“Ruoruo, are you back?”

“Yes. Ah, Auntie Mei, I will pick Baobao1. Thank you for looking after him. We always troubled you.”

“Not trouble. Your Baobao is so well-behaved.”

“I bought some apples in the town. It’s very fresh. Auntie and uncle should taste it.”

“You girl, ah. Why are you so polite…”

“Is Baobao asleep?”

“No, he has been paying attention to the movement at the gate very seriously, waiting for your return. I tried to take him inside, but he didn’t want.”

“Really? Baobao is too sticky to me…”

“You are his mother. Of course he is sticky to you…”

At the farmhouse entrance, a gray-haired and wrinkled middle-aged woman chatted friendly with a beautiful young woman. Chi Wen was lying in the cradle under the shade of the tree, spitting bubble in boredom while listening to the woman talking.

Hearing what they said, Chi Wen snorted. Waiting for her return? How come! He obviously just wanted to confirm when this woman will finally abandon him!

At first, Chi Wen was still calm and indifferent. But after a while, he started to get angry again. This woman left him here for hours! Sure enough, she didn’t care about him at all. No wonder she would abandon him in the future!

Chi Wen was indignant. He didn’t want to pay attention to this woman, but couldn’t help being attracted by her voice. His small chubby face frowned into a few cute folds. The cradle’s cover suddenly lifted open, and a woman’s silly smiling face appeared before his eyes.

“Baobao, what’s wrong? Your face wrinkled like a tiny old man.” Soft fingers lightly prodded the baby’s forehead. Fu Yunruo leaned over and picked up her son. She rubbed his smooth face and said: “Baobao, are you angry because Mommy left you behind? Baobao don’t be angry. Next time Mommy will take you, okay?”

Fu Yunruo went to the town to pick up an express delivery. This village was too remote, package deliveries had to be picked up personally in the nearest town. She ordered a lot of baby products online, and those were almost too much for her to bring back alone. How could she also bring Baobao? What’s more, Baobao was only three months old. He was still too young to go so far.　That’s why Fu Yunruo asked a trusted neighbor next door to look after him.

Chi Wen didn’t believe in this woman’s nonsense at all. There were so many ‘next time,’ but she never brought him along. He would never believe her again!

Even though he was unhappy, under Fu Yunruo’s soft voice, Chi Wen’s face gradually relaxed, and he unconsciously moved closer to the hand on his face.

Seeing Baobao no longer angry, Fu Yunruo felt proud of her coaxing skill. She smiled at Auntie Mei and bade farewell: “Auntie, we are going back now.”

“Alright, be careful on the road. Ask me if you need anything.”

“Okay.”

Fu Yunruo hugged her son and walked out of Auntie Mei’s courtyard. Following the village’s rustic concrete path, they soon arrived at their rental house. From the outside, the house Fu Yunruo rented didn’t look very good. It was a simple hut made from mud and brick that was abandoned after the owner’s family built a new house. However, it was very well maintained, and the house itself was enclosed by a sturdy earthen wall. It was suitable for a single mother who lived alone with a young baby.

There was also a small yard inside the wall, which was very neat and clean. Part of it was used as a vegetable garden, planted with various varieties of green vegetables, pepper trees, and a tall persimmon tree. When Fu Yunruo was pregnant with Baobao, she planted many flowers and plants near the wall. This year, many of those flowers have bloomed, and they were so beautiful and colorful.

Although none of those plants and flowers were of a rare variety—only the kinds commonly seen everywhere in this part of the countryside. However, with a neat and meticulous arrangement, the entire yard looked picturesque with a poetic atmosphere.

This house was owned by Auntie Mei’s family. After they built another home, it was vacant. When Yunruo first arrived in this village one year ago, Auntie Mei gave her a place to stay and took good care of her. After she gave birth to Baobao, Auntie Mei also helped her during the postpartum confinement.

People in this small farming community were simple and welcoming, but there were inevitably a few with a broken mouth. It was Auntie Mei who stood in front of her, yelled at those gossipers, and defending her reputation.

Auntie Mei’s husband was a respected figure in this village. After the family showed their intention to protect Fu Yunruo, the villagers became more welcoming, and her life was much better. Therefore, Fu Yunruo was very grateful to Auntie Mei’s family.

Chi Wen was taken home by the woman and waited coldly for her to breastfeed him. But after waiting for a long time, the woman started to daze again, gazing emptily into the sky.

Chi Wen stared at her in dissatisfaction. Woman, what’s the matter with you? Don’t you see that I am hungry?

