After Becoming the Heroine, I Just Want to Be a Widow

“Why are you pretending to be pitiful, bitch? The Prince of Nan’an was deceived by your pitiful appearance of being bullied by everyone, right? It’s a pity that you are not destined to be the wife of the prince. You can only marry a short-lived ghost and become a widow before you even get married!”

Song Yuanzhi was half asleep and was annoyed by the angry female voice. She was about to curse which mental hospital didn’t take good care of their patients and let them escape. The Qing Dynasty was over, and they were still keeping the Nan’an Marquis’ son?

Before Song Yuanzhi could finish her angry curse, she suddenly heard a slight sound of breaking through the air and then felt something coming straight at her face. Song Yuanzhi was also a half-trained martial artist, and her skills were so good that she immediately opened her eyes and reached out to grab the foot that was half an arm’s length away from her face. She was still wondering why this person was wearing a pair of embroidered shoes with pearls. It seemed that his family must be quite wealthy, so why was his behavior so uncultured?

It only took a moment for Song Yuanzhi to mutter to herself. Without any pause, she twisted her hand holding the foot casually, which caused the other party to scream, and fell to the ground with a thump.

Song Yuanzhi then realized something was wrong. Wasn’t she sleeping at home? Why was she lying on the ground now? In addition, what was going on with this shabby and spacious classical courtyard?

Song Yuanzhi’s heart was filled with rage, and the courtyard was also in an uproar. Two older women and four young and beautiful maids in green clothes surrounded the woman who was knocked to the ground by Song Yuanzhi and kept shouting, “Second Miss, are you okay?”

“Oh, my second miss, if she gets hurt somewhere, the master and the madam will be heartbroken! Eldest Miss, how could you have the heart to do such a cruel thing to the Second Miss?”

Song Yuanzhi got up from the ground and looked at the narrow-sleeved skirts and various hairstyles on the people around. Even if she was thick-skinned, she could tell something was wrong. This scene…

But the woman who fell to the ground got up angrily, ran towards Song Yuanzhi with a murderous look on her face, and raised her hand to slap Song Yuanzhi. Even if Song Yuanzhi didn’t understand the situation, she couldn’t let herself be beaten in vain. She grabbed the other’s wrist reflexively and turned her hand in another direction. With a snap, the loud slap landed on the other’s face.

The courtyard fell into silence again.

Song Yuanzhi’s impatient voice fell into everyone’s ears very clearly: “If you are sick, go get treatment immediately. Why do you want to hit people for no reason? Are you a feather duster that has turned into a spirit?”

“Oh my God, is the young lady so sad that she has gone crazy?” A woman murmured to herself.

Song Yuanzhi heard this with her sharp ears; her eyes flickered slightly, but she remained calm as she looked at the second lady opposite her, who should be “her” sister. If she remembered correctly, this… should be Song Lilan?

Wait… Song Yuanzhi, Song Lilan, the Prince of Nan’an… There are too many factors, and Song Yuanzhi roughly guessed what the current situation is.

Song Lilan was already furious. She covered her face and screamed, “Song Yuanzhi, you dare to hit me?”

Song Yuanzhi twitched the corners of her mouth slightly and spread her hands innocently. “You started it first, so it’s understandable that I fight back, right?”

I am not a target spirit, which can only be shot and cannot resist. If I am beaten for no reason, isn’t it normal to fight back? But Song Lilan, a weak fighter, complained that the other party didn’t stand still and take the beating. There must be something wrong with her brain.

Then she thought, in this old sadistic novel, apart from the heroine Song Yuanzhi, there is really no normal person in it. Song Lilan’s behavior doesn’t seem surprising.

That’s right, after hearing the words revealed by Song Lilan, Song Yuanzhi, based on the character’s name and the fact that Song Lilan scolded her for marrying a short-lived man and becoming a widow, she suddenly recalled that before she went to bed, she had read an old-fashioned, bloody, and abusive novel that was passed to her by her fake friend.

This fake friend was also a strange one. Song Yuanzhi didn’t communicate much with her. After graduation, they basically lost contact. Usually, they were just friends who liked each other’s posts on WeChat Moments. Then suddenly one day, this friend came online and asked Song Yuanzhi to borrow 800,000 yuan, saying that she wanted to buy a house. Song Yuanzhi asked again and got to know that the down payment was a total of 1 million yuan, and this friend asked her to lend her 800,000 yuan right away.

What’s more, the 800,000 yuan would be used to pay for the insurance compensation for her parents’ accidental death.

