Reborn in 1978: I Sold My Spatial Jade Bracelet Before the Famine

Reborn before the Great Famine, I decisively sold my space jade bangle to a middleman for a single cent.

In my previous life, the educated youth Lu Hao, whom I loved, used marriage as leverage to take my ancestral jade bangle as a dowry, then gave it to his beloved, Lin Qingru.

During the five years of famine that followed, Lin Qingru and Lu Hao lived high on the hog. Meanwhile, kept in the dark, I dared eat only half a coarse grain cake a day and worked like an old ox to keep the whole household running.

Whenever I was exhausted, Lu Hao would gently take me in his arms.

“Zhaodi, once we get through the famine, I'll treat you well.”

“If you're really tired, take a break. It's all my fault for being useless...”

Moved to tears, I kept forcing myself onward, serving as the whole family's unpaid maid.

Then, in the final year of the famine, I was so starved I was skin and bones. As I lay dying, I begged Lu Hao to let me eat one whole cake.

But he put his arm around Lin Qingru and looked down at me with contempt.

“Huang Zhaodi, if Qingru hadn't wanted your bangle back then, I never would have married you.”

“I've fed and clothed you for four years. I don't owe you anything!”

As he spoke, he had Lin Qingru bring out a plate of fragrant roast chicken, then tossed it carelessly to the ground and ground it into the dirt.

“You probably don't even know that this jade bangle has extraordinary powers!”

“But just look at yourself. Do you deserve it?”

My throat burned. I spat out a mouthful of blood, and only when I saw the disgust in their eyes did I realize how stupid I had been.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the moment Lu Hao lifted his chin and demanded the jade bangle from me.