Rebirth to Save Myself

Chapter 132 Summer (2)

After Xia Tian entered puberty and started her first period in the summer, Xia Qiuyi's control over Xia Tian became even stronger. Every day, rain or shine, she would pick Xia Tian up from school and take her there, not allowing her any opportunity to come into contact with men. She even threw a tantrum in the teacher's office after learning that Xia Tian's deskmate was a boy.

She said, "I think you did this on purpose. You're jealous of my daughter's looks and want to ruin her. I specifically emphasized at the beginning of the school year that boys were not allowed to get close to her, so why did you still arrange for a boy to sit next to her? If she gets pregnant from such close contact, can you, as a teacher, take responsibility?"

"Mrs. Xia, please calm down. They are just classmates and there was no physical contact between them. How could she be pregnant? Besides, that boy is the class monitor. We teachers know his character and conduct."

“That’s just the side he shows you. How can you know he won’t instigate my daughter when you’re not around?”

The situation escalated to the point that even the principal had to intervene. Xia Qiuyi still refused to forgive Xia Tian's homeroom teacher. In the end, Xia's father intervened and transferred Xia Tian to an all-girls school, which finally calmed Xia Qiuyi down.

Xia Tian had already made some good friends at her original school, but after Xia Qiuyi's outburst, no one dared to play with her anymore. She felt repressed at the all-girls school, and every week in addition to attending classes, she had to practice dancing because Xia Qiuyi insisted that she pursue the art exam route, regardless of whether Xia Tian actually liked dancing.

Xia Qiuyi said in the summer, "Mom, I don't like dancing, it's so tiring."

Xia Qiuyi looked at her with cold eyes and said, "You're complaining about being tired now? What will you do when you encounter something even more tiring? I'm having you learn dance for your own good, and you don't even appreciate it."

"But, Mom, I don't like dancing at all."

"You dare to defy me? Tell me, have you found another man outside and grown up, planning to abandon your old mother? I've sacrificed so much for you, so many people advised me to remarry, but I refused them all for you. Is this how you repay me? Tell me!" Xia Qiuyi rushed to Xia Tian's side, grabbed her arm tightly, and spoke viciously with a ferocious expression.

“No, I went to an all-girls school. Even the teachers were women. There were no wild men there. I don’t like dancing at all. I’ve never liked it since I was little, but you’ve always forced me to learn. My academic grades are fine; I don’t need to take the arts entrance exam. Why do I have to learn to dance?” Xia Tian felt she was old enough to have her own ideas. She hadn’t dared to say no to her mother when she was little, but now she was willing to try.

"Fine, you dare talk back. Do you want me dead? If you want me dead, I'll die right now." Xia Qiuyi rushed into the kitchen like a madwoman, grabbed a knife, and prepared to chop at her own hand.

Xia Tian was startled by her mother's actions. She rushed forward and grabbed Xia Qiuyi's arm, crying and apologizing, "Mom, don't do this. I was wrong, I was wrong. I will study dancing hard from now on."

"Are you wrong? Don't you dislike dancing? Well, once I'm dead, you'll be free to do whatever you want. Let go! Let me die!"

"No, Mom, don't die. I was wrong, I was really wrong, I was confused for a moment. Don't abandon me, I can't live without you."

Children are born with the ability to love their parents, and even if their parents are not perfect, they are willing to compromise to some extent. Xia Tian grew up in a single-parent family, and she remembers how good her mother was to her when she was little, taking care of her all night when she was sick and taking her to the amusement park when she wanted to go.

In addition, her maternal grandparents kept telling her, "Mom is just sick. If you just go along with her, her condition will get better. She is the person who loves you most in the world."

So Xia Tian compromised, and from then on she never resisted Xia Qiuyi again, agreeing to all of Xia Qiuyi's requests. Perhaps Xia Qiuyi's gamble paid off in the end, because the year Xia Tian graduated from junior high school, she went out to play with her junior high school classmates and was told that the class monitor, whose mother had made a scene at the school to change her deskmate, had gotten her deskmate pregnant.

