In the summer of 1970, 18-year-old Xie Yan finally returned home after wandering around outside. As he walked into the alley leading to his home, his pace began to slow down.
I really don't want to go back!
Xie Yan looked up at the azure sky. The weather was beautiful today, with clear, cloudless skies that could lift one's spirits. Xie Yan loved sitting downstairs and gazing at such a beautiful sky when he was little.
It wasn't the misty sky we see in later generations; it was clear, like a giant sapphire, pure and deep, with a few white clouds drifting by, each with a different shape.
When Xie Yan was little, he especially liked to sit downstairs and look at the sky, watching the clouds change into various shapes. Sometimes they looked like cute little animals, and sometimes they looked like magnificent city walls.
Whenever Xie Yan sees clouds that resemble fairies, he wonders if they are fairies visiting other fairy tales, or if there is some event in the celestial realm and the fairies, in their haste, accidentally revealed their shadows.
Anyway, Xie Yan now is no longer the atheist he was in his previous life!
Yes! It must be his past life. In his past life, Xie Yan was an ordinary wage earner, living a life where he could see the end from the beginning. His boss paid him one wage but made him do the work of three people, and held daily meetings to promote gratitude to the boss and the company. What a load of rubbish!
Working overtime for free and expecting gratitude from others? Seriously!
Every time the company held a large meeting, Xie Yan would mutter to himself, watching those sycophants go up and shower everyone with compliments. Xie Yan sincerely admired them; flattery was a skill, wasn't it?
Even after studying for so many years, she still managed to learn it!
Oh! I forgot to mention, Xie Yan was a girl in her previous life who studied design. She often had to deal with all sorts of demands from her boss, including designs that weren't limited to colorful black.
She also has to deal with everyone pressuring her to get married. In her twenties, she is constantly being pressured to get married. It feels like if she is not married or in a relationship at her age, she has committed a cardinal sin. People she hasn't seen for years, and they barely exchange a few words when they meet, does that mean they are married?
Upon hearing that you're not married yet, she looked surprised. After learning that you're not married and don't have a boyfriend, she started introducing you to people!
All sorts of oddballs and deformities were included in this category. In the end, Xie Yan got smart and told everyone that she had a boyfriend from out of town!
But this trick won't work on your family!
When I got home, I still had to face endless pressure from my family to get married. With the Chinese New Year approaching, I was working overtime at the company to organize the annual meeting. I worked overtime until two or three in the morning for several days in a row. My body was overloaded and my boss had a lot of things to do, so I just collapsed at my workstation.
When she regained consciousness, she was woken up by being slapped on the bottom. Who could stand that? She was so angry that she started cursing, but the sound she made startled her. It was the sound of a baby crying!
After a long while, listening to the sounds around her, she realized that she seemed to have turned into a baby!
Ah! Wasn't she working overtime? How did she turn into a baby? Where is this? What happened?!
Before she could figure out what was going on or what the world was like, her computer was forcibly shut down.
Babies sleep most of the time, and even though Xie Yan is the soul of an adult, she can't control this bodily instinct. It took her a while to figure out that she had been reborn as a child, and that she must have died in her previous life.
Thinking about this, Xie Yan couldn't help but feel fortunate that she had a lot of children in her family. She wasn't necessarily loved by her parents and family members much, and by not getting married for the past two years, she had offended them to no end!
Even though she's gone, at least the company will give her family some compensation, which can be considered her final act of filial piety!
Having read countless novels in her previous life, Xie Yan quickly accepted her new identity, spending her days eating and sleeping.
And so, the carefree Xie Yan didn't realize until the baby was a month old that she was a boy and no longer a girl!
This shocked her and made her feel very uncomfortable. In her previous life, whenever she had menstrual cramps, she would think how wonderful it would be if she were a boy!
Or when she encounters injustice, she might think, "If she were a boy, would she be less likely to encounter such things?"
But she never really wanted to be a boy. Even when she was little, when faced with others' disdain for girls, she thought, "Where are women inferior to men! I must be better than boys!"
It was with this indomitable spirit that Xie Yan studied hard as a child and managed to get out of her backward and feudal mountain village. After growing up, she worked hard. Although she is in her twenties, she is still as naive as a teenager. But there is no denying that she has excellent professional skills. Otherwise, how could she survive in a place full of sycophants if she didn't know how to flatter?
So, in essence, Xie Yan never really wanted to become a man!
It took Xie Yan a long time to accept the fact that he had become a boy! (From this point on, Xie Yan will use the term "he" or "the one" in this context.)
Fortunately, his parents still named him Xie Yan in this life!
The happiest moment for him was that he was no longer the eldest in his family in this life. He had been the eldest for his entire previous life, and he never wanted to be the eldest again!
The hardships of being the eldest child are only understood by those who have been the eldest child, let alone someone who was the eldest sister in their past life!
But he realized he was too optimistic after he had a younger sister and brother!
In their family, the older sister is the eldest child and the parents' first child, so naturally they pay more attention to her.
Xie Yan was born in 1952. At the time of her birth, her family was not well-off. Only Xie Daguo had a job and had to take care of his brothers in his hometown, so Xie Yan wore his older sister's clothes when he was little.
What drove him crazy wasn't the clothes, but the food. Chen Guihua's cooking was all boiled, with no oil or broth, just a big pot of vegetable soup made from various vegetables. Eating like this every day was incredibly distressing for a foodie!
If it weren't for the fear of starving to death, Xie Yan wouldn't have wanted to eat a single bite.
When Chen Guihua got a job, Xie Yan thought the food at home would be better, but he was wrong!
With the arrival of her younger sister and the construction of a new house in their hometown, the family faced even greater difficulties. The poor food resulted in Chen Guihua not producing enough breast milk. Her parents felt they owed their younger sister a lot, so they doted on her.
When Xie Yan was young, he felt sorry for his parents. Since he wasn't really a child, he was quite sensible from a young age. He would do some housework as much as he could and would handle his own affairs without bothering his parents. Gradually, his parents took his sensibility for granted. As an older brother, he should take care of his younger sister. Whenever there was a dispute between them, his parents never asked about the specifics and only thought that Xie Yan was being immature!
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