Chapter 1 — Tieu Man Returns

BACK TO THE ONE-MONTH DAY, MY CRY BECAME AN ALARM BELL FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE After my death, I opened my eyes again and discovered that I had returned to the day I was just one month old. Tong Xuan Mai, a gold-class nanny with a salary of thirty thousand a month, was bringing a glass of drugged milk to my five-year-old sister's mouth. In my previous life, it was this glass of milk that destroyed our entire family. That night, her sister had a high fever, convulsions, and from then on she could no longer run or jump like a normal child. Mother was gradually forced to lose control by using something called a sedative tonic. Grandma's medicine was secretly swapped, and Dad also signed high-value insurance contracts and property authorization papers in a panic. By the time I investigated the truth, my sister had a lifelong illness, my mother was sent for treatment, my grandmother had a stroke, and my father also lost the final decision-making power in the family. As soon as I got the evidence, her son pushed me down the stairs. But this time, I was just a one-month-old baby, unable to speak, unable to turn over, and unable to even hold my head up. I can't tell you that that glass of milk is not okay to drink. Nor can I tell my mother that the gentle, thoughtful golden nanny in front of us will kill our entire family. Looking at the rim of the cup that had touched her lips, I could only scream with all my might. "Wow——!"1The sister's hand stopped in mid-air. This year, she is five years old, and her biggest fear is hearing me cry. As soon as she heard me cry, she immediately panicked, put the cup on the table and ran to the crib to comfort me. "Tieu Man, don't cry, I'm here." As soon as the glass of milk left her mouth, I immediately stopped crying. Mom was stunned. Tong Xuan Mai smiled and handed the cup of milk to her sister again. "It's normal for babies to have flatulence and cry on and off. An An, drink quickly, I've specially warmed it up for you." As soon as she received the cup, my crying immediately became high-pitched. It wasn't until she pushed the glass of milk to the corner of the table that I slowly regained my breath. My mother's eyes moved from my face to that glass of milk. "Is it because the baby smells this glass of milk that makes him uncomfortable?" Tong Xuan Mai's expression was still very natural. "What do you know about a one-month-old baby? Mr. Hua, it's not possible that every time the baby cries, the whole family revolves around him. The more spoiled he is, the harder it is to raise him." As she spoke, she held the glass of milk to her mouth. I cried until my face turned purple and my arms and legs kicked wildly. The older sister suddenly turned her head to the side. The glass of milk hit her shoulder, and the milk spilled onto the floor. The smile on Tong Xuan Mai's face finally couldn't be kept. Mom quickly picked me up. "Okay, if the baby doesn't want to drink, don't force her." "How can that be? An An hasn't been eating well lately, I've added nutritional powder to aid digestion." In her previous life, she also said the same thing. That night, at first her sister just fell asleep, then suddenly had a high fever and convulsions. Tong Xuan Mai was the first to discover it, she also carried her sister and ran to the hospital. Everyone was grateful to her for calmly handling the emergency situation. No one asked why something happened to her sister. Tong Xuan Mai sat down to clean the floor. I kept staring at the wet towel. Noticing my gaze, she raised her head and smiled. "Why does Tieu Man keep looking at you today?" She walked over, reaching out to pick me up. I immediately screamed loudly. Mother instinctively took a step back. "It seems like the boy really doesn't like you touching him." Tong Xuan Mai's eyes immediately turned red. "I've been a nanny for twenty years, this is the first time I've been hated by a child like this." "Did I do something bad? Ms. Lam just say it straight, don't let the child suffer as well." Mother's biggest fear is making others feel sorry for themselves.

