Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 521 - 520: Caught Red-Handed

Back at the small villa, Lin Wanwan lay sprawling on the sofa on the second floor, feeling down.

On this day when every family reunites, she had nothing in the modern world.

Her cousin Su Yanwei did call to wish her a happy new year and invited her to spend New Year’s Eve with them, but Lin Wanwan declined. Why should she go to someone else’s house on such a family reunification day?

More importantly, she still harbored resentment towards the person who had taken her aunt’s place.

That woman and her ex-husband have a daughter who is now in her third year of junior high, and she is also spending New Year’s Eve at Su Yanwei’s home today.

Su Yanwei mentioned that the woman’s ex-husband recently married a third wife and finally had a son. Now, he can’t stand his two daughters from his two ex-wives at home.

This year, the man took only his new wife and son to his new mother-in-law’s house for the New Year’s celebration, leaving his two daughters with their elders, one of whom was brought to Su Yanwei’s home.

At the last gathering, Lin Wanwan had a meal with her uncle and his new wife.

It was evident that her uncle was still a man who follows his wife’s lead as before—this wife could be Lin Wanwan’s aunt or his new wife.

If nothing unexpected happens, that woman’s daughter from a previous marriage will soon live together with their whole family.

Her uncle seemed to be a man willing to be managed by his wife, able to live harmoniously and lovingly with whichever wife he has, which Lin Wanwan didn’t quite understand.

How good was he to my aunt back then, yet a month after my aunt died, he could marry a new bride?

So love isn’t really something that’s eternal, right? It shifts, vanishes, morphs.

The sunny and handsome image of Lu Shouyue flashed through Lin Wanwan’s mind.

She didn’t know when Lu Shouyue started having other feelings for her; the first time she felt something unusual was on that night watching a meteor shower.

But everything moved too quickly after that, leaving her a bit at a loss.

Lu Shouyue, with his dazzling diamond-like eyes, lingered in Lin Wanwan’s mind. Such a typically calm and composed man actually shed tears in front of her...

Even if he was drunk that day, it still shocked Lin Wanwan greatly.

Last night, when she returned the necklace, Lu Shouyue’s eyes instantly became clear, with sadness so intense it was about to overflow.

It made her almost feel unforgivable at that moment, how could she let such a vibrant man show such profound sorrow?

But these are just temporary, right? Time will quickly make him forget, aren’t men supposed to be all rational and calm like that?

Just like ninety percent of people in this world don’t marry for love, it’s just that the age has arrived, the phase has come, and they compromise to marry whether it’s suitable or not.

Perhaps the next time they meet by chance, Lu Shouyue will already have a loving girlfriend, having long forgotten about her!

Handsome and wealthy men don’t have time to be heartbroken over women, even less well-off men don’t have the luxury for such sentimentality!

After graduation, who will still, like in school, like someone for several years? Missing on one, they immediately turn to find another, which is most common.

"Yes, that’s right, didn’t my uncle seem to love my aunt to death? On the day she passed, he spent money on resuscitation at the hospital, yet a month later he married a new wife!"

Lin Wanwan suddenly sat up from the sofa: "Ha, that’s just like a man, why am I feeling guilty here!"

Even thinking this way, Lin Wanwan’s mood still didn’t improve.

But she didn’t want to stay alone in the modern world feeling sad anymore, going back to the Great Tang would be better, where her family was.

Lin Wanwan returned to her room, closed the door, then with a thought, opened the Space-Time Gate, stepped out with one foot, and the mountains and rivers turned, time flowed backward.

Having stayed in the modern world for twenty hours, only four hours had passed in the Great Tang.

Lin Wanwan carried the fishing net out of the secret time-travel base, crossed mountains and forests in the sparse sunlight, heading towards the place where Kun Lun awaited her.

At the same moment, Xiao Chong, Dugu Di, and Xiao Ce, along with their servants, were riding forward on horses.

Lin Wanwan was the only relative they had in Mao County, so naturally, they had to reunite during the New Year, to celebrate it noisily together.

Sitting idly in the bamboo forest, Kunlun who was weaving bamboo heard something. Remembering Lin Wanwan’s instruction, he got up and led the two horses deeper into the bamboo forest, disappearing into it as well.

This path leading to Lin Family Manor was one that absolutely no one else would pass by. Anyone riding over was definitely coming from Xiaoxi Town to find Lin Wanwan.

Not long after Kunlun entered the bamboo forest, Xiao Chong and his six companions passed by this place. Before even getting close, Xiao Chong, who was leading the way, pulled the reins of his horse, rising upright.

The Crimson Horse neighed, and before its front hooves touched the ground, a flash of light had already passed by.

The next second, Lin Wanwan’s mount, grazing peacefully in the bamboo forest, received a shock, startled, it bounced around the forest, scaring Kunlun and another horse.

"Is it Kun Lun?" Xiao Chong was slightly taken aback. Having just arrived on horseback, his cautious nature sensed someone ambushed in the forest, which was why he struck first.

Not attacking the person first was to avoid accidental harm. Moreover, as the saying goes, "shoot the horse before the man," injuring the horse first significantly reduces the person’s combat effectiveness.

But he didn’t expect the one hiding inside to actually be Kun Lun, Lin Wanwan’s personal guard.

Even if it were for grazing, it wouldn’t be done here. What was Kun Lun doing hiding here?

"Isn’t this Lin Le’an’s Kunlun slave? What’s he doing hiding here?" Dugu Di, without his blindfold today, expressed puzzlement with light brown eyes.

"Could it be the Village Lady went to the mountains to gather herbs?" Xiao Ce said, just as puzzled.

Even if it were for gathering herbs, leaving the most capable Kunlun slave to watch the horses didn’t make sense. Normally, a random servant would watch the horses, while the capable ones would accompany her into the mountain.

Xiao Chong didn’t speak; firstly, guessing was pointless as he already heard Lin Wanwan’s footsteps in the woods; secondly, Kun Lun didn’t speak Mandarin nor the local dialect, only a foreign tongue, making communication impossible.

As Lin Wanwan entered the bamboo forest, she sensed something different, but Kunlun approached as usual, taking the fishing net from her hand.

"Were you discovered?" Lin Wanwan asked.

"Mm!" Kun Lun nodded in shame, his dark face turning even darker with flushed blood.

Lin Wanwan stepped out of the woods to see Xiao Chong and his group of six coming over with their horses, feeling a headache.

How did it have to be these astute Xiao Chong, Dugu Di, and Xiao Ce who caught her!

"Greetings, elder brothers!"

"Greetings, cousin/Village Lady."

The three returned the greeting.

"Cousin, why did you enter the mountain alone?" Xiao Chong casually asked.

Lin Wanwan’s eyes darted around as she smiled and replied, "Well, these three mountains are mine now, aren’t they! I went in to inspect my territory."

"Oh, I see." Xiao Chong responded nonchalantly, his indifferent face revealing nothing about whether he believed it or not.

As for Dugu Di and Xiao Ce, although their eyes flashed with surprise, they didn’t say anything either.