Sure enough, she didn’t care about him at all! Chi Wen has always kept a small book in his heart, noting every grievance this woman caused him. In the two months after they got off the confinement, today was the second time she has left him alone!

Chi Wen held back for a while, but finally was impatient and made a babble of protest.

Fu Yunruo, who was still immersed in the past, was suddenly pulled back into reality by her son’s babbling noise. When she looked down, she met the baby’s big eyes, round like black grapes.

“Baobao, are you hungry? Alright, wait a moment. Mommy will feed you soon.” Fu Yunruo held her son gently and rubbed his soft face. Then she put him on the bed and quickly changed his diapers with familiar movement. Afterward, she picked up the baby and wiped her breasts with a hot towel before feeding him.

Long before Fu Yunruo opened her clothes, Chi Wen already shut his eyes tightly. When the familiar milk scent came out, he opened his mouth instinctively.

The small, soft body turned as red as boiled shrimp while sucking his milk. Even after three months, Chi Wen still couldn’t get used to this moment. Although this woman did give birth to him, as someone with an adult’s mind, he couldn’t help feeling extremely embarrassed. In the beginning, he struggled. But after a while, he finally resigned to his fate. Chi Wen could only comfort himself silently.

He is still a little baby!

Seeing Baobao eating so eagerly and quickly, Fu Yunruo felt a little guilty. Knowing that he was hungry, she gently supported his body so he would not be choked. This time, she was away for too long. Almost one hour and a half. Next time, she must come back within one hour.

After eating, Chi Wen began to feel sleepy. Today, he woke up in the morning and has not slept until now. He also has to pay attention to the movement outside, which was really tiring. Nestled in the familiar soft embrace and listened to a gentle humming, he soon fell asleep.

After her son was asleep, Fu Yunruo put him in the crib. Seeing the little baby’s pure and innocent sleeping face, she smiled satisfyingly.

Fu Yunruo was very grateful that she had decided to keep the child. It had been more than a year since she mysteriously transmigrated into this world. She began to recall the first day she occupied this identity. At that time, she was tortured by her body’s abnormal reaction and almost lost her reason.

She hid at the stairs, curled up on the ground, trying to clear out her foggy mind. When she heard the movement of an unknown man outside, and seemingly getting closer and closer, she subconsciously tried to climb the stairs. She didn’t know how long she climbed, but she vaguely remembered to have fallen into the arms of the stranger.

When she woke up again, she was shocked by this body’s original owner’s memory. She actually transmigrated as the vicious step-sister of Fang Xueruo, the female lead in ‘First Generation Movie Queen’ that she just read not long ago, and that her miserable life would soon begin.

A dignified young miss from a wealthy family was kicked out of the house and was scolded by the whole netizens. She fell into the mud, living a truly harsh life. Finally, she accidentally fell into the water when drunk.

At this moment, the plot was about to develop to the point when countless .

Fu Yunruo recalled the fate of this body’s original owner. She reacted very fast. Her first instinct was to avoid being discovered by the reporters, so she ran away in a hurry and even forgot to take a look at the man with whom she had spent a chaotic battle last night.

Afterward, she went into a run, trying to find a place that wouldn’t get discovered by people with malicious intentions. Although this parallel world was a book setting, place names were the same as her original world, except that it had different people and lives.

Fu Yunruo had nowhere to go. She felt that no place was safe enough. Almost unconsciously, she remembered her hometown of her previous life, so she took turns and detour, using unregulated transportations that didn’t demand an ID, and finally returned to her hometown in her previous life—a small remote village in southern China.

All the way, she was in constant fear, awkwardly covering her tracks in fear of being discovered. Afterward, she began to feel even more frightened. In case the strangers she rode together had a bad intention, her end might not be better than the body’s original owner.

Fortunately, she arrived safely.

This world also had her hometown village. But her home was nowhere, and even the villagers were all unfamiliar to her. In the place where her family’s house should be located, there was the village chief’s house. That is, Auntie Mei’s family.

That day, Fu Yunruo knocked on the door. And when she saw that the one opened the door weren’t her grandparents, tears came down uncontrollably.

In that world, when Fu Yunruo was a child, she lived with her grandparents in the countryside, and later was taken to live with her parents in the city after she began schooling. Both of her parents were workaholics. It wasn’t that they didn’t love her, but they were people with a high sense of professionalism. Even though they lived together, Fu Yunruo rarely saw her parents, so her relationship with them wasn’t deep.

Grandpa and grandma were worried about her, but they weren’t accustomed to living in the city, so they frequently visited her at her parents’ house. When she entered the dormitory in high school, the visits became scarce.

