demeanor, never fighting back or arguing back.
The original owner felt it was pointless to punch someone who had just thrown a punch at them, and eventually just pretended that she didn't exist.
During the day, the He family called to discuss the wedding. When Xin Li returned from shopping that evening, Xu Qingyu and Ji Yubai had left behind a letter about eloping and then disappeared.
Li Xiuhui had long wanted to talk about the arranged marriage, and this was a good opportunity to be honest with the original owner of the body. Even Xu Changshan chimed in.
The original owner, with her fiery temper, was naturally displeased and sprayed a cup of hot tea in Li Xiuhui's face before launching into a tirade.
"Who do you two think you are, mother and daughter, to be assigned to me!"
"No matter how bad my things are, as long as I don't throw them away, they're mine. It's not up to Xu Qingyu, an illegitimate child, to steal them!"
"You want me to pick up things that other people don't want? Maybe in my next life."
The original owner cursed the mistress and then cursed his own father.
"You've favored that bastard child all these years, and now you're even giving up my marriage to her? I think you've really forgotten that this family belongs to the Xin family, not the Xu family!"
"I only call you Dad because of my mother. You really think you're something special. If I don't see Xu Qingyu kneeling down and apologizing to me within two days, I'll let everyone on the street know what kind of person she is!"
"I forgot that this skill of seducing people is probably hereditary; like mother, like daughter."
This is just a story of a scumbag who takes advantage of his wife's family fortune. This whole family is supported by the wife's assets, and he even schemes against her daughter. It's disgusting.
Now that she's here, there's no reason for her to be forced to continue being bullied.
Xu Changshan had long harbored the ambition to seize Xinli's family fortune. If it weren't for the crackdown and the close monitoring from higher-ups, all the valuables in the house would probably have been taken away long ago.
Over the years, the amount of money given to Xinli has been decreasing, from several thousand yuan at the beginning to tens of yuan now, and sometimes even twenty yuan is refused for a long time.
This is why Li Xiuhui tempted the original owner to agree to the marriage with three thousand yuan.
Xinli, however, was not easily fooled.
The old house they live in now is a three-story villa with gardens in the front and back. It was a gift from Xinli's maternal grandfather when Xinli's mother got married. At that time, the master bedroom on the second floor, which was more than 100 square meters, was filled with all of Xinli's mother's property.
How could assets that could be squandered for decades just disappear?
The days that followed were not easy. During the political movement, if she, as a capitalist's daughter, wanted to live a peaceful life, she had to resolve the issue of her family background.
However, before that, Xin Li had no intention of letting go of this bloodsucking family.
Xin Li took a deep breath, and in a moment of distraction, the surrounding scenery changed.
Looking at the familiar space, she was about to breathe a sigh of relief when she was dumbfounded.
It was empty, there was nothing there!
Good news, the space has been penetrated.
Bad news, all the supplies inside are gone.
The space, spanning over a thousand square meters, was completely empty; not even a single piece of wrapping paper remained.
When Xin Li was eighteen, a zombie crisis broke out in the world, and at the same time, she awakened her spatial ability.
She used the spatial ability to escape countless zombie hordes and famines, but who knew that she would slip and fall to her death in the end.
"Xinli, no matter what, Qingyu is still your sister, can't you—"
Before Li Xiuhui could finish speaking, the door suddenly opened.
“I can agree if you want me to.” Xin Li walked out and looked coldly at Li Xiuhui. “In the end, I’m the one who’s been wronged in this matter. I can at least make a few demands, right?”
Li Xiuhui was stunned. She hadn't expected that she would agree so easily this time.
"Okay, anything is fine. As long as you agree, we can discuss any conditions."
Li Xiuhui quickly went downstairs and called Xu Changshan out, fearing that Xin Li might change her mind.
"Three thousand yuan isn't enough, what else do you want?" Xu Changshan had no affection for this daughter and was full of impatience. "We're all doing this for your own good. The authorities are cracking down hard right now, and it looks like they're about to hit our family. If you marry He Mingzhou, you'll have him protecting you. Isn't that better than something going wrong in the future?"
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