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The Reborn Sidekick Rejected The Male Lead

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Bab 1: Chapter 1: Prologue

I was the pampered golden girl of my family, but because I was love-struck, I followed a phoenix man, not only breaking with my family but ultimately dying a miserable death because of him!

His ex-wife cheated on him, and after their divorce, I, without any formal status, followed him like a nanny, slavishly taking care of his entire family for over a decade.

Yet, on the very first day his ex-wife returned, she tried to kick me out of the house.

Even those two sons that I raised from their infancy mocked me coldly, "It's because you kept clinging to our dad that our parents got divorced. You homewrecker, hurry up and get out of our house!"

But what they didn't know was that I had been reborn.

This family, from the big phoenix man to the ungrateful wretches, they'd played me for a lifetime. In this life, I wanted them to repay everything they owed me!

*

"Jingqiu, I know how you've felt these years, but if I could have settled for less, I wouldn't have made you wait for so long. Now that Xia Lin has returned, you know how hard I've been searching for her over the years. At our age, we can't afford to wait anymore.

All these years, Yian and Yicheng have been fortunate to have your care. I've always been grateful and guilty towards you, but for the rest of my life, I can only owe you this favor.

In the future, you also should live well. Take this card; the PIN is your birthday. It's enough for your retirement. The best I can do for you is just this much."

So, my years of sacrifice could be measured in money, Lu Jingqiu felt as if her chest had been struck, the pain was intense, and she was unwilling to take his money.

Gao Shu frowned deeply, forcing the card into her hand: "You know that from the start in the countryside, you two didn't get along. Now that she's returning, the person she dislikes the most is you."

Lu Jingqiu, well into her fifties, had a full head of white hair due to long-term medication and her face bore added traces of hardship: "Gao Shu, I don't want your money. Xia Lin has been gone for twenty years, you're still pining for her. Then what am I? I have loved you since my teens into my fifties, chased you for a lifetime, and yet, I'm still not as moving to you as an adulterous woman. Where did I fall short compared to her?"

"Jingqiu, you are better than her in every way, but the one I will always love is her, no matter the past or the future, good or bad. You should go. She's coming back tomorrow." Gao Shu didn't want to explain too much, fearful that it would worsen her mental illness.

Encountering Lu Jingqiu, this love debt, was a punishment from the heavens he could never shake off in his entire life.

"I won't leave. I still need to take care of Yian and Yicheng. They can't live without me."

Gao Yi An, standing to the side with a gloomy expression, said, "Aunt Lu, we're grown up now. We don't need your care anymore. On the contrary, it's you who keep clinging to my dad. My mom must have misunderstood my dad because of you, right?"

Lu Jingqiu was slightly stunned, and the sudden accusation from Gao Yi An intensified her heartache: "No, it wasn't because of me, your parents..."

Before she could finish, Gao Shu interrupted her, abruptly asserting, "Enough, Jingqiu. Don't talk about such nonsense in front of the children. It was my fault for not going up the mountain to find you, making you endure all this, okay? I also shouldn't have felt pity for you when you came back from the sanatorium and let you come to my house to help take care of the kids, making you think I had feelings for you. But don't you also bear responsibility?

Let's not dredge up the past; we might as well leave it unsaid. But now, we are both of an age; are you brain-dead? Why can't you turn the page? What is it you like about me? My looks, or what? If it's my face, I'll disfigure it right now. I'm tired. I'm begging you, Jingqiu, let go. You've been clinging like musilage glue all these years; do you know that?"

Lu Jingqiu stared at Gao Shu in slight terror, even seeing the painful, knotted lines around his eyes, hearing him utter such harsh words for the first time. She wasn't ill today; her mind was clear, and she felt almost like her heart was being gouged out and crushed: "Gao Shu, how can you speak to me like this? You were not like this before. You said that when Xia Lin left, your heart died with her.

You once promised to try to accept me slowly, and because of that one sentence, I've served diligently in your house for years, treating Yian and Yicheng like my own, afraid of them breaking if held too loosely or melting in my mouth.

You gave me hope to become your wife. But my hair has turned white waiting, and you never fulfilled that promise. I thought maybe you were rejecting me because of my illness, so I figured staying with you like this was pretty good.

Now that the kids are grown and Xia Lin is coming back, you feel like I'm in the way and even call me musilage glue. Gao Shu, I've become musilage glue only because you let me stick to you."

Gao Yi An responded emotionlessly, "Aunt Lu, it seems your mind is unclear again. It's going to snow soon. Yicheng, go pack up Aunt Lu's things."

Gao Yicheng responded, and in less than a moment, he came out with her suitcase, "Aunt Lu, take good care of yourself."

He said, with an expressionless face as he handed the suitcase to her, then slammed the front door shut, without a trace of reluctance or sorrow.

Lu Jingqiu looked at the child she had taken care of for over twenty years and mocked herself.

She had just gone out to buy groceries today, and when she returned, the father and his two sons would not let her in the house. They hadn't informed her beforehand, nor had they discussed it, they wouldn't even let her into her own room. Looking at the suitcase lying on the ground, she understood. Today, the father and his sons were determined to drive her out.

