Reborn as a Weak Beauty Pampered by All Chapter 3 - 3 3 Just Want to Be a Salted Fish

Chapter 3: Just Want to Be a Salted Fish Last year, this body’s original owner completed high school graduation. If college entrance exams had been possible, her excellent grades would have secured her a spot in a top university for sure.

Simply put, the original owner possessed real talent for academics.

Still, Kang Li has to acknowledge one fact: individuals like the original owner shone in exams yet struggled with hands-on skills!

But with Kang Li now in control, none of that poses a problem anymore, not even the grim destiny the original owner faced in the plot.

“What’s the point of studying?”

Cai Xiufen snapped out of her stupor and shook her head. “You could just relax at home without any effort, so why endure hardship in North City slaving away like a nanny for others?”

Standing nearby, Kang Guowei’s brothers along with Kang Li’s sisters-in-law and nephews all nodded vigorously, completely backing the old lady’s words.

Kang Li observed this and realized her mother-in-law and these relatives truly cared for her. Yet, since she wasn’t the original owner, even if she could imitate that personality nearly flawlessly,

there was no assurance she wouldn’t slip up eventually. Therefore, departing Aoli Village and putting some space between her and the family seemed like a smart move.

After residing there for a year and a half, some shifts in her character would make perfect sense.

Consider that she got dumped first, then moved to North City with a new household afterward—naturally, changes in her mannerisms and speech would surface.

Furthermore, while Kang Li didn’t object to copying the original owner’s demeanor and speech patterns, maintaining that facade over time drained her completely.

Thus, heading to North City struck her as an excellent plan.

“Mom, that’s too harsh! How can you call it ‘working like a nanny for others’?”

Captain Kang furrowed his brow, fixing his gaze on Cai Xiufen: “Comrade Luo contributes immensely to the nation, and as his wife, Li Bao manages the home to free him from domestic concerns,

which counts as contributing to the country too—nothing at all like being a nanny. As our team’s women’s director, shouldn’t you show more ideological consciousness?”

These words made Cai Xiufen feel a pang of guilt, but recalling the tough life awaiting her daughter, that guilt vanished in an instant. She shot Captain Kang a fierce look and retorted:

“Separate matters are separate! Why wouldn’t I have ideological awareness? Right now, all I care about is being a mother who won’t stand by while her daughter suffers!”

“Stop your nagging—I’ve had enough. Li Bao and Comrade Luo’s marriage certificate is already official, sealing the deal for good; nothing can change it now.”

Captain Kang declared firmly, which made Cai Xiufen’s expression darken considerably: “I refuse to recognize this marriage!”

“Mom, you’re always so sensible—why act this way now? Do you really want our daughter to remain unmarried forever?”

This woman was totally unreasonable!

“Our Li Bao is so outstanding—why stay single? Just watch, I’ll find her a far superior partner than that Zhou Family scum, and let them eat their hearts out in regret!”

Cai Xiufen appeared completely confident, rendering Captain Kang speechless. After a prolonged silence, he finally responded, “Don’t you know about Li Bao’s health issues?

Even if we found a suitor from nearby villages indifferent to her childbearing troubles, what happens when she ages without her own kids to support her—what then for her later years? But marrying Comrade Luo,

with his three young children still small, if Li Bao joins them and nurtures those kids devotedly, she could treat them just like her biological offspring. So, how is that any different from having her own?

“Plus, arriving in North City with Comrade Luo’s salary passbook plus all those coupons and vouchers means endless purchases with cash and tickets. Able to get food, clothing, and three little companions, Li Bao’s days will surely be anything but miserable!”

Truth be told, Kang Li felt quite intrigued by Captain Kang’s marriage suggestion, thanks to those brief memories from the book flashing in her head.

Moreover, Captain Kang had handed the original owner a black-and-white full-length photo just yesterday, and the man pictured matched Kang Li’s ideals perfectly in looks and vibe.

The most crucial aspect was that Kang Li sensed the three immense societal burdens from her past life—matchmaking, marriage, and childbirth—had all been fulfilled in a single stroke this time around.

Yet this 'all-in-one' scenario, based on the original owner's doomed path in the plot, involved her twin stepchildren reaching age five and vanishing in a department store amid shopping,

then the twelve-year-old eldest stepson, pursuing the original owner as she hunted for the twins, shoving her aside at the last moment only to get struck by an oncoming truck,

The eldest stepson got mangled beneath the wheels, while the original owner, shattered by the trauma, clutched her stepson’s corpse, spewed blood, blacked out, and never regained consciousness.

Learning of his wife and child's horrific fates, Luo Yanqing—fresh from wrapping up his research—crumpled in the laboratory.

As disclosed in a off-the-cuff chat near the story's conclusion, those twins who disappeared so young

had been kidnapped by human traffickers—one handed off to a remote mountain household with a mentally impaired son to serve as a child bride, the other to a long-barren farming couple to become their son.

Tragically, upon hitting sixteen and discovering her sold status, the girl escaped under cover of night, plummeted into a ravine, and met her end.

Her twin brother started off with a decent existence alongside his adoptive parents, but fortune turned the following year as his adoptive mother conceived and bore twins, then added another son two years hence.

Without question, being the bought adopted child, the girl’s twin brother endured endless thrashings and rebukes in his adoptive parents’ household.

Barred from schooling, he got dispatched to the city at sixteen to labor on a construction site alongside village adults. Barely a year in, while rescuing a fellow worker, he tumbled from the scaffolding's fifth floor and perished instantly.

Frankly speaking, upon grasping the tragic ends of the original owner, her spouse Luo Yanqing, and their three stepchildren, Kang Li itched to unleash a torrent of curses.

Was it fair that, merely as minor side characters designed to amplify the central storyline and foil the leads, the original owner, her husband, and kids got offered up as sacrifices?

Moreover, during the year the twins went missing, the original owner’s parents joined the frantic search to soothe their daughter's remorse over the little ones.

Amid it all, her third brother sacrificed a leg, enduring permanent disability thereafter; her youngest brother vanished entirely, remaining untraced for years.

Following the string of calamities striking both sons and then their sole daughter's demise, Captain Kang and his wife—one felled by a stroke, the other sightless from endless weeping—both departed this world within mere years.

Like classic cannon fodder, the original owner saw her kin suffer parallel horrors, while earning herself a vile name—branded heartless, affectionless, and unfilial, viewed as a curse.

Whenever compound dwellers idled and indulged in chatter, they always juxtaposed the original owner against the heroine, dripping scorn and loathing for the former.

Hah! Cannon fodder!

Though the original owner ranked as a top-tier specimen among romance novel cannon fodder, Kang Li understood that the instant she took over the body, the original owner's fated path had begun its alteration.

Her decision to proceed with the union to that fellow Luo Yanqing stemmed partly from instantly checking off her previous life's three grand aspirations, and partly from sparing her family further woe this round, plus honoring her true father's pledge.

Make no mistake, she truly sought only a modest, low-ambition existence!