07/12/2026
Every year during college entrance exam season, my retaking sister would have a depressive episode.
Just because on the exam day that year, she missed her exam time to save me.
This year, she had another episode and forced me to use the bonus I had just received to buy her a bag.
When I refused, she immediately started crying loudly, saying I had ruined her life.
“If it weren’t for you, I would have graduated from a prestigious university by now. Buying a bag would be nothing!”
My parents also scolded me for being ungrateful.
But for a long time, I had always been suspicious about the incident that year.
After being reborn, I returned to the night before my sister’s college entrance exam.
This time, I would definitely get my sister to the exam room safely!
1.
I was reborn the day before my sister’s college entrance exam.
A wave of dizziness hit me. When I opened my eyes, Luna was shaking my arm.
“Sister, can you take me to the exam tomorrow~ Last time, you pushed beyond your limits and got into a second-tier university. If not for that, you wouldn’t have gotten into any university~ I have to borrow your exam luck, right? You’re free anyway. Take me, okay~”
Mom pinched Luna’s nose affectionately: “It’s a shame Mom and Dad have an important meeting early tomorrow. After your exam, Mom will pick you up and take you for good food.”
After saying that, Mom turned to me. When she saw me in baggy pajamas sitting in front of the computer — the standard image of an unemployed freeloader — her expression immediately changed. Her eyelids drooped into a cold curve:
“I’m not saying this to scold you, but even if you don’t go out, you should at least tidy yourself up. You wear pajamas all day. You look so lazy.
After all, your father and I were excellent students. How did we give birth to someone as unmotivated as you? You studied extra classes non-stop when you were young, but when it came to the college entrance exam, you only got into a lousy second-tier school. Unlike your sister, who has never needed us to worry since she was little…”
I silently recited those words. They were exactly the same as what Mom said.
Because in my previous life, she had said these words… countless times.
The only difference was that now, hearing these words, I no longer felt heartbroken or sad. I just felt numb.
According to Mom, from kindergarten, I was inferior to other children. In first grade, because I couldn’t distinguish vowels, Mom angrily tore up my homework. The next day, I submitted a notebook taped back together with clear tape.
Not long after, Mom got pregnant again.
She said teaching me would make her angry and she didn’t want it to affect the baby in her belly.
Just so happened, Uncle and Aunt didn’t have children, so they took me in to raise.
Later, Uncle and Aunt had a child in their later years. Aunt needed bed rest and couldn’t take care of me. In the end, Mom remembered she still had a daughter and I was brought back home.
But I was always used as a reference for Luna. The purpose was to show off how smart and clever their youngest daughter was.
Luna was sweet-talking and clever, so she was loved by relatives and friends. I took her as a role model and learned how to interact with others from her.
But in front of adults, my childish wishes were seen through immediately. In return, I only got ridicule from my parents and Luna.
The illusion of love was my tragedy in my previous life.
After much difficulty being reborn, I decided not to let the people who hurt me stay in my life and submit to them anymore.
“Tomorrow I can’t take you. I have an important interview.” I casually made up an excuse, unwilling to take Luna to the exam.
Just because in my previous life, on the way to the exam, I suddenly had a respiratory allergic reaction and fainted on the road. Luna took me to the hospital for emergency treatment. Because of that, she missed the college entrance exam.
Although she chose to retake a year, Luna used the excuse of having psychological trauma from missing the exam and developed exam phobia and depression. Her grades plummeted, completely losing the chance to enter the prestigious university she had always dreamed of.
After that, every college entrance exam season, she would have a depressive episode.
When I used the bonus I had just received to treat the whole family, she said bitterly: “If I had gotten into a good university, today I could be filial to Mom and Dad more than you…”
When I bought myself a windbreaker I had liked for a long time on my birthday, she also said bitterly: “If I had gotten into a good university, I could buy whatever clothes I wanted…”
When I bought a laptop for work, she said even more bitterly: “If I had gotten into a good university, at least I would be a senior office worker…”
And then, I had to hand over everything I had worked so hard to get to Luna under the name of compensation.
If I refused, the whole family would accuse me of deliberately ruining Luna’s life out of jealousy.
But in reality, I had always been suspicious about the day I took her to the exam.
After I was taken to the hospital, the medical staff knew Luna was an examinee and repeatedly offered to take her to the exam.
But she stubbornly refused to leave. She lay on top of me crying almost to the point of fainting, as if I had already died.
When asked for her parents’ contact information, she also panicked. In the end, she stubbornly missed the morning exam.
And that strange cause of the allergic reaction…
With my experience from my previous life, I felt that even Luna’s smallest expressions had their own intentions.
Did she really sacrifice her future to save me, or had she set a trap from the beginning?
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