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Chapter 1The Choice of Sunshine

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After suffering from Clinical Depression for nearly eight years, I decided to end my life.

Before that, I transferred the remaining few thousand dollars in my bank account to my mom, Linda, because she repeatedly said that the grace of giving birth to me, I couldn't repay even in eight lifetimes.

Then, I went to my dad's grave, visited him one last time, and kowtowed three times heavily.

Then I jumped off a desolate peak.

Opened my eyes again, but returned to the day Mom decided to divorce Dad.

Since God gave me a chance to live again, this time, I choose Dad.

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"Sunny, Mommy decided to separate from Daddy, who... do you want to live with?"

I opened my eyes groggily, heard a familiar voice chattering in my ear.

"Although Mommy knows, you definitely can't bear to leave Mommy, but Mommy is preparing to open a Boutique, will be very very busy, don't have much time to take care of you..."

I frowned and looked around.

It was the old house from my childhood. Did my soul float here?

Looking at Mom's worried face, I wondered how I was so blind in my past life, actually didn't hear that her words inside and outside meant she wanted me to say "I'll live with Dad".

Mom gently shook my arm doubtfully, "Sunny, are you listening seriously?"

Surprised to find I could feel temperature, I realized, I seemed not a bodiless soul, but a living person.

I, reborn?!

Then in this life, Mom, I will do as you wish.

I interrupted her, "Mom, I thought about it, I want to live with Dad."

"But... What?!"

Mom touched my forehead in shock, "Strange, no fever... Sunny, you really think so? Daddy is a man, not as thoughtful as Mommy, might not take good care of you..."

I sneered in my heart.

What hypocritical and pretentious words.

Actually Mom, from beginning to end you didn't want my custody that much, did you?

In my past life, I chose you without hesitation and willfully, but you? You just used having my custody as a tool to show off and declare war on Grandpa and Grandma.

See, no matter how good you treat her, she will choose me, her biological mother.

Thinking of Grandpa and Grandma's ending, my heart twitched with pain.

After leaving with Mom, she strictly forbade me from seeing Dad and all his relatives again. Grandpa and Grandma could only secretly squat on my way to and from school to see me once. Unknown if because of this heartache, the two old people passed away successively within a few years.

In this life, I want Grandpa and Grandma to live a long life.

"Mom, isn't opening a boutique your dream all along? You said, if not for taking care of the family, you would have built a famous brand ten years ago. I am your daughter, of course I have to fully support you chasing your past dream! Don't worry, I can take care of myself, I don't want to become a burden on your way forward!"

Facing my sincere words, Mom's face turned completely red.

I knew, she was moved.

"Sunny, Mommy... Mommy is sorry to you woo woo woo..."

She hugged me and sobbed softly.

I comforted gently, "Mom, you go for it, when your career picks up, we mother and daughter will always have a moment of reunion."

But in my heart I felt incomparably disgusted.

In past life after Mom divorced Dad, she remarried quickly and gave birth to a daughter, living even worse than now, often beating and scolding me to vent anger, blaming me for insisting on following her back then, causing her to be picky before remarriage, failing to find a rich partner, and her longing clothing business couldn't start.

Mom, in this life I do as you wish, I wait to see how big a career you can make.