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| <h2 class="chapter-title">Chapter 1: A Failed Life</h2> | |
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| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="0" data-start="0" data-end="9508">#1A failed life AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash Chapter 1: A Failed Life. "Mom, why hasn't this Old fellow kicked the bucket yet? Surely he won't pull through, right?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chapter 1: A Failed Life.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="1" data-start="9508" data-end="15646">How much longer do we have to wait to inherit his fortune!" "Keep your voice down, are you crazy?" "What's there to be afraid of?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Keep your voice down, are you crazy?"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="2" data-start="15646" data-end="24292">There's no one else here, and this Old fellow can't hear us anyway." "Stop calling him 'Old fellow' every other word. He's still your father, after all!" "Heh! My father?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Stop calling him 'Old fellow' every other word. He's still your father, after all!"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="3" data-start="24292" data-end="33304">Mom, it's already come to this, and you're still acting like I don't know anything? He's not my biological father at all." "You... how do you know?" The woman's tone became panicked and uneasy.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"You... how do you know?"</p> | |
| <p class="para">The woman's tone became panicked and uneasy.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="4" data-start="33304" data-end="41741">She was over sixty years old, but the massive amounts of money she spent every year on her appearance and body made her look over a decade younger, exuding the aura of a pampered noblewoman.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="5" data-start="41741" data-end="48872">Neither of them noticed that on the heart rate monitor beside the hospital bed, the previously steady and slow electrocardiogram began to fluctuate violently.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="6" data-start="48872" data-end="55245">"This Old fellow's heart was entirely on his company and career. He didn't care about you at all, so he never paid attention to your affairs.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="7" data-start="55245" data-end="63865">He deserves to have been a cuckold for all these years!" "Shut up! What are you talking about?" "Stop pretending. Whenever this Old fellow wasn't home, who were you calling every night?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Shut up! What are you talking about?"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="8" data-start="63865" data-end="72903">You laughed so happily every time, yet you never once had a smile for this Old fellow." A playful smile appeared on the middle-aged man's handsome face as he continued: "And last night, I saw you</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">A playful smile appeared on the middle-aged man's handsome face as he continued:</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="9" data-start="72903" data-end="75436">conspiring with that person on the phone at the stairwell.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="10" data-start="75436" data-end="84657">You said once this Old fellow dies, you two will confess everything to me, get remarried, and let him take over this Old fellow's company." "A-Yong, you..." The woman looked at her son in disbelief.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"A-Yong, you..."</p> | |
| <p class="para">The woman looked at her son in disbelief.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="11" data-start="84657" data-end="88392">"Don't worry, I don't mean to blame you. On the contrary, I feel relieved.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="12" data-start="88392" data-end="93799">No wonder I've never been able to get along with this Old fellow since I was a kid—we couldn't stand the sight of each other.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="13" data-start="93799" data-end="102915">It turns out I'm not even his biological son." "Mom, you and that man are quite something! You actually kept it from him for so many years." "Don't worry, I have no intention of ruining your plans.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Mom, you and that man are quite something! You actually kept it from him for so many years."</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="14" data-start="102915" data-end="109053">I just want to comfortably be a rich second-generation heir. Just give me a share of the company's stocks and assets when the time comes.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="15" data-start="109053" data-end="116654">I won't get involved in management, and I don't care about your business. Once I have the money, I'm going abroad to enjoy myself." "I'm already forty!</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="16" data-start="116654" data-end="122191">This Old fellow still keeps me on a tight leash, giving me only a fixed amount of money every month to just drift along.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="17" data-start="122191" data-end="129583">He said he wasn't afraid of me losing my ambition to idle pursuits, but rather afraid of me trying to prove myself." "Fuck, how much does he look down on me?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="18" data-start="129583" data-end="139039">I've wanted to go abroad and enjoy a free life for a long time." "So, right now, I just want this Old fellow to hurry up and stop breathing!" Seeing the playful smile on her son's face, the woman's</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"So, right now, I just want this Old fellow to hurry up and stop breathing!"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="19" data-start="139039" data-end="148469">expression was complicated, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say. "Cough, cough... You unfilial son!!" Suddenly, rapid coughing and a raspy voice came from the hospital bed.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Cough, cough... You unfilial son!!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Suddenly, rapid coughing and a raspy voice came from the hospital bed.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="20" data-start="148469" data-end="151734">The mother and son's expressions changed instantly upon hearing the sound.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="21" data-start="151734" data-end="160537">"You bitch, you absolute bitch, cough, cough..." The old man turned his head, glaring at his wife with a distorted face, his eyes like those of a wild beast ready to devour its prey.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The old man turned his head, glaring at his wife with a distorted face, his eyes like those of a wild beast ready to devour its prey.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="22" data-start="160537" data-end="165239">"It's over, he heard everything. I told you to stop talking!!" The woman complained in a panic.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The woman complained in a panic.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="23" data-start="165239" data-end="172083">At this moment, the panic on the middle-aged man's face vanished, replaced by a flash of ruthlessness in his eyes as he walked quickly toward the bed.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="24" data-start="172083" data-end="181251">"A-Yong, what are you doing?" The woman cried out in alarm. "Since it's come to this, there's no other way. Besides, he has no other relatives or friends; no one will care how he died.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The woman cried out in alarm.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="25" data-start="181251" data-end="187024">If there's any trouble, we'll just spend some money to settle it." The middle-aged man was expressionless, his tone cold.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The middle-aged man was expressionless, his tone cold.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="26" data-start="187024" data-end="196271">The woman froze for a moment, her mouth opening as if to stop him, but the words died in her throat. She glanced toward the door of the ward. Clearly, she had tacitly approved of her son's actions.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Clearly, she had tacitly approved of her son's actions.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="27" data-start="196271" data-end="203062">"You dare to kill me?" On the bed, the old man's sharp gaze fixed on the middle-aged man, exuding an air of authority even without anger.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">On the bed, the old man's sharp gaze fixed on the middle-aged man, exuding an air of authority even without anger.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="28" data-start="203062" data-end="209723">The middle-aged man's heart trembled, and he felt an instinctive surge of fear. After all, he had been this man's son for forty years.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="29" data-start="209723" data-end="214007">Even knowing he wasn't his biological father, the reverence was etched into his instincts.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="30" data-start="214007" data-end="222340">"You forced my hand!" The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, stepped forward to pull out the oxygen tube, and then retreated two steps. "Heh! This is all you're capable of?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, stepped forward to pull out the oxygen tube, and then retreated two steps.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="31" data-start="222340" data-end="227433">You useless coward!!" The old man's voice grew weak, but his expression and gaze were unexpectedly calm.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The old man's voice grew weak, but his expression and gaze were unexpectedly calm.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="32" data-start="227433" data-end="232474">"I'm not a fucking coward!!!" The middle-aged man's face contorted as he roared in a low, angry voice.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The middle-aged man's face contorted as he roared in a low, angry voice.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="33" data-start="232474" data-end="239840">The old man gave a cold laugh and ignored him, looking instead at the wife he had lived with for most of his life, and spoke words that were shocking. "Why do you think...</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="34" data-start="239840" data-end="248016">I haven't touched you in all these years? Do you really think I knew nothing?" Having started from scratch and built a fortune worth tens of billions, how could he possibly be a fool?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Having started from scratch and built a fortune worth tens of billions, how could he possibly be a fool?</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="35" data-start="248016" data-end="250941">He had long ago sent people to investigate everything thoroughly.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="36" data-start="250941" data-end="258438">It was just that he had already been diagnosed with cancer back then, and even the most expensive medicine could only delay the progression. He wasn't afraid of death;</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="37" data-start="258438" data-end="262330">in fact, he felt his life had been such a failure that dying sooner might be better.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="38" data-start="262330" data-end="269592">So, he decided to play along with their little game of house, only to let them experience the despair and helplessness of seeing their expectations shattered in the end.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="39" data-start="269592" data-end="275730">He believed this would be the greatest revenge against the two of them. He had even anticipated being murdered by them. It didn't matter.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">He had even anticipated being murdered by them.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="40" data-start="275730" data-end="280928">From the moment he learned of his wife's betrayal and that his son wasn't his own, he had already become an empty shell.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="41" data-start="280928" data-end="288216">That being said, hearing the two of them loudly conspiring right beside him just now still made him a little angry. "Impossible, how could you know? Didn't...</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="42" data-start="288216" data-end="294041">didn't you say you were no longer capable?" The woman's face turned incredibly pale as she looked at the man as if he were a stranger.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The woman's face turned incredibly pale as she looked at the man as if he were a stranger.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="43" data-start="294041" data-end="300153">Over a decade ago, upon learning that her husband's career was successful, she had brought her son to Yangcheng to live a life of luxury.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="44" data-start="300153" data-end="307728">But a few months later, her husband suddenly claimed he was impotent. She had always had another man in her heart, so she was naturally happy to hear this.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="45" data-start="307728" data-end="316688">She even feigned comfort, saying she didn't enjoy it anyway and that they already had a son. "I'm not capable? Haha... cough, cough... I just had no feeling for you, that's all.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="46" data-start="316688" data-end="326301">After I'm dead, if you have the guts, go find the women I kept on the outside and ask them if I'm capable or not!" Like a final surge of life before death, the old man's face suddenly became flushed,</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="47" data-start="326301" data-end="334816">and his voice grew strong. "You... you..." The woman's eyes widened, and she pointed a finger at the man, her speech stuttering. "Didn't expect that, did you? Haha...</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"You... you..."</p> | |
