"Waaah~, sister-in-law, please, don't switch me out! I don't want to be eaten!"
In a daze, Yan Xiao heard a girl's soft sobbing.
She was a little confused. 'Who's talking? Wasn't she trapped in the underground warehouse and starving to death? Has someone broken in?'
Thinking of this, Yan Xiao disregarded everything else, opened her eyes with a start, and sat up.
As soon as I sat up, I felt a sense of weakness.
Although she was weak, she was much better off than before she fell into a coma, after all, she had been starving for several days before she collapsed.
She thought she was going to die this time, but she never expected to wake up again. However, the scene in front of her left her dumbfounded once again.
He found himself sitting on a haystack, holding a rope in his hand. At the other end of the rope, a little girl with tears streaming down her face was tightly bound.
The little girl was very thin and frail, dressed in a coarse linen outfit full of patches and holes, and looked to be only six or seven years old.
She was about to say something more, but when Yan Xiao suddenly stood up and looked at her, she immediately shrank back.
She swallowed back the words she wanted to say, silently shedding tears, looking as if she was afraid to speak or laugh.
However, these are not Yan Xiao's main concerns right now; her main concern is her current environment.
Looking around, the sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the air is fresh.
Although the surrounding area is somewhat desolate, some poisonous green plants such as white grass root grass can be seen.
She hadn't seen these ordinary green plants for several years.
"What... what's going on?"
Yan Xiao looked around in surprise and doubt, wondering if what she was seeing was a hallucination of a dying person.
After all, she had prayed countless times in her heart that she could go back to before the apocalypse, and she would be willing to sweep the streets and only be provided with food.
Just as she was pondering what exactly was going on, the little girl seemed to have regained a bit of courage.
She spoke in a very low, trembling voice:
"Sister-in-law, please believe me. My brother is so strong, he must still be alive."
He won't abandon us. It won't be long before my brother finds us, and then we won't have to go hungry anymore.
Please, sister-in-law, don't send me away, okay? I can go without food, and I can even help you get food. I don't want to die, boohoo~
As the little girl spoke, many vague memories flooded Yanxiao's mind, and these memories became clearer and clearer as time went by.
These memories gradually overlapped with the content of a male-oriented novel that Yan Xiao had read.
In her memory, the owner of this body was named Heini, a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character in that novel who met a tragic end.
The book mainly tells the legendary life story of the protagonist, Shen Muzhi, who, in a chaotic world, went from a country boy forcibly conscripted into the army to a rebel leader, and finally pacified the world but refused to become emperor, instead supporting someone else to become emperor.
The female protagonists in the book are merely decorative figures, and the original owner of the body, who is a villainous supporting character, appears even less frequently.
The original owner only appeared in the male protagonist's few memories and in conversations when he sent people to search for her.
When she finally appears, she's on a journey with refugees when she encounters the male protagonist, who has become a rebel leader.
After meeting the male lead, she took advantage of his status as his first wife and frequently made things difficult for the female lead, who was a military doctor.
Not only that, after realizing the male lead's perfunctory attitude towards her, she worried about her unstable position and was even more worried that the male lead would find out about what he had done to Shen Qiyue in the future, so she tried to scheme against him time and time again.
She was thinking that if the male lead slept with her and had a child, she could gain status through her son.
But with his sister's fate unknown and the war pressing, how could he possibly be in the mood to discuss consummating their marriage? He was simply annoyed by her constant harassment.
Even so, the male protagonist, mindful of the bond they had formed through marriage and feeling some guilt, and also because he hadn't yet developed romantic feelings, only scolded her without imposing much punishment or harshness.
Even after driving the female lead away and pretending to arrange a marriage with someone else, the male lead still acted as if it were his duty, which almost gave the female lead a heart attack.
Just when the female lead was in a dilemma, the male lead learned from the people he sent out that the original owner had exchanged her own younger sister, Shen Qiyue, for food in order to save her own life.
However, the original owner kept lying to him, saying that Shen Qiyue had been accidentally separated from the refugees and lost, so that he kept searching for her with hope.
After learning the cruel truth, the male protagonist was consumed by rage. He ignored the original owner's pleas and excuses, and only wanted to avenge his poor sister. He ordered the original owner to be skinned alive and fed to his beloved pet.