Song Yuanzhi immediately rejected the other party’s request, but unexpectedly the other party suddenly turned hostile. Without saying anything at the time, she immediately wrote a bloody novel about her and said with a condescending look: Although you are stingy and refuse to lend me money, I don’t mind at all. Look how generous I am. Even if you treat me badly, I still let you be the heroine of the novel ~

This really disgusted Song Yuanzhi, so she blocked her without saying anything and posted this weirdo on her Moments. As for the novel, it was just a short story, and Song Yuanzhi had a good memory, so she remembered it after just a quick glance. She even had the energy to complain about how that weirdo was really bad at everything and that she couldn’t write a revenge story about her, but it was so illogical, and she couldn’t even control the character’s characteristics. What kind of brain-dead plot is this about forcibly taking advantage of someone, physically abusing him, and loving him means you have the right to hurt him? If anyone were to do this to me, I would twist his head off based on my fighting ability, okay?

Now, she has inexplicably traveled to this bloody and abusive novel. Even if she is the heroine, Song Yuanzhi cannot be happy. Her fake friend Yu Ling knows how to disgust her. The character of the hero, Xuanyuan Yu, is completely opposite to her preference. He is a straight man with cancer, a control freak, has no bottom line, and hurts people at will.

Because he likes the heroine, he disregards the heroine’s wishes and the fact that she is going to get married the next day. He forcibly imprisoned her in his own villa and made her his concubine. Lu Ting also wrote of the heroine as a Stockholm patient who was entangled with Xuanyuan Yu. In the end, heroine couldn’t stand Xuanyuan Yu treating her as his concubine, having countless other concubines, and even marrying someone else, so she ended her life in a fire.

After the original owner died, Xuanyuan Yu regretted his decision and killed all his concubines. After being depressed for a few months, he began to look for substitutes for her and lived a miserable life.

After being depressed for a few months, he started looking for a substitute. What kind of true love was this? There are so many complaints about the series of plots. Song Yuanzhi really wants to send Yu Ling to a psychiatric department to check her IQ. No one can come up with such a plot without cerebral palsy for ten years.

Song Yuanzhi ignored the people around her and thought to herself: Judging from what Song Lilan said, I should have traveled back to the time when the original owner was proposing marriage to Marquis Lu of Zhenbei.

Lu Shaoyou, the Marquis of Zhenbei, was a young talent. He had already become the god of war of the Rong Dynasty before he was twenty years old. He had made great military achievements. He earned the title of Marquis of Zhenbei by his own military exploits. Not only that, Lu Shaoyou was the nephew of the Empress and the only son of Grand Tutor Lu. He was also born with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes and was unrestrained and uninhibited. Together with Xuanyuan Yu, they both were praised as the twin gems of the capital. They had countless admirers. They were good in every way, and there was nothing to fault with them, except for one thing: this year, the Rongdi rebels invaded the border of the Rong Dynasty. Lu Shaoyou led his troops to fight, but he did not expect that a powerful figure appeared on the Rongdi side, who made a weapon that looked like a thunderbolt, and caught the Rong Dynasty army off guard. Although the Rong Dynasty army won the battle under the leadership of Lu Shaoyou, it was a tragic victory – Lu Shaoyou was seriously injured and fell into the vast desert, and his chances of survival were very slim.

Now the army has returned to the capital for more than a month, and no news about Lu Shaoyou has been heard yet. Everyone has tacitly accepted the fact that he was killed in battle. The Zhenbei Marquis’s mansion was arranging a marriage for Lu Shaoyou this time; in fact, they wanted the new wife to adopt a child under Lu Shaoyou’s name after marriage, so as to avoid the incense being cut off and there being no one to burn incense and paper for him.

How could young ladies would like to be widowed as soon as they entered the palace? The position of the wife of the Marquis of Zhenbei, which was once a popular position, became a hot potato, and no one wanted to take the blame.

So, the original owner was pushed out by her stepmother to do a favor. Her stepmother was not as savage and headstrong as her younger sister, Song Lilan, who was a snake. She had already stretched out her hand to push her into the firepit, but she still smiled and said that it was for your own good. How could ordinary people have such a blessing?

For example, at this moment, after hearing the commotion here, Madam Liu followed behind Song Yan. After entering the room, she first glanced at Song Lilan, then walked to Song Yuanzhi with a smile, gently took her hand, and asked, “What’s wrong? Lan’er is naughty and reckless. If she offended you, I will apologize to you.”

“Hmph, is there any mother in the world who would apologize to her daughter? You just spoiled her too much! What’s wrong with marrying into the Zhenbei Marquis’s mansion? Once you enter, you will be the Marquis’s wife. Madam Qin said that after you enter, you will have the final say on which child to adopt. What else are you dissatisfied with?”

Song Yuanzhi looked at the middle-aged man in front of her, who had an elegant face but didn’t speak human language. However, considering that she had just arrived and hadn’t figured out the specific situation, it was not good to turn hostile, lest they see the clues, so Song Yuanzhi could only lower her head and remain silent.

