Upon hearing Wen Wan recount what happened ten years ago, all the romantic notions that had filled Chen Luo's mind vanished.
Feeling Wen Wan's slightly trembling body, Chen Luo held her hand tightly and gently comforted her.
"It's okay, just tell me. I'm here. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
With Chen Luo's comforting words, Wen Wan's breathing gradually calmed down. Although she didn't want to recall that terrible memory, she still hoped that Chen Luo could know how the two of them met.
Holding Chen Luo tightly in her arms, the courage and sense of security that welled up inside her made her feel at ease, and she recounted the events of that year, including Wen Wan's background.
The Wen family of Beijing is one of the top financial groups in the country. Even in Beijing, right under the emperor's nose, the Wen family is considered a terrifying force.
The Wen family has been a powerful and influential family for hundreds of years, and its members and former officials are now spread throughout the political, military, and business circles, wielding significant influence over the domestic economy.
Such a family must have extraordinary abilities to survive for hundreds of years and grow stronger with each passing year. The Wen family’s greatest strength lies in its almost cruel training of its direct descendants.
Each generation of direct descendants would be sent out by the family to gain experience in the outside world when they were 13 years old.
This kind of experience is not as simple as doing business; it is a kind of experience that involves walking on the edge of life and death.
Each generation of family head has the right to formulate their own training methods. Although the methods are different, the goal is the same: to train the character of the direct descendants to the greatest extent possible.
The current head of the family, Wen Tao, Wen Wan's father, is even more ruthless than his predecessors.
His method of training his children involved pretending to kidnap them and dumping them near a completely unfamiliar small city. At the same time, he would send his family's henchmen to pose as criminals and hunt them down. Not only would they have to escape these people's pursuit, but they also had to find their way home within a month, or they would lose their right to be heirs.
Of course, the Wen family members, who were undergoing a brutal ordeal at the time, were completely unaware of all this; they were struggling to survive.
In this process, the probability of Wen family members being injured or killed is very high, but this is also Wen Tao's intention.
Survival of the fittest, natural selection, the Wen family's heir must be the best of the best, and must have a mindset that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve from a young age.
When Wen Wan was 13 years old, she was kidnapped on her way home from school. When she woke up, she found herself in a deep mountain. She was lying in a small wooden house with only a rusty dagger by her side.
Before this, she had been studying how to be a lady in a prestigious school and lived a life of luxury thanks to the Wen family's wealth.
However, she was kidnapped to a completely unfamiliar place, and what happened afterward became the biggest reason why Wen Wan became so ruthless and sickly. It also unintentionally led Wen Wan to meet the love she had been longing for for ten years.
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Ten years ago, it was 200 kilometers south of Hangzhou.
Huaxian County, Jincheng Town, Dalong Mountain.
"Where did she go! You bunch of useless trash actually lost her!"
"Don't worry, she's just an only child, she can't go very far! She's not familiar with the mountain roads here."
Several very deep male voices echoed in the jungle. At this moment, Wen Wan, who was hiding under the roots of a giant tree not far away, covered her mouth tightly with her left hand and held the rusty dagger in her right hand.
These people have been chasing her for three whole days. They are all wearing menacing leather masks and are all highly skilled. They are most likely retired soldiers.
These bandits must have kidnapped me to demand ransom from my family, but these kinds of kidnappers are usually extremely vicious. Even if they get the ransom, they might still kill me if they manage to catch me.
This was the first judgment 13-year-old Wen Wan made after calming down, which is quite remarkable for a 13-year-old child to be so calm.
For the past three days, she has used her petite stature to hide in the jungle, eating wild fruits when she was hungry and drinking mountain spring water when she was thirsty. Despite all the hardships, she has finally made it this far.
During this process, Wenwan's temperament changed drastically. Originally afraid of dirt and pain, she could now endure the wounds all over her body from being scratched by tree branches, and she could also lie in the mud and lurk in the smell of decay.
Gradually, she was no longer the little princess in the greenhouse, but a survivor who was ruthless to herself in order to survive.
But she was still a minor, with limited physical strength and experience in wilderness survival. In addition, the other party seemed to be very familiar with the surrounding environment, so she was caught up.
I had no choice but to hide here, hoping they would leave soon so I could find a way out.
She had already clearly seen from the mountain that the village below was only a few hundred meters away as the crow flies. As long as she wasn't found this time, she could sprint down the mountain and find a village with people to ask for help.
"Tap tap tap!" The footsteps gradually faded away, and Wenwan's anxious heart finally settled down. She slowly crawled out of the tree roots.
The sun had already set, night had fallen, and the deep mountains were completely silent.
He immediately found the direction down the mountain and took a step to sprint down.
"Bang!"
As if she had crashed head-on into a city wall, Wenwan suddenly fell backward and hit the ground.
"Found you, Miss Wen. You're quite the hider, but your little tricks won't fool anyone. Come with me."
A burly man wearing a leather hood reached out to grab Wen Wan.
With his imposing physique and the faint murderous aura emanating from him, Wen Wan knew that even with a dagger in her hand, she would not be a match for him in a direct confrontation.
Falling into the hands of such bloodthirsty thugs, there is only one way out: death.
Thinking this, Wenwan lowered her head, stood there trembling, tears streaming down her face.
The burly man thought Wen Wan was too scared to move, so he stepped forward, grabbed her hand, and bent down, as if to lift her up.
"Pfft!"
Just then, Wen Wan's dagger plunged into the burly man's neck. Blood gushed from his neck, splattering onto Wen Wan's face and dripping onto her body, staining her tattered white dress crimson.
The man immediately screamed in pain, then clutched his neck and collapsed.
Did I kill someone?
No! We need to get to a safe place first!
After the shock, Wen Wan instinctively chose not to linger and scrambled down the mountain.
Completely disregarding the fact that his clothes were torn to shreds and the wounds from being constantly ripped open by branches and stones, he ran desperately toward the village at the foot of the mountain.
After running for a good ten minutes, she stumbled and rushed to the edge of the village. Finally, she couldn't hold on any longer, her legs gave way, and she collapsed in a vegetable garden.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Wenwan's consciousness began to blur, her wounds were still bleeding, and her body was losing temperature.
Am I going to die?
In the darkness, Wen Wan, utterly exhausted, lay on the cold ground, quietly awaiting death.
Just as the endless darkness was about to engulf Wenwan's consciousness, a ray of light shone before her eyes.
"Excuse me, sister, are you alright?"
That ray of light, that one word "sister," Wenwan has cherished it for ten whole years.
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