After transmigrating into the book, I helped my mother reconcile with her divorced husband.

Chapter 269 Jealousy Turns to Hatred (Part 2)

The meal left everyone with their own hidden agendas.

After the gathering, the mother again warned and reprimanded Ayu, telling her not to use her ability to deceive people to sow discord between Aruo and the Zhou family. Aruo, as always, feigned weakness and used cunning. Qin's father, unlike them, considered Ayu, though not very close to him, as his own daughter. If Ayu really was as capable as they said… Qin's father didn't think further, but his eyes betrayed his thoughts.

That night, someone put a snake on A-Yu's bed. A-Yu caught the snake, skinned it, removed its tendons, and took out its gall bladder. She then skewered it with bamboo sticks and roasted it in A-Ruo's yard. A-Ruo was terrified and ran to tell her mother. Seeing her mother's angry reprimand, A-Yu only said one sentence: "If you're not capable, don't harm others! If there's a next time, it won't be this snake on the bamboo stick."

Enraged, the mother tried to take Aruo back, but Ayu coldly exposed their true purpose in coming back to pick her up.

Like them, the Ye family was half in business and half in the government. However, the Ye family's business was even bigger than the Zhou family's, and the Ye family's official positions were far superior to those of Qin's father, who was just a minor county magistrate.

The Ye family had a single-son lineage for generations, but this generation had two children. The eldest son, Ye Bai, was born to the first wife. The second son, Ye Mo, was born to the second wife. The second wife had always wanted her son to replace Ye Bai as the head of the Ye family in this generation. However, Ye Bai was too promising; not only was he handsome, but he was also skilled in both literature and martial arts, and had considerable business acumen.

Ye Bai's second wife was different from the others; she treated Ye Bai with just the right amount of kindness, perfectly proper and without any faults. When Ye Bai was attacked and poisoned, no one suspected his stepmother.

Ye Bai is disabled and needs a wheelchair to get around. But that's not enough for his stepmother. His subordinates are still there, his mind is still sharp, most of the Ye family's businesses are still under his control, and the person in court values ​​him even more.

In order to completely bring Ye Bai down from his pedestal, she found him a good marriage.

The magistrate's daughter, Qin, is arrogant, domineering, and as stupid as a pig; marrying her to Ye Bai would be most suitable. She has taken a liking to Qin Ruo, but Qin Ruo doesn't like Ye Bai. In Qin Ruo's eyes, Ye Bai is a cripple; how could she, the daughter of a magistrate, marry a cripple? Even if she were to marry, she should marry the elegant second young master of the Ye family, Ye Mo.

The Qin family couldn't afford to offend the Ye family, so the marriage couldn't be called off; it had to be changed. Qin's mother couldn't bear to see Qin Ruo suffer, so she thought of her biological daughter, A Yu, who lived in the countryside.

Ayu was born after ten months of her pregnancy, and she had poured all her maternal love into her until Ayu was a month old. But maternal love eventually fades with time, and she couldn't accept that the soft, cuddly baby had become the grown-up girl before her, who wasn't clinging to her like Aruo, calling her "Mother" all the time. The way Ayu looked at her was like she was looking at a stranger.

She didn't like the way A-Yu looked at her; she preferred A-Ruo to A-Yu. So what if she was an adopted daughter? So what if there was no blood relation? Maybe she and A-Yu were enemies in a past life, and she and A-Ruo were mother and daughter.

When her motives were exposed, Qin was no longer angry. She had raised Ayu for over ten years, and both morally and logically, she should agree to the marriage.

Qin thought that this marriage would take some trouble, but to her surprise, Ayu agreed.

Her maternal grandmother is quite old and can't support her forever. Although she shares the surname Zhou, she's a woman. Even if she could marry into the Zhou family like her mother, there's no guarantee she wouldn't be ostracized and feared. While her grandmother is alive, she can still be kept in check; without her grandmother, who will protect her?

Is her father obsessed with becoming an official, or her mother who only has eyes for her adopted daughter?

It wasn't that she couldn't handle the Zhou family's affairs, but rather that she was too lazy to. She was a transmigrator, not the original owner of this body, so there was no need for her to devote herself to the Zhou family. Unlike Lu Zhiyuan, Ayu didn't have a system, didn't know why she had transmigrated into the book, or when she could return. She only knew that the book was fictional, set in ancient times.

In ancient times, it was rare for women not to marry; they valued arranged marriages by their parents and matchmakers.

If you're going to get married anyway, why didn't you marry sooner? The Ye family sounds decent, but at least they didn't catch Qin Ruo's eye. It would be a disaster if Qin Ruo actually took a liking to you.

The Ye family was unaware that the bride had been replaced. The second wife, wanting to demonstrate her magnanimity, held a grand and extravagant wedding. After several rounds of drinks, in the bridal chamber, A-Yu stared in disbelief at her new groom.

Ye Bai, the groom is actually Ye Bai.

Unfortunately, he didn't have the memories of Ye Bai from that world.

Because he was Ye Bai, A Yu willingly accepted the marriage. She detoxified Ye Bai, found a divine doctor to treat his injuries, and together they exposed the true face of the second wife, firmly controlling the entire Ye family.

Like many female-oriented novels, they eliminated the stepmother, punished the biased Magistrate Qin and his wife, and made the scheming Qin Ruo reap what she sowed. After everything settled down, she and Ye Bai remarried, with her maternal grandmother as their witness. After arranging all the affairs of the Ye family, the couple traveled together to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Northern Liang mountains and rivers.

While passing through Mi Village, she discovered she was pregnant and decided to stay in the town. Lu Zhiyuan already knew what happened next: Ye Bai was killed, their daughter was killed, and A Yu threw herself into a well after completing her revenge plan.

There is a hidden clue among the clues left by Ayu.

Neither Ye Bai, the assassin from that world, nor the young master of the Ye family in this world, were fools who would be slaughtered at will. However, from the moment they left Mi Village, it was as if they were controlled by something like the plot.

When the scythe came crashing down, Ye Bai in front of her didn't react at all, like a character in a game who had been frozen in place due to slow internet speed or the person controlling the character suddenly leaving or logging off. Even her daughter, whom she had carried for ten months, had become unusually strange. Even stranger was herself; faced with Ye Bai's murder and her daughter's death, she remained completely unmoved.

This is abnormal, extremely abnormal!

Even the characters in the book are flesh and blood; they can't be as cold-hearted as her, unless there's a plot hole.

Assuming she didn't transmigrate into a book, and that the transmigration setting was merely a program to make it easier for her to accept, everything she saw and experienced was just a string of cold numerical code, then her recent abnormality would be explained. Code cannot handle complex human emotions. Even if they encoded the memories belonging to the assassin Lu Zhiyuan into the code, the code still couldn't handle those subtle emotional changes.

When a program is under load, it will malfunction. Ye Bai is a malfunction, her daughter is a malfunction, and her reaction is also a program malfunction.

To verify this, she followed the plot while simultaneously employing unconventional methods to mislead the person manipulating it. The village chief's son hadn't bullied her, nor had the villagers. When they lunged at her, she used extraordinary hypnotic techniques she'd learned in the assassin organization, making them believe she had done something to them.

Besides these villagers, she also needed Miao Han, who was guarding outside the door, to believe that she had indeed been bullied by these people.

Sure enough, the plot moved into the next stage.

At the end of the letter, Ayu asked, "Do you still remember the first romance novel you ever read?"