Transmigration: The Main Character is Not Becoming the Cannon Fodder!-Chapter 315 - 3: The Famine Years Without Hunger (Part 3)

Chapter 315: Chapter 3: The Famine Years Without Hunger (Part 3)

Having died once, and feeling the world owes her, Zhao Jing was very selfish, completely forgetting how good Li Rengui’s family had been to her.

She wanted to kill the original host and thought of many ways to do it, but to do it quietly and without being discovered, she had to find the right opportunity. After all, if she got caught and was shunned by her second aunt’s family, it would not be worth it.

When the original host was twelve, the weather was warming, and it snowed that year. When the river thawed, a group of little friends liked to play by the river and catch some fish for a feast.

Zhao Jing followed them and secretly caused trouble behind their backs, making the original host fall into the river. Although it was warm, there were still ice chunks in the river, extremely cold. When Li Shuning was rescued, she was already beyond saving.

Li Chunhua cried her heart out, and Zhao Jing, understanding and considerate, shifted the love for her daughter onto Zhao Jing.

Zhao Jing became the cherished one in the Li Family, treated no differently from a biological daughter.

Zhao Jing was sent to school, and when she turned eighteen, she passed the age without marrying that widower.

However, this time, she did not marry the widower; her biological father sought her out.

In Zhao Jing’s heart, she did not like her mother or father, nor did she like the Li Rengui family. Now, she only liked herself, wanting to live well.

But Zhao Donglai was eloquent, claiming that the Zhao Family always wanted to find her, but her mother didn’t allow it at the time, leaving them with no choice. They gave Li Donghua a large sum of money, just wanting the child to live better.

In her heart, Zhao Jing still had hopes for her biological parents.

Yet, she wanted to see for herself, and later Zhao Donglai treated her very well, and she accepted his version of events.

She felt that Zhao Donglai was right; in the Li Rengui family, they were not her biological parents. Would there be ulterior motives in their kindness? In the future, she would need her own brothers to support each other.

From that day, Zhao Jing began coaxing Li Chunhua into giving her money, saying she didn’t want to study anymore and wanted to do business.

Each business venture ended in loss, but in reality, all the money went to Zhao Donglai.

Zhao Donglai sought Zhao Jing, knowing she was living well. The Li Rengui family was rumored to be well-off, and Zhao Donglai, previously fired from a department store for his bad attitude, had no income and thus thought of Zhao Jing, the "worthless daughter."

Over the years, Zhao Jing extracted quite a bit of money from the Li Rengui family for Zhao Donglai.

Later, Zhao Donglai learned that during the war, Li Rengui’s parents were southern magnates and had hidden many valuable items despite fleeing.

Zhao Donglai approached Zhao Jing again, saying that the elderly couple had good things but wouldn’t give her anything, igniting Zhao Jing’s fury.

In this era, although life was improving, the awareness of the law was not present.

For those so-called treasures, Zhao Jing, Zhao Donglai, and Zhao Jing’s half-brother, first attacked Li Rengui when he was returning from work in another village. They created the illusion he slipped and drowned at night.

Li Chunhua, not a shrewd person, collapsed when her husband died. Only Zhao Jing, treated as a precious niece, remained by her side. Coaxed by Zhao Jing, she handed over the entire family fortune to her.

Zhao Jing put on a show conducting the posthumous ceremonies for Li Rengui.

With Li Rengui’s death, Mr. Li aged greatly, and the original host’s brother Li Shujie, taking leave to come home after their father died, felt deep regret for not being there when his sister died during a mission. This time, no matter what, he was going to return.

Mr. Li and his wife were sharp, understanding Li Chunhua’s inability to manage things, and with no desire for the Li Family to lose support in the future. Zhao Jing, clearly the ungrateful one, duplicitous eyes that couldn’t deceive them, had long been rumored to secretly provide for Zhao Donglai. They couldn’t imagine that Zhao Jing was behind the deaths of their family members.

Indeed, Mr. Li had some valuables, brought over while fleeing many years ago as a young master and young madam of a wealthy family, not wanting these to end up cheap for Zhao Jing. They kept a few items as remembrances, giving the rest to Li Shujie.

In fact, it wasn’t much; they’d lost some things while fleeing, and upon arriving at Li Family Village, they spent money to integrate into the community. However, the few remaining items were good.

Li Shujie was about to return to the army when Zhao Jing, long attentive to him, noticed his package wasn’t right and immediately informed Zhao Donglai.

In her heart, she resented the old man for having good things and not giving them to her, handing them to Li Shujie as soon as he returned. The old fool! She never considered she wasn’t a Li Family child. Why would they give her anything?

Zhao Donglai, knowing Li Shujie was a soldier and realizing they couldn’t handle it alone, gathered some thuggish friends, blocking Li Shujie on his inevitable path.

Zhao Jing acted as bait, pretending to be kidnapped by those men. Li Shujie, righteous and upright, didn’t hesitate to rush in when he saw his cousin being bullied.

But he didn’t expect his good cousin to stab him, and then those summoned thugs also beat him severely.

Li Shujie, beaten to within an inch of his life, never understood why his cousin wanted to kill him as he drew his last breath.

With his abilities, those men weren’t his match in a fair fight.

Naturally, that package of items was taken by Zhao Donglai and Zhao Jing.

However, as a captain in the army, Li Shujie’s death aroused some attention.

The military sent people to investigate; Mr. Li, broken by the loss of family, and his grief-stricken wife passed away.

The military knew Li Shujie died carrying heirloom gold items, found their lead, and with Mr. Li’s help, tracked Zhao Donglai and his gang, who immediately confessed. Without options, Zhao Donglai implicated Zhao Jing.

Only then did Li Chunhua realize what Zhao Jing had been doing all these years.

But what use is regret now that it all happened?

Soon after, Mr. Li also died, but before passing, he told the village head the Li Family would no longer accept Li Chunhua as a daughter-in-law, donating the family house to the village and making her leave the Li Family.

Everyone in the village knew what happened to the Li Family; it was too tragic. A good life reduced to such misery, all because Li Chunhua invited a wolf into the house, never discerning to pamper her niece so.

Li Chunhua didn’t end well either, losing her daughter, husband, and son, all killed by her most beloved niece, and soon she went mad, ultimately jumping into the river and committing suicide.

After receiving the plot, Li Shuning also drew a sharp breath.

This plot, showing Zhao Jing as the ungrateful white-eyed wolf, never appreciative or content, didn’t realize her prosperous growth was due to the Li Rengui family’s effort. She continually resented them for not giving her good things.

Li Chunhua was clearly responsible as well.

Li Shuning, arriving here at age eight, had less than a year before Zhao Jing returned to the village.

A good family cannot be destroyed by Zhao Jing again.