She died on an operating table, blood on the surgeon’s gloves—and woke up sprawled in a 2001 market with a red armband tapping her shoulder. The man who broke her life in the future is an eight-year-old boy with a bleeding back and a colder stare than any grown monster she remembers. Yu Yao has exactly one mission: keep herself alive, rewrite the past that created a tyrant, and raise that boy into something human. She will steal his trust, embarrass the adults who neglect him, break the cycle of cruelty—and if necessary, take everything from the people who let him become a monster. This is the version where she survives childbirth, moves into the mansion where her future suffered, becomes an unpaid guardian, a substitute teacher, and a one-woman reform school. She will be ruthless, soft, inventive and cruelly efficient—because this time, she doesn’t die. The city that made him will learn what happens when the hunted returns with a plan.
11 Chapters
