Cold, so cold...
Adria Woods, who was in a coma, woke up from the shivering cold she felt around her when a few child's voices came to her ears.
Daniel said, "Mother has been lying here motionless for seven days. Is she dead..."
Eric: "Big brother, what nonsense are you saying?"
Wendy: "Mother, not dead, mother, not dead, wu wu..."
Eric: "Fifth sister, She's not dead yet. I'm getting angry! Third brother, where's the medicine?"
Daniel answered: "Father went out to buy it..."
"..."
Adria opened her eyes and saw a few round and surprised eyes.
When they saw that she had woken up, they immediately took a few steps back and utter panicked expressions appeared on their faces.
Adria looked at these unfamiliar little faces and blinked her eyes curiously.
She remembered that she finished working and went to climb the mountain on a whim. As a result, an accident happened when she was on the road, and she fell down from a cliff with the car...
Could it be that she didn't die and was saved by the people at the foot of the mountain?
"Mother, are you... thirsty?"
While Adria was pondering, a clear, sweet, child's voice rang out.
Adria looked over again. A boy was holding up a half-yellow towel for her, and a boy was handing over a bowl of water.
The rest of the children gathered around her again, looking at her with worry in their eyes.
Adria's eyes moved, and her heart was touched.
She liked children very much, but she couldn’t bear children. She had already made up her mind. She was going to live and die alone without the happiness of having kids...
It turned out that it was kind of exciting to be called “mother”.
It was so warm and fuzzy, as if something was melting inside her...
"Thank you, little boy!"
Adria sat up in the bed. She smiled shyly at the children and reached for the bowl of water held by the young boy.
The children were stunned.
“Mom, are you smiling at us?”
"And thanking us?"
However, before Adria's hand touched the bowl, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head...
There were some strange memories being poured into her mind like a river…
In this “new”life, Adria was born to be fat and ugly, so her nickname was Roly-Poladria. And had married
Elijah Hunt was a handsome man from the Blind Village. Unfortunately, he was a poor hunter.
His wife died of a horrible illness, leaving him with five children. One of them was even perpetually ill, which made the poor family even more miserable.
Coincidentally, Elijah married Adria. After a month's marriage, she was not satisfied with her poor and boring life. She had an affair with an adulterous man from the village and accidentally fell into the ice river and was nearly frozen to death...
Adria spread out her hands and saw a thick palm. Her ten fingers were as thick as a pancake... Oh God... She was now a big woman!
An accident had caused her soul to time-travel! ‘hat can’t be possible’she thought desperately. She was so immersed in her thoughts that she didn’t notice that the kids began to worry about her facial expression.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
"Mom, what's wrong with you?"
"Mom..."
Looking at Adria in a daze for a long time, the children called her out of concern.
Adria came back to her senses and laughed at herself.
In her previous life, she didn't dare to dream of being a mother. In this life, when she opened her eyes, she had more children than she could ever imagined!
Looking at their red hands, skinny bodies, and helpless expressions Adria sighed with self-pity. ‘They’re in a far worse situation than me’she thought.
She got out of bed, put the water in a rack on the table, took off their shoes one by one, and put the children into the bed.
While holding a quilt to wrap them, she said, "Your hands are as cold as ice, stay here. Are you hungry?"
The children were all stunned.
They stared with their innocent eyes at Adria. They were aghast by the question.
A lot of question marks appeared on their small faces.
“Mom, will you hug us?”
Why was she talking to them in such a gentle tone? Why would she ask if they were hungry?
The children didn't answer her, but their stomachs were growling… That was all she needed to hear.
Adria touched the heads of these pitiful children and sighed again.
"Mom is going to cook for you. Wait a minute!"
After that, Adria closed the window and began to search for food in the room...
The children stared at Adria's figure moving all over the room. All of them stretched out their necks, staring blankly at her.
A look of pleasant surprise flashed across their eyes.
"Mom won't hit anyone."
"She doesn't curse."
"Mother, are you going to cook for us?"
"Mom hugged me just now!"
After nearly two hours, the sturdy bed was heated up.
The room was much warmer.
Every kid sat on the table and ate the hot noodles made by Adria. While she was looking for warmer clothes for the five babies in the cabinet.
This home was too poor and it was a mess.
After making noodles for the babies, there was only a small bag of flour and a small bag of sorghum and millet.
After cooking one or two more pots of porridge and a few more servings of noodles, their family would be short of food.
Looking around, only the cotton-padded clothes they were wearing were available.
The rest of them were single clothes for the Spring and Summer Festival.
Adria's heart ached so bad at that thought.
The sky gradually darkened.
After eating and washing, the kids layed on the warm bed. Looking at their mother's busy figure, they felt very at ease and fell asleep soon.
Without electricity and lights, Adria set the brazier on fire. She cleaned the house up with the dim light and tidied up everything
She had a bit of mysophobia. She liked to be clean and tidy, and she didn't like the mess...
Just as Adria was cleaning up, the tightly shut door was suddenly pushed open. Cold wind and snow flew inside.
Adria looked over and saw a man wearing a worned out cloak, a straw woven raincoat, and a black gown standing at the door.
The cloak covered most of his face. Through the dim light, she could only see his round and square chin and tightly closed lips.
He had an air of unspeakable coldness and otherworldly temperament.
As soon as she raised her eyes, their gazes met.
A pair of deep and bright black eyes, and a handsome face...
Adria's pupils constricted and he lowered his head subconsciously.
What a handsome man!
‘He's so handsome that I can't even look away from him…’ she thought.
This was her beautiful husband, Elijah Hunt!
Elijah glanced at her and looked away. His eyes fell on the kids lying on the brick bed. His expression changed and he hung the bow and arrow on a rack on the wall...
Adria went up to him and asked, "Have you eaten?"
Elijah glazed at her without any emotion and handed the pack of medicine hanging on the wall to her.
"Go pack up your things and go home!"
"Ah?"
Adria raised her head and looked at his mysterious face. She then understood: He wanted to chase her away!
"I... Well, can we make up?"