immediately softened his voice. "It's not your fault. Tieu Man started accepting people in the past two days." Dad also advised her not to think too much. With just a few tears, she turned an unusual matter that should have been questioned into the fact that our entire family was bullying her. At night, my mother breastfed me. The older sister lay face down on the side of the bed and asked in a low voice: "Little brother, you don't want me to drink that glass of milk this afternoon, right?" I couldn't nod. I could only look at her, slowly loosening my clenched fists. She placed a finger in my palm. I used all my strength to grasp it. "I understand." She was serious as if she was accepting a secret mission that only the two of us knew about. "In the future, if Aunt Tong gives me anything, I will bring it to you and ask you first." Outside the door, suddenly there was a soft sound. Tong Xuan Mai was standing there holding an empty cup. She smiled at her sister. "An An, what secret are you talking about with your younger brother who still doesn't know how to say that?" 2 The next morning, Tong Xuan Mai placed a thermos next to her mother's hand. "This is a sedative drink for confined women that I asked someone to mix separately. It both nourishes blood and helps increase milk production." As soon as the lid of the bottle was opened, I smelled a familiar sweet, fishy smell. In my previous life, my mother drank a cup every day. At first, mother just felt sleepy. Then, even while holding me, she would suddenly fall asleep. When I woke up in the middle of the night, my mother couldn't control herself and broke things. Tong Xuan Mai told her father that her mother had severe postpartum depression. When her father invited the doctor over, Tong Xuan Mai took out a notebook. It recorded every time my mother got angry, broke things and refused to breastfeed me. No one knew that every time she lost control, mother drank what she brought. At this time, the bottle was brought to mother's lips. I immediately cried loudly. Mom put the vase away, picked me up and gently comforted me. After that sweet, fishy smell left, my crying gradually became weaker. Mom looked down at me, then looked at the thermos. Mom's hand holding the bottle stopped for a long time. The older sister poked her head in from outside the door. "Yesterday was the same." "Auntie Tong gave me milk and my little brother cried. Now mom drinks her food, and my little brother is crying." Tong Xuan Mai's face changed slightly. "An An, don't talk nonsense. What do you know when you're so young?" "She knows." The older sister puffed her breasts. "He's my little brother." Dad just walked out of the office and heard that sentence. then burst out laughing. "Are you two sisters still forming an alliance?" Dad said very gently. But mom doesn't drink anymore. Mom put the thermos on the dressing table and turned around to change my diaper. At noon, when my mother remembered that cup of tonic, the jar was empty. Tong Xuan Mai was washing the vase in the kitchen. "It was easy to spoil all morning, so I threw it away. I'll cook a new vase for you tonight." Mom looked at her and, for the first time, didn't immediately say thank you. That night, I cried for two hours. Not because of nutrients. Tong Xuan Mai intentionally prolonged the time she breastfed me. Mom carried me back and forth in the room, so worried that her head was covered in sweat. Tong Xuan Mai stood next to her, constantly reminding her mother. "The more stressed you are, the more scared the child will be." "I've said it a long time ago, your current condition is not suitable to take care of the child yourself." "Or leave the child to me, go out and calm down for a while." Mother had been up all night. Tong Xuan Mai put the thermos bottle into her mother's hand again. "If you drink it, you can sleep. Don't continue to torture the whole family with your emotions." Mom raised her hand to push it away, and the bottle fell to the ground. Tong Xuan Mai stood at the door. The phone camera in her front pocket was pointing straight at her mother. My mother's hands were shaking so much that she could barely hold me. Tong Xuan Mai raised her hand to receive

take. I tried my best to press closer to my mother's breast, but my crying gradually became weaker. It's not that I want to stop. It's that this one-month-old body can't stand it anymore. The corners of Tong Xuan Mai's tense lips gradually relaxed. "Look, lying in your arms, the baby is about to cry until he faints." The older sister suddenly lay down on her stomach next to the bed, pulled out a bottle of milk from under the bed. "Mom, my little brother still hasn't had any milk at night." The milk inside had not decreased at all. Mom lowered her head to look at me, who was shaking with hunger, then looked at Tong Xuan Mai. "Didn't you say you gave him something to drink just now?" Tong Xuan Mai only paused for a moment. "I remember wrong. There are many things today, busy people can easily get confused." Mom didn't argue with her. After she finished breastfeeding me, she took out her phone and wrote down the date and time in the notes section. After that, her mother found an old phone, turned on the recording function and placed it in the kitchen cabinet. "From today, I must record everything that is brought into this house clearly." Tong Xuan Mai stood at the door and saw everything. Her eyes moved from the phone to my face. That night was the first time she stopped smiling at me. 3From that day on, mother managed my formula and bottles herself. Her sister also doesn't eat anything that Tong Xuan Mai gives her personally anymore. I thought I had temporarily stopped her. But on the morning of the third day, grandmother had just finished drinking her medicine and collapsed at the dining table. The cup fell to the ground, broken pieces of porcelain scattered everywhere. Dad immediately rushed to help her. Tong Xuan Mai was the first person to pick up the medicine box. "Did you overdose? Yesterday I discovered that your memory is not good, you took the same medicine again and again last night." After waking up, grandmother firmly insisted that she had not taken the wrong medicine. "This is not my medicine, the color is wrong." Dad looked at the medicine once. "They're all white, are you remembering wrong?" "You've been drinking for five years, can you still get it wrong?" Tong Xuan Mai sighed. "Older people often don't want to admit that they're confused. Mr. Hua, in the future, just leave the food to me to manage." In her previous life, grandmother lost the right to manage her food like that. A month later, she had a stroke and was hospitalized. From then on, no one in the family dared to doubt Tong Xuan Mai anymore. I stared at the medicine box in her hand, so impatient that I couldn't stop crying. Grandma looked at me. "Tieu Man also feels that this is not right, right?" Tong Xuan Mai laughed. "Grandma, why are you like An An, considering a child's cry as words?" Dad took grandma to the hospital for a check-up. Mom also followed. Before leaving, her mother repeatedly told her sister not to eat anything others gave her. There were only me, my sister and Tong Xuan Mai left in the house. As soon as the door closed, the smile on her face immediately disappeared. "An An, please cook noodles for me." She shook her head. "I'm not hungry." "Then drink some water." "I'm not thirsty either." Tong Xuan Mai was not angry. She sat down in front of her sister and asked in a low voice: "Do you feel that I want to harm you?" My sister took a step back towards my crib. Tong Xuan Mai's eyes immediately turned red. "Every day my aunt cooks rice and washes clothes for me. At night my little brother cries and she wakes up to take care of me." "Even now I don't believe you, so why are you still here?" My sister is only five years old. As soon as the adult shed tears, she panicked first. "I'm not saying you're a bad person." "Then drink this glass of water, I'll believe you." She brought out a cartoon cup from the kitchen. I saw that at the bottom of the cup there was still a little white powder that hadn't completely dissolved. "Wow——!"