"Zoom—Crash—"
The car stepped on the gas pedal to the floor, seizing the last second before the red light, and performed a gliding drift at the crossroads ahead.
A normally - traveling vehicle was rammed and sent flying five meters away by this unexpected intrusion, hitting an innocent passer - by beside the zebra crossing.
All this happened so suddenly.
After a loud crash, Li Chuchu felt that the whole world had fallen apart.
Damn it!
There were countless ways of time - traveling, but she just had to end up in the most miserable one!
In the early summer of 1980,
As the humidity and heat in the air kept rising, the clothes clung to the body with a thin layer of sweat. Even the nice Dacron fabric didn't feel comfortable at this moment.
On Central Street, a newly - built state - owned department store stood beside the bustling road. People came and went on the street, most of them looking straight ahead and walking in a hurry. Most of them were dressed in decent and exquisite professional suits, with serious and urgent expressions on their faces.
There was an out - of - place figure standing beside the street. A woman dressed like a country girl was standing on the street corner. She was wearing a yellow floral cotton top and a pair of black long trousers. The toe of her cloth shoes had come loose, revealing the white cotton socks inside.
This outdated dressing made her look out of place on the busy road. Passers - by occasionally cast disdainful glances at her.
Li Chuchu calmly tucked her exposed toes back and wiped the sweat off her face with her sleeve. Then she tightened the buckle of the lunch box in her hand.
Who wasn't a decent person before time - traveling?
Just now, she had been in a car accident.
Then she time - traveled into a period novel in the most indecent way, and, unfortunately, she had become the early - dead, vicious ex - wife of the villain.
Damn it! She was really pissed off!
Was it necessary just because she had scolded a few words in the comment section?
Li Chuchu was extremely speechless. She even wanted to swear on the spot and drag out that heartless author to whip the corpse a hundred times.
However, the looks from the passers - by were already a bit strange. Li Chuchu decided to restrain herself and not get reported to the mental hospital on the first day of time - traveling.
She closed her eyes, and a flood of memories belonging to the original owner rushed into her mind.
The original owner's mother had died early, and her father remarried soon after. Her step - mother and her step - brother squeezed the original owner out of her place and embezzled the inheritance left by her mother.
The original owner, out of anger with her family, married Shen Yanshan, a hooligan with the worst background. Later, she met the gentle male protagonist in the department store and fell in love with him at first sight.
From then on, it was a long and torturous secret love.
Put nicely, it was a secret love; put bluntly, it was harassment.
Fortunately, the crime of hooliganism in this era didn't involve women, otherwise the original owner would surely be the first one to be punished.
Later, Shen Yanshan, the original owner's husband, made a fortune.
They moved from the compound to a single - family villa.
Everything seemed to be getting better. But at this time, the original owner was brainless enough to be lured by the male protagonist and secretly passed her husband's business secrets to him.
This was the end.
The already thin affection between the couple vanished completely.
The villain was bound to be ruthless. After Shen Yanshan found out about this, he mercilessly got rid of the original owner.
The original owner's death was extremely tragic.
Buried alive.
Just thinking about the original owner's ending, Li Chuchu felt dizzy. The uncomfortable feeling was no less than listening to the sound of nails scratching on the blackboard. She seemed to have seen her own tragic ending in the near future.
What should she do?
She didn't want to be buried alive!
Li Chuchu squatted beside the road, ignoring the strange looks from others, trying to find a glimmer of hope for this character.
Given the original owner's nature of causing small troubles every day and big ones every three days, Li Chuchu suspected that the villain had wanted to kill her to cover up his tracks for a long time.
Great.
The more she thought about it, the more hopeless life seemed.
The original owner was beautiful but extremely sensitive and self - abased. She was one of the vicious supporting characters who served to set off the sunny female protagonist.
Li Chuchu disliked this character very much when she was reading the book.
She was too obviously vicious and had no thoughts of her own. She was like a puppet needed to push the plot forward. However, she was also so pitiful. Her closest relatives abandoned her, the person she whole - heartedly treated framed her, and her step - mother and step - brother schemed against her. She lived a hard and aggrieved life and finally ended up being buried alive.
Of course,
Now that Li Chuchu had time - traveled into the original owner's body,
She only had one thought in her mind, which was how to survive.
It was definitely not going to work to curry favor with the male protagonist.
Duan Jingqi, the male protagonist, was a playboy, a real womanizer. Seeing that the original owner was somewhat good - looking, he just wanted to play with her. He said he would be with the original owner for a lifetime, but then he got involved with several other female supporting characters. He not only didn't like her but also used her to get Shen Yanshan's business secrets. After using her, he just left her alone, completely ignoring her life or death.
When Li Chuchu was reading the book, she once suspected that this was a harem novel in the guise of a period novel, where the male protagonist relied on various women to get ahead.
She didn't want to strive; she just wanted to slack off.
After thinking it over and over, she could only try to curry favor with Shen Yanshan.
Smuggling in the 1980s, stocks in the 1990s, and real estate in the 2000s.
