Chapter 1: The 80s' Ultimate Younger Sister-in-Law (1)

Xu Yin slowly opened her eyes.

What she saw was an old, patched mosquito net with yellow stains.

Through the net, she could see the roof supported by rafters, and even the dappled sunlight filtering through the gaps in the tiles.

Recalling the memories of her original body that had merged during her coma, she pressed her aching scalp, feeling both relieved and dejected.

She knew she had transmigrated again.

After all, once is a novelty, but twice is a habit.

She had been brought to this world by a life assistance system.

It was originally an unremarkable black jade pendant that her grandmother had specifically left for her on her deathbed.

She had worn it for many years without noticing anything special about it.

Until her second year of graduate school, when she and her roommate went to the mountaintop to watch the Leonid meteor shower. On the way back, they got caught in the rain and she fell ill. Two days later, when her fever broke, the black jade pendant had vanished without a trace.

Instead, a mysterious entity in her mind, claiming to be a life assistance system from an advanced civilization, appeared.

Before she could fully understand it, she was unfortunately dragged into countless novel worlds by the system.

This time, she had transmigrated into a character she had once criticized harshly—a cannon fodder role.

Before this, she had already transmigrated into two other worlds.

The first was a chaotic era in the Republic of China.

At the time, she was very confused and only thought about how to leave the novel world and return home, which led her to miss the system's task assignments and end up being cannon fodder just like in the book.

She died a very tragic and painful death.

The despair and pain before her death seemed to be etched into her bones. Even now, recalling it made her shiver.

In the second world, she transmigrated into a peasant girl during a famine in ancient times.

With the experience from her first transmigration and a better understanding of the system's erratic rules, she managed to avoid the main characters and survive.

Using the original body's farming skills and advanced agricultural techniques exchanged from the system, she lived a relatively peaceful life in her old age.

However, during the famine, she had walked barefoot through a snowfield, severely damaging her health and developing a gynecological condition.

After this was maliciously spread, no one dared to propose marriage, and she was content with her solitary life.

Without a family, she naturally had no children.

When she realized her time was near, she sold her good farmland, orchards, and workshops.

Half of the proceeds were donated to a charity similar to an orphanage, and the other half was converted into supplies and stored in the system's warehouse.

This was her third transmigration into a novel world.

She still didn't know why she was transmigrating or when it would end.

Would she have to transmigrate through several novel worlds to return to her family, or would she be stuck here forever, transmigrating from one world to another?

No one told her.

The life assistance system, which occasionally malfunctioned, only mechanically issued tasks and rewards.

If she ever had the chance to rate this broken system, she would give it a bad review.

Fortunately, this time it wasn't a chaotic era with constant warfare and warlord rule, nor was it an ancient world ravaged by natural disasters and suffering.

This time, it was a novel set in the 1980s.

Although it was far from the era she had lived in, at least she didn't have to endure a famine.

The dejection was that her identity was still the ultimate cannon fodder—Zhu Yunjing's younger sister-in-law.

The novel was titled "The 80s' Military Wife and Her Younger Sister-in-Law," and the main character was named Zhu Yunjing.

After graduating from high school, she had a chance to go to university, but due to her brother's work injury, her parents, who favored boys, married her off to the Xu family to be the second wife of Xu Zhinian, the eldest son, who had lost his first wife. The 500 yuan dowry was used to marry a satisfactory wife for her disabled brother.

After marrying into the Xu family, Zhu Yunjing had a falling out with her overly indulgent in-laws and took control of the wages and allowances sent home by Xu Zhinian.

She then sent her scheming younger sister-in-law to a labor camp and took her two stepsons to join the military.

The resilient and attractive Zhu Yunjing thrived in the military.

Not only did she deeply attract Xu Zhinian, but she also changed his attitude towards his family.

No matter how the in-laws wrote letters for help (such as asking him to use his connections to get her sister-in-law out of the labor camp), he ignored them.

Instead, he felt that his in-laws were unreasonable and only sent a small amount of support money home each year, rarely returning to his hometown.

The younger sister-in-law, who was sent to the labor camp by her sister-in-law, was released after ten years. Seeing her aged and destitute parents, she stormed into the military base, demanding that her brother divorce his wife.

At that time, Xu Zhinian was already a regimental officer, and Zhu Yunjing had been in charge of the cultural troupe for many years. The couple would not tolerate her mischief.

One played the good cop, the other the bad cop, and the whole base learned about her past misdeeds.

Even after ten years in the labor camp, the younger sister-in-law was still a young woman in her mid-twenties, and the disdainful looks from the older women were unbearable.

She threw a bowl and lunged at the main character, who fought back.

During the struggle, a shard of broken porcelain pierced the younger sister-in-law's neck, causing a carotid artery rupture. She died before she could be saved.

"..."

Recalling the plot, Xu Yin shuddered.

She was now the ultimate younger sister-in-law.

Ten years in a labor camp and a wrongful death—how tragic!

Fortunately, the time of her transmigration was favorable—there was still a distance before the main plot began.

At this moment, her brother's first wife was still alive.

As long as she, the younger sister-in-law, didn't cause trouble, the first wife wouldn't be driven to death.

If the first wife didn't die, the main character wouldn't marry her brother, and the subsequent events wouldn't happen.

Realizing this, Xu Yin, still feeling dizzy, prepared to sit up.

At that moment, a series of scoldings came from the checkered wooden window:

"You heartless lazy woman, your younger sister-in-law is still unconscious in bed, and you have the nerve to sneak and eat wild vegetable buns?"

"It's not like that, Mother. This is for Dou Dou. He has mouth ulcers, and the blind old lady at the village head said that cooking dandelions can cure it, so I dug some up..."

"I don't believe you! What can a child have wrong with them? It's just from playing around. Come here! Chop all that firewood, and don't eat until it's done!"

"I'll do it right away," the first wife responded in a muffled voice.

She stuffed the wild vegetable bun into her bewildered son's arms and hurried to the backyard to chop wood.

Xu Mother continued to scold her without stopping.

Xu Yin quickly got out of bed.

She didn't plan to cause trouble, but she couldn't prevent her mother from doing so.

If the first wife was driven to death, the plot would revert, and where would she go to cry?

Moreover, this first wife was not as "lazy, greedy, and cunning" as her mother described.

She was not lazy at all, but very diligent.

She got up before dawn, cooked porridge in a large pot, started the coal stove to boil water, fed the chickens, cleaned the coop, washed the family's clothes by the river, and hung them to dry before going to the foot of the mountain to pick dandelions.

The in-laws could drink freshly boiled water and hot porridge as soon as they woke up. Where could they find such a daughter-in-law?

As for being greedy, cunning, and slippery, these were baseless accusations.

Her mother pointed at her and scolded her first thing in the morning, making her chop wood without breakfast.

The pile of wood was from the village's land distribution and was stacked as high as a wall.

Much of it was solid old tree stumps, which even a young and strong man like her brother would take a few hours to chop, let alone a frail woman.

Xu Yin put on a neatly ironed floral blouse in front of the mirror.

Needless to say, this was also prepared by her sister-in-law.

There was also a full enamel cup of brown sugar water on the bedside table, which her sister-in-law had made with the first pot of boiling water in the morning and was still warm.

Though these were small things, they accumulated and made even the hardest heart feel warm.

Even if it wasn't for her own survival, she didn't want to lose such a sister-in-law.

Hi everyone, Happy New Year! I've started a new book, and I hope you all enjoy it! (づ￣ 3￣)づ

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