“Bang!!!”
Li Zhiyin sat up in bed!
The pain from the moment of her fall surged through her limbs in an instant.
Her mind was completely blank.
Where was she now?
Hadn’t she fallen to her death?
A scolding voice came from outside: “You worthless brat! Get up and go buy me liquor now! Are you deaf?!”
She ran out of bed, went outside, and saw a familiar man.
It was actually her adoptive father, whom she had long since severed ties with.
The man, drunk and bleary-eyed, slapped her without a word as soon as he saw her, waving a knife in front of her face.
“Go buy liquor! Or I’ll kill you!!”
His voice exploded in her ears along with a ringing buzz.
Li Zhiyin’s head was knocked to the side, her gaze falling on the digital clock in the living room.
May 3, 4024.
No, today was clearly May 3, 4025.
Li Zhiyin’s expression changed.
Had she been reborn?
Reborn on the day before the Li family found her?
Her head buzzed as her adoptive father continued to point at her nose, shouting insults, his mouth spewing nothing but vile obscenities.
Li Zhiyin ignored him completely, picked up the keys on the table, and slowly moved toward the door.
In her previous life, the Li family had suddenly shown up, claiming she was their biological daughter.
The reason the children had been mixed up was due to a major earthquake that struck Lanshan City at the time, causing countless casualties.
In the midst of the disaster, the hospital collapsed, and the conditions for giving birth were extremely harsh.
Her biological mother and adoptive mother happened to give birth in the same temporary shelter, both having daughters, and both husbands sharing the surname Li. Feeling a sense of fate, they maintained a superficially friendly relationship.
The adoptive mother saw that the biological mother’s family was loving, and her demeanor and speech clearly indicated wealth and status.
Meanwhile, her own husband was an alcoholic, abusive, and favored sons over daughters. He had always wanted a boy and had been cold toward her since she gave birth to a daughter.
Fearing her own child would suffer, the adoptive mother secretly swapped the babies.
The biological parents, unaware, raised the swapped child as their own, naming her Wuyou.
And she, Li Zhiyin, was the unlucky one who had been swapped.
Her adoptive father didn’t know she wasn’t his biological child and beat her because she was a girl.
Her adoptive mother beat her because she wasn’t her own child.
When the Li family came looking for her, her adoptive parents were overjoyed, demanded a large sum of money for her upbringing, and promptly severed all ties with her.
Just like that, she returned to the Li family.
But Li Wuyou did not return to her own family.
Because they knew her adoptive parents’ home was a living hell.
Li Wuyou, who had been pampered since childhood, couldn’t endure such hardship.
They repeatedly claimed that Li Wuyou was innocent and hadn’t been swapped intentionally.
On her very first day home, Li Wuyou cried, refused to eat dinner, and the entire Li family rushed to comfort her.
The long-awaited family reunion dinner, delayed for eighteen years, was eaten by her alone.
Not only that, she became Li Wuyou’s stepping stone.
Because Li Wuyou would cry, feel sad, and become depressed whenever she saw her.
So family dinners couldn’t include her, they couldn’t take her on vacations, she couldn’t be in the living room when they watched TV, and she couldn’t appear in family photos.
The one time they took her on a trip, both she and Li Wuyou were kidnapped.
At the critical moment, the Li family still resolutely chose Li Wuyou.
Li Zhiyin placed her hand on the doorknob and glanced back at the time.
Tomorrow at eight o’clock, the Li family would come knocking, ready to claim her and bring her home.Then, the two families who had harmed her would each go their own way towards happiness.
Today was her chance to reverse everything.
She let go of the doorknob. “Dad, I saw Mom with Uncle Wang.”
The man’s expression changed slightly, glaring at her out of the corner of his eye. “What did you say?!”
She turned to face him, her tone chillingly cold. “Actually, every time Mom said she was working overtime, she was with Uncle Wang in the building next door. If you go now, you should catch them just as they’re finishing up and coming out together.”
Li Zhiyin slowly curled her lips into a smile. “They clearly don’t care about you at all. They’re even planning to kill you and take your house.”
The man’s face, flushed from drinking, instantly twisted with rage. “They’re sneaking around behind my back again?! I’m going to kill them both!”
He grabbed a fruit knife and ran out of the house, slamming the door shut behind him.
Listening to the sound of the man’s hurried footsteps down the stairs, Li Zhiyin walked straight to her sister’s memorial portrait.
The girl in the portrait smiled like a flower, her youthful face appearing no older than fourteen.
She picked up three sticks of incense and lit them.
Not long after, piercing screams from a man and a woman erupted from downstairs.
A passerby shrieked in shock, “Ahhh! Murder!!!”
Li Zhiyin paid no attention, bowing three times before the portrait.
“Lele, is it because you saw how much I suffered that you let your sister start over?”
She looked at the girl’s portrait, her expression resolute. “Don’t worry, this time, your sister won’t let you down.”
Meanwhile, at the Li residence.
Li Zhiyin’s mother, Shen Shiyi, rushed out of her room. “Zhiyin! I need to find Zhiyin!!”
Two teenagers ran out from two other rooms. “Mom, what’s wrong?”
Shen Shiyi’s gaze was unfocused, her demeanor frantic as she threw herself before her sons. “I need to find Zhiyin! Your biological sister!”
The two handsome young men exchanged a glance, both seeing shock in each other’s eyes.
“Mom, did… did you have a nightmare? Why are you talking nonsense?”
Shen Shiyi’s expression changed slightly. Without answering, she hurried downstairs.
Before she died, her two sons and husband were being tortured in other rooms.
They died at different times, and they might not have been Reborn.
She couldn’t waste time now!
Just then, the nanny’s voice came from the living room. “Mr. Li is back.”
Shen Shiyi’s eyes lit up as she rushed to Li Xiao. “Husband, we need to go find Zhiyin. We wronged Zhiyin. I only realized at the end that I trusted the wrong person and spoiled the wrong person! I regret it so much, I really regret it so much!”
Li Xiao, who had just returned from the company, found her behavior utterly baffling. “What’s going on? What are you talking about? And who is Zhiyin?”
Shen Shiyi froze, her heart sinking with disappointment.
Had her husband not been Reborn either?
She had no time to explain, pushing past them. “I’ve found my biological daughter. I’m going to bring her home!”
Li Xiao and his two sons: “?”
Biological daughter?
Seven days ago, they accidentally discovered at the hospital that Li Wuyou was not their biological child.
Since then, they had been searching for their blood-related daughter.
Had they really found her today?
They followed Shen Shiyi straight to the door.
Coincidentally, Li Wuyou returned carrying shopping bags, asking cheerfully, “Mom, Dad, are you going out?”
Shen Shiyi’s face darkened as she snapped, “None of your business!”
Li Wuyou: “? Mom?”Li Xiao’s expression changed: “Honey, why are you being so harsh on our daughter?”
Her two sons also didn’t understand: “Yeah, Mom, even if Wuyou isn’t our biological sister, we shouldn’t treat her badly!”
Li Wuyou stood helplessly to the side, looking at Shen Shiyi with teary eyes: “Mom? What’s wrong with you?”
Seeing her cry like this, Shen Shiyi let out a cold laugh.
Many years had passed since Zhiyin died together with that criminal.
Their entire family had always felt guilty toward Zhiyin.
Especially her—she simply couldn’t accept her biological daughter dying right before her eyes and couldn’t move on for a long time.
Seeing everyone in the family gloomy day after day, Li Wuyou took the initiative to suggest going out for fun.
She believed it.
Little did she expect that Li Wuyou, together with her boyfriend, would kidnap them all!
The four of them were locked in separate dark rooms, suffering abuse!
She could clearly hear the screams of her two sons and husband.
She couldn’t believe that the adopted daughter she had treated as her own would betray her!
So, on the verge of death, she questioned Li Wuyou about why she did it.
Li Wuyou said nonchalantly: “Actually, I’ve known for a long time that you’re not my biological mother. People always said we don’t look alike, so I tested my hair. I’ve been wary of you for a long time.”
“And after Li Zhiyin died, all of you were moping around day after day. As someone without blood ties, I might as well take the initiative, get your money, and avoid losing both people and wealth.”
“Besides, you all knew my biological parents were no good, yet you still chose me. Who’s to blame? Blame yourselves for being foolish!”
She took her last breath in shock and regret.
She believed her corpse must have died with eyes wide open.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the day before picking up Zhiyin.
This was a chance given to her by heaven!
This time, she would definitely protect her daughter and never be separated from her precious girl again!
Without another word, Shen Shiyi said to the driver: “Take me somewhere, quickly!”