Chapter 100: Progress Bar for Official Promotion 21/100

Aunt Ge had no choice. Originally, Chang Yuan had no choice but to become a night watchman because he couldn't find any other work. Who knew that this would cause him trouble?

"No, sir!" Granny Ge kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. "We will not be night watchmen anymore. We will go begging for food. Please give us a way to live."

The young man immediately kicked him again, saying, "You're so annoying, I might as well kill you now and we'll wait here for your son to come back."

Grandma Ge was so frightened that she stopped crying. She didn't want to die. She had lived to this age and hadn't suffered much hardship, except for hearing too much gossip.

She was very satisfied with her life and was reluctant to die.

"Please calm down, sir! Please calm down!" Granny Ge endured the pain and got up, prostrating herself at the young man's feet. "I will do as you say. I will kill Chang Yuan. Please spare my life."

Seeing that Aunt Ge had agreed, the young man didn't waste any more words and directly ordered the officers to bring over a wooden box.

The box was opened, and the glittering gold inside was enough to make anyone's eyes water.

If Aunt Ge initially agreed only to save her life, now that she saw the box of gold, her resolve wavered.

They really are giving away gold!

Human nature is ultimately self-interested. Even with so many years of relationship with Chang Yuan, how could it compare to her being able to live a life of comfort and security in her later years?

Grandma Ge happily kowtowed to the young man, saying, "Thank you so much, thank you so much!"

The young man scoffed, "Don't try to be two-faced. If I find out you took the money but didn't do the job, I'll slice you into thin slices."

Aunt Ge was so frightened that she lost her mind, and it wasn't until the group had walked quite a distance that she finally came to her senses.

"Ah Yuan, they forced me to do this. If I don't agree, we'll all die. Anyway, you're going to die eventually, so please let me live." Aunt Ge looked at Chang Yuan, tears streaming down her face.

"Thud—"

The causal threads on Chang Yuan's body were untied. Unlike the little eunuch who broke them into pieces, this causal thread snapped off with a "crack" and disappeared instantly.

Chang Yuan remained calm. "So that's how it is."

No wonder that day, when I returned from gathering information at the county government office, I saw my mother pacing back and forth in the courtyard, looking lost and disoriented.

At that time, he thought his mother was worried about his safety. Then she made him quit his job as a night watchman, which made him even more convinced of her point.

Later, the two spent every day and night together, and the food at home became more and more abundant.

He had his doubts, but his mother said it was bought with her dowry money.

So it was his farewell meal.

Chang Yuan felt completely relieved after the causal threads were untied. The pressure that had been binding his soul disappeared, and he calmly said, "Please send me to be reincarnated."

Su Zhenzhen was surprised that Chang Yuan could be so calm. No wonder Aunt Ge insisted on releasing him; she firmly believed that he would forgive her.

"You've once again broadened my understanding. Have you made up your mind? Once you step into the cycle of reincarnation, there's no turning back. Everything in this world is just a passing cloud."

Chang Yuan nodded slightly. "This life is already like this, there's no point in worrying too much. It's better to start the next life sooner rather than later."

Su Zhenzhen stopped trying to persuade her and immediately opened the Path of Reincarnation.

An endless black hole appeared out of nowhere before her eyes. As Aunt Ge watched Chang Yuan step into it without any hesitation, a sudden, sharp pain shot through her heart.

To be fair, of all the men she'd been with, Chang Yuan was her favorite.

She still remembered when she first married into the family, Chang Yuan was only as tall as her shoulder. He was clearly an immature child, but he had to pretend to be an adult and give her profound advice.

“Mother, Father only cares about his studies. He doesn’t mean to neglect you. He’s hardly ever spoken to my mother at home. You’ve found that Grandma is a very good person. She won’t cause trouble for her daughter-in-law. I will take care of you in your old age and see you off when you die.”

Aunt Ge originally thought this family would be difficult to get along with. After all, the matchmaker should have already told her about her situation. Anyone who claimed to be a virtuous family would look down on her frivolous and dissolute behavior.

She settled down in that house. The old lady was still agile and often went around doing odd jobs. She only needed to stay at home to wash clothes and cook. Her life was even easier than when she was a young girl.

But who knew that her nominal husband would never touch her? She didn't know if a girl in a brothel would die without a man.

But she would truly die without a man. Not only was she physically uncomfortable, but her private parts were also unbearably itchy, as if a thousand worms were crawling inside her.

Aunt Ge felt that others were right to criticize her; she was indeed a frivolous woman. There were only two men in the family; the older one was no good, and the younger one wasn't incapable either.

On a dark and stormy night, Aunt Ge abducted her own son, who was nominally her son.

The next day, her mother-in-law caught her in the act.

However, the old woman was kind-hearted; she neither hit nor scolded her, nor did she mention throwing her into a pig cage.

Perhaps she knew what kind of person her son was, and since he had already married into the family, she figured she might as well keep the good stuff within the family.

Later, she and Chang Yuan began seeing each other secretly, and over time they started to openly acknowledge their relationship.

Anyway, she's shameless.

She originally thought that Chang Yuan would also dislike her, but she didn't expect that this boy who had been transformed into a man through her would be so easy to talk to.

He didn't despise himself, saying that he only had a strange illness, and even though he knew that he had ambiguous relationships with others, he still helped to cover it up.

That's why Aunt Ge was certain that Chang Yuan wouldn't hold a grudge against her after knowing everything. That's also why she wasn't afraid when Su Zhenzhen came to her door; instead, she wanted Su Zhenzhen to find out the real culprit.

Who exactly was that young man? Why did they kill all the night watchmen?

Aunt Ge firmly believed that killing Chang Yuan was merely a desperate act to save her own life, but when she saw Chang Yuan go to be reincarnated without any regrets...

She couldn't help but wonder if she had done something wrong. Her A-Yuan still had a bright future ahead of him.

After seeing the progress bar in her mind show 21/100, Su Zhenzhen focused all her attention on Aunt Ge, taking in her emotional changes.

People are strange sometimes; they are self-righteous when they do wrong, but only begin to regret it when the mistake is irreversible.

Just as Su Zhenzhen was about to ask Aunt Ge some personal questions, she didn't expect her to speak first.

"Immortal, there is something I want to tell you, or rather, a secret."

Su Zhenzhen immediately perked up her ears, "About whose?"

"It's about myself. Immortal, please help me up so I can talk."

Su Zhenzhen had no suspicions and squatted down to untie Aunt Ge.

Just as I got close, a sharp pain shot through my shoulder.