You Cannot Be Saved

[I'm starting As an Introvert in September. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list, dearies~]

[Blurb]

Growing up, Zhuo Xi received three compliments more than any others: pretty, smart, and rebellious.

Especially rebellious.

She often got into trouble at school and made her parents come in. It only got worse after her mother passed away.

Then one day, she unexpectedly finds herself in her mother's seventeenth year.

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Meng Yuan's parents divorced and remarried, leaving her a burdensome child neither household wanted. She becomes increasingly quiet, on the verge of becoming an invisible outcast even her teachers forget about.

Then one day, a girl bursts into her world, hugs her, and calls her Mom.

...Mom?

The girl seems unruly and is exactly the kind of person Meng Yuan should avoid. Yet she takes her hand and declares that she'll protect her.

Then she turns around, pulls one tall, strapping boy out of a group, and scrutinizes him. "Are you really Zhuo Yan?"

Thinking some delinquent girl is picking a fight, Zhuo Yan asks, "Who are you?"

"Your daughter."

Zhuo Xi opens her palm and makes a grabbing motion in the air without the slightest hesitation. "Dad, cough up some cash."

Zhuo Yan sneers. What kind of lunatic has the nerve to scam him for money? Does she think calling him Dad will make him pay up?

Half a minute later, he pulls a blue banknote from his wallet and places it in Zhuo Xi's hand, expressionless. He lifts his chin and says,

"Take her to get something good to eat."

"As if I need you to tell me."

"..."

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Zhuo Xi once had two wishes: first, that her mother had never met her father; second, that she had never been born.

Later, after spending her eighteenth year with Zhuo Yan and Meng Yuan, she still has two birthday wishes: first, that bad people are punished; second, that her parents stay together forever.

She thought she had returned to the past to save her mother.

Then she suddenly realizes that she was actually saving herself.

*A family-focused story of healing and redemption, with a touch of mystery.

Theme: Learn to understand your parents