Lu Yunchu looked at the familiar scene in front of him, feeling the lingering pain in his body that seemed to have not yet subsided, and really wanted to curse.
This was her third time traveling through time. She traveled into an old-fashioned, heart-wrenching and physically abusive novel about a strong man and a strong woman that was a must-have for sleep hypnosis, and became a cannon fodder girl with the same name and surname as herself.
The cannon fodder girl is a vicious female supporting role in a large-scale water story. She has been obsessed with the male protagonist for many years and wanted to rape him with drugs, but the male protagonist dodged her. By mistake, the male protagonist's younger brother was the target of the plot. The vicious female supporting role lost her reputation in public and became insane. She simply married into the family and took advantage of the favorable conditions of living in the same house with the male protagonist to commit suicide. She seduced the male protagonist and tortured his younger brother to vent her anger.
Later, her abuse of the protagonist's brother was exposed, and the protagonist wanted to kill her, but she managed to escape. She broke her leg on the way and was tortured, but finally she escaped to her original father.
The original body's father was the governor of Hedong. After the dynasty collapsed, although he did not proclaim himself king, he was basically the local emperor here. When he saw that his daughter was harmed by the male protagonist, he was furious and kept trying to murder the male protagonist to attract hatred. In the end, he was killed by the male protagonist whose power was gradually growing, and the original body was shot to death by an arrow under the gate of Luoyang City.
The first time he traveled through time, Lu Yunchu was so scared that he ran away without even packing his luggage, thinking that if he could get out of the male protagonist's sight as soon as possible, he might still be saved. He contacted his father's confidant and asked him to escort him all the way, but he was attacked by refugees and fell off the carriage and broke his leg.
No matter how she explained, her father was convinced that it was the male protagonist who did it. Then everything got worse and worse. She often couldn't control herself and said the lines in the book, acting according to the plot in the book, pushing the situation to develop as the plot arranged. When she was able to control her body, no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't save herself. In the end, she was shot to death by an arrow at the gate of Luoyang City, just like the ending in the book.
After the second time travel, Lu Yunchu simply did not look for his original father, and hid in a secluded place to avoid the plot. As a result, he only lived a peaceful life for a few days before his legs were broken by the collapsed earth wall, and he was found by the killer the next moment.
After learning from the last time that she couldn't control her body, she tried her best to avoid the plot line and never dared to contact her father. Later, the world was in chaos. After asking around, she found out that her father thought she was killed by the male protagonist, and he broke up with her. Everything was still in line with the plot line. She wandered around for an unknown period of time, was attacked by refugees, and got separated from the guards. After a lot of twists and turns, she returned to Luoyang, and was still shot to death by an arrow under the city gate.
After the third time traveling, Lu Yunchu said, I am tired, let’s destroy it.
After running around so many times and still failing to escape the plot, she decided to lie down and not run away, eat well, drink well, sleep well, and live one day at a time.
The starting point of the three time travels is at the foot of the mountain outside the city. After the hero and heroine meet, they return to the city together. They pass by a temple outside the city and decide to stay for a few days. The female supporting role has heard about it and is jealous. She rides her horse to the foot of the mountain to meet the hero. The first two times Lu Yunchu chose to turn her horse around and escape from the hero and heroine, but this time she did not run away and rode back home slowly.
The Wen Mansion is very large. The male protagonist Wen Jue bought two adjacent mansions, connected them in the middle to form one mansion, and he and his younger brother lived on each side, so it would be more accurate to say that they each had a mansion rather than living in a separate courtyard.
Lu Yunchu walked to her own courtyard with her body's instinctive consciousness. A row of maids stood at the door. When they saw her, they immediately bowed their heads and knelt down, saying in unison: "Miss."
Lu Yunchu was frightened by their scene, but she was also someone who had experienced many storms, so she walked into the yard with a calm face.
As soon as she entered, a gust of wind blew up in the yard, and dead leaves swirled down, giving her goose bumps.
The yard is extremely spacious, but not very crowded, and this spaciousness only adds to the eerie and lonely feel.
She turned around and saw the maids were still kneeling, so she said, "Get up and follow me in."
Although the maid was shocked, she dared not say anything. She lowered her head and held the lantern to light the way. She did not dare to look up at her from beginning to end.
The further he walked in, the more frightened Lu Yunchu felt. This courtyard was not only lifeless, but also like a prison shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere. When the wind blew, the shadows of the trees were dim, and the dead leaves on the surface of the pond in the courtyard floated slightly, making it look even more desolate and gloomy.
She didn't dare to look at the dark courtyard for too long, but the maid was accustomed to this scene. She pushed open the door of the wing room and lit the oil lamp quickly.
The orange light instantly filled the entire room. Lu Yunchu felt relieved and sat down at the table. He ordered, "Get some hot water. I want to take a shower and change clothes."
