Chapter 2 – Reborn Schoolgirl
The broadcast was currently reporting on a female corpse around 25 years of age. It was discovered off the port yesterday afternoon and had been identified as a commercial spy and hit-man that was being chased by the police.
Seeing this news, the young lady's complexion became more and more serious.
Nobody knows, but the young girl's soul had been replaced, and by some cruel twist of fate, it was the soul of the female corpse shown on TV.
Correct, Tang Aining had been reborn.
No matter how unthinkable the matter was, it had still happened. The ever adaptive Tang Aining had taken the entire morning to accept and digest the matter.
Since the heavens have given her this chance, naturally she couldn't let down her dying pledge. Now that she was alive again, she would make sure that Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin died like dogs.
Therefore, Qi Ziyue, Tang Yaxin, please wait! Wait for her revenge, wait for her to balance accounts with the people who killed her mother and for her to destroy the Tang family who used her these many years.
Tang Aining had been reborn into the body of an 18-year-old by the name of Gu Ning. She had been born into an ordinary single parent household; moreover, the mother had given birth while she was unmarried.
Due to this the mother-daughter pair had suffered the taunts and shaming from their relatives, and Gu Ning even shouldered the infamy of a bastard.
Furthermore, Gu Ning was also excluded an isolated by her classmates, some even bullied her. Due to this sort of treatment Gu Ning didn't think much of herself, she had become antisocial, weak, timid, and lost all eloquence.
Gu Ning's mother, Gu Man was the only breadwinner of the house. She didn't have a university diploma, so she could only work in a factory, earning 3000 to 4000 Yuan in a month, therefore the two lived a very tight life. (430 to 630 USD)
Gu Ning was currently attending the Third City High School as a senior student. Furthermore, her college entrance exams were more than one term away.
Only, Gu Ning's grade average was no good, it would be difficult if she wanted to enter university.
Therefore, the relatives taunted Gu Ning and her mother, but at the same time they pretended to worry for Gu Man's burden should she have to pay for her daughter's education. They found a man for Gu Ning to directly marry, cutting off her road to college.
However, thinking of the reason that Gu Ning was lying in a hospital bed, Tang Aining's expression froze over and anger was evident in her eyes.
Perhaps it was because their situations were quite similar.
Up until then, Gu Ning had a boyfriend of two months, the cream of the crop among their classmates,, Qin Zheng.
Qin Zheng was a charming young man with some of the best grades in school. His family background was also good, his father was the chief of a travel agency and his mother was the director of gynecology and obstetrics in a hospital. He could be said to be a genuine second generation.
Gu Ning couldn't even dream that such an outstanding young man would pursue her, even more, Qin Zheng had loved her unrequited for a year. Although she didn't think that they should date, Gu Ning couldn't bring herself to reject Qin Zheng. A few days later, Gu Ning agreed.
But yesterday, this had all come to an end.
Yesterday was Friday when Gu Ning got off from school, Qin Zheng made an appointment with her. Gu Ning had initially thought that they were going on a date but never had she imagined that Qin Zheng would show up with Gu Xiaoxiao and dump her.
Gu Xiaoxiao was Gu Ning's uncle's daughter, only half a year older than her. From childhood she had been told that Gu Ning was a bastard, someone lower than her, so she was never able to stand the Gu Ning who had always been more beautiful than her, from infancy till adulthood. Gu Xiaoxiao had started to take pleasure from bullying Gu Ning as a pastime.
"Hu Ning, Qin Zheng has never liked you, he only went out with you because of a bet we made. I promised to date him if he dated you for two months. Therefore, he will be my, Gu Xiaoxiao's, boyfriend from now onwards." Gu Xiaoxiao had told Gu Ning with an arrogant tone.
Gu Ning had frozen from shock before she turned to Qin Zheng. "Is it true?"
Qin Zheng looked down at her with disdain. When he spoke, his voice was also filled with dislike, "Of course. Gu Ning, you really didn't think that I, Qin Zheng, would like a poor girl without any background like you, did you? If it weren't for my Xiaoxiao, I wouldn't even want to glance at you. Disgusting!"
Hearing him speak, Gu Ning almost collapsed to the floor.
Originally she had thought that she was like Cinderella who had run into her Prince Charming. She had never thought that all her fantasies were simply a laughable joke.
Unable to think straight, Gu Ning had run away. Because she wasn't paying attention, she wandered on to the road and collided with a car. In the end, she received serious brain damage and blood loss, but the driver made a getaway.
When she finally woke up, she had turned into Tang Aining.
At this moment, Tang Aining's train of thought was disrupted by two faint female voices.
"Fourth, this is 30,000 Yuan that I and your brother-in-law have saved up, but it'll still not be enough for Ningning's surgery." The voice belonged to Gu Ning's aunt, Gu Qing. Tang Aining noted that the concern in the woman's voice did not seem to be false in the least. Again, she spoke, "Nevertheless, you should try and borrow from eldest brother." (4730 USD)
Though Gu Qing proposed it, even she didn't hold much hope towards her eldest brother.
"I've already called eldest brother, but he said that sister-in-law manages the accounts, he doesn't have any on him. And you already know about sister-in-law, that person treats money like it's her life, f you want the money in her hand, you might as well ask her to give up her life."
Gu Man was helpless, though she had a few siblings, the wealthiest of them was her eldest brother, Gu Qingxiang. Though she said that he was the wealthiest, he was also the stingiest. How could she not know that everything that had come out of that man's mouth was just an excuse?
"What about Third younger brother?"
"Third brother said that he had just bought a house, so he doesn't have any savings at the moment… I'm a terrible mother, if she was born into someone else's house, Ningning wouldn't have to endure so much hardship. If anything happens to my Ningning, I don't want to live." Despair and self-loathing were clear in Gu Man's voice.
Although the present body wasn't in the best shape, Tang Aining was still a professional. Even though their voices were faint, she could still clearly hear them in Gu Ning's room.
Hearing Gu Man talk of killing herself, Tang Aining couldn't help but feel guilty.
Because she had been trying to digest her rebirth the entire morning, she actually hadn't had the chance to tell anyone that she was awake.
With a creak, the door was shoved open. Two middle-aged women entered the room, both dressed in clothes that had undoubtedly come off of a street stall. Though the clothes were quite old, they were still neat and tidy.
Because their financial status wasn't good, the women did not have the luxury to maintain themselves. Their appearance was that of several years older than their actual age. If someone said that the two were 50 years old, no one could say otherwise.
"Mother, aunt."
The moment Tan Aining opened her mouth, the words unconsciously poured out.
Looking now at Gu Man, the maternal love that the woman had ingrained into Gu Ning made her subconsciously want to accept the woman. Furthermore, the more she looked at Gu Man, the more Tang Aining couldn't help but compare her to her own mother, both women who had been cruelly abandoned by their men. She could only say that Gu Man was slightly luckier than Tang Aining's mother.
Although she faced many hardships, at least she was still alive.
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