Chapter 1: Traveling Back to the Seventies

“Shen Yun was closest to me, so I intended to save her first, and then go to save you.”

“Lu Qiaoge, I have been apologizing to you, what else do you want?”

516 Military Factory Staff Hospital.

A girl with half-damp hair sat on the hospital bed by the window, silently watching the man who was speaking to her in an impatient tone.

This man was her fiancé, Liang Aishu.

And the Shen Yun he spoke of was his neighbor’s younger sister.

Lu Qiaoge didn’t expect that she had transmigrated.

She had transmigrated from the apocalypse, plagued by constant natural disasters, to the 1970s.

Just this morning, the original owner, Liang Aishu, and Shen Yun had an argument by the side of Red Star Lake behind the staff quarters. During the scuffle, both girls fell into the water.

Liang Aishu did jump in immediately, but the one he saved first was Shen Yun.

In the original owner’s fading consciousness, Liang Aishu only cared about Shen Yun and ignored her as she struggled in the water.

It was Qin Hengzhi, a military representative stationed at the factory who happened to be passing by, who jumped in and saved her.

Who could have guessed that the person inside was no longer the original one?

“Lu Qiaoge, Xiao Yun is still unconscious, I need to go see her. You get some good rest.”

After saying this, he turned to leave without looking back.

“Stop!”

A clear, bright voice halted Liang Aishu as he was about to lift his leg.

He turned around and said indifferently, “Lu Qiaoge, don’t be unreasonable. I’m very tired today too.”

Lu Qiaoge carefully sized up the original owner’s fiancé.

He was tall and had refined features.

He was a university graduate and currently worked as a technician in the factory’s production department; he could be considered a young backbone of the workforce.

However, the original owner didn’t like studying and barely made it to the first year of junior high before quitting.

She was practically semi-illiterate and was currently unemployed at home.

The gap between the two was growing wider and wider.

The same went for their families.

Liang’s father and Lu’s father were both workers in the past, but Liang’s father had risen through the ranks and was now the vice-chairman of the factory union.

Old Lu was still a worker in Workshop One.

The Liang family’s circumstances were good, while the Lu family was becoming increasingly poor.

Liang Aishu was also becoming more and more impatient with the original owner.

But the original owner liked Liang Aishu; he was all she saw and all she thought about.

Lu Qiaoge ignored his stinging words and her face turned cold: “Liang Aishu, I’ll only ask you this: before I arrived, what were you and Shen Yun talking about by the lake?”

Today, the original owner was supposed to attend a recruitment exam at the neighborhood office—an opportunity Lu’s mother had worked hard to secure.

But Shen Yun told her that Liang Aishu was waiting for her by the lake.

Shen Yun left first, and after much deliberation, the original owner felt that her sweetheart was more important, so she made an excuse and ran to the lake.

Thus, the original owner saw Liang Aishu and Shen Yun talking intimately. She didn’t know what they were saying, but she saw Liang Aishu wiping tears from Shen Yun’s face.

In that scene, it seemed as if she were the redundant one.

Thinking of this, Lu Qiaoge clenched her hands.

Her pair of peach-blossom eyes were as clear as water, but at this moment, they were full of indifference, and her delicate little face carried a hint of nonchalance.

She raised an eyebrow: “What, is this question hard to answer?”

Liang Aishu pursed his thin lips and stared at Lu Qiaoge.

As their eyes met, he was stunned for a moment.

Why was the look in her eyes so cold?

Where was the infatuation from the past?

It was as if she had become a different person!

Liang Aishu frowned impatiently and denied it flatly: “You’re overthinking it. We didn’t say anything.”

[Hehe, he’s lying. I heard everything he said to that woman.]

A thin, tiny voice suddenly rang in Lu Qiaoge’s ears.

Lu Qiaoge’s pupils shrank, and she looked around, shocked, searching for the source of the voice.

[Hypocritical human. That woman was crying while saying: She loves him so much, and the thought of him marrying Lu Qiaoge makes her unable to breathe from the pain.]

