Chapter 1 Time Travel
After the rain, Qingquan Village had a touch of late autumn chill in it.
Gu Jiaoniang, covered in sweat, chased after him to the village entrance: "Young Master Qin—Young Master Qin—"
Smack!
She slipped and fell flat on her face.
The carriage in front of her sped away, splashing mud all over her face!
Hahahaha!
The people around burst into laughter!
Gu Jiaoniang is a simpleton in the village. Her husband is a cripple, but she doesn't want the honest man at home. Instead, she keeps chasing after the young Qin from town.
Who is Young Master Qin? His father is a wealthy man, he is a scholar, and he's so handsome, why would he be interested in a worn-out woman?
"A toad trying to eat swan meat!"
"Exactly! She should take a piss and look in the mirror. How could young Master Qin have fallen for her!"
"loose woman!"
"Ugly monster!"
"You silly boy!"
Gu Jiaoniang was furious. She put her hands on her hips and said fiercely, "You...you are not allowed to curse at me..."
A child jumped out and said, "Hehehe! So what if I scold you? You little fool, you little fool, you little fool! Ugly monster, ugly monster, ugly monster!"
Enraged, Gu Jiaoniang lunged at the child, but tripped and fell into the water...
At the bottom of the icy lake, the unconscious woman suddenly opened her eyes.
What happened? Wasn't she killed when her plane crashed into an iceberg during a mission? How did she end up in the water?
Gu Jiao swam with all her might toward the shore.
However, perhaps because of the fall, she found herself unable to exert any strength.
When she finally swam ashore, she felt like she was about to collapse.
The villagers on the shore had seen Gu Jiao sink and were about to use their poles to retrieve her, but she floated to the surface on her own. They looked at each other in surprise, then scattered in a flash!
Before Gu Jiao could figure out what was going on, she saw a group of strangely dressed people run away in a flash.
She lay down on the cold grass, wiped the water droplets from her face, and then she froze.
She looked at her hands in surprise.
These are the small hands of a fourteen or fifteen-year-old. You have to know that she is already twenty-eight years old. How can she have such delicate hands?
Moreover, as a sophisticated queen in the world of espionage, she knows a lot about skincare, yet her hands are covered in chilblains, and some parts are even cracked.
Soon, Gu Jiao discovered that not only her hands had changed, but her clothes and figure were also very different.
A bold guess flashed through Gu Jiao's mind.
She leaned closer to the water's surface to see what she looked like, but nearly fell in.
What are all these colorful things?
Gu Jiao scooped up some water and washed off the cheap rouge from her face. But to her surprise, she looked even worse. Not only was she pale and thin, but she also had a large red spot on her left cheek that extended to the corner of her eye.
Gu Jiao, who used to get furious for three days over a small pimple in her previous life, suddenly found herself with such an ugly face and wished she could die again on the spot!
"Speaking of which, where is this? And what dynasty is this?"
As soon as she finished speaking, a sharp pain shot through her mind, and a memory that didn't belong to her surged up like a tidal wave.
It turns out that she traveled to a dynasty that did not exist in history. The village was called Qingquan Village, located at the foot of Qingquan Mountain.
The original owner was also named Gu Jiao, and was the only son of the third branch of the Gu family.
When he was young, Grandpa Gu was a scholar who passed the imperial examination and became a village head in Qingquan Village. He served in that position for many years. Qingquan Village was poor, and being a village head didn't bring much profit, but at least he wouldn't starve.
Old Master Gu had three sons and one married daughter. His eldest son, Gu Changhai, had a son and a daughter with Zhou. His second son, Gu Changlu, had two sons with Liu.
The first two branches of the family were quite prosperous, but the third branch seemed to be cursed and could not have any more children.
They finally had Gu Jiao, but she was a girl, ugly and born mentally challenged.
In the words of the villagers—this is a money-losing product, no, you can't sell it even if you pay them to!
Since Gu Jiao was born, the third branch of the family has had no more children.
Rumors began to circulate in the village that Gu Jiao was unlucky, which was why she had brought misfortune to the third son's family.
At first, the Gu family just listened without taking it too seriously, but it wasn't until Gu Jiao's parents passed away one after another that the Gu family truly realized that this child was indeed destined to be cursed.
The Gu family pulled strings everywhere, trying to marry off Gu Jiao, but the question was, who would dare to marry her?
As luck would have it, one day Gu Jiao was strolling around the village entrance when she came across a man who had fainted from hunger, so she took him in.
As Gu Jiao processed the memories in her mind, she walked toward a dilapidated thatched hut in the west of the village.
That's where she lives now.
Hiss—
Halfway there, a sharp pain shot through the back of her head. Gu Jiao raised her hand to touch it and found her hand covered in blood.
You must have hit a rock underwater and broken your skin. There's quite a bit of blood, so we need to stop the bleeding as soon as possible.
As Gu Jiao pondered this, she entered her own courtyard.
It was called a courtyard, but it was really just a small open space enclosed by a fence. Apart from the main room, the small thatched hut had two rooms in total. The slightly larger room on the east side belonged to Gu Jiao.
And this is still smaller than her walk-in closet in her previous life.
What a dismal time-travel experience...
As Gu Jiao sighed, she pushed open the door, but the moment she stepped across the threshold, she keenly sensed that someone was inside.
Judging from his breathing, it's a man.
The man hid behind the door, trying hard to hold his breath.
Gu Jiao curled her lips into a cold smile, walked into the house as if by accident, and slammed the door shut. Almost at the same moment, she grabbed the man hiding behind the door and slammed him to the ground!
The man was taller than she had imagined.
In her past life, Gu Jiao wouldn't have been afraid of being tall or strong, but now she was stuck with this thin and weak body. She used a clever trick and pressed her whole body down to barely lock the other person in place.
She tore off her hairband with one hand and tied it around the other person's wrist, while gripping their neck with the other, her expression icy as she said, "Speak! Who are you? What are you doing in my house?"
The man was taken aback at first, then a wave of shame and anger washed over him: "Gu Jiao, are you crazy! It's me!"
know?
Was it committed by someone you knew?
That would be even more despicable.
Gu Jiao not only didn't let go of him, but instead sat down even lower, pressing down on the man's waist and abdomen even more tightly.
"You...you get down here!" the man gritted his teeth, his tone icy.
"Hmph~" Gu Jiao sneered.
She was always the one ordering others around, never the other way around. Besides, this was her room, and she hadn't even questioned him about what he was doing sneaking around in there!
Gu Jiao swung her fist, intending to teach him a lesson, but her elbow accidentally knocked open the window frame behind her.
Bright light shone in, falling on the man's handsome face, and Gu Jiao's eyes widened instantly.
(End of this chapter)
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