At that time, the Li family was a prominent family in Beiping. When the warlord entered the city, he naturally stayed in the Li family's villa. Li Wanning was overjoyed to see her beloved staying in her home. While he was sobering up in the courtyard, Li Wanning gracefully appeared in front of him in a long dress.

"I heard that the commander-in-chief has just won a battle?"

Li Wanning's clear and melodious voice immediately attracted the other person's attention, and even his eyes became fiery. At that time, Li Wanning thought that this was the love described in the book. Instead of being afraid, she threw herself into the other person's arms like a moth to a flame.

The warlord stayed at the Li family's house for seven days, and Li Wanning spent those seven days with him. During those seven days, she thought she had found happiness and a good man to entrust her life to, but she never knew that he only treated her as a free toy. Apart from saying that he would marry her when they were having sex, he treated her like a stranger on the street.

On the night the warlord left, Li Wanning received a promise that he would marry her the next time he came to Beiping. After that, she longed for him every night and looked forward to it every day. More than a month passed in a flash, and Li Wanning learned that she was pregnant. She hurriedly wrote a letter to him, thinking that this was the beginning of happiness. But she did not know that this was the beginning of a tribulation.

The warlord who left the Li family to fight in the south may have long forgotten about Li Wanning's existence. After all, he had different women with him every night. When he received Li Wanning's letter, the warlord was not very happy. Instead, he was worried and summoned his trusted adjutant. A few days later, the warlord came to the Li family with dozens of armed men.

Li Wan Ning thought the other party had come to marry her, and happily changed into the pale yellow cheongsam with white orchids embroidered on it that she had worn when they first met. That night was crazy and bloody.

"How about we name our child Little Bean?"

Li Wanning looked at her beloved sitting beside her, her eyes curving into crescents. She thought she was about to have a happy and romantic wedding...

Little did he know that the warlord had a shrewish wife, and his father-in-law was the biggest warlord in the Northwest. He might have the guts to have affairs outside, but he would never dare to let Li Wanning give birth to a child.

"puff--"

A bullet was fired from a silenced pistol, passing through Li Wanning's right temple. Until the moment she died, her eyes were full of longing for the future, and a sweet and happy smile remained on her face.

The warlord had no idea that Li Wanning, with her special constitution, would turn into a ghost shortly after her death.

Upon seeing that the little bean in her womb had stopped breathing, Li Wanning angrily possessed the adjutant, controlling him to shoot and kill the young and successful warlord. She then set fire to her boudoir and burned her own body.

Until their deaths, the Li family had no idea what Li Wanning had gone through.

In order to sever ties with the Li family after the death of the warlord, Li Wanning risked her life to forcibly control her adjutant and lead the soldiers into Beiping City to fight against several prominent families until all of them were killed in battle.

No one knows why the warlord only brought a few dozen men to Beiping to investigate these prominent families, nor does anyone know that Li Wanning was not burned to death, and no one knows this tragic story that belongs only to Li Wanning...

Back in her boudoir, Li Wanning used her last bit of strength to possess the bullet and desperately protected the piano amidst the flames.

It was because when I was pregnant with Xiaodouzi, I often dreamed of a little girl in a white dress sitting in front of a piano, happily calling out "Mommy" to me.

After the story was finished, Li Muhao and Xiao Yanbao were both in tears.

Both brother and sister are extremely sentimental people!

Li Wanning reached out to wipe away the tears from Xiao Yanbao's eyes, but found that her hand passed right through Xiao Yanbao's body. She was too weak to touch anything.

"Don't cry, your name is Xiaoyanbao, right? You're so cute, I like you so much..."

Xiao Yanbao opened his palm and, with a sob in his voice, asked Li Wanning to return to the bullet. Li Wanning gently shook her head, squatted down, and smiled at Xiao Yanbao.

"Xiao Yanbao, don't worry about me. I'm already very happy that I can be fully awake and free from control. Thank you."

Before Xiao Yanbao could speak, Li Wanning's legs and arms began to disappear. Xiao Yanbao tried desperately to use magic to stop Li Wanning from dissipating, but to no avail.

"My little bean must be just as cute as you, right? Goodbye, little Yanbao..."

Two glistening tears rolled down Li Wanning's cheeks, fell to the ground, and shattered into pieces with a crisp and loud sound.

"Wow, I never expected this little girl to have such good fortune."

A cheerful voice came from outside the window, and Xiao Yanbao's eyes lit up. She knew very well who had come.

However, when the third brother, Li Muhao, turned his head to look, it was as if he had seen something terrifying. He cried out "Oh my god!" and then his eyes rolled back as he fainted to the ground.

Outside the window, a figure dressed entirely in black was seen floating about, its large cloak fluttering in the night wind.

A thick, inky black mist swirled around them, and two eye-like objects glowed with a scarlet light.

At first glance, it looks like a demon emerging from the depths of hell.

"Uncle Jiang Li!"

Xiao Yanbao looked at the Grim Reaper floating outside the window with surprise, and paused for a moment.

What's going on with Uncle Jiang Li today?

Why has the art style changed?

It's like he went from a handsome, righteous character to a sinister and terrifying villain.

It scared Yan Yan's third brother so much that he fainted!

After glancing at her third brother lying on the ground, Xiao Yanbao pursed her lips, clearly speechless, and then hurriedly pointed to Li Wanning, who was slowly dissipating, and anxiously said:

"Uncle Jiang Li, please save Sister Wan Ning!"

At times like this, the little boy can only subconsciously turn to the Grim Reaper from the underworld for help.

Although Li Wanning didn't know who the man in the black cloak who floated in through the window was, the pressure emanating from her soul rendered her unable to move.

Death brandished its scythe, gathering wisps of mist around Li Wanning. Just as it was about to let the mist enter Li Wanning's body, another aura wafted in from outside the door.

"Isn't it a bit much to rob someone on the street without warning?"

The one speaking was Ye Ming, who had come up the stairs.

When did he arrive here?

Just as Xiao Yanbao was feeling surprised, she heard Uncle Jiang Li click his tongue in obvious impatience and mutter in a very low voice:

"What's that brat doing here too?"

So annoying!

Moreover, this kid's skills are getting better and better. If he hadn't taken the initiative to show himself, Jiang Li wouldn't have even noticed his presence.

Ye Ming glanced sideways at Jiang Li, slightly raised his chin, and said with an innate arrogance:

"Don't think I can't hear you just because you're muttering quietly. Besides, you have no right to call me a brat. I'm of a higher generation than you!"

Jiang Li and Xiao Yanbao's expressions changed upon hearing the mention of seniority.

Jiang Li gritted his teeth and emphasized, "Don't talk to me about seniority here. What era are we living in? We should judge people by their age, not by their seniority!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yanbao nodded vigorously, as if completely agreeing, and echoed, "..."

"That's right, Uncle Jiang Li is absolutely right!"

(End of this chapter)