The maid bowed her head and stepped back.
After the maid left, Lu Yunchu relaxed and was about to take a closer look at the interior of the house when he suddenly saw a swaying shadow in the corner.
Her body suddenly tensed up and she looked up ahead.
The lights flickered, the shadows in the house flickered, the front was empty like a stage, and a person was hanging in the middle. The person hung his head, and it was hard to tell whether he was dead or alive. His hands were hung high on the beam by hemp ropes, and his toes were just touching the ground. He could touch the ground but couldn't use any leverage, which was a very torturous posture.
His clothes were stained black with blood. He was thin, with black hair hanging in front of him. His tall stature showed that he was a man.
"Ah!" Lu Yunchu was startled and bumped into the teacup on the table, which fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
This movement woke the man up, but it was just a wake-up call. Lu Yunchu saw that he seemed to move a little, but his posture remained unchanged.
A living person.
After Lu Yunchu realized this, he immediately stood up and ran over, trying to put him down.
When she got closer, she found that the man was much taller than her and she could not reach his wrist at all, so she hurried back to get a bench and a dagger.
The strong smell of blood on his body penetrated into Lu Yunchu's mouth and nose, making her want to vomit. She stood on the bench and looked at the bloody wound on his wrist caused by the hemp rope, which was so deep that the bone was visible. It was really difficult to start.
She lowered her head and said to him, "Just bear with it for a while. I'll cut the hemp rope."
To cut the hemp rope, the rope will inevitably rub against the wound on the wrist constantly. Just imagine how painful it will be.
Unexpectedly, the man didn't make a sound when cutting the rope, but his fingers trembled slightly.
Lu Yunchu struggled to cut the two-finger-wide hemp rope in no time. As soon as the rope was broken, she immediately reached out to catch the man in front of her. Even though he looked frail, he still threw Lu Yunchu to the ground with him, causing her to groan in pain.
And from beginning to end, this man didn't say a word.
Could it be that he has died
Lu Yunchu fearfully hugged his neck, lifted the black hair hanging in front of him, and prepared to feel his breath.
As soon as she pushed the hair in front of him, she was stunned.
His appearance was perfect, so perfect that it didn't look real. His face was pale, his features were delicate, his brows were tightly knitted, and he looked so fragile that no one dared to touch him.
She leaned forward to the man's nose.
At this moment, the man suddenly opened his eyes.
His eyes were clear and bright, free from dust and so clear that they were almost empty.
Lu Yunchu was shaken for a moment and asked hesitantly, "Are you okay?"
"Miss!" a cry of surprise rang out.
It turned out to be a maid who came in. When she saw this scene, she knelt heavily and said in a trembling voice: "Miss, he broke free from the hemp rope—" Halfway through her words, she saw the dagger on the ground, and she understood and changed her tone, "Miss, will you bathe him first or torture him first?" The maid said creepy words in a respectful and gentle tone: "Why did you put him down? Wouldn't it be more convenient to whip him while he is hanging? Or did you come up with a new method?"
Lu Yunchu was so shocked that he was speechless. Now he understood the identity of the handsome man in his arms—"her" husband, the supporting actor in the book, Wen Zhan.
The exhaustion of two lives made her confused and dazed. Later on, she had forgotten the causes of all the conflicts in the book, and she had long since forgot the protagonist's younger brother, who was only mentioned briefly in the book.
She calmed herself down and said, "Call the doctor."
"Miss?" The maid suspected that she had heard wrongly.
"Call a doctor. Can't you see he's badly injured?" Lu Yunchu helped Wen Zhan up. He had fainted again.
The maid paused for a few seconds before replying, "Miss, I don't understand."
Lu Yunchu was impatient and raised his voice, "I said call a doctor!"
The maid kowtowed quickly, trembling, but still did not stand up, and said in a puzzled tone: "Miss, why do you want to call a doctor? He can't die."
After she finished speaking, she paused and looked up at Lu Yunchu for the first time.
Only then did Lu Yunchu see her face clearly. She had a very confused look on her face and her big eyes kept blinking, as if what she had just said was something completely new and incomprehensible.
Lu Yunchu was very familiar with this expression.
She touched the plot line.
As long as they are involved in the damn plot line, the characters will become unconscious puppets. The original owner of the book tortured the male supporting role like crazy and would not let the doctor treat her. No matter what she said, she could not change this plot line.
She had some experience in avoiding plot lines, so she changed her approach and said, "I'm injured, I need to see a doctor."
The maid kowtowed quickly: "This servant deserves death." After kowtow, she stood up but did not go out. Instead, she took out the medicine box and said, "This servant will treat the young lady's injuries right away."
Lu Yunchu emphasized: "I want a doctor."
