Era: The naive beauty charmed the villain!

Although Li Meihong's experience was heartbreaking, neither of them took it to heart.

After exchanging a few words of gossip with Gu Qingsong, Lin An'an focused on eating and forgot all about the other person.

After dinner, I took a stroll around the neighborhood as usual.

After returning from their walk, Gu Qingsong went to wash the dishes, while Lin An'an went back to her room to rest.

Lin An'an lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), glanced at the textbooks on the small table next to her, and sighed.

Studying is really hard.

Back in high school, she studied incredibly hard, staying up late every day to learn. She finally got into university, but she never imagined she would have to prepare for the college entrance exam again.

Writing novels is more fun than studying.

Yes, in her spare time, Lin An'an is writing a novella about the lives of educated youth after they were sent to the countryside.

The novel is not long, and Lin An'an has already written half of it these days. She expects to finish it before her child is born.

She was initially enjoying writing, but ever since she started studying with the textbook, Lin An'an has felt inexplicably uneasy whenever she gets engrossed in writing novels.

Just like when I was in school, I would secretly weave bracelets under my desk during class. Although it was really fun, I always felt guilty for not doing my job properly.

Lin An'an rolled around on the bed, trying to comfort herself.

It's okay, the first exam just happens to coincide with my due date, so I won't be able to make it anyway.

The second exam is next year, so there's plenty of time!

Gu Qingsong pushed open the door and saw Lin An'an scurrying around on the kang (a heated brick bed) like a little turtle. He smiled.

Before they could even enter the house, a sharp cry came from the west end of the village.

Gu Qingsong frowned, afraid of frightening Lin An'an, and immediately went into the house, turning around and closing the door.

Lin An'an propped herself up and looked in the direction from which the crying was coming, frowning as she said, "Is Chen Mazi beating Ugly Girl again?"

Ugly Girl is the wife that Chen Mazi just bought.

Originally, the Liu family in the next village was raising her from a young age to be the wife of their mentally challenged son. But these days, child brides are no longer common, and any family that dares to do that will be reported.

However, Ugly Girl was sold to the Liu family by human traffickers. She was too young when she was abducted and couldn't remember anything, so she couldn't go home.

So all these years she has been raised in the Liu family. On the surface she is the Liu family’s adopted daughter, but in reality she is treated like a beast of burden and lives a life worse than that of servants in the old society.

Because he worked non-stop all year round and was always hungry, he was extremely thin, and from a distance he looked like a skeleton with a head of dry, yellow, messy hair.

The Liu family disliked her because she was ugly, so they kept calling her "Ugly Girl" and never gave her a proper name.

As she got older, the Liu family decided to sell her to raise money for their son's wedding.

Sure enough, Chen Mazi bought her a while ago.

Chen Mazi is an old bachelor in the village.

He's in his fifties now. He was married once, but his wife left him after only a few days. He's been single ever since.

A few years ago, he had an elderly mother to keep him in check, but after she passed away, he completely let himself go and became a reckless old scoundrel.

Now that I'm getting older, I'm thinking of getting married again, and hopefully having a son so I can take care of him when I'm old.

But he was in poor condition and had no money, so girls from good families would never be willing to marry him.

So, Chen Mazi set his sights on Ugly Girl.

It just so happens that the Liu family had been spreading the word for a long time, but no one had shown interest in Ugly Girl. Since Chen Mazi was interested, Aunt Liu and Chen Mazi discussed it for two days.

After receiving fifty yuan as a "bride price," Ugly Girl was taken to Chen Mazi's house.