Although Shen Yanshan was a big villain, he was also a real big shot. His ability to make money was really first - class. Moreover, he made his fortune by himself, not relying on others. If the author hadn't deliberately intervened and caused an unexpected disaster to force him off the stage, Duan Jingqi might not have been able to outshine Shen Yanshan.
Li Chuchu's eyes lit up:
Right! From today on, she would turn over a new leaf and be a new person! She would show concern and care for the big shot! Even if she couldn't end up with a happy ending of getting a divorce and dividing the property, at least she wouldn't end up being buried alive.
After making up her mind, she immediately regained her energy and strode towards home.
The original owner lived in a small alley on the outskirts of the city.
The alley was very narrow, only allowing one person to pass through. There were two quadrangles in this six - foot - wide alley, where five or six families lived. Each family had one room, and they did their laundry and cooking in the same place.
Shen Yanshan hadn't been home these days. It seemed that he had gone to the south.
Li Chuchu felt a bit lucky.
Just as she was about to enter the yard, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a tall figure standing in the phone booth beside. There were cigarette butts scattered all over the ground outside the phone booth, and the air was filled with the smell of cheap tobacco.
"The goods from the south are not easy to get. The railway has been strictly inspected recently, and there are also inspections at the highway checkpoints. No one dares to take this risk."
"If you want them, you can raise the price, and I'll consider it."
The voice was hoarse, as if the person had swallowed ten thousand grains of fine sand, grinding his throat into a deep and clear tone.
The man glanced at Li Chuchu and didn't seem very surprised to see her. His eyes fell on the rusty lunch box in her hand.
What was more eye - catching than the smell of tobacco was his beastly look.
There seemed to be a thick layer of smoke between his deep eyebrows. There was disdain and mockery in his black eyes when he looked at Li Chuchu. His lazy and ruthless demeanor made people's hair stand on end.
Li Chuchu felt as if she was being targeted by something. Her blood froze for a moment, and she stood there stupidly.
Shen Yanshan?
No way. Why didn't he play fair and come back early?
"His parents were persecuted and investigated by the government. As a child, Shen Yanshan could only hide like a rat in the gutter, in places where there was no sunlight. Such a childhood had made him cold - hearted, even gloomy and twisted."
Just from that glance he gave her, Li Chuchu could already imagine how she would be buried alive by him in the near future.
Shen Yanshan shifted his gaze elsewhere and gracefully flicked the ash off the cigarette that was almost burning his fingers with his long index finger: "Okay, that's it. Bye." His voice was cold, as if adding a layer of frost to the already somewhat warm early - summer night.
Li Chuchu remembered this plot:
Shen Yanshan had brought back a batch of electronic watches from the south.
The novel didn't mention how Shen Yanshan managed to smuggle more than a hundred latest - style electronic watches from the south through the strict inspections on the railway. But this batch of electronic watches had made him a fortune.
He already had the goods and was negotiating the price with several parties.
Shen Yanshan hung up the phone and dialed another number.
His voice sounded even deeper in the night. Li Chuchu couldn't hear what he was saying clearly. She only heard him mention "goods" and "payment".
Different from the oversupply in later generations, goods were the most in - demand at this time. As long as one could transport them back, there would be no problem selling them. The brave would thrive, while the timid would starve. It was no exaggeration to say that if Zhao Zilong was known for his courage, then Shen Yanshan was all Zhao Zilong.
While she was in a daze, Shen Yanshan had already hung up the phone and was walking towards her.
Oh no!
Li Chuchu instinctively lowered her head to avoid his gaze.
Shen Yanshan, the big shot, glanced at her and let out a faint sneer. The two passed by each other, and he walked into the alley.
It was best that he was too lazy to pay attention to her, so as not to find out that she had a new soul.
Li Chuchu let out a sigh of relief and turned around to follow him.
The tall figure led the way in front, and she followed closely behind.
In the unlit alley, it was pitch - black behind her, and there was a faint light in front. It felt as if someone would jump out of the darkness and sell her at any moment.
Li Chuchu came from a well - off family. She was a rich second - generation who did nothing but ate and waited to die. Even during the toughest time right after graduation, she could live a good life with the financial support of her family.
Just thinking about having to live in such a place from now on, Li Chuchu felt that this matter needed further consideration.
About a few steps ahead, there were two yards facing each other. Entering from the right, the room on the right - hand side was his home.
The two families opposite and next door were cooking in the shared small kitchen. They were chatting and laughing, and the children were playing together.
As soon as Li Chuchu and Shen Yanshan came in, they suddenly fell silent.
Aunt Wang and the daughter - in - law of the Liu family glanced at each other: Why did this couple come back?
Neither of them was normal.
Such bad luck.
The original owner had a really bad reputation in the compound, so not many people were willing to associate with her. Especially the daughter - in - law of the Liu family. Whenever she saw Li Chuchu, she would make a disgusted face. She even rolled her eyes so hard that they almost popped out.
"Yo, which young lady is back? Aren't you going to deliver lunch to your lover?"