Chapter 1
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After a long silence, Li Xinli shook her head with a bitter smile, "Maybe I owed her in my past life, so in this life I have to be her daughter and repay the debt."
Since I was six years old, I had to wash my own light clothes. By the time I was nine, I was responsible for washing all the family's clothes and bed linens. In winter, the water was cold, and my dad, feeling sorry for me, would heat water to pour in. But when my mom found out, she would curse at my dad, so from then on, regardless of spring, autumn, winter, or summer, I used cold water to wash clothes.
In the beginning, I cried while washing, but gradually, I got used to it and became numb. Even when my hands were bleeding from cuts soaking in the cold water, I didn't shed a tear.
As I grew older, I felt sorry for myself, so I asked my dad to bring rubber gloves from the factory. When my mom found out I was using gloves to wash, she scolded me for having the airs of a lady but the fate of a maid.
