"Lazybones, stop playing dead here, hurry up and go sign up for the rural deployment." The piercing female voice seemed capable of rupturing ear drums.
The pain on his arm brought a moment of clarity to Qi Bai Cha's muddled thoughts.
It was noisy, unbearably noisy, the buzzing sound reverberated in his head.
Wasn't he on a private luxury yacht? How come there were other voices?
"Lazybones, I really need to teach you a good lesson today, just like your dead father, you also have a wicked heart, and are destined for a tragic end."
Lin Ju raised her hand, ready to deliver a slap.
"What are you making a fuss about, is someone dead in your family, wailing here?" Qi Bai Cha opened his eyes, his body reacted faster than his hand.
Suddenly, he grabbed Lin Ju's slapping hand and swiftly returned a slap.
Too powerful, the slap made Lin Ju stumble and fall to the ground.
Immediately, Qi Yun Yun who was standing by was stunned.
This Qi Bai Cha, who usually could not utter a fart even with three beatings, usually allowed people to beat and scold him without resistance.
What was happening now… Was he possessed?
Qi Yun Yun felt schadenfreude in her heart, but acted worried on the surface: "Sister, what are you doing? How could you hit mom, this is unfilial, vent your anger on me if you must, I know you don’t want to go to the countryside, I… I…”
Before finishing her sentence, Lin Ju interrupted: "Little Yun, how could you go to the countryside? You're the younger sister, she, Qi Bai Cha, as the elder sister, should take the hardship for you, don't worry, she doesn't have a say in not going."
Lin Ju's natural attitude made Qi Bai Cha's eye twitch with amusement.
She shook her somewhat groggy head.
When she finally focused on her surroundings, she couldn't help but feel stunned.
The room was narrow and cramped, with whitened newspapers pasted on the walls and portraits of great leaders. Inspirational slogans were written everywhere, the table was shabby and the floor was riddled with pits.
Where... Where was this? Was this her brother's investment in a period drama? The literally radiating sense of bygone era was too realistic.
Could money... really do this?
But before she could think further, a sharp and irritating voice rang out.
“Stop playing dumb, go sign up to be a 'Zhiqing' now. If you delay I'll flay your hide.” Lin Ju tried to pinch Qi Bai Cha, but forgot to pull her hand back in time.
Qi Bai Cha was not one to be easily trampled on. She grabbed Lin Ju's wrist and twisted it hard.
A "snap" resounded, followed by a high-pitched scream echoing throughout the room.
“Ah, you wretch... you... are you trying to rebel?” Lin Ju, drenched in sweat from the pain, eyed Qi Bai Cha fearfully.
Qi Yun Yun was feeling disgusted, but still stood in front of Lin Ju, pleading, "Sis, it's all my fault, why do you..."
A resounding 'slap' landed on Qi Yun Yun's face as she was interrupted mid-sentence by Qi Bai Cha, “If you know you're wrong, then shut up. If that's too hard, then kneel. Why bark like a dog here? Are you trying to make a show of yourself? Believe it or not, I can snap your neck."
Qi Bai Cha's cold and ruthless eyes scared Qi Yun Yun to the point where her knees shook, and she dared not utter a word.
When did this idiot get such sharp eyes? Did she take the wrong medicine?
Wasn't it all because she wanted to go to the countryside, but Qi Bai Cha refused and made a fuss over it? Now the joke was on Qi Yun Yun.
Qi Baicha massaged her temple, realizing that she had somehow transitioned into a period webnovel.
A hot and trending novel on a certain website, she happened to glimpse at it once, a melodrama between two women and one man. The plot was cliched, but who could resist a good old drama? She loved watching it.
As a top-tier rich and beautiful woman, money was just a number and she was fond of messy dramas and loved watching such old-fashioned soap operas.
Don’t ask why, she just had the means to do so.
Unexpectedly, on her twentieth birthday, she slipped off a luxurious yacht and ended up in the 1970s.
Luckily, she reincarnated into an unimportant cannon fodder character from the novel.
