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editor: fainéant (only checks for grammar and spelling but not mistranslations)
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Sunshine peeked through the window. Jing Yunzhao frowned and slowly opened her eyes. Her head ached as she rose. Her long hair fell from behind her ears. Jing Yunzhao paused. Was someone messing with her again?
This long hair, didn't Qiao Hongye cut it all off a long time ago? Why is it still here?
The air carried a light, pleasant smell. Jing Yunzhao turned her head and saw a bowl of sweet porridge on the table. But just this one glance made her speechless.
This is where she used to live!
A clean bedroom with her favorite glass vase on the table, rich bamboos in the vase and the blue gauze blanket on the bed. The things in the room aren't worth much, but they were the things she had during the happiest time of her life.
Jing Yunzhao's heart was panicking immensely. She grabbed a nearby mirror with her shaking hands. The reflection in the mirror was of a familiar yet somewhat foreign face.
The face was hers, but it was the her from years ago!
It can't be, she had been reborn!
The skin on her body, the calendar in the room, everything was telling her that her thoughts was right! This is ten years ago! She's only 15!
She clenched her fists. Everything in her past life seemed like an unforgettable nightmare.
Remembering what had happened made Jing Yunzhao's heart tremble. Some time passed before she finally got out of bed and opened the door. She saw an assemblage of familiar faces in the living room. Seeing the faces of her enemies made her blood boil.
In the living room sat four people: two adults and two kids.
Her mother Ye Qin, stepdad Qiao Weimin, and a pair of fraternal twins; Qiao Hongye and Qiao Zizhou.
In her past life, she believed Ye Qin was her biological mother, but only later did she find out that she was only an orphan found by Ye Qin. Her surname, Jing, was the name carved on a piece of jade that was found on her. Ye Qin had always been good to her, but that was only when she didn't fight with Qiao Hongye and Qiao Zizhou.
And towards her stepdad Qiao Weimin...Jing Yunzhao can only feel disgusted and hatred.
In her past life, it was around this time when Ye Qin fell ill and passed away, making her even more of an unwelcome bastard that in that house. Qiao Weimin was a relentless pervert. After his wife died, he began to touch her here and there. She was young and scared and could only hide, afraid to report him. She believed that if she quickly entered to college, she'd be able to avoid this monster.
But she didn't think that this man had never even thought of letting her continue school. He used his position as her guardian and made her quit school. He made her cook and clean for his family of three.
She lived in that house in fear for five years, but she did not give Qiao Weimin what he wanted (T/N: sexual intercourse.) Even so, Qiao Weimin's thoughts and desires were discovered by Qiao Hongye. She spread rumors of Jing Yunzhao seducing her own stepdad, ruining her reputation. Every time she went out, people would point and gossip.
The year she turned 20, she met an old schoolmate. The schoolmate passionately chased after her (T/N: romantically not literally, E/N: LOL,) making the matter big enough for the entire town to know.
She understood her situation and position. She never planned on accepting him, but the Qiao's still didn't want to let her off the hook.
Under rage, Qiao Weimin couldn't control it anymore and finally laid his hands on her. During that night of resistance, she accidentally killed him. It was obviously self-defense, but Qiao Hongye and Qiao Zizhou turned white into black (T/N: they altered the truth.) And she was jailed.
After her imprisonment, the person who had been chasing relentlessly after her told Jing Yunzhao that he had never liked her. He only did what he did because he wanted to stimulate Qiao Hongye. The only one he ever liked was Qiao Hongye!