I was a stepmother in ancient times, and I led my whole family to wealth.

Chapter 1 Time Travel, Substitute Bride

The mist swirled around, dreamlike and ethereal, like a light veil veiling the face, adding a touch of shyness and gentleness to this world.

The dreamlike mist drifted slowly, like a mysterious white ribbon...

Fang Jin looked apologetic: "I have no memory of anything before I was 5 years old, but I know that this family is not my biological parents."

Early on, my family arranged a marriage for my older sister, but she looked down on the man because he was from a farming family.

Even though the man had already passed the imperial examination and become a student, he still didn't catch her eye. Instead, she was taken in by a wealthy merchant from a neighboring county and became his concubine.

With the engagement fast approaching, the Fang family couldn't provide a suitable candidate, yet they didn't want to ruin their reputation.

They knocked me unconscious, forced me to drink a bowl of sleeping potion, and then sent me directly to the groom's house in a bridal sedan chair.

Looking at the pretty woman with delicate features and fair skin, Dongfang Jin said angrily, "You brought me here just because you got hit by that stick?"

Fang Jin smiled through her tears, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to say it. I had just arrived here and was scared when I saw you floating here..."

But I wasn't willing to give up, really, so I pulled you along... hoping you'll live well for me.

There's no need to deliberately search for your biological parents; let things take their course. From now on, you are me. Just live a good life.

Dongfang Jin watched the frail woman walk further and further away, feeling neither frustration nor despair, nor any reluctance: "Hey! Don't go! Where is this? How do I get out? And, are you already married?"

Fang Jin didn't turn around, but waved her hand: "I'm sorry! You are indeed at your husband's family home, the Gu family in Lingwu Village..."

Dongfang Jin stood there, stunned. This was terrifying!

She wanted to chase after him, but her body seemed to be frozen in place; no matter how much she struggled, she couldn't move.

"Hey, don't go! Explain yourself clearly! Hey..."

Dongfang Jin looked at Fang Jin and suddenly turned around and smiled, then disappeared into the vast white fog with that smile.

That smile was sweet, as if she had escaped from a sea of ​​suffering and regained freedom and a new life.

That smile seemed like relief, like she was glad she had come; she left without a trace of regret.

The world is full of turmoil and chaos, and everyone experiences joy and sorrow. Why compare who is more miserable?

Life is but a dream, how much joy can it hold?

Dongfang Jin suddenly woke up and found herself lying alone on a cold "bed".

Her whole body ached, but when she moved, she found she could move again. Who can understand the feeling of being completely unable to move?

I stretched and slowly sat up. My head was a little sore, so I pressed my hands to my temples to relieve the throbbing pain.

She looked up and saw... what did she see? A bed? Oh my god... it's a mud-brick kang! She said, "Why is this bed so hard?"

Red wedding quilt, floral mattress, and look at this mattress—is this even a mattress? It's not even as big as the mattress on a single bed in the school dormitory, and it's even shorter and narrower.

On the other side of the kang (a heated brick bed) were four boxes, each with a red "囍" (double happiness) character pasted on it; these were Fang Jin's dowry.

The walls were made of adobe bricks, with rice husks still sticking out!

The roof is covered with spider webs of all sizes? Wow! This is a wedding room? She thought it was a spider's den!

If you look at it in slow motion, rotating it 180 degrees, you'll see that this house is not only low but also... indescribably... indescribable.

Ah! Her grand villa! Her hundred-acre backyard! Her little farm… all gone!

Those damned thugs, and that person who pushed her—they all have the audacity to start a war at the international airport.

Who gave them the audacity? But why her? She's just here to make up the numbers.

She was feeling suffocated and wanted to vent.

She glanced at what was in front of her one last time, but held back, because there was nothing to smash.

Four boxes, a quilt, a mattress, and a kang table with missing corners, holes, and slanted legs—that's all.

It's that simple! She was forced into marriage? Or was she a substitute bride?

I have to say again, is this a wedding room? Aren't wedding rooms supposed to have everything new? Aren't they supposed to be complete with pairs of items? No, not at all.

Four boxes? Who is Zhou Mo?

Either two, or six. Four? That sounds unlucky!

How unlucky! The original owner just left like that, leaving her with a mess.

Never mind, she's already here, we can add auspicious words to her name later.

Sorry!

She took a deep breath... Oh my god, what a musty, damp smell! It's suffocating!

Looking down, I saw those short, rough hands, thin arms and legs, practically skin and bones. He was only about 1.6 meters tall.

That's probably not enough; it's a bit scary!

However, the good news is that she really... really came back to life!

The pain, the flesh... well, let her eat as much as she can from now on, and try to eat her way back up.

She still vividly remembers the moment she collapsed after eating a bandit's "peanut".

But living like this is worse than...

Since we're here, let's make the best of it!

Sigh! This woman, who's already quite old, was just planning to get a boyfriend, and before things even started, the curtain has fallen.

But... but it's not about just marrying anyone?

Thinking about it, recalling it, oh my god! This body of hers really was married into the family, and she was even carried in a sedan chair while unconscious, and they even had a marriage certificate. What a mess!

That's it? Just any man you pick? I heard this husband is a scholar who only passed the imperial examination?

Emma, ​​eight or nine out of ten scholars in ancient times were pedantic.

Her speech is so roundabout... It gives her, with her straightforward nature, a headache.

Running away from the wedding is not an option, as I don't have a travel permit or household registration. In ancient times, it seems that a travel permit was required to travel.

Good heavens! What's going on here? If someone blindly goes out and dies, no one will even know!

Yes, the body Dongfang Jin was reborn into was in ancient times, in a dynasty that did not exist in the past five thousand years—the Donglin Kingdom.

According to the memories Fang Jin gave her, she is currently in Lingwu Village, Jing'an Town, Ling'an County, Jizhou Prefecture, Anyang Prefecture, Donglin Kingdom.

Lingwu Village is her husband's hometown... a terrible in-laws, so be it! What's done is done, there's no going back.

Let's see if we can get a divorce in the future.

This village has existed for less than a century because the villagers are all refugees who were resettled by the government in various disaster areas.

The villagers have a variety of surnames. Lingwu Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is relatively poor compared to the surrounding villages because of the continuous mountain range to the west of the village.

My maternal home... is called Fangjia Village, an old village in Jing'an Town that has been around for hundreds of years, and the whole village has only one surname.

Villages named after surnames are all old villages on this continent, some of which have been passed down for thousands of years.

Lingwu Village and Fangjia Village are about eight miles apart, one in the north of Jing'an Town and the other in the south.

The marriage between the Gu and Fang families was quite dramatic. The Gu family went to visit relatives in Fang Village and happened to meet a fortune teller who said that Granny Gu had a wealthy and noble appearance and that her descendants might become high-ranking officials in the future...

So, the old lady of the Fang family forced this marriage on her son, who was a steward in a wealthy household...

"You jinx, Fang Jin, you jinx, get out here right now!"

Ugh... I can't live anymore! Fang Jin, you jinx! You've been trying to get my eldest son to split up the family property since you just came in!

Our Gu family was a perfectly good family, and it's going to fall apart because of you, you jinx!

"You jinx, come out here! Don't think you're safe just because you're hiding inside. It's all because of you..."