Mia Perry, my sister-in-law, was committed to becoming a travel blogger, always exploring niche attractions with her son, Jeff Perry.

There was a river in the suburbs, the new shooting location for Mia's recent camping and photography.

There were many invisible whirlpools in the river, and children were easily swept away. I persuaded Mia to go to the scenic area.

Mia didn't listen and joined forces with my mother-in-law, Ivy Perry, to scold me for showing off after making some money.

In the end, Jeff fell into the turbulent whirlpool and lost his life.

Mia and Ivy grabbed my collar and scolded me, "It's all your fault. Go accompany Jeff in the afterlife!"

They pressed me into the water. Though struggling to break free, I died of suffocation.

When I woke up again, I returned to the day when Mia took Jeff camping in the suburbs.

"Get out of the car. How can I take pictures if you sit in the car?"

Mia suddenly pushed me. The pain in my arm pulled me back from the nightmare.

I opened my eyes and found myself sitting in the driver's seat, without the feeling of suffocation.

By then, I realized that I had been reborn!

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Mia's RV was packed full.

She kicked the car door, making a muffled sound. "Get out. Are you deaf?"

I looked around and saw the river not far away that took my life in the previous life.

I didn't expect to be reborn.

Mia stood at the door with her hands on her hips, staring at me with a cold face. "What of it to have a good car? How can I take pictures if you don't get off?"

She didn't have a car herself and always took pictures of my car and posted them online.

In her post, she said this was her most ordinary car, just a few hundred thousand dollars.

I lazily lowered the seat back and said, "You guys can go to the river by yourselves, I'm not going."

Just thinking about the miserable experiences of my previous life made me want to hit the gas pedal and go home right now.

Mia grabbed my arm and said, "If you don't go, who will help me take photos and take care of Jeff?"

In Mia's eyes, I was just a free babysitter.

I glared at her and said, "Is he my son? Why should I take care of him? His mother is still alive, isn't she?"

Mia hadn't answered yet, but Ivy became impatient and said, "How can you say that? Do you believe that I will tear your mouth apart?"

In Ivy's eyes, Mia, who gave birth to a son, was the shining star in Perry's family.

As for me, I was just a useless daughter-in-law, only worthy of serving them.

As Ivy said that, she was about to cover my mouth, her eyes full of malice, "You're useless! How dare you say that about my grandson!"

I broke free from Ivy's hand and slammed the car door.

No matter how they cursed outside, I ignored them.

Maybe they knew I had made up my mind not to get out of the car, so they cursed and pulled Jeff's hand to go to the river.

It was strange. Jeff, who always shouted to play in the river in the previous life, had been crying on the ground today.

I opened the car window and listened to their movements.

Mia slapped Jeff on the back. "What nonsense are you talking about? How can someone drown in such shallow water?"

Jeff hugged the tree and screamed desperately, crying until his voice was almost hoarse, but still no one believed him.

"Mom, I'm dying, so is the bad woman!"

The bad woman Jeff referred to was me.

Mia and Ivy always talked bad about me behind my back. That was why Jeff called me like that.

Jeff called me 'bad woman' more than once in front of me. At that time, I thought he learned it from TV.

Looking back now, every time Mia made things difficult for me in the past, he would clap his hands and cheer.

I treated him like my own son in my previous life, but he turned out to be a backstabber.

Jeff desperately clung to Mia's leg, saying inexplicable things that seemed strange to others.

"Mom, there's a monster in the water that will drag my feet. I don't want to go."

Seeing Jeff's terrified look, it seemed as if the river would take his life.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind.

Could it be that Jeff has also been reborn?

To verify my guess, I got out of the car and pretended to be a peacemaker as I walked over.

I touched Jeff's head and said, "Jeff, be good. Mom and Grandma are both watching over you. How could you drown?"

As soon as he saw me, Jeff screamed in terror as if he had seen a ghost.