| <p class="para">The woman's eyes widened, and she pointed a finger at the man, her speech stuttering.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="48" data-start="334816" data-end="343619">and there's something even more surprising. You won't get a single cent of my fortune, and as for that man... heh..." The old man gave a cold smile, and then his breathing began to slow.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The old man gave a cold smile, and then his breathing began to slow.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="49" data-start="343619" data-end="351063">He didn't speak again, nor did he struggle. He just lay there quietly staring at the ceiling, his gaze gradually turning vacant as his consciousness began to blur.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="50" data-start="351063" data-end="356627">"No—you tell me clearly, what did you do?" "Old fellow, what are you pretending for? Mom, don't fall for it;</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="51" data-start="356627" data-end="365508">he's just trying to disgust us on purpose!" ...The next day, the local television station broadcasted a news report. Chen Nuo, the Chairman of the Chens Group, passed away due to illness.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">...The next day, the local television station broadcasted a news report.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="52" data-start="365508" data-end="370497">In his will, he established a charitable foundation with assets totaling 16.5 billion yuan.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="53" data-start="370497" data-end="378177">The foundation's management committee was set up by the Chens Group, with members including the General Manager of the Chens Group, the Marketing Manager, and several other women.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="54" data-start="378177" data-end="380240">Later, some rumors began to spread.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="55" data-start="380240" data-end="388390">It was said that the several women on the foundation's management committee, including the General Manager and the Marketing Manager, were all outstanding women with both beauty and talent, and they</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="56" data-start="388390" data-end="397245">all had ambiguous relationships with Chen Nuo. At the same time, the Chens Group's legal team filed a lawsuit against Chen Nuo's wife, Chen Nuos former wife, and his son, Chen Yong.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">At the same time, the Chens Group's legal team filed a lawsuit against Chen Nuo's wife, Chen Nuos former wife, and his son, Chen Yong.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="57" data-start="397245" data-end="406205">There was solid evidence showing that Chen Nuos former wife had been unfaithful during the marriage when she was young. DNA test results also proved that Chen Yong was not Chen Nuo's biological son.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="58" data-start="406205" data-end="414224">The process of the two murdering Chen Nuo in the hospital room was also recorded by a hidden camera Chen Nuo had arranged in advance, serving as ironclad evidence that destroyed them.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="59" data-start="414224" data-end="421799">The late Chairman Chen had specifically left a will revoking all their inheritance rights. After confirming the will and the chain of evidence, the court passed a verdict.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="60" data-start="421799" data-end="429766">Chen Yong was sentenced for intentional homicide and several other crimes. With the combined punishment for multiple offenses, what awaited him was a lifetime of prison tears.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="61" data-start="429766" data-end="434624">Two days later, a penniless Chen Nuos former wife found that her old lover's phone suddenly wouldn't go through.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="62" data-start="434624" data-end="441912">She rushed there by high-speed rail, only to learn the tragic news from nearby residents. The man had been struck and killed by a truck while going out at night.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The man had been struck and killed by a truck while going out at night.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="63" data-start="441912" data-end="446796">#2Returning to the small fishing village of yesteryear AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash</span> </p> | |
| </div> | |
| </section> | |
| <section class="chapter" id="chapter-1"> | |
| <h2 class="chapter-title">Chapter 2: Returning to the Small Fishing Village of the Past</h2> | |
| <div class="chapter-body"> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="64" data-start="446796" data-end="452412">Chapter 2: Returning to the Small Fishing Village of the Past. May 10th, 1985. Yuyue Village.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">May 10th, 1985.</p> | |
| <p class="para">Yuyue Village.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="65" data-start="452412" data-end="460196">Chen Nuo stood at the entrance of an old tiled house with a dazed expression, his gaze sweeping over the village that was both strange and familiar, his face filled with astonishment.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="66" data-start="460196" data-end="465185">What's going on? Reborn? Could it be that the Heavens took pity on him and gave him a chance to start over?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Reborn?</p> | |
| <p class="para">Could it be that the Heavens took pity on him and gave him a chance to start over?</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="67" data-start="465185" data-end="471140">"Third Brother, what are you looking at?" A small head with twin ponytails poked out from beside him, looking at him curiously.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">A small head with twin ponytails poked out from beside him, looking at him curiously.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="68" data-start="471140" data-end="478323">Chen Nuo turned his head to look at her in a daze, his eyes becoming somewhat blurred. He suddenly raised his hand and pinched the young girl's delicate cheek.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">He suddenly raised his hand and pinched the young girl's delicate cheek.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="69" data-start="478323" data-end="484670">"Ah!" The girl cried out in pain, clutching her face and turning her head to shout aggrievedly. "Mom, Third Brother is bullying me!</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The girl cried out in pain, clutching her face and turning her head to shout aggrievedly.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="70" data-start="484670" data-end="492585">He pinched my face, it hurts so much!" "It really isn't a dream?" Chen Nuo muttered to himself in a low voice, and then a look of wild joy appeared on his face.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"It really isn't a dream?"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="71" data-start="492585" data-end="497652">He picked up the girl and started spinning in circles at the doorway. "Ahhh... Third Brother, what are you doing?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="72" data-start="497652" data-end="507735">Put me down!" The girl's small feet kicked wildly in the air as she screamed in panic. "Hahaha... It's not a dream! I'm back, I'm fucking back!!!" Chen Nuo laughed out loud. "Mom, come save me!</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The girl's small feet kicked wildly in the air as she screamed in panic.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Hahaha... It's not a dream! I'm back, I'm fucking back!!!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo laughed out loud.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="73" data-start="507735" data-end="516198">Third Brother is possessed!" The girl became even more frightened. "Third Child, what are you doing? Put Youngest Sister down this instant!" A voice that he missed incredibly rang out.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The girl became even more frightened.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Third Child, what are you doing? Put Youngest Sister down this instant!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">A voice that he missed incredibly rang out.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="74" data-start="516198" data-end="522336">Chen Nuo put down his sister and looked at the figure that had appeared in his dreams countless times. His eyes immediately grew moist.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="75" data-start="522336" data-end="527116">After he reached middle age and passed forty, he had finally succeeded in building a career in Yangcheng.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="76" data-start="527116" data-end="535135">That year, he had prepared to return home in glory before the Spring Festival to take his parents to the big city to enjoy life together, or to help them build a house and buy a car in their</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="77" data-start="535135" data-end="538008">hometown—it would all be up to the two elders' choice.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="78" data-start="538008" data-end="546314">However, late one night about two or three months before the Spring Festival, a phone call from his Eldest Sister woke him from his sleep, delivering news that was like a bolt from the blue.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="79" data-start="546314" data-end="552635">His parents had gone out to sea to fish together in the early morning and hadn't returned by late night, and the wind and waves at sea were very strong.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="80" data-start="552635" data-end="559557">Chen Nuo hung up the phone and immediately went out, driving through the night back to his hometown, and followed the villagers out to sea to search for his parents.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="81" data-start="559557" data-end="564076">They searched for two full days and one night, but they couldn't even find his parents' small fishing boat.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="82" data-start="564076" data-end="571625">After returning to the village, he lost his temper at his Eldest Sister, Second Brother, and Youngest Sister, complaining that they hadn't taken good care of their parents.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="83" data-start="571625" data-end="575909">He clearly sent money back every month, so why did they still let their parents go out to sea?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="84" data-start="575909" data-end="582517">His Second Brother, who had always stayed in the rural hometown, also exploded at that time, questioning Chen Nuo on what he himself had done.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="85" data-start="582517" data-end="587558">Their parents had been industrious and frugal their whole lives; what was the use of just sending money every month?</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="86" data-start="587558" data-end="594872">How could they possibly just sit around and wait for death with a clear conscience? If he were truly filial to his parents, why hadn't he taken them there sooner?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">If he were truly filial to his parents, why hadn't he taken them there sooner?</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="87" data-start="594872" data-end="602316">The four siblings had a huge argument; emotions ran high, and the things they said to each other were very ugly. From that day on, a rift formed between them.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="88" data-start="602316" data-end="607618">Chen Nuo regretted it not long after and tried to mend the relationship many times, but it never had much effect.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="89" data-start="607618" data-end="613730">As his business grew larger, the class gap formed by wealth and status meant that visits between him and his relatives became fewer and fewer.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="90" data-start="613730" data-end="618562">Basically, it was only every Spring Festival that he would bring his wife and children back to his hometown.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="91" data-start="618562" data-end="625118">Until he was sixty-five and bedridden with a serious illness, including the cancer that had been detected long ago, Chen Nuo did not inform them.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="92" data-start="625118" data-end="634078">However, in the will he left behind, besides the assets used to establish a charitable foundation, he also left two million each for his Eldest Sister, Second Brother, and Youngest Sister.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="93" data-start="634078" data-end="641914">It wasn't that he was unwilling to give more. It was just that they had lived in the countryside their whole lives; suddenly receiving too much wealth might not necessarily be a good thing.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">It was just that they had lived in the countryside their whole lives; suddenly receiving too much wealth might not necessarily be a good thing.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="94" data-start="641914" data-end="650194">In the year 2025, two million was just enough to help them solve the economic difficulties of the younger generations in their families, yet not so much that they would lose themselves.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="95" data-start="650194" data-end="659206">As for his parents' passing, Chen Nuo had lived the rest of his life with regret. Until the last moment before his consciousness dissipated at death, his mother's voice and smile were in his mind.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="96" data-start="659206" data-end="667617">It was just that after all that time, he could no longer clearly remember his mother's face. But at this very moment, his mother, who was still alive, was right before his eyes.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">But at this very moment, his mother, who was still alive, was right before his eyes.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="97" data-start="667617" data-end="676263">"Mom!!" Chen Nuo forced back the tears swirling in his eyes and called out with a slightly trembling voice. Qian Guifen was stunned for a moment and looked him over with a somewhat strange gaze.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo forced back the tears swirling in his eyes and called out with a slightly trembling voice.</p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen was stunned for a moment and looked him over with a somewhat strange gaze.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="98" data-start="676263" data-end="681722">A mother's sixth sense made her feel as if something was different about her son. Could he really be possessed? "Um...</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Could he really be possessed?</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="99" data-start="681722" data-end="689872">I'm hungry." Chen Nuo also immediately realized that he was acting too abnormally. He quickly suppressed the fluctuating emotions in his heart and forcibly changed the subject.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo also immediately realized that he was acting too abnormally. He quickly suppressed the fluctuating emotions in his heart and forcibly changed the subject.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="100" data-start="689872" data-end="694887">"Didn't you just eat breakfast?" Qian Guifen looked at him with a puzzled expression. "I didn't eat my fill!</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen looked at him with a puzzled expression.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="101" data-start="694887" data-end="701966">Mom, make me something else to eat!" Chen Nuo put on a pitiful expression, using a tone that was a bit like a child acting spoiled toward his mother.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo put on a pitiful expression, using a tone that was a bit like a child acting spoiled toward his mother.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="102" data-start="701966" data-end="707112">Logically speaking, he now had the soul of a sixty-something-year-old; such behavior was slightly childish.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="103" data-start="707112" data-end="712728">But no matter how old he was, in front of his mother, he was always a child, and he was more than willing to be one.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="104" data-start="712728" data-end="717403">Then again, this kind of rascal-like behavior actually fit his personality from when he was young.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="105" data-start="717403" data-end="724900">"Then I'll go boil some noodles for you." Seeing her son return to normal, Qian Guifen didn't think much more of it. She turned around and headed straight for the kitchen.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Seeing her son return to normal, Qian Guifen didn't think much more of it. She turned around and headed straight for the kitchen.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="106" data-start="724900" data-end="731326">"Put in more clams!" Chen Nuo said loudly. clams were also known as flower clams. People from out of town called them 'huajia'.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo said loudly.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="107" data-start="731326" data-end="737830">After the tide receded, villagers would go to the beach to forage whenever they had free time. Digging for clams was the most common activity.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="108" data-start="737830" data-end="745614">They could be eaten after being kept in water for a night, and adding some when boiling noodles made them very fresh. "I know." Qian Guifen responded dotingly. "Ah!</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"I know."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen responded dotingly.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="109" data-start="745614" data-end="752092">Mom, you only know how to dote on Third Brother! I want to eat too!!" Youngest Sister shouted along sourly. "I know, I know.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Youngest Sister shouted along sourly.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="110" data-start="752092" data-end="757812">I must have owed you two in my past life." "Heehee..." "Hehe..." The brother and sister looked at each other and laughed foolishly.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Heehee..."</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Hehe..."</p> | |
