In the empty room, apart from a dilapidated wardrobe, there was only a bed frame and a table. Above the table hung a portrait of Chairman Mao.
Perhaps because the window was closed, the room looked dim.
On the bed lay a girl with a pale complexion.
The girl looked utterly lifeless, just lying there silently.
Where her collar didn't cover, a gruesome bruise was visible. If someone were to reach out and check, they would discover that the girl was no longer breathing.
Suddenly, the girl who should have been breathless, lying on the bed, furrowed her brows, and her breathing became rapid.
Her face showed pain and struggle, only gradually becoming still after a long while, and her breathing returned to normal.
Finally, the room was filled with life once more.
After another moment, the girl on the bed first twitched her fingers, then opened her eyes.
Her gaze swept across her surroundings, a bitter smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.
Someone like her, a Five-Spirit Root (Ngũ Linh Căn), the lowest rank in the Cultivation World (Tu Chân giới), had gone through countless hardships and obstacles, cultivating for five hundred years to finally reach the late stage of Golden Core (Kim Đan).
With great difficulty, she was lucky enough to obtain a spatial artifact (pháp khí không gian) from the immortal abode of an Ancient Immortal (Thượng Cổ Tiên Nhân). Before she could even properly examine it, she was intercepted by others who wanted to kill her and seize the treasure.
As Ye Qiao thought of this, a cold smile curled at the corner of her mouth.
Her treasure, the Lạt Thủ Tiên Tử, wasn't so easy to seize! The power of a cultivator self-detonating their Golden Core (Kim Đan) would make them suffer enough.
But now it seemed the spatial artifact (pháp khí không gian) she had just acquired was no ordinary item.
In the moment she self-detonated, when she thought her soul would be scattered (hồn phi phách tán), the spatial artifact protected her soul, giving her a chance to live again.
After Ye Qiao regained consciousness, the first thing she did was examine the space.
She could feel that the space and her soul were connected, yet they couldn't merge.
It seemed her current body was too weak, and moreover, it hadn't cultivated spiritual power (linh lực).
Ye Qiao wiped the sweat from her face. When she self-detonated her Golden Core (Kim Đan), although the space had protected her, her soul was still greatly damaged.
She didn't know how her soul had attached itself to this body. Before she could even react, it had fought with a soul from another world, seizing ownership of this body, which had also consumed a great deal of her vital energy (nguyên khí) and strength.
The soul from the other world possessed extraordinary willpower and resilience, and was also very ruthless.
She had to rely on her many years of cultivation (tu chân) experience to barely win, and read the memories of both the soul from the other world and the original owner of this body.
According to the other-worldly soul, she was in a romantic novel (ngôn tình lãng mạn) set in the seventies and eighties, but with a slightly different history than the actual seventies and eighties.
The original owner of this body was also named Ye Qiao, her nickname was An An, and she was an ignorant country girl.
Her father was unknown, her mother had died, leaving her all alone.
No, not entirely alone.
She also had an older brother named Gu Zhen, eight years her senior, who was her mother's adopted son and was always in the military.
This older brother of hers was not simple; he was very capable, and at only twenty-four, he had already risen to a very high position.
It is said he has achieved countless great accomplishments, earning praise from many high-ranking leaders. His future is bright, and he also possesses an extraordinary background.
From the perspective of a soul from another world, Gu Zhen is the male lead in this book. He is very handsome, with a cold and aloof personality, and is extremely resourceful and capable.
He is a being who defies fate, a powerful man. The fate of this body's original owner changed because of him.
Half a year ago, the mother of this body's original owner fell seriously ill and passed away.
On her deathbed, worried about her daughter, she betrothed her naive daughter to her adopted son.
Gu Zhen had deep affection for his adoptive mother, and he was a man who valued loyalty and sentiment.
Although he already had someone he liked, to fulfill his adoptive mother's last wish and put her mind at ease, he resolutely notified the military and immediately married this body's original owner. With such a husband, this body's original owner should have lived a very good life. Unfortunately, she wasn't very sensible and didn't know her place.
She herself was an ordinary-looking woman, uneducated, lazy and gluttonous, yet she complained that Gu Zhen wasn't romantic and didn't know how to care for her.
Instigated by ill-intentioned people, she constantly courted disaster, causing so much chaos that Gu Zhen was endlessly vexed.
Ultimately, she even took a lover, engaging in shameful acts with another man, which caused Gu Zhen's last shred of patience and affection to vanish.
They divorced, and she met a tragic end, a female supporting character who got what she deserved.