Chapter 553: Daughter Reborn (8)

Zhou Zhiyuan's pupils suddenly shrank, he couldn't believe his ears. He looked at Zhou Lizhi's face which showed no concealed malice at all, and his heart seemed to be pressed by a heavy stone.

It was like he was meeting this sister for the first time. Was this sister in front of him really the sister he remembered? Although his sister was a little bit greedy, selfish, and competitive, most people had these shortcomings and they were not extremely evil. But this sister in front of him, who was sure that he would be poor and destitute in the future and become a burden to her sister, and who couldn't wait to get rid of these two "burdens" - himself and his mother, was she still his sister?

"You...why will I become a disabled person and a burden to you in the future?" Zhou Zhiyuan originally wanted to ask her why she would dislike him if he became a burden, but in the end he did not humiliate himself. Instead, he asked this question: why was she so sure that she would become a disabled person?

Zhou Lizhi choked. She just blurted out what happened in her previous life, but Zhou Zhiyuan was fine now. He had not been in a car accident at all, so he naturally did not become a disabled person. So her saying this would definitely make people feel strange.

Zhou Lizhi's eyes were dodging. She certainly couldn't tell anyone about her rebirth, but she soon became confident and said, "What will you become in the future? You've become a nerd from studying so much that you've become stupid, and you still want to go to college? Bah! You'll definitely fail!"

Zhou Zhiyuan was so angry that his whole body was shaking. Zhou Lizhi's words were already a vicious curse. She knew that he and his mother were looking forward to him getting into college, but Zhou Lizhi chose to use this to curse him. Zhou Zhiyuan clenched his fists tightly, and finally realized that his mother had not lied to him. This sister really had a lot of opinions about them.

"You really don't consider me your brother anymore. You actually cursed me like this... Don't worry, no matter how poor I am in the future, I will never ask you for help." Zhou Zhiyuan said this to Zhou Lizhi sadly and disappointedly, and left without looking back.

Zhou Lizhi pouted at his back, secretly thanking herself for getting rid of this burden in time. But she didn't remember at all that the reason Zhou Zhiyuan had a car accident in his previous life was because he wanted to support her. In this life, she was married to Chen Wenya, and things had changed. How could the car accident that ruined Zhou Zhiyuan's life happen again?

Her own fate had clearly changed, but she still thought that Zhou Zhiyuan's car accident would still happen. I don't know whether to say she is stupid or vicious.

When Cui Shichu saw Zhou Zhiyuan coming back in a daze, he knew that he had gone to look for Zhou Lizhi. The result of looking for Zhou Lizhi was easy to guess, but Cui Shichu had no choice. After all, Zhou Zhiyuan's feelings for his sister Zhou Lizhi were not fake. Now his sister suddenly became a different person and turned against him. Naturally, he would be very sad.

Cui Shichu was a little annoyed. Zhou Zhiyuan was an innocent person and should not be harmed by Zhou Lizhi, but she had no other choice. She returned to the companion space and looked through her collection, trying to find something that could protect Zhou Zhiyuan from this harm.

Love potion? No, no, it's for forgetting love; Meng Po soup? Drinking one sip will turn you back into a baby, and you'll have to start all over again even walking and talking. Isn't this harmful to Zhou Zhiyuan? Forget-me-not? Will it make Zhou Zhiyuan an optimist and free of worries? No, it's said that people are born in adversity and die in comfort. In this era, you don't know how you can die without a sense of adversity...

Cui Shichu searched for a long time and finally found a dream-peeking pill. As the name suggests, "dream-peeking" means to peek into other people's dreams.

Cui Shichu gave the dream-peeking pill to Zhou Zhiyuan, and gave him the option of peeping into Zhou Lizhi's dream.

So that night, Zhou Lizhi began to dream again. She dreamed that she went back to her previous life. In her previous life, she was forced by her biological mother to break up with Chen Wenya and marry Sun Jianshe. After marriage, they quarreled constantly. Then her younger brother was seriously injured in a car accident. Her mother borrowed money from her and asked her to come to the hospital to help take care of her younger brother... Then her children were born, and she quarreled with her mother-in-law over trivial family matters. Her husband was laid off and did hard labor to earn money. She lost her job soon after, but stayed at home as a housewife and disciplined the children. The children were mediocre and failed to get into university and had to work in other places. Her mother fell ill and could not take care of her younger brother, so she asked her for help and borrowed money from her from time to time... She gradually got old and began to quarrel with her son and daughter-in-law...

Everything that happened to Zhou Lizhi in her previous life was replayed in her dream in great detail. Because Zhou Zhiyuan was peeping into her dreams, he felt her real feelings. So Zhou Zhiyuan felt all the pain Zhou Lizhi felt when she was forced to marry Sun Jianshe, her resentment towards her mother, her love for Chen Wenya, and her disgust towards her mother-in-law, husband, and children - of course, this also included Zhou Lizhi's complaints and disgust towards her brother.

Every time Zhou Lizhi saw her disabled brother, she couldn't help but think: Why didn't he just die in that car accident? So as not to implicate her as a sister.

When her mother begged her to borrow money, she became very impatient and found many excuses to refuse. Even when she couldn't refuse and had to lend the money, she would urge for the repayment within half a month, for fear that her mother would die before she paid it back... If it weren't for her own reputation, she would not have wanted to return to her mother's home at all.

After her burdensome brother and mother finally died, she was ecstatic and couldn't wait to take over her mother's house. However, she refused to pay for the cremation of the mother and son, and she didn't even go to get the ashes, but threw them directly at the funeral home.

The two burdens that had been weighing her down were gone, and in the end she felt relieved.

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Zhou Zhiyuan, who understood Zhou Lizhi's psychology clearly in her previous life through dreams, finally felt relieved after waking up. He thought that his sister might have dreamed of her completely different life experience, which caused her to change her attitude towards him and his mother drastically and want to cut off contact with them?

If my sister had really married Sun Jianshe instead of Chen Wenya in this life, would I really have been in a car accident and become disabled? Zhou Zhiyuan couldn't help but touch his legs, feeling lucky that he was healthy now.

He thought of his sister's disdain and avoidance of him after he became disabled, and smiled bitterly. Since his sister felt that he would be a burden and didn't want to associate with him, he should fulfill her wish.

He just wanted to protect himself and let his mother enjoy her old age. Zhou Zhiyuan thought of his mother's haggard and old appearance in his dream because she had to take care of him, and his heart ached. He couldn't let his mother suffer in such pain at an age when she needed someone to take care of her.

"Mom!" Zhou Zhiyuan ran to the kitchen without even washing his face or brushing his teeth, and hugged Cui Shichu who was making breakfast.

"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?" Cui Shichu asked knowingly. This kid must be upset after seeing Zhou Lizhi's experience in her previous life.

"I guess so. Mom, I will definitely be filial to you in the future." Zhou Zhiyuan said solemnly.

"Okay, Mom will wait for your filial piety." Cui Shichu said with a smile.

It’s just that the original owner, to whom he should have been filial, has already been reincarnated, and Zhou Zhiyuan will never know this.

(End of this chapter)