The thudding of heavy rain on the windows filled the silent ward. On the hospital bed, a woman with tear-stained long lashes was mumbling something incoherently.
This woman was Ji Jingwan.
Ji Jingwan had delicate features, thin eyebrows, small-upturned nose and heart-shaped lips. She looked like someone, who had walked out of a beautiful painting.
She was sleeping uneasily with her brows furrowed, her face looked deathly pale. But the paleness on her face did not make her look haggard, it added slight charm to her face. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead and her face contorted as if she was in a lot of pain. A loud rumble of thunder brought her out of her deep slumber.
Her eyes flew open, filled with shock and confusion. She breathed heavily trying to soothe her fastening heartbeat. It took her a while before she calmed herself and started to comprehend what was going on. She slowly turned her eyes to look around at the white surroundings.
'Am I in a hospital? Did I survive?'
She remembered that she was stabbed in the heart by a knife. As she was rejoicing at the thought that she survived, there was a knock on the door. The person outside did not wait for any response and directly barged inside.
She was slightly stunned by the sudden intrusion but before she could ask the person what was wrong, all the words got stuck in her throat, and her eyes widened as her already pale face went a shade lighter. She was stunned to see the person standing in front of her.
'This...' Wasn't this her agent from her first company, which she had left long ago. What was she doing here?
'No, something did not seem right.'
As she was mulling over various possibilities, the agent has already walked over. The agent's eyes could not hide the disgust she had for the person in front of her.
"All your work will be suspended from now on. You might also be facing termination of your contract with the company and heavy compensation."
Ji Jingwan didn't respond as she stared at the agent's face in shock.
"Who did you think you were, trying to get in conflict with Miss Shen? She has powerful backing, what about you? Did you not know that to survive in the entertainment industry you need to tread carefully."
The agent paused, realizing she was sounding harsh. She tried to soften her voice to sound caring toward Ji Jingwan,
"But you don't have to worry, I will try to get us a meeting with higher-ups. You can plead with them, maybe then they will be lenient towards you."
The woman talked one-sidedly and without waiting for a response from Ji Jingwan, she turned and left.
But Ji Jingwan didn't have much reaction towards the words of the agent, as she seemed to have thought of a distant memory that inter-lapped with what was happening now.
She remembered that four years ago when she was the third female lead in a drama, she had gotten into a conflict with the female lead of the drama, who was the person mentioned by the agent 'Miss Shen'.
Shen Yue came from a wealthy family, thus after she got into a conflict with her, not only did she get pushed into the pool by Shen Yue's assistant for which she ended up being in the hospital. But also on the charge of delaying shoot, she got fired by the director and even got a letter of termination from her company.
But that was not the end, she had always thought her agent was good to her, so she could not see the trap her agent had set up for her. The meeting with higher-ups was a trap she had set to let her take the blame for seducing a married man. With this mark on her career, she ended up being a blacklisted actress.
At that time she did not understand why all of this happened, it was only later she knew the reason.
But What was going on now?
'Am I dreaming?'
Ji Jingwan lifted her hand to place it on her beating heart, as she went into a trance, trying to distinguish between reality and dream.
She remembered the feeling of being stabbed and her life slowly floating away. That feeling of suffocation had to be real. At this point, there was only one thought in her mind,
'I have been reborn!'
Rebirth was something that could only be heard in fiction novels, now it was happening in real life. It was quite unbelievable that she was experiencing it. She had suffered quite a lot in her previous life, maybe the heavens pitied her and gave her a second chance at life.
Back then, she had got together with Mu Fengting because she needed money for her mother's medical expenses. Mu Fengting also had someone else in his heart while she was just a substitute for her. There were not many feelings between them. But after going through a lot of ups and downs, they were finally together for love. She had thought they would spend their lives together but Mu Fengting, the person she thought would always believe her, did not trust her and instead kept misunderstanding her.
In this life, she will not make the same mistakes again. She will live for herself and be with the person who had truly cherished her in her previous life, the man who always had silently supported her but never asked anything in return.
Now that she has been reborn, back in time when everything was fine, there was still a chance for her to be together with him in this life.
In her previous life, half of Ji Jingwan's life she cared for a woman who she thought was her only relative in this world - her mother. But in the end, she found out that her mother was the reason for half of her miseries. But now that she knew everything already, she would not be fooled by anyone. She would fight back and get her revenge on all the people who try to ruin her life.
Ji Jingwan would never forget the woman who was the reason her life was riddled with problems and how she has been framed time and time again. She was about to expose all the villainous deeds of that woman in front of everyone, but before she could do that, she ended up dying at that woman's hands.
As Ji Jingwan pulled back from all her memories, she thought, 'It is all in the past now, this time she will be in control of her destiny.'
But Ji Jingwan did not know the saying, *"The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence."