After being reborn, I kept thinking about how to avoid my tragedy, to study in a farther place, and to start saving money to run away.

I never thought that I might not be the biological child of this family.

Some things I had been brainwashed into believing suddenly had an explanation; it's not because I'm a girl, it's not because they favor boys over girls...

Many past events suddenly flooded my mind, those times of being beaten, scorned, and oppressed began to repeatedly lash at me.

My head hurts so much...

"What are you doing here! Why aren't you cooking dinner so late!"

A familiar voice, a familiar tone, I looked up at her.

This person I've called mom for over ten years.

She was startled by me.

"What's wrong with you? Crying like that!"

Indeed, my face is covered with tear stains, perhaps even dirty, and there's no longer any obedience or peace in my gaze—how could I look good like this?

My body made a decision faster than my mind, I got up and went to the kitchen.

To avoid any possible conflict, I should probably think carefully about what to do.

Now it seems, I might not need to painstakingly prepare any escape plans anymore, I won't need to think about how to face them after escaping the kidnapping—all were buyers, have you ever seen goods running back to report to the previous buyer?

I just need to run away.

It's a pity I'm still underage and unable to run away immediately, otherwise—

I don't want to stay in this kind of life for another single day!

The next day, I told them I needed to work to earn the tuition for the new semester, and they agreed almost without any objection.

Attending school was only for the sake of the twelve hundred per semester, tuition fees? Do you think they would pay for me?

In fact, the high school in the city had long exempted my tuition, but I... I didn't want to stay any longer at all!

I didn't even want to spend the New Year there.