The original owner, like Song Yuanzhi, had the looks of a top-notch little white flower, with charming eyes and pitiful features. However, the original owner was not valued in the Song residence and lived a cautious life, which resulted in her having a weak character. Song Yuanzhi was different. She had the heart of a tomboy under her gentle goddess appearance and was also very skilled. She could carry a bucket of water to the fifth floor effortlessly and was topped the list of nominations on the campus forum regarding the issue of “huge contrast between appearance and inner self.”.

But when Song Yuanzhi didn’t say anything or take action, her appearance was still very deceptive. Song Yan’s eyes flickered, and he glanced at Song Lilan, who was trying to get Madam Liu to punish Song Yuanzhi severely to vent her anger. Knowing his two daughters’ personalities, Song Yan frowned and said in a deep voice, “Nonsense, your eldest sister will go to Ci’en Temple to pay respects to the wife of Duke Cheng’en tomorrow. If we punish her now, won’t she be disrespectful in front of Madam Qin tomorrow? By then, how will our Song family maintain its dignity?”

Song Lilan suddenly realized what was going on. She glared at Song Yuanzhi fiercely and said through gritted teeth, “So that’s what you were thinking! Our parents took the trouble to find such a good marriage for you, and you actually want to ruin it.”

The corner of Song Yuanzhi’s mouth twitched slightly. She felt that instead of enduring these weirdos here, it would be better to marry into the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion. Not only would she not have to face these weirdos, but she would also not have to endure the inner palace fights of her husband’s three wives and four concubines like women of this era. By adopting a child, she would have a place to stay in her later years. A first-rank lady with imperial edict would have both status and money. It would be nice to marry there and live a peaceful and idle life for decades.

Madam Liu gently pinched Song Lilan’s arm to signal her to shut up, and she wiped her tears with a handkerchief, saying sadly, “Mother knows that you blame me in your heart, but how can parents in this world harm their own children? Although you are not my biological child, I have treated you more attentively than Lan’er over the years. If it weren’t for the order of seniority, Lan’er’s marriage would not have been better than yours, so I would have to let Lan’er go. You will be a first-rank lady when you enter the house; who wouldn’t envy you? There is no other such a good marriage in the whole capital. When Lan’er sees you in the future, she will also greet you. If mother wanted to harm you, could she find such a good marriage for you?”

Song Yan nodded repeatedly and felt that Song Yuanzhi was ungrateful. He waved his sleeves and said, “Just stay still and stop making trouble!”

After saying that, Song Yan turned and left. Song Lilan wanted to ridicule Song Yuanzhi a few more times but was suppressed by Madam Liu and followed Madam Liu in a depressed mood.

It was not until they entered the main courtyard that Song Lilan started to make a scene: “Mom, that bitch actually dared to hit me! Why didn’t you let me punish her?”

“Why are you in such a hurry? How can your father be happy if he sees you bullying your older sister? Didn’t your mother teach you to be patient? She’s going to be a widow and spend the rest of her life in misery. Why are you arguing with her?”

“But the Prince of Nan’an… that bitch is good at pretending, and she managed to win the heart of the Prince of Nan’an just like that!”

“So what?” Madam Liu said calmly, “Men are the most heartless and cold-hearted. The son of Nan’an Marquis may look at that bitch differently today, but he will forget about her completely tomorrow. You, just dress yourself up beautifully and wait to enter the Nan’an Marquis’s mansion.”

Song Lilan then turned from anger to joy. “Mom still loves me!”

Madam Liu calmed Song Lilan down with a few words and ordered her personal nanny to find out why Song Yuanzhi had changed her temper so drastically today and attacked Song Lilan.

On the other side, after everyone had left, Song Yuanzhi’s personal maid Hongshao finally arrived. As soon as she entered the room, she wiped her tears and apologized to Song Yuanzhi, “Miss, you scared me to death. I saw that the situation was not good, so I quickly went to the study to ask the master to come over. Are you okay? What if the lady blames you?”

Song Yuanzhi looked at Hongshao deeply, with a mocking arc on her lips. “Don’t worry, they still want to use me for benefits; they won’t punish me.”

Hongshao was puzzled. Why did the usually tolerant young lady speak so thornily today?

Then Song Yuanzhi added calmly, “They are so cruel that they want me to be a widow, and they don’t even allow me to fight back? And there is also Prince of Nan’an…”

Hongshao suddenly realized and stopped talking about it. She just said, “Miss, your clothes are dirty. I will go get some water for you to wash up.”

After hearing this, Madam Liu sneered, “She still dares to think about the son of Nan’an Marquis? She is really born bitch; just like her short-lived mother, she only thinks about other people’s men. She doesn’t want to be a widow, right? She has to be a widow even if she doesn’t want to be one!”

After washing up, Song Yuanzhi lay on the bed with the same mysterious smile on her face: It seems that the message has been passed on through the maid. Regarding the meeting with the wife of Duke Cheng’en tomorrow, I guess Madam Liu will try her best to make this marriage happen?

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