Chapter 1
At midnight on July 1, 1997, the important moment of Hong Kong's return, in addition to the people watching TV, many people gathered in the square to listen to the broadcast. The streets were deserted, and everyone was waiting to witness this historic moment together.
However, a tragedy was unfolding in an upscale residential area. Su Miao was slapped hard by her stepfather and fell to the cold ground. She struggled desperately but could not get rid of the big hands that were tearing her clothes.
"Let me go! Help! Mom! Help me!!"
Her tears blurred her eyes and her painful cries for help echoed throughout the room. She wanted to seek help from her mother, but the only response she got was the return ceremony in the living room, which was obviously louder.
Su Miao was filled with despair. Today her mother called her and asked her to come home for dinner, but unexpectedly, she was pushed into the room by her stepfather with evil intentions.
While struggling, her hand touched a hard object at the head of the bed. It was the clay sculpture of a loving mother that she had bought for her mother. She grabbed it and smashed it hard on her stepfather's head.
"Ah! You little calf!"
While his stepfather was dizzy, Su Miao quickly jumped up from the ground and rushed to the door desperately.
Su Miao's heart was beating like thunder. She was about to escape from the clutches of the devil, but...
“Crack!”
The door was not open. It had been locked from the outside, cutting off her only hope of escape.
The stepfather came over cursing, holding his bleeding forehead. His naked, fat body looked hideous and wretched.
"Little bitch! Do you think you can escape today? Who can you ask for help? It was your mother who sent you to me! I advise you to behave yourself so as not to suffer!"
Su Miao was slapped hard again, and both cheeks were swollen. His stepfather grabbed his hair and dragged him to the bed.
The needle-like pain was nothing compared to the coldness in her heart. She screamed in disbelief, "Impossible! Mom! Come quickly! Save me! Mom!!!"
Perhaps her cry was too tragic this time, and she finally got a response from her mother.
From outside the door came the mother's usually elegant and indifferent voice: "Su Miao, stop shouting. I haven't given birth to a child for your uncle in all these years. I feel really guilty. Since you are my daughter, please give birth to one for me."
Her mother's words were like thunder, striking Su Miao so hard that her entire body trembled. She clutched her pounding heart and cried, "You're crazy! You're all crazy!"
Seeing that she had stopped struggling, her stepfather thought she had come to her senses, so he slowed down his movements and said smugly, "What's wrong with being with me? I have so much money but no heir. If you give me a son, all this property will be yours in the future. If it weren't for your mother's face, I wouldn't have gone to all this trouble to find you. There are plenty of college students out there who are willing to bear my children!"
Su Miao exerted force suddenly, pushed his unsuspecting stepfather away, and rushed to the balcony.
At this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew, lifting up her torn skirt. In this hot summer, Su Miao felt cold from head to toe.
Her eyes were red as she shouted angrily, "Then go find someone else. I don't want to! If you force me, I will definitely call the police! And I will definitely find an opportunity to kill you!"
The stepfather laughed out loud: "Do you think you can run away? You have to stay here until you give birth to my child. When the child is born, you will call the police? Can you bear to let your child become the son of a criminal?
Besides, I have the money to bribe you, and your mother can even write me a letter of apology. I can only give you a suspended sentence at best! Come on, stop talking nonsense, or I'll ask your mother to come in and help me hold you down! "
After saying that, her stepfather pounced on her like a vicious wolf. She had no way to retreat, and the force of leaning back made her fall over the railing that was not even around her waist.
In that split second, she suddenly felt that her life was a joke. No matter how hard she tried, she ended up becoming a tool for her mother to keep her glory.
The stepfather's ferocious expression turned into horror, because Su Miao fell from the 13th floor like a broken butterfly, and her youth stopped at the age of 23.
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After an unknown amount of time, Su Miao seemed to regain consciousness. She felt that her body was very light, so light that it could float.
So she floated around in this place that looked like a morgue, and during this time many spirits came. They all had one thing in common, which was that they could not leave their own corpses within five meters.
The other spirits didn't stay here long, because their families came and took them away soon, only she stayed here.
The height of the 13th floor was enough to smash her into pieces. She was put into the freezer on the first day she came in. Death should have made her unconscious, but she could still feel the biting cold.
It was not until five days later that a tall middle-aged man staggered in. He looked exhausted, his hair was gray, but his back was still straight.
The staff pulled her body out of the freezer and lifted the white cloth covering her face.
The man collapsed instantly and threw himself beside her, bursting into tears. He was her father whom she had not seen for many years.
Her father took her body out for cremation and returned to his hometown, Sujia Village, Ning Town, with her urn.
According to their local customs, a man will have his own grave planned in the cemetery after he is born, and a woman will be buried next to her husband after she dies.
A woman like her who died young without getting married could only be buried randomly in the deep mountains and forests.
But her father didn't care about all this and buried her urn in the place originally reserved for him.
After the burial, she found that she could float next to her father. Her father did not believe that she had fallen and ran around seeking justice for her.
However, my stepfather did have some influence in the local area, and my mother was on the side of forging evidence, so my father encountered many obstacles along the way. Later, he was even detained for a week on charges of disturbing public order.
My father was unwilling to give up and wanted to go to a higher-level department to appeal, but he was hit and killed by a large truck on the road.
Su Miao was floating in the air, watching his father being lifted out from under the wheel by rescuers. The doctor who came for emergency treatment shook his head, indicating that the chance of rescue was lost.
She felt her numb heart begin to ache again. It turned out that her father loved her.
I knelt beside my father and waited for a long time, but his spirit never came out of his body.
Su Miao was very anxious. In all the deceased people he had seen before, as long as they were not buried, their spirits would float around their bodies. Did the fact that his father's spirit had not come out mean that he could still be saved?
Su Miao cried to the doctors, begging them to save her father, but no one could hear her.
She rushed forward to try to stop the ambulance as it was about to leave, but was driven through by the car and her efforts were in vain.
She threw herself on her father in despair, and in such pain that her heart was broken, a tear solidified and fell on the amulet around her father's neck, emitting a faint light.
Su Miao felt dizzy and soon lost consciousness...
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