| <p class="para">The brother and sister looked at each other and laughed foolishly.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="111" data-start="757812" data-end="766615">"Hmph!" The next second, Chen Xiuying gave a cold snort and turned her head away with her hands on her hips, clearly still angry from earlier. "Alright, don't be angry anymore.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The next second, Chen Xiuying gave a cold snort and turned her head away with her hands on her hips, clearly still angry from earlier.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="112" data-start="766615" data-end="774712">Big Brother was wrong." Chen Nuo smiled dotingly and raised his hand to rub her small head. At this time, the relationship between the two siblings was still extremely good.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo smiled dotingly and raised his hand to rub her small head.</p> | |
| <p class="para">At this time, the relationship between the two siblings was still extremely good.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="113" data-start="774712" data-end="782574">However, Youngest Sister and his wife from his previous life didn't get along at all. After he got married, his relationship with her had gradually drifted apart.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="114" data-start="782574" data-end="791403">As for his Eldest Sister and Second Brother, both of them had already started their own families. He was born in '60, so he was now just two or three months shy of being 25.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">He was born in '60, so he was now just two or three months shy of being 25.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="115" data-start="791403" data-end="797724">Eldest Sister Chen Xiulan was six years older than him and had married quite early; she had an eight-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="116" data-start="797724" data-end="802347">Second Brother Chen Jianping was three years older than him and had just gotten married the year before last.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="117" data-start="802347" data-end="810000">Their parents had spent money to build a new house for them, and they had a son over a year old. As for Youngest Sister Chen Xiuying, she had just turned 20 this year.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">As for Youngest Sister Chen Xiuying, she had just turned 20 this year.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="118" data-start="810000" data-end="814310">She had graduated from high school two years ago but hadn't passed the college entrance exam.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="119" data-start="814310" data-end="822042">Originally, she was very ambitious and wanted to repeat her studies to get into college and leave this small fishing village. But their parents' thinking was still quite old-fashioned.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="120" data-start="822042" data-end="829304">They felt that it was useless for a daughter to go to college and wanted her to stay home to help out and wait to get married. Of course, finances were also an issue.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Of course, finances were also an issue.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="121" data-start="829304" data-end="833953">The family had spent almost all their savings building the house for Second Brother's marriage two years ago.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="122" data-start="833953" data-end="840797">Moreover, because Second Sister-in-law had given birth, there were many places that required money, and they still had to supplement them from time to time.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="123" data-start="840797" data-end="849260">As long as the weather wasn't too bad, their father went out early and returned late to fish, but his income was limited, and there was truly no spare money to support their sister going to college.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="124" data-start="849260" data-end="852185">"Fine, I forgive you." Chen Xiuying smiled sweetly.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Xiuying smiled sweetly.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="125" data-start="852185" data-end="859055">Actually, she hadn't really been angry to begin with, and having Third Brother suddenly pick her up and spin her around just now had actually felt quite fun.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="126" data-start="859055" data-end="867858">"Third Brother, what was with you just now? Are you possessed? Should we go worship at the Mazu Temple?" Mazu is the sea goddess worshiped by the locals, originating in the Song Dynasty.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="127" data-start="867858" data-end="873866">Every village basically has a Mazu Temple. Whenever a family has a happy event or a difficult problem, they go to worship.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="128" data-start="873866" data-end="881075">"Get lost, you're the one who's possessed!" "Then why were you shouting about it not being a dream and that you're back? It was so weird." "You wouldn't understand.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Then why were you shouting about it not being a dream and that you're back? It was so weird."</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="129" data-start="881075" data-end="884862">I can't be bothered to tell you." "I wouldn't understand? You've got to be kidding.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="130" data-start="884862" data-end="892724">Don't forget that I'm the one with the highest education in this family!" #3On the matter of family imperial throne AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">#3On the matter of family imperial throne AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash</p> | |
| </div> | |
| </section> | |
| <section class="chapter" id="chapter-2"> | |
| <h2 class="chapter-title">Chapter 3: On the Subject of Family Status</h2> | |
| <div class="chapter-body"> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="131" data-start="892724" data-end="901292">Chapter 3: On the Subject of Family Status. The two siblings sat on a long bench, with a large and a small bowl of seafood noodles on the table in front of them, slurping happily.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The two siblings sat on a long bench, with a large and a small bowl of seafood noodles on the table in front of them, slurping happily.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="132" data-start="901292" data-end="908606">Taking a slurp of noodles, he then picked up a piece of clam and put it in his mouth, skillfully using his tongue and teeth to strip the meat off before spitting out the shell.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="133" data-start="908606" data-end="913308">The clam meat was plump, with a bouncy and fresh texture that was so delicious he simply couldn't stop.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="134" data-start="913308" data-end="922137">In his past life, when Chen Nuo left his hometown to work hard in the big cities, he had visited many noodle shops and restaurants for this clam noodle dish, but those clams were far inferior to the</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="135" data-start="922137" data-end="927805">ones from home. A few years later, the clams available were mostly farmed, and they no longer had the flavor he loved.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">A few years later, the clams available were mostly farmed, and they no longer had the flavor he loved.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="136" data-start="927805" data-end="933917">Of course, the most crucial part was the taste of his mother's cooking in this bowl of noodles, which he had truly missed for a long time.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="137" data-start="933917" data-end="942328">He had tasted all kinds of delicacies, but no gourmet dish could compare to this bowl of clam noodles at this moment. As he ate, Chen Nuo's eyes couldn't help but well up again.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">As he ate, Chen Nuo's eyes couldn't help but well up again.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="138" data-start="942328" data-end="949694">He hurriedly lowered his head to drink the soup, trying to hide his emotions, only to end up scalding himself. "You silly child, why are you in such a rush?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="139" data-start="949694" data-end="957138">Eat slowly!" Sitting opposite him, his mother scolded him with a stern face and an annoyed tone. His mother was the type to have a sharp tongue but a soft heart;</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Sitting opposite him, his mother scolded him with a stern face and an annoyed tone.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="140" data-start="957138" data-end="964034">of the four siblings, Chen Nuo, the youngest son, was her favorite. Chen Nuo gave a sheepish smile and praised, "I can't help it.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="141" data-start="964034" data-end="970512">Who told you to make such delicious noodles, Mom?" With just a simple sentence, Qian Guifen immediately beamed with joy. "Heehee...</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">With just a simple sentence, Qian Guifen immediately beamed with joy.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="142" data-start="970512" data-end="979080">Third Brother, since when did you become so good at making Mom happy?" Chen Xiuying looked at him with a beaming smile. "Really? I'm being serious!" Chen Nuo said with a straight face.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Xiuying looked at him with a beaming smile.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Really? I'm being serious!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo said with a straight face.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="143" data-start="979080" data-end="986968">Chen Xiuying curled her lip in disdain, then immediately felt a dangerous aura coming from across the table. She shrunk her head back and looked at her mother timidly. "What?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="144" data-start="986968" data-end="993446">Youngest Sister, do you think the noodles I cooked aren't good?" Qian Guifen asked with a cold face. "No, no, of course not.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen asked with a cold face.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="145" data-start="993446" data-end="1001491">Mom, the noodles you make are the best." Chen Xiuying shook her head like a rattle, wearing a flattering smile. "Hmph, no need to try and please me.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Xiuying shook her head like a rattle, wearing a flattering smile.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="146" data-start="1001491" data-end="1009797">If you think they're not good, give them all to your brother, and I won't cook for you in the future." "Don't! I was wrong!" "I wouldn't mind eating two bowls." Chen Nuo grinned.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Don't! I was wrong!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">"I wouldn't mind eating two bowls."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo grinned.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="147" data-start="1009797" data-end="1018391">"You're such a pig!" Chen Xiuying glared at him. "I think you're the pig—as stupid as one!" "Mom, listen to him! Look how Third Brother is talking!" "He's not wrong!" "Aaaaah...</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Xiuying glared at him.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"I think you're the pig—as stupid as one!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Mom, listen to him! Look how Third Brother is talking!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">"He's not wrong!"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="148" data-start="1018391" data-end="1026828">You're all bullying me! I can't stay in this house anymore!" "Then hurry up and find someone to marry." Qian Guifen said indifferently. Chen Xiuying felt like she'd been struck by lightning.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Then hurry up and find someone to marry."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen said indifferently.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="149" data-start="1026828" data-end="1032914">Her head slumped, and the seafood noodles that had tasted so good suddenly lost their flavor. "Mom, Youngest Sister is still young.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="150" data-start="1032914" data-end="1040567">Don't say things like that." Chen Nuo suddenly spoke up to defend his sister. He knew his mother wasn't joking; she really did want to marry Youngest Sister off.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo suddenly spoke up to defend his sister.</p> | |
