I Ended Up Raising My Younger Self

"Your parents died because of your selfishness—it's all your fault!" Zoya, a girl who lost her parents in a carriage accident, was raised by her uncle's family, who repeated these words to her over and over from childhood, instilling deep guilt in her heart. Her parents' entire inheritance was stolen away, and the girl who once was a noble lady gradually fell into the role of a household servant. Growing into adulthood with no one to rely on and no one to protect her, Zoya carried an ever-accumulating despair in her heart that never faded. Eventually, she took her own life. But in the next moment, fate sends her back ten years into the past. What unfolds before her eyes is the day of her parents' funeral—and crying beside the coffin is none other than her own younger self. Knowing the tragedy that awaits in the future, Zoya has a fleeting thought: if she simply lets her young self die now, wouldn't that hellish life simply cease to exist, as if it never happened? But the moment she looks into those small, tear-filled eyes, what rises in her chest instead is the weight of her own past memories. If only someone had reached out a hand to her back then— In that instant, Zoya makes her decision: this time, she will save the self that nobody ever saved, with her own two hands.