He was a disabled military officer who doted on his research work in the Northwest.

"Sister, I know you just came back from the countryside and suffered a lot. Just say the word, and I... I can give Jianhui to you. I'll go to the military base... to marry Commander Mu..."

In the staff quarters of the Northwest City Machinery Factory, Shen Yao wept uncontrollably. Her thin shoulders trembled slightly, as if she had suffered a tremendous injustice.

Standing beside her, Zhao Jianhui immediately put his arm around her shoulder with heartache, glaring angrily at Shen Tang on the sofa: "Shen Tang! Don't be so selfish! Yao Yao and I are truly in love! The arranged marriage between our children originally belonged to the Shen family's daughter. Now that you've found her, you should fulfill that obligation! What right do you have to force Yao Yao?"

Shen's mother, Li Juan, also glared at her and chimed in with a shrill voice, "That's right! You were just rescued from human traffickers by the police a few days ago, and you've already caused such a ruckus at home! Mu Qinghan is a regimental commander in the military region; it's your good fortune to have gotten married to him, don't push your luck!"

Sitting on the single sofa, Shen Tang slowly lifted her eyelids and looked at the absurd and ridiculous family of three in front of her.

She, the last descendant of a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the 21st century, and a top-notch doctor of agronomy, has somehow transmigrated into a book.

She transmigrated into the body of a cannon fodder heiress in a period novel. The original owner had been abducted and sold for fifteen years, suffering endless hardships. When she finally returned home, she discovered that she no longer had a place in her family.

What's even more ridiculous is that the Shen family had arranged a marriage between their children and Mu Qinghan, a young military commander, years ago. Originally, this marriage was for their adopted daughter, Shen Yao, who had always been proud of it. But who knew that half a month ago, news suddenly came that Commander Mu had been seriously injured during a mission, leaving him not only disabled but also with a serious injury—it was said that he would never be able to have children again.

Now, how could the proud and arrogant Shen Yao possibly marry him and live a life of widowhood?

So Shen Yao quickly hooked up with Zhao Jianhui, the factory director's son, who lived in the same residential compound, intending to break off the engagement. Coincidentally, the original owner of this body was found at this time, so with the tacit approval of Shen's parents, the two staged this "lovesick couple" drama, desperately trying to dump her disabled and childless fiancé on the original owner who had just returned home.

In the original story, the original owner couldn't swallow her anger and refused to accept the marriage that would leave her without an heir, insisting on competing with Shen Yao for Zhao Jianhui. Although she eventually married Zhao Jianhui, she had actually fallen into a trap. After the marriage, Zhao Jianhui gave all his earnings to the Shen family, ostensibly to support his in-laws, but in reality, to provide for Shen Yao, his "white moonlight" who didn't have to work. The original owner, meanwhile, died of depression from the daily grind of being treated like a slave.

Having sorted out her thoughts, Shen Tang let out a cold laugh.

Marry Zhao Jianhui, this green tea recycling station? She wouldn't even consider him dirty if he were given to her for free.

To be stationed at a military base with even harsher conditions? She couldn't be happier!

Before transmigrating into the book, although she possessed unparalleled ancestral acupuncture skills, she majored in agronomy, with her doctoral dissertation focusing on the cultivation and application of special medicinal plants in the arid Gobi Desert of Northwest China. For others, being stationed in the Gobi Desert as part of a military garrison was exile and hardship; for her, it was a vast field for scientific research and the establishment of medicinal plant fields!

"Are you done?" Shen Tang stood up, looking down at them. "You just want me to go to the military region to marry someone in your place, right? Fine, I agree."

Upon hearing this, the entire living room fell into a deathly silence.

Shen Yao's crying stopped abruptly. Zhao Jianhui was stunned, and even Li Juan was taken aback. They had prepared a whole host of things to say, and had even planned to tie Shen Tang to the military jeep, but who knew she would agree so readily?

"You...you really want to go?" Shen Guoping, the father who hadn't spoken until now, asked somewhat guiltily.

In fact, Shen Guoping had already made his plans: Zhao Jianhui's father was the factory director, and he held the quota for this year's deputy director promotion. If Yaoyao could marry Zhao Jianhui, it would greatly benefit his future career.

