I'm only five years old, how come I've become the military region's darling?

"Don't hit Xiaochun, don't hit Xiaochun..."

Ruan Xiaochun tensed up, realizing she was being held tightly in someone's arms.

That familiar taste.

She looked up abruptly, and the man's familiar face was covered in filthy mud and ash.

"Xiaochun isn't afraid. He can hit his father, but not Xiaochun."

Ruan Xiaochun's nose tingled, and tears streamed down her face like noodles.

How could this happen?

Is it a hallucination after death?

Ruan Xiaochun reached out to touch him.

A burst of humiliating laughter reached their ears, and several children threw mud at them.

"The big fool is crazy, the little fool is insane, the father and son walk like bears, and the fool Chun has a fool father."

"Smash them! Smash them to death!"

The little boy at the front picked up a stone and threw it.

Ruan Xiaochun's pupils contracted sharply.

He instinctively stepped in front of Ruan Jianhua to shield him.

"ah--"

A sharp pain shot through my back.

"Xiaochun, Xiaochun is bleeding. Waaaaah!"

Ruan Jianhua burst into tears. The 1.8-meter-tall man was now like a child, helpless, with tears and snot streaming down his face.

"Don't cry, Dad, don't cry, Xiaochun isn't in pain."

Ruan Xiaochun grinned broadly, looking particularly happy.

The more she laughed, the more Ruan Jianhua cried.

I picked her up and rushed home.

"Mother, Xiaochun is bleeding, Xiaochun is going to die..."

The wind whistled through the air.

Ruan Xiaochun was happier than ever before.

She has returned, back to the year she was five years old.

In his past life, his father was injured by Little Tiger hitting him with a rock, leaving a huge gash on his head.

Ruan Xiaochun was so frightened that she cried loudly and had nightmares for a long time, crying and begging for her mother.

To cheer her up, her simple-minded father, Ruan Jianhua, secretly walked alone to the military hospital to find her biological mother.

He happened to encounter a child who had fallen into the water, jumped in to save him, and drowned himself.

When the devastating news arrived, Grandma Ruan succumbed to a brain hemorrhage and died on the spot.

And that's why she was sent to her biological mother, Su Mei.

Things weren't as wonderful as I had imagined.

Su Mei remarried less than a month after her biological father died.

She married Fu Chen, who had three children.

He grew up in a blended family.

She was cautious and apprehensive.

I remember the first time I was bullied by Fu Chen's daughter.

She told Su Mei through tears.

Su Mei glared at her coldly, "Xiao Chun, being a stepmother isn't easy. Your Uncle Fu is already being very kind by taking care of you. Can't you be a little more sensible?"

She was young, but she knew.

Her mother didn't love her.

And after his mother gave birth to his younger brother seven months after getting married.

In this home, she was more like a taciturn nanny.

They do the most work, eat the worst food, and live in the worst place.

At eighteen, Su Mei was persuaded by her stepdaughter Fu Mingzhu to marry a domestically abusive butcher.

She was forced to abort a child and eventually died from massive bleeding.

Only after her death did she realize that she had lived in a novel called "Second Marriage to a High-Ranking Official, a Pretty Widow Massaging Her Waist Every Night".

Her mother, Su Mei, is the female lead.

The novel tells the story of Su Mei, a single mother who perseveres, and Fu Chen, a widower with three children, as they build a beautiful life together.

But on what grounds?

Ruan Xiaochun trembled uncontrollably.

Just because of the so-called plot, they have to be used as stepping stones?

Ruan Xiaochun clenched her fists tightly.

My father, Ruan Jianhua, was injured in the brain by a bomb while saving people on the battlefield, and became mentally disabled.

To compensate him, the state gave Ruan Jianhua a sum of money and arranged a job for his spouse, Su Mei.

Su Mei transformed from a barefoot doctor into a doctor at a military hospital.

It was here that she met Fu Chen, and thus began her so-called wonderful life.

Ruan Xiaochun gritted her teeth.

No matter how beautifully the story is told, it cannot conceal the fact that Su Mei had an affair while still married.