He was emotional and seemed even more crazy. "Mom, the bad woman has turned into a ghost!"

Jeff is reborn too!

Jeff cried and pulled away my hand, repeatedly saying that when he was floating in the air, he saw my head being pressed into the river by Mia and Ivy.

I covered my mouth in astonishment. "Are you saying that Mom and Grandma want to kill me?"

Mia's face changed drastically, and she slapped Jeff in the face. "You've been talking nonsense since you got out of the car, don't you know that is against the law?"

Jeff certainly understood, but his poor knowledge prevented him from expressing it completely.

Ivy frowned. "Could Jeff really have encountered something evil?"

Mia waved her hand and grabbed Jeff's ear to scold him. "You cried and shouted to go out and play in the morning, and now that I brought you here, you're causing trouble again. Are you itching for a beating?"

In Mia's view, Jeff's crying and tantrums were just a child's trick, and a beating would solve it.

I smiled and protected Jeff behind me. "Mia, why bother arguing with a child? When he gets in the water later and finds it fun, he won't cause trouble anymore."

Mia nodded in rare agreement with me.

Upon hearing my words, Jeff widened his eyes in horror and said, "Auntie Dora, I was wrong, I won't get in the water."

Ivy couldn't bear to see her grandson like this. She grabbed Mia's arm and said, "Jeff does seem a bit off. How about going home now?"

Mia's face darkened, and she suddenly pushed me away and grabbed Jeff, giving him a beating.

In the meantime, she cursed, "You useless thing! It's all your fault that I can't make money!"

Today, Mia planned to share the latest camping locations online, and her fans were urging her to update.

So no matter how Jeff protests, Mia wouldn't go back.

Jeff's screams filled the entire area.

Ivy couldn't bear to watch and wanted to step forward to stop it, saying, "Jeff is still a child, why are you hitting him so hard?"

Mia gave her a disdainful look and said impatiently, "I'm disciplining my son, what business is it of yours?"

Before Mia gave birth, she said that Ivy was not allowed to interfere in her child's education.

Ivy did not refute back then, after all, having a grandson was better than anything else.

After getting a beating, Jeff became more obedient and no longer talked nonsense.

Mia smiled with satisfaction and forcefully dragged Jeff's arm towards the river.

"Smile in the photo later, don't make a bitter face!"

Mia's sharing post was about a parent-child camping, so Jeff naturally had to appear on camera.

Seeing that I was standing still, Ivy pinched me. "What are you doing standing here? Go get something!"

I originally planned to be an onlooker in the car, but now I found that Jeff had also been reborn, and the situation suddenly became interesting.

I can't wait to see how Mia will kill her precious son in this life.

I stood by the river with things in my hand and didn't stop them as desperately as in the previous life.

Jeff was forced by his mother to stand in the middle of the river, holding a small bucket for catching fish and shrimp.

His whole body was stiff, too scared to move.

Mia took pictures with her camera, but she was never satisfied.

She yelled at Jeff, "Is your dad dead? Who are you mourning for with that sad face?"

Jeff instantly teared up and looked at Mia with a grievance, "Mom, I'm really dying."

Mia was irritated by his words. She threw down the camera and jumped into the water, fiercely slapping Jeff.

"Is it that difficult for you to smile? I feed you well every day, but you let me down at this crucial time!"

Jeff screamed again, and the small fish used for the shoot fell into the river.

Mia became even angrier and grabbed him hard, "Do you know how much this fish cost? You're a money-losing thing!"

Ivy felt heartbroken and stomped her feet on the shore, but she didn't dare to say a word.

I took a folding chair and sat down to watch the show.

Seeing me leisurely enjoying the scenery, Ivy rushed up and pushed me. "Didn't you see Mia beating Jeff? Go and persuade her! Don't you claim you're a good auntie?"

I pointed at myself. "Me? Why? You are Jeff's grandmother, you should go."

