With a large bowl of rice and a full bowl of soup in her stomach, Thu Quynh felt she had overeaten, and her whole body began to feel uncomfortable.
Having eaten her fill, she finally had some strength.
Thu Quynh stood up and walked around, wanting to see if there was any chance to escape.
The courtyard gate was locked; getting out was impossible.
She searched the surroundings and discovered a side door.
Her heart filled with joy, Thu Quynh immediately ran over.
When she gritted her teeth and used every ounce of strength she had but couldn't make the door budge even an inch, she cursed under her breath, "What is this weak body! If this were my old body, I would've shattered this door with one kick!"
She glanced around and returned to the front yard.
However, after a full circle, Thu Quynh couldn't find a single knife or hoe.
This made her helplessly angry!
Sitting on the firewood stack, Thu Quynh stared at the tall, sturdy gate, wishing she could burn it down with her gaze!
She looked up to the sky and let out an angry roar, "Heavens, are you really trying to destroy me? To treat a good person like me this way, you're too cruel!"
Shouting was useless as the heavens wouldn't answer. Thu Quynh's anger turned to self-pity.
Thinking back, in her other world, she was a child who was both pitiful and fortunate.
At five, both her parents passed away. Her paternal grandparents disliked her for being a girl, and her uncle and aunt shirked the responsibility, claiming they couldn't afford to raise her. So they gave her to her current grandparents.
Thu Quynh was sensible from a young age. After arriving at her new home, she always lived cautiously.
But unexpectedly, good fortune had come to her!
The people who adopted her were an old, childless couple. Not only did they treat her like their own flesh and blood, but her grandfather also saw her as his successor and trained her.
Her grandfather had been a special forces soldier for five years. It was said he had been quite formidable in his youth, only returning to the village in his old age. But his fate was harsh; he had a son and a daughter, but his only son contracted leukemia in his early twenties and passed away after the family had spent all their savings.
When five-year-old Thu Quynh came to their home, her grandparents were both over fifty, an age at which they could no longer have children.
And so, her grandfather raised her like a grandson.
Thu Quynh was not fond of studying as a child, not because she wasn't smart, but because there was no environment for learning in the village. Her peers all quit after elementary school. She was better off than them, at least managing to get a junior high school diploma.
However, not only was her mind sharp, but she was also very hardworking.
At sixteen, she followed relatives who ran a snack stall to the city to help out. At eighteen, having learned most of their skills, she planned to open her own snack stall in town but had to put it on hold due to a lack of capital.
After that, she went to work at a mushroom factory, and two months later, having learned all their secrets, she returned to her hometown.
Now, Thu Quynh was the boss of the Green Agricultural Products Company.
Thinking of her frail grandparents, and of the capital she had worked so hard to build, Thu Quynh was so angry her hair stood on end. "Damn it, I hadn't even had a chance to enjoy my life, I hadn't even fulfilled my duty to my grandparents, and now I'm dead?"
Instantly, a powerful voice resounded in Thu Quynh's heart: I want to go back!
Of course, Thu Quynh also knew that no matter how much she wanted to return, there was no way at this moment. She couldn't even get out of the gate now, let alone return to her own world. This dilapidated courtyard was so poor that a thief would find nothing to steal, yet they had made the two gates so sturdy.
After resting for a while, Thu Quynh felt that much of her strength had returned. She immediately stood up, raising her fist in hatred towards the gate. "Just wait until I find some clothes and my body recovers. We'll see if I don't crawl through a dog hole to escape!"
Thu Quynh sat dejectedly in the courtyard, looking up at the distant green mountains. She knew this place must be deep in the mountains. Why? Because as far as the eye could see, there were only mountains!
Big mountains?
Had she been reborn just to end up in the mountains again?
This realization made Thu Quynh so angry that even her fine hairs stood on end. Damn it, heavens, it's one thing to make me transmigrate, but couldn't you just let me be a city person for once?
Thu Quynh badly wanted to jump up and curse the heavens to vent her anger, but she didn't know if it was because she had fallen from the mountain the day before, her head still felt dizzy in waves.
The thought of being reborn in a remote mountain region made Thu Quynh even more desperate.
But Thu Quynh was Thu Quynh; she was not anyone else!
Since she couldn't go back, she had to plan carefully. Getting angry and cursing the heavens was useless. Only by relying on her own strength and efforts could she fight against this old man Heaven!
Sitting on the firewood stack, she closed her eyes and began to organize the information from the original owner.
The previous owner of this body was the daughter of a well-off family in Dong Son town and had never done heavy labor in her life. Although she had a stepmother, her biological grandmother doted on her, raising a country girl into a delicate lady of noble birth!
Leaving immediately was impossible. Since she couldn't leave now, she could only wait for her body and skills to recover before making further plans.
Thu Quynh refused to believe that she, who had been learning martial arts from her grandfather since she was ten, couldn't escape from this vast mountain range!
As long as she got out of here, she would definitely claim the debt owed to Do Thu Quynh!
She didn't have a high degree, but she had many tricks up her sleeve.
As for that rapist, she wouldn't let him live in peace either. Sooner or later, she would snap off that source of trouble of his...