Chapter 2: The Husband

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Shao Diandian felt completely unwell. On the very first day after her transmigration, the major events of her life had already been arranged clearly. Could it be that in her previous life she had been single for twenty-seven years simply because she had never met a father as efficient as Shao Kang?

“Daughter, daughter, daughter?” Shao Kang called repeatedly.

Shao Diandian did not respond; she fainted again. It wasn’t due to weak psychological endurance, but because this body had suffered a mild concussion from a previous fall. Turning her head abruptly to look at the child was too violent an action, causing her to lose consciousness.

“Dad, why did my sister faint again? Was she scared?” Shao Erdan asked anxiously.

Listening to his daughter’s steady breathing, Shao Kang gave his son a disdainful glare. “Scared? With your sister’s courage, who could scare her? She’s happy! Didn’t you hear she said it was good news?”

Shao Erdan looked puzzled. “Uh… is that what she meant?”

Shao Diandian slept straight through until the afternoon. Shao Kang was not at home; he had taken Shao Erdan and the three little children to the village to distribute red eggs — and incidentally collect some cash gifts.

The villagers were both shocked and angry. Shocked that Shao Kang had really caught a son-in-law for Shao Pangya, wondering which family’s son was so unlucky; angry because the Shao family usually freeloaded at village banquets without ever giving gifts, yet now they had the nerve to ask for money.

It was nothing short of disguised robbery!

“Why three portions?” Aunt Liu asked, hands on hips and eyes glaring.

She wasn’t afraid of the Shao family’s three bullies!

Shao Kang arrogantly lifted his chin and beckoned to his son.

Shao Erdan held up a little toddler with justified confidence. “Marriage, full month, first birthday!”

Aunt Liu was speechless.

The toddler was speechless.

Meanwhile, Shao Diandian didn’t know that Shao Kang had gone to the village with the little ones to cause a stir.

She hadn’t eaten all day and was dizzy and lightheaded from hunger.

In her previous life, she had undergone strict military training, including hunger training, but that was thanks to her strong physical condition.

This body was obviously intolerant of hunger; she needed to find something to eat quickly.

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Shao Diandian went to the kitchen.

Though she had the original owner’s memories, she was still shocked by the scene before her eyes.

The walls were cracked, the roof was leaking, the pot was chipped, baskets were in disarray on the floor, vegetable leaves and red sweet potatoes scattered everywhere, and the pot contained a sticky, unidentifiable black mess.

Shao Diandian felt another blow to her spirit.

Such a kitchen would not have even caught her attention in her previous life, let alone made her want to eat anything cooked there.

Suppressing her discomfort, she braced herself and began tidying up.

After half an hour of hard work, she finally cleaned the chaotic kitchen.

Shao Diandian mixed a bowl of cornmeal with a little white flour, fried chives and eggs, used lard to make chive pockets, picked some intact sweet potatoes to dice, and cooked a pot of not-too-thick sweet potato soup.

In her memories, the original owner had an enormous appetite, and the household’s food was always prioritized for her.

When the original owner ate, Shao Kang and his son could only have porridge; when she ate white flour, the father and son ate cornmeal; and as for eggs and lard, the two men hadn’t tasted them for a long time.

Shao Diandian had originally taken two chive pockets but reconsidered and put one back.

Then she ladled a bowl of sweet potato soup and sat on a small kitchen stool to eat.

Suddenly, a muffled thud came from the front room.

Frowning, she put down her bowl and went to investigate.

At first, she thought it was the Shao family returning home, but upon entering she found a man lying on the floor, as if he had just fallen off the bed.

The noise just now must have come from that.

Shao Diandian observed him further.

The man had broad shoulders, a narrow waist, a tall stature, and was dressed in fine clothing. Though the material was hard to identify, it gave off a very expensive vibe.

His fingers were long and distinct, with calluses on the webbing between thumb and index finger.

“A martial artist?” Shao Diandian made a preliminary judgment.

Moreover, she smelled the scent of herbal wound medicine and a strong metallic blood odor on him.

“Injured?”

Strangely, how could the Shao family have an injured man?

Wait, could he be the son-in-law Shao Kang had caught for her?

That explained why no one in the surrounding villages dared to marry her; even if they were kidnapped, they would run away. If he was badly injured, that made sense.

Shao Diandian blinked and squatted down, using her plump body to turn the man over.

After all, he was the husband snatched back for her; she had to check him out.

But when her eyes fell on the indescribable face, they widened in shock.

Wasn’t he supposed to be a hundred times better looking than Liu Tongsheng?

Like this?

If Shao Kang were here, he would also be stunned, because when he lifted the man’s mask, he saw a peerlessly handsome face.

Otherwise, he would never have accepted a son-in-law with a burden like that.

The man’s current appearance was due to having just fallen face down and accidentally becoming disfigured.

Disfigured... uh no, the man woke up.

He opened his eyes to see a plump woman crouched between his legs, sneakily doing something to him. His hairs stood on end as he suddenly swung his arm in a chop toward her!

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Shao Diandian was examining his injuries when she suddenly sensed a murderous intent, a cold breeze at her neck.

Drawing on her previous life’s combat training, she swung her chubby arm up swiftly to block his wrist!

The man seemed prepared and hurriedly moved his left hand.

But to his surprise, he couldn’t move it.

Only then did he realize his left arm and both legs were tied with ropes.

“Who are you?” he asked coldly.

Using her weight advantage, Shao Diandian sat heavily on his right arm.

The man felt as if Mount Tai was pressing down on him.

Seeing he had completely lost his ability to fight back, Shao Diandian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, she had been foresighted enough to tie him up in advance; otherwise, she’d be dead or crippled from his earlier blow.

“Are you still going to hurt me? If not, I won’t continue tying you up,” Shao Diandian said to him.

His arm bore an unbearable weight.

He frowned, cold sweat dripping, and said, “Who exactly are you? What do you want? The child... where are the others?”

“The others? Hmm, I don’t know,” she replied honestly. She really didn’t know; when she woke up, no one was home.

As for the first two questions, she needed to think before answering.

The man looked at Shao Diandian with suspicion.

Without changing her expression, Shao Diandian said, “Here’s the situation: you got injured and fainted on the road. My family found and rescued you. I was just checking your injuries!”

The man was speechless.