Chapter 19, Chapter 19, First Update 019...
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The Gan River is one of the major tributaries of the Yangtze River and the largest river in Jiangxi Province. At this moment, Ye Anguo was swimming in the river at a particularly fast speed. Even Jiang Lai, who is not afraid of water, felt a little dizzy looking at the turbulent river.
"Ye Anguo, are you alright?" Jiang Lai called out from the shore, worried.
"It's alright," Ye Anguo's voice came from afar.
Jiang Lai watched for a while longer, and only after confirming that Ye Anguo was really alright did she ask Jin Nian, "Jin Nian, what did you add to the water?"
Jiang Lai only knew that something had been added to the water, but she didn't know exactly what it was. However, Jiang Lai believed that Jin Nian, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, would definitely know.
"This water has been laced with aphrodisiacs, that is, aphrodisiacs," Jin Nian dropped a bombshell.
"What the hell are you talking about? Ye Anguo doesn't seem like the kind of person who would do something like this." This was Jiang Lai's first reaction; she didn't believe Ye Anguo would do such a thing.
"Why not? You can know a person's face but not their heart. You've only known him for a few days. Maybe Ye Anguo is a beast in human skin. Besides, he poured the water himself. If it didn't go through anyone else, who else could it be?"
Jin Nian wasn't incapable of knowing news from the outside world; it was just that it had only just returned to its main body within Jiang Lai's secret realm, and was currently enjoying itself like a fish in the ocean. It had no time to pay attention to outside news, so it didn't know Ye Anguo's character and only mentioned that there was a possibility.
“If he administered the drug himself, why did he drink it himself? And it seems he realized there was a problem, so he preferred to go into the water to cool down rather than harm me. I think there must be something I overlooked,” Jiang Lai said.
"But it's also strange, no one else has touched this water except him, so how could there be aphrodisiacs in it?" Jiang Lai was also puzzled.
"Was it his family who drugged him? Did his family want you to have sex?" Jin Nian raised another possibility.
“We can find out the answer by checking the water in the kettle when we get back,” Jiang Lai said after thinking for a moment. “We’ve only been out for about ten minutes. The Ye family shouldn’t have gone to work yet. We can find out if the kettle of boiled water is still there. Even if the Ye family did put the water in the kettle, and even if they poured it out, there wouldn’t have been enough time to cool it down. So we can find out whether it’s true or not just by checking when we get back.”
"What if they had a second pot of cooled boiled water prepared in advance?"
"No one knew I was coming here beforehand, so where would they have gotten the time to prepare? Besides, I don't think the Ye family would do that. What good would it do them? Actually, I'm more curious about that panicked figure who ran away as soon as they saw us come out. These two things together are too strange."
"Who is that person? They look so familiar, I can't remember who they are." Jiang Lai tugged at her hair, trying to clear her head with the headache.
Jiang Lai didn't believe Ye Anguo would do such a thing, but the events were exactly as Jin Nian had just described: no one except Ye Anguo had touched the bottle of water, including herself.
And that slightly familiar figure from behind—is there any connection between these two events? If Ye Anguo didn't put the drug in the kettle, how did the person who did manage to do it?
If you can't figure it out, try another approach. If it were you, how would you put the medicine in a sealed water bottle without any contact?
At first, Jiang Lai couldn't think of a solution, but then she thought of using a cheat code. If she had a space, she could use its special properties to accomplish this without any contact.
Then Jiang Lai thought of the hurried figure running away earlier, and of Su Erniu, because only she had the means and the motive to do this.
If we consider that Su Erniu tried to switch husbands with Jiang Lai as soon as she was reborn, then the logic makes sense. Su Erniu was afraid that there was still a possibility between Shi Cheng and Jiang Lai, so she hoped that Jiang Lai and Ye Anguo would get together as soon as possible. Given Ye Anguo's personality, if he were to be drugged and have something happen with Jiang Lai, he would definitely want to get married as soon as possible.
Why would Jiang Lai think that way? Because of what she saw two days ago, Shi Cheng probably didn't have a good impression of Su Erniu, yet Su Erniu insisted on marrying him because he saved her.
Shi Cheng, who already had feelings for the original owner, was definitely not willing. So, after learning about the situation, Su Erniu wanted to take the initiative. She probably thought that as long as something happened between them, Shi Cheng would definitely give up.
Maybe Su Erniu is hiding somewhere watching them right now. Maybe she'll bring people to "catch them in the act" as soon as Ye Anguo falls for it.
