At the entrance of Jiangzhou University, Ning Xiaocheng held a silver beaded flower in the shape of a snowflake in his hand, his heart a little hot. He hadn’t seen Mu Wan for a long time, and this time, after giving the money and another beaded flower to his sister, he couldn’t even come to Jiangzhou University in time to have dinner with her.
Ning Xiaocheng didn’t have to wait long before he saw Tian Muwan walking out. Tian Muwan was still beautiful, walking over almost without a half-hearted air of earthliness. Ning Xiaocheng’s heart swelled with pride that this beautiful woman would become his wife. At this moment he was even a little glad for that disaster, if there hadn’t been that flash flood, he wouldn’t even have had the chance to meet Tian Muwan.
“You’re looking for me?” Tian Mu Wan’s flat words caused Ning Xiaocheng to swallow the word Wan’er that was on his lips, he felt that something seemed off about Mu Wan today.
“This beaded flower is for you ……,” Ning Xiaocheng originally wanted to say that this beaded flower is for you, and then we will go out for dinner together. But when the words came to his mouth, he only said half of them, he felt Mu Wan’s change.
Tian Muwan calmly took the beaded flower that Ning Xiaocheng gave her and asked again without even looking at it, “Is there anything else?”
“I want to ask you to go to dinner with me ……”
Before Ning Xiaocheng could finish his sentence, he saw a blue sports car parked next to him and Tian Mowan.
“Wan’er.” A young man who smelled like an odd perfume opened the car door and walked out, while already calling out eagerly.
Ning Xiaocheng frowned for a moment, he hated this kind of smell, a big man making himself smell like perfume, it was too much for him to bear. Moreover, this youth, he also knew, was the boyfriend introduced to her by Mu Wan’s family, named Cha Zhiyi.
“Zhiyi ……”
Tian Mu Wan’s response made Ning Xiaocheng frown even more, when this youth named Cha Zhiyi called Wan’er before, Mu Wan would surely reply in a cold voice, “Wan’er is not what you call yourself, please behave yourself.”
But today, Mu Wan didn’t seem to be quite right.
It seemed that he did not expect Tian Mu Wan to be pleasant to him, and he did not say anything else about Wan’er not being called by you, so Chia Zhiyi was overjoyed and hurried over to him, “Wan’er, are you free today? I would like to invite you to have dinner with me.”
To his surprise, Tian Muwan didn’t refuse this time, but nodded and said, “I’m free today, so let’s go together.”
In his surprise, Chia Zhiyi almost forgot his surname, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Tian Muwan say again, “Zhiyi, please take this for me.”
After saying this, Tian Muwan placed the beaded flower in her hand that Ning Xiaocheng had given her in the hand of Cha Zhiyi.
“What is this?” Chia Zhiyi took the beaded flower and subconsciously asked.
“Oh, this was just given to me by Ning Xiaocheng, I don’t have any place to put it.” Tian Muwan said seemingly casually, as if she didn’t even care that she could wear this beaded flower on her head at any time.
“Aiyo ……” After listening to Tian Muwan’s words, Cha Zhiyi’s hand shook and the beaded flower fell down and rolled into the gap of the sewer cover unevenly.
It seemed that Chia Zhiyi did not expect the beaded flower to fall into the sewer either, and said with some chagrin, “Sorry, Wan’er, I was too careless, I’ll buy you a better one later.”
What Chia Zhiyi didn’t expect again was that Mu Wan nodded, “Forget about losing it, you can buy me another one when you have time, let’s go.”
Ning Xiaocheng’s face turned a little white, how could he not know that Chia Zhiyi had done it on purpose? What made him even more depressed was Mu Wan’s attitude, he had only not seen her for half a month, why had she changed so much all of a sudden? In his impression, Mu Wan was not such a person at all.
“Wan’er, I want to say a few words to you.” Seeing that Tian Mu Wan was about to leave, Ning Xiaocheng said once again.
Tian Mu Wan seemed to know what Ning Xiaocheng wanted to say in general, as she turned back to Ning Xiaocheng and said slowly, “Ning Xiaocheng, I know what you are going to say. It’s just that I’m about to graduate and I can’t play anymore. You should know in your heart that we are too different from each other and it is absolutely impossible to be together. In the past I didn’t know any better, now I’ve understood, I hope you won’t come back to me in the future, it’s not good for either of us.”
