Before Li Chen turned twelve, everyone said he was the apple of his parents' eyes, living a life as sweet as honey. He thought so too!
But after his mother died, everything changed. His supposedly loving father turned into a scumbag, and a scheming mistress suddenly appeared, waiting to take his mother's place. This so-called innocent woman also had a son by his father, only a few months younger than Li Chen.
His scumbag father, his fake-innocent stepmother, and his half-brother made a "happy family of three". The life he had once thought happy became a complete joke.
By the usual reborn-novel formula, Li Chen would have been cannon fodder in his previous life, foolishly letting this family of three destroy him. Then, weighed down by his grievances, he would be reborn. Afterward, his intelligence would suddenly skyrocket, and he would kick his scumbag father, punch his half-brother, deal with the mistress, completely turn around his misfortune from his previous life, and finally become a winner in life.
But here, Li Chen shows you through his actions that he doesn't need to start his life over! He can achieve all of this through his own hard work and earn himself a bright future in this very life!
(Even kindergarten children know that stepmothers are often compared to wicked witches (though that may be a bit extreme). How stupid must someone be to believe that a stepmother raised in a wealthy family truly has their best interests at heart, even neglecting her own children for them? If someone like that ends up with such a fate, they have only themselves to blame! Could someone like that really go from having zero intelligence to being a genius just because they lived another life? I seriously doubt it. I have always believed that if someone could be reborn, they would only have the memories of their previous life, not a higher IQ!)