After figuring out all the key points, Jiang Lai could only say that Su Erniu was too vicious and her heart was despicable. She probably wanted to force Jiang Lai and Ye Anguo to be a couple and didn't want them to have a good time, or she might even want to destroy them.
Think about it, if Ye Anguo really couldn't control himself and forced himself on Jiang Lai, whether outside or at home, would Jiang Lai still be able to stay with Ye Anguo? Even if she was forced by public opinion to marry Ye Anguo, she would have to marry him and spend the rest of her life facing a rapist. How could she possibly have a good life?
If Jiang Lai were to refuse after a rape, and this happened to her, she would definitely send the perpetrator to his doom. But what if it happened to the original owner of this body? In this era, reputation is extremely important, and a slightly conservative girl's life might be ruined.
Unfortunately, Su Erniu and Ye Anguo never understood this man, even after a lifetime together. Who would have thought that Ye Anguo would rather jump into the river to extinguish the fire than do such a beastly thing?
However, Jiang Lai remembered something she had forgotten: her secret realm space could control Su Erniu's space, and even separate it from Su Erniu's body.
So she doesn't need to worry about it here at all. She just needs to go to Su Erniu's space to get a general idea of what's going on.
Jiang Lai glanced at Ye Anguo, who was still swimming in the river, then focused her mind on the secret realm space, and then used the secret realm space to go to Su Erniu's space.
Sure enough, Jiang Lai saw Su Erniu, wearing a pale yellow dress, fuming in her space. She had obviously also seen Ye Anguo and Jiang Lai's current situation.
Jiang Lai sneered and directly detached the space from Su Erniu's body. The next second, Jiang Lai's mind withdrew from the space, and then she saw Su Erniu appear out of thin air less than 20 meters away from her, and then tumble into the rolling Gan River because she lost her footing.
And quite unfortunately, Ye Anguo happened to swim downstream to another upstream, several hundred meters away from Su Erniu, which meant that Ye Anguo had no time to save Su Erniu.
Ye Anguo happened to be swimming downstream and saw Su Erniu, dressed in a light yellow dress, splashing around quite conspicuously in the river. He thought he could quickly swim over and rescue her, but he didn't need to. After a couple of splashes, Su Erniu quickly climbed out of the water herself, meaning she could swim and was quite good at it, so she didn't need anyone to save her.
Jiang Lai was right before; Su Erniu could swim. However, when she fell into the water, she pretended not to be able to swim and stubbornly held onto Jiang Lai, preventing her from getting ashore, which caused the original owner to lose her life. Jiang Lai was furious.
After Su Erniu fell into the water, Ye Anguo quickly came up as well. This was not the time for him to calm down. Ye Anguo was not slow, even faster than Su Erniu. However, because he had wanted to save her earlier, he had fallen behind by several steps. So even though he was closer to the shore, he was still a step slower than Su Erniu when he got ashore.
As soon as Su Erniu stepped ashore, she was greeted by a hard slap from Jiang Lai. The slap made Su Erniu's face turn to the side, and it slowly turned red and swollen over time, which showed how much force Jiang Lai had used.
"Jiang Lai, what's wrong with you again? Why did you hit me for no reason?" Su Erniu felt her face go numb, covered her face, and asked angrily.
"So what if I hit you? I'm not just going to slap you once, I'm going to slap you a second time." Jiang Lai said, and slapped her again, making both sides of her face symmetrical.
"What's wrong with you?" Su Erniu wasn't the type to suffer a loss, so she wanted to retaliate after Bei Jianglai hit her.
Naturally, she didn't succeed, because Ye Anguo had already gone ashore. Ye Anguo caught Su Erniu's outstretched hand and threw it aside. Ye Anguo showed no mercy and threw Su Erniu so hard that she stumbled and almost fell.
Su Erniu was thrown out violently. When she turned around, it was too late to hit Jiang Lai again, because she was firmly protected behind Ye Anguo, who stood in front of Jiang Lai like a wall.
"You've gone too far! Why are you bullying me for no reason? Do you think that Ye Anguo, a mere regimental commander, can do whatever he wants?" Su Erniu glared fiercely at Ye Anguo and Jiang Lai, her eyes filled with venom.
"We're not as bad as you. Didn't you say you couldn't swim and that's why you dragged me along? I saw you were swimming pretty fast just now. Do you know you almost killed someone?" Jiang Lai almost said that the original owner of this body was killed by her.
