Chapter 1 The Wicked Old Woman (1)

  "Mo Xi, do I still need to mop the floor today?"

  "Mo Xi! Do I still need to wash the clothes you changed into after taking a bath?"

  "Mom! Do I still have to go outside and dig up sweet potatoes? It's really cold outside!"

  I don't know who I am?

  I really don't know who I am! This year, I'm sixteen years old. On my sixteenth birthday, it was as if I had been reborn in my own life, slowly waking up from a certain bed in this broken house...

  What was presented before my eyes was a woman... Oh! No! More accurately, it was an old woman with a face full of wrinkles, looking very dissatisfied at me lying on the wooden bed... It was a rainy day that day... This kind of house obviously leaked, and the rainwater dripped down bit by bit...

  She seems to be annoyed by my silly appearance...

  He then picked up a broom that was leaning against the door and was about to hit me...

  "Stinky girl, get up quickly! Get up, with so much dust in the whole room, you're actually sleeping so soundly!? It's simply too outrageous!"

  The old woman's eyebrows were twitching restlessly, and her brow was also furrowed.

  My buttocks were hit by her like that, and for the first time I knew that being hit by a broom could be so painful... Moreover, there was no one in my memory, looking at the woman in front of me who was hitting herself, I was also jumping up and down, then the old woman finally couldn't bear my strength, and I looked at her with some depression and asked: "Who are you?"

  She got even angrier...

  The broom was raised higher and higher, just about to reach its own height, when it suddenly gripped the handle tightly.

  "Who are you?"

  "Your parents, those heartless people, died outside, and it's good that they're dead!" She slowly put down the broom and explained with unusual patience: "Great! Having a house but not letting me live in it, are city people really so fierce? So great? Look! They got what was coming to them! Mephisto, I'm telling you, don't learn from them, or else I'll have the witch cast a spell on you at night and make you die a terrible death!"

  That was the first time I knew my name...

  My name was Mavis...

  The old woman said that her parents were killed in a foreign land, so she threw me to take care of her. But because I was not good to this old woman, so...

  So there's no good outcome? Is it really like that?

  How hateful...

  Why does it always seem like I'm being manipulated by her to be abused!

  "It's too cold today, Mephistopheles, go help me find some firewood outside!"

  "Yes! Grandma!"

  Then a bang hit his own head...

  An old woman with a withered arm glared at me angrily: "Didn't I tell you to call me Mosi? How can you be so tactless! If this goes on, watch out or I'll send you to feed the wolves!"

  She always doesn't let me call her grandma but Mosi instead.

  She treated me so indifferently, sometimes I even doubted whether I was really her own granddaughter...

  Always asking me to do this and that...

  It seems like this kind of day will never end...

  At least you won't be bullied when you go to school yourself...

  I'm really glad I can go to school! This grandma named 'Mosie' is still somewhat merciful and won't make things too extreme.

  When I was sixteen and received the admission letter from a high school in the city for the first time, I saw the existence of dawn for the first time.

  Really very excited...

  No need to be annoyed by grandma anymore... At that moment, I suddenly felt that going to school is actually the happiest thing for me in this world...

  So when I received the notice, it was almost time for bed, and I didn't even take off my shoes, but just smiled sweetly and entered dreamland...

  It seems like I see many girls of the same age as me smiling...

  They were wearing beautiful school uniforms...

  There were also some with light makeup on...

  Some people have a boy following them around...

  The school is as luxurious as a palace, and the library is very quiet. When I walked in myself, I could even hear the sound of my shoes stepping on it...

  When I heard the sound of flowers blooming outside. A young man walked past me from beside myself.

  Faint fragrance... elegant footsteps, holding a book in hand... rose-petal lips opening and closing...

  What is being said?

  His hair should be blond! Although he can only see his lips, a faint aura of light can be seen emanating from around him...

  The air stopped flowing...

  The old wall clock also stopped moving...

  The girl who was about to pick up a book also stopped her action...

  The girls in the ballet practice room also stopped dancing...

  The water pouring down from the artificial hill also stopped...

  Everyone stopped what they were doing, even the radio station that was playing piano music at the moment also came to a halt.

  Is it intentional to match him?

  Why does it feel like I've stopped breathing?

  But he still had a faint smile on his face...

  What's going on?! What are you talking about?! I can't hear you!

  It seems that life has become entangled because of this moment, with a furrowed brow... As the rotating black halo slowly turned into a face full of wrinkles, I almost got scared off the bed.

  What the heck!?! At this moment, the close-up of this old woman named Mo Xi's face is right in front of me, could it be that she wants my life?! No way! Hehe...

  "Mavis! How many times have I told you, go to sleep properly! Girls should pay more attention to hygiene. Your sleeping posture is already bad enough, and you can't even be bothered to take off your shoes?! Hurry up and take them off before you sleep, I don't want this bed to get dirty again because of you. Of course, if you're willing to go through the trouble of cleaning it all over again, then suit yourself! But I'm not going to take responsibility for your mistakes!"

  Forget it! Just get rid of her then! Thinking that I'll never have to be bothered by her again, making me do this and that, my mind feels exceptionally refreshing...

  I won't resist you anymore...

  "Remember to be more reserved next time! And when interacting with others, pay attention to yourself too, don't always be like this, okay? You're so careless and sloppy!" She spoke to me in a good temper for the first time, I felt a bit honored and surprised...

  Will she care about me?

  In my eyes, she is the kind of lazy and sloppy grandma who likes to push everything off to me and has a terrible attitude, and also snores loudly at midnight.

  Like this now...

  It's really fake...

  So I just let her be and went with it...

  That night she chattered with me for a long time, but I didn't know what she was saying. After listening to her for a few sentences, I fell asleep drowsily...