Chapter 1: Educated Youth Abandoning Their Wives and Children
"Class is about to start. Aren't we called Ji Huaizhi?"
"I heard him say he had a fever this morning, so I'll just ask him to take the day off."
The door slammed shut as soon as he finished speaking. The man on the bed opened his eyes, a look of confusion in them. Was this the first world the system had mentioned?
"The first world has been opened. Please receive the memories, host."
"This mission is to make up for the mistakes made by the original owner of this body and to be a qualified husband and father."
A mechanical voice entered Ji Huaizhi's mind, but his calm demeanor showed no sign of being startled by the sudden sound:
"After the memory is received, the system will go offline. The system will reappear when the host dies."
"Good luck, host."
After everything quieted down, it felt like someone had split Ji Huaizhi's mind in two and shoved something into it.
A splitting headache struck, shattering his calm expression.
After everything was over, he showed a disgusted expression, never expecting that he had transmigrated into the body of a scumbag.
After graduating from high school, the original owner, Ji Huaizhi, couldn't find a job, so he followed the call of the times and went to the countryside. But how could a young man who had just left school endure the hardships of the countryside?
The original owner couldn't stand it after just two months, but what could be done?
If you had connections at home, you wouldn't have needed to go to the countryside in the first place.
There was an older brother who worked as a factory worker and a younger brother who was in elementary school. The original owner's second brother, who had gone to the countryside, became dispensable. At first, the family felt that the original owner was suffering alone in the countryside, but as time went on, when the family was struggling to get enough to eat, the original owner became unimportant.
The original owner couldn't accept the thought of having to toil in the fields for the rest of his life, given his self-importance.
Not only the original owner, but everyone in the educated youth settlement couldn't accept it. Only the older educated youth had come to terms with it. After all, they had wasted so many years. Now they were just like the villagers, only worried about whether the crops in the fields were growing well and how the harvest would be this year.
Just when the original owner was at her wit's end, Chen Chunya appeared. Chen Chunya was the youngest daughter of Accountant Chen.
She fell in love at first sight with the original owner of the body who had just arrived in the countryside.
The Chen family was one of the wealthiest families in the village. They had two sons who were both married: the eldest son, Chen Chunhua, and the second son, Chen Chunsheng.
The youngest daughter, Chen Chunya, is also pampered at home.
But she fell in love with the original owner of the body. Although the original owner looked down on country folk, he was good at pretending and acted politely and reasonably.
In addition, the Chen family was considered a well-off family in the village. Chen Chunya always used her own food rations to subsidize the original owner. Since the original owner couldn't do farm work and didn't have enough to eat, she agreed to date Chen Chunya.
Originally, the original owner hadn't thought about getting married, but one time she had a conflict with the people at the educated youth settlement and was pushed into the river. The original owner, who had always lived in the city, couldn't swim and almost drowned.
Chen Chunya, who heard the commotion, rescued him.
This could be considered as physical intimacy. The original owner thought that she couldn't live this miserable life any longer, so she simply went to propose marriage.
This incident became a topic of conversation in the village. Usually, it's a hero saving a damsel in distress, but unexpectedly, the original owner was saved by a woman. Because of this, the original owner was laughed at for a long time.
The original owner hid his dark thoughts very well and even tricked the Chen family into joining him, thinking that no matter what, as long as they were in the same village, his daughter wouldn't be bullied.
But Chun Ya's second brother, Chen Chunsheng, saw it clearly: his willingness to marry his sister was a way to escape labor.
He felt no love for his sister, only disdain.
However, Chen Chunya above did not listen to her second brother's words and was only immersed in the lies woven for her by the original owner.
In 1977, the college entrance examination was reinstated. There were still people who abandoned their wives and children. The Chen family also began to worry about the original owner. However, the original owner's upright appearance fooled everyone except Chen Chunsheng.
After all, the original owner's son was almost six years old at this time.
He said he would take the college entrance examination and if he got into university, he would take his wife and child to the city. Everyone said that Ji Zhiqing was kind and righteous, but who would have thought that he would be so heartless as to abandon his wife and young child?
After the original owner was admitted to university, he took the fifty yuan given to him by the Chen family and went out. At first, he would pretend to call home, afraid that they would realize what was happening and come looking for him.
