Chapter 1: I never thought about being reborn!
A faint smell of foot odor wafted to her nose, mixed with the smell of diesel fuel in the air. She also felt a series of jolts beneath her. Shen Xuewei frowned slightly and slowly woke up.
She blinked, then blinked again, as if in disbelief, then slapped open the legs in front of her and sat up abruptly.
What... what happened? How did I wake up and find myself on a sleeper train that I haven't ridden in for years, instead of at home?
Mr. Shen, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by her slap and opened his eyes impatiently.
"Xiaowei, didn't I tell you before we got on the bus to sleep well? If you sleep, you won't get carsick. We've only been gone for less than two hours, why are you sitting up?"
Shen Xuewei stared in a daze and shock at her father, whose face had become much younger, before finally coming to her senses.
She... seems to have been reborn, reborn in the year she was sent to her maternal grandmother's house.
There was no car accident, no jumping off a building, and no suicidal thoughts.
The bubble tea shop I acquired had just opened, and I was so excited that I stayed up two hours late.
She was reborn without any warning.
In a daze, she put a red plastic bag over her chin and lay back down.
Gradually, she curled up her body.
Mr. Shen glanced at her, and seeing that she was no longer moving, he wrapped the thin blanket around himself tighter and went back to sleep.
When her father's soft snoring came, Shen Xuewei slowly opened her eyes, touched her shrunken body, and tried to process everything in front of her.
Rebirth is a trendy thing, she knows, after all, she didn't read so many novels over the years for nothing.
The question is, how did she manage to catch up with him?
When she was in her early twenties, she did fantasize about being reborn, thinking about what she would do if she went back.
However, she is thirty-two years old this year, past the age of dreaming.
Through their own efforts, they were able to buy a house and a car.
Although we are not rich or powerful, we have a stable life with a few close friends and the upcoming arrival of cats and dogs.
She was very satisfied with her life and felt she had no regrets. She never thought about being reborn!
If I remember correctly, it's February of 2000, not long after the Lunar New Year.
The reason she remembers it so clearly is because that year, she reached school age, but she didn't have a household registration yet.
If you want to study in the city, you can only attend a private primary school.
In addition to the high tuition fees, students also have to pay high sponsorship fees to the school.
Her parents couldn't bear to spend so much money on her.
So during the Chinese New Year, under the pretext of inquiring about her maternal grandparents' health, Chen's mother suggested sending her to her maternal grandfather's house to study.
The elderly couple felt sorry for their daughter, and they agreed without hesitation as soon as she mentioned it.
Not only that, they also said that Chen's mother was taking care of a young child, which was inconvenient, and that studying in Huacheng was expensive, so they asked the two of them to bring Shen Xuewei's older brother, Shen Xuewen, along as well, and that they would help take care of him.
The two children can go to school together and keep each other company.
Shen Xuewen was the first child of Shen's father and Chen's mother, and he was a boy.
The couple couldn't bear to see him sent to the mountains to suffer.
They said that he was already enrolled in school, and if he changed environments again, he might not be able to adapt quickly enough, which might affect his grades, so they refused.
So, just a few days after the New Year, Shen Xuewei followed her father and boarded a sleeper bus to Yizhou City.
Shen Xuewei has always suffered from motion sickness since childhood, although her condition has improved somewhat after she started working due to increased car travel.
But after suddenly changing environments and lying in a sleeper car, the motion sickness just wouldn't go away.
She is seven years old this year, but hasn't had her birthday yet; strictly speaking, she's still six.
Children aged seven or under 1.2 meters tall do not need to buy tickets to ride in sleeper cars.
Although she doesn't need to buy a ticket, it's impossible for a sleeper train to reserve a berth specifically for her.
In addition, the beds on the train were so small that they were all occupied by Shen's father.
So she could only sleep in the aisle next to Shen's father.
If someone walks by and needs to use the restroom, you should move aside promptly, otherwise you might get stepped on.
The sleeper bus from Huacheng to Yizhou takes nearly twenty hours.
Because of motion sickness, Shen Xuewei couldn't eat anything and didn't eat a single grain of rice during the journey.
When they finally arrived at the bus station in Yizhou City, Shen Xuewei looked pale and sickly.
Shen's father took her to a small eatery outside the bus station, where they ate something, and then took her back to the bus station to wait for the bus.
My maternal grandmother's house is not in the city center; it takes at least six or seven hours to get there from the city.
First, you need to take a bus from the bus station to the county, and then take a minibus from the county to the town.
After arriving in town, you need to take a minibus to a village that is now accessible by road, and then walk along mountain roads, crossing several mountains, before you finally reach your grandmother's house.
Shen Xuewei no longer remembers her feelings at this moment in her past life.
However, she thought it must be a mix of confusion, anxiety, and fear.
But she never shared these feelings with her family.
And they... never cared about her.
From childhood to adulthood, Shen's father and Chen's mother always required her to be obedient, not lazy, and to help with household chores.
So even at a young age, she was already quite adept at washing dishes, mopping floors, and doing laundry.
Outsiders who see this will praise her parents for raising her so well, making her so sensible at such a young age.
At this point, her parents would speak modestly with a proud expression.
Before she turned twenty-five, she was always seen as an obedient and sensible girl by her relatives.
After she turned twenty-five, she was subjected to a barrage of negative adjectives, including rebellious, selfish, stingy, and unfilial, all hurled at her by her parents.
But at that time, she didn't care about any of that anymore.
Before her rebirth, she hadn't seen Mr. Shen and Ms. Chen for several years.
Rewinding time, looking at her still young father in front of her, Shen Xuewei lowered her eyes and avoided his hand.
Father Shen didn't mind, he just told him, "Then walk by yourself, follow behind me, and don't run around."
Shen Xuewei nodded gently, looking obedient.
The timing of this rebirth is really bad!
If she were reborn at the age of sixteen, she would immediately kneel down and kowtow to thank God for his great kindness.
Then, seizing the opportunities of the times, she rose to prominence, made a fortune, and became a wealthy woman.
Having read so many rebirth novels, she gets excited whenever she sees the heroine taking revenge on the villains, wishing she could jump in and slap them in the face too.
But the reality is, she is only six years old.
Even with a six-year-old body and a thirty-two-year-old soul, there's no way to change the current situation.
She was short, not very strong, had no money, and no special advantages from heaven.
Forget about taking revenge on scumbags, she's always the one getting abused wherever she goes.
Oh, her memories of her past life could be considered her cheat code.
However, this special advantage is useless to her right now!
If she were to rush off and tell others about the stock market crashes or the dramatic rises and falls in housing prices, her father might just send her to a mental hospital.
Now, there is no other way but to obediently go with her father to her maternal grandmother's house in the mountains.
In her past life, her relationship with her family was indeed quite strained, but now she had no other choice.
In this era where human traffickers frequently appear and there is no surveillance, if she doesn't stay close to her father, she might very well be abducted by human traffickers and taken somewhere unknown.
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