"I...I was just flustered for a moment, it wasn't intentional." As soon as Jiang Lai mentioned what happened a few days ago, Su Erniu's momentum subsided. Therefore, what Jiang Lai said was true, and Su Erniu naturally felt guilty.
Jiang Lai was furious, but she really couldn't do anything about it. Jiang Lai was still alive, while the original owner of this body was dead. Now that she was here, there was no way to punish Su Erniu, because she insisted that she had panicked and acted rashly.
It doesn't matter. She can't punish Su Erniu, but she can't escape punishment. Whether it's to avenge the original owner or to vent her own hatred, she will definitely not let Su Erniu get away with it.
Wasn't Su Erniu so powerful that she could use space remotely to drug Ye Anguo and help them force themselves into marriage in order to steal Shi Cheng away?
Didn't she want to steal Shi Cheng away so she could become the richest man's wife in the future? Didn't she look down on the poor and love the rich? Didn't she use her spatial ability to drug others with aphrodisiacs? Fine, from now on, Su Erniu can forget about all of that.
Jiang Lai has already removed the spatial ability from her, so she can no longer use it to do bad things. She looks down on Ye Anguo and wants to marry Shi Cheng, huh? We'll see if she has the ability to do so.
Jiang Lai isn't a player or a womanizer, and she won't string Shi Cheng along to make him not treat Su Erniu well. But there are countless ways and paths, and Jiang Lai will always find a way to prevent Su Erniu from getting what she wants.
Jiang Lai didn't need to do anything. As a reader who had read both books, she was familiar with the plot of both books and knew that Shi Cheng liked her. All Jiang Lai needed to do was tell Shi Cheng that Su Erniu could swim and was quite good at it.
You see, although Jiang Lai herself doesn't believe in love at first sight, Shi Cheng in the book fell in love with the original owner at first sight. Jiang Lai didn't need to do anything; all Shi Cheng had to do was know that Su Erniu was a good swimmer.
Jiang Lai had mentioned before that Su Erniu had grabbed her and wouldn't let her leave, and later even pushed her to Ye Anguo. After all, Ye Anguo and Shi Cheng had both witnessed Jiang Lai's swollen wrists at the time.
If Shi Cheng were to think that if Su Erniu hadn't deliberately caused trouble, then now it would be Jiang Lai and Shi Cheng, and Su Erniu and Ye Anguo.
It would be strange if Shi Cheng didn't hate Su Erniu after the object of his love at first sight was pushed to someone else by someone with ulterior motives. Even if he couldn't stop Shi Cheng from marrying Su Erniu, he had to let Shi Cheng know Su Erniu's true colors. In any case, he couldn't add to Su Erniu's troubles and make Jiang Lai's hatred go unabated.
"You don't need to argue with me here. We both know the truth." After saying this, Jiang Lai turned and left.
Of course, this is only on the surface. In reality, Jiang Lai might have left without doing anything. When Jin Nian learned about Su Er Niu's good deeds, he gave Jiang Lai a fruit of the Illusion Grass.
As the name suggests, the Illusion Fruit is the fruit of an Illusion Grass that grows in the Secret Realm. The Illusion Grass's ability is to create illusions.
The fruit of the Illusion Grass is different from the Illusion Grass itself. The Illusion Grass can create illusions, but its fruit does not have this ability. The fruit can only create dreams. Only after it grows into a mature plant can it create illusions.
Jiang Lai placed the fruit of the Illusion Grass on Su Erniu's body. The fruit would attach itself to Su Erniu's body without causing any harm. It would simply disguise itself as a black mole that no one could detect, but it could continuously create dreams for Su Erniu.
These dreams are not something that others can control through external forces, because the dream fruit will arouse people's desires, such as the things they want most, the life they want most, or their most unbearable past, their most greedy side... What you dream about is a person's most basic reflection.
Or it could be called a "demon-revealing mirror," because it can reveal a person's character. Good people and bad people dream differently, and people with righteous hearts often dream of very positive things.
Jiang Lai placed the Dream Fruit on Su Erniu because she believed in Su Erniu's wickedness. A woman who killed the original owner to steal a man and is now drugging Ye Anguo to steal another man—Jiang Lai couldn't believe such a person could dream of anything positive.
Moreover, Jiang Lai's purpose in doing this was secondary. Another side effect of the Dream Fruit was that anyone who had close contact with Su Erniu would also be affected, such as Su Erniu's future husband.
