After finally finishing a day's work, Tang Li picked up her chopsticks and was about to eat dinner when her cell phone suddenly rang.
Seeing the word "mother" displayed on it, Tang Li sighed silently, but put down her chopsticks and answered the phone. She guessed what the other party was going to say, and sure enough, after just a few words, the other party brought up the topic of marriage as usual.
"I'm not saying that you really need to find a man at your age. You're already 27 or 28, and you'll be 30 in the blink of an eye. Who will want you then? Don't set your sights so high. The guy I introduced to you last time is pretty good. Although he's not very tall and doesn't make as much as you do, he's from the local area and has a house. You can buy a car as long as you get married..."
The person on the other end of the phone kept talking nonstop. After finally waiting for the other end to stop, Tang Li took the opportunity to say, "Mom, I don't want to get married yet."
The other side immediately became excited, "I don't want to get married, I don't want to get married, why are you so selfish, you just want to live a happy life by yourself, have you ever thought about me, your mother? People ask me why my daughter is so old and still not married, I am the one who bears the gossip of relatives, you make it sound easy, you are a girl, what's wrong with not getting married, I am doing this for your own good, I am your biological mother, how can I hurt you?"
Tang Li picked up her chopsticks and began to eat in silence, occasionally responding, and when the call was hung up, the meal was finished. Of course, it was another unpleasant call.
Although people have been urging her to get married more and more frequently in the past two years, Tang Li still does not want to get married. She opened a store with a friend and worked as a chef in the store. She can do what she likes every day and her salary is enough to make ends meet. She feels free and satisfied with this kind of life.
As for urging marriage, I would like to borrow a line from the novel Yi Tian, "Let him be strong, the breeze blows over the hills."
Her biggest advantage is her good temper. Her friends all envy her for making delicious food every day and not thinking about troubles. Maybe because she is a chef, Tang Li has a round face. In addition, she is gentle and doesn't like to fight. Her friends from childhood to adulthood call her Tang Wanzi. At the age of 27, many of her friends are married, but they still like to call her Wanzi.
Tang Li thought that she would live like this until her mother gave up her futile urging of marriage. However, she didn't expect that her mother would give up, but an accident happened first. She went out to attend a party with friends, and the bus she was riding on rushed off the bridge and fell into the river.
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In a tightly closed room in the North City Lord's Mansion, a petite girl uttered a mutter, struggled and waved her hands like a drowning person, and then suddenly opened her eyes.
She gasped violently and sat up, only to find herself in a completely unfamiliar place. She couldn't help but show a look of surprise.
The door was opened, and a kind-looking lady came in, carrying food and placing it on the table. She said to her, "Miss Chu, please stop arguing with our city lord. Eat something first."
Miss Chu had just changed her heart not long ago. At this moment, Tang Li was sitting at the table eating with a confused look on her face, looking at her slender arms and hands while eating. She was a little plump, with fleshy hands and arms, not this slender.
She probably died in a car accident and became another person; in short, she traveled through time.
How could I encounter this thing of traveling through time? After thinking about it for a while, Tang Li patted her chest. Putting aside other things, she should be happy that she had saved her life. But she didn't know where this place was and whose body she was in.
Judging from the architectural style and the clothes the old lady was wearing, it was definitely not modern, but if it was ancient, which dynasty was it from? Tang Li carefully asked the old lady, "Can I go out and take a look?"
The old lady seemed to be a straightforward person. She waved her hand and said, "As long as you don't leave the City Lord's Mansion, it's all fine. The City Lord has ordered that you, Miss Chu, must stay here during the time he is in seclusion."
Tang Li walked out of the door with an exploratory mindset. At first, she just walked around the area. All she saw were maids dressed as servants and guards dressed as warriors. Later, she accidentally walked into the martial arts field. She saw those warriors emitting various lights when they swung their swords, and they could also jump onto a two-story high wooden stake and stand on one foot on a leaf at the top of the tree.
Tang Li: “…”
This is definitely not any dynasty she knows_(:3∠)_
Tang Li got acquainted with the lady who delivered meals and began to frequently go in and out of the kitchen, because the lady was the cook. Aunt Sun did not expect that she was actually good at cooking. After tasting her dishes, she praised them highly, "It's delicious. Your cooking skills are better than mine. I saw you were so clumsy in the first two days after you came. It's so good now. The gentle city lord will like you."
Tang Li had no idea who this so-called city lord was. She only knew that this place was the North City Lord's Mansion and that her body's name was Chu Li. She didn't know anything else. Fearing that she would be discovered, Tang Li didn't dare to ask more questions. She just thought it would be better to leave here as soon as possible and go to a place where no one knew her.
Unexpectedly, she had just come out of the kitchen and was about to return to her room with a box of snacks when she ran into trouble on the way. A girl in luxurious clothes and a dozen servants stopped her.
"Chu Li, let me tell you, my cousin Xuan Yu is the Lord of North City, he is of noble status, you are a lowly person who cannot reach your height. Don't think that just because you were brought back by cousin Xuan Yu, you can fly up to the tree and become a phoenix. As long as I am here, you can forget about it." The girl said arrogantly, and smiled maliciously: "I have seen many women like you who want to get close to cousin Xuan Yu, I have to teach you a lesson."
Tang Li: Huh? What
The girl waved her hand and said, "Throw her into the Weeping Forest."
Tang Li didn't even have time to say a word as her mouth was covered by someone's hand. She could only hold on to the box of snacks tightly as someone carried her, and threw her into a dark and eerie forest like a baggage.
There was thick fog all around, and in the fog there were dark and scary branches intertwined. There was no way forward, and it was impossible to see the way back. Tang Li stood there holding the snack box, feeling that everything was inexplicably familiar, but she couldn't remember what was familiar about it.