Her grandparents were already over seventy. She suddenly transmigrated here, and she wasn’t sure whether her body in that world was dead or not. If her body died, how sad her grandparents would be? What if the sadness took a toll on their body? Maybe because of her lingering worry, she began to have a dream.

In that dream, this body’s original owner transmigrated into her original body and accompanied her grandparents, looking very happy. Having dreamed like this for several nights in a row, Fu Yunruo had a feeling, maybe their souls had been exchanged. Seeing the loved ones in her original world was not devastated, she finally was at ease.

At that time, Fu Yunruo’s mind was full of worries. She was still afraid that her whereabouts would be tracked, ending herself in the same predicament as this body’s original owner. She deliberately never thought about that night, pretending nothing has happened with that stranger. Because of that, she didn’t notice the abnormality of her body.

When she found out, she was already three months pregnant.

Fu Yunruo suddenly remembered. Because of the popularity of the book ‘First Generation Movie Empress,’ the author serialized the sequel ‘Second Generation Movie Empress.’ The new female lead was the daughter of the first book’s main couple.

In the book, there was a villain, a boy named Chi Wen who grew in an orphanage. The villain repeatedly made trouble with the female and male lead. But because of his lack of power, Chi Wen couldn’t do anything to the main couple who had a strong and deep background. In the end, he was ruined and finally jumped off the top floor of a building.

Because of the vague words of the female lead at that time: “Although the previous generation…but after all…” and her initiative to bury the enmity and properly held a funeral for the villain, the female lead’s action brought countless praise, and everyone admired her kindness.

There was a discussion in the comment area that this villain might be the illegitimate son of the vicious step-sister who committed countless mistakes in the first book. This topic invited many debates, but the author never expressed anything.

Fu Yunruo also couldn’t be sure, because in the first part of the book, ‘Fu Yunruo’ went offline after being kicked out of the house and ridiculed by the netizens. Her name was last mentioned only two years later. Because of the cause of her death, she was once again ridiculed by the netizens, until finally Fang Xueruo stood up and asked everyone to give her deceased sister peace…

When she became pregnant, Fu Yunruo was finally sure. It seemed the ill-fated villain in the sequel was really the one in her belly. So, not only that she would be stepped on by Fang Xueruo even after death, but even her son would also be stepped on by Fang Xueruo’s daughter?

What kind of tragedy is this?

Fu Yunruo gritted her teeth. Although she read the novel, it didn’t mean that she agreed with the author’s three views2 No matter how well the author wrote, it couldn’t cover up some essential problems.

No need to mention other things. The male lead was ‘Fu Yunruo’ fiance. How could a woman who seduced her step-sister’s fiance be pure-hearted? The novel said that the female lead simply couldn’t restrain her feeling. But because she had her own bottom line, she was unwilling to be a woman who destroyed other people’s relationships. However, in the memory of this body’s original owner, this female lead was a perfect model of a green tea3 since childhood. As a result, this body’s original owner was stimulated to the extreme.

It could be said that this body’s original owner was played to death by Fang mother and daughter’s green tea act.

Back to the topic, after discovering that she was pregnant, Fu Yunruo did hesitate. She actually has no memory of that night. She woke up the next day and was shocked by the huge amount of information she received from this body’s memory, and ran away in panic. Looking back now, she must have avoided the man with malicious intent and accidentally ran into a passerby, and threw herself upon this stranger…But it was actually better. She would rather this pregnancy was an accident after doing a one-night stand carelessly, instead of being the product of a man who almost certainly was arranged by an unknown party.

Fu Yunruo pondered for a long time, but in the end, she decided to give birth to this child.

First, this child was initially destined for a miserable future. Therefore, she must give him even more love, to make up the debt to the child together with this body’s original owner.

Second, she was too unfamiliar with this world. The only blood relative of this body was too unreliable. Living alone was lonely. She wanted something that could bind her to this world.

Third, and most importantly, she couldn’t make up her mind to kill up a life.

From the moment Fu Yunruo felt her child moved inside her stomach, she knew that she would never regret this decision forever.

Chi Wen woke up from his not so deep sleep and stared at the childish baby bed’s cover. The room was quiet. He subconsciously wanted to cry a few times, but stopped in time. As a three-month-old baby with an adult mind, he wouldn’t cry like a normal baby after waking up.

He struggled to pull out his hand from the loose swaddle. His black eyes blinked, thinking seriously.

Where is that woman?

Chi Wen subconsciously stuffed his chubby hand into his mouth and sucked it with gusto. Transparent saliva came out from the corner of his mouth. The baby’s small body stiffened. He took out his wet hand and wiped the saliva onto the bed.

