Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
It was clearly Liu Dapeng, son of Liu Lao’er, who conspired with others to steal the money, yet they wrongly accused An Mingji.
The child cried and shouted loudly that he did not steal the money, but no one was willing to believe him, and the crowd looked at him with pity.
Gu Jin watched as An Mingji, the scapegoat, was tied up by the real culprit, Liu Dapeng’s father, Liu Lao’er, and watched as the other raised a stick and ruthlessly broke An Mingji’s leg.
As a bystander in the dream, Gu Jin saw this and angrily tried to stop it all, but it was to no avail.
No one could see her, nor could anyone hear her voice.
She looked powerlessly at the scene before her, her whole heart twisting in pain.
In the previous life, An Mingji was sitting in a wheelchair, and it turned out he had his legs broken by Liu Lao’er in Qingshan Village.
She walked to An Mingji, who was enduring intense pain, baring his teeth and looking fiercely at the surrounding villagers; she wanted to reach out and hug him, to offer him comfort, but couldn’t touch him at all.
The child suffered inhuman torment and was mercilessly driven out of Qingshan Village by Liu Lao’er.
Crippled, An Mingji wandered everywhere, like a homeless dog fallen into the dust, maintaining a suspicious wariness of everyone around him, until he met a chance to step into a gray area, soaring up high in one leap.
He began to stop at nothing, becoming fierce and ruthless, abandoning all kindness in his heart.
As long as there was the slightest chance, he would seize it, just to avoid being humiliated, just to catch his breath.
Gu Jin, as an observer in the dream, watched him climb step by step using his clever mind and brutal means, becoming the underground king of a feared dark force.
The price he paid was unimaginable.
The scene shifted.
After her execution, her body was unclaimed, left for seven days until it started to emit a stench. Then An Mingji appeared, sitting in a wheelchair.
By then, he had grown, strong enough.
He sat in the wheelchair, graceful and noble like a refined and noble scholar, having long since restrained the thorns all over himself, becoming introverted and inscrutable.
With the support of a group of bodyguards with bloodthirsty auras, An Mingji took away her decaying body.
He personally tended to her appearance, placing the An Family’s heirloom jade ring on her.
The jade ring held great significance; once she wore it, she belonged to the An Family.
An Mingji organized a grand and splendid funeral for her, inviting all the dignitaries of Beijing. The funeral invitation noted that it was his wife, An Mingji’s, passing.
She, a pawn abandoned by the Zhen Family and the Liu Family, became the wife of the ruler of a dark force. Even in death, the dignitaries she had to cautiously watch for approval were all bowing and paying their respects to her with incense.
All of this was An Mingji’s doing, his attitude making everyone uneasy.
Especially the Zhen Family and the Liu Family.
At the funeral, Gu Jin saw the Zhen Family’s faces full of fear and unease, and saw her biological parents trembling in fear in front of An Mingji.
She also saw how the Liu Family flattered An Mingji, their cautious attitude truly satisfying.
An Mingji remained friendly towards the Zhen and Liu Families, his smile noble and harmless.
However, after the funeral ended, he turned around and used various means to crush the two families.
Even those who were involved in framing her were all dealt with by An Mingji, leaving those people dead or crippled, with not a single one left untouched.
The scene changed again.
A solemn and majestic cemetery.
An Mingji, escorted by two bodyguards behind him, was pushed in a wheelchair to stop in front of a tombstone.
Gu Jin saw that on the tombstone, it was her picture, her name.