My Dead Husband - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

At the start, I was faced with a house stripped bare, parents who practiced blatant favoritism, and a younger brother who was the apple of their eye.

I never had enough to eat or wear. Every day was an endless cycle of chores and beatings.

It wasn’t until the third day after my transmigration that my family’s attitude suddenly shifted. My father even smiled, telling me he would take me to the tailor to buy new clothes.

I knew the plot was beginning.

Being sold into a Brothel by one’s own family was the start of the female lead’s tragic life.

While we were on the road, I took advantage of the drunkard’s greed for wine and snatched the few taels of silver he had received from selling me.

Later, I traveled through various places before finally settling in Tangli County, far from the original lead’s hometown.

I gave myself a new name and obtained a new identity.

Yet, everyone still called me Xin He-the female lead’s original name.

It sent a shiver down my spine. It felt as if, despite three years of hard work to escape, I still couldn’t shake off that damned plot.

That was when I met Lin Lanci.

He was a presence in Tangli County that everyone spoke of in hushed tones. He was said to have cursed his father, mother, and brother to their deaths, yet the Lin Family’s business only continued to flourish more and more.

It was rumored that this bizarre fate was something his parents had sought out. He was born at a sinister hour on a sinister day of a sinister year. To achieve this, they had even sought out a demonic monk to employ certain methods.

As a result, he was burdened with every misfortune imaginable-clashing with his parents and bringing ruin to his friends.

This deliberately cultivated fate was known as the Ghost-Living.

The first time I heard of it, a kind-hearted local explained it to me:

“To put it simply, being a Ghost-Living means there’s no difference between being dead and being alive.”

“I think that Lin couple lost their minds. They squandered their own fortune and then changed their child’s fate to the ultimate curse. He was their own flesh and blood, yet the poor thing is destined to be solitary for life, living as neither man nor ghost.”

“That’s not all. They say the eldest Lin son was locked in a pitch-black underground chamber from the moment he was born. Especially after the younger son was born-the more they hated the elder, the more they doted on the younger.”

“I know about that. Once, my mother went to the Lin Family to sell vegetables and happened to greet ‘the two young masters.’ When Madam Lin heard it, she turned on my mother with a furious face and said the Lin Family only had one young master, and she shouldn’t compare that filthy thing to her son.”

“Oh, how could she say such a thing? If the eldest Lin son turned out that way, wasn’t it all thanks to them?”

“Even a tiger doesn’t eat its cubs. Fortunately, retribution came for them.”

The Lin couple probably never expected that by using their eldest son to change the Lin Family’s declining fortune, they would violate the laws of heaven and nature. The backlash ended up claiming the lives of all three family members, leaving only the eldest son behind.

Lin Lanci’s reputation as a Ghost-Living grew even louder. If people had felt sympathy for him while his parents were alive, afterward, they only said he truly lived up to his name as a malevolent spirit.

Thus, he became an existence that everyone in Tangli County avoided like the plague. Even the servants in his manor dared not look him in the eye.

After finishing their explanation, the locals would always offer a word of earnest advice:

“Miss, you’re an Outlander. If you think the eldest Lin son looks a bit handsome and take a fancy to him, you must stop right there. That’s a matter of life and death.”

I didn’t see it that way.

A vast fortune all to himself-what woman from the modern era wouldn’t want a husband like that?

I decided I would become his wife.

As for the supernatural stuff, even if it were true, as a lover of the occult, I felt it hit my preferences perfectly.

Compared to superstitious rumors of unknown veracity, my current situation as a runaway female lead was far more pressing.

After all, I didn’t know when those predatory male leads would show up.

By marrying someone avoided by others like Lin Lanci, perhaps people would start avoiding me as well.

More importantly, I remembered every character in that book.

Among those who had wantonly broken and destroyed the female lead, Lin Lanci was not one of them.