The incident has spread throughout all the junior high schools in the city because the girl suddenly fainted during the high school entrance exam, and a teacher assigned by the school to prevent students from suffering from heatstroke noticed something amiss. Now, the girl's parents are causing trouble at the school and the boy's home every day, threatening to take the matter to the education bureau if the school and the boy don't give them an explanation, so that the boy will also be unable to take the high school entrance exam.

Xia Tian felt a little wistful, and on his way home, he casually mentioned it to Xia Qiuyi. As if she had received some extraordinary token, Xia Qiuyi looked at Xia Tian and immediately launched into a long explanation:

"When I made a scene at the school, you weren't happy. You even thought I was embarrassing you and held a grudge against me for a long time, thinking that all the effort your grandfather put in to get you into the girls' school was just for you to suffer. Now look what's happened, this boy's true colors have been revealed, you're just shameless!"

When I told you this before, you looked down on me. And now? I told you I was doing this for your own good, but you wouldn't believe me and even defied me! If I hadn't forced you to learn to dance since you were little, do you think you could have gotten into the top high school with your grades? That's the top high school in the city, even the top high school in the province. Even if your grandfather could help you, why would he keep helping you? Your grades aren't good, so you deserve it; no one will help you.”

"Mom, my grades in academic subjects aren't bad either, okay? This time I got 120 in Chinese, 100 in Math, 130 in English, and 100 in all the other subjects combined, so I have a total of 400 points!"

"400 points is amazing? If you weren't dancing, do you think 400 points would be enough to get into the top high school?"

"And I only told you about that guy because I thought it was a coincidence."

"What coincidence? I knew he wasn't a good person long ago! He's just like your scoundrel father, and he's even the class monitor! If I hadn't noticed something was wrong early on and made you transfer schools, you would be the one fainting in the exam hall right now."

"Mom, I'm not stupid. I wouldn't do such a thing, why don't you believe me?"

"So you mean your mom is stupid, right? That's right, I am stupid. I believed your dad's nonsense back then, and this is what happened to me. But you have to remember, if I weren't stupid, you would have been discarded as medical waste long ago!"

"mom!"

"What? You dare to yell at me now? You've gone too far! How dare you yell at me!" Xia Qiuyi seemed to have been turned on a switch, and instantly became furious!

She strode forward, grabbed Xia Tian's hand, and headed for the door, saying as she walked, "If you dare to yell at me, then let's die together! You are my child, and I have the right to take you with me."

"Mom, what are you doing! Wake up and let go of me!" Xia Tian was terrified when she heard this and quickly tried to pull her hand out of Xia Qiuyi's grasp.

But Xia Qiuyi had already gone mad, and her strength was so great that it turned Xia Tian's hands red. She didn't wait for the elevator, and pulled Xia Tian up the stairs step by step, with Xia Tian holding onto the railing and refusing to let go.

Ignoring whether her actions might hurt Xia Tian, ​​Xia Qiuyi used all her strength to pull Xia Tian away. Xia Tian, ​​in pain, could only let go of the railing. She kept speaking to Xia Qiuyi, trying to wake her: "Mom, I was wrong! I shouldn't have talked back to you. I know I was wrong, please forgive me this time! Mom, I'll listen to you from now on, I'll listen to everything, I promise!"

Xia Qiuyi glanced back at her. After a while, she came to her senses and quickly continued, "Mom, what I just said is true. You gave birth to me and gave me life. Without you, I wouldn't exist. Of course, I have to listen to you, right? I was confused before, but now that thing about that man proves that you're right, Mom. I'm even more convinced that I should listen to you."

"I'm letting you off so easily, but you still won't learn your lesson. I'll give you a little lesson since I'm your mother." After saying that, she released Xia Tian's arm under her grateful gaze and gave her a push.

"Mom!!!" Xia Tian's pitiful scream echoed throughout the stairwell.

She was pushed down the stairs by her own mother, fracturing her forearm and leg. A neighbor from the same building heard the screams, came to check, and found Xia Tian curled up on the ground in pain. The neighbor called 120 (emergency services) and took Xia Tian to the hospital.

So she spent her summer vacation after the middle school entrance exam in the hospital. She witnessed Xia Qiuyi's ruthlessness, and her grandparents were also trying to persuade her at the hospital.

