The rebirth of Sara

When I opened my eyes I saw a light which blended me so much that I had to close them again. I couldn't breath, so I automatically opened my mouth and cried.

" It's a girl! Congratulations Mr. Li." - some voice said.

Then my view changed to that of a man's face, who cried tears of joy while looking at me.

I got confused and that's when I realized that I didn't feel pain anymore. I got so used to it that I felt strange without it. ' Guess my mind is broken' I thought. I didn't know for how long I was tortured, each day and each night the same routine.

Anyways what confused me the most is that the man's face looked like my father's.

'Could it be that I traveled back to the past?

Did God hear my prayers?

Oh how much I want it to be real...If only everything was a dream. If this is but a dream, please dear God don't wake me up...'

"Sir, do u have a name already?" someone asked.

'It must be the nurse'. I thought.

"My daughter shall be called Sara Li. After her grandma's maiden name." the man with my father's face said.

' It' s my name! Oh dear God, bless u. I will pray every day to you. Thank u God for letting me travel to the starting point of my life. I will change my destiny! '

Two years later

I am called Sara Li, I am of mixed race. I am half Italian and half Korean. My parents are Anna and Hae-jul Li. They met in Vienna and fell in love with each other. My mother died during my birth, my father never mentioned her again. He married another woman, Camilla, shortly afterwards and I got a stepbrother, Charles. He is fifteen years old now. I met William, my uncle as well. Ryan and Cassandra I will met later in life.

My father and Camilla died during a car accident. My grandma fused the Phoenix stigma with my blood when she met me the first time. Because it was fused with her before, she died after immediately during a heart attack. So I had no more blood relatives. In my fathers will it was mentioned that the person who takes care of me will get full control over the inheritance until I'm of adult age. A Notar will ensure that I am treated the best as one can. I am grateful towards my father for planning this before I was even born. For my revenge it was important to stay near my enemies.

During the two years I lived, I realized that I still have the mind of a 26 years old adult, but the growing body of a child. It was easy to believe that life was good as a baby. I slept and ate and used pampers and slept and repeated it again and again, till I could walk after one year. That was when father died. I wanted to believe that this life would be different, but the only way to change it is to do it myself. I can not let destiny walk over me again. Around that time I heard Charles and William talking about the inheritance of my parents, the Phoenix stigma and the resources behind their elite families. Gold diggers both of them. They only heard my father talk about the stigma once but investigated already what it was.

It was the key to rebirth and eternal life.

Either way there was nothing I could do beside making plans to crush them.

I was an obedient baby, never crying, always smiling. 'Hmpf, revenge is best served cold.'

Four years later

I met Cassandra and Ryan in school. On the first day they talked to the 'shy' me. They wanted to be friends with me. I guessed that their parents forced them for their own benefit since the Li Corporation was the number one power in the economy World.

'If only I had realized it sooner. The first contact felt so forced, they surely never had plans to be real friends with me.'

Still, I smiled to them and said 'I am so glad to be your friend, thank you.' I could throw up when I look at them but it was not time yet.

Since then we met and went to the candy shop, we drank kakao together, we played in the play ground, I invited them to my place for a sleep over. Everything went as planned.

I played the idiot, the naive simple girl who only wanted to be loved but I am different now, I won't trust them ever again.

I often went to the library to read and study about economics, programming and medicine. The people tailing me only saw a different book Covers, a 'story' about love. The grandma next door, walking her dog, smiled at me and gave me sometimes candy. I realized that she gave me small portions of poison just enough to make me a frail girl. I always thanked her and prepared the antidote for the poison later.

I used to hide somewhere and not come out a few days per week. The first time everyone looked for me but I only came out after a few days, I repeated it again and again till no one cared about it anymore since I will come out anyways. During my missing days I hide my gender and changed my appearance to go to a martial arts studio. There I learnt Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Aikido and fencing.

I hide my injuries with long old fashioned dresses. I stuttered sometimes, blushed to new people and smiled like a sunflower with known ones. I threw tantrums frequently to make them believe that I was just an innocent spoiled child. I 'loved' to play pranks, to hide and seek, to destroy things. They people inside the mansion had a hard time dealing with me but I laughed at them deep inside my heart. My uncle then stopped to tail me, he tought it to be a waste of time and resources and decided to let me have my 'freedom'. But Cassandra and Ryan were already on the side of my 'family' . My dear classmates tried to influence me to do stupid things, to make me trust them blind. I 'loved' and listened to them.

' Guess I am not stupid anymore, sorry people. The day I am punishing you will come.'