And the original owner remained conscious throughout the entire process, watching helplessly as her flesh was sliced off piece by piece with a knife, and then eaten bite by bite by the male protagonist's beloved pet.
Even so, the male protagonist still couldn't get rid of his hatred.
He had guessed that Shen Qiyue might have been abandoned by the original owner of the body. If that were the case, although he would feel resentment towards the original owner, he would understand.
After all, it was already difficult for the original owner of this body, a woman, to survive in this world; having a child on top of that would only make things more difficult.
But he could never accept the idea of exchanging children for food. The thought of his sister being cooked and eaten kept him awake at night.
Entering the battlefield meant facing a nine-out-of-ten chance of death. He had no choice but to want to bring them to his side, but he lacked the confidence to protect them.
They originally thought that although their hometown was a bit tough, the people were kind and honest, and as long as their enemies didn't know they existed, they would be safe.
Once I am strong enough to protect them, then I will expose them to the world.
But despite his meticulous planning, he hadn't anticipated the locust swarm's arrival. Even though he had tried his best to hurry, he was still a step too late.
He blamed himself for growing too slowly. If he had been quicker to resolve the hidden dangers around him, quicker to take over Jiangbei and stabilize the situation, and quicker to send someone to bring his sister to his side, this would not have happened.
He cannot forgive himself.
In the end, it was the female lead who softened and took the initiative to come back and try her best to comfort and enlighten him, which helped him slowly emerge from his grief.
He was also moved by the kind and gentle female lead, and the two eventually got together because of this incident.
However, this has nothing to do with the original owner who has already logged off.
It can be said that throughout the entire book, the original owner was merely a tool to advance the relationship between the male and female protagonists.
The memories that Yanxiao received, however, were not those cold, hard words.
In the original owner's memory, she was the male protagonist's childhood sweetheart. Before the male protagonist's mother passed away, she wanted to see him get married, so she arranged for her to have a wedding ceremony with him in advance, making her the male protagonist's legally wedded wife.
However, she was still young at that time, and the two were never able to share a room. When she turned fourteen, the border war broke out, and the Qing Kingdom, where she lived, was recruiting soldiers.
The male protagonist is the only male in his family and is over eighteen years old when he is recruited.
After the male protagonist left, only the original owner of the body and the male protagonist's young sister, Shen Qiyue, remained in the house.
The male protagonist's family lived in a relatively remote mountain village. The local customs were quite simple and honest. In addition, the original owner was ugly but had great strength, so no one bullied them.
The two of them farmed a little land at home, and they were able to make ends meet.
But the male protagonist was gone for two years. In those two years, they only received one letter from home, and then they never heard from him again.
At first, the original owner was able to keep a calm demeanor, after all, in this day and age, things like letters are not something that anyone can just send whenever they want.
But as time went on, she couldn't help but worry that Shen Muzhi might have died on the battlefield.
Once this thought started, it became increasingly difficult to suppress it.
Therefore, she became increasingly unfriendly towards Shen Qiyue, who was young and could not be of much help but still needed to eat.
Just as she was considering whether to continue waiting for the male lead or sell Shen Qiyue to someone else as a child bride, a famine broke out.
The crops in the fields were destroyed by pests, and many frightening strange insects appeared in the water.
The people all said that the strange insect was a cursed poison sent by the gods because of the tyrannical and incompetent ruler, which caused widespread panic.
The emperor of Qing Kingdom was incompetent and only cared about his own enjoyment. When war broke out, the people were not only left unattended, but the court also forced them to pay more taxes.
The people were already suffering from food shortages due to the locust plague, so where would they find any extra grain to hand over? What's more, there were corrupt officials and bureaucrats working together to make life unbearable for the people, and banditry was becoming increasingly rampant.
The small mountain village where the original owner lived also could not escape the visits of bandits.
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[P.S.: The female lead is not a kind-hearted person. She prioritizes self-interest and does whatever she wants. She doesn't care much about the lives of others. She has humanity, but not much of it.]
Those who wish to see the Virgin Mary's radiance shining upon the earth, please look elsewhere.
This is a transmigration novel, not a rebirth novel. Please do not confuse the two.
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