The Legitimate Daughter’s Revenge: Reborn, I Refuse to Be Wronged Again
Water.
Ice-cold water, like countless needles stabbing into her flesh at once, then burrowing between her bones.
The instant Lin Wan opened her eyes, she saw daylight wavering above her, broken across the water’s surface and making her dizzy. Her ears filled with the gurgle of water and the crushing pain in her chest, as if it were about to burst.
Just like when she was fourteen.
She struggled on instinct, but her hands and feet were tangled tight in her soaked skirts. When she had been pushed into the fire in her previous life, chains had wrapped around her ankles in just the same way.
“Help! The young lady has fallen into the water!”
A panicked shout came from the bank. It sounded like Qingxing. But amid the confusion, Lin Wan caught another sound: a faint, light laugh, almost floating along the water’s surface.
She jerked her head up.
Someone stood on the bank, the hem of her peach-pink skirt embroidered with a pair of pink butterflies poised to take flight.
Lin Yue’er.
Her dear half-sister loved wearing shoes just like those.
“Quick! Pull the young lady out!”
Several hands grabbed her arms in a frenzy, pulling so hard they nearly wrenched them from their sockets. Lin Wan was dragged onto the bank, her back slamming against the stone with enough force to make her vision go black.
“Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, ”
She turned her head and coughed violently. Pond water mixed with the reek of mud gushed from her lungs. Her fingers dug into the slippery moss at the water’s edge. The clammy, icy touch finally made her certain:
She was back.
Back at the age of fourteen.
