I Ended Up Raising My Younger Self

"Your parents' died because of your selfishness!" Zoeia, a young girl who lost her parents in a carriage accident, was repeatedly told these words by her uncle's family from childhood. They ingrained guilt deep into her heart. Her parents' entire inheritance was stolen, and the once-noble lady eventually fell to the position of a servant in her own manor. She grew up with no one to rely on and no one to protect her. The despair that piled up in her heart never faded— and at last, she took her own life. But in the next moment, fate sent her back ten years into the past. Before her eyes was her parents' funeral. And collapsed beside the coffin, sobbing uncontrollably, was— her younger self. Zoeia, who knows the tragedy that awaits in the future, thinks for a moment: "If I kill my younger self right now... wouldn't that erase my hellish life from ever existing?" But the moment she sees those small, tear-soaked eyes, a memory surges in her chest: "If only someone had reached out to me back then..." In that instant, Zoeia makes a decision. She will save the girl that no one ever saved before— this time, with her own hands.