After swallowing the medicine, Ye Jiu suffered unbearably, yet she couldn't speak, and her coordination was off, walking as if the slow-motion button had been pressed. Sometimes, attempting to walk faster would result in falling over with arms and legs moving in unison.
Of course, Ye Jiu didn't wish for any of this, but she couldn't control herself due to the poisoning.
Thinking back to those days, Ye Jiu couldn't help but sigh in her heart about her hard life.
Ye Jiu originally lived in the 21st century, but her fate was poor: her parents divorced, and as the unwanted child, no one desired her. She could only grow up with her elderly grandmother.
What was worse, her grandmother passed away when she was sixteen, and at the age of eighteen, Ye Jiu contracted a terminal illness. Her parents, having their own families long ago, were unwilling to pay the enormous medical bills for a child they had abandoned.
Lying in the hospital bed, Ye Jiu listened as her parents, unashamedly, argued over her medical expenses in her presence, plunging her into utter despair.
At that moment, Ye Jiu decided she would no longer be a burden to them, and likewise... she no longer had parents!
Ye Jiu left the hospital alone, taking the few thousand yuan she had saved from part-time work since she was fourteen, wanting to use her last days and savings to see the world and truly enjoy some peaceful days.
However, Ye Jiu's wish was ultimately unfulfilled because, while crossing the street, she was run over by a speeding car as she tried to save a little boy.
Although Ye Jiu was not particularly kind-hearted, the fact that she could save a living life with her frail body meant she had done a good deed in her lifetime; it made her death somewhat noble.
Her life had been fraught with hardship; as a girl, she was unloved by her parents, and their divorce only deepened their indifference. Just as she finally grew up, she contracted a terminal illness.
So, seizing the final moments of her life, Ye Jiu made a wish just before she drew her last breath.
If there was a next life, she hoped to have parents who would love her.
If not, then at least a good family background.
Because by then, even without love, she would at least have money.
Not life, where her parents remarried and had average financial conditions, adding to their lack of affection, it was no wonder they were unwilling to pay for her medical expenses.
Perhaps, Heaven truly heard her wish, so it granted her an exceptionally prestigious family background for the time.
Unfortunately, she was harmed by her own biological mother due to a conspiracy within the family.
Ye Jiu still remembered the words spoken by the nanny when she was born and presented to the Princess Consort, who said, "Take it away!"
That tone of disdain caused Ye Jiu's heart to wrench painfully at the time.
But even though she was despised by her biological mother, she didn't want to die, so she could only cry desperately, praying to elicit a bit of sympathy and affection.
Even the heavens wept, touched by her cries, but she could not move that heartless woman!
Ye Jiu could never forget the burning pain as the poison slowly flowed down her throat, burning away all her expectations and warmth for her birth parents in this life.
Ye Jiu drifted in and out of consciousness, and even inducing vomiting was but a final struggle. Yet, when she woke up again, she somehow inexplicably became the late-born daughter of Ye He, who had fled to the capital city.
Moreover, the He family truly believed she was their own child, as did everyone else in the Ye Family.