| <p class="para">He knew his mother wasn't joking; she really did want to marry Youngest Sister off.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="151" data-start="1040567" data-end="1046993">In the countryside these days, people generally married very early. If a twenty-year-old girl wasn't in school, many were already married.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="152" data-start="1046993" data-end="1055143">Only he knew that his sister's marriage would not be a happy one. Longing for university and the big city, she would eventually buckle under her parents' pressure to marry in two years.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="153" data-start="1055143" data-end="1061072">She would marry an ordinary farmer from the neighboring village, never realizing her dream of leaving the countryside for the rest of her life.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="154" data-start="1061072" data-end="1067289">Chen Xiuying looked at him in surprise, clearly not expecting her third brother to speak up for her. "Young? She's already twenty.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="155" data-start="1067289" data-end="1072330">Your Eldest Sister only failed to marry into a good family because she married late." Qian Guifen frowned.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen frowned.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="156" data-start="1072330" data-end="1081316">"Mom, is it possible that Eldest Sister married too hastily?" Chen Nuo countered with a helpless expression. His Eldest Sister looked like their mother, but her personality was far too gentle;</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo countered with a helpless expression.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="157" data-start="1081316" data-end="1089152">she was almost entirely submissive to their parents. Because of this, when she was only twenty-two, she had hurriedly entered a haphazard marriage under their parents' urging.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Because of this, when she was only twenty-two, she had hurriedly entered a haphazard marriage under their parents' urging.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="158" data-start="1089152" data-end="1095943">After the wedding, the brother-in-law, whom the matchmaker had praised to the skies and who seemed honest and hardworking, gradually revealed his true nature.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="159" data-start="1095943" data-end="1104798">Setting aside his stinginess and obsession with money, he was extremely chauvinistic. Eldest Sister not only had to care for two children but was also responsible for almost all the housework.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="160" data-start="1104798" data-end="1113209">A few years ago, Chen Nuo had visited and seen his pregnant Eldest Sister working in the fields alone, with her two- or three-year-old daughter sitting by the field, while that brother-in-law was</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="161" data-start="1113209" data-end="1122169">actually playing cards with others. If Eldest Sister hadn't stopped him that day, he definitely would have given that bastard a severe beating. Chen Nuo had always felt sorry for his Eldest Sister.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">If Eldest Sister hadn't stopped him that day, he definitely would have given that bastard a severe beating.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="162" data-start="1122169" data-end="1129013">In his past life, after he went out and made money, he had returned and tried to persuade her to get a divorce, offering to help arrange things for her.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="163" data-start="1129013" data-end="1137215">But his Eldest Sister had refused and told him never to mention it again. She was a very traditional woman who firmly believed that this was her fate, and she was willing to accept it.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">She was a very traditional woman who firmly believed that this was her fate, and she was willing to accept it.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="164" data-start="1137215" data-end="1143536">In her view, her husband was at least willing to work and earn money, which was much better than many men who did nothing but drink and beat their wives.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="165" data-start="1143536" data-end="1149988">As long as they could get by and she could slowly raise her two children to adulthood, she felt that no matter how tired she was, it was worth it.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="166" data-start="1149988" data-end="1157223">"By saying that, are you blaming your father and me?" Qian Guifen's brow furrowed deeply. Seeing his mother's expression, Chen Xiuying immediately panicked.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen's brow furrowed deeply.</p> | |
| <p class="para">Seeing his mother's expression, Chen Xiuying immediately panicked.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="167" data-start="1157223" data-end="1163753">Their father was a man of few words and very honest; their mother had always been the head of the household, and the siblings had grown up fearing her more.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="168" data-start="1163753" data-end="1170022">"Mom, I'm saying you really shouldn't rush the marriage. Doesn't Youngest Sister want to repeat her studies for the university entrance exam?</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="169" data-start="1170022" data-end="1179582">I think that path would be better for her." Chen Nuo said calmly. Chen Xiuying's eyes lit up, and she looked at her mother with anticipation. "You make it sound easy. How much does university cost?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo said calmly.</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Xiuying's eyes lit up, and she looked at her mother with anticipation.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="170" data-start="1179582" data-end="1185590">Besides, she doesn't have the ability; if she could have passed, she would have passed long ago." "Mom, I can pass!</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="171" data-start="1185590" data-end="1191990">The year before last, I wasn't feeling well, so I didn't perform as well as I should have." Chen Xiuying defended herself indignantly.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Xiuying defended herself indignantly.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="172" data-start="1191990" data-end="1201185">During the college entrance exam, it happened to be those few days when her 'period' arrived, which caused her—whose mock exam results were usually good enough for university—to ultimately fail.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="173" data-start="1201185" data-end="1208264">"If you didn't pass, you didn't pass. The family doesn't have the money for you to go to university anyway." "Mom, I'll find a way to handle the money.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="174" data-start="1208264" data-end="1215264">Let Youngest Sister go back to repeat her studies this September!" "Brother..." Chen Xiuying looked at her third brother in surprise, her heart deeply moved.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Brother..."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Xiuying looked at her third brother in surprise, her heart deeply moved.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="175" data-start="1215264" data-end="1220305">"What way could you possibly have?" Qian Guifen looked at him with a face full of disbelief. "Don't worry about that.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen looked at him with a face full of disbelief.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="176" data-start="1220305" data-end="1227462">Regardless, I'll definitely be able to provide the money when the time comes." After saying that, Chen Nuo picked up his bowl and drank the noodle soup.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">After saying that, Chen Nuo picked up his bowl and drank the noodle soup.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="177" data-start="1227462" data-end="1233078">"Since you're so concerned about her affairs, why don't you hurry up and get your own wedding settled? You're already twenty-five!</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="178" data-start="1233078" data-end="1240444">Who in the village your age isn't married yet?" "Mom, here you go again. After you're done nagging my sister, you're nagging me, right?" "What do you mean?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Mom, here you go again. After you're done nagging my sister, you're nagging me, right?"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="179" data-start="1240444" data-end="1249012">You agreed to it before!" Qian Guifen's expression became serious. She had put in a lot of effort and finally found a matchmaker to introduce a pretty girl from her side of the family.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen's expression became serious.</p> | |
| <p class="para">She had put in a lot of effort and finally found a matchmaker to introduce a pretty girl from her side of the family.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="180" data-start="1249012" data-end="1256639">Her son had already met the girl, and in the past few days, under the persuasion of both parents, he had agreed to the marriage. "Did I agree? I don't remember.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="181" data-start="1256639" data-end="1265181">Regardless, I'm not going through with this marriage." Chen Nuo said in a firm tone. "You..." Qian Guifen was so angry she couldn't speak. She got up and walked quickly to her room.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo said in a firm tone.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"You..."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen was so angry she couldn't speak. She got up and walked quickly to her room.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="182" data-start="1265181" data-end="1273226">After a moment, she returned with a cloth bundle and threw it in front of Chen Nuo. "There's 650 yuan in here. It's the money your father and I saved for your wedding.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="183" data-start="1273226" data-end="1279495">Take it to the Town and buy everything you need. Tomorrow, your father and I will take you to Qianjia Village to present the betrothal gifts.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="184" data-start="1279495" data-end="1285764">You're getting married whether you like it or not." "I don't want it!" "Take it!!!" Qian Guifen shouted sharply. Both siblings trembled.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"I don't want it!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Take it!!!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Qian Guifen shouted sharply.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="185" data-start="1285764" data-end="1293026">Chen Nuo picked up the cloth-wrapped money from the table and stuffed it into his pocket. He couldn't help it; their fear of their mother was etched into their bones.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">He couldn't help it; their fear of their mother was etched into their bones.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="186" data-start="1293026" data-end="1300157">However, while he took the money, he certainly wasn't going to buy gifts for a proposal. What a joke. He had taken this wrong step in his past life;</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="187" data-start="1300157" data-end="1308463">how could he possibly repeat the same mistake in this one? A woman like Chen Nuos former wife—whoever wanted her could have her. He was absolutely not going to be a cuckold again.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">A woman like Chen Nuos former wife—whoever wanted her could have her. He was absolutely not going to be a cuckold again.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="188" data-start="1308463" data-end="1315228">It just so happened that he had other uses for this sum of money. #4That treasure girl AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">#4That treasure girl AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash</p> | |
| </div> | |
| </section> | |
| <section class="chapter" id="chapter-3"> | |
| <h2 class="chapter-title">Chapter 4: That Treasure of a Girl</h2> | |
| <div class="chapter-body"> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="189" data-start="1315228" data-end="1322751">Chapter 4: That Treasure of a Girl. By the seaside in May, the temperature was warm but not hot, and the constant breeze from the sea felt very comfortable.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">By the seaside in May, the temperature was warm but not hot, and the constant breeze from the sea felt very comfortable.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="190" data-start="1322751" data-end="1325937">Chen Nuo strolled through the village with a faint smile on his face.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="191" data-start="1325937" data-end="1331762">The memories in his mind were gradually merging, giving him a sense of both familiarity and strangeness towards everything he saw.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="192" data-start="1331762" data-end="1339703">In a few years, after the nineties, the coastal areas would develop rapidly. Every time he returned home for the holidays, the village would have changed significantly.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="193" data-start="1339703" data-end="1346338">The dilapidated brick and tile houses, and even the mud-brick houses before him, would gradually disappear, replaced by high-rise buildings.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="194" data-start="1346338" data-end="1350386">The roads would evolve from the current mud and dirt to gravel, and eventually to cement.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="195" data-start="1350386" data-end="1355166">One year when he returned to the village, he had even donated money to repair the roads and the ancestral hall.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="196" data-start="1355166" data-end="1361095">For some reason, compared to the modernized village of the future, Chen Nuo preferred this slightly dilapidated little fishing village.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="197" data-start="1361095" data-end="1365979">Walking toward the northwest, the terrain became higher, and the villagers' houses grew more densely packed.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="198" data-start="1365979" data-end="1371151">In the summer, typhoons often caused waves at sea, and every year, some villagers' houses would be flooded.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="199" data-start="1371151" data-end="1376218">Therefore, when the villagers built new houses now, they would choose locations with higher ground whenever possible.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="200" data-start="1376218" data-end="1383035">The old house where Chen Nuo currently lived was close to the sea and on low ground. Every summer when the weather turned bad, his family would worry.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="201" data-start="1383035" data-end="1388337">Once things looked wrong, the whole family would quickly move their important belongings out and take refuge on higher ground.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="202" data-start="1388337" data-end="1396696">In his previous life, after Chen Nuo went out and earned his first pot of gold, he came back to build a new two-story house for his parents, right next to his second brother's current home.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="203" data-start="1396696" data-end="1403722">Just then, a graceful figure not far ahead caught Chen Nuo's attention, pulling him back from his drifting thoughts. The girl was about twenty years old.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="204" data-start="1403722" data-end="1410879">She was sitting on a small stool in front of a mud-brick house, head lowered as she scrubbed laundry. Her beautiful black hair was tied into two simple braids.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="205" data-start="1410879" data-end="1416808">From the side, she looked a bit like the Queen of Women's Kingdom from Journey to the West, who would soon become famous across the country.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="206" data-start="1416808" data-end="1422058">Chen Nuo had seen countless beauties, even from various countries around the world, and had been with many women.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="207" data-start="1422058" data-end="1430443">However, compared to those beauties who were instantly stunning, the beauty of the girl before him was a pure and moving kind that returned to nature, a quiet and elegant beauty like a long-flowing</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="208" data-start="1430443" data-end="1436242">stream. Without exquisite makeup or magnificent clothes, she was the most beautiful scenery in Chen Nuo's eyes.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Without exquisite makeup or magnificent clothes, she was the most beautiful scenery in Chen Nuo's eyes.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="209" data-start="1436242" data-end="1444705">Chen Nuo subconsciously stopped in his tracks, quietly watching the girl, an unknown guilt hidden in his complex gaze. As if sensing his gaze, the girl looked up at Chen Nuo.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">As if sensing his gaze, the girl looked up at Chen Nuo.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="210" data-start="1444705" data-end="1449198">After a brief moment of surprise, the girl gave him a sweet smile as bright as summer flowers.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="211" data-start="1449198" data-end="1456303">"Chen Nuo, why are you here?" "I missed you, so I came to see you!" Chen Nuo suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and replied with a smile.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"I missed you, so I came to see you!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and replied with a smile.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="212" data-start="1456303" data-end="1464479">The girl's name was Li Yuzhi, the woman who had caused him a lifetime of regret in his previous life. The two were classmates in middle school and had even been desk mates for a year.