Forced to Cling to My Legal Mother After Being Reborn

Good news: Lin Yanzhi, whose life was tragic, has been reborn.

Bad news: The one who truly returned to her youth was her stepmother, and Lin Yanzhi became a ghost living inside her.

In her previous life, she was the Lin family's child bride. Disguised as a man, she took the martial arts imperial examination in place of her fiance and earned the title of top martial scholar. She won great fame on the battlefield, only to have the tendons in her hands and feet severed and be left to starve to death. In this life, she will never make the same mistakes again. She will make everyone who bullied her pay.

The only catch is... whether she can control this body depends on her stepmother.

To gain a share of control, they need to be physically intimate.

Lin Yanzhi is willing, but Yan Shuangxu doesn't seem to be.

Though her shy stepmother agreed to help her get revenge, Yan Shuangxu was killed ten years before Lin Yanzhi. How could she know the household's monsters as well as Lin Yanzhi did?

Lin Yanzhi had to try to persuade her. "Mother, please let me. I swear I'll only kiss you."

Yan Shuangxu pressed her lips together, her cheeks flushing. "Though I am not your birth mother, you still call me Mother."

Lin Yanzhi wouldn't give up. "Mother, you haven't married Father in this life."

Yan Shuangxu: "I cannot."

Lin Yanzhi persisted. "Mother, I died in my previous life before I married that son of a concubine. I never formally paid my respects to you as my mother."

Yan Shuangxu bit her lip. "Yanzhi, you mustn't."

Lin Yanzhi pleaded, "Mother, please take pity on me."

Yan Shuangxu looked at Lin Yanzhi, most of whose soul had sunk into her body, leaving only her head outside, gazing up at her beseechingly. The resolve behind Yan Shuangxu's firm boundary began to waver. "Come out first. Then I can kiss you."

Lin Yanzhi used to despise her father most of all for breaking his word and never keeping his promises. She never thought she would become someone who broke her word, too.

She had promised that she would only kiss Yan Shuangxu, but Lin Yanzhi broke that promise.

She was a greedy ghost, unwilling to let her fingertips linger only on a soft, slender waist, and unwilling to let her lips and tongue merely brush against dewdrops...

[Bonus Scene]

Lin Yanzhi finally reclaimed her body and came fully back to life, but Yan Shuangxu vanished. After searching for years, she finally cornered Yan Shuangxu in a remote village. "Mother, are you going to run again?"

Yan Shuangxu's waist was trapped in her grasp, leaving her unable to move.

Her pale face flushed, and her voice was faint. "Yanzhi, please stop calling me Mother."

Lin Yanzhi held Yan Shuangxu close. The joy of having found her again mingled with the pain of their years apart. She sobbed softly, "It should be me begging you, Madam, to come home with me."

Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one romance. A gentle, delicate, sickly stepmother and a ghostly child bride with formidable martial strength.

October 15, 2025

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