She heard the whistling wind around her and felt a little scared, worried that there were ghosts in here. The big brother who threw her in just now jumped three meters high, and the sword in his hand was glowing, which was very unscientific, so there might be unscientific ghosts in this forest.
Being alone here, Tang Li felt scared, so she opened the lid of the snack box and took out a piece of snack to calm her nerves. At this moment, a fiery red animal that looked like a fox appeared by the bushes, and after watching for a while, it came forward and whined.
Tang Li fed it a snack, and the fox held the snack in its mouth, whined at her, and led the way. Tang Li was delighted, and quickly followed, lifting her skirt. They walked for a long time, so long that Tang Li felt that she could not walk any longer, and then there was a faint light ahead. The fox whined again, jumped into the fog and disappeared.
Tang Li sighed and tried to catch up. Although she didn't catch the red fox, the white mist in front of her eyes became thinner and thinner, and the trees disappeared. After walking a dozen steps, the view in front of her suddenly became clear. There was a setting sun hanging in the sky, and the blood-red sunset spread across the sky, reflecting on the countless barren hills in front of her.
Putting down the snack box, Tang Li sat on the ground and pounded her legs. She had to pound them because she was frightened by the scene in front of her.
There were no trees in front of him, only countless rolling hills, on which were planted broken flags and countless bodies that had turned into skeletons, which had been severely weathered. Was it an ancient battlefield or some other place? Why were there so many skeletons
Tang Li felt her scalp tingling and wanted to run, but there were mountains of corpses in front of her and an intricate white foggy ghost forest behind her. She didn't want to go anywhere.
What on earth is this place... Tang Li suddenly had a flash of inspiration in her mind, and she suddenly realized where her previous sense of familiarity came from.
The Lord of North City, cousin Xuan Yu, Chu Li, Gui Ku Lin... Tang Li connected all these together and found relevant clues deep in her memory.
The first novel she read when she was in the third year of junior high school was a short story about abusive love and melodrama. This type of thick romance novel was very popular at the time, and she rented it from a nearby bookstore.
In that novel, the hero is the Lord of the North City in the Four Square City. His name is Xuan Yu. She forgot her name. The heroine seems to be her body, Chu Li. Tang Li doesn't remember the details very clearly, but only roughly. It seems that the heroine is an orphan who has been wandering around since she was a child. She met the hero. Because she looks like the hero's Bai Yueguang, the hero took her back to the North City. The two are a pair of noisy and happy enemies. The hero fell in love with the heroine in the process, but he never admitted it. Because his Bai Yueguang was seriously injured and fell into a deep sleep in order to save him, he felt that he could not betray Bai Yueguang, so he was hot and cold towards the heroine. The heroine accidentally learned about the existence of Bai Yueguang and found that she looked exactly like herself, so she thought that the hero used her as a substitute.
After all the entanglements, the two gradually got along well and the misunderstanding was about to be resolved, but Bai Yueguang woke up and instigated the male protagonist to hurt the female protagonist. Of course, as a vicious female supporting role, Bai Yueguang's true face was finally revealed, and the female protagonist finally had a happy ending with the male protagonist. The most ridiculous thing in the plot is that the female protagonist and the white moonlight are actually twin sisters, but when the two were born, the female protagonist was taken away by her enemies and lost her identity. Moreover, the male protagonist thought that he first met Bai Yueguang when he was young, but it was actually with the female protagonist. He misunderstood because they looked the same, and the white moonlight was seriously injured in order to block the arrow for him, which was actually directed and acted by himself.
At that time, the female classmates around Tang Li were all obsessed with the male protagonist's coldness and domineering. Only Tang Li was different. She hated the self-indulgent male and female protagonists, and felt sorry for the infatuated male supporting role the most.
The infatuated male supporting role, Xun Nu, is a very powerful killer. He is heartless and merciless, the best in the world. But just because the heroine saved his life, he was willing to protect her silently. He knew what love is, and finally lost his life for her.
At first, Tang Li had a big fight with her deskmate because of the question of who was better, the first or the second male lead. That was probably the first time that the good-tempered Tang Li had such a big fight with someone. Later, because Xun Nu died in the novel, Tang Li cried for two days.
If she remembered correctly, in the novel, Xunnu and the heroine met for the first time in the Ghost Weeping Plain behind the Ghost Weeping Forest. He was seriously injured and was assassinated by someone in the organization who was jealous of him. He was thrown into the Ghost Weeping Plain and met the heroine when he was dying.
In other words, Xun Nu is now in the pile of corpses in front of her, and she has now become the heroine "Chu Li" and has to go and save him.
Tang Li looked at the endless pile of corpses, hugged her snack box and stood up. The first male god, the first love of the girl, even after more than ten years, is still special. Although I don't know why I became the heroine of this story, I have to save him now, otherwise he will die!
Stepping on the crispy bones and tattered clothes, Tang Li walked among the corpses. She saw that on top of the corpses from many years ago, there were some relatively fresh corpses that had not yet rotted away and emitted a foul odor. Scavenging birds gathered together to peck at the corpses. They were startled by Tang Li's footsteps and did not fly away. They turned their heads and stared at her, making a cackle.
This scene was truly a combination of horror and disgust. Tang Li wandered around on the hills and found that she had no idea which one was Xun Nu. She could only check if she found a fresh body to see if the other person was dead.
After searching for more than a dozen hills, there was only a ray of light left in the sky. She finally saw an unusual black figure in a desolate ruin of bones.
The author has something to say: It still has the background of an old-fashioned romance novel, and I like the second male lead!
The female lead and the second male lead are different in each story, but the male lead in the original novel is the same. Let’s take him to see why the Hulunbuir grassland is so green.