At that moment, her eyes were red, unable to articulate whether it was grief or pain she felt; it seemed that her decades of devotion had become nothing more than a burdensome shackle to them.

Ah, how tragic.

The winter wind was piercingly cold, like needles penetrating the soul. Lu Jingqiu, thinly dressed, tottered along with a suitcase in hand, aimlessly walking. Along the way, countless tears were scattered by the wind. Suddenly, she remembered things from a long time ago.

She had revolved her life around that man, sneaking into the countryside for him, giving up a good job arranged by her parents, even breaking ties with her family. After being humiliated, she had a mental breakdown and spent a full decade in a sanatorium.

Her aunt and father were right; she was a fool, bewitched as if she had taken some hallucinogenic drug, slaving away thanklessly for Gao Shu's family.

Looking at that successful man with his fulfilled family, was she regretful? Yes, regretful. Her life had drifted along, achieving nothing, and she wondered if she had been content, but she had no strength to resist.

Death, perhaps, was the best release for her.

Looking at the approaching truck opposite her, Lu Jingqiu didn't hesitate. She closed her eyes, feeling only guilt towards the driver.

She thought, if only heaven would give her another chance to start over. If she could do it all again, she certainly wouldn't hang herself on the same tree; she would look after her family better and lead a more fulfilling life.

The moment Lu Jingqiu closed her eyes, the driver's eyes also widened in an instant. The truck drove forward for more than ten meters, leaving him in a cold sweat. It took him a long while before he trembled enough to get out of the truck. Just now, he was sure he had seen someone in front of his vehicle.

But when he came out, there was nothing there, only tire tracks in the snow: "This is really spooky," he said as he looked around and rubbed his eyes. Finally, he cursed under his breath and got back into the truck and drove away.

All that was left were the falling snowflakes.

...

Lu Jingqiu only felt sore all over and wanted to lift her hand but found herself without strength. It was pitch black around her, with the sound of insects chirping and the smell of grass in the air. The texture beneath her hands felt like soil.

After struggling for a while, she finally managed to lift her hand and touch her face, thinking to herself that she definitely wouldn't choose a car crash the next time, it was too painful, but at least her face wasn't disfigured.

After resting for a while and not seeing Black and White Impermanence come to take her away, Lu Jingqiu was puzzled. Observing the darkness around her and feeling the soil beneath her hands, she realized it wasn't the same spot where the crash should have happened.

"I couldn't have survived, and the driver dumped me in the wilderness during the night, could I?"

Lu Jingqiu thought it was a possibility and quickly turned to feel around. Trying to get up, she felt something cold and metallic—sure enough, it was an old-fashioned flashlight. Fumbling with it, she turned it on and the light indeed came on: "This person, they actually kept something from more than thirty years ago."

Having said that, she realized something was off because the clothes she was wearing were clearly different from what she had on today. It was like the plaid shirt and loose trousers of decades past, not the cotton skirt she wore. Touching her hair, she discovered that at some point, her hair had been braided into two pigtails.


Bab 2: Chapter 2: Rebirth

A multitude of questions sent Lu Jingqiu into a bit of a panic. She shone her flashlight around, and upon seeing a crooked jujube tree, horror flooded her eyes.

This place was a perpetual nightmare from her previous life.

Back then, Xia Lin had come to tell her she was going to marry Gao Shu. Jingqiu couldn't accept this reality, nor did she want to give up so easily, so she staged her own disappearance in the mountains to make Gao Shu worry about her.

But fate had other plans. After running up the mountain, she regretted her decision as she ventured too deep and got lost. Wandering in circles, she couldn't find the path down and had no choice but to sit under the crooked tree and wait to be found.

To be located quickly, she flashed her torchlight toward the distance, hoping to signal them. Unfortunately, instead of Gao Shu and the others, she attracted men from a neighboring village who had come to steal trees at night. Seeing a lone and pretty educated youth like herself, they harbored evil intentions.

That night, her calls for help went unheard by the heavens and the earth alike. She was brutally violated.

It was also during this time that she missed the telegram from her father and the last chance to see her mother. This led to a rift between her and Father Lu.

The man she'd pursued for years married someone else. Her body desecrated, her mother's passing—in the face of these multiple blows, she became silent and withdrawn. Her mental health even broke down at one point, causing her to miss the college entrance exams that year.

Within one or two years, all the other educated youths had left after passing their exams. As a woman with no connections left in the village, she couldn't avoid being harassed by idle men.

It was later when Gao Shu and Father Lu came to Ten-miles Village that they found out about their daughter's suffering over the years. Gao Shu adamantly brought her home. Back home, seeing Xia Lin and Gao Shu flaunt their love every day only aggravated her condition. Eventually, her father had no choice but to send her to a sanatorium, hoping for a turn for the better.

But what no one knew was that Lu Jingqiu had endured the darkest decade of her life, ten years that could turn a sane person mad.