After saying that, Tian Muwan simply ignored Ning Xiaocheng and walked directly to the blue sports car and pulled open the door to sit inside.
Watching the blue sports car exhale a circle of white smoke and disappear without a trace, Ning Xiaocheng felt his heart was dripping blood. He didn’t understand why Mu Wan had become like this, this was completely different from the Mu Wan he remembered.
Were all women this fickle? Even though he came from a poor background, he had never felt that he was not good enough for Mu Wan, and Mu Wan would never disregard his face like this.
“Xiao Cheng, what are you standing here for?” A crisp voice interrupted Ning Xiaocheng who was still immersed in bewilderment.
Ning Xiaocheng’s face turned a little white as he looked up and saw a short-haired, clear-haired girl, and just subconsciously said, “Zeng Ji Yun ……”
“I just saw it, Xiaocheng, some things just go with the flow. Mu Wan’s family is not ordinary, you look away, or there is a more suitable for you right beside you.” Zeng Jiyun’s tone was soft, gentle like the colorful clouds floating from the sky, soothing Ning Xiaocheng.
Ning Xiaocheng seemed not to have heard Zeng Jiyun’s words, he just stared blankly at the gutter where the pearl flowers had fallen, and it was only after a while that he reacted and said to Zeng Jiyun, “Thank you, I’m leaving now.”
“Wait, Xiaocheng, let me walk with you.” Jiyun suddenly took a step forward, her gaze even burning a little as she looked at Ning Xiaocheng.
Ning Xiaocheng shook his head and did not say another word, turning around and quickly blending into the street, disappearing into the crowd.
Looking at Ning Xiaocheng’s disappearing back, Ji Yun bit her lips and said in a voice that even she could not hear, “Ning Xiaocheng, I like you more than Tian Muwan.”
She was Tian Muwan’s best friend, and she even felt that she knew Ning Xiaocheng better than Tian Muwan. This was the most outstanding man she had ever met, bar none. Ning Xiaocheng’s character was tough and optimistic, and he didn’t seem to care about anything that was difficult.
It was because she knew Ning Xiaocheng that she tried her best to get to know him more deeply. She found out that Ning Xiaocheng had not touched his textbooks properly since he started high school, and even so, he got into university. After he went to university, he did not read his textbooks and did not attend cla*ses, but he never failed a cla*s. According to what she investigated, Ning Xiaocheng never copied the exams, and every time, he would flip the book over an hour or two before the exam, as if he was reading a novel.
Even so, there were no courses that Ning Xiaocheng failed, which also included some cla*ses in science and technology that were more than just rote memorization. After Ning Xiaocheng saved his time, he almost always went to work. The money he and his sister used to go to school was all obtained from his part-time job.
Zeng Ji Yun came to the conclusion that not only did Ning Xiaocheng have the ability to never forget, he also had superb comprehension skills, which could even be described as a kind of supernatural ability.
The only pity was that Ning Xiaocheng did not know how to earn money. With such skills, there was no need for him to work on construction sites to earn money. But then Zeng Jiyun also felt that her guess was wrong, it wasn’t that Ning Xiaocheng couldn’t earn money, he seemed to have intentionally kept his skills from being known.
As she got to know Ning Xiaocheng better, Zeng Jiyun’s heart became filled with Ning Xiaocheng’s shadow. Even if Tian Muwan was her best friend, she would still want to snatch Ning Xiaocheng out of her hands. The reason why Tian Muwan went to investigate Ning Xiaocheng’s home was her idea.
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“Let’s get off right here.” Tian Muwan’s words caused Cha Zhiyi, who was still in a state of excitement, to freeze for a moment.
“We haven’t reached the eating place yet ……,” Cha Zhiyi said subconsciously, but still stopped the car, he didn’t dare to offend Tian Muwan.
The first thing you need to do is to get back to your home.
Looking at Tian Muwan, who had left, Cha Zhiyi suddenly had a feeling of being tricked, he had not heard Tian Muwan answer the phone at all. Knowing that he had been tricked, he still dared not be upset with Tian Muwan.
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Ning Xiaocheng stopped, he found himself unconsciously getting on the elevated bridge, which was a car access. He shook his head and decided to go back to Mowan tomorrow and ask why she was like this. If Mu Wan is really as desperate as she says she is, then there is no need for him to remain in this city.
