Summary
On the morning I was leaving for the gaokao, China’s national college entrance exam, Dad stopped me.
“Your brother isn’t actually your full brother.”
“He’s my child with my first love. He was born sick, so I secretly swapped him into our family.”
Mom couldn’t take it. She broke down, throwing things and sobbing.
I just nodded calmly. “Got it. I’m going to my exam.”
In my previous life, that revelation had shaken me so badly that I’d stepped into the road without paying attention and been hit by a car. I died there.
Only afterward did I learn Dad had arranged the crash to ruin my gaokao.
His reason? He was afraid I’d score higher than his first love’s daughter.
Seeing me leave now, he sprang up in alarm.
“You aren’t shocked? You have nothing to say?”
“No,” I said evenly.
I’d been given another life. Full brother, foster brother—none of it mattered more than my future or staying alive.