The maid was stunned and said in disbelief: "Didn't the young lady not allow outsiders to enter the courtyard? Those who violated the rules will be beaten to death at the very least, or even worse..."
Lu Yunchu was in a state of panic. "I have a headache now. Medicine can't cure me. I have to ask the doctor. This is my order. I allow him to enter the hospital."
The maidservant seemed not to understand and put down the medicine: "It's good that the young lady is not injured. We will withdraw first." After saying that, without waiting for Lu Yunchu to react, she bowed her head and retreated mechanically.
It seems that the closer the character is to the male protagonist, the less independent consciousness he or she has. Even basic communication is difficult for them and they can only follow the plot line.
Lu Yunchu was really having a headache now. He lifted Wen Zhan from the ground to the couch with great effort, looked at his handsome face, and thought inappropriately, could the person in his arms also not escape the story line of being deprived of life by illness and torture
After a while, the maids came in one after another and prepared hot water for Lu Yunchu.
At this moment, Wen Zhan opened his eyes, his eyes were a little out of focus, and he looked at the swaying candlelight with a painful expression.
Such a small action seemed to inject infinite vitality into him. Looking at the blood stains at the corners of his mouth, Lu Yunchu felt as if his heart was gently stabbed, and he was a little dazed for a moment.
Although she was unlucky, at least she was able to try her best to struggle for survival and live a free and happy life, while Wen Zhan was trapped here for a long time and became a tool for the plot.
The only scenes he appears in the book add up to just a few sentences, which are just briefly mentioned, and he can never escape the suffering in this life.
In the previous two lives, the cause and effect of her original body's torture of the male supporting role had already been created and was irreversible. She wanted to stay alive very much and never returned home, so she never saw the male supporting role who was tortured and dying from beginning to end.
Lu Yunchu felt a little guilty and took out a pair of scissors to cut open Wen Zhan's clothes.
His clothes were stained with blood into different shades of dark red. The tattered clothes stuck to the cut flesh, causing Lu Yunchu's hand holding the scissors to tremble constantly.
There was almost no healthy flesh on his upper body, and the scars were hideous, including whip wounds, knife wounds, and burns from a hot dagger. Some of the wounds had scabbed over and then been cut open, some were new and still bleeding, and some had already festered.
She couldn't bear to watch it any further, so she took the hot water for bathing in a copper basin, wet a clean cloth, and gently wiped the blood scabs around his wound.
Her hands were shaking a little, and sometimes she would accidentally touch the wound. Wen Zhan moved a little, his eyelashes trembled, but he did not open his eyes.
Lu Yunchu stared at his face and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately he didn't wake up." The female supporting character in the book hated him to the core, and on the other hand, didn't he also want to tear the bones and tendons of the female supporting character apart
The water in the copper basins was dyed brown and red, one basin after another. After cleaning up the dirt, Lu Yunchu sprinkled medicine on his wound, then picked up the scissors and prepared to help him clean the wound on his leg.
As soon as his hand touched the cloth, Wen Zhan suddenly started coughing violently, scaring Lu Yunchu so much that he quickly withdrew his hand.
After his coughing subsided, Lu Yunchu was just about to lean over to touch his pants when he coughed violently again and moved his arms, apparently waking up.
Perhaps it was because of this body that Lu Yunchu felt inexplicably guilty. All the horrible wounds on his body were caused by his current hands, as if he had to bear some of the responsibility for all the crimes.
She put down the medicine and prepared to take a bath to wash off the dust on her body.
The house had been unoccupied for a long time, and was covered with thick dust.
Lu Yunchu walked into the inner room, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the inconspicuous small Buddhist temple in the dark corner. This Buddhist temple was just a decoration, without even an incense burner, and the windows around it were tightly closed, making it very stuffy.
She walked over holding the oil lamp and opened the small window next to it to let in the moonlight.
The moonlight poured in, illuminating the entire small Buddhist temple. The incense burner was tilted, the shrine was empty, and the statue had fallen to the ground, covered in dust.
She picked up the statue, wiped it clean with her sleeve, and put it back in the shrine.
“Gods and Buddhas—if there are gods and Buddhas in this world, please bless me to escape this time…” She paused and shook her head, “Forget it, it’s too difficult. Just bless me to eat well, drink well, and sleep well.”
She muttered quietly and turned away.
The moonlight poured in through the window, shining brightly, illuminating the quiet and compassionate face of the statue, and also illuminating the path under her feet.
Since she left, the outside world has fallen into a suffocating silence. The dim halo flickers, and the floating dust sometimes stagnates and sometimes jumps in the light, which is peaceful and hazy.
Wen Zhan opened his eyes and his gaze fell on Fu Chen. His empty eyes came into focus under the reflection of light and shadow.