Chapter 14: The Past and the Present in a Dream

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was Liu Dapeng, Liu Laoer’s son, who had stolen the money, but they framed An Mingji for it.

The child cried and hollered, telling them that he did not steal the money, yet no one believed him. Everyone looked on, sympathizing with him.

Gu Jin saw Liu Dapeng, the perpetrator, tie up An Mingji and start to hit him with a wooden stick, breaking his two legs.

She felt furious, watching as a third party. She wanted to stop everything, but it was useless.

No one could see or hear her.

She looked on helplessly, her heart aching.

It turned out that in her past life, Liu Laoer had been the one who broke An Mingji’s legs, causing him to be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

She moved next to An Mingji, who was suffering great pain. He was gritting his teeth and glaring at those villagers. She wanted to hug and comfort him, but she could not touch him.

Liu Laoer tossed the boy out of Blackmount Village after the people tortured him.

Homeless and abandoned, he dragged himself around with his broken legs. He was cautious with everyone around him until he stumbled on an opportunity and was on course for success.

He became ruthless in the process, abandoning any kindness and compassion.

An Mingji would seize any opportunity that came along just because he did not want to be bullied again. He wanted vindication.

Gu Jin witnessed that he was smart but ruthless in his struggle to the top, becoming the chief of an underground force that everyone feared.

No one could have imagined the price he had paid to achieve what he had achieved.

The dream suddenly changed.

After her execution, no one had come forward to claim her body for seven days. Just as her body started to smell bad, An Mingji showed up in his wheelchair.

He was a grown-up and now strong enough.

This time, An Mingji looked like a well-educated gentleman, no longer keen on showing his tattoos but behaving in a reserved manner. No one could really read his mind.

He brought her body away as his mean-looking bodyguards escorted them.

He had also helped to put on her makeup and the An Family’s ring on her finger.

That ring was significant because from the moment she wore that ring, she belonged to the An Family.

An Mingji had held an extravagant funeral for her, inviting the rich and powerful to attend. In her obituary, she was addressed as An Mingji’s wife.

The Zhen and Liu Families had abandoned her, so she ended up becoming the wife of a gang leader. The rich and powerful, whom she feared before her death, were now bowing before her as they came to pay their respects.

It was An Mingji who had arranged everything. He wanted to strike fear in them, especially the Zhen and Liu Families.

Gu Jin saw the Zhens’ fearful looks, and her biological father was quaking in his boots in front of An Mingji.

She also saw how the Lius were trying to fawn over An Mingji. It was vindicating for her to see their servile attitude.

An Mingji appeared very friendly to the Zhens and Lius, his smile so gentle and harmless.

However, after the funeral, he turned around to wipe out the two families, including those who were involved in framing her. An Mingji had left none of them alive.

The scene suddenly changed again.

She was now surrounded by a solemn atmosphere at a graveyard.

Two bodyguards escorted An Mingji as he moved up to a tombstone in his wheelchair.

Gu Jin saw her own photo and her name on the tombstone.