Moreover, Su Mei later secured a promotion to deputy director by virtue of her status as a family member of Ruan Jianhua, a martyr who saved lives.

Su Mei raised her not out of maternal love.

Instead, they have no choice but to raise them.

Back then, the daughter of a martyr could not be abandoned casually, otherwise everything Su Mei had would be destroyed.

She was the result of Su Mei weighing her own interests.

However, since we can start over in this life...

She absolutely cannot let the tragedy of her past life repeat itself.

Thinking this, Ruan Jianhua had already rushed through the fence gate with her in his arms, "Xiaochun, don't die, Xiaochun, don't die, waaaah—"

While tending the fire in the stove, Old Lady Ruan heard her mentally challenged son crying.

He rushed out carrying fire tongs.

"Mother, Xiaochun is dying, I don't want Xiaochun to die, Mother..."

Grandma Ruan looked at Ruan Xiaochun, whom he was holding in his arms; her thin jacket was stained with a lot of blood.

My head is buzzing.

Every day, there are either major injuries or minor bleeding.

"Smack!" A hand slapped Ruan Jianhua on the head. "What are you crying for, you grown man? Go get the first-aid kit."

Ruan Jianhua looked back at Ruan Xiaochun pitifully, like a big, honest golden retriever being scolded.

"You brat, how did I raise such a useless coward? How many times have I told you, if you can't beat someone, just throw a brick at them! You coward, you're just like your useless old man."

"Get over here now! I've really done something terrible to raise two useless cowards like you."

Ruan Xiaochun listened to the old lady's loud and forceful scolding.

His eyes reddened again and again, and he suddenly hugged the old woman's waist.

She snuggled into her arms like a puppy.

"Milk....."

Grandma Ruan's body stiffened for a moment, and her droopy eyelids twitched.

He lifted Ruan Xiaochun up with one hand. "Grandma, you'll wear us down sooner or later. Hurry up and carry me over there."

Grandma Ruan deftly lifted her clothes, saw a long, peeling gash on her back, and angrily threw down the fire tongs.

"A bunch of little bastards who were born of a mother but not taught by one, I'm going to tear their house apart today."

"You son of a bitch, how could you hit me so hard?"

"Still looking? Give me the medicine box."

Ruan Jianhua pursed her lips, and tears streamed down her face.

"Xiaochun, it doesn't hurt. Daddy will blow on it for you. Don't cry, don't cry."

"Cry, cry, cry! You still have the nerve to cry? You're such a big guy and you can't even protect a baby."

Ruan Xiaochun chuckled as she looked at her father, who was being scolded like a submissive wife.

"Grandma, my dad was protecting me. I saw Xiaohuzi throwing stones at him, and I was afraid they would hurt his head."

Grandma Ruan muttered to herself as she held the red antiseptic, a hint of distress flashing in her eyes. "It's already this bad, how much worse can it get?"

"Alright, you brat, it's no use being nice to you. All you care about is your heartless mother."

In the past, whenever someone spoke ill of Su Mei, Xiao Chun would defend her.

But Ruan Xiaochun didn't say a word today.

Her small hands clung to Ruan Jianhua's waist, feeling the warm breeze he gently blew over her wound. She said in a muffled voice, "Grandma, I won't mention her anymore. She's not my mother."

Grandma Ruan paused, "You brat, when did I say you couldn't acknowledge her?"

Ruan Xiaochun remained silent. It was the same in her past life. The old lady would scold Su Mei at home every day, but when outsiders spoke ill of Su Mei, she would rush up and fight with them.

How could such a sharp-tongued but kind-hearted old lady have died such a miserable death in her past life?

After applying the medicine, Grandma Ruan picked up Xiaochun and said, "Tell Grandma who hit you. Today, Grandma will poke ten or eight holes in their house."

Xiaochun clutched the old lady's clothes, her lips pursed, "Grandma, Xiaohuzi said his mom saw Sumei take other boys and children to the mall in the city. She doesn't want Xiaochun and Dad anymore, and Xiaochun doesn't want her either."