"Gurgle, gurgle... My nose hurts so much..."
Xia Enruo struggled to climb ashore, the suffocating feeling in her nose causing her to spit out saliva. The muffled, buzzing curses around her were chilling.
"This lazy pig is acting all high and mighty today. Who gave her the guts? Her whole family has bad class backgrounds, but she's got some nerve to rebel today."
"I was just saying, if it weren't for Sister Huizhen being able to swim, I would have reported her for murdering a military family member today, and I think she would be in jail."
"Alright, don't take it to heart. I just felt sorry for her because she fell into the water too. After all, she is Chief of Staff Gu's wife."
Xia Enruo never expected that she would suddenly time travel to the 1980s.
She was the female CEO of a high-end chain restaurant in China. While on vacation in Hainan, diving to see the underwater starry sky, her diving suit was torn by a coral reef. She went completely dark and died. In that moment of suffocation, she felt as if her soul had left her body.
Still shaken, she lay shivering on the riverbank that had claimed the original owner's life, watching several women standing at a distance pointing and whispering at her as she gradually processed the original owner's unfamiliar memories.
The original owner was also named Xia Enruo. She was a married military wife, and her husband was Gu Shaoxuan, a chief of staff of an army.
The original owner's family had a bad political background and experienced the special era of the Cultural Revolution. His parents were criticized and struggled against, and unable to get over the psychological trauma, they both committed suicide by jumping off a building.
Having been pampered since childhood, she studied vocal music for several years but failed to achieve anything. She stayed at home, waiting to die. After her parents passed away, she had nowhere to go, so she simply took the marriage contract she had made when she was born and went to her husband's family.
Although Gu Shaoxuan's mother objected, his father kept his word and insisted that he marry the original owner of the body.
However, the original owner was good-looking but otherwise useless. Moreover, she was extremely shameless. After marriage, she was lazy and unwilling to work hard at home. She was a typical bully at home, but she insisted on sticking to Gu Shaoxuan and coming to the military family compound.
He does nothing all day and won't even pick up a fallen oil bottle, but when he goes out, he's like a coward, not daring to utter a sound when bullied, and then he acts like a monster when he gets home.
Gu Shaoxuan was so exhausted from the ordeal that he felt disgusted even by looking at her, so he simply avoided her and stayed in the army instead of coming back.
Today, after the original owner finished eating, she went out for some fresh air and ran into the military wives from the family compound by the river. The women in the compound knew that she was lazy and had a bad family background, so everyone dared to humiliate her.
In the past, she would avoid them whenever she saw them, but today, they met face to face. Qiao Huizhen started scolding her and Gu Shaoxuan's parents again. The original owner was so angry that the two of them grabbed each other and fell into the river.
Upon learning of the original owner's ordeal, Xia Enruo rolled her eyes. What bizarre things could happen to someone like that?
She thought to herself, "In my past life, wherever I went, the spotlight followed me. The South Beauty Restaurant spread all over the country, and I even created the globally renowned luxury brand Diwei. In this life, I've been transmigrated into a slovenly girl who lost her parents. I was truly born at the wrong time."
After a while, Xia Enruo felt the cold wind blowing through her wet clothes, and she shivered a few times. A strange smell permeated the surroundings.
"I went there to return it, and I was covered in filthy, smelly mud. No wonder the stench was filling my nostrils."
Since the original owner had no clean clothes, she simply put on Gu Shaoxuan's white shirt and went out. Now she was not only soaked in water, but also smelled terrible. She was so embarrassed.
She hurriedly stood up, clutching her chest, and ran home. Seeing her flustered figure, Qiao Huizhen assumed that Xia Enruo was afraid of her again, and the group burst into laughter.
She opened the door, and a strange, stench made her lean back. The cement floor was sticky, and her footsteps made a hissing sound. She ran outside and leaned on the railing, feeling depressed for a long time.
"This place is a complete pigsty. No wonder the original owner's husband never came home. If I were a man, I wouldn't go home either. But what can I do if I've transmigrated to this place and don't know anyone? Since I'm here, I can only settle down and stay. With my business acumen from my previous life, I refuse to believe I can't create something great again."
She pinched her nose and went back inside, quickly opening all the windows to ventilate the room. Looking at the small mountain of dirty dishes and chopsticks in the sink and the clothes scattered all over the floor, she couldn't help but frown, with flies buzzing around her.
Turning around, I saw that the red radishes on the stove were already moldy and covered in green hairs. White salt grains were scattered everywhere from the jar. The solidified yellow oil stains on the edge of the pot had changed the color of the white tiles, making me want to vomit.
Xia Enruo steeled herself, rolled up her sleeves, and began to tidy up. First, she threw out the garbage and moldy, spoiled food. Then, she boiled a pot of water and washed the pots, pans, and stove twice.
They soaked the original owner's dirty clothes in water and rubbed them back and forth with soap, washing a basin full of black water until the water turned white before they stopped.
She climbed up and down the hills, spending more than two hours tidying up the house to make it look like a home, and the air became fresher.
To get rid of the stench of sweat, she boiled water to take a hot bath, but there was no shampoo at home. She had to make do with laundry detergent and soap. The original owner's hair was as dry as matchsticks, so it seemed she was usually too lazy to wash it. It took her a while to rinse off the remaining foam all over her body.
Xia Enruo opened the wardrobe and searched for a long time but couldn't find any summer clothes. She had just washed them all. In the end, she had no choice but to go to Gu Shaoxuan's room and take his clothes to make do for now.
The door opened quickly, clattering as it was pushed open, and a tall, military-green figure flashed in through the sunlight.
It is the original owner's husband, Gu Shaoxuan.
He drove back in a rage, his cold eyes and dark eyebrows furrowed in anger. This woman was utterly wicked. Today, his comrade Ding Haotian's wife, Qiao Huizhen, called him crying, saying that Xia Enruo had deliberately pushed her into the river and almost drowned her. Many military wives present could testify to this.
Hearing this, Gu Shaoxuan could no longer tolerate it. He could forgive her for indulging her temper tantrums and laziness, since she was his wife. But now she had gone too far and even committed the crime of harming a military family member, which was unforgivable.
If she doesn't leave soon, who knows what kind of trouble she'll cause? If someone dies, I'll have to face the consequences.
Divorce! He absolutely had to get a divorce. He didn't want to live this hellish life for another single day.
Gu Shaoxuan stormed into the room, seething with anger, but the moment he saw her, she seemed like a completely different person. Her damp hair cascaded over her bare shoulders, water droplets clinging to her forehead, and behind the strands, a pair of tense, dark eyes stared intently at him. Her fair cheeks were flushed, and her rapid breathing filled the air.
She was wearing a white tank top that just covered her private parts, revealing her curvaceous figure.
Xia Enruo hesitated for a moment, looking at Gu Shaoxuan approaching. He had thick, dark eyebrows, deep-set eyes, and his broad shoulders were framed by a neatly arranged dark green shirt. The top button on his collar was dazzlingly white, clean and tidy.
"I'm back."
Xia Enruo hurriedly pulled a white shirt out of the closet and put it on. She squeezed out a sentence and broke the awkward silence.
Gu Shaoxuan's eyes were sharp, his fists clenched, suppressing the anger in his heart.
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