An Experiment Gone Wrong
When I was ten, I transmigrated back in time and became the child of a poor farming family.
My mother had an old injury, and my father had an eye condition, so the whole family depended on my labor to survive.
When I was sixteen, there was a locust plague that summer. Our fall harvest was cut in half, and by deep winter, we had no grain left.
I faced the wind and snow wearing a threadbare cotton coat just to find food. Halfway home, I froze to death, still clutching half a loaf of bread against my chest.
After I died, though, my soul suddenly returned to the modern world.
I saw my biological parents gathered around my older twin brother, laughing and chatting.
There had never bee