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="213" data-start="1464479" data-end="1468710">Back then, youth was vibrant and carefree, and they had shared many beautiful memories.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="214" data-start="1468710" data-end="1474300">Girls often mature earlier than boys and pay attention to their feelings sooner, while most boys are still ignorant and slow.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="215" data-start="1474300" data-end="1479968">In his previous life, Chen Nuo didn't know until he got married that such a girl had been secretly in love with him for many years.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="216" data-start="1479968" data-end="1488039">It wasn't until two or three years after his marriage that Li Yuzhi was also arranged to go on blind dates. However, fate seemed to be deliberately playing tricks on this girl.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="217" data-start="1488039" data-end="1492662">She got engaged twice, and both times the groom-to-be died in a bizarre accident shortly after.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="218" data-start="1492662" data-end="1497990">One was stabbed several times on the street for unknown reasons, and the other was said to have died from electrocution.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="219" data-start="1497990" data-end="1502561">Precisely because of these two accidents, some bad rumors about her began to spread in the village.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="220" data-start="1502561" data-end="1510136">Right then, one of Li Yuzhi's fair-weather friends stabbed her in the back, revealing an abnormality in her body. Most of the villagers were uneducated and ignorant.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Most of the villagers were uneducated and ignorant.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="221" data-start="1510136" data-end="1516953">Soon, Li Yuzhi became known throughout the nearby villages as the "husband-cursing White Tiger woman," and no one dared to get engaged to her again.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="222" data-start="1516953" data-end="1522543">Additionally, Li Yuzhi had been an abandoned orphan since childhood and was adopted by a widow in the village, Li Sufen.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="223" data-start="1522543" data-end="1527584">The villagers thought it was too much of a coincidence and gradually began to view both mother and daughter as jinxes.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="224" data-start="1527584" data-end="1532599">Some of the more extreme villagers even suggested driving them out of the village and committed some disgusting acts.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="225" data-start="1532599" data-end="1541141">For example, they fabricated rumors about the mother and daughter, destroyed the crops they had just planted, and threw manure on their house at night. Li Sufen was a strong-willed woman.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="226" data-start="1541141" data-end="1549447">Even under those circumstances, she did her best to protect Li Yuzhi. However, they were just a lone girl and a widow, after all, and lacked the strength to resist it all.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">However, they were just a lone girl and a widow, after all, and lacked the strength to resist it all.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="227" data-start="1549447" data-end="1556526">In the end, Li Yuzhi became disheartened. Not wanting to burden her adoptive mother any longer, she went out one night and threw herself into the river.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="228" data-start="1556526" data-end="1565015">At that time, Chen Nuo had just gone far away to work. He only learned of this tragic news when he returned to his hometown before the Spring Festival. He went to see Li Sufen.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">He went to see Li Sufen.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="229" data-start="1565015" data-end="1569063">Li Sufen looked like she had aged over a decade by then and was seriously ill in bed.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="230" data-start="1569063" data-end="1576298">She beckoned him to sit by her bedside, told him that her daughter had always secretly loved him, and gave him several diaries that Li Yuzhi had insisted on writing.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="231" data-start="1576298" data-end="1583847">After reading those diary entries, which were almost all about him, Chen Nuo wept silently, his heart feeling as if it had been pierced by countless sharp knives.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="232" data-start="1583847" data-end="1591762">A few days later, Li Sufen also passed away. Disregarding his family's opposition, Chen Nuo paid to help with the funeral and had the mother and daughter buried together.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Disregarding his family's opposition, Chen Nuo paid to help with the funeral and had the mother and daughter buried together.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="233" data-start="1591762" data-end="1599520">He also intentionally spread the word that the mother and daughter had been driven to their deaths, and if anyone dared to do anything disgusting again, he would pursue it to the end and make them</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="234" data-start="1599520" data-end="1602393">pay the price. Li Yuzhi's matter became his inner demon.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="235" data-start="1602393" data-end="1609028">Later, when he learned he had cancer, even though he had plenty of money, he didn't think about getting cured, believing it was his retribution.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="236" data-start="1609028" data-end="1615245">Then, after learning of his wife's betrayal, his heart completely turned to ash, and he even began to look forward to his own death.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="237" data-start="1615245" data-end="1623186">Starting from scratch and earning a net worth of tens of billions, whether it was the attraction of wealth and status or his own personal charm, he never lacked women throwing themselves at him.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="238" data-start="1623186" data-end="1631022">He began to indulge himself. While accepting those women, he played the part of a foolish cuckold in front of Chen Nuos former wife, while secretly arranging everything.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="239" data-start="1631022" data-end="1638519">In short, the starting point of his failed life was marrying Chen Nuos former wife. All of this can still be changed! "You... what are you saying? I...</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">All of this can still be changed!</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="240" data-start="1638519" data-end="1644866">what's there to look at?" Li Yuzhi lowered her head in a panic, her cheeks instantly flushing red, and she even stuttered as she spoke.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Li Yuzhi lowered her head in a panic, her cheeks instantly flushing red, and she even stuttered as she spoke.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="241" data-start="1644866" data-end="1652598">"You're just very good-looking!" Chen Nuo walked over with a playful smile, thinking the girl before him was just too cute. In his previous life, he must have been blind.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo walked over with a playful smile, thinking the girl before him was just too cute.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="242" data-start="1652598" data-end="1659050">Such a wonderful treasure of a girl was secretly in love with him, and he had no idea! "You... Chen Nuo, you're so strange today.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="243" data-start="1659050" data-end="1668427">I heard you went on a blind date." Li Yuzhi looked up at him, a trace of resentment flashing in her clear, bright eyes. "Yeah, my parents forced me to go, but I didn't take an interest in her.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Li Yuzhi looked up at him, a trace of resentment flashing in her clear, bright eyes.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="244" data-start="1668427" data-end="1674121">She's not as pretty as you, nor as virtuous." Chen Nuo said with a light laugh. How could Li Yuzhi withstand this?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo said with a light laugh.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="245" data-start="1674121" data-end="1682845">Her pretty face turned even redder, like a ripe apple in late autumn, and her heart pounded like a rabbit. "You... don't talk nonsense." "I'm not talking nonsense, I'm serious.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"You... don't talk nonsense."</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="246" data-start="1682845" data-end="1691883">Let me ask you, are you willing to marry me? No bride price, and for now, no car or house!" #5A cheat code appeared AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash</span> </p> | |
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| </section> | |
| <section class="chapter" id="chapter-4"> | |
| <h2 class="chapter-title">Chapter 5: The Golden Finger Appears</h2> | |
| <div class="chapter-body"> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="247" data-start="1691883" data-end="1699223">Chapter 5: The Golden Finger Appears. The sudden proposal almost made Li Yuzhi's brain short-circuit. "Um... you can take some time to think about it.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">The sudden proposal almost made Li Yuzhi's brain short-circuit.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="248" data-start="1699223" data-end="1706040">My mom has been nagging me to propose to her, but I don't like her. I'd much rather marry you." Chen Nuo said with a slightly awkward expression.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo said with a slightly awkward expression.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="249" data-start="1706040" data-end="1710742">In his previous life, his marriage to Chen Nuos former wife had been mostly arranged by their parents.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="250" data-start="1710742" data-end="1719205">Later, women had always thrown themselves at him, so he was actually a complete novice when it came to chasing girls. Then again, chasing girls these days didn't require much technique;</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="251" data-start="1719205" data-end="1727459">sincerity was more effective. Back then, "honest man" wasn't a derogatory term. "You... I..." Li Yuzhi's entire face turned so red it looked like it might bleed.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Back then, "honest man" wasn't a derogatory term.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"You... I..."</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="252" data-start="1727459" data-end="1736758">Her mind was buzzing, and she was incoherent. "Talk it over with your mom in a bit. I'm heading out now, but I'll be back tomorrow." Chen Nuo dropped those words and then fled as if he were escaping.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Talk it over with your mom in a bit. I'm heading out now, but I'll be back tomorrow."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo dropped those words and then fled as if he were escaping.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="253" data-start="1736758" data-end="1741590">Even though he was an old monster living his second life, his heart was currently in a state of utter panic.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="254" data-start="1741590" data-end="1748068">"Chen Nuo!!" After a brief moment of shock, Li Yuzhi stood up and called out, both embarrassed and anxious. Chen Nuo didn't stop.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">After a brief moment of shock, Li Yuzhi stood up and called out, both embarrassed and anxious.</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo didn't stop.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="255" data-start="1748068" data-end="1757654">Staring blankly as he disappeared from view, the girl stomped her foot shyly. "What's wrong with him? I haven't even answered yet!" "Pfft!" A second later, she couldn't help but beam with joy.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"What's wrong with him? I haven't even answered yet!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Pfft!"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="256" data-start="1757654" data-end="1765464">She reached up to pull her braid forward, stroking it while looking off in another direction. Her mother was working in the fields, and she couldn't wait to discuss this with her.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Her mother was working in the fields, and she couldn't wait to discuss this with her.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="257" data-start="1765464" data-end="1771942">Meanwhile, feeling socially dead, Chen Nuo raised his hands and patted his face. He looked up at the azure sky and smiled happily.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="258" data-start="1771942" data-end="1777323">He now had the chance to make up for all the regrets of his past life. It would all start with this treasure of a girl.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">It would all start with this treasure of a girl.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="259" data-start="1777323" data-end="1783723">In this lifetime, he would do everything in his power to make it up to her and protect her. "Brother!" "Ah Nuo!" Two voices called out.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Brother!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Ah Nuo!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Two voices called out.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="260" data-start="1783723" data-end="1788529">Chen Nuo looked toward the sound and saw two young men carrying buckets and hand nets walking quickly toward him.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="261" data-start="1788529" data-end="1797515">"Ah Qiang, Fat Cook, are you guys going beachcombing?" Both were his good friends and childhood companions. The fat guy on the left, a rare sight in these times, was named Wang Fugui.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="262" data-start="1797515" data-end="1803888">His father was the village's banquet chef; whenever anyone had a wedding or a funeral, they sought out his father to take charge of the kitchen.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="263" data-start="1803888" data-end="1811541">Perhaps because he had been influenced by what he saw and heard since childhood, his own cooking skills were quite good, which was how Chen Nuo and the others had given him that nickname.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="264" data-start="1811541" data-end="1820501">The thin, dark-skinned one on the right was named Chen Qiang. He was also his cousin from his second uncle's family, two years younger than him. "Yeah, we just heard the tide is out.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="265" data-start="1820501" data-end="1828442">A lot of people have gone to the beach. We're going to try our luck and get some clams, razor clams, and such to go with our drinks." Wang Fugui replied with a grin.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Wang Fugui replied with a grin.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="266" data-start="1828442" data-end="1833483">"Brother, come with us!" Chen Qiang invited him with a smile. "Sure!" Chen Nuo readily agreed.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Qiang invited him with a smile.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Sure!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo readily agreed.