Mia had a bad temper and a domineering personality, and she controlled everything at home.

Every time there was a conflict, Ivy asked me to persuade Mia not to go too far.

For the sake of family harmony, I always went to persuade Mia, but I had been rebuffed several times.

At this time, Ivy would jump out and say that I didn't respect Mia and ask me to apologize.

Now I finally realized that Ivy was using me as a pawn in my previous life.

Ivy was choked and couldn't say a word, just glaring at me with a pair of poisonous narrowed eyes.

I shrugged. "As Jeff's grandmother, you don't protect him, but ask me, his auntie, to do that? He has his mother to teach him."

Ivy was angry, but still patiently persuaded. "Mia, you come up first. What if Jeff falls later?"

Mia spat. "What's there to be afraid of? Falling won't hurt him that much."

In fact, this small river was not deep, but it was undeveloped and there might be many safety hazards.

In my previous life, I advised them not to go to the river and spend some money to go to regular tourist attractions, which are safer.

Mia almost rolled her eyes at that time. "Stop showing off you're rich. Can't I afford to go to tourist attractions? This is called exploring new attractions. How ignorant you are!"

I nodded and smiled. "You're right."

After hearing this, Ivy dared not argue anymore and could only let Mia scold her grandson.

It wasn't until someone passed by that Mia, hindered by her identity as a travel blogger, stopped.

But she still didn't let Jeff come up, only saying that he could come ashore when she took satisfactory photos.

Jeff stood in the water with tears on his face, and I could see the moss attached to the stones under his foot.

If he was not careful, he would slip and fall.

After posing in a few positions as requested by Mia, she asked Jeff to lift one of his legs.

Ivy became anxious and her tone became colder when talking to Mia.

"You will torture my grandson to death!"

Once it involved the safety of her precious grandson, she would quarrel with Mia.

Mia remained unmoved and shouted loudly, "Hurry up, don't listen to that old woman. Finish the shoot quickly and we have another set of photos to shoot!"

Jeff was nervous and scared, and this shout made him tremble even more.

He couldn't stand steadily on one foot, accidentally stepped on the moss on a stone, and fell straight into the water.

The water in this section was not deep, but there were many protruding stones.

With this fall, the water instantly turned red.

Ivy was completely panicked and rushed into the river to pick up her precious grandson, cursing and complaining.

"Oh my god, my baby is bleeding!"

Mia also visibly panicked and quickly threw down the camera and rushed over.

When they pulled up Jeff, he cried loudly, saying, "Mom, I'm really dying."

Although Jeff had said this countless times, Mia didn't take it seriously.

Jeff's wound was not serious, just a scraped skin and some bleeding, not life-threatening.

Mia heaved a sigh of relief and casually wiped the blood off his face, saying, "A man should not be afraid of a little pain. You're really pathetic. After we finish taking the photos, let's go back."

She stood up and observed the surroundings, choosing a spot where the water was clearer.

I clearly remembered that it was the place where Jeff drowned in his previous life.

The water there looked shallow, but it actually hid many whirlpools that could easily drag people in.

I was staring at the river in a daze, and Mia bumped into my shoulder. "Dick really married a dim-witted person who acts like a fool all day."

Dick was my husband. I smiled and said, "Mia, I have something to do and have to go back first. You guys have fun."

I didn't want to witness the scene anymore. I just wanted to escape quickly, in case I would be blamed later.

Looking at Jeff's timid appearance as he cautiously walked towards the deep water, his small body couldn't withstand the swift whirlpools.

Jeff was really pathetic.

He clearly knew that he would die if he went down, but he couldn't go against his mother's wishes.

Besides, how could Mia take a four-year-old child's words seriously?

Jeff trembled all over and occasionally turned his head to plead with Mia.

His voice was filled with a sob. "Mom, I don't want to play in the water anymore. I want to go home."

I sneered in my heart. Jeff probably wouldn't be able to go home today.