Chapter 1: Rebirth Again

"Slap—"

The pain in her cheek instantly brought Jiang Qin, who was still in a daze, back to reality.

Her furious mother, Jiang Yulian; Jiang Rumeng, with blood trickling down her forehead; her younger brother, Jiang Ruhai, glaring at her with hatred; and a variety of other disgusted gazes.

"Jiang Qin, if anything happens to Rumeng, even if you are my own flesh and blood, I will personally send you to prison!"

Following this, everyone hurriedly rushed Jiang Rumeng to the hospital. No one stopped for her, not even for a second.

No one was willing to listen to a single word of her explanation.

Because they all believed that she, coming from a barren planet, was deeply rooted in vice.

That she was a vicious little female from the marrow of her bones.

"Heh..." Jiang Qin slowly raised her hand and gently touched her slightly swollen cheek.

Though her lips curled into a smile, it was filled with bitterness.

She closed her eyes in pain.

Alive again...

This was already her third life!

In her first life, she was an orphan. Thanks to a live-streamed variety show about life in an orphanage, her beautiful face made her an instant sensation across the internet.

She was only ten years old that year.

With her newfound fame came all sorts of invitations; some companies wanted to sign her, but more people wanted to adopt her.

Even at her young age, she understood that those kind-faced adopters were only interested in her popularity.

But their plans were thwarted because the director of the orphanage was even greedier than they were.

Because she had been pretty since she was small, she had been bullied by many children in the orphanage.

Whenever adopters came, she would be locked in a room and forbidden from coming out.

This situation only improved when a ten-year-old girl arrived at the orphanage when she was seven.

An Xin was a gentle and resilient big sister. She couldn't stand the bullying in the orphanage and would always intervene whenever she saw it.

Despite looking soft and delicate, she fought like her life depended on it.

Jiang Qin had been protected by her many times.

From the age of eight, the children who wanted to bully her no longer dared to do so openly, resorting only to secret exclusion.

However, such a wonderful girl was diagnosed with leukemia.

This was also the reason why she was willing to refuse adoption and agree to the director's demands to be obedient and earn money for him.

Because the condition was that An Xin would receive treatment.

To earn quick money, the director signed her up for many variety shows and advertisements, and arranged numerous lessons in singing, dancing, and musical instruments.

As her fame grew, the money the director received increased, and she became busier and busier...

So busy that she had no time for school or rest.

But whenever she saw An Xin in the hospital ward—pale, weak, and with her head shaved—she felt it was all worth it.

No one understood how much she had longed for family protection when she was being bullied, so An Xin was different to her.

There were many children protected by An Xin, but the only person who protected Jiang Qin was An Xin.

***

In her first life, her life ended at thirteen, dying when a rock-climbing rope snapped during a variety show.

When she woke up again, she found herself in a dark space, her body exceptionally weak.

With occasional moments of consciousness, she gradually began to hear sounds from the outside world.

Only then did she realize she had been reborn in her mother's womb.

The woman spoke to her with constant love and anticipation, and was overjoyed when she learned she was having a girl.

There were also many male voices—one was her biological father, and several others were her mother's other partners, all of whom called themselves her father.

From these voices, she understood that after she died, she had transmigrated into an interstellar world.

The ratio of men to women was 1,000:1, making girls exceptionally precious.

So in this life, she was born carrying the expectations and love of many; she was no longer an abandoned infant.

However, accidents always come unexpectedly.

The spaceship Jiang Yulian was traveling on was hijacked by space pirates, and in her fright, she gave birth to her prematurely.

In the ensuing chaos, she was snatched away by the pirates.

Afterward, she ended up on a barren planet. The pirate who snatched her died from severe injuries before he could sell her off.

After being passed between several people who found her, she stumbled and struggled through life until she was seven and managed to escape. Since then, she had lived near a garbage dump, surviving by scavenging and killing small rodent-like alien beasts.

Because she had transmigrated with her memories, Jiang Qin always remembered that her parents in this life loved her very much.

Especially on the day she was born, the loving gaze Jiang Yulian had for her sustained her through many nights, helping her survive and find the way home.

In her previous life, she had also returned to the Jiang family at eighteen.

However, the reality was different from her memories.

The mother who loved her so much now had a daughter by her side—the orphan left behind by Jiang Yulian's biological brother, named Jiang Rumeng.

Her father had died ten years ago on the way to find her.

Those partners of her mother who had once vied to be her father now only doted on Jiang Rumeng.

And her three half-brothers were even more guarded against her, fearing that she, a savage from a barren planet, would bully the delicate Jiang Rumeng.

Regarding Jiang Rumeng, Jiang Qin's feelings were complex.

In her previous life, this cousin in reality, and sister in name, had an ever-changing attitude toward her.

Sometimes she would use schemes to frame her for attention, and sometimes she might show her great concern out of insecurity.

Her attitude made Jiang Qin always think that as long as she got along well with her, they could become sisters.

And then the family would no longer be troubled, and they wouldn't need to take sides between them.

In truth, the main reason was that Jiang Rumeng's face was five parts similar to An Xin's.

Especially when she pretended to be gentle...

That was why she wanted to get along with her.

...

Thinking of this, the pain-filled Jiang Qin opened her eyes, her gaze much calmer.

Facts proved that some things could not be forced.

She was born an abandoned child; how could she dare to hope for so-called family affection?

In this world, nothing belonged to her, and no one would firmly choose her.

Since the heavens had shown mercy and allowed her to start over, this time she would no longer chase after family members who didn't belong to her.

She wanted to live well for once.

For herself, live for once.

***

At this moment, everyone from the Jiang family at the hospital was nervously watching Jiang Rumeng lying in the medical pod.

Jiang Ruhai, the eldest son born to Jiang Yulian and her third partner, was saying with a face full of indignation

"Mother, you really cannot indulge Jiang Qin anymore this time. If this continues, Sister will be tormented to death by her!"

That's right, in his heart, only Jiang Rumeng was his real sister, while Jiang Qin was just an outsider who had suddenly been added to the mix.

Even if she was a precious female, so what? He only knew that his parents had taught him since he was small to always cherish his sister.

His sister was a delicate little female, and as a male, he had to protect her, even if it cost him his life!