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="267" data-start="1833483" data-end="1838681">In his previous life, he had chosen to seek his fortune in Yangcheng, while these two friends had stayed in the village.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="268" data-start="1838681" data-end="1847954">After Wang Fugui got married, he followed in his father's footsteps and took over the job of banquet chef. Chen Qiang later went to work on a ship; it was hard work, but he earned a decent amount.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Qiang later went to work on a ship; it was hard work, but he earned a decent amount.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="269" data-start="1847954" data-end="1854380">Every Spring Festival when Chen Nuo returned to his hometown, he would have a few drinks with them, and their relationship had always remained strong.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="270" data-start="1854380" data-end="1860440">The two often said they envied his success and how he had become a big boss, not knowing that he envied their stable and happy lives even more.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="271" data-start="1860440" data-end="1863522">The three of them chatted and laughed as they walked toward the seaside.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="272" data-start="1863522" data-end="1871437">"Brother, I heard Auntie introduced a girl to you and you're planning to get married?" Chen Qiang asked curiously, his tone tinged with a bit of envy. "Have you met her?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Qiang asked curiously, his tone tinged with a bit of envy.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="273" data-start="1871437" data-end="1881441">Is she pretty?" Wang Fugui followed up excitedly. "I met her, but I don't plan on marrying her. I already have someone I like." Chen Nuo replied with a smile. "Huh? Who?" "Someone from our village?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Wang Fugui followed up excitedly.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"I met her, but I don't plan on marrying her. I already have someone I like."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo replied with a smile.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Huh? Who?"</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="274" data-start="1881441" data-end="1888885">Since when?" Their eyes lit up, and their expressions were excited. "Why ask so much? You'll find out when the time comes." Chen Nuo said with a smile.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Their eyes lit up, and their expressions were excited.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Why ask so much? You'll find out when the time comes."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo said with a smile.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="275" data-start="1888885" data-end="1897792">"Don't be like that, Brother, tell us!" "Exactly! What's our relationship? Is there any need to keep it a secret?" Both their curiosities were piqued. "Let's not talk about that for now.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Exactly! What's our relationship? Is there any need to keep it a secret?"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Both their curiosities were piqued.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="276" data-start="1897792" data-end="1905498">Do you guys know if anyone in the village wants to sell a fishing boat?" Chen Nuo changed the subject. In this life, he didn't plan to go out and struggle anymore.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo changed the subject.</p> | |
| <p class="para">In this life, he didn't plan to go out and struggle anymore.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="277" data-start="1905498" data-end="1913883">That failed life, which felt like a fleeting dream, had made him realize what was truly worth cherishing. Money was indeed a good thing, but the family around him was more important.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Money was indeed a good thing, but the family around him was more important.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="278" data-start="1913883" data-end="1920100">Moreover, he now had the advantage of decades of foresight. Even if he stayed in this rural village, he had ways to earn enough money.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="279" data-start="1920100" data-end="1927466">Live off the mountains if you're near them, and live off the sea if you're near it! As long as people by the sea were industrious, they wouldn't lack food or drink.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">As long as people by the sea were industrious, they wouldn't lack food or drink.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="280" data-start="1927466" data-end="1932507">If they were a bit more clever, their chances of striking it rich were much higher than going out to seek their fortune.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="281" data-start="1932507" data-end="1939455">Even now, in several nearby villages, people had become ten-thousand-yuan households by buying boats to go fishing or running seafood-related businesses.</span> <span class="chunk" data-idx="282" data-start="1939455" data-end="1944966">Several examples had even appeared in the newspapers. There were even more people who made money and kept a low profile.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">There were even more people who made money and kept a low profile.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="283" data-start="1944966" data-end="1953351">Every time he came back for the New Year in his previous life, he often heard about whose family had upgraded to a larger boat, who had bought a car, or who had bought a luxury home in the city.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="284" data-start="1953351" data-end="1962519">So, in this life, he planned to be a down-to-earth fisherman and rely on hard work to earn his first pot of gold. After the 1990s, he would catch those few opportunities for sudden wealth.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">After the 1990s, he would catch those few opportunities for sudden wealth.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="285" data-start="1962519" data-end="1971583">For instance, the subscription certificates of '92, real estate which rose continuously for nearly thirty years, Bitcoin born in '09, as well as stocks like Moutai and Tencent.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="286" data-start="1971583" data-end="1980125">As long as he had the capital to enter the market, there were too many opportunities for him to easily achieve financial freedom. There was no need to spend effort and time running a business.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="287" data-start="1980125" data-end="1987308">"Brother, you want to buy a boat? Doesn't your family already have one?" Chen Qiang asked in surprise. Chen Nuo's family did have a small boat.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Qiang asked in surprise.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="288" data-start="1987308" data-end="1995484">Currently, his father and second brother were using it together. They went out to sea every morning to fish, and the catch was split fifty-fifty between his parents and his second brother.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="289" data-start="1995484" data-end="2003294">"Since I'm getting married soon, I'll need to support my own family. I'm planning to buy a boat and go out to sea to fish as well." Chen Nuo replied with a smile.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Nuo replied with a smile.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="290" data-start="2003294" data-end="2010242">"Then at least tell us who you're marrying!" Fat Cook rolled his eyes. "Don't worry about that for now. Tell me about the boat first." "I don't know.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">Fat Cook rolled his eyes.</p> | |
| <p class="para">"Don't worry about that for now. Tell me about the boat first."</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="291" data-start="2010242" data-end="2019097">I'm not planning to buy a boat, so why would I care about that?" "Ah Qiang, what about you?" "I don't know either. I'll have to ask around." Chen Qiang said, scratching his head.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Ah Qiang, what about you?"</p> | |
| <p class="para">"I don't know either. I'll have to ask around."</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Qiang said, scratching his head.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="292" data-start="2019097" data-end="2024399">"Then both of you help me ask around." "Sure!" Before long, the three of them arrived at the sandy beach.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Sure!"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Before long, the three of them arrived at the sandy beach.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="293" data-start="2024399" data-end="2033776">Looking out, people were busy everywhere on the beach, digging for clams, prying oysters, picking up spicy snails and shellfish, and so on. Some even had their entire families working together.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="294" data-start="2033776" data-end="2040985">Beachcombing times follow a pattern. Generally, there are two high tides and two low tides every day. The best time for beachcombing is during low tide;</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="295" data-start="2040985" data-end="2046287">the lower the tide recedes, the more of the beach is exposed, and naturally, the more seafood can be gathered.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="296" data-start="2046287" data-end="2052112">Today happened to be the 15th day of the 4th lunar month, a day of a spring tide, and also the golden time for beachcombing.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="297" data-start="2052112" data-end="2061176">On the 1st and 15th of every lunar month, as well as during solar terms like the Spring Equinox, Autumnal Equinox, Summer Solstice, and Winter Solstice, there are spring tides.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="298" data-start="2061176" data-end="2068542">Spring and summer are also the more suitable seasons for beachcombing. Fat Cook and Chen Qiang immediately started working, looking down for air holes in the sand.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="299" data-start="2068542" data-end="2076796">Usually, there would be clams or razor clams underneath. "Brother, what are you standing there for?" Chen Qiang looked in surprise at Chen Nuo, who was standing there in a daze.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">"Brother, what are you standing there for?"</p> | |
| <p class="para">Chen Qiang looked in surprise at Chen Nuo, who was standing there in a daze.</p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="300" data-start="2076796" data-end="2081916">Chen Nuo looked as if he had seen a ghost. His eyes were slightly wide, and his face was full of shock.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="301" data-start="2081916" data-end="2086487">His eyes seemed to be looking at the distant sea, but in reality, they weren't focused on anything.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="302" data-start="2086487" data-end="2091398">In Chen Nuo's field of vision, various color distribution maps appeared, similar to a lottery wheel.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="303" data-start="2091398" data-end="2096021">Most areas were white, some were green or blue, and there were very small portions of gray and red.</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="304" data-start="2096021" data-end="2103596">As he slowly turned his head, the color distribution map changed accordingly, with each color always corresponding to a specific direction. "What on earth is this?</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para"><span class="chunk" data-idx="305" data-start="2103596" data-end="2109290">A Golden Finger?" #6I accidentally tricked the fat chef. AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash</span> </p> | |
| <p class="para">#6I accidentally tricked the fat chef. AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash</p> | |
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| var CHUNKS = [{"idx": 0, "cIdx": 0, "text": "#1A failed life AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash Chapter 1: A Failed Life. \"Mom, why hasn't this Old fellow kicked the bucket yet? Surely he won't pull through, right?", "start": 0, "end": 9508}, {"idx": 1, "cIdx": 0, "text": "How much longer do we have to wait to inherit his fortune!\" \"Keep your voice down, are you crazy?\" \"What's there to be afraid of?", "start": 9508, "end": 15646}, {"idx": 2, "cIdx": 0, "text": "There's no one else here, and this Old fellow can't hear us anyway.\" \"Stop calling him 'Old fellow' every other word. He's still your father, after all!\" \"Heh! My father?", "start": 15646, "end": 24292}, {"idx": 3, "cIdx": 0, "text": "Mom, it's already come to this, and you're still acting like I don't know anything? He's not my biological father at all.\" \"You... how do you know?\" The woman's tone became panicked and uneasy.", "start": 24292, "end": 33304}, {"idx": 4, "cIdx": 0, "text": "She was over sixty years old, but the massive amounts of money she spent every year on her appearance and body made her look over a decade younger, exuding the aura of a pampered noblewoman.", "start": 33304, "end": 41741}, {"idx": 5, "cIdx": 0, "text": "Neither of them noticed that on the heart rate monitor beside the hospital bed, the previously steady and slow electrocardiogram began to fluctuate violently.", "start": 41741, "end": 48872}, {"idx": 6, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"This Old fellow's heart was entirely on his company and career. He didn't care about you at all, so he never paid attention to your affairs.", "start": 48872, "end": 55245}, {"idx": 7, "cIdx": 0, "text": "He deserves to have been a cuckold for all these years!\" \"Shut up! What are you talking about?\" \"Stop pretending. Whenever this Old fellow wasn't home, who were you calling every night?", "start": 55245, "end": 63865}, {"idx": 8, "cIdx": 0, "text": "You laughed so happily every time, yet you never once had a smile for this Old fellow.\" A playful smile appeared on the middle-aged man's handsome face as he continued: \"And last night, I saw you", "start": 63865, "end": 72903}, {"idx": 9, "cIdx": 0, "text": "conspiring with that person on the phone at the stairwell.", "start": 72903, "end": 75436}, {"idx": 10, "cIdx": 0, "text": "You said once this Old fellow dies, you two will confess everything to me, get remarried, and let him take over this Old fellow's company.\" \"A-Yong, you...\" The woman looked at her son in disbelief.", "start": 75436, "end": 84657}, {"idx": 11, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"Don't worry, I don't mean to blame you. On the contrary, I feel relieved.", "start": 84657, "end": 88392}, {"idx": 12, "cIdx": 0, "text": "No wonder I've never been able to get along with this Old fellow since I was a kid—we couldn't stand the sight of each other.", "start": 88392, "end": 93799}, {"idx": 13, "cIdx": 0, "text": "It turns out I'm not even his biological son.\" \"Mom, you and that man are quite something! You actually kept it from him for so many years.\" \"Don't worry, I have no intention of ruining your plans.", "start": 93799, "end": 102915}, {"idx": 14, "cIdx": 0, "text": "I just want to comfortably be a rich second-generation heir. Just give me a share of the company's stocks and assets when the time comes.", "start": 102915, "end": 109053}, {"idx": 15, "cIdx": 0, "text": "I won't get involved in management, and I don't care about your business. Once I have the money, I'm going abroad to enjoy myself.\" \"I'm already forty!", "start": 109053, "end": 116654}, {"idx": 16, "cIdx": 0, "text": "This Old fellow still keeps me on a tight leash, giving me only a fixed amount of money every month to just drift along.", "start": 116654, "end": 122191}, {"idx": 17, "cIdx": 0, "text": "He said he wasn't afraid of me losing my ambition to idle pursuits, but rather afraid of me trying to prove myself.