I gave birth to my son prematurely on a train, and my fiance sold both of us off to go live with my parents’ real daughter.
After I reincarnated, I watched my parents find their real daughter again, and I could not stop my tears as well as laughter.
Not only did I personally get my fiance drunk, I sent him my sister’s way, and he got her pregnant.
I tied up the person I hated the most in the train carriage.
The station ahead was the one where I got trapped in a small village for the entirety of my last life.
In this life, it was going to be her turn.
Her and her child’s!
When I opened my eyes again, I was dressed in pajamas covered in tulips print. I was in my luxury childhood bedroom.
I looked out the window. My father had parked the car in the garden, which was rare. My excited mother rushed toward the car when the car door opened.
She started sobbing, overwhelmed by the emotions of reuniting with her daughter that went missing for a couple of decades.
However, the teenage girl in my mother’s arms seemed to be oblivious to that. She looked up and sized me up with her dark eyes.
Lynn Grant had returned home.
In my last life, I pitied her for having to live in a small village for almost twenty years after being kidnapped. Hence, I let her have her way. However, she seduced my fiance and tricked me onto a train that sent me to a small village.
At that time, I was already seven months pregnant.
Because of what she had said, my in-laws did not visit me at all.
I could only believe William and follow him to the outskirts to live with his relatives.
However, he brought me to a wrinkly old man instead.
The house was run-down, dark, and covered in spider webs.
The old man was afraid that I would escape, so he put a dog collar around my neck.
However, I had just given birth. How could I have the energy to escape?
I could only look at William helplessly. I no longer had tears to cry.
“Where is our son? Did you sell him?”
My blood had soaked the train seats because of a premature delivery.
It was only after a lot of difficulty that I finally gave birth to our tiny son.
The King family cared about their offsprings, so I believed I would be able to marry William after giving him a son.
I did not expect him to sell me to the old man for merely two thousand dollars! He laughed at me and said that I was not the real daughter of the Grant family, so my son was a love child!
“Why would I want your son? I want Lynn to have my son instead!”
It was only then that I knew that my identity as the adopted daughter of the Grant family meant nothing to him. I could be easily discarded like an empty drink bottle.
I grabbed onto William’s thigh as I begged him to not leave me at the old man’s place.
I pleaded, “I can give you all my savings! I’ll cut ties with the Grant family when I go back. Please, for old time’s sake, take me with you!”
However, William replied with something that made my blood run cold.
“It was the Grant family’s idea to sell you off!”
I felt my body go ice cold. I had become the old man’s plaything.
He said that if he was not poor, he would not have purchased me who had already given birth.
He told me to give birth to a daughter so he would have someone to fool around with when she got older.
I was drenched in cold sweat. I knew that if he did not die, my life would be a living hell.
My fingernails that used to flip musical scores were all broken.
I clenched my teeth and used all my might to strangle the old man.
However, I got slapped in return.
He stepped on my abdomen and beat me with all he had.
He cursed me for being disobedient and invited all the other single men in the village to his place.
I was terrified and cursed them all to burn in hell.
Days passed as my attempts to kill myself failed continuously.
I was slowly going insane.
Finally, my bodyguard appeared. He always looked so serious.
He brought the police with him.
He also sent me to a mental hospital.
I did not know what it felt like to die.
But I knew how it felt like to live in hell. I had gotten a good taste of it for over ten years.
I felt wronged. If I had another chance, I would make them go through what I had been through!
The sound of glass breaking pulled me back to reality.
I saw shattered glass on the floor when I went downstairs.
The piano that I practiced on every day was covered in orange juice.
Lynn wrapped her arms around my mother’s neck as she said in a timid and soft voice, “Mom, I didn’t break the bottle on purpose. I just wanted to take a look at the piano. Will Harper be mad at me?”
She bit her lower lip to pretend that she was scared and made her voice tremble.
She saw me in her peripheral vision and cocked an eyebrow at me tauntingly.
If I had noticed that in my last life, things would have been different.
She was hostile toward me. From the moment she returned home, she was planning to take everything away from me.
I sat down before the piano and stared at it.
Music started to play as my fingers danced on the keys.
“It’s fine if the piano’s ruined. You have just returned home, so let me play a song to welcome you back…”
Lynn’s expression changed when she heard the melody.
She charged forward and grabbed my collar before she started to hit me.
My mother was shocked. She did not expect her long-lost daughter to be a savage.
My father rushed over and stopped Lynn.
It was only then that Lynn calmed down.
She looked guilty as she hung her head and apologized to my parents.
A hint of disappointment flashed across my mother’s eyes when she looked at me, who was playing the piano, and then at Lynn.
I did not stop playing the familiar piece.
My parents did not know why Lynn had such a sudden breakdown.
However, I knew the reason why.
There was not much entertainment in the village. In the evening, the speakers would play a piano tune to indicate that it was nighttime and everyone should go home.
Then, moaning could be heard from each house.
At Lynn’s age, she could already be a mother in the village.
Hence, she was frightened when she heard that melody. It transported her back to her nightmare.
I smiled brightly and slowly walked toward Lynn.
I touched her face. “You’ll get used to it in time. I play the piano every day!”
Lynn slapped my hand away with red eyes.
She was trying to contain herself.
I smiled, but I felt cold inside.
This was only the first day. She was going to have a hard time containing herself from this day onwards.
My mother looked at us: her obedient adopted daughter and her savage biological daughter, and wiped tears with her sleeves.
My father sighed and slowly said, “Lynn, you’re no longer in the village. You should work on your temper.”
Only I knew that a person’s temper could only change under extreme duress and that person be turned into an obedient pet.
The doorbell rang and stopped our conversation.
A servant went to open the door and came back with a huge bouquet of red roses.
She passed the roses to me excitedly. “William sent you such a big bouquet of roses despite the fact that he’s going to see you soon. It’s so hard to find such a good boyfriend!”
My smile froze when I heard the sender’s name.
I snapped myself out from my thoughts and pretended to stomp my foot in embarrassment. “Don’t be silly. Quickly throw the flowers away. What if there are insects in them? They’ll scare Lynn!”
My mother’s eyes were fixated on the red roses, and she seemed deep in thought.
Lynn had never seen such a big bouquet of roses. She stared at it greedily.
I would not give her anything that she wanted!
My mother came back to her senses first. She put her arm around my shoulder and advised, “Harper, I haven’t seen William in a long while. You should invite him to join us for dinner tonight.”
I was thinking the same as I secretly chewed the name.
“Alright, I’ll invite him so he can meet Lynn as well!”