Quick wear: cannon fodder is a bit strong

In a small, dilapidated rental house on the outskirts of the city.

Chen Jiayi curled up on the cold wooden bed with only a thin blanket on her body, shivering from the cold.

There was no heating in the house.

On a worn-out chair beside the bed sat a bowl of uneaten instant noodles, the grease on the surface frozen into a thin layer of ice. She had scavenged this chair from a nearby trash can; it was the only other piece of furniture in the room.

Ever since that day in the hospital when her pretense of amnesia was exposed, she and Jiabao could no longer face each other calmly.

The main reason was that she was afraid whenever she saw Ou Jiabao, and she always felt that her brother Jiabao would rush up with his fists and beat her to death in the next second.

Another thing is that for some unknown reason, she kept seeing Ou Lili from her past life. Her ghost came to seek revenge on her after her death. She shouted that she would break her legs and sell her to the mountains to bear children for old bachelors!

She was so scared that she dared not close her eyes during the day and dared not sleep at night.

And that bastard Ouyang Hao, who repeatedly stabbed her with a knife, the cold touch made her feel like dying several times a day.

——It’s so painful.

Chen Jiayi was afraid that if this continued, even if she was not crazy, sooner or later these things would be discovered by Ou Jiabao.

By then, Brother Jiabao would never forgive her and might even beat her to death.

Moreover, his refusal to issue a letter of apology to Chen Fang might have somewhat annoyed Brother Jiabao. Who knows, after they get together, Brother Jiabao might lose control of his emotions again.

Therefore, the two had to live apart for the time being, contacting each other occasionally and trying to see each other as little as possible.

But in this way, Chen Jiayi was completely alone in Guangzhou.

Now it was too late for her to be reborn. In this life, her reputation as an ungrateful person had become stigma, and she had no choice but to live a life of hiding, just like Lin Ruchu in her original world.

Because of an injury and hospitalization, he lost his job cleaning public restrooms in the city center.

Last month, she barely found a similar job near the edge of the city, with a monthly salary of only 2 yuan.

I need to pay 1000 yuan every month to pay the hospital medical bills, and the remaining 1000 yuan can be used for food, medicine, and rent. Life is unprecedentedly difficult.

After two lifetimes combined, it was only now that Chen Jiayi truly realized how difficult a person's life could be.

The house was recommended to her by the aunt who worked as a cleaner with her. It was very cheap, a small studio room with a monthly rent of only 400 yuan. However, the walls were thin and it leaked a lot in the winter.

Any heat in the room will be blown away immediately.

"Don't think it's a bit cold now, wait until summer and you can enjoy it," the aunt boasted to Chen Jiayi with a proud look on her face:

"It will be so cool in this room by then. I won't even change it if I get an air-conditioned room!"

Seeing Chen Jiayi's indifferent look, the eldest sister was a little unhappy:

"I said, are you going to rent it or not?"

"If you don't want to rent it, forget it. There are so many people waiting in line. I just feel sorry for you with only one hand left, and we work together. Otherwise, how could you get such a cheap and nice house?!"

"Rent, rent, I'll rent it. Thank you, big sister!"

Chen Jiayi forced a forced smile, expressing her deep gratitude. She really couldn't afford a cheaper, decent apartment with the money she had, or she would have to share a place with someone else.

With her current reputation, who would want to share a house with her?

If she really shared the apartment with others, she would be bullied to death!

At night, lying on the drafty wooden bed in the room, a thought suddenly crossed Chen Jiayi's mind.

In her previous life, her mother came out of prison, fell ill and had no money for treatment, and eventually died in that rental house.

It seems, it seems!

right here?

Chen Jiayi sat up suddenly. She opened her eyes wide and recalled carefully... Yes, after leaving the funeral home in her previous life, she threw away Lin Ruchu's urn.

Later, the household registration department notified her to go and get her mother's ID card to go through the procedures for canceling the household registration.

That shabby little house where she had come, in a luxury car, pinching her nose—yes, right here. And her mother's ID card and the bank card with only a dozen or so yuan in it were left there...

Right here on this broken wooden bed!

Chen Jiayi's heart started beating "thump, thump".

She jumped onto the ground barefoot, her feet touching the icy ground. Her body shuddered, and for some reason, her mother's voice, filled with both reproach and doting, suddenly entered her ears:

"Jiayi, Mom has told you so many times that you have a lot of coldness in your body. You must not stand on the ground barefoot!"

The voice then turned to complain to the other two nannies who had taken care of her since she was a child:

"You two, too. You two are taking care of a little girl, and you can't even watch her put on a pair of socks?"

"If Jiayi gets sick again, both of you will have your wages docked. If you really can't make it, you'll both quit!"

"Yes, ma'am, we will pay attention next time!"

The two nannies were timid and obedient.

Then she heard her own dissatisfied voice:

"Mom, I don't like wearing socks myself, why do you always scold others?"

"I just don't like being bound by rules. I like the feeling of being grounded. What's wrong with that?

"Mom, you're such a jerk. You're always thinking in the old ways and you want to control everything. Don't you have a lot of free time?"

"Jiayi, you..."

Her mother's voice was choked with anger: "I am your mother, and I am saying this for your own good..."

"Yes, yes, yes, it's for my own good. You've said it a thousand times, I'm tired of hearing it."

Chen Jiayi heard her own voice and shouted impatiently:

"I've had enough. Is being someone important? Can you please take care of your own life and stop meddling in my affairs..."

Chen Jiayi heard these conversations and suddenly burst into tears for some reason.

At this moment, it would be a lie to say that I have no regrets at all.

Regardless of past and present lives, ever since she left Lin Ruchu's "control", no matter what the weather was like, no one would take care of her in every detail and carefully protect every little emotion of hers like her mother did.

In the years that followed her previous life, her health deteriorated.

She was able to survive only by spending a lot of money and using fine medicine to nourish herself. Every winter or when it was cloudy and rainy, she would often feel the chill that penetrated from her bones.

A famous old Chinese doctor took her pulse and told her that she was weak from birth and relied entirely on good medical treatment, good medicine, and good soup and water to nourish her before she reached adulthood. Otherwise, she would have died young and would not have lived that long.

At that time, she didn't take it seriously.

But now, Chen Jiayi suddenly understood.

What the old Chinese doctor said might be true, that her life was saved by her mother. But so what?

Who made her mother look so beautiful, but gave her such an ordinary face? This is what her mother owed her. Also, who made her mother disrespect the elders in two lives and seduce Jiabao? She was the one who was shameless first.