After that, they cut off all contact, regardless of whether Chen Chunya and her son lived or died.
Following the original trajectory, Chen Chunya would take her son to the school, where she would just happen to see the original owner talking intimately with the class beauty.
When she stepped forward to confront him, the original owner said that she was her cousin.
These words were a devastating blow to Chen Chunya, reminding her that she and her son, like the other women in the village, had been abandoned by their husbands.
As if she had been mentally prepared, she left resolutely.
The original owner felt a little guilty, and later confessed to the class beauty and got together with her.
I feel guilty, but not much.
He turned around and completely forgot about his biological son and Chen Chunya.
What he didn't know was that Chen Chunya encountered human traffickers on the train on his way back.
Human traffickers will not let any lone woman or child go.
Seeing that their daughter and grandson had not returned for a long time, Chen's parents could only think the best, that perhaps he had stayed in the city with Ji Huaizhi.
But things might change over time. Why don't they even make a phone call while they're away?
Has something happened?
Ignoring his wife's objections, Chen Chunsheng went to the original owner's school and asked countless students before finally finding out about the original owner and learning that the original owner had a boyfriend at the school.
Suspecting that Ji Huaizhi was having an affair, they confronted him and learned that their sister had gone back home on her first day there, but had disappeared.
The original owner only just realized that Chen Chunya hadn't gone back at all after all this time.
Chen Chunsheng was, after all, a farmer. After beating up the original owner of the body, he went to the police station to report it.
I didn't dare call home.
Two grown people have been missing for so long, where are we supposed to find them in this vast sea of people?
The police explained it very clearly to Chen Chunsheng: the mother and son had probably encountered human traffickers. After all, women and children are vulnerable groups, and they were unlikely to be found.
Chen Chunsheng, a grown man, was crying uncontrollably in the street, regretting that he hadn't come with his sister.
He went to the school, found the class beauty, told her about the original owner's character, and also went to the school administration to report that the original owner had abandoned his wife and children, causing their deaths. He said that such a person did not deserve to be a college student.
The matter quickly escalated. The original owner was ostracized at school, the class beauty broke up with him, and after complaining to his family, he was retaliated against and expelled from school.
But Chen Chunya and that child could never come back.
What good can happen to women and children who are taken away by human traffickers?
After seeing the original owner of the body being expelled, Chen Chunsheng returned to his hometown with this devastating news.
After dropping out of school, the original owner could only return home as an unemployed youth, but his family had welcomed him before because he had been admitted to university and returned to the city in glory.
Now that he has a stain on his record and is unemployed, his family will no longer welcome him.
In addition, Chen Chunsheng publicized his affairs, and everyone knew that he was a heartless man who had caused the loss of his son and wife. How could his brothers and sisters-in-law let him eat and drink for free at home?
Finally, he was caught stealing chickens and dogs along with other educated youth who returned to the city. It happened during a crackdown on crime.
He was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing just over ten yuan.
After his release, he became a good-for-nothing, spending his days doing nothing productive. He got into fights and went too far, resulting in a sentence of more than ten years.
The Ji family had already disowned him as their second son, so no one had visited him during his many years in prison.
While in prison, he often thought that if it were Chen Chunya, she would definitely bring her son to visit him.
No, if he hadn't abandoned his wife and children back then, he wouldn't be like this now.
It was drizzling the day I was released from prison.
The original owner was wandering aimlessly on the street. The road leading away from the prison was very remote, and there was no one in sight.
He didn't know how long he had walked when a cold, aloof young man appeared before him. The man's gloomy gaze made the original owner flinch, and he was stabbed to death on this deserted highway.
~
Ji Huaizhi got up and took a sip of water.
Thinking of the last man who appeared in the original owner's mind, if she wasn't mistaken, he was the abducted child—Ji Xiaotian.
Ji Huaizhi didn't know how he was bound to the system; the system was already in his mind when he became conscious.
After sorting through his memories, he realized that the current point in time was when the original owner hadn't contacted his family for several months, and he hadn't gone home even when school was on holiday.
Chen Chunya will bring the child to school next week.
All the causes and effects are due to the original owner of this body; poor Chen Chunya and that child.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