[Unable to breathe? Wouldn’t that mean she’s suffocating to death? That sounds like a lie!]

[But this man believed it. While wiping her tears, he said: You are so sad, my heart hurts too. But I am already engaged, and perhaps I will be married soon. Xiao Yun, if there is a next life, I will definitely take you as my wife.]

With such a vivid voice, Lu Qiaoge couldn’t describe her feelings at this moment.

She hid the shock in her eyes and looked out the window, appearing calm.

Opposite the window was a wall.

On the wall was written the slogan: "Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman."

A tabby cat was squatting on top of the wall.

It was looking lazily in her direction.

Almost instantly, Lu Qiaoge was certain that it was this tabby cat making the sound!

So, was she hearing a cat’s inner thoughts, or rather, animal speech?

All these thoughts flashed by in an instant.

Lu Qiaoge suddenly closed in on Liang Aishu, her eyes seemingly spitting fire: “No, you did. You were pouring your hearts out like star-crossed lovers. Shen Yun said she loved you so much, and you said you would definitely marry Shen Yun in the next life.”

Liang Aishu was stunned on the spot, his mind going blank for a split second.

When he was talking to Xiao Yun, Lu Qiaoge hadn’t arrived yet.

How could she possibly know?

Lu Qiaoge questioned him mockingly: “Since you and Shen Yun are in love, why wait for the next life?”

“Since you already love someone else, why not break off our engagement?”

Lu Qiaoge pressed him step by step.

Liang Aishu, his face pale, retreated involuntarily.

Old Lu and his wife, who had been standing at the door, watched the scene before them while suppressing their anger.

There were two other people in the ward, and they exchanged subtle glances.

Liang Aishu denied it in a flustered manner: “No, we didn’t say anything like that.”

[Meow meow, it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t admit it. At that time, in the bushes by the lake, Representative Qin and his subordinates were lying in ambush.]

Lu Qiaoge looked toward the tabby cat, and she finally understood why Representative Qin had appeared by the lake so quickly to save them.

One had to know that the lakeside was quite remote; very few people went there on a daily basis.

But why were they setting an ambush there?

Were they on a special mission?

Clearly, even if it was a mission, it had been ruined by the two girls falling into the water.

Lu Qiaoge closed in on Liang Aishu again, lowered her voice, and said meaningfully: “Liang Aishu, don’t be in such a hurry to deny it. Use your brain and think carefully: why did Representative Qin happen to appear by the lake so coincidentally?”

Not knowing what he remembered, Liang Aishu felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Lu Qiaoge continued: “Today I was supposed to go to the neighborhood office for the recruitment exam, but Shen Yun said you were waiting for me by the lake for something important. Now, can you tell me what that was?”

Liang Aishu’s mind was in complete chaos; he was no longer the composed man from before.

Today, both he and Xiao Yun were off work. It was Xiao Yun who said she wanted to go play by the lake.

But who could have guessed that Xiao Yun would suddenly confess to him?

He had been backed into the wall by Lu Qiaoge and looked very disheveled.

Liang Aishu could neither deny it nor say it was Shen Yun’s suggestion. Most importantly, if Representative Qin had been there the whole time, he must have heard everything.

So, Liang Aishu remained silent.

Silence was equivalent to an admission.

So, was everything Lu Qiaoge questioned true?

Old Lu and his wife gritted their teeth, wishing they could beat the heartless Liang Aishu to a pulp.

The other two people in the ward had eyes full of gossip.

Everyone said Liang Aishu and Shen Yun were like siblings, but were they actually lovers?

Dear readers: My new book is out, and I’m meeting you all again. I sincerely hope you can continue to support me. I wish you all great wealth, great beauty, and may everything go your way. Let us continue to walk side by side in the stories of the seventies. Love you all!!!

Additionally, I recommend my completed period novel, "The Little Sweet Wife of the 80s Courtyard." I hope you all like it.

The audiobook narrator has a super sweet voice!

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