\" \"Fuck, how much does he look down on me?", "start": 122191, "end": 129583}, {"idx": 18, "cIdx": 0, "text": "I've wanted to go abroad and enjoy a free life for a long time.\" \"So, right now, I just want this Old fellow to hurry up and stop breathing!\" Seeing the playful smile on her son's face, the woman's", "start": 129583, "end": 139039}, {"idx": 19, "cIdx": 0, "text": "expression was complicated, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say. \"Cough, cough... You unfilial son!!\" Suddenly, rapid coughing and a raspy voice came from the hospital bed.", "start": 139039, "end": 148469}, {"idx": 20, "cIdx": 0, "text": "The mother and son's expressions changed instantly upon hearing the sound.", "start": 148469, "end": 151734}, {"idx": 21, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"You bitch, you absolute bitch, cough, cough...\" The old man turned his head, glaring at his wife with a distorted face, his eyes like those of a wild beast ready to devour its prey.", "start": 151734, "end": 160537}, {"idx": 22, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"It's over, he heard everything. I told you to stop talking!!\" The woman complained in a panic.", "start": 160537, "end": 165239}, {"idx": 23, "cIdx": 0, "text": "At this moment, the panic on the middle-aged man's face vanished, replaced by a flash of ruthlessness in his eyes as he walked quickly toward the bed.", "start": 165239, "end": 172083}, {"idx": 24, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"A-Yong, what are you doing?\" The woman cried out in alarm. \"Since it's come to this, there's no other way. Besides, he has no other relatives or friends; no one will care how he died.", "start": 172083, "end": 181251}, {"idx": 25, "cIdx": 0, "text": "If there's any trouble, we'll just spend some money to settle it.\" The middle-aged man was expressionless, his tone cold.", "start": 181251, "end": 187024}, {"idx": 26, "cIdx": 0, "text": "The woman froze for a moment, her mouth opening as if to stop him, but the words died in her throat. She glanced toward the door of the ward. Clearly, she had tacitly approved of her son's actions.", "start": 187024, "end": 196271}, {"idx": 27, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"You dare to kill me?\" On the bed, the old man's sharp gaze fixed on the middle-aged man, exuding an air of authority even without anger.", "start": 196271, "end": 203062}, {"idx": 28, "cIdx": 0, "text": "The middle-aged man's heart trembled, and he felt an instinctive surge of fear. After all, he had been this man's son for forty years.", "start": 203062, "end": 209723}, {"idx": 29, "cIdx": 0, "text": "Even knowing he wasn't his biological father, the reverence was etched into his instincts.", "start": 209723, "end": 214007}, {"idx": 30, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"You forced my hand!\" The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, stepped forward to pull out the oxygen tube, and then retreated two steps. \"Heh! This is all you're capable of?", "start": 214007, "end": 222340}, {"idx": 31, "cIdx": 0, "text": "You useless coward!!\" The old man's voice grew weak, but his expression and gaze were unexpectedly calm.", "start": 222340, "end": 227433}, {"idx": 32, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"I'm not a fucking coward!!!\" The middle-aged man's face contorted as he roared in a low, angry voice.", "start": 227433, "end": 232474}, {"idx": 33, "cIdx": 0, "text": "The old man gave a cold laugh and ignored him, looking instead at the wife he had lived with for most of his life, and spoke words that were shocking. \"Why do you think...", "start": 232474, "end": 239840}, {"idx": 34, "cIdx": 0, "text": "I haven't touched you in all these years? Do you really think I knew nothing?\" Having started from scratch and built a fortune worth tens of billions, how could he possibly be a fool?", "start": 239840, "end": 248016}, {"idx": 35, "cIdx": 0, "text": "He had long ago sent people to investigate everything thoroughly.", "start": 248016, "end": 250941}, {"idx": 36, "cIdx": 0, "text": "It was just that he had already been diagnosed with cancer back then, and even the most expensive medicine could only delay the progression. He wasn't afraid of death;", "start": 250941, "end": 258438}, {"idx": 37, "cIdx": 0, "text": "in fact, he felt his life had been such a failure that dying sooner might be better.", "start": 258438, "end": 262330}, {"idx": 38, "cIdx": 0, "text": "So, he decided to play along with their little game of house, only to let them experience the despair and helplessness of seeing their expectations shattered in the end.", "start": 262330, "end": 269592}, {"idx": 39, "cIdx": 0, "text": "He believed this would be the greatest revenge against the two of them. He had even anticipated being murdered by them. It didn't matter.", "start": 269592, "end": 275730}, {"idx": 40, "cIdx": 0, "text": "From the moment he learned of his wife's betrayal and that his son wasn't his own, he had already become an empty shell.", "start": 275730, "end": 280928}, {"idx": 41, "cIdx": 0, "text": "That being said, hearing the two of them loudly conspiring right beside him just now still made him a little angry. \"Impossible, how could you know? Didn't...", "start": 280928, "end": 288216}, {"idx": 42, "cIdx": 0, "text": "didn't you say you were no longer capable?\" The woman's face turned incredibly pale as she looked at the man as if he were a stranger.", "start": 288216, "end": 294041}, {"idx": 43, "cIdx": 0, "text": "Over a decade ago, upon learning that her husband's career was successful, she had brought her son to Yangcheng to live a life of luxury.", "start": 294041, "end": 300153}, {"idx": 44, "cIdx": 0, "text": "But a few months later, her husband suddenly claimed he was impotent. She had always had another man in her heart, so she was naturally happy to hear this.", "start": 300153, "end": 307728}, {"idx": 45, "cIdx": 0, "text": "She even feigned comfort, saying she didn't enjoy it anyway and that they already had a son. \"I'm not capable? Haha... cough, cough... I just had no feeling for you, that's all.", "start": 307728, "end": 316688}, {"idx": 46, "cIdx": 0, "text": "After I'm dead, if you have the guts, go find the women I kept on the outside and ask them if I'm capable or not!\" Like a final surge of life before death, the old man's face suddenly became flushed,", "start": 316688, "end": 326301}, {"idx": 47, "cIdx": 0, "text": "and his voice grew strong. \"You... you...\" The woman's eyes widened, and she pointed a finger at the man, her speech stuttering. \"Didn't expect that, did you? Haha...", "start": 326301, "end": 334816}, {"idx": 48, "cIdx": 0, "text": "and there's something even more surprising. You won't get a single cent of my fortune, and as for that man... heh...\" The old man gave a cold smile, and then his breathing began to slow.", "start": 334816, "end": 343619}, {"idx": 49, "cIdx": 0, "text": "He didn't speak again, nor did he struggle. He just lay there quietly staring at the ceiling, his gaze gradually turning vacant as his consciousness began to blur.", "start": 343619, "end": 351063}, {"idx": 50, "cIdx": 0, "text": "\"No—you tell me clearly, what did you do?\" \"Old fellow, what are you pretending for? Mom, don't fall for it;", "start": 351063, "end": 356627}, {"idx": 51, "cIdx": 0, "text": "he's just trying to disgust us on purpose!\" ...The next day, the local television station broadcasted a news report. Chen Nuo, the Chairman of the Chens Group, passed away due to illness.", "start": 356627, "end": 365508}, {"idx": 52, "cIdx": 0, "text": "In his will, he established a charitable foundation with assets totaling 16.5 billion yuan.", "start": 365508, "end": 370497}, {"idx": 53, "cIdx": 0, "text": "The foundation's management committee was set up by the Chens Group, with members including the General Manager of the Chens Group, the Marketing Manager, and several other women.", "start": 370497, "end": 378177}, {"idx": 54, "cIdx": 0, "text": "Later, some rumors began to spread.", "start": 378177, "end": 380240}, {"idx": 55, "cIdx": 0, "text": "It was said that the several women on the foundation's management committee, including the General Manager and the Marketing Manager, were all outstanding women with both beauty and talent, and they", "start": 380240, "end": 388390}, {"idx": 56, "cIdx": 0, "text": "all had ambiguous relationships with Chen Nuo. At the same time, the Chens Group's legal team filed a lawsuit against Chen Nuo's wife, Chen Nuos former wife, and his son, Chen Yong.", "start": 388390, "end": 397245}, {"idx": 57, "cIdx": 0, "text": "There was solid evidence showing that Chen Nuos former wife had been unfaithful during the marriage when she was young. DNA test results also proved that Chen Yong was not Chen Nuo's biological son.", "start": 397245, "end": 406205}, {"idx": 58, "cIdx": 0, "text": "The process of the two murdering Chen Nuo in the hospital room was also recorded by a hidden camera Chen Nuo had arranged in advance, serving as ironclad evidence that destroyed them.", "start": 406205, "end": 414224}, {"idx": 59, "cIdx": 0, "text": "The late Chairman Chen had specifically left a will revoking all their inheritance rights. After confirming the will and the chain of evidence, the court passed a verdict.", "start": 414224, "end": 421799}, {"idx": 60, "cIdx": 0, "text": "Chen Yong was sentenced for intentional homicide and several other crimes. With the combined punishment for multiple offenses, what awaited him was a lifetime of prison tears.", "start": 421799, "end": 429766}, {"idx": 61, "cIdx": 0, "text": "Two days later, a penniless Chen Nuos former wife found that her old lover's phone suddenly wouldn't go through.", "start": 429766, "end": 434624}, {"idx": 62, "cIdx": 0, "text": "She rushed there by high-speed rail, only to learn the tragic news from nearby residents. The man had been struck and killed by a truck while going out at night.", "start": 434624, "end": 441912}, {"idx": 63, "cIdx": 0, "text": "#2Returning to the small fishing village of yesteryear AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash", "start": 441912, "end": 446796}, {"idx": 64, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Chapter 2: Returning to the Small Fishing Village of the Past. May 10th, 1985. Yuyue Village.", "start": 446796, "end": 452412}, {"idx": 65, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Chen Nuo stood at the entrance of an old tiled house with a dazed expression, his gaze sweeping over the village that was both strange and familiar, his face filled with astonishment.", "start": 452412, "end": 460196}, {"idx": 66, "cIdx": 1, "text": "What's going on? Reborn? Could it be that the Heavens took pity on him and gave him a chance to start over?", "start": 460196, "end": 465185}, {"idx": 67, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Third Brother, what are you looking at?\" A small head with twin ponytails poked out from beside him, looking at him curiously.", "start": 465185, "end": 471140}, {"idx": 68, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Chen Nuo turned his head to look at her in a daze, his eyes becoming somewhat blurred. He suddenly raised his hand and pinched the young girl's delicate cheek.", "start": 471140, "end": 478323}, {"idx": 69, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Ah!\" The girl cried out in pain, clutching her face and turning her head to shout aggrievedly. \"Mom, Third Brother is bullying me!", "start": 478323, "end": 484670}, {"idx": 70, "cIdx": 1, "text": "He pinched my face, it hurts so much!\" \"It really isn't a dream?\" Chen Nuo muttered to himself in a low voice, and then a look of wild joy appeared on his face.", "start": 484670, "end": 492585}, {"idx": 71, "cIdx": 1, "text": "He picked up the girl and started spinning in circles at the doorway. \"Ahhh... Third Brother, what are you doing?", "start": 492585, "end": 497652}, {"idx": 72, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Put me down!\" The girl's small feet kicked wildly in the air as she screamed in panic. \"Hahaha... It's not a dream! I'm back, I'm fucking back!!!\" Chen Nuo laughed out loud. \"Mom, come save me!", "start": 497652, "end": 507735}, {"idx": 73, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Third Brother is possessed!\" The girl became even more frightened. \"Third Child, what are you doing? Put Youngest Sister down this instant!\" A voice that he missed incredibly rang out.", "start": 507735, "end": 516198}, {"idx": 74, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Chen Nuo put down his sister and looked at the figure that had appeared in his dreams countless times. His eyes immediately grew moist.", "start": 516198, "end": 522336}, {"idx": 75, "cIdx": 1, "text": "After he reached middle age and passed forty, he had finally succeeded in building a career in Yangcheng.", "start": 522336, "end": 527116}, {"idx": 76, "cIdx": 1, "text": "That year, he had prepared to return home in glory before the Spring Festival to take his parents to the big city to enjoy life together, or to help them build a house and buy a car in their", "start": 527116, "end": 535135}, {"idx": 77, "cIdx": 1, "text": "hometown—it would all be up to the two elders' choice.", "start": 535135, "end": 538008}, {"idx": 78, "cIdx": 1, "text": "However, late one night about two or three months before the Spring Festival, a phone call from his Eldest Sister woke him from his sleep, delivering news that was like a bolt from the blue.", "start": 538008, "end": 546314}, {"idx": 79, "cIdx": 1, "text": "His parents had gone out to sea to fish together in the early morning and hadn't returned by late night, and the wind and waves at sea were very strong.", "start": 546314, "end": 552635}, {"idx": 80, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Chen Nuo hung up the phone and immediately went out, driving through the night back to his hometown, and followed the villagers out to sea to search for his parents.", "start": 552635, "end": 559557}, {"idx": 81, "cIdx": 1, "text": "They searched for two full days and one night, but they couldn't even find his parents' small fishing boat.", "start": 559557, "end": 564076}, {"idx": 82, "cIdx": 1, "text": "After returning to the village, he lost his temper at his Eldest Sister, Second Brother, and Youngest Sister, complaining that they hadn't taken good care of their parents.", "start": 564076, "end": 571625}, {"idx": 83, "cIdx": 1, "text": "He clearly sent money back every month, so why did they still let their parents go out to sea?", "start": 571625, "end": 575909}, {"idx": 84, "cIdx": 1, "text": "His Second Brother, who had always stayed in the rural hometown, also exploded at that time, questioning Chen Nuo on what he himself had done.", "start": 575909, "end": 582517}, {"idx": 85, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Their parents had been industrious and frugal their whole lives; what was the use of just sending money every month?", "start": 582517, "end": 587558}, {"idx": 86, "cIdx": 1, "text": "How could they possibly just sit around and wait for death with a clear conscience? If he were truly filial to his parents, why hadn't he taken them there sooner?", "start": 587558, "end": 594872}, {"idx": 87, "cIdx": 1, "text": "The four siblings had a huge argument; emotions ran high, and the things they said to each other were very ugly. From that day on, a rift formed between them.", "start": 594872, "end": 602316}, {"idx": 88, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Chen Nuo regretted it not long after and tried to mend the relationship many times, but it never had much effect.", "start": 602316, "end": 607618}, {"idx": 89, "cIdx": 1, "text": "As his business grew larger, the class gap formed by wealth and status meant that visits between him and his relatives became fewer and fewer.", "start": 607618, "end": 613730}, {"idx": 90, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Basically, it was only every Spring Festival that he would bring his wife and children back to his hometown.", "start": 613730, "end": 618562}, {"idx": 91, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Until he was sixty-five and bedridden with a serious illness, including the cancer that had been detected long ago, Chen Nuo did not inform them.", "start": 618562, "end": 625118}, {"idx": 92, "cIdx": 1, "text": "However, in the will he left behind, besides the assets used to establish a charitable foundation, he also left two million each for his Eldest Sister, Second Brother, and Youngest Sister.", "start": 625118, "end": 634078}, {"idx": 93, "cIdx": 1, "text": "It wasn't that he was unwilling to give more. It was just that they had lived in the countryside their whole lives; suddenly receiving too much wealth might not necessarily be a good thing.", "start": 634078, "end": 641914}, {"idx": 94, "cIdx": 1, "text": "In the year 2025, two million was just enough to help them solve the economic difficulties of the younger generations in their families, yet not so much that they would lose themselves.", "start": 641914, "end": 650194}, {"idx": 95, "cIdx": 1, "text": "As for his parents' passing, Chen Nuo had lived the rest of his life with regret. Until the last moment before his consciousness dissipated at death, his mother's voice and smile were in his mind.", "start": 650194, "end": 659206}, {"idx": 96, "cIdx": 1, "text": "It was just that after all that time, he could no longer clearly remember his mother's face. But at this very moment, his mother, who was still alive, was right before his eyes.", "start": 659206, "end": 667617}, {"idx": 97, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Mom!!