CHAPTER 45: CHAPTER 45 I DON’T WANT SUCH GOOD FORTUNE 3

Bai Anning thought of those years she lived worse than death, and the premature death of her parents, her soul was dyed black.

She felt extreme hatred and rage, truly wanting to kill Qian Du, to flay and debone him.

However, she was just a wandering ghost, unable to get close to Qian Du.

Many years passed, and even after Qian Du had died, Bai Anning still drifted in the mortal world.

She heard many common folk women mention her fortune; how an ugly girl could marry a high official and always remain his main wife without any disdain. They said she was immensely blessed.

Hearing these comments, Bai Anning’s soul started to expand in anger.

Fortunate?

Were those days worse than death considered fortune?

She did not want such fortune; let whoever wanted it have it.

When Bai Anning encountered Anning, she made her requests known.

She wanted no further involvement with Qian Du; let anyone who wished be his main wife, she did not want such fortune.

Also, she wanted her parents to be well and not die so early.

Her last wish was to find her biological parents and understand her true origins.

Bai Anning was precociously intelligent; she remembered things from an early age and knew from the sporadic words of Bai Desheng and Zhang Yue Mei that she was not their biological child.

However, Bai Desheng and Zhang Yue Mei never mentioned who her real parents were, her background was never discussed.

Those two treated her even more dearly than their own daughter, and Bai Anning did not bear to make them sad, so she never asked.

However, having experienced life and death, Bai Anning still could not let go; she wanted to find out who her biological parents were and what her real background was.

Anning lay on the bed, touching the half of her cheek covered by a birthmark.

She slowly smiled: "Don’t worry, I will seek revenge for your resentments, I’ll honor your parents on your behalf, and I will clarify your origins."

After saying these words, Anning felt a sense of relief all over her body.

She knew that the original owner’s soul had departed.

Anning gathered her spirits for a while and then got out of bed.

She searched the room but couldn’t find a single mirror.

She understood that this probably was because Bai Anning, being too insecure about her looks, never used mirrors.

With no other option, Anning went out of the room and stopped by the water tank, using the water’s reflection to see the body’s appearance clearly.

Upon seeing her reflection, Anning laughed.

To be honest, this body was really quite beautiful.

She was tall and slim, with a full chest and a slender waist, a natural model if she were in the modern world.

Her face shape was extremely pleasant, her hair black and dense like silk satin, and her features incredibly refined. If it weren’t for the birthmark, the original owner could have been a nation-toppling beauty.

But the extensive, red birthmark covered half of her face, hiding her beauty, turning her from an unparalleled beauty into an ugly girl.

Bai Anning cared a lot about this.

But Anning was not bothered.

It was just a birthmark; if she wanted to keep it, she would, if not, she would find a way to remove it.

After ascertaining the appearance of this body, she went back to her room to rest.

In the following days, Anning focused on restoring her health.

Besides rejuvenating the original owner’s frail body, Anning was also cultivating her inner strength.

Although the world seemed peaceful on the surface, Anning knew from the world’s rules it was a low-martial world, with some wandering heroes and such.

Therefore, Anning could practice martial arts.

She practices martial arts firstly for self-defense, and secondly, to guard against Qian Du.

She fears that in desperation, Qian Du might harm her family in the future.

Anning has become a Grandmaster Level martial artist in several worlds. Her mind is filled with numerous cultivation techniques, and now she has decided to pick up martial arts again, choosing the techniques best suited for her current body.

Anning is extremely familiar with these techniques. Picking them up again feels like second nature to her, and within just three to five days, she had already developed her Inner Strength.

Afterward, she didn’t deliberately practice anymore; instead, she incorporated Inner Strength exercises into her daily activities—while eating, walking, and even in her casual movements.

In addition to practicing Inner Strength, Anning also helped Bai Desheng take care of the melon field.

The field of the Bai family had many watermelons and also some cantaloupes.

Anning tasted the melons, and they were not bad, but compared to the much-evolved modern melons, they were still far behind.

Anning then decided to help Bai Desheng properly cultivate the melons, and, additionally, she wanted to regain the agricultural knowledge from her lifetime as Lin Anning.

After all, in ancient times, food was paramount to people. If she could cultivate high-yielding crops in this world, it would genuinely be a blessing for the Wan Family.

If she indeed could grow high-yield grains, even if Qian Du attained high office, he wouldn’t be able to do anything against her.

Realizing this, Anning threw herself into working in the fields.

Fortunately, the Bai family’s fields were numerous; some planted with melons, others with grains.

Anning made a test field where she started cultivating hybrid rice and also wanted to cultivate high-yielding wheat.

Anning focused on her work, putting all thoughts of Qian Du behind her.

Bai Desheng and Zhang Yue Mei felt sorry for her labor in the fields but feared she would overthink things if she rested at home, so they let her be in her so-called experimental field.

In this way, more than a month swiftly passed by.

It was precisely the season when the Bai family’s watermelons ripened, and traders began shuttling between Baijia Gully and the towns and county.

The Bai family of three was also bustling with activity.

One day, while Anning and Bai Desheng were busy picking melons, they saw several children from Baijia Gully hurriedly running over.

Upon seeing Bai Desheng and Anning, they eagerly said, "Grandpa Desheng, Aunt Ningning, there are a lot of people coming from outside, and there’s one riding a tall horse, looks like a high official..."

Anning’s expression changed slightly; she knew this was Qian Du arriving.

Bai Desheng was picking melons when he heard the children’s words and was so startled he stopped what he was doing.

As he was about to ask what was happening, he saw many people from the village running over.

"Uncle Desheng, your son-in-law passed the exams. Is he here to fetch your daughter? What great fortune for your family."

Upon hearing this, Bai Desheng’s face showed shock and anger.

Wiping her hands, Anning walked to the edge of the field, "What son-in-law? I was divorced by Qian Du more than two months ago, whatever position Qian Du holds now has nothing to do with me."

"What?"

The faces of the villagers were full of shock.

"Divorced? How, how did he divorce?"

Anning touched her own face and gave a bitter smile, "What else? He just disdained me for being ugly. After he became an Advanced Scholar, he felt this country woman was not good enough for him."

"This is truly..."

The villagers of Baijia Gully, being simple and honest, felt that Qian Du was behaving unethically.

Initially, when the Qian family was poor, they could not even gather the travel expenses for Qian Du to attend the rural examination. It was only because Anning, having married into the Qian family, supported him with her dowry to participate in the rural examination and then the Imperial Examination in the Capital that Qian Du achieved his success.

But then, fortunately ungrateful, as soon as Qian achieved the status of an Advanced Scholar, he scorned Anning. What ingratitude, the epitome of an ungrateful wolf.

Listening to the villagers criticizing Qian Du for being unconscionable and heartless, Anning sneered inwardly.

In the memories of Bai Anning, after she was divorced and sent back home, she felt ashamed and hardly ever went out, never mentioning to anyone in the village about Qian Du heartlessly divorcing her.

Thus, when Qian Du came to Baijia Gully to fetch her, the villagers thought it was just a small quarrel between husband and wife and spoke in favor of Qian Du.

Now, however, Anning was not afraid of airing the family’s dirty laundry or being the subject of gossip, she just told the truth, exposing the real face of Qian Du to the world.