"Sis, hurry up and get out of bed to take your medicine. This is what Dad especially went to the town to get for you. Once you take it, you'll recover soon."

"Xiao Qiu, don't disturb your sister. She's been in the heavy rain and has suffered a great shock. Let her rest for a while. Leave the medicine there and wait for her to wake up and drink it."

Xu Ying was initially groggy, with a terrible headache. Hearing these two familiar voices, she abruptly opened her eyes, as if struck by lightning.

Impossible, right? Xu Ying's eyes widened, and she was entirely stunned.

She quickly scanned around. The old brick-and-tile house, all around her was an outlook of abject poverty.

The small room, devoid of much furniture, looked especially spacious.

Indeed, this was the home of her previous life where she had grown up. The two people in front of her were her foster father and younger brother.

How could she be back in her previous life?

Facing her bed was a mirror. Xu Ying looked at her face in a daze. Her face looked fresh and youthful like a teenager in her previous life!

Xu Ying's mind was like a supercomputer, instantly making sense of her current situation.

This should be the period before her biological parents came to get her. After she heard about her life story, she sneaked out of school and got soaking wet, getting so sick that she was like a half-dead fish. A few days later, she was taken away, and since then... her life changed.

It turned out that she was, in fact, the heiress of the wealthy Xu residence of the Haicheng city. The year she was about to be born, her biological mother felt bored at home and insisted on going out for a stroll. But she had a sudden onset of labor and had to deliver at the county's local hospital.

Coincidentally, her foster mother was also in the same hospital and both families shared the surname Xu, due to the mixing up of babies, she ended up being raised by the wrong family, a mistake that lasted for seventeen whole years.

Not long ago, the young daughter of the Xu family, Xu Wei, had a minor car accident, and her biological parents rushed to the hospital urgently.

Only then, due to some anomalies in the doctor's report, did they realize there was a problem. How could two parents with type A blood possibly have a child with type B blood?

Xu Zhi conducted a covert investigation and found that back at the county hospital when he became a father, his daughter had been mistakenly swapped with another baby girl from a different Xu family. His biological daughter had been living a hard life in the countryside for the past seventeen years.

The Xu family's lineage cannot be lost to outsiders, but he cannot readily abandon the daughter he has raised for over a decade.

Left to ponder, they decided to simply raise both daughters. After all, the Xu family wasn’t short of money. They could provide additional compensation to the other side.

Xu Zhi, accompanied by his daughter Xu Wei, approached Xu Ying's father, Xu Jianguo, to discuss the matter.

Hearing this news, the farmer who had toiled his whole life was utterly disbelieving at first.

Only after seeing the paternity test results did he had to accept the truth.

Initially, he was not willing to accept the Xu family's proposal of raising both daughters, but eventually, he was defeated by the tearful plea of his biological daughter, Xu Wei.

Seeing his biological daughter, whom he had never met, in this state, he wasn't able to hardheartedly ask her to return to a life of hardship.

In the end, Xu Jianguo compromised. He agreed to hand over Xu Ying, the daughter he had raised single-handedly, to the Xu family, firmly refusing to accept any compensation.

When Xu Ying, who was just seventeen at that time, learned about her true origins, she simply couldn't believe it.

Though they led a hand-to-mouth existence, her father had always showered her with love. Unfortunately, her young age combined with her lack of influence, led her to being taken away by the Xu family.

Brought up in a rural environment, Xu Ying initially felt completely alienated upon her arrival at the Xu family home.

Especially in comparison to the pampered Xu Wei, the differences were like night and day. Xu Wei was proficient in various arts such as piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting, whereas Xu Ying, apart from studying, knew nothing else.

What made it even worse was, even though she managed to be at the top in her countryside school, she only managed to barely pass when she arrived at the city school.

As time went by, she became more and more introverted and self-conscious. Her biological parents increasingly disapproved of her and favored Xu Wei instead.

In order to secure her position as the young mistress of the Xu family, Xu Wei made things difficult for her at every turn.

She ousted her at school, secretly fought for favor at home, and even framed her for murder in the end, causing her to be sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Once she was in jail, due to Xu Wei's behind-the-scenes meddling, Xu Ying was like a sheep thrown into a pack of wolves, being hit and bullied all around.

Even a clay figure has its temper, her recklessness deterred many people.

Just like that, she languished for a full ten years in prison like a living dead, and finally died in a joint conspiracy by the leaders of several districts.

In her last moment of life, the memories of her existence flashed by as if in a fleeting glance, stopping at the dilapidated brick house of the Xu family in Xiu Shui Village.

Xu Ying felt a heart-wrenching regret and vowed that if she were to have another chance at life, she would no longer obsess over the illusory blood ties and would take good care of her adoptive father and younger brother.

When she opened her eyes again, she discovered that she had become Xu Ying, who died of illness in the slums of the interstellar era.

After escaping her ten years of prison life, she used the harsh measures honed in prison to gradually climb up from the bottom of society, step by step.

Eventually, she grew into a highly acclaimed scientist and was hailed as a pillar of the country.

However, very few people knew that her heart was always desolate and empty.

Fate is fickle, who could have imagined that after traversing countless years and space-times, she would return to the starting point after the end of her life.

Xu Ying came back to her senses, looking at her adoptive father, who was in excellent health, and her young brother in front of her, tears inevitably welling up in her eyes.

She remembered that after she was imprisoned, Xu Jian Guo, learning about it, was devastated and fell sick from which he never recovered.

Combined with the accumulation of years of labor, he passed away in less than two years.

Since heaven had given her a second chance, she was determined to protect her father and family well in this world!

As for the evil and hypocritical Xu Wei, as well as her unfeeling birth parents, she won't let them off easily either...