Yuanchun smiled shyly. "Aunt Liu, I have no choice. Now that I'm in the countryside, I can only rely on myself from now on. If I don't earn work points, I'll starve to death. I've starved before, and the feeling of hunger is terrible. I don't want to starve again, so I just have to work my hardest to earn more grain."
"What? You've actually starved?" Aunt Liu asked, looking intensely curious. "Don't you city people have grain ration books and get a grain allowance every month? How could you still starve?"
Yuanchun gave a bitter smile. "Ever since I was little, my biological mother never loved me; only my own father did. But when I was six, my father passed away. As soon as my mother finished his funeral, she went and adopted her sweetheart's daughter. From then on, my birth mother became a stepmother, showering her adopted daughter with affection while cruelly abusing me, her own flesh and blood."
Chapter 1559