Suddenly, his small face wrinkled, and his white cheeks flushed red. He tried to control his body reaction, but warm fluid still gushed out.

Chi Wen couldn’t help it anymore and started howling.

Soon, there was movement coming from outside the door. A figure came into the room and walked towards him.

“Baobao, are you awake?” Fu Yunruo smiled, picked up her son, and coaxed him with familiar movement as she walked out. “Let’s pee first, okay?”

“Ah, you already peed! Alright, Mom will replace your diaper.”

Why does she have to say that aloud? Does he not need his face anymore? Chi Wen’s body was gently rocked by the woman. His little face was like an old monk disillusioned by the world’s dirtiness.

In fact, if he tried to adapt, this kind of thing is…eh?

A soft pacifier suddenly stuffed into his little mouth, and Chi Wen subconsciously sucked it.

Warm water?

He took a few more sips. He was thirsty. Howling was too much for his throat, and it needed moisturizing.

After he drank the water, the woman hung colorful little bells on the top of his stroller, which jingled every time the stroller moved.

Chi Wen only took one look before dismissed it disdainfully. Is he such a childish person?

Chi Wen was in good spirits. He was lying on his back, and his eyes were just in sight to see the woman, so he looked at her intently. Of course it went without saying that it wasn’t of his intention to keep looking at her. However, his small body was still too mushy that he couldn’t even move his head.

FU Yunruo picked up her son, put him in the stroller, and pushed it out into the yard. Today was cloudy, and the temperature wasn’t high. There was also no wind, perfect for taking out a small baby. She left Baobao in the yard and could see him whenever she looked up.

Fu Yunruo went to pick vegetables in the field. It was almost noon, and she was going to stir-fry some greens for her lunch today. With the bone soup that was still simmering in the kitchen, it would be enough for one person.

After picking the vegetables, Fu Yunruo looked at the row of mustard greens. It was time to harvest and dry them, she thought.

Fu Yunruo went to the faucet and washed the vegetables she just picked. Then she went to the kitchen, cooked the green vegetables, poured a bowl of bone soup, and had her lunch. After feeding herself and her son, she added a bit more salt to the leftover soup on the stove, poured it into the thermos, and was going to take it to Auntie Mei. Because Fu Yunruo was still breastfeeding, the food she ate was relatively less seasoned, while Auntie Mei’s family preferred stronger seasoning.

Perhaps the older generation of farmers was frugal by nature. Even if the family was not short of money, they still wouldn’t buy meat frequently. Especially when there were no growing children in the family, they might only buy meat every ten to fifteen days. Even if Auntie Mei’s family was the village head, they rarely put meat and fish on the dining table and was more used to plain tea and simple food.

Whenever Fu Yunruo cooked broth or soup, she would make extra portions for Auntie Mei’s family.

She carried the thermos, pushed the stroller, and walked out of the yard to Auntie Mei’s house. The two houses were only ten meters apart. If Fu Yunruo shouted from her rental house, people at the other house could hear her.

When Fu Yunruo arrived, Auntie and Uncle Mei were preparing the table for lunch. After getting along for a long time, Fu Yunruo also knew that the couple’s mealtimes were very regular, and they usually only started eating lunch after 12:30.

“Uncle Mei, Auntie Mei.” Fu Yunruo called, pushing the stroller into the house.

“Ruoruo is here. Hurry up and sit down. We are just about to have lunch.” Auntie Mei greeted warmly.

“I have eaten at home. Auntie Mei, this is a bit of bone soup that I cooked. I made too much and cannot finish it alone. You and Uncle can drink some.”

“You girl. If you cannot drink all at noon, keep it for dinner.”

“I’ve kept some, but there is still too much. It’s too wasteful to throw it away.”

Auntie Mei was still going to speak, but Fu Yunruo said coquettishly: “Auntie Mei, just take out your soup bowl. I’m tired of pretending, and besides, I still have to trouble you to teach me how to dry my vegetables! If you are so polite, I am too ashamed to ask for your help.”

Fu Yunruo knew how to dry vegetables, but she had tasted the vegetables dried by Auntie Mei. It was obviously much tastier than hers, so she wanted to learn from Auntie Mei.

Uncle Mei said: “This child is kind. Just take it.”

Auntie Mei relented. She went into the kitchen to take a large bowl and poured the bone soup from the thermos into the bowl.

Fu Yunruo carried the empty thermos and said: “Then I will go back first. I have to coax Baobao to sleep.”

“Okay, I’ll go there when I’m free.”

“Okay!”