Reincarnation Of The Businesswoman At School Chapter 2 - A Reborn Female Student
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The television news reported that a woman's corpse was discovered floating in the sea near City B yesterday afternoon. The victim seemed about 25 years old. Police probes confirmed she was precisely the industrial spy and killer they had been pursuing that day.
As the teenage girl viewed the broadcast, her face stayed solemn.
No person realized the girl's soul had been mysteriously substituted by the soul of the woman shown on the news.
Indeed, Tang Aining had achieved rebirth.
Unbelievable though it sounded, facts were facts. Even Tang Aining, who prided herself on superb adaptability, needed a full morning to digest and confront this new reality.
Heaven granted her rebirth for a purpose: she would surely keep her previous life's vow—should she survive, Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin would pay the price.
Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin, prepare yourselves! Tang Aining returned. She came back to confront the Tang family that slaughtered her mother and exploited her over countless years.
Tang Aining reborn into the body of Gu Ning, aged 18. She hailed from an average single-mother home, her mom delivering her unmarried.
This led to endless mockery and contempt from relatives toward mother and daughter alike. Gu Ning herself got branded “the bastard” repeatedly.
Furthermore, classmates scorned, excluded, and tormented her too, leaving Gu Ning plagued by inferiority, shyness, frailty, and poor expression.
Gu Ning's mom, Gu Man, toiled as a regular factory hand without a degree, pulling in merely a few thousand yuan monthly. Their existence proved grueling.
Gu Ning ranked as a senior at a City F high school. Only one semester separated her from the National College Entrance Examination.
Still, academics never suited Gu Ning, rendering college admission a steep challenge.
Relatives jeered at their plight. One hypocrite even urged Gu Ning toward post-exam marriage to some stranger, claiming it helped Gu Man.
Yet pondering Gu Ning's hospitalization cause soured Tang Aining's mood, anger flashing briefly in her gaze.
Likely due to their shared misfortune.
Gu Ning possessed a boyfriend prior to hospital stay. They'd dated two months. He went by Qin Zheng, top-class pupil.
Handsome and sociable, Qin Zheng shone in studies too. From affluent stock, his dad headed tourism bureau, mom oversaw hospital OB-GYN. Qin Zheng embodied privilege's offspring.
Gu Ning couldn't fathom such a star chasing her. Crucially, she'd nursed a year-long secret affection for Qin Zheng. Aware of mismatch, refusal proved impossible. Soon after, acceptance followed.
Yet yesterday shattered it all instantly.
Yesterday marked Friday. Qin Zheng summoned Gu Ning to meet. Expecting romance, shock hit when he arrived alongside Gu Xiaoxiao, breakup words spilling immediately.
Gu Xiaoxiao, child of Gu Ning's uncle, preceded her by half-year. Parents drilled into her Gu Ning's bastard status from youth. Plus, Gu Ning outshone her in looks. Hence, picking on Gu Ning delighted Gu Xiaoxiao.
“Gu Ning, Qin Zheng never liked you. He dated you solely for our bet. I promised if he turned you into his girlfriend for two months then ditched you, I'd date him next. Now Qin Zheng belongs to me.” Gu Xiaoxiao boasted haughtily at Gu Ning.
Shock gripped Gu Ning long before recovery. She questioned Qin Zheng, “Is it true?”
Qin Zheng eyed her contemptuously, snapping back with revulsion, “Yes, absolutely. Gu Ning, did you truly believe I'd want a broke nobody like you? Without Xiaoxiao, I'd never glance your way. You're repulsive.”
Right then, Gu Ning scarcely held herself upright.
She'd imagined meeting her dream prince, revealed instead as a ridiculous farce.
Rejection overwhelmed Gu Ning. Fleeing humiliated, a car struck her. Brain trauma severe, bleeding profuse, driver vanished.
Awake, Tang Aining now inhabited her.
Suddenly, two gentle women's voices drifted from beyond the door, halting Tang Aining's reflections.
“Here's 30 thousand. All savings from your brother-in-law and me, but it won't cover Ningning's surgery.” Gu Ning's second aunt Gu Qing spoke anxiously. Pausing briefly, she pressed on, “How about phoning our eldest brother?”
Gu Qing voiced it without conviction.
“Called already, but eldest brother claims wife holds all funds. He's tapped out too. You know our eldest sister-in-law—money defines her. Kill her first, then maybe borrow.”
Resignation weighed on Gu Man. Eldest brother Gu Qingxiang topped family wealth yet skimped most. Wife-controlling-money served as flimsy pretext; Gu Man saw through it.
“Right, our third brother then?”
“He just purchased new house, cash depleted. My fault Ningning suffers beside me. Should she fail to heal, I'll end it all,” Gu Man wailed in torment and hopelessness.
No longer former Tang Aining, yet her elite skills endured. Thus faint outer voices reached her crystal clear.
The exchange stirred her heart.
Morning awakening focused on rebirth absorption, forgetting to alert Gu Man of consciousness return. Guilt now pricked Tang Aining.
A sharp creak heralded the door thrusting open. Twin middle-aged women, age-matched, stepped inside. Simple budget garb clothed them. Though threadbare and aged, neatness prevailed.
Scant earnings barred skincare luxuries. They appeared decades beyond true years. Fifty-year claims would pass unquestioned.
“Mom, Aunt.”
Tang Aining spoke upfront. Discomfort absent, rebirth fully embraced.
Gu Ning's retained memories evoked maternal devotion's depth; her own maternal craving burned strong. Hence swift acceptance of Gu Man as mother dawned on Tang Aining.
Gu Man evoked her birth mother. Men discarded both, yet fortune spared Gu Man over Tang Aining's mom.
Hardship defined Gu Man's days, but survival she claimed.