Chapter 1, Rebirth

The sky was blue, and it was a rare good day.

On the tree branches outside the window, a few birds were chirping and singing.

In the ward, there was an old woman with wrinkles all over her face and a haggard face. She was receiving an IV drip through her arm. She looked out the window, and her eyes seemed like a dry old well, gray and lifeless, and could no longer ripple.

After a long time, she slowly closed her eyes, and a tear slowly dripped from the corner of her eye. In this life, she had experienced a lot, losing her child, divorce, betrayal by friends, being framed and imprisoned, and finally contracting an incurable disease, and could only lie on this bed and slowly wait for death.

The door of the ward was pushed open at this time, and a woman wearing a cheongsam and with an elegant temperament walked in.

She came straight to the bedside, looking down at the old woman on the bed, her eyes full of mockery and disdain. They were the same age, but she was still charming, like a young woman in her thirties, while she looked like an old woman in her seventies or eighties, lying on the bed waiting to die.

"Ling Yao, are you unwilling to accept this?"

Ling Yao opened her eyes and stared at the woman in front of her, her eyes overflowing with hatred. She had fallen to this fate because of the woman in front of her. Zhou Yu was an out-and-out demon, more poisonous than that venomous snake.

"What's the point of you being unwilling? All your property is mine now, and the man you love is also mine. You are just a piece of trash. You can only be my stepping stone in this life. You will never be able to defeat me, hahaha..."

Zhou Yu approached Ling Yao with a big laugh, "Let me tell you a secret, I poisoned your mother to death."

"I'm going to kill you..." Ling Yao quietly pulled out the needle on the back of her hand, with crazy hatred flashing in her red eyes.

Zhou Yu sneered, "You couldn't beat me when you were young, let alone you now."

"One day...you will get retribution..."

Zhou Yu sneered, "Retribution? I never believe in this thing, I only believe in myself." As long as she is cruel enough and her methods are high enough, who can do anything to her.

You have to know that she is not only one of the world's top 500 companies, but also the CEO of Zhou Group. Her husband is also a military commander. Who dares to do anything to her?

"Hiss!" A sharp pain came from her hand.

Zhou Yu looked down and saw a bloody mark on the back of her hand where Ling Yao had stabbed her with a needle.

"You dare to stab me with a needle." Zhou Yu pinched Ling Yao's neck in anger and panic, and her teeth made a clattering sound, as if she wanted to bite Ling Yao to pieces.

Ling Yao sneered at Zhou Yu, "There is my blood on the needle... You will be infected by me soon..."

"Ling Yao, go to hell." Zhou Yu pinched Ling Yao's neck even harder, her face was ferocious, and at this moment she was like a wild beast out of control.

Ling Yao felt as if she was in a dark abyss. The air around her became heavy and thin, as if an invisible mountain was pressing down on her, making it impossible for her to breathe.

The sound of her heartbeat became unusually clear, as if a drum was constantly beating, announcing the coming of her death...

She stared at Zhou Yu with her eyes wide open, her body began to twitch constantly, and slowly her eyes fell into darkness...

The next moment, Ling Yao suddenly felt that her breathing became smooth. She opened her eyes suspiciously, and everything she saw made her feel strange and familiar. Isn't this the room where I lived when I was a child?

Before she married Gu Qing'an, she had been living in Hongqi Village, relying on her mother. Her mother was a barefoot doctor and the only village doctor in the village.

As for who her father was, she didn't know, because every time she asked her mother this question, her mother's eyes would turn red. Later, when she grew up and became sensible, she never asked her mother this question again.

But she heard from the villagers that her father was an educated youth, and after returning to the city, there was no news of him again.

"Knock knock knock!" The knock on the door interrupted Ling Yao's thoughts.

The door was slowly pushed open, and a middle-aged woman with a tired face walked in with a bowl of steaming hot medicine.

Seeing the person coming, Ling Yao's eyes turned red instantly, "Mom!" She hadn't seen her mother for a long, long time, and she really missed her. Could it be that all this was an illusion after her death? Otherwise, how could her mother stand in front of her alive?

She pinched her thigh hard with her hand, and Ling Yao almost cried out in pain. Her tears flowed even more fiercely, and she stared at the person walking towards her without blinking. She could feel the pain, could it be that all this was real? Could it be that she was reborn and returned to the time when her mother was still alive?

"Yaoyao, come, take the medicine." Ling Xuemei brought the medicine to Ling Yao, and seeing the tears on her face, she frowned with heartache, "Does the wound hurt again? Come and let mom take a look." Putting

the medicine bowl on the square stool beside her, Ling Xuemei sat down beside the bed. Just as she was about to lift the quilt to check Ling Yao's wound, she was hugged by Ling Yao.

"Mom! I miss you so much!" Ling Yao hugged Ling Xuemei tightly, feeling the gentle and familiar scent on her body. In this life, she will protect her mother well and will never let Zhou Yu hurt her again.

Ling Xuemei patted Ling Yao's back gently, with a kind smile on her face, "You are so old and still acting like a spoiled child."

"Mom! Let's never separate again, okay?" Ling Yao raised her head and looked at Ling Xuemei. It's great that at this time she has not married, has not met Zhou Yu, and her mother has not died of illness. Everything is still in time to change. In this life, she will make those who have hurt her pay the price.

"Silly child! You will get married one day, do you want to take your mother with you?" Ling Xuemei doted on Ling Yao's forehead with her finger.

"I will take you with me. If the other party doesn't agree, I won't get married."

Ling Xuemei couldn't help laughing. She reached out and took the medicine bowl beside her, "Here, drink the medicine first."

"Yes." Ling Yao took the bowl with a smile, raised her head and drank the medicine in one gulp.

Ling Xuemei looked at Ling Yao with surprise, "Yaoyao, aren't you afraid of bitterness?" What her daughter feared most was taking medicine. She frowned every time she took medicine. Therefore, every time her daughter took medicine, she would prepare a piece of candied fruit or fruit candy for her to coax her to take medicine.

Ling Yao smiled and shook her head, "This medicine is not bitter at all." Compared to the bitterness she had experienced in her previous life, this little bitterness was nothing.

Ling Xuemei took out a fruit candy from her pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper, and stuffed it into Ling Yao's mouth, "There's nothing to be embarrassed about with mom, you can eat the candy and then sleep for a while."

"Yeah." Ling Yao responded obediently, her mouth was filled with a sweet taste, which was a taste of happiness.