Rebirth: My Mother is a Virgin Mary

I was awakened by a rapid knock on the door, accompanied by an impatient voice: "Hurry up, the sun is shining on your butt!"

I subconsciously replied, "Get up right now! What are you shouting for?"

Wait a minute! I woke up suddenly and sat up: What's going on? Is the surgery over? I touched my body, no wounds, no pain, looked down, huh? Pajamas? Don't people in the hospital wear hospital gowns? No, this pajamas is...

I quickly looked around. There was a beige European-style wardrobe, a desk in the same color, and a standing fan next to it that was still spinning. I was still covered with a Big Mouth Monkey summer quilt. Was this... my room? Wasn't I in the hospital? Had I been discharged? But I remembered that the operation had failed. My last impression was that I was covered in blood, the doctors were in a mess, and I heard someone say that they had tried their best... Wasn't I... dead?

I opened the door in a daze, and Cheng Xinyuan grinned at me from outside. Why... Cheng Xinyuan looks so good today? When did he get his hair cut? His acne is gone. Did he look so good after I was hospitalized? Also, how long has it been since he smiled like this? I was in a daze, and a basketball was pressed against my nose: "College students are great, you can sleep however you want. I've finished two games and you're still not up."

"Playing basketball?!" I was anxious, "What kind of basketball are you playing with that leg! Don't you know what's going on?" I yelled at Cheng Xinyuan, looking at his left leg, but was so shocked by the smooth and straight calf under the red basketball jersey that I couldn't speak anymore. I looked at Cheng Xinyuan's face, then at his legs, and Cheng Xinyuan also looked at me with confusion.

With a bang, I closed the door, covered my mouth and squatted on the ground. I was dreaming. It must be a dream. Cheng Xinyuan's legs were intact! Cheng Xinyuan's voice rang out from outside the door: "Sister, are you confused in your sleep? I didn't mean to call you. No, you should sleep a little longer."

I slapped my face. This dream was too real. Cheng Xinyuan's voice rang out again: "This morning I went to East Street to buy your favorite pan-fried buns. Don't eat them cold. I bought them with my own pocket money. You have to reimburse me!"

I stood up. Since it was a dream, I might as well dream it for a while. It would be best if I never woke up. I opened the door. Cheng Xinyuan was still standing at the door, his eyes narrowed into a smile. He said in a rude way, "Breakfast cost me 14 yuan. You have to give me yuan rounded off. Cash or transfer?"

"miser!"

"Hey, I'll turn around by myself." He walked sideways into my room and took out my phone from under the pillow. "Based on what I know about you, the password is still the same... Bingo!"

I stared at my phone in his hand. What a great dream. This model must have been outdated a long time ago, but I could actually dream about it. I was in a daze, and suddenly my face hurt. Cheng Xinyuan pinched my face and said, "Sister, you look a little hysterical. Wake up and pack up. Second aunt and the others will come in the afternoon. Although I know they have no good intentions, I have to go there for the sake of face."

I hissed, Cheng Xinyuan was still pinching my face. No, no matter how real this dream was, the pain wouldn't be so obvious. I stared at Cheng Xinyuan: "You slapped me..."

"Fuck..." Cheng Xinyuan put his hand on my forehead, "You don't have a fever, sister, what's wrong with you? What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Not a dream?"

"What are you dreaming about? You're really sleepy. Okay, okay, you sleep a little longer. Oh, I shouldn't have woken you up." Cheng Xinyuan pushed me to the bed with a droopy face. "I never thought you were so grumpy when you woke up."

Cheng Xinyuan walked out, and I was the only one left in the room. I held my phone, looked at the date displayed on it, and trembled all over...

I tried to recall my last memory: they pulled me, I struggled to break free, ran desperately, and was hit by a speeding truck and flew out. My blood stained the entire operating table red. Doctors and nurses ran around in front of me, and the noise was very noisy. My consciousness became more and more blurred, and I vaguely heard a sentence: We tried our best... I closed my eyes, and the electrocardiogram turned into a straight line...

I'm dead, yes, I'm dead!

That's now... The date on my phone tells me it was seven years ago...

I pinched my arm, the pain and the red marks told me this was real, I touched my face, the touch was also real. I walked to the mirror, it was me, but not me. To be more precise, it was a younger me, the me seven years ago, the me when I was twenty…

I walked out of the room, looked at the living room, and then walked out of the house, looking at everything around me. In the cage at the door of the pet shop downstairs, a little Pomeranian was barking. The owner of the tobacco shop next to me was carrying goods with a cigarette in his mouth. Going further, there was a roasted gluten stall. When I saw the auntie who was running the gluten stall, I was really sure: This is not a dream, this really happened seven years ago! I remember when I was 25 years old, I wanted to eat some roasted gluten when I went home one time. At that time, the gluten stall already had a fixed store, but the auntie died of illness, and her son and daughter-in-law took over.

I thought about it carefully. All of this is true. I am indeed the 20-year-old me now. So why did I, who died at the age of 27, appear here? Did I go back to the past? Or was I reborn?

No matter which possibility it is, it's too outrageous! Did the plot in the novel or TV series come true? I thought about it seriously. If it is true, I am more inclined to believe that I was reborn, because I am sure that I was dead before. After being hit by the car, every bone in my body seemed to be broken. The pain was real. Although my consciousness was blurred, I could feel the blood in my body flowing away bit by bit...

I took a deep breath and accepted this reality: I was truly reborn!

After a quick wash, I looked at myself in the mirror and felt as if I had been through a different world. I was alive again, and I was living again from the age of 20! I curled my lips. I was 20 years old. Now should be the summer vacation of my sophomore year. What did Cheng Xinyuan say just now? My second aunt is coming over in the afternoon?

Second aunt?!

I frowned. Today should be the second day of summer vacation. On this day in my previous life, my second aunt came to our house with eight or nine people to matchmake for me. She said that it was useless for girls to study and I should get married while I was still young... Oh, when I think of her ugly and hypocritical face and the things she did to me, I can't help but feel sick...

I calmed myself down and decided that since I was reborn, I had to live well again. I couldn’t be as cowardly as in my previous life, otherwise I would be letting God down!

I opened the closet and saw that the clothes were either black or gray. Even in the hot summer, I had to wear jeans and canvas shoes. I didn’t even have a skirt. The 20-year-old me really loved these things. "Tsk tsk, no wonder my mom always said to me: Wearing such gloomy clothes, who would believe that my family runs a clothing store! The taste of a 20-year-old is really..."

My hands that were pulling at my clothes stopped, and my heart skipped a beat. My mother, Lin Qingmei, this woman whom I both love and hate...

When I was a kid, I watched TV series like "The Headless East Palace" and "The Palace of Desire", and I was often annoyed by the overflowing saintliness of the female protagonists. When I grew up, I realized that compared with my mother, Ling Yun and Liu Sanhao had to admit defeat. My mother adhered to the philosophy of "If someone offends me, I will not offend him; if someone offends me again, I will be very polite; if someone offends me again, it is my fault" and "Good people will always be rewarded". In her previous life, she thought she was virtuous and respected, and she successfully invalidated one of her son's legs and lost her daughter's life...