Chapter 801 - 797: Don’t Tell Anyone

"Really?" Sun Yeshu was a bit skeptical.

Xu Wenwan chuckled. "Believe it or not."

After speaking, she took out two teacups, poured water for both of them, and took a few sips from hers. Having talked so much, she was feeling a bit thirsty.

Seeing that Xu Wenwan had fallen silent, Sun Yeshu couldn’t resist bringing up Gu Jiaojiao again.

"You have no idea how capable she is. During the Qingshan Team’s busy farming season, she outright invented..." Sun Yeshu recounted everything Gu Jiaojiao had recently done for the team before adding, "Now, everyone in the Qingshan Team treats her like royalty. No one dares to say a single bad word about her."

Lately, Sun Yeshu had been feeling utterly depressed. She had been keeping all these frustrations bottled up with no one to confide in. Seeing Xu Wenwan today finally gave her the chance to get it all off her chest, and more importantly, Xu Wenwan was actually listening intently.

Having said her piece, Sun Yeshu felt thirsty as well. She took a sip of water and continued.

"Wen Wan, how does Gu Jiaojiao have such good luck? Leng Yuan knows she can’t have children, yet he still spoils her rotten. Other women who struggled to conceive were terrified of their men finding out and had to sneak around to take their medicine. But Gu Jiaojiao actually has her man fetch the medicine for her!"

Xu Wenwan didn’t respond immediately.

She hadn’t expected so much to happen in the team during the half-year she was away. Moreover, she felt something was off about all of this. Gu Jiaojiao was supposed to be the vicious female supporting character. Even if her own transmigration into the book had altered the plot, there was no reason for Gu Jiaojiao to suddenly become so capable. Was this the butterfly effect?

Whether it was the butterfly effect or not, she didn’t want to see Gu Jiaojiao live so happily.

Xu Wenwan furrowed her brows slightly, though her expression quickly smoothed out. She set down her cup. "Speaking of which, Gu Jiaojiao has had a hard life too. Her father is a factory manager, so she comes from a great background. Unfortunately, her mother passed away early, and her father married a stepmother who doesn’t care for her."

Sun Yeshu looked at her weirdly, wondering why Xu Wenwan was suddenly speaking up for Gu Jiaojiao.

Then, she heard Xu Wenwan continue. "Actually, when Gu Jiaojiao was back home, she was engaged to a man about her father’s age. If she hadn’t been sent down to the countryside, they probably would have gotten married."

Xu Wenwan spoke with a face full of sympathy, but Sun Yeshu’s jaw dropped in shock.

"I’m just telling you this in confidence, so please don’t repeat it to anyone. It concerns a girl’s reputation. If word got out, she’d be ruined.

"She finally managed to become a teacher and show some capability, which made her life in the Qingshan Team a bit better. However, I heard that her grades were terrible back in school—supposedly at the bottom of her class. It must be a rumor though, otherwise, how could she have passed the teacher’s exam?

"So many people took that exam, and she was the only one who passed. She must have real talent."

Xu Wenwan feigned casualness, but Sun Yeshu took her words entirely to heart.

Gu Jiaojiao had an engagement but still married Leng Yuan after coming to the countryside. She probably did it to avoid manual labor, and then there was her teaching job. Sun Yeshu had always found it suspicious that Gu Jiaojiao was the only one to pass out of so many candidates. Perhaps Leng Yuan had pulled strings to get her in through the back door!

The more she thought about it, the more convinced she became that she had uncovered the truth. Thrilled, she slapped her thigh.

"If the higher-ups found out about this, Gu Jiaojiao would be completely disgraced!"

Hearing this, Xu Wenwan hastily cautioned her. "More than that! If all these charges were proven, it wouldn’t just ruin her reputation—she would never recover from it. She might even be sent off to do hard labor in the harshest conditions.

"So you absolutely must not breathe a word of this to anyone."