After Leaving the Family, My Evil Stepmother and Deadbeat Father Begged Me to Come Home

Opening her eyes, Lin Qianqian found herself reborn as a cannon-fodder village girl. Her birth mother had just died, and her stepmother had moved in with her own daughter. From then on, Lin Qianqian and her three-year-old brother were forced to live in the woodshed, surviving on two bowls of watery porridge a day while enduring beatings and curses. Her stepmother sneered, “What use does a girl have for reading?” Yet she hired a tutor for her own daughter. Her grandparents favored her uncle, and her aunt was sharp-tongued and scheming, constantly plotting to sell her off for a good price. And her father? He stood in the yard, wringing his hands, too cowardly to utter a word. Lin Qianqian smiled. Taking her brother’s hand, she walked out of the house. “We’re splitting from the family.” The main hall erupted in mocking laughter. “A worthless girl dragging along a burden like him? You’ll starve to death out there!” She didn’t look back. After the split, she gathered wild vegetables and sold rabbits to earn her first pot of gold. A month later, her cassava starch became a sensation in the town’s restaurants. Two months later, she bought thirty acres of land east of the village. Three months later, she began demolishing the old house to rebuild it from scratch. Her stepmother grew anxious, her grandparents panicked, and her father paced back and forth at the gate—the same gate she had walked out of with her brother, never intending to return. At the end of the year, she passed by the old house in a newly built oxcart. Her stepmother rushed out, calling her name. She leaned over to wipe the grease from her brother’s mouth, not even glancing up. “Mother? My mother died long ago.” — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: After Leaving the Family, My Evil Stepmother and Deadbeat Father Begged Me to Come Home — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