\" Chen Nuo forced back the tears swirling in his eyes and called out with a slightly trembling voice. Qian Guifen was stunned for a moment and looked him over with a somewhat strange gaze.", "start": 667617, "end": 676263}, {"idx": 98, "cIdx": 1, "text": "A mother's sixth sense made her feel as if something was different about her son. Could he really be possessed? \"Um...", "start": 676263, "end": 681722}, {"idx": 99, "cIdx": 1, "text": "I'm hungry.\" Chen Nuo also immediately realized that he was acting too abnormally. He quickly suppressed the fluctuating emotions in his heart and forcibly changed the subject.", "start": 681722, "end": 689872}, {"idx": 100, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Didn't you just eat breakfast?\" Qian Guifen looked at him with a puzzled expression. \"I didn't eat my fill!", "start": 689872, "end": 694887}, {"idx": 101, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Mom, make me something else to eat!\" Chen Nuo put on a pitiful expression, using a tone that was a bit like a child acting spoiled toward his mother.", "start": 694887, "end": 701966}, {"idx": 102, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Logically speaking, he now had the soul of a sixty-something-year-old; such behavior was slightly childish.", "start": 701966, "end": 707112}, {"idx": 103, "cIdx": 1, "text": "But no matter how old he was, in front of his mother, he was always a child, and he was more than willing to be one.", "start": 707112, "end": 712728}, {"idx": 104, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Then again, this kind of rascal-like behavior actually fit his personality from when he was young.", "start": 712728, "end": 717403}, {"idx": 105, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Then I'll go boil some noodles for you.\" Seeing her son return to normal, Qian Guifen didn't think much more of it. She turned around and headed straight for the kitchen.", "start": 717403, "end": 724900}, {"idx": 106, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Put in more clams!\" Chen Nuo said loudly. clams were also known as flower clams. People from out of town called them 'huajia'.", "start": 724900, "end": 731326}, {"idx": 107, "cIdx": 1, "text": "After the tide receded, villagers would go to the beach to forage whenever they had free time. Digging for clams was the most common activity.", "start": 731326, "end": 737830}, {"idx": 108, "cIdx": 1, "text": "They could be eaten after being kept in water for a night, and adding some when boiling noodles made them very fresh. \"I know.\" Qian Guifen responded dotingly. \"Ah!", "start": 737830, "end": 745614}, {"idx": 109, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Mom, you only know how to dote on Third Brother! I want to eat too!!\" Youngest Sister shouted along sourly. \"I know, I know.", "start": 745614, "end": 752092}, {"idx": 110, "cIdx": 1, "text": "I must have owed you two in my past life.\" \"Heehee...\" \"Hehe...\" The brother and sister looked at each other and laughed foolishly.", "start": 752092, "end": 757812}, {"idx": 111, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Hmph!\" The next second, Chen Xiuying gave a cold snort and turned her head away with her hands on her hips, clearly still angry from earlier. \"Alright, don't be angry anymore.", "start": 757812, "end": 766615}, {"idx": 112, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Big Brother was wrong.\" Chen Nuo smiled dotingly and raised his hand to rub her small head. At this time, the relationship between the two siblings was still extremely good.", "start": 766615, "end": 774712}, {"idx": 113, "cIdx": 1, "text": "However, Youngest Sister and his wife from his previous life didn't get along at all. After he got married, his relationship with her had gradually drifted apart.", "start": 774712, "end": 782574}, {"idx": 114, "cIdx": 1, "text": "As for his Eldest Sister and Second Brother, both of them had already started their own families. He was born in '60, so he was now just two or three months shy of being 25.", "start": 782574, "end": 791403}, {"idx": 115, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Eldest Sister Chen Xiulan was six years older than him and had married quite early; she had an eight-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son.", "start": 791403, "end": 797724}, {"idx": 116, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Second Brother Chen Jianping was three years older than him and had just gotten married the year before last.", "start": 797724, "end": 802347}, {"idx": 117, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Their parents had spent money to build a new house for them, and they had a son over a year old. As for Youngest Sister Chen Xiuying, she had just turned 20 this year.", "start": 802347, "end": 810000}, {"idx": 118, "cIdx": 1, "text": "She had graduated from high school two years ago but hadn't passed the college entrance exam.", "start": 810000, "end": 814310}, {"idx": 119, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Originally, she was very ambitious and wanted to repeat her studies to get into college and leave this small fishing village. But their parents' thinking was still quite old-fashioned.", "start": 814310, "end": 822042}, {"idx": 120, "cIdx": 1, "text": "They felt that it was useless for a daughter to go to college and wanted her to stay home to help out and wait to get married. Of course, finances were also an issue.", "start": 822042, "end": 829304}, {"idx": 121, "cIdx": 1, "text": "The family had spent almost all their savings building the house for Second Brother's marriage two years ago.", "start": 829304, "end": 833953}, {"idx": 122, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Moreover, because Second Sister-in-law had given birth, there were many places that required money, and they still had to supplement them from time to time.", "start": 833953, "end": 840797}, {"idx": 123, "cIdx": 1, "text": "As long as the weather wasn't too bad, their father went out early and returned late to fish, but his income was limited, and there was truly no spare money to support their sister going to college.", "start": 840797, "end": 849260}, {"idx": 124, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Fine, I forgive you.\" Chen Xiuying smiled sweetly.", "start": 849260, "end": 852185}, {"idx": 125, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Actually, she hadn't really been angry to begin with, and having Third Brother suddenly pick her up and spin her around just now had actually felt quite fun.", "start": 852185, "end": 859055}, {"idx": 126, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Third Brother, what was with you just now? Are you possessed? Should we go worship at the Mazu Temple?\" Mazu is the sea goddess worshiped by the locals, originating in the Song Dynasty.", "start": 859055, "end": 867858}, {"idx": 127, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Every village basically has a Mazu Temple. Whenever a family has a happy event or a difficult problem, they go to worship.", "start": 867858, "end": 873866}, {"idx": 128, "cIdx": 1, "text": "\"Get lost, you're the one who's possessed!\" \"Then why were you shouting about it not being a dream and that you're back? It was so weird.\" \"You wouldn't understand.", "start": 873866, "end": 881075}, {"idx": 129, "cIdx": 1, "text": "I can't be bothered to tell you.\" \"I wouldn't understand? You've got to be kidding.", "start": 881075, "end": 884862}, {"idx": 130, "cIdx": 1, "text": "Don't forget that I'm the one with the highest education in this family!\" #3On the matter of family imperial throne AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash", "start": 884862, "end": 892724}, {"idx": 131, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Chapter 3: On the Subject of Family Status. The two siblings sat on a long bench, with a large and a small bowl of seafood noodles on the table in front of them, slurping happily.", "start": 892724, "end": 901292}, {"idx": 132, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Taking a slurp of noodles, he then picked up a piece of clam and put it in his mouth, skillfully using his tongue and teeth to strip the meat off before spitting out the shell.", "start": 901292, "end": 908606}, {"idx": 133, "cIdx": 2, "text": "The clam meat was plump, with a bouncy and fresh texture that was so delicious he simply couldn't stop.", "start": 908606, "end": 913308}, {"idx": 134, "cIdx": 2, "text": "In his past life, when Chen Nuo left his hometown to work hard in the big cities, he had visited many noodle shops and restaurants for this clam noodle dish, but those clams were far inferior to the", "start": 913308, "end": 922137}, {"idx": 135, "cIdx": 2, "text": "ones from home. A few years later, the clams available were mostly farmed, and they no longer had the flavor he loved.", "start": 922137, "end": 927805}, {"idx": 136, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Of course, the most crucial part was the taste of his mother's cooking in this bowl of noodles, which he had truly missed for a long time.", "start": 927805, "end": 933917}, {"idx": 137, "cIdx": 2, "text": "He had tasted all kinds of delicacies, but no gourmet dish could compare to this bowl of clam noodles at this moment. As he ate, Chen Nuo's eyes couldn't help but well up again.", "start": 933917, "end": 942328}, {"idx": 138, "cIdx": 2, "text": "He hurriedly lowered his head to drink the soup, trying to hide his emotions, only to end up scalding himself. \"You silly child, why are you in such a rush?", "start": 942328, "end": 949694}, {"idx": 139, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Eat slowly!\" Sitting opposite him, his mother scolded him with a stern face and an annoyed tone. His mother was the type to have a sharp tongue but a soft heart;", "start": 949694, "end": 957138}, {"idx": 140, "cIdx": 2, "text": "of the four siblings, Chen Nuo, the youngest son, was her favorite. Chen Nuo gave a sheepish smile and praised, \"I can't help it.", "start": 957138, "end": 964034}, {"idx": 141, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Who told you to make such delicious noodles, Mom?\" With just a simple sentence, Qian Guifen immediately beamed with joy. \"Heehee...", "start": 964034, "end": 970512}, {"idx": 142, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Third Brother, since when did you become so good at making Mom happy?\" Chen Xiuying looked at him with a beaming smile. \"Really? I'm being serious!\" Chen Nuo said with a straight face.", "start": 970512, "end": 979080}, {"idx": 143, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Chen Xiuying curled her lip in disdain, then immediately felt a dangerous aura coming from across the table. She shrunk her head back and looked at her mother timidly. \"What?", "start": 979080, "end": 986968}, {"idx": 144, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Youngest Sister, do you think the noodles I cooked aren't good?\" Qian Guifen asked with a cold face. \"No, no, of course not.", "start": 986968, "end": 993446}, {"idx": 145, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Mom, the noodles you make are the best.\" Chen Xiuying shook her head like a rattle, wearing a flattering smile. \"Hmph, no need to try and please me.", "start": 993446, "end": 1001491}, {"idx": 146, "cIdx": 2, "text": "If you think they're not good, give them all to your brother, and I won't cook for you in the future.\" \"Don't! I was wrong!\" \"I wouldn't mind eating two bowls.\" Chen Nuo grinned.", "start": 1001491, "end": 1009797}, {"idx": 147, "cIdx": 2, "text": "\"You're such a pig!\" Chen Xiuying glared at him. \"I think you're the pig—as stupid as one!\" \"Mom, listen to him! Look how Third Brother is talking!\" \"He's not wrong!\" \"Aaaaah...", "start": 1009797, "end": 1018391}, {"idx": 148, "cIdx": 2, "text": "You're all bullying me! I can't stay in this house anymore!\" \"Then hurry up and find someone to marry.\" Qian Guifen said indifferently. Chen Xiuying felt like she'd been struck by lightning.", "start": 1018391, "end": 1026828}, {"idx": 149, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Her head slumped, and the seafood noodles that had tasted so good suddenly lost their flavor. \"Mom, Youngest Sister is still young.", "start": 1026828, "end": 1032914}, {"idx": 150, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Don't say things like that.\" Chen Nuo suddenly spoke up to defend his sister. He knew his mother wasn't joking; she really did want to marry Youngest Sister off.", "start": 1032914, "end": 1040567}, {"idx": 151, "cIdx": 2, "text": "In the countryside these days, people generally married very early. If a twenty-year-old girl wasn't in school, many were already married.", "start": 1040567, "end": 1046993}, {"idx": 152, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Only he knew that his sister's marriage would not be a happy one. Longing for university and the big city, she would eventually buckle under her parents' pressure to marry in two years.", "start": 1046993, "end": 1055143}, {"idx": 153, "cIdx": 2, "text": "She would marry an ordinary farmer from the neighboring village, never realizing her dream of leaving the countryside for the rest of her life.", "start": 1055143, "end": 1061072}, {"idx": 154, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Chen Xiuying looked at him in surprise, clearly not expecting her third brother to speak up for her. \"Young? She's already twenty.", "start": 1061072, "end": 1067289}, {"idx": 155, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Your Eldest Sister only failed to marry into a good family because she married late.\" Qian Guifen frowned.", "start": 1067289, "end": 1072330}, {"idx": 156, "cIdx": 2, "text": "\"Mom, is it possible that Eldest Sister married too hastily?\" Chen Nuo countered with a helpless expression. His Eldest Sister looked like their mother, but her personality was far too gentle;", "start": 1072330, "end": 1081316}, {"idx": 157, "cIdx": 2, "text": "she was almost entirely submissive to their parents. Because of this, when she was only twenty-two, she had hurriedly entered a haphazard marriage under their parents' urging.", "start": 1081316, "end": 1089152}, {"idx": 158, "cIdx": 2, "text": "After the wedding, the brother-in-law, whom the matchmaker had praised to the skies and who seemed honest and hardworking, gradually revealed his true nature.", "start": 1089152, "end": 1095943}, {"idx": 159, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Setting aside his stinginess and obsession with money, he was extremely chauvinistic. Eldest Sister not only had to care for two children but was also responsible for almost all the housework.", "start": 1095943, "end": 1104798}, {"idx": 160, "cIdx": 2, "text": "A few years ago, Chen Nuo had visited and seen his pregnant Eldest Sister working in the fields alone, with her two- or three-year-old daughter sitting by the field, while that brother-in-law was", "start": 1104798, "end": 1113209}, {"idx": 161, "cIdx": 2, "text": "actually playing cards with others. If Eldest Sister hadn't stopped him that day, he definitely would have given that bastard a severe beating. Chen Nuo had always felt sorry for his Eldest Sister.", "start": 1113209, "end": 1122169}, {"idx": 162, "cIdx": 2, "text": "In his past life, after he went out and made money, he had returned and tried to persuade her to get a divorce, offering to help arrange things for her.", "start": 1122169, "end