His sister was about to graduate and no longer needed his care. If it wasn’t for Mu Wan and his sister Ning Ruolan, he would have left here long ago.
Ning Xiaocheng had just turned back when a thick, choking yellow mane shot over. With such a swift reaction speed, Ning Xiaocheng did not have time to judge what the yellow mane was before he was blasted by it. The moment he lost consciousness, he seemed to feel an aura of ancient vicissitudes.
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Tian Muwan sat inside the dormitory somewhat disoriented, she picked up the phone and put it down again, and so on several times. Ning Xiaocheng disappointed her to the core, but now after Ning Xiaocheng really disappeared from her sight, she felt that she could not forget this boy who was often covered in dust.
After several repetitions, Tian Muwan sighed and finally decided not to contact Ning Xiaocheng anymore, and even planned to delete the phone number of Ning Xiaocheng’s dormitory as well.
But at this very moment, her mobile phone rang.
Tian Muwan picked up the phone and a clear but somewhat cautious voice came through, “May I ask if you are sister Muwan? I am Ning Xiaocheng’s younger sister, Ning Ruolan, I would like to ask my brother ……”
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Ten minutes later, Tian Muwan arrived at the cafe outside the school, and she saw a somewhat anxious Ning Ruolan.
“It’s you?” Tian Mu Wan knew Ning Ruo Lan, wasn’t this the same girl who was with Ning Xiaocheng last time?
Ning Ruolan had not seen Tian Muwan before, but as soon as Tian Muwan came in, she knew that the woman in front of her was definitely Tian Muwan, only this kind of woman could be worthy of her brother.
“I am Ning Xiaocheng’s younger sister, Ning Ruolan, Sister Muwan, my brother has not been heard from, nor has he returned to the dormitory, do you know where he is?” Ning Ruolan was in no mood to talk to Tian Muwan about anything else, the moment she opened her mouth, she asked about her brother’s whereabouts.
Tian Muwan hadn’t reacted to the meaning of Ning Ruolan’s words, she just subconsciously asked, “Isn’t Ning Xiaocheng’s sister at home farming? How could it be you ……”
Ning Ruolan frowned and said, “My brother and I are both in Jiangzhou ah, I have to study, how do I have time to go back to farming?”
Tian Muwan’s face changed, and immediately some clarity came to her. She was already extremely smart, and when she thought about Zeng Ji Yun’s words and what she had done, she already had some vague understanding.
“Not good ……” Tian Muwan immediately thought of the night when Ning Xiaocheng and her were separated, a section of the elevated was smashed into pieces by a meteorite. This had nothing to do with Ning Xiaocheng, but at this moment the image of a despondent Ning Xiaocheng standing on the elevated bridge flashed in her mind.
Seeing Tian Muwan desperately running out, Ning Ruo Lan’s face also changed, obviously she also guessed that something seemed to have happened to her brother.
“Bam ……” A rusty iron door was opened, the aftermath of which was blocked back by the curling sound of the old buildings around it.
A dozen breaths later, a young man with a drooping head was dragged out of the iron door by the arms of two jailers. The young man, with his head drooping, looked like he was not breathing and even his arms were so thin that they were only bones. From the bloodstained and torn clothes on his body, it was clear what kind of destruction and torture this young man had been subjected to.
“Boom” the scrawny man was thrown to the ground by the two jailers, splattering some dust, and then no more movement.
“This kid should be dead, right?” A short, fat jailer asked as he stared at the young man who had flung himself to the ground and was not moving.
Another jailer hmmed, “He should be dead, who let him not know what he was doing, how dare he be rude to Miss Jane. Now it’s a good thing that not only has the Ning House been destroyed, but he himself is relieved, he sort of deserves it.”
“Old Club, be careful what you say, let’s drag him out and deal with him first.” The short, fat jailer hurriedly cautioned.
Hearing the short, fat jailer’s words, the other jailer called Lao Hui involuntarily shrank his head and was about to go and pull up the man who was no longer breathing on the ground and prepare to drag him away.
Just at this moment, a somewhat soft voice called out from the side, “Two big brothers, I want to take my husband away.”
It was only then that the two jailers who spoke saw a woman in rough linen standing at the side. Although this woman was dressed in rough linen, she could still be vaguely seen to be uncommonly graceful. The only regret was that her face was disfigured, hidden by slightly dishevelled hair that made people reluctant to take a second look.
