Rebirth: My Mother is a Virgin Mary

Cheng Xinyuan was sleeping on the upper bunk. I stood in front of the bed, just at eye level with him. There was no light in the room, but Cheng Xinyuan and I could still see each other clearly.

Cheng Xinyuan stretched out her little hand and stroked my cheek. Her voice was still a little childish and she cried, "Sister, does it hurt?"

"It hurts, it hurts a lot, but I can bear it..." I also stroked Cheng Xinyuan's little face and wiped away the tears from his eyes, my voice trembling. Even though I was exhausted physically and mentally, Cheng Xinyuan also gave me unique comfort...

I patted Cheng Xinyuan's little head and comforted him: "It's okay, go to sleep, nothing will happen when you wake up tomorrow, sister is always here..."

"I will protect my sister from now on!" The voice was not loud but clear and powerful!

I smiled and said, "Yuanyuan's words are enough!" I continued to pat him gently and coax him to sleep.

Maybe he was tired from crying for too long, Cheng Xinyuan fell asleep very quickly. I heard no movement outside, so I locked the door. If Cheng Xingmin came to beat me again, I really couldn't stand it. I didn't have any energy... I lay down on the bed gently to avoid making any noise and waking Cheng Xinyuan up. My back hurt so much. I couldn't see the condition of my back, but it felt like a tearing pain. I definitely couldn't lie down. Maybe my clothes would be torn. I just slept like this. I didn't have the energy to wash or change clothes. At least I vented my emotions. I endured so many beatings, and this time is the same. At most, it will hurt for a few more days...

But this time it’s really different...

When I woke up again, I was not in my own bed. There was a white pillow and white sheets. I was still lying prone with a needle in my hand. I was familiar with this place. It was a hospital. But why was I here? What happened to me?

Lin Qingmei sat beside the bed, her eyes were red and swollen, and when she saw me wake up, she hurried to ask me how I was, and asked softly with tears dripping down her face. From her tears and my uncle's story, I knew the general truth.

I fell asleep that day but didn’t wake up normally. I had morning self-study at 5:30, and Cheng Xinyuan got up at 7. When he woke up, he found me still lying on the bed, thinking I had overslept. He pushed me but I didn’t wake up. Then he saw that my back was red and the blood had dried. The child was shocked and cried, attracting Lin Qingmei. I heard that she was so scared that she collapsed on the ground and couldn’t even cry. In the end, Cheng Xinyuan ran out crying and asked for help from the uncle in the bookstore next door, who rushed me to the hospital…

Cheng Xingmin beat me so hard that it was no exaggeration to say that my skin was torn apart. I heard that when the nurse tried to lift my clothes in the ambulance, she couldn’t do it at all. The clothes were already entangled with the flesh on my back. The nurse used a pair of small scissors to cut them apart bit by bit. There were wounds all over my back. The minor ones had already scabbed over, and the serious ones had already been turned over on both sides and were still stained with blood. I was burning all over and had a severe high fever. My arms were not much better either. There were no wounds on the surface, but they were still red and swollen like a pig’s trotter that had just been plucked…

The nurse thought my injuries were too serious so she secretly called the police. Cheng Xingmin was scared to death. Cheng Xinyuan told me about Cheng Xingmin's state after seeing the police and said angrily: "I thought he was so brave, but he is such a coward! He couldn't even speak a complete sentence when he saw the police!" Well, of course he was a coward because he felt guilty.

It had been two days when I woke up. I was unconscious for two days. I heard that the police asked everything that could be asked in the past two days. Xun Qingmei said that I was bullied at school. Other students broke the news that the two girls stole their money and extorted their low grade students. In front of all his colleagues, he stabbed him, and his colleagues couldn't believe that he could make his daughter like that. I heard that Cheng Xingmin made a promise in front of the police not to beat me again, but he never stepped into the ward to see me. I heard that Lin Qingmei and Cheng Xingmin had a big fight and even filed for divorce...

Divorce? Hehe…

If I planted a tree every time they mentioned divorce, the trees I planted over the years could save several Alxas. What would Ma Papa's "Ant Forest" have to do with it? I used to be naive, and hoped for their divorce countless times. In my previous life, I even knelt in front of Lin Qingmei and begged her for a divorce. What did she say? Oh, she said, "I have never seen such an unfilial daughter like you. Don't you want this family to be good?" Later, I figured it out. If they didn't divorce, I would run away, run far away and never come back. But in my previous life, I couldn't escape this family...

