Xu Ruantang lay on the bed in a daze, and in her hazy state, she could hear someone crying.
"Why isn't he awake yet? Waaah... It's been three days already! If this keeps up, he'll either die of illness or starvation!"
The woman's voice was soft, but her words were filled with urgency and fear.
"Mom, stop crying! Crying won't solve anything. What do we do now?"
"My dear husband, say something! We've received several letters from them, demanding our return. If we don't give a response soon, we'll have to return all the money we've already received!"
Xu Ruan and Ruan Tang were so bothered by the noise that they frowned and tried to open their eyes.
She has been feeling drowsy for the past two days, and her mind is like a movie playing on repeat.
Just now, Xu Ruantang finally realized: she had transmigrated into a book!
I transmigrated into a period web novel.
During the two days I was in a coma, the scenes that kept looping in my mind were actually the original owner's memories.
The original owner lived in the 1980s. Besides her, she also had a younger brother.
In a family that favored sons over daughters, the original owner, who had just turned twenty, was sold by her parents to a lame man who had just lost his wife for a huge dowry of three thousand yuan. The man also had an eight-month-old daughter with him.
Most importantly, it is said that a lame man has damaged his genitals and will be unable to have children in the future.
The original owner couldn't accept it and, in a moment of despair, jumped into the river.
Xu Ruantang had not read the original book; she had only heard her roommate, who loved reading family dramas and period novels, mention it briefly.
"Ruan Ruan, there's a cannon fodder female supporting character in this book with the same name as you."
"What was the author thinking, giving such a nice-sounding name to a cannon fodder female supporting character?"
In the girls' dormitory before lights out, the roommates chatted amongst themselves about something that they had talked about before bed.
Later, the book was shared in the dormitory group, and Xu Ruantang opened it and glanced at it.
The original owner of the body was already offline in the first chapter, appearing in less than 500 words throughout the entire book.
At this moment, Xu Ruantang regretted her actions. If she had known she would transmigrate into a book, she would have at least opened it and read more!
The chattering continued in her ears. Xu Ruantang struggled to open her eyes and glanced at the three people sitting on the edge of the bed.
"She's awake! Father, Mother, she's awake!"
The youngest of the three, a chubby man, looked delighted and pointed at Xu Ruantang on the bed, shouting.
The middle-aged woman closest to her stopped crying, turned around and grabbed Xu Ruantang's arm, crying out in surprise and joy, "Tangtang, you're finally awake! You scared your mother to death!"
His tearful and snotty appearance was truly moving.
Xu Ruantang felt nothing; in fact, she even had a slight urge to hit her.
Xu Ruantang would think that there must be a reason for wearing leather pants over cotton pants.
The original owner was ruined by them. If she really cared about her daughter that much, how could she sell her daughter for money?
"Wow!"
Xu Ruantang suddenly spoke up.
The room fell silent for a moment, and the three of them looked at her with strange expressions.
"I mean, I'm willing to marry him." Xu Ruantang slowly got out of bed, still feeling a bit weak.
In this situation, does she have a choice?
Xu Ruantang felt that staying away from such ruthless families was the best option.
All that's left is to take it one step at a time.
That evening at the Xu family's dinner table, Xu Ruantang had an extra egg in her bowl.
She sat down and saw a young girl across from her, heavily pregnant, shoveling rice into a bowl that had barely a few grains of rice.
This girl was brought back by the original owner's younger brother. She was pregnant before marriage and stayed to live in the Xu family without a matchmaker or betrothal.
Xu Ruantang glanced at her younger brother, who was rounder than a pig. His bowl was a size bigger than everyone else's, and the porridge was almost dry. It was piled up in the bowl, with two peeled boiled eggs on top.
She reached out and used her chopsticks to steal the egg from Xu Sheng's bowl.
"What are you doing?!" Xu Sheng was shocked.
Xu Ruantang, without looking to the side, placed the egg into the pregnant girl's bowl and said, "Her belly is so big, yet she's so thin. What's wrong with giving her your egg?"
So fat, and you eat so much so late at night!
She got someone pregnant and then acted so irresponsibly.
As a young person who has received higher education in the 21st century, Xu Ruantang could not agree.
Xu Sheng had never seen a sister like this before. From childhood to adulthood, everyone in the Xu family had doted on him and spoiled him. Xu Ruantang was especially obedient to him.
He suspects his sister has lost her mind!
Xu's mother gave the timid, heavily pregnant girl a disapproving look. "Tangtang, your brother is the pillar of the family. It's only right that he eats more."
Xu's father, who was usually taciturn, chimed in: "It's just having a baby. Who hasn't had three or five kids? We used to eat wild vegetables, and your brother was still incredibly healthy."
"Yeah, you have an egg in your bowl too, why don't you give it to me?" Xu Sheng's fat face scrunched up, his expression showing dissatisfaction.
The family members were talking back and forth, and what they said sounded like a cerebellum tug-of-war to Xu Ruantang.
She rubbed her ears and waved her hand impatiently. "I can let you have your way, but there's no need. It's not like I got you pregnant! Why are you all so noisy while you eat? You sold me for three thousand yuan, and you're upset about eating an egg?"
That's so weird.
Xu Sheng was convinced that his sister was possessed by an evil spirit!
He was about to speak when Xu's mother stopped him, saying, "Eat quickly, and then we'll take your sister to the train station first thing tomorrow morning."
Xu's parents noticed Xu Ruantang's unusual behavior, but they didn't care. As long as they got her there, everything would be fine.
We can't let the money we've earned go to waste.
A married daughter is like water spilled from a cup; she is no longer there.
Anyway, they don't expect Xu Ruantang to take care of them in their old age, especially since she married so far away and into such a family.
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