"You little bastard, just wait! I’m going to get my dad to teach you a lesson!"
The biggest boy among the group of older kids, seeing someone injured and bleeding, seemed frightened. He threw harsh words at the beaten boy and turned to run.
Everyone in Qingshan Village knew that if the little wolf cubs in the village went crazy, they’d even dare to hurt adults.
But there were a few kids nearby who were unwilling to back down, especially the one with a broken head.
He looked at the little boy venomously: "An Mingji, you bastard who caused your dad’s death and has no mother to claim you! How dare you hit me? I’ll make you pay and regret it!"
The name An Mingji was called out, and Gu Jin trembled all over.
It was him!
Looking at that small, lonely, frail figure, Gu Jin trembled all over.
Without time for her brain to think, she suddenly got up and rushed toward the beaten little boy.
But she didn’t realize that at that moment, she was on the large stone at the entrance of Qingshan Village, which could accommodate four or five adults lying down. In her excitement, she ran straight down.
This action led her to fall directly.
However, fortunately, although the stone was large, it wasn’t high, so Gu Jin only twisted her foot and quickly regained her balance.
Her action drew the attention of the children around, except for the little boy being bullied with his back to her, who didn’t turn around. He was still holding up the stone in his hand, warily eyeing the children around him.
Looking at his frail little back, Gu Jin ignored the pain from her ankle and struggled to walk toward him.
"Big bastard and little bastard, a match made in heaven!"
Suddenly, a child blurted out such a sentence.
How familiar these words were; if Gu Jin was still a teenager, she would definitely have gone over to tussle with that child.
At this moment, Gu Jin didn’t care at all, dragging her injured foot to stand behind An Mingji.
At this moment, whether it was a dream or a butterfly dream, she only wanted to protect this little boy facing away from her.
Only because, after her death, she clearly saw in a spiritual state that he was the only one who collected her body and gave her a proper burial.
Now, An Mingji was still a child, not the elegant man sitting in a wheelchair he would become.
In his past life, after learning about her plight, he avenged her without restraint, ruthlessly and bloodily, crushing the Zhen and Liu families, even destroying the anticipated younger generations of both families, leaving only the old, weak, sick, and suffering.
Sometimes, death is not terrifying, but endless torment is.
"Little...Little An..."
Her voice had a noticeable tremor.
An Mingji heard the voice behind him and turned around slowly, revealing a faintly bitter smile on his dirty, bruised little face when he saw Gu Jin.
"Sister Jin—"
That call of Sister Jin, heard in Gu Jin’s ears, brought back distant memories, causing an ache in her heart.
Years ago, both were ostracized in this village, just because An Mingji’s father died of illness, his mother ran off with someone else, and his only grandmother also passed.
As for Gu Jin, her mother was a sent-down youth to Qingshan Village. Unable to endure the hardship and already pregnant, with her good looks, she married the Gu Family’s second son, giving birth to her: a daughter with an unknown father.
Within a couple of years, when the opportunity to return to the city arose, that woman abandoned her, giving up years of marriage, and just left.
Thus she became the big bastard, and later, An Mingji’s circumstances made him the little bastard; the two were the village’s outcasts.
In truth, they weren’t very familiar. She found An Mingji pitiful and occasionally gave him some food, just a matter of convenience.
Yet it was these small favors that An Mingji remembered his entire life.