Both jailers recognised who this woman was, one of the only two survivors of the Ning family.
The entire Ning family had been raided and the only ones left alive were Ning’s old butler, Ning Gao, and the woman in front of him. When the Ning family was raided, he had left the Cang Qin country for business, so he escaped. And this woman was the daughter-in-law of the Ning House, and the wife of this skinny man who had just been thrown out of prison, called Ji Luofei. She had escaped because she had stayed at the Cang Qin Two Star Academy.
Of course, this was also because Ji Luofei had little connection with the Ning family; she had married into the Ning family because the Ning and Ji families were family friends and she and Ning Cheng had been betrothed since they were children. It was only that the Ji family had fallen in the most inexplicable way, and in the end, only a disfigured Ji Luofei remained. Even so, Ning Cheng’s grandfather, Ning Hongchang, still took Gui Luofei into his house. He was prepared to wait for Ning Cheng to truly gather Qi before allowing the two to marry.
Unfortunately, Ning Cheng’s qualifications were extremely poor and he was unable to gather Qi for many years. Luckily, as a homeless daughter-in-law, Ji Luofei had always been submissive and never said much. This time, when she returned from the academy and learned that the Ning family had been wiped out, the first thing she did was to come to this side of the prison. Originally, she wanted to ask to see if Ning Cheng could come out, but to her surprise, Ning Cheng had lost his breath and was thrown out of the prison by the jailer.
Seeing the expressions of the two jailers, Ji Luofei did not wait for the two jailers to speak before she took out a dozen silver coins and handed them over, “Two big brothers, my husband has gone, I ……”
“All right, all right, haul it away, it’s ugly as hell sitting here.” The short, fat jailer put away the silver coins and said with an impatient wave of his hand.
They were about to dispose of Ning Cheng’s corpse, but they never thought that someone would come over and dispose of it and give them silver coins, a good thing that they certainly wouldn’t refuse.
Hearing this, Ji Luofei hurriedly picked Ning Cheng up on her back, accelerated her speed, and soon disappeared from the entrance of the prison.
“This Ji Luofei would have been a beauty if she hadn’t been disfigured.” Looking at Ji Luofei’s back, the other jailer tossed the silver coin in his hand and said in a judgmental tone.
“Cut the crap, that Ji Luofei is at least from the Cang Qin Two Star Academy, even if she’s ugly, it’s not our turn.” The short fat jailer patted the speaking jailer’s shoulder and pulled him into the iron door once again. With another loud bang, the iron door closed up again.
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Ning Xiaocheng smelled an extremely nice fragrance, and the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a white neck. The next moment, Ning Xiaocheng reacted that he was being carried by a woman, and that fragrance was coming from the woman carrying him.
No, he remembered that after being rejected by Tian Muwan, he was in an extremely bad mood and ended up taking the wrong road, walking alone to the elevated. Then a yellow mane from the sky blasted him, and then… And then there was no more.
Did it mean he wasn’t dead yet? What the hell is going on here?
Ning Xiaocheng had just thought of this when all sorts of information swarmed into his mind in a flurry, and he was unexpectedly reborn.
To Ning Xiaocheng’s horror, this body he had been reborn in turned out to be called Ning Cheng.
He was appalled because his original name was also Ning Cheng. It was only because he often had a nightmare that he saw himself coming to an extremely weird place, being secretly imprisoned in a prison, and then tortured to death. Although it was only a dream, Ning Cheng still changed his name to Ning Xiaocheng.
Unexpectedly, after turning around, he was still called Ning Cheng, and was really reborn in that environment of his dream.
Ning Xiaocheng wanted to raise his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, but the woman who was carrying him looked back and didn’t say much.
“I’m sorry, I don’t have the strength to walk.” Seeing the woman look back at herself, Ning Xiaocheng said somewhat apologetically. It was indeed a little uncomfortable for him to have a woman on his back.
“The Ning family is gone, you’re lucky to be alive.” The woman’s tone was calm, as if even if Ning Xiaocheng really died, she would still have this calm attitude.
Ning Xiaocheng fell silent, he had just sorted out some bits and pieces of information. He should now call back Ning Cheng once again, the only ding of the Ning Family of the Cang Qin Kingdom. Calling Ning Cheng was fine, as he was originally called Ning Cheng anyway.
