Dumb White Fool:
In short, it meant mistaking one's stupidity for kindness.
Reborn Female Protagonist:
This refers to a character in online literature, where a female protagonist, due to various reasons, returns to the past or a parallel world, using memories and experiences from a previous life to change her destiny...
As each of these terms appeared in Tian Xiang's mind, she was enlightened yet bewildered, sitting on the edge of the bed and unable to come back to her senses for a long time.
Seeing her daughter sitting dumbfounded as if she had been shocked by something, Hu Honglian, with tears streaming down her face, raised a feather duster and brandished it toward Tian Chuying.
"Get out, with your filthy stench, get out for your mother..."
Everyone in the room ran out.
Hu Honglian lunged at her daughter. "Xiangxiang, where's my son? Don't scare your mom. It's just a useless man. Don't worry, your mom can find you a better one."
Hu Honglian sobbed.
After a while, Tian Xiang pushed her mother, pointed at her own forehead, "Mom, can't you really see the words on my forehead?"
Tears gushed out of Hu Honglian's eyes as she grabbed her daughter's shoulders, both angry and pitiful.
"Xiangxiang, let's go, I'll take you to the hospital."
Tian Xiang: "..."
Fine, apart from herself, no one in this house could see it.
"Mom, it's fine, I'm fine now."
Who would have thought this world was a novel, and Tian Chuying was reborn as the protagonist.
She probably had an unsatisfactory life in the past, so she was reborn to change her fate, and the first step was to steal her own engagement.
Now Tian Xiang finally understood what Tian Chuying meant by saying "they liked each other for a long time."
Turns out in the past life, those two put a big green hat on her.
It was unclear if she knew back then or if she ever made those bastards' deeds public.
If she remained oblivious, she really would have been a dumb white fool!
What a bastard!!!
Tian Xiang was extremely annoyed and, after thinking about it, said, "Mom, let's forget about the Lu Family. Lu Feng's mom doesn't seem to be very pleased with Tian Chuying, and Lu Feng doesn't mind, they've already taken a liking. If I go over to meet them again, and Lu Feng turns to me, wouldn't that just look like fickleness? Such a man is not worth it!
But if he's good and his feelings don't change, our family will just become the laughing stock of Sanli Lane! That's even worse."
Hu Honglian nodded, she had thought about all these things.
But...
"Are we just going to let this go?"
It was too much of a loss; she sewed clothes for Granny Liu at the convenience store for two years for free to please her.
It was hard enough to get an introduction opportunity, and now it's just going to someone else that easily?
Hu Honglian was unwilling.
Tian Xiang: "This matter has stirred up things here; the Lu Family will find out sooner or later. However, if the Lu Family truly favors Tian Chuying, they could grit their teeth and finalize the engagement, with nothing but a slightly tarnished reputation in private.
But in doing so, our family will be hard-pressed, and it's truly unsatisfying!
Mom, here's the plan. Tomorrow, I'll go to the street office to blow this thing up, have them take me to Lu Feng's workplace, and explain this matter clearly in front of all the leaders. Lu Feng is a cadre in the factory and an outstanding worker, who values his reputation. Once everyone knows about it, Lu Feng and Tian Chuying's engagement won't hold."
Regardless of anything else, making the scumbag and the bitch live in unease should be priority.
Hu Honglian hesitated upon hearing this.
"It's not your fault, and ruining their reputation isn't necessary, but in the end, it would still be shameful. Going big and public, you'll become a laughingstock too, harming your future marriage prospects."
Hu Honglian was utterly worried.
Although it's clearly someone else's mistake, her own family was the one struggling.
Tian Xiang couldn't care less, "Mom, I've been bullied to such an extent, why would I still care about being a laughing stock or not? I, Tian Xiang, will not let Tian Chuying take what I discarded so easily."
The moment she realized that Tian Chuying deliberately stole her engagement, she no longer had a sister.
Hu Honglian ground her teeth, "Fine. But you don't step forward; tomorrow I'll handle it, make sure everyone knows."
Tian Xiang glanced at the words "ultimate villain" on her forehead, saying, "Mom, you have work. I'll go."
Ultimate Villain:
Used to mock someone's behavior or attitude as being excessively outrageous or unethical, this character typically stands in opposition to the protagonist, extremely selfish and ill-natured, serves as a crucial role in driving the plot and is just a tool for the protagonist to defeat, often meeting a tragic end.
This was her mom, not some ultimate villain nor a tool character from this world.
Currently, Tian Xiang wanted to not only retaliate against those two, but also change her family's fate.
Hu Honglian didn't want her daughter to be out there, exposed.
"I'll take a leave tomorrow morning. You rest at home. Don't worry."
Tian Xiang thought for a moment and said, "Then at noon, we go together."
That works too.
Hu Honglian made her daughter lie down obediently, took the feather duster, and left aggressively.
In the narrow hall, Director Wu, a supporting character, was trying to mediate this scandal.
Over fifty years old, Director Wu was very experienced, and in no time he figured out a way to compensate the Tian Family's main branch.
They wanted to have the Lu Family's engagement; they could let Tian Xiang work at the health clinic instead of Tian Chuying.
Both Tian Xiang and Tian Chuying were high school graduates.
Hu Honglian wholeheartedly wanted her daughter to marry into Red Fifth Street, without considering work at the moment, just thinking of combining efforts with the man's family to get her daughter into the Red Fifth Street factory area, once and for all.
As for Tian Chuying, her family had already found a way into the street health clinic as a cashier, although currently just a temporary worker, they had gotten her in, intending to take over once someone retires.
This job took a lot of effort and money from Tian Weijun and his wife.
Now, their daughter and Lu Feng were mutually interested, surely going to work at Red Fifth Street in the future, so giving the health clinic position to Tian Xiang as compensation wasn't impossible.
But...
Tian Chuying's mom, He Cuifen, said that if they got compensated a hundred yuan, the job would be Tian Xiang's.
Hu Honglian came out with the feather duster just in time to hear this sentence.
Just a temporary job at the health clinic, and they still wanted a hundred yuan from her family, how was this compensation?
This was wanting it all, rubbing salt into their wounds!
Hu Honglian waved the feather duster, "Get out, all of you, get lost. Tian Chuying, you whore, wait for it, there's no way you could snatch Xiangxiang's marriage!"
The small courtyard soon erupted again, and attracted numerous onlookers outside.
Director Wu saw that the Tian Family's main branch couldn't even bear to give up a temporary job after taking someone else's engagement, and left in anger.
In the end, it was Tian Xiang who came out to stop Hu Honglian from cursing, reminding her of getting dehydrated and not to harm herself, slowly calming things down.
That night, Tian Chuying washed herself with five buckets of water to get rid of the stench from her body.
When she dressed up and came out of the room, Tian Weijun and his wife hurriedly went up to her.
"Chuying, are you really getting along with Lu Feng? Does he know who you are? If the fake identity thing spreads to his family, will they stop recognizing you?"
"That shrew Hu Honglian won't let it rest, she might rush over tonight to tell the introducer to have Lu Feng and Tian Xiang look at each other again..."
The people of Sanli Lane dreamed of having their daughters marry into Red Fifth Street, and He Cuifen feared that the hard-acquired son-in-law would be snatched away.
Tian Chuying smiled, "It's fine, he won't be snatched. Dad, Mom, you both rest first, I'm going out for a bit."