The original character was manipulated by her sister to move to the countryside, fell in love with the male lead from the capital at first sight, and privately used underhanded tactics to provoke the female lead, Meng Qingke.
In the end, she suffered for her own actions and died alone, her so-called sister even allowed stray dogs to gnaw at her body.
The two formed a patchwork family. This house was left by Qi Baicha’s father, Qi Yunyun and her illegitimate father moved in.
They treated the original host like a dog. When they stood, she had to kneel, and punishment was bountiful.
But unfortunately for them, Qi Baicha had no such patience. It was their bad luck for coming across her.
Having absorbed the original host’s body, she naturally needed to exact revenge for her.
And now, it was time to put on her show.
Qi Yunyun was unbearably wronged, tears gushing out like a broken dam, “Sister, I know you’re angry, it’s my fault, I should yield to you, I…”
Listening to her sweet talk, Qi Baicha’s eyes were filled with malice.
Holding her by the neck, pressing her against a window, allowing half of her body to dangle outside.
"Oh..." Looking at the height of more than ten meters, Qi Yunyun's face was filled with terror. She tried to struggle but was restrained by Qi Baicha.
"What, just because you have a big face, you like to act? Your dead mother left you nothing, but you completely learned how to be shameless! Usurping others' home like a dog! Bringing shame to our ancestors! You like to scream, don't you? I’ll knock out your teeth."
A smirk appeared on Qi Baicha's face, and Qi Yunyun's heart thudded in fright as she was about to scream.
She saw a large bowl coming straight to her face with a violent force, causing an unbearable pain.
"Ah, my face, mother, help me... Wicked woman, why don't you just die... you... go die..."
Now, Qi Yunyun couldn't pretend anymore, venomously glaring at Qi Baicha.
Only then did Qi Baicha feel a heavy weight lifted from her heart.
"Little harlot, do you want to destroy this family? I've always known that you were born to curse me. I must kill you today."
This is how it's always been, no matter right or wrong, the one who suffers is always the original host, the host with crisscrossed scars.
See, not even a mother protects herself, does she?
Qi Baicha toys with a shard in her hand, places it on Qi Yunyun's neck, and cuts forcefully, “If you dare to touch me, I'll kill her."
Seeing Qi Baicha’s ruthless heart and cruel hand, Lin Ju truly became afraid.
Filled with hatred, she was forced to swallow her words: "Qi Baicha, you demon, what exactly do you want to do? Are you determined to shatter this family?"
Thinking of how the original host's father sacrificed himself during the flood relief and received a subsidy, which was recorded on a banknote, Qi Baicha knew that it belonged to her.
However, Qi Bai Cha had been living like a dog these years, without any comforts.
Now, it was time for payback.
"I am dizzy and blacking out. I might be malnourished. I need to buy some supplements. I recall father left me a savings passbook; give it to me. Or else, my hand might tremble, and something might..." Knowing her weakness, Qi Bai Cha spoke with an unfounded confidence.
A savings booklet? This jinx dared to ask? Was she worthy?
It was supposed to be Qi Yun Yun's dowry,
And she could only take Qi Yun Yun's leftovers.
"I don't have..."
Before she could finish her words, Qi Bai Cha used a shard to scrape off a piece of skin from Qi Yun Yun's left face.
"Mom, give it to her...ah...mom...it hurts..." Qi Yun Yun's voice was trembling from pain, looking at Qi Bai Cha almost like a devil.
"Stop it, you...fine...I'll give it to you, to you..."
Qi Bai Cha looked at her panicking, making a sarcastic comment, "If I didn't know any better, I'd think that she were your illegitimate child, and I was picked off the streets!"
"Don't talk nonsense, Bai Cha, you must be misunderstanding. You're mom's child, how could I not care for you? Please, don’t hurt your sister. I know you've been eyeing your father's passbook. I'll give it to you now."
Lin Ju was scared of this madwoman. Thank goodness there were not many people in the living quarters, otherwise, where could she hide her face?
The moment she turned her back, Lin Ju's expression turned cold.
"You're indeed...an ungrateful wretch."
