My Mother-in-Law Said She Wronged Me in a Past Life

My Mother-in-Law Said She Wronged Me in a Past Life Plot:

Lin Xiaoman and her mother-in-law Zhao Guilan were notoriously incompatible—Guilan frowned on Xiaoman’s “takeout addiction,” while Xiaoman hated Guilan’s “package snooping.” Their feud ended abruptly when Guilan slipped in the shower and fell comatose. When she woke up, she grabbed Xiaoman’s hand through tears: “I was blind in my past life—I wronged you for stealing the bracelet!” Guilan claimed she’d dreamed of being Xiaoman’s neighbor in a previous life, where she’d falsely accused Xiaoman of stealing a family heirloom bracelet, leading Xiaoman to drown herself in a well after public shaming. Xiaoman thought Guilan was confused—until Guilan pulled out the soft-boiled egg mold hidden on her wardrobe’s top shelf (a memento from Xiaoman’s late mom, never mentioned before), stood up to the colleague bullying Xiaoman, and even kept Xiaoman’s favorite taro bun warm in the rice cooker for her late nights—just like the old lady who’d snuck her candy in that “past life.” But when Xiaoman started believing in “past-life karma,” she found an Alzheimer’s diagnosis under Guilan’s pillow. It turned out Guilan had feared being abandoned for her fading memory, so she made up the “past-life wronging” story to earn Xiaoman’s warmth. Those “past-life details”? Guilan had read Xiaoman’s diary, asked her best friend, and even lingered outside her office for a month to memorize her breakfast habits. In the end, Xiaoman hugged Guilan tight: “Past life or not, this life—I’ll be your memory notebook.”