Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 183: The Truth

Chapter 183: Chapter 183: The Truth

"Mother..."

Nanzhi’s voice carried a crying tone.

She didn’t know why, after her death, she became a chubby girl who grew up happily in the Lin family, but in the end, she starved to death at home, just like the original story.

Hearing Nanzhi’s voice, Lin’s mother’s heart trembled, and without caring whether she was mistaken, she took steps and walked over.

Seeing her grandmother approaching, Shen Zhiyu sensibly made way, and when she turned her head, she saw something bright and shiny hanging under her own father’s eyes.

Shen Zhiyu looked at her own father standing to the side, wondering if she was mistaken.

Did Father cry?

"Are you the chubby girl?" Lin’s mother’s eyes were tearful, and even though the girl in front of her looked somewhat different from her daughter, she still harbored a sliver of hope.

What if she really was the chubby girl?

Yet Lin Yicheng quickly stepped in front of his mother, watching Nanzhi warily and asked, "Where did you come from? What is your purpose?"

"Big brother..."

"Don’t call me big brother; the chubby girl doesn’t have the same age or figure as you do, don’t think you can fool me!"

Watching her big brother’s wary appearance, Nanzhi didn’t find it strange, realizing that not everyone could accept that someone "dead" had suddenly returned and even changed their appearance entirely.

Thinking of something that could prove her identity, Nanzhi approached Lin Yicheng and then whispered, "You wet the bed when you were nine..."

"Chubby girl, are you really the chubby girl?"

Lin Yicheng was shocked to hear her words, the matter of his bedwetting was only known between him and the chubby girl, because he was afraid his younger brother would laugh at him, he even washed the beddings secretly; and the chubby girl just accidentally found out.

Feeling someone’s gaze, Lin Yicheng looked down to see his own son having approached at some point, now staring at him with big eyes. Suddenly, his heart sank.

Oh no, oh no.

This little rascal has a loose tongue; if he goes around talking about it, everyone will know.

"Chubby girl, let’s go home."

Lin Ercheng looked at his sister who had changed, feeling an indescribable sense of loss.

Nanzhi was surrounded by the Lin family as they walked towards their current home, with Little Zhiyu holding her hand and not forgetting to look back at the lonely figure of Shen Wenchen before leaving.

Watching their retreating backs, Shen Wenchen felt as though his spirit had been suddenly drained, and he collapsed to the ground unconscious.

Liu Jie was the first to notice something was wrong and quickly went to support him.

To her family’s concerned inquiries, Nanzhi just nodded and laughed them off.

"Daughter, tell Mother honestly, where have you been these past two years? And how did you come to change like this?"

Lin’s mother had a complex expression as she looked at her daughter’s current appearance.

Having just said many things that only the chubby girl would know, there’s no doubt that this girl is her own daughter, but she still found the appearance awkward.

She feared that if others found out, they would think she was some impostor she had found.

"This matter can’t be explained in a short time..." Nanzhi hesitated for a long time but wasn’t ready to tell her family, after all, going from transmigration to soul departure with accompanying time travel — let alone her ancient-era parents, even she herself couldn’t fully accept it yet.

She used to be petulant, thinking that even though the original owner’s soul was her own, after all, she hadn’t personally experienced it.

But now, after this experience, what didn’t she know?

That so-called "original owner" had been her from the beginning!

She still couldn’t figure it out; on her way back, she heard her father say she had disappeared for two years, yet she had truly lived through those twenty years "belonging" to the chubby girl.

And she recalled the abnormalities of that last year.

When she first transmigrated, she thought the original character was too stubborn; if life was unbearable, why not return to her parental home.

But when she, herself, was in that situation, she finally understood; not to mention seeking refuge at her parental home, even the food she painstakingly tried to store would not stay put, let alone the fact that she would occasionally lose consciousness. She remembered the words of the "substitute spirit" in her dream that after she lost consciousness, it must have been controlling her body.

But why?

Why would it discard the grains that could save lives?

Looking at Nanzhi’s furrowed brow, the Lin Family members exchanged glances and left the room.

Regardless, it was good as long as she had returned.

Coming back was better than anything else.

"Mom, did you go back to that weird place again?"

Little Zhiyu softly asked, watching his mother stare blankly.

He remembered that when he went looking for her before, she’d have that same look.

"?"

Nanzhi looked up, confused, and then she remembered that Zhiyu had also been to that place. Suddenly, her eyes lit up.

"Zhiyu, is your brother Xiaohe in Yan City?"

The little guy blinked and then shook his head.

"I see..." Nanzhi deflated a bit, having hoped she might ask Xiaohe for information.

After all, he had claimed to be a system before.

At that thought, Nanzhi suddenly froze.

Could it be that Xiaohe was binding with a host?

Who would he bind to? Could it be Su Tao?

But she remembered that in the novel, Su Tao had already been bound to a system when she transmigrated.

Thinking about this, she felt as if she had discovered something.

The thing she had been ignoring all along was the original plot, wasn’t it?

In the original plot, Shen Wenchen lost his memory due to falling off a cliff, and she herself starved to death in Lihua Village.

Five years later, Shen Wenchen became a General, encountered the female protagonist Su Tao in the Capital City.

But she had unexpectedly "lived" through it, not dying like in the original plot, which led to earthquakes and the Locust Plague that weren’t in the book; Shen Wenchen was reborn, remembered both her and Zhiyu, and even found a water source to enable the village to avoid abandoning their homes. However, the water source mysteriously dried up completely, which then led to them starting the life of refugees.

The journey as refugees was perilous, and a misstep could result in death.

Hadn’t she narrowly escaped death time after time on that trajectory?

Because of her good relationship with Miaomiao, she called for Miaomiao to travel with her and Zhiyu. If she died midway, everything would revert back to the plot.

Her death, Zhiyu raised by Miaomiao; even if the timeline stretched longer, the result would be the same.

Thinking of the moment before her "death," Nanzhi’s pupils suddenly constricted.

She remembered, she remembered that night, on a distant mountain, something glowing with faint white light rushed toward her abdomen.

It was like a sharp arrowhead, tearing through her lower abdomen and feeling as if it was being violently pulled out, taking chunks of flesh with it, but it disappeared in an instant, leaving behind a ghastly wound.

She wasn’t injured by the refugees, but by that arrow.

Feeling the hair on her body stand on end, Nanzhi finally swallowed hard.

Could it be, could it be that the plot of the novel had always been trying to kill her?

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