After Being Reborn, I Became My Mom's Best Friend's Daughter

The last words I heard before I died were my mother's, spoken to empty air.

“System, I want to be reborn.”

“In this life, I want Jiang Tian to be my daughter.”

Her voice was filled with a joy I had never heard from her before, as if she'd won the lottery.

I stood outside her bedroom, holding the ginger soup I'd just made.

Jiang Tian, Aunt Jiang's daughter.

Ever since we were little, Jiang Tian had been the other people's child my mother always talked about.

“Look at Jiang Tian. She passed Grade Ten piano. What about you?”

“Jiang Tian came first in her grade again. Why can't you do better?”

“Why couldn't I have had a daughter like Jiang Tian...”

I heard it for twenty years.

But I never imagined she wouldn't want me even in her next life.

The ginger soup spilled all over the floor.

I turned and ran down the stairs.

My foot slipped.

When I opened my eyes again, everything around me was pitch-black.

Warm liquid enveloped me as I curled up in a cramped space.