My fingers tapped the table lightly. Across from me, Cheng Xinyuan was talking to Ms. Lin about school matters with great excitement. His emotions came and went quickly, and I was really envious. Perhaps the huge incident in my freshman year of high school opened up some of Ms. Lin's Ren and Du meridians. She seemed to suddenly know how to be a mother. Although it is difficult to change one's nature, she corrected her mistakes when she knew them, which means there is still hope. From the moment I was reborn, I set a small goal: I must make Ms. Lin and Cheng Xingmin divorce! (Well, although it has been less than 24 hours since I was reborn...)

My thoughts went back to my freshman year in high school. I was in the hospital for more than a week before I was discharged. Before returning to school, I cut my long hair that I had kept for several years short, not much longer than a boy's buzz cut, and wore a pair of black-framed glasses. My classmates were shocked. I looked completely different from the long-haired and quiet me before. But they took it for granted. They all thought that I was bullied because of my appearance, and it would be good to change. I was a little confused. After a chat, I found out that there was a little information gap. They thought that I was hospitalized because of the beatings of those four girls. They cared about me and scolded those girls. Although I rolled my eyes in my heart, I thought that I should just think so. There is a cause and effect relationship. People are born to gossip. If they knew that I was beaten by my own father, who knows what kind of trouble they would cause.

Cheng Xingmin and I also got along peacefully, well... to some extent... we still didn't get along, but he knew he was in the wrong and was developing into a normal father... right? He would come to pick me up after my evening self-study class. Well, I would walk in front and he would follow behind... Because the school bullying was quite serious that time, the police came. The school attached great importance to the safety of students after school. Not only did it strengthen security patrols, but also the time management of boarding students was stricter. It also called on parents of day students to pick up their children. The head teacher even called Ms. Lin to ask them to pay attention to my personal safety, and repeatedly reminded her that no matter how close the school was to my home, it was still dark under the light. No matter how reluctant Cheng Xingmin was, he had to do enough superficial work; sometimes Cheng Xinyuan would come to pick me up, and the mood was naturally different. I inherited Cheng Xingmin's attentiveness and sensitivity. Although I don't want to admit it, it's true. During that time, I noticed that a boy always followed me, from the teaching building to the school gate, always hiding in the dark. From his figure, he looked very tall, but I never saw what he looked like. He would hide away when I turned around, just like playing a spy game. At first, I thought he was a bad guy, and I was scared. After a few days, I found that he didn't have any bad intentions. Then I thought again, it should be the boy who wrote me a love letter. He was out of guilt or something, I don't want to know. Thinking about my experience, I really don't want to have any intersection with this person in my life. Fortunately, he didn't follow me for a long time, and he returned to his normal state in a few days.

The next time he argued with Lin Qingmei and Cheng Xingmin was when they were dividing the subjects into arts and sciences. As the saying goes, it is difficult to change one's nature, even though it has only been a short time, Cheng Xingmin's forgetfulness came back.

The school has always valued science over liberal arts, and our class was no exception. Of the sixteen classes, only six were liberal arts classes, and there were only regular classes. According to the school leaders’ arrangement, all students in the two experimental classes, Class 8 and Class 9 next door, were required to study science to advance to the second year of high school, and we were not even asked to fill out the form to choose between science and liberal arts. The students had no objections, and instead felt that they were valued. Under the long-term subtle influence of the teachers, they all felt that studying science had a future! God knows how long I had been looking forward to the division of science and liberal arts, but it was a blow to me! I know very well that I am weak in science. Physics, chemistry, and biology are always at the bottom, while Chinese, English, politics, and history are far ahead. I can barely keep my place in the top ten in the class with this. If I study science, I will always be at the bottom! Besides, I don’t like the atmosphere of this class. They are too arrogant and think grades are everything. Some people even look down on students in ordinary classes. There are several junior high school classmates of mine who I have a good relationship with in ordinary classes. The more I interact with them, the more they scold me: “Cheng Lin, you have to pay attention to your status. If you always hang out with people from ordinary classes, your IQ will drop! What kind of university can we get into? What kind of university can they get into? It’s embarrassing!” I retorted at the time. What the hell is your status? They look down on people like that. There is still such a long time before the college entrance examination. There are many opportunities for a comeback. With this kind of mentality, you will not be able to succeed no matter how good the university is!

I went to find the head teacher myself. Judging from the love letter incident, this teacher Ma is very willing to listen to students' opinions. I will talk to him properly so as not to ruin the students' future...