After a while, Helen Brooks got used to it!

This little flirtatious girl—God knows who would dare marry her in the future.

……

The Dong family of Lintao was a local powerhouse.

They owned a very large mansion, kept hundreds of servants and maids, and the father, George Brooks, was the magistrate of Guangwu. In his youth, he was even known as a wandering hero, skilled in archery with both hands, proficient in martial arts, and exceptionally strong. Even the neighboring Qiang people held him in high regard.

Wait a minute, George Brooks?

Could it be the same Grand Tutor Dong from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the one who was later killed by his adopted son Lü Bu over a woman—George Brooks?

Helen Brooks hadn’t read many books, but he loved listening to storytelling, especially Yuan Kuocheng’s rendition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Helen Brooks’s favorite part was the battle at Hulao Pass, where the three heroes fought Lü Bu. And the main background of that story seemed to be closely connected to his current father. He remembered that after the great battle at Hulao Pass, George Brooks moved the capital to Chang’an, was granted the title Marquis of Mei, and built a fortress in Mei, called Wansui Fortress, also known as Mei Fortress.

After George Brooks’s death, Mei Fortress was captured by Lü Bu, and the Dong clan was completely wiped out.

Helen Brooks was terrified. Didn’t that mean he would still die an untimely death in the future? Although he couldn’t remember exactly when George Brooks lost his life, he believed that by then, he himself wouldn’t be very old.

Having died once already, Helen Brooks wasn’t afraid of death.

But to die and still bear a bad reputation—he absolutely didn’t want that.

What’s more, he had just gained a family and a loving grandmother. There was no way he could just watch his family die. He remembered the storyteller saying that his grandmother was killed after Mei Fortress fell, and not even her body could be preserved.

Thinking of this, Helen Brooks couldn’t help but glance at his grandmother, who was napping beside him.

Grandmother’s hair was gray, and her face was full of wrinkles. Ever since she adopted Helen Brooks, she had cared for him with utmost tenderness.

It was clear that the family was quite afraid of grandmother.

But Helen Brooks didn’t find her scary at all. After a few months together, he felt she was very kind.

Although she was blind, grandmother’s heart was not blind. She knew that in this family, except for herself and Grace Brooks, everyone else saw Helen Brooks as a monster, so she took even more meticulous care of him—even when asleep, she wanted Helen Brooks by her side.

Helen Brooks babbled as he crawled over to his grandmother.

His chubby little hand touched grandmother’s face, and in her sleep, she smiled and murmured, “Ah Chou, be careful not to catch a cold.”

A wave of warmth filled his heart, and Helen Brooks almost cried!

He absolutely could not let grandmother be harmed, nor let his family be hurt. This was his home, and no one was allowed to touch it.

Unfortunately, Helen Brooks was now just a baby—a baby who couldn’t even speak.

He lay beside his grandmother, thinking carefully. To be honest, all his knowledge of the Three Kingdoms came from Yuan Kuocheng’s storytelling. As for the Records of the Three Kingdoms and such, he hadn’t read them, and the only people he remembered from the Three Kingdoms were Liu, Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Ma, Huang, Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, and other famous figures like Zhou Yu and Sun Quan.

Most of the characters, Helen Brooks only had a vague impression of.

But if you asked him to name who was who, he really couldn’t. After all, he had a human brain, not a computer.

As for steelmaking methods or papermaking techniques, he knew even less.

The small bookstores in the county often had pirated novels from the internet, many of which were about the Three Kingdoms.

At the time, he just thought they were fun to read, but now that he was living in this world, he realized how incredibly brilliant those protagonists were. Not to mention, their brains were sharper than computers—they knew astronomy, geography, and with a shake of their mighty bodies, heroes gathered from all directions. So impressive, so powerful—no wonder they all thrived.

But what about him, Helen Brooks?

Other than having listened to the storytelling version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and knowing a few things that might happen in the future (though he couldn’t be sure, since Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a novel), he couldn’t even recite a complete Tang poem or Song lyric. Truly shameful, to the extreme. If he’d known he would be reborn in the Three Kingdoms, he would have bought a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica and memorized it.

Since that’s the case, how could he protect his family and grandmother? How would he face the coming chaos?

The more Helen Brooks thought about it, the more uneasy he felt.

But then again, what good would uneasiness do now? He was just a baby who couldn’t even speak. Besides, even if he did speak, who would believe him? Even his loving grandmother might not believe him.

Forget it—when the time comes, there will be a way. For now, all he could do was wait—wait for the day he grew up.

……

With this uneasy feeling, Helen Brooks grew up day by day.

The first words he spoke were: “Hello, Grandma.” The old lady was so happy she couldn’t close her mouth, laughing with joy.

However, he never called George Brooks “father,” which made George Brooks very unhappy.

As for the reason, no one could guess. After all, in Helen Brooks’s heart, George Brooks was not a good person. Plus, when he was just born, George Brooks actually wanted to drown him—enough to make Helen Brooks extremely resentful.

Grandmother tried to guide him, but it didn’t work.