Jiang Lai never considered herself a particularly upright person. Although she was raised in a military family and received a lot of help from many people, and she always acted as a good person, she had never done anything that would betray her conscience, morality, or the law. However, that did not mean she would not use certain methods to achieve her own goals.
Wasn't Su Erniu always trying to steal Shi Cheng away? And she'd most likely succeed, because even though Shi Cheng is a petty thug, he still has a moral compass. This era is very harsh on girls, and Su Erniu was indeed rescued from the water by him. To achieve her goal, Su Erniu claimed that he had touched her and ruined her reputation. No matter how much Shi Cheng disliked her, as long as Su Erniu threatened suicide, Shi Cheng would eventually marry her. That's the frustration of being a good person sometimes.
Therefore, in the end, the Dream Fruit will still be used on Shi Cheng. Shi Cheng is a good person, an upright good person, a good person certified by Jiang Lai, who has read the book, and Jin Nian, the Ten Thousand Year Jade Marrow. Therefore, Jiang Lai is certain that even if she, Su Erniu, marries Shi Cheng as she wishes, she will not get what she wants in the end.
So, don't be fooled by Jiang Lai's seemingly simple decision to let Su Erniu go. Shi Cheng is currently in love with "Jiang Lai." Let him know that he originally had the opportunity to be with the person he liked, but Su Erniu ruined it.
Then, after he and Su Erniu get married, they will definitely be affected by the dream fruit as they live together every day. At that time, he will dream about what he thinks about during the day and dream about it at night. Nine times out of ten, he will unlock the plot of "The Pampered Little Wife of the 70s". If he doesn't, it doesn't matter. Jiang Lai will help him unlock it.
In any case, Jiang Lai will not let Su Erniu, who caused the original owner's life, get away with it!
"Jiang Lai, Jiang Lai..." Jiang Lai was so lost in thought that she didn't even notice Ye Anguo walking up to her.
"What's wrong?" Ye Anguo asked with concern.
"It's nothing, I'm just angry with Su Erniu because of her, Jiang Lai... I almost drowned because of her, and just thinking about it makes me angry and scared." Jiang Lai was genuinely angry, so angry that her chest ached.
"Forget it, let's not talk about her anymore, it's making me angrier. Why did you suddenly jump into the water? You scared me half to death." Jiang Lai quickly changed the subject. She had almost blurted out that Su Erniu had killed "Jiang Lai," so she changed the subject rather awkwardly.
"It's nothing, I just feel a little... a little hot... why don't we hurry back? It's still quite sunny, your face is all red from the sun." Ye Anguo's ability to change the subject was even more awkward than Jiang Lai's.
"Let's go... Oh dear, I forgot to bring the kettle back." Jiang Lai remembered the kettle of cold boiled water that had caused the trouble and wanted to hurry back to get it. It would be fine if someone had picked it up, but if someone drank the water in it, that would be a disaster. She didn't want to cause any trouble.
"It's okay, I brought it back. Do you want some water?" Ye Anguo thought Jiang Lai was thirsty and helped her unscrew the lid of the water bottle.
Jiang Lai's face turned green.
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Author's Note: Recommending a friend's work
Title: Reborn as a Pampered Beauty in the 1970s
Author: Armor
Why do authors of military wife novels always portray the male protagonist as a hero, incredibly capable, and destined for great achievements, yet this same male protagonist can't even detect that his wife of many years has been replaced? Shouldn't he suspect that his wife has been impersonated by a bad person?
Because of this sarcastic remark, Lin Nan was reborn, and because he was an unregistered person without a household registration or a letter of introduction, he was arrested and interrogated as a bad guy.
Lin Nan cried. She no longer complained that the author had written the male lead as a love-obsessed character. She begged God to give her a love-obsessed male lead!
Guo Yongchang was a very serious person who always had a stern face. He was considered a living devil by many soldiers. It was this expressionless man who found a woman of unknown origin in their village. This woman was beautiful and had such delicate skin that she could hurt her hands even when cutting grass.
Guo Yongchang felt that this delicate woman was not at all like someone who worked in the fields. He couldn't help but observe her and then he became attached to her and couldn't let her go. He couldn't help but cherish her and pamper her for the rest of his life.
Later, for some reason, Lin Nan became incredibly strong. It felt like ten Guo Yongchangs couldn't beat one Lin Nan. Everyone thought that Guo Yongchang might become a henpecked husband from then on. Unexpectedly, Lin Nan was still as delicate as ever in front of Guo Yongchang and couldn't even open a bottle cap.
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