Previous Life

It's my marriage night. I don't want to do this. I'm nineteen and I have to get married to someone I don't even love which my parents set me up with before I was even born. Li Wei sure is handsome, but I don't love him that way. He's like a brother to me, that's not what I call love. I have a gorgeous red dress on, but I would've preferred to wear it for someone else. All that to unite two incompatible families that hate each other more than a dog hates a cat. I would've preferred to be asked about that guy before marrying him.

"Mother, I'm ready!" I called her with a fake smile.

"You look like an angel, honey." My mother says before hugging me and saying "I love you." softly, with tears falling from her gentle eyes. What she didn't see, though, is my angry face in her back.

"I love you too. You'll always be my perfect exemplar little mom. No matter what happens." I couldn't say that to my stepmother, who I also titled the most detested person of the family with my brothers. My parents, though, don't have the same vision of her. Only I know what she's capable of.

I don't really know why she's so horrible with me, after all, she's a mother like mine and is also an angel with my parents. I always thought she was making plans against us in her free times. I walk, holding my mother and father's hands, in direction of my groom to officially make my worse nightmare my stepmother and have a stepbrother and stepsister. I'm not happy about it, but I have to make my parents proud, for once in my life. After Wang Min, my groom and I are finally and officially married, I go back to my hotel room, where I sleep with my mother, stepmother and stepsister. When I come in, I don't know why, but it smells weird.

"Do you smell that?" I ask to my mother, who obviously smelling it too.

"It smells like potato oil, like when I do French fries for your father." Mother says.

I stop minding it. We have a dinner to attend. My mother wants to land me a dress she wore for her first business meeting with her investors. She was my age and my height apparently. My mother says she always sees herself in me. It makes her happy, because her sons don't exactly remind the same things to her, but to father.

"Linlin! Are you coming! We're going to be late!" My mother asks, not knowing that behind the bathroom door, I'm clearly struggling with the dress.

When I'm finally ready, I exit the bathroom and we try to open the door. It's locked from the outside. It's locked with the key of the room. We're locked in our room! We call for help not to be late when we see the sprinklers in the room start.

"Disgusting! That's not water! It's an inflammable chemical!" Mother tells after getting some in the mouth.

We turn around and see the room's carpet in on fire. We realise the smell we thought was oil is, in fact, what we thought. There's a sudden explosion, effect of the oil and I fall asleep. An eternal sleep. I'm dead for unknown reasons.

***

I feel a hand touching mine. Is it possible to dream in our death? Who am I asking too?

"Linlin? Are you okay?" I hear my mother murmuring.

I don't think that my mother's voice would be so realistic in a dream. I open my eyes and see myself hidden under a blanket. Then, I only have one question. What am I doing in my fifteen years old birthday party with my mother near my bed? I look at my hand. I'm real. Then it hit me.

"I was reborn." Is what I don't say.

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