Shang Kaiwen jolted awake from her bed, sitting up with her hands tightly clutching the pajamas over her chest, the suffocation from just moments ago still left her feeling breathless.
The small nightlight on the bedside table quietly emitted a soft glow, and she slowly leaned against the headboard.
After drinking a glass of water.
Thinking back to that dream, her heart was still fluttering.
Everything in the dream seemed like reality, so real that it was hard for her to doubt: the sense of superiority as she looked down upon everyone, how all the wealthy and powerful people bowed and scraped to her, all the prosperous connections opening their doors for her, as if everything was within easy reach.
She was that supreme ruler, the illustrious creator of the Shang Family, even omnipotent. That bizarre dream still made her heart race.
The dream was the world she wanted.
Could it really be that ’what one thinks during the day, one dreams of at night’?
She desired it all too much, that even her dreams wouldn’t let her be.
But why was Bai Xiao with her in the dream?
That was what puzzled her, she couldn’t remember why Bai Xiao was with her, only knowing that he looked at her with adoring eyes, and she also saw Shang Kaijie, yes, her brother.
Shang Kaijie was already dead, that was a fact, she had seen his cold body in the hospital.
She had accompanied her father there.
Shang Kaijie had died a shameful death that made everyone in the family unable to feel fond of him.
All the family’s hopes had once rested on him.
Everything she had done was in the hope of supporting her brother.
Even with Shang Kaijie’s death, she didn’t feel much sadness.
It’s been two years already.
Yet tonight, she dreamt of her brother.
Shang Kaijie was looking at Bai Xiao with an evil gaze, that look she was familiar with because Shang Kaijie had once looked at her the same way, it’s just a pity that he once tried to barge into her room! After she nearly pierced his throat with a dagger, forcefully defending herself.
Every time Shang Kaijie saw his sister, it was as if he saw the grim reaper.
Perhaps it was because the brother realized he could never take advantage of his sister.
Since then, he kept a low profile, no matter how outrageous he was outside, he was well-behaved at home.
Because from that fierce look in his sister’s eyes and the sharp edge of the dagger that night, he had no doubts, Shang Kaiwen truly wanted his life.
So, no matter what Shang Kaiwen said or did to him, he always maintained the utmost compromise.
This is probably what they call ’a bully is always a coward at heart’.
This dream was too strange.
Because many scenes were choppy and intermittent.
Shang Kaiwen was like a bystander, unable to hear the sounds in the scenes or understand what these images signified.
Yet she was still captivated by the image of herself having everything, the momentum of looking down on the world; she could be that powerful.
Turning on the light, she sat in front of the computer.
Lately, everything has been going wrong, so wrong that she felt like vomiting blood.
The trip to Myanmar cost her a Liu Chuanfeng and a lucrative gemstone trade route.
Liu Chuanfeng has kept his promise, vanishing without a trace.
And her recent endeavors haven’t been going smoothly.
When it comes down to it.
Jiang Shaoqing was cornering her on all sides, of course, that’s what she thought.
Jiang Shaoqing’s abilities in business were hard for many to match, coupled with the Jiang Family’s background; the Jiang Family was indeed very lucky, many of her business moves failed in front of them.
Looking at Jiang Shaoqing’s youthful and handsome face on the computer screen, and that indifferent smile towards the camera, she couldn’t help but have her heart flutter involuntarily.
Maybe she still needed to find a way to take a different path.