“Your mother’s condition is unstable right now. If we make her go for treatment, it will only worsen her condition. Let’s go along with her for now, and wait until she gets a little better and is willing to see a doctor before we take her for treatment, okay? Grandma knows Xia Tian is a good child, so please forgive your mother this time, okay?”

"Grandma, if I don't forgive her, Mom will beat me to death. Just like this time, she pushed me down the stairs without hesitation. If the neighbors hadn't found me, I would have died in the stairwell." Xia Tian leaned against the hospital bed, her tone cold and devoid of warmth. Her eyes were vacant as she looked at her mother, seemingly with a hint of resentment. Resentment that her mother, who was also her grandmother, would say such cruel things.

"What are you saying? Of course your mother loves you. She's just sick. She got sick because of your father. You have to understand her. We're trying to find a way to get her to see a doctor." Xia's mother looked at Xia with a slightly reproachful look, because she was found and taken to the hospital by a neighbor, who also called the police.

She and Xia's father spent a lot of effort to settle the matter, claiming that Xia Tian accidentally fell down the stairs and Xia Qiuyi didn't react in time, which led to the situation seen by the neighbors.

She came to the hospital to see Xia Tian, ​​partly to get Xia Tian to give a consistent story and not mess up the situation they had worked so hard to get back on track.

"Dong dong" the knock on the door sounded.

A moment later, someone opened the door, walked in, and said, "Hello, we are police officers. We're here to ask Xia Tian some questions."

Xia's mother quickly went to greet him, then put on a kind and friendly demeanor and said, "Hello, officer. I'm Xia Tian's grandmother. This child is terrified. May I stay with her?"

"It depends on whether the person involved agrees or not; we don't care." The police felt that this questioning was just a formality, and the facts had already been settled.

"Xia Tian, ​​Grandma will stay here with you, okay?" Xia's mother asked, but her body naturally sat down in the chair in front of the hospital bed.

"Summer, why were you and your mother, Ms. Xia Qiuyi, in the stairwell yesterday?"

"Because the elevator was too slow, my mom and I decided to take the stairs."

"So the reason you fell down to sleep was because of Xia Qiuyi Rui?"

"No, I accidentally lost my footing and fell."

"So when you fell down, you called for your mom, was that a cry for help?"

"Correct."

"Alright, that's settled then. We'll be going now, take good care of your injury."

"Take care, officer."

After the policeman left and walked away, Xia's mother closed the door and smiled at Xia, saying, "Good child, Grandma knew you couldn't bear to part with your mother. Don't worry, Grandma promises to take your mother to see a doctor as soon as she's a little more stable."

"I'm tired and want to rest."

"Okay, Grandma will help you lower the bed."

"Ah."

After entering high school, Xia Tian met some girls in her class who taught her to smoke, drink, and become a delinquent. They even encouraged her to cause trouble for Su Xia, because they believed Lu Jingnian liked her.

In the end, she and Su Xia became good friends, and with Su Xia's encouragement, she studied hard and was admitted to the Capital Academy of Arts. By chance, she was spotted by a director and filmed her first TV series, which made her a star.

But the situation didn't improve. Although she had an agent, her mother was the ultimate authority. If her mother disagreed, the agent wouldn't dare to accept any gigs or scripts for her, otherwise her mother would go crazy at the company.

Initially, the company saw her potential for overnight fame, but unfortunately, her mother held her back. Over time, the company invested less and less effort in her. So when she was attacked online this time, the company gave a token response and that was it. All her gigs and advertising shoots were suspended, and she was forced to stay at home with her mother.

Since she went to study in the capital, her mother went with her, but couldn't live with her in the dormitory, which gave her a much-needed respite. Later, after she became famous, she was constantly on the go for filming, commercials, and variety shows, and when she got home, all she did was sleep. She communicated less with her mother, so she felt less stressed.

On Saturday noon, Xia Qiuyi dropped Xia Tian off at the mall entrance. Before getting out of the car, she turned to Xia Tian and said, "Report back every hour, and you must be done by 9 PM. I'll send you the parking location later, understand?"

"Okay, Mother. Thank you for letting me leave early today to meet with my friends."

"Don't forget your task: take the photo and then post it on Weibo to clarify."

"Okay, I remember."