Chapter 407 – The Unlucky Xu Jinning
With the departure of Xu Aiguo and his wife, Xu Jinning’s life seemed to return to normal.
However, this time, her parents’ departure didn’t affect Xu Jinning as much. Perhaps it was because the summer vacation was just over a month away.
But…
Just as Xu Jinning was eagerly anticipating the arrival of summer vacation, she started feeling that something wasn’t quite right in the past few days.
Xu Jinning felt that she had been rather unlucky lately!
Yes, “unlucky” was the right word.
For instance, on her way to school, she nearly got hit by a flowerpot that fell from a building she was passing by.
At that moment, she was walking when her foot suddenly twitched, causing her to stop. And just then, a flowerpot fell right in front of her, landing just a step or two away.
It could be said that if Xu Jinning’s foot hadn’t twitched and she had taken another step or two, that flowerpot would have hit her on the head.
And then, her head might have been cracked open on the spot.
Then, on the day after school, she and her elder sister were walking back to their small courtyard when suddenly, a masked man with a knife appeared at the entrance of an alley, aggressively approaching them.
Xu Jinning immediately protected her pregnant elder sister behind her.
Just as she was contemplating how to fight this man…
Suddenly, the man tripped over a stone on the ground, and the knife he was holding accidentally plunged into his own stomach…
Xu Jinning and Xu Fanghua were instantly stunned on the spot.
Of course, the shock only lasted a moment before they quickly called the police.
The authorities arrested the man, and further investigation revealed that he had committed several robberies before and was even involved in a murder case.
This time, he had targeted Xu Jinning and Xu Fanghua because one was pregnant and the other was a young woman, both seemingly powerless to resist. He hadn’t expected to be so unlucky himself.
Because of this incident, Xie Ting’an became worried and started driving her and her elder sister to school every day.
But that wasn’t all. Before this, Xu Jinning and Auntie Song had gone out to buy groceries, and a small car, as if it had lost control, sped toward them.
If it hadn’t been for the fact that the car’s four tires suddenly blew out when it was just over two meters away, it might have crashed into them…
Due to these incidents, Xu Jinning felt that she had been experiencing a streak of bad luck recently.
So, except for attending classes and working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she stayed cooped up in the small courtyard, not venturing out.
She thought that if she stayed hidden for a while, maybe she could avoid this bad luck.
In fact, if it had been the Xu Jinning who had just transmigrated, she wouldn’t have believed in such things as bad luck. But after hearing about the concept of fate, she gradually started to believe in it.
There are some mystical things that, even if you don’t believe in them, you should still hold a certain amount of respect for.
Xu Jinning originally thought that staying in the small courtyard would be enough to avoid this bout of bad luck. But she didn’t expect that the dream she had that night would completely overturn her assumptions.
That night, after finishing her nightly routine, Xu Jinning lay down to sleep as usual.
In the past, she would almost always sleep through the night without dreaming.
But tonight, as soon as she fell asleep, she started dreaming…
Rather than just dreaming, it was as if Xu Jinning was a bystander in the dream, watching everything that happened after Lin Wangshu arrived in Hong Kong…
When Xu Jinning suddenly opened her eyes, she slowly sat up.
It was as if the images from the dream were still lingering before her eyes.
“The dream I just had, could it be real?” Xu Jinning murmured.
As she spoke, a voice inside her told her that it was real, that this dream was indeed real.
And the reason she had this dream was that the heavens were giving her a warning, revealing the truth to her.
“If this dream is real, then it’s not just bad luck—I’m being targeted, and that person wants me dead.”
And that person was none other than Shen Huai and Lin Wangshu, far away in Hong Kong.
Thinking back, ever since she had transmigrated, Xu Jinning had always been incredibly lucky. How could she suddenly be plagued by bad luck?
This so-called bad luck she had experienced recently was actually a series of carefully planned murder attempts.
And she had survived them purely by luck.
Yes, luck was the key.
Otherwise, why would her foot have suddenly twitched, making her stop just before the flowerpot fell?
Why would the person who tried to rob her suddenly trip and accidentally stab himself? Perhaps that person’s real intention wasn’t robbery but murder!
And as for that car—if it hadn’t blown a tire suddenly, she might have been killed.
Each of these incidents, one after another, had all been attempts on her life.
And the ones trying to kill her were none other than Shen Huai and Lin Wangshu, the male and female protagonists!
Xu Jinning gritted her teeth.
She hadn’t provoked these two protagonists at all. She hadn’t even met the male protagonist. So why were they targeting her so viciously, trying to take her life?
“Is it all because of this so-called luck?”
Xu Jinning didn’t believe that her luck had been stolen from the protagonists.
Heaven had given her hints before—her good fortune was the result of her changing the fates of many minor characters, which in turn altered the fate of the country and its people, thus earning her this fortune.
As for why the male and female protagonists had lost their protagonist halo…
Xu Jinning guessed that it was because the natural order had awakened.
In the beginning, this world had been formed because of the novel, controlled by the author, and that author was Lin Wangshu, or rather, Xu Jinwen.
But this world was abnormal, with skewed values.
And Tiandao had been imprisoned because of it.
As Xu Jinning changed the fates of the minor characters, the world’s balance gradually began to restore itself. Consequently, the unnatural aura surrounding the male and female protagonists, their so-called protagonist halo, also started to fade.
But Lin Wangshu and Shen Huai were unaware of this and refused to believe it.
They thought that she had stolen their fortune.
So they decided to kill her, believing that once she was dead, their luck would return to them.
Regardless of whether their theory was true, Xu Jinning certainly didn’t want to be killed.
She had her family and loved ones—how could she be willing to die so easily?
But…
“I never expected that Lin Wangshu would actually be my stepsister.”
Xu Jinning remembered that when she reunited with Xie Ting’an, he had mentioned that when she died, his investigation revealed that Xu Jinwen had pushed her.
Afterward, Xie Ting’an tormented Xu Jinwen for a while before turning her over to the police.
Xu Jinwen was quickly executed by firing squad.
In other words, Xu Jinwen had died.
And that meant after Xu Jinwen died, she transmigrated into this book as well, entering the body of the female protagonist, Lin Wangshu, with her memories intact.
Of course, there was one thing Xu Jinning hadn’t anticipated: that the author of these books was actually her stepsister, Xu Jinwen.
But on reflection, it made a certain kind of sense.
It was Xu Jinwen’s hatred and jealousy toward her, combined with her twisted worldview, that led her to write those morally corrupt novels.
Still…
“I never imagined Xu Jinwen would be foolish enough to tell Shen Huai about transmigrating into the book!”
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Tiandao – The Way of Heaven