When your family is around, it's heaven; when they're gone, it's hell. There, the doctors and nurses treated her like an imbecile. The least disobedience elicited electroshocks until she complied.

Any resistance was met with abuse and humiliation. She often received spoiled food, once leading to gastritis, and within six months, she'd wasted away to skin and bones.

Every time her family visited, the doctors said her wasting was due to her refusal to eat. No matter how she explained, her father and aunt never believed her.

It wasn't until after Father Lu's accident, when she begged her aunt, that she was finally discharged. After some time to recover, she gradually resumed a normal life.

Thankful to the heavens, she had arrived at the very place her nightmare began.

Escape? No, she intended to redeem herself.

Lu Jingqiu calmed down at the thought of what was to come.

She stood up with her flashlight, searching the area until she found a sharp stick to hold.

Then, she picked up a few rocks the size of fists and placed them in her pockets, hidden in a concealed spot.

She shone her flashlight on her wristwatch - it was already past nine in the evening.

It was around this time.

"There definitely was someone here just now; where did they go?"

Jingqiu had been hiding for no more than five minutes when a dark figure approached from behind the tree.

"Are you looking for me?"

"Hey, is that a girl? Hehe." Before the man could see clearly, Lu Jingqiu viciously smashed a rock onto his head from behind.

"Ah, you witch, where are you from? How dare you hit me?" The man said, clutching his head, staggering a few steps, and about to find something to retaliate against Lu Jingqiu.

Unfortunately for him, Jingqiu didn't give him a chance, driving the sharpest end of the branch into the man's thigh. Pain forced a loud cry from him, "Ah, you wench, I have no quarrel with you, why hit me?"

"No grudges, huh, our grudges couldn't be more serious. What are you doing here in the middle of the night? Don't tell me you're planning to harm a young girl."

"I'm not, I came to chop wood?"

"Stealing wood, you mean."

"I didn't steal anything."

Lu Jingqiu had no interest in hearing his excuses, and once again she jabbed with the fork, this time nearly hitting the man's vitals. The man shuddered in fear, no longer caring about the pain.

Ignoring his pain, he grabbed the branch from Lu Jingqiu's hand and stood up, "Damn it, if I don't give you a lesson today, I wouldn't be doing justice to my injuries."

Even though Lu Jingqiu was prepared, she couldn't match a man's strength. As the man was about to take her branch away, Lu Jingqiu clenched her body and with one foot, kicked directly between his legs.

The man howled in pain, clutching his crotch as he knelt on the ground.

"Wang Fugui, right? Today I'll ruin you, you filthy man. Let's see how you'll harass women after this."

"You, who are you? How do you know what I was planning, grandmother, I was wrong, please let me go."

"Grandmother here is the Mountain Goddess, sent from the heavens to punish you, Wang Fugui. I know all about the female comrades you've hurt before, and today you'll face your retribution."

"Grandmother, I won't dare again, I won't dare, please spare me. I've only slept with the widows in our village a few times and normally do some petty theft. I came to chop wood today just to sell it to the lumber mill for a little spending money, please spare me, I won't dare to do it again."

Lu Jingqiu certainly didn't believe his nonsense. Recalling her own "previous life", her hatred intensified. Seizing a stone, she raised it to smash onto the man.

Seeing that begging for mercy was useless, the man tiptoed and limped towards the back mountain. Lu Jingqiu, who had harbored a lifetime of resentment, couldn't possibly let him go.

Armed with branches and stones, she chased after him. Before she could strike, she heard a faint "swish" followed by a piteous, long wail that grew distant.

Lu Jingqiu shone her flashlight down and saw a very steep slope. The fall wouldn't kill him, but he would be severely injured.

Seeing no movement from below for a long time, she realized that the man's chances were slim. At that moment, Lu Jingqiu's tense heart suddenly collapsed, and, disregarding her image, she slumped to the ground and began to cry loudly.

....

"Jingqiu, how are you feeling? Is your head still dizzy?"

At that moment, Lu Jingqiu, who was unconscious, suddenly sat up, closing her eyes, staggering as she got up from the ground.

The weather in mid-June was fickle, clear one moment, and cloudy the next, directing the harvesters with clarity. The sunlight was still dazzling, shining in every corner, making it difficult to breathe. The people of Ten-miles Village were busy harvesting day and night without rest, as the village chief said there would be heavy rain every year around this time.

They had to gather the grain into the storehouse before the rain came.

Lu Jingqiu came back very late that night. By the time she returned to the Educated Youth Spot, everyone in the girls' dormitory was asleep.

Her disappearance had gone unnoticed, just as in her "previous life".

Even if she came back disheveled in the early morning, nobody cared.

She had actually thought about playing missing to get Gao Shu's attention, which was ridiculous.

She couldn't imagine her last wish before death had come true. She thought it must be that even heaven felt sorry for her, giving her a chance to start over. After that day, she developed a fever, which only gradually got better after three or four days.

During those three or four days, she lived in turmoil, lying in bed sometimes excited, sometimes panicked.

Excited that she had been reborn, panicked about what had happened to that man.


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