The Ning Family was a medium noble family in the Cang Qin Kingdom, but it was thinly populated. Ning Cheng’s parents had gone to the Mango Sea when Ning Cheng was very young to search for spiritual objects, and then had not returned. Ning Cheng had always followed his grandfather, Ning Hongchang, and lived in Cang Le City, the capital of the Cang Qin Kingdom.
Although the Ning Mansion was large, there were not many people. Ning Cheng of course became the first person in the Ning Mansion, and Ning Hongchang even never cared about Ning Cheng. All the bad things that Ning Cheng did in Cangle City were taken up by Ning Hongchang. Cangle City was full of princes and noble relatives, and although Ning Hongchang was also a patriarch of the Cang Qin Kingdom, he was still a little bit inferior to those princes and noble relatives.
Finally, one day, Ning Cheng made a mess that even he could not afford to make. He had offended Jane Su-je, the jewel of the Cang Qin family. Not to mention that the Jane family was something the Ning family could not afford to mess with, even Qiu Yingguang, Jane Su-je’s fiancé, was something the Ning family could not afford to mess with.
Ning Cheng sighed as he thought of this. The result of him not being able to afford to mess with the family was, of course, being put in jail, and his grandfather, Ning Hongchang, had exhausted his contacts and family fortune to bail him out, but instead of being bailed out, he ended up costing the entire Ning family. This news was also learned by his predecessor from the mouth of the jailer, and it can be said that the Ning family was also wiped out because of him.
After Ning Cheng sorted these things out, he once again sighed in his heart, there was no reasoning in this world, whoever had the biggest fist was the reason.
At the same time, he also understood who this person behind his back was, this disfigured woman was his fiancée, called Ji Luofei, somewhat similar to the child brides on Earth.
The Ji family was an alien household in the Cang Qin Kingdom, and because Ji Luofei’s grandfather and Ning Cheng’s grandfather were on good terms, the two helped Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei to set up a baby marriage. Later, the Ji family inexplicably fell into decline, leaving only a disfigured Ji Luofei. But Ning Cheng’s grandfather, Ning Hongchang, still received Ji Luofei into the Ning family and was prepared to help the two consummate their marriage once Ning Cheng had gathered his Qi.
Ning Hongchang condoned Ning Cheng in other matters, but in the matter of taking Ji Luofei as his wife, he would never give in. The original Ning Cheng was very unhappy with the disfigured Ji Luofei and often beat or scolded her, but Ji Luofei went against the grain and never retorted anything to Ning Cheng.
Moreover, unlike Ning Cheng, Ji Luofei had qualifications and could cultivate. Not only that, but with the help of the Ning Family, she had also entered the Cang Qin Two Star Academy and was already a Qi gathering third level cultivator. In the Cang Qin Kingdom, anyone who could cultivate was called a cultivator. Once a cultivator reached the fourth level of Qi gathering, his or her status would skyrocket.
At this moment, Ji Luofei had already carried him into an extremely low black stone house. Although the black stone house was low, the area was not too small, at least it had everything that was needed. There was even a small courtyard with a deep well inside.
“How did the Ning Family get wiped out?” Ning Cheng suddenly asked once again. Even if it concerned himself, Ning Cheng had to make this matter clear. Even though he guessed that it was the Jane Family and the Qiu Family that had done it, he had to ask for some clarification.
“You did it yourself, why do you need to ask me?” Ji Luofei simply replied and put Ning Cheng down.
After saying that she poured another cup of clear water and fed it to Ning Cheng, then said, “I’ll go boil water for you to bathe, just forget about some things, it’s not good for you to know.”
Ning Cheng watched as Ji Luofei went in to boil water, and did not continue to ask questions, he understood what Ji Luofei meant. With his ability, the more he knew, the faster he would die. Even if he didn’t know anything, in this place, whether he could survive or not was another matter.
Not knowing if Ji Luofei had added something to that cup of water, Ning Cheng felt that after drinking this cup of water, his whole body regained some strength.
As Ning Cheng sat on the ancient wooden couch, his mind thought of his current situation one moment, and then thought of his sister, Ning Ruolan, the next. At the same time, he really did not understand why Tian Muwan had to treat him like that, according to his understanding of Tian Muwan, Tian Muwan was definitely not that kind of snobbish girl.