As for Shen Tang, the biological daughter who grew up in the countryside, she would be of no help at home, and taking her out would be embarrassing. It would be better to go along with it and let her take the blame at the military region. This would appease the Mu family's anger and earn them favor, while also facilitating Yao Yao's marriage. It would kill two birds with one stone.

But to his utter surprise, this supposedly timid country girl was completely unpredictable.

"I'll marry him," Shen Tang said, her sharp gaze sweeping over everyone present, "but I have a condition. I heard the Mu family gave me a fine mutton-fat jade bracelet, saying it was a token of engagement. Since I'm the one fulfilling the engagement now, give me the bracelet."

That jade bracelet was the biggest cheat code in the original book, hiding a superb farming space inside! In the original story, Shen Yao wore this bracelet and became the richest woman thanks to the spiritual spring and rare seeds within the space. This time, what belongs to her, no one can touch.

"You're dreaming! I'm already used to wearing that bracelet..." Shen Yao instinctively covered her wrist and blurted out in a hurry.

"Used to it? You've been usurping someone else's place for so long, you're even treating their engagement gifts as your own?" Shen Tang's eyes sharpened. "Either give me the bracelet today, or I'm going to the military district right now and telling them you don't want to marry and are still coveting other people's things!"

"How dare you!" Shen Guoping trembled with rage. He couldn't afford to offend the Mu family; if Shen Yao refused to marry into their family, he had no choice but to hand over the bracelet! He gritted his teeth and coldly demanded, "Yao Yao, give her the bracelet!"

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"Give it to her! That belongs to the Mu family!" Shen Guoping roared.

Shen Yao gritted her teeth and reluctantly took off the warm, smooth mutton-fat jade bracelet, slamming it heavily on the table.

Shen Tang picked up the jade bracelet. The moment her fingertips touched the jade, a strange warmth flashed by. A blurry electronic voice seemed to flash through her mind, but it quickly subsided.

Shen Tang knew that the space was still there, but it needed a trigger to awaken. A smile flashed across her eyes, and she unceremoniously slipped the device onto her wrist.

"I'll take the bracelet, but..." Shen Tang walked up to Shen Guoping, extending her fair hand, "I'm going to fill the hole for your precious adopted daughter, I can't go empty-handed. Give me three hundred yuan as a settlement fee, and write a letter severing ties."

"What?!" Shen Guoping jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "Three hundred yuan?! Are you trying to rob me?! And what do you mean by a letter of severance?! You're utterly disrespectful!"

"You won't give it to me?" Shen Tang sneered, making a move to smash the jade bracelet on the ground. "Fine, then I'll go to the machinery factory's broadcasting station right now and shout it out, letting all the factory workers, even the military leaders, make a scene! Let everyone hear how your Shen family swallowed my child support payments, how you abused your own daughter, and how you forced her to marry a cripple in place of your adopted daughter! Then we'll see if Director Zhao still wants Shen Yao as his daughter-in-law!"

"You dare!" Zhao Jianhui exclaimed anxiously, as his father was extremely concerned about matters of conduct.

Shen Guoping was trembling with anger. He valued his reputation above all else and couldn't stand such a threat! Besides, if this brat really went to Director Zhao and ruined Yao Yao's marriage and his chance for promotion, then everything would be for naught!

In the ensuing stalemate, he glared at his sharp-eyed, completely unruly biological daughter and gritted his teeth, coldly shouting, "Fine! I'll write it for you! Just pretend the Shen family never had a wicked child like you! Take the money and the IOU, get out of here right now, and never come back for the rest of your life!"

Ten minutes later.

Shen Tang neatly folded the three hundred yuan note and a "severance of ties" document with a red handprint on it, and put it in her pocket. Then, she picked up her worn-out canvas bag and pushed open the door of the Shen family home without any hesitation.

Goodbye, and I wish you... a long and happy life together, you bitch and the dog.

The door slammed shut, and Shen Tang's decisive back view inexplicably gave the people in the room a feeling of letting a tiger return to the mountains.