Countdown to Awakening

Qi Yuanyuan didn't want to say anything more. Everyone here was the same. They would only use this kind of thinking to restrain her. These thoughts were all harmful to her.

Perhaps, if it were Qi Yuanyuan who was here before, she might have been brainwashed, resigned to her fate, and listened to them. But she is not the Qi Yuanyuan of the past. She is a woman from forty years later, a woman of the new era. She doesn't like men, so she won't be brainwashed. She won't blindly marry and have children.

Although this body wasn't hers, she still wanted to live according to her own wishes, to express herself in this unpolluted world. She thought that even the original Qi Yuanyuan would want to live her own life without being bound by constraints...

Now that the original owner was gone, she had to live well for her, protect her family, and live her life to the fullest.

Although she could live her life to her full potential, without so many inappropriate thoughts, the future environment would not be as good as it is now. The air would not be as fresh, but would be polluted everywhere. There would be no clean places, not even clean water. Therefore, she and many others died young.

"Mom and Dad, stop pushing me. I don't want to get married yet. I have my own plans." Qi Yuanyuan emphasized her thoughts again.

She had more important things to do. Besides, there would be another major earthquake ten years from now. Maybe she couldn't do anything to prevent it, but she could help as much as she could...

But she must prevent the disaster that will happen in 25 years and prevent the environment here from being eroded...

If only there was a system, she would know what to do.

Liang Xiaocui shook her head after hearing this. This child is hopeless... and then she said, "Yuanyuan, honestly, you're not a child anymore. Look at Shanshan from the next village, she's only two years older than you, and she's married in a grand ceremony now. It's a great honor for her, and her parents are proud too. Besides, in two years, she'll have a grandchild, and I haven't seen anything yet..."

Liang Xiaocui had been hinting at her, but she really couldn't understand her. Liao Bin's child was so good, he should be her husband's, but in the end... Sigh... To be honest, although she had some dissatisfaction with Liao Bin, when he married someone else's daughter, she would think Liao Bin should be a good person...

Now Qi Yuanyuan keeps saying things like she won't get married! Has all the studying ruined her brain? She's already gotten into college and now she doesn't even listen to her parents... She's like a completely different person... She won't listen to anything they say...

It was really strange. Although her daughter used to be naughty, she had always been very well-behaved. She would do whatever she said. She remembered Yuanyuan once saying: "In the future, she will marry whoever her mother tells her to marry..."

Why is he such a different person now? He's become more and more disobedient as he gets older... and his personality is still so stubborn.

Liang Xiaocui said, "Xinxin from the Luo family had her arranged a marriage a few years ago. I forgot who it was, but judging by her mother's attitude, I guess Xinxin will be able to get married soon."

Qi Yuanyuan thought about this. Luo Xinxin was only sixteen, supposedly in high school, but she was getting married so young... and to someone they called a "child marriage." It was likely they didn't even know each other, or maybe they'd only met a few times before they were talking about marriage. And Luo Xinxin was only sixteen, still too young to understand things. How could she be talking about marriage? She should have been scribbling away on exams, but now she was shouldering the burden of daily necessities.

She knew that most of the girls in the village had been betrothed as children, far more than just Luo Xinxin and Yingdi. Almost all the girls in the village had been betrothed as children.

The more fortunate girls, after birth, were not abandoned in a mountain pagoda or tossed around by their families, but instead had other values: for example, they were betrothed from a young age. Once the girl's family received the deposit, they could not rescind the marriage. Even if the man died before the wedding, the girl had to marry and remain a widow. At the time of the marriage, the man's family would also give a betrothal gift.

If the woman regrets the marriage without permission, her family will have to pay compensation. Unless the man's family no longer wants the marriage, the man will only not have to pay the remaining betrothal money if he regrets the marriage.

So most families wouldn't regret it. No one in the village regretted it. Furthermore, if a child marriage was arranged and the woman eloped before the man and woman got married, then the reputation of the woman and her family would be ruined... and people would judge them.

But this is inherently unfair. It's unfair to the woman. No one ever asked her if she was willing, only the man was. He was willing, regardless of who she was. And if the man disagreed, he simply didn't agree and didn't have to marry her.

"Mom, I remember Luo Xinxin was only 16, so young and naive. How could she get married? Isn't she still a child? Getting married..." She didn't dare to think about it. If they were to get married now, the man would want to continue the family line. What would happen to a little girl like her if she married him? Could she adapt instantly? It was impossible, no matter how she looked at it.

Liang Xiaocui looked at her, raised her eyes and said, "What do you mean by sensible or not? If she gets married, then she will be sensible, right? As long as she gets married, she will be sensible. It has always been like this. As long as a girl gets married, she will be sensible. It has nothing to do with age."

Qi Yuanyuan: ...

Why is this the logic? How can marriage make you sensible? This is ridiculous!

"Mom, why do you say that? Does getting married make one sensible? That's ridiculous. I don't believe a person can become sensible all of a sudden." Qi Yuanyuan said.

Liang Xiaocui retorted, "How can you ask that? Everyone is like this. For example, I became more sensible after getting married. You are still young, of course you don't know these things."

Before she got married, she didn't know a lot of things, but after she got married, she naturally understood everything. Before she got married, she couldn't do a lot of things, but after she got married, she could do them.

"Yuanyuan, it will be the same when you get married. You will naturally understand those things." Liang Xiaocui talked about her again.

"Mom, can you stop talking about me? I said I won't get married, I won't get married..."

She was speechless. The people here were weird. They only cared about urging people to get married. They didn't know anything else, did they?

Back to Luo Xinxin, I wonder what her parents are thinking. Luo Xinxin is still so young, only sixteen, and won't be an adult for a while. Why are they so anxious to get her married? They're short of money, yet they still have so many children. Then, after having them, they're irresponsible and sell their daughter off for money. This is even more irresponsible than abandoning her in a baby orphanage...

They thought their daughters would be at peace once they were married. I wonder what their real intentions were...

What if Luo Xinxin suffered in her husband's family?