Chapter 1: Narrow Escape from Death

  "Creak..." The rusty iron gate was pushed open, its lingering sound echoing back from the surrounding ancient buildings.

  After more than a dozen gasps, a young man with his head hung low was dragged out from behind the iron gate by two prison guards holding his arms. The young man with his head hung low seemed to have stopped breathing, and even his arms were so thin that only bones were left. From the blood-stained tattered clothes on his body, it could be seen what kind of devastation and torture this young man had suffered.

  The frail man was thrown to the ground by two jailers, kicking up some dust, and then there was no movement.

  "This little brat should be dead by now?" A short and stout prison guard stared at the young man who was knocked to the ground, motionless.

  Another guard hummed in agreement, "He's probably dead. Serves him right for being so reckless and daring to be rude to Miss Jian. Now it's good that the Ning estate has been destroyed, and he's also gotten what was coming to him, a fitting end."

  "Be careful what you say, old fellow. We'll drag him out and deal with him first." The short, stout jailer hastily cautioned.

  Upon hearing the stout jailer's words, the other jailer, nicknamed Lao Hui, involuntarily lowered his head and was about to drag away the lifeless man on the ground.

  Just then, a somewhat weak voice called out from the side, "Two brothers, I want to take my husband away."

  The two wardens finally saw a woman standing beside them, wearing a coarse linen robe. Although she was dressed in coarse linen, her unusual elegance could still be vaguely seen. The only pity was that her face had been disfigured and was covered by slightly disheveled hair, making people unwilling to take a second look.

  The two jailers both recognized who this woman was; she was one of only two survivors of the Ning family.

  The entire Ning family was confiscated, and the only survivors were Ning's old steward, Ning Gao, and this woman in front of him. Ning Gao was the steward of the Ning Mansion, and when the Ning Mansion was confiscated, he happened to be outside the country on a trip, so he escaped disaster. This woman was the daughter-in-law of the Ning Mansion and also the wife of the frail man who had just been thrown out of prison, named Ji Luofei. She survived because she stayed at the Qingyun Second Academy.

  Of course, this is also because Ji Luo Fei and the Ning family are not closely related. She married into the Ning family because the Ning and Ji families have been friends for generations, and she was betrothed to Ning Cheng since childhood. However, the Ji family declined in the most inexplicable way, leaving only a disfigured Ji Luo Fei. Even so, Ning Cheng's grandfather, Ning Hong Chang, still took Ji Luo Fei into the manor. He planned to wait until Ning Cheng truly gathered his energy before allowing the two to get married.

  Unfortunately, Ning Cheng's qualifications were extremely poor and he had been unable to cultivate his energy for many years. Not only that, but he would often scold and beat Ji Luo Fei, whose appearance had been ruined. Fortunately, Ji Luo Fei, as a wife without a home to return to, had always endured in silence, never saying much. This time, after returning from the academy, she learned that the Ning family had been destroyed and immediately came to the prison. Originally, she wanted to ask if Ning Cheng could be released, but unexpectedly, Ning Cheng was already lifeless, thrown out of his cell by the prison guards.

  Ji Luo Fei saw the expressions of the two prison guards, and without waiting for them to speak, she took out a dozen or so silver coins and handed them over. "Two brothers, my husband has already left, I..."

  "Alright, alright, take him away. It's an eyesore to have him here." The short and stout jailer put away the silver coins, saying with a wave of his hand.

  They were originally going to deal with Ning Cheng's corpse, but they didn't expect someone to come and take care of it, and even give them silver coins. This kind of good thing, they would not refuse.

  Ji Luofei heard this and quickly carried Ning Cheng on her back, speeding up, soon disappearing from the prison gate.

  "If Ji Luo Fei hadn't been disfigured, she would have been a beautiful woman." Another prison guard tossed the silver coin in his hand and said with an appraising tone as he gazed at Ji Luo Fei's back.

  "Enough of that, after all, Ji Luo Fei is also a person from Cang Qin Secondary Academy. Even if she's ugly, it's not our turn." The short and stout prison guard patted the shoulder of the talking prison guard and pulled him back into the iron gate. With another loud clang, the iron gate closed again.

  ……

  Ning Xiaocheng caught a whiff of an extremely pleasant fragrance, and when he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a patch of white neck. The next moment, Ning Xiaocheng reacted, he was being carried on a woman's back, and that fragrance came from the body of the woman carrying him.

  No way, he remembered being rejected by Tian Muwan and was in a terrible mood, so he took a wrong turn and ended up on the overpass alone. Then a yellow millet blast came from the horizon and hit him, and then... there was no then.

  Isn't he dead yet? What's going on here?

  Just as Ning Xiao Cheng thought of this, all sorts of information flooded into his mind, and he actually reincarnated.

  What shocked Ning Xiao Cheng was that this body he had transmigrated into was originally called Ning Cheng.

  He was shocked because his original name was also Ning Cheng. It's just that he often had a nightmare, where he saw himself coming to a very strange place, being secretly calculated and locked in prison, and then tortured to death. Although it was just a dream, Ning Cheng still changed his own name to Ning Xiao Cheng.

