After being jilted, the entire neighboring village was filled with deep regret.

Chapter 1 New arrival
On a sweltering summer day, the scorching, blinding sunlight streamed into the room through the dilapidated wooden windows.

Su Tai opened her eyes, her head throbbing. She looked around at the unfamiliar and shabby surroundings, her gaze falling on those thin, dirty little hands, and her brows furrowed slightly.

She time-traveled!
Realizing this, the memories of this body surged forth like a tidal wave.

The original owner shared the same name as her, Su Tai. She was mentally challenged from a young age. She was the eldest daughter in her family. Before her younger brother was born, her parents would carry her while they did chores. After her brother was born, her brother took over looking after her. Because she was betrothed since childhood, her parents kept her situation a secret from her fiancé's family so as not to make them look bad. They didn't let her go out. Only acquaintances in the village knew about her situation.

This time, due to a severe drought that lasted for three years, there was a severe water shortage. The neighboring Ximen Village cut off the water from the Xiaoshizi River, causing a great uproar. The villages were fighting over water, and her parents and her older brother Su Zhan all went to help, leaving her in the care of her six-year-old younger brother Su Ming.

The six-year-old was very curious and had never seen such a big scene before. He gave the original owner some random instructions, telling her to stay at home and wait for them to come back. Unexpectedly, the original owner couldn't understand and followed her little brother to join in the fun.

The village was in chaos, and innocent people were caught in the crossfire. The original owner of this body was hit on the head in the process, and news of his mental breakdown spread.

Su Tai sighed, feeling both relieved and helpless.

Fortunately, the original owner was mentally challenged and had never done anything meaningful, so she was easy to fool. Unfortunately, she had to take over the mess the original owner had made and survive in this world of constant natural disasters.

However, time travel might not be a bad thing for her. Originally, she was an ordinary female college student who returned to her hometown in the new era. Her hometown was in a poor mountainous area. Her birth mother couldn't bear the hardship after giving birth to her and ran away with someone else. Her father favored boys over girls, and her stepmother didn't like her either. Life was difficult.

She finally got into university, but right after graduation, her father and stepmother tricked her into going back to get married. Their reason was that university graduates were valuable to them, and the man was willing to give her a dowry of 100,000 yuan. She fought back and tried to escape, but ended up falling into a ravine more than ten meters deep.

The Su family is indeed having a tough time, but the Su couple are very protective of their children and love them dearly, which is much better than her original family.

The biggest problem right now is getting through the severe drought.

Thinking of this, Su Tai slowly closed her eyes, recalling the dream she had just had.

In the blink of an eye, she found herself in an unfamiliar circular space. She was standing right in the center of the circle, where there was a raised platform with a screen in the middle that looked like a monitor. The screen displayed the words: "Welcome to the Time-Space Gate Transfer Station. You can open any time-space gate by accumulating fifty virtual coins."

On the left is a machine that looks like a vending machine, with some goods and prices on it. On the right is a cabinet that says "Automatic Trading Cabinet".

Sure enough, there was always a way out. She quickly turned around and looked at the circular wall. The entire circle had five doors, each corresponding to one of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. All five doors were tightly closed and silent.

All this is true!
Su Tai was overjoyed. She closed her eyes and thought of the Su family. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself back on that broken bed.

Just as she was about to re-enter the time-space transfer station to study it properly, a woman's hurried voice came from outside. It should be the original owner's mother, Han Shi.

"Little Moss, Little Moss, how are you?"

Before Su Tai could react, Madam Han rushed into the room and pounced on her, frantically searching and checking her over. Her rough hands finally stopped on Su Tai's head, which was wrapped up in a ball, and she burst into tears, wailing, "Why are you so unlucky, child! Waaah, I was only not paying attention for a moment, how did you end up like this?"

Today, the two villages were fighting. Most of the women in Dongmen Village ran back to their parents' homes to get help. Han also went back to Zhongmen Village to gather people. She only rushed back after receiving the news.

Su Chunlin then came in and kept comforting Han.

After crying for a while, Han shouted fiercely at the door, "You brat, get in here right now!" Today, after Su Tai was injured in Ximen Village, the Han family was worried that Su Ming would be beaten to death by Su Chunlin if he returned. So, they took advantage of the chaos to have Su Zhan take Su Ming back to Zhongmen Village and hand him over to Han.

Six-year-old Su Ming cautiously entered the house, clinging to the door frame. He stood at the doorway, too afraid to go any further. Two lines of tears were visible on his dirty little face, indicating that he had just been crying.

"Big sister, I'm sorry, I'll never leave you home alone again!"

Han grew angrier as she listened. "Don't you know what's wrong with your eldest sister? I think you're just asking for a beating! Second son, bring me my stick!"

As soon as Madam Han finished speaking, Su Tai clearly saw the little figure at the door tremble. Feeling inexplicably sorry for him, she subconsciously called out, "Mother, don't hit my little brother."

Upon hearing this, Han froze, and Su Chunlin was dumbfounded.

Standing at the doorway, Su Ming was shocked. He then rushed to Su Tai's side and asked in surprise, "Big sister, what...what did you just say?"

The three of them stared at Su Tai.

Su Ming suddenly reached out his hands, which looked like chicken claws, and groped Su Tai's body. Then he nodded seriously to Madam Han, "Mother, it's definitely my eldest sister."

Han realized what was happening and slapped Su Ming across the face, her voice trembling with excitement, "How could I not know this is your older sister? Girl, you...you...you can understand what we're saying?"

Su Tai nodded emphatically amidst the expectant gazes of the crowd.

Su Chunlin and his wife hugged each other and cried tears of joy.

In the eyes of Su Chunlin and his wife, as long as someone can understand human language and take care of themselves, they are a normal person and have nothing to do with being stupid.

Su Zhan, who had just finished packing and came in, was startled by the scene. He asked in a panic, and when he learned that his older sister could speak normally, he burst into tears of joy.

They turned misfortune into a blessing, but their joy was short-lived as a group of uninvited guests arrived at the Su family home.

The leader, surnamed Ding, arrogantly led a group of burly men to rudely push open the gate of the Su family's fence and stand in the courtyard to demand an explanation.

"Su Chunlin, stop being a coward! If you have the guts, get out here! Your family is really something, keeping your stupid daughter a complete secret without letting a word out! If my second son had known your daughter was stupid, he definitely wouldn't have let A-Kai be betrothed to her. Now that the news of your daughter's stupidity has spread, my Xiong Kai has become the laughing stock of the entire Ximen Village. If you don't give us an explanation today, we're not done yet!"

Su Chunlin's expression changed. He exchanged a glance with Han Shi, then hurriedly opened the door and left. Before leaving, he carefully instructed Su Ming to take good care of Su Tai and not to let her go out.

Su Ming nodded emphatically, his expression serious.

Seeing how anxious they were, Su Tai knew that resting was out of the question. Since she couldn't get out, she got out of bed and hid behind the door to eavesdrop.

(End of this chapter)