Chapter One: The Foster Mother

  The small town seems quiet and deserted, with a sense of coldness, devoid of hustle and bustle, as if far away from the world.

  The scorching sun was burning the earth, and occasionally a person could be seen walking quickly on the street, but soon disappeared from sight. The cicadas in the trees were calling out tirelessly, adding to the sweltering heat of the day.

  "Xiao Ruo has eaten." A thunderous roar echoed through the sky.

  Sitting on the old wooden stool in the room, holding a book in his hand, but his eyes were carefully looking at the ancient calendar in front of him, which had been torn for a month. It has been a week since he came here, and Mu Qing's heart has changed from initial incredulity to gradual adaptation.

  She died after being ambushed for failing to complete her mission and was reborn into the body of a girl named Sumo Ruò. The place she is currently in is just a remote small town that she had never heard of in her previous life, and some information can only be vaguely known through side conversations.

  Listening to the loud voice calling her to eat, she was once again very certain of her situation. She had really been reborn, reborn into this girl named Su Mo Ruo's body, a girl who didn't know who her parents were since childhood. To put it nicely, she still had a foster mother; to put it harshly, just like in her previous life, she was an orphan, a poor little thing without father or mother.

  This is a person who has been taking care of her mother for nearly eighteen years, and the two have been dependent on each other for eighteen years.

  Like many rural women, Nainai has a loud voice, tall and sturdy figure, thick waist and legs, and a big round face with spots formed by facing the mud and sun all day long. Judging her by modern standards of beauty, Nainai is not beautiful at all; however, she is the kind of daughter-in-law that rural mothers-in-law like - able to bear children and do chores.

  "Here I come." Responding with a loud voice, this kind of self would be unthinkable in his past life.

  She was one of the most mysterious dragon elite members in her previous life, a silent and introverted person who almost self-isolated. However, she unexpectedly reincarnated into 1995, in a remote small town, into the body of an outgoing girl with a boyish personality.

  Their two personalities are simply like heaven and earth, one is ice and the other is fire.

  When she first found out that the owner of this reborn body had such a personality, she was really shocked. After all, their personalities were too different. However, in the week after her rebirth, she gradually discovered that she was slowly adapting to the personality of this body's owner. The things she used to think were rebellious and unsuitable for a girl to say or do now seemed so natural and effortless.

  Su Mo and her foster mother lived in a small, old earthen house with two bedrooms, one kitchen, and one living room. The toilet was outside and shared with others.

  The lives of the two mothers and daughters were barely supported by the foster mother's daily odd jobs and the money left behind by the deceased father, but they were also struggling to make ends meet, gradually revealing the difficulties of this family.

  As soon as he walked out of the room, he saw a square wooden table with a long wooden bench on one side, where his foster mother sat with a warm smile. The master of the body obviously wanted to return her a smile, but unfortunately, his soul had changed, and although his personality was gradually adapting, in his previous life, he rarely interacted with people, so calling out to others and smiling both seemed a bit difficult for him.

  Her foster mother looked at her daughter's appearance, didn't care much, just smiled and put the bowl and chopsticks in front of her, then silently buried her head to eat.

  Looking at her foster mother like this, Sumo also stopped talking and started eating with a bowl.

  It's a very simple meal, which seems shabby for someone who has experienced life in 2013. Although she was a soldier and had eaten bitterness no less than those who fought in the war years ago.

  But for these people who were good to her, eating these things, she still felt somewhat ill at ease.

  In her past life and present life, people who were good to her could be counted on one hand. Now it's not easy to find someone like that, so she wants to work hard to make her live a better life.

  Although she was mischievous, every now and then other children's parents would come to her foster mother to reason with her, but she would patiently resolve the issue. Without any technical or cultural background, she won over others with her sincerity, and after each incident, she would help her handle the aftermath properly.

  Just like this time, it was because she had hit a boy on the street and broken his head, now he is still lying in the hospital. The two mother and daughter have been dependent on each other for 18 years. Although she was mischievous, she has never suffered from her foster mother's scolding. This time it was really her own fault that caused such a big trouble. This family was already struggling, and this incident added insult to injury. Even if the foster mother's temper was gentle, she had no choice but to teach her a lesson, so as to save face for the other family.

  Her face looks better now, but the cost has made her foster mother go gray, these days busy running around, east and west, just to make up for this medical bill.

  Four years ago, my stepfather passed away. At that time, the situation at home was even more dire. My stepfather's brothers and sisters all wanted to get a share of the family property, after all, she wasn't their biological child. My stepfather's parents had long since passed away, so naturally it was every man for himself. Each one had ulterior motives, although they were eventually suppressed, but the family was still severely injured. Similarly, the relationship with these relatives gradually became more distant. As for my mother's side of the family, as the saying goes, "a married-out daughter is like spilled water", even if they wanted to help, their own family wasn't wealthy, where would they get so much spare money to lend a hand?

  After some thought, it seems that in Su Mo's memory, his mother only had an older brother who was considered to be a wealthy man. He ran a hardware store in the county town and often went out to run errands on his tricycle, earning a decent income over the years.

  But thinking of her foster mother lowering her head for her, she felt that the previous Su Mo Ruo was simply not worthy. Her parents abandoning her was not her foster mother's fault, and yet her foster mother had unconditionally raised her for so many years. Not knowing gratitude was one thing, but actually getting angry with her over this matter, now becoming Su Mo Ruo's Mu Qing, she couldn't help but feel a wave of shame in her heart.

  This foster mother is uneducated, but she sincerely devotes herself to everything. She is kind and simple-minded, and in just this short week, she has learned many things.

  After finishing dinner, Su Mo saw her foster mother put down the bowl and chopsticks with her slightly dark and calloused hands, rubbed them a little, "Girl, this time the university scores are out, there are still more than ten days before school starts, are you preparing..."

  “……I want to take a year off school.” She struggled to say the word "mom" several times, but it was still hard to get out of her mouth, although she had already accepted this silly mother in her heart. Her own personality, combined with the resistance of the owner of this body, made her finally spit out the next few words tightly.

  Digression

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