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In the summer of 1976, Anhe County.
A group of people gathered by the side of the moat deep into the night.
“Xiaomeng, your mother wanted you to go to the countryside for your own good. Why did you think of jumping into the river like this?”
Li Guihua cried, holding her daughter who was soaked through.
“Old Li, please stop crying for now. We’ll take the child home first while you rush to get a doctor.”
Someone in the crowd said, making Li Guihua finally realize the situation. She hurriedly ran towards the county hospital.
When Xia Xiaomeng woke up, she was at home with two neighbours who were chatting.
“Why do you think Xiaomeng jumped into the river?”
“What else could it be? She was afraid of hardships. Her mother spoiled her since childhood, and she was always causing trouble without doing anything. How could she endure the hardship in the countryside?”
Xia Xiaomeng looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar apartment building, feeling a bit confused.
Wasn’t she in a car accident? How could she be here?
Could it be that she was reborn?
Xia Xiaomeng sat up suddenly.
“Xiaomeng, are you awake? Don’t be in a hurry; your mother has gone to get the doctor and will be back soon.”
Hearing this, Xia Xiaomeng’s pupils contracted, and she put on her shoes and ran outside.
She had to save her mother.
pls do not share this anywhere or u will always stub ur toe when u walk past a door frame !! this translation has been stolen from mioscorner.com, pls only read there i’m begging u :kneels:
On this day in her previous life, her mother never returned after going to find a doctor. She had a car accident on her way to the doctor. After her mother’s death, Xia Xiaomeng didn’t have the face to stay at home and left a letter for her family before leaving. Later, she became successful and wanted to return and find her family. However, to her surprise, they were all gone, leaving her to grow old alone.
Since fate allowed her to be reborn to this day, she couldn’t let the tragedy repeat itself. She had to save her mother!
Xia Xiaomeng quickly left the city. She ran with her braids flying and the wind whistling in her ears.
At this point, it was already dark, and there were no streetlights outside the city. She accidentally tripped on a stone and fell flat on her face. But she couldn’t afford to stop; she got up and continued running, not even bothering to brush the dust off her clothes.
Following her memory’s direction, she arrived on a rural road. The road was flanked by cornfields that were taller than a person.
In her previous life, her mother had an accident on this road. A large truck had run over her. Her mother lay in the mud, her blood mixing with the soil, half of her body crushed into the ground, barely recognizable. Xia Xiaomeng could never forget that scene in her two lifetimes.
She dared not continue recalling it. Wiping her sweat and catching her breath, she looked around. It was strange; where were the people? She couldn’t have been mistaken about the place.
Had she arrived too late? Xia Xiaomeng’s heart pounded. Could it be that, despite her rebirth, she still couldn’t escape the tragedy of losing her mother and her loved ones?
Just then, she heard a man and a woman talking softly in the cornfield.
“It’s all your fault. I told you this place wasn’t safe, but you didn’t believe me. Now we’ve been discovered. What should we do?” The woman’s voice was tinged with anger and sounded somewhat familiar, but Xia Xiaomeng couldn’t recall where she’d heard it.
She quickly hid, not wanting to be seen.
“Lower your voice. Do you want the whole world to know we’re having an affair?” The man deliberately lowered his voice, making it hard to hear.
The woman seemed to realise she had been too loud and fell silent for a while.
After a moment, the man spoke again, “Is this woman your sister-in-law?”
“Who else could it be? Thank goodness you reacted quickly and knocked her out. That despicable Li Guihua, if she exposes today’s incident, we’ll be in big trouble.”
The man also seemed to find this idea appealing, and they were about to throw Xia Xiaomeng by the roadside.
Xia Xiaomeng’s heart thumped; she clenched her fists tightly. Her mother’s death wasn’t an accident? In her previous life, everyone thought the car accident was simply an accident. But it turned out her mother was killed by these two heartless people just to cover up their affair. They had caused her mother to die such a brutal death just to protect their own ugly secrets.
The more Xia Xiaomeng thought about it, the angrier she became. In the past, she wouldn’t have hesitated to rush out and give them a beating. But she couldn’t do it now. Her mother was still in their hands, and she had to rescue her safely.
Xia Xiaomeng looked around and suddenly noticed the red blouse she was wearing.
Her eyes lit up, and a plan quickly formulated in her head.
She undid her two braids and let her thick hair fall in front of her face. She began making sobbing and whimpering sounds while holding a handful of dirt, smearing it on her hands.
Crying and extending her arms, she slowly walked in the direction of the cornfield.
Just as she started to sob, a shadow suddenly darted out from beneath the feet of the two people.
“Ah! It’s a ghost!” Wu Bilian couldn’t take it anymore and rushed out of the cornfield as if she had gone mad.
“Get back here!” The man, gritting his teeth, tried to stop her. He wanted to tell her that it was just a mouse.
But Wu Bilian had already run far away.
The man, seeing her leave him behind to escape, also ignored Li Guihua on the ground and turned to slip away from another side.
Wu Bilian hadn’t run far when she suddenly stopped in her tracks. She stood still, her eyes wide with fear, looking ahead.
Not far in front of her was a “female ghost” with long hair in a red dress.
hiiii i’m back! this is just a palate cleanser translation that i decided to pick up when i’m bored; hence why there might be more grammatical mistakes in this bc i’m not gonna be checking over this as strictly (my translations are all edited mtl with a few tweaks for flow of story^^) i haven’t read ahead so i have no idea how good the story is but i love farming, rebirth and business stories like these ones so we’ll see how it goes!