  Unexpectedly, after turning around and around, he still called Ning City, and really reincarnated in the environment of his dream.

  Ning Xiaocheng wanted to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, but the woman behind him turned back and looked at him without saying a word.

  "Sorry, I don't have the energy to walk." Ning Xiaocheng said somewhat apologetically as he saw the woman turn her head and glance at him. Having a woman carry him on her back made him feel rather uneasy.

  "The Ning family is already gone, you're lucky to be alive." The woman's tone was calm, as if even if Ning Xiao Cheng really died, she would still have this calm attitude.

  Ning Xiaocheng fell silent, having just organized some fragmented information. He should call Ning Cheng back again, the only son of the Ning family in Cang Qin country. Call him Ning Cheng then, anyway he was originally called Ning Cheng.

  The Ning family is a mid-tier noble family in the country of Cangqin, but they have few people. When Ning Cheng was very young, his parents went to the Mangke Sea Domain to search for spiritual materials and never came back. Ning Cheng has always followed his grandfather, Ning Hongchang, living in the imperial city of Canglie City in the country of Cangqin.

  Although the Ning Mansion is large, there are not many people. Ning Cheng naturally became the first person in the Ning Mansion, and Ning Hongchang never managed Ning Cheng. All the bad things that Ning Cheng did in Cang Le City were taken over by Ning Hongchang. Cang Le City was full of princes and nobles, and although Ning Hongchang was also a veteran of the Cang Qin State, he was still somewhat inferior to those princes and nobles.

  Finally, one day, Ning Cheng got himself into trouble that even he couldn't handle. He actually offended the treasured daughter of the Jian family of Cang Qin Country, Jian Su'e. Not to mention that the Jian family was not someone the Ning family could afford to offend, even Jian Su'e's fiancé, Qiu Yingguang, was not someone the Ning family could afford to mess with.

  Ning Cheng thought of this and sighed. The result that he couldn't afford to provoke was being locked up in prison, and his grandfather Ning Hongchang had exhausted all his connections and family wealth to try to bail him out, but not only did he fail to get bailed out, the entire Ning family got dragged down with him. This news was still learned by his previous incarnation from the mouth of a prison guard, it can be said that the Ning family was also destroyed because of him.

  After Ning Cheng sorted out these things, he let out a sigh again in his heart. This world was unreasonable, whoever had the bigger fist was the one with reason.

  At the same time, he also understood who was behind him. The disfigured woman was his fiancée, Ji Luofei, somewhat similar to a child bride on Earth.

  The Ji family was a foreign household in the Cang Qin country. Because Ji Luo Fei's grandfather and Ning Cheng's grandfather had a good relationship, they helped Ning Cheng and Ji Luo Fei arrange a childhood engagement. Later, the Ji family inexplicably declined, leaving only a disfigured Ji Luo Fei. However, Ning Cheng's grandfather, Ning Hong Chang, still took in Ji Luo Fei to the Ning household, planning to wait until Ning Cheng came of age before helping the two get married.

  Ning Hongchang indulged Ning Cheng in everything else, but he would not give in on the matter of marrying Ji Luofei as his wife. The original Ning Cheng was very dissatisfied with Ji Luofei's disfigured appearance and often scolded or beat her, but fortunately Ji Luofei endured it all and never retorted back at Ning Cheng.

  Moreover, Ji Lu Fei was different from Ning Cheng. She had the qualifications to cultivate and not only that, but with the help of the Ning family, she entered the Cang Qin Second Star Academy and was already a third-layer Qi gathering cultivator. In the Cang Qin country, anyone who could cultivate was called a cultivator. Once a cultivator reached the fourth layer of Qi gathering, their status would rise sharply.

  At this time, Ji Luo Fei had already backed him into a very low and small black stone house. Although the black stone house was low and small, its area wasn't too bad, at least it had everything it should have. There was even a small courtyard, with a deep well inside.

  "How was the Ning family exterminated?" Ning Cheng asked again. Even if it involved himself, Ning Cheng had to get to the bottom of this matter. Although he suspected that Jian and Qiu families were behind it, he had to ask clearly about some things.

  "What's the point of asking me when you're doing it yourself?" Ji Luo Fei replied simply and let Ning Cheng go.

  After finishing, she poured another glass of clear water to Ning Cheng and said: "I'll go boil some water for you to take a bath, and forget about some things, you know it's not good for you."

  Ning Cheng watched as Ji Luofei went to boil water, and didn't continue questioning her. He understood what she meant. With his abilities, the more he knew, the faster he would die. Even if he didn't know anything, in this place, whether or not he could survive was another matter altogether.

  I don't know if Ji Lu Fei added something to the water, but after drinking it, Ning Cheng felt that his whole body had recovered some energy.

  Ning Cheng sat on the old wooden couch, his mind wandering between his current situation and his sister Ning Ruolan. At the same time, he really couldn't understand why Tian Muzhen was treating him like that. According to his understanding of Tian Muzhen, she was absolutely not that kind of selfish girl.

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