The main thing was that there was no one nearby. After all, she had learned to swim when she was little and had even won awards. Who would have thought that after she dragged the child onto the shore, her own foot would get tangled in water weeds? She could clearly feel her entire airway filling with water, and her last thought was that she could finally go see her parents.
Her parents had died in a car accident when she was in the third year of junior high. After that, only she and her elderly grandmother relied on each other. Her grandmother, depressed after her parents’ deaths, grew weaker and weaker, and when she was in the second year of high school, her grandmother also left her. She was the only one left in this world.
Later, because of her excellent grades, she was recommended to Qingbei University. Along the way she both worked and studied. After finally graduating, she planned to go back and visit the graves of her parents and grandmother, but an accident happened. She didn’t really have any regrets—there were no relatives left anywhere, so she had no attachments.
The owner of this body has the same name as her, also called Lin Shiyao. Her parents are both employed: her father, Lin Jianguo, is a workshop director at a steel factory, and her mother, Xu Lizhen, is a salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative.
The couple has three children. The eldest son, Lin Xiangdong, is 22 this year and serves in the army on an island. The second child is the original host, Lin Shiyao, who is in high school and 17 years old this year. The youngest son, Lin Zhengbin, is in elementary school. For this era, their family’s living conditions are considered quite good.
The original host had been delicate and adorable since childhood, and as the only girl of this generation in the family, she was greatly pampered. Everything she ate and wore made others envious. Yesterday she went boating on the lake with her “fake” best friend.
Out of jealousy, that “fake” best friend pushed her into the water when she wasn’t paying attention. People nearby pulled her out, but for some unknown reason the original host left this body, and she transmigrated into it. Since the original host hadn’t been in the water long, she shouldn’t have died. Lin Shiyao couldn’t figure it out and decided not to think about it for now.
But she must get justice for the original host being pushed into the water. This “fake” best friend is named Wang Jiajia, who lives just across a street from them. Knowing the original host’s family was well-off, she tried every way to get close to her since middle school. The original host had been protected by her brothers since childhood and didn’t have many friends. Under Wang Jiajia’s constant flattery, she finally became friends with her. Wang Jiajia would often cry to her about being treated badly at home—doing the most work and eating the least. Feeling sorry for her, the original host frequently helped her and shared all kinds of good food, and gradually Wang Jiajia no longer looked malnourished.
But she thought the original host was stingy, only giving her a bit of food and refusing to lend money. Since graduation was approaching and failing to find a job meant being sent to the countryside, and because her family favored boys and gave all good things to her brothers, she grew jealous. Both were girls—why was the original host so loved by her family? Unwilling and envious, she harbored evil thoughts and pushed her into the water during their boating trip. The original host was probably frightened out of her life by the sudden fall into the water; otherwise she wouldn’t have been able to transmigrate into this body.
From the time of the drowning incident until now, that “fake” friend hasn’t come to visit even once. Just thinking about it makes her angry.