Just two days after the wedding, her husband passed away, turning a joyous celebration into a funeral.
All that remained were a sixteen-year-old stepson who was still naive and a huge inheritance.
But before she could get her hands on the inheritance, greedy distant relatives and neighbors suddenly appeared and took it all.
The day Jiang Yu was driven out of the house, a torrential rain came down. He could barely see the road, only a boy standing at the gate, soaked like a little puppy.
He knew the boy was his stepson, who had been sick since childhood and left with a damaged mind.
Jiang Yu clutched his little bundle of belongings, looking pitiful. "The things in here are mine. I didn't take anything, I didn't take anyone else's things..."
The boy's gaze clung to Jiang Yu like a ghost's before he suddenly grabbed his hand.
"Take me home." His voice was hoarse and grating, as if he'd just crawled out of hell.
Jiang Yu was so frightened he burst into tears.
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Xu Qingcheng dragged out his final breath and died. He died full of resentment, unable to accept what had happened.
He'd spent his whole life with a foolish mind. Only after death did he learn that his illness hadn't caused it: someone had set him up.
Looking back on his life, his father was cold-hearted, his mother died young, and his relatives coveted his family's wealth. The only person who treated him wholeheartedly was his soft-skinned, delicate little stepmother. But she worked herself to exhaustion and died young, leaving him alone to drift through two more muddled years until he fell into the sea and his body was never found.
When he woke again, he was sitting outside a magnificent villa, like a stray dog with nowhere to go.
The rain poured down, and then that familiar figure appeared before him.
He had returned to the day they met. His little stepmother was in her early twenties, still in the bloom of youth.
Obsessive, dark, and amoral top / A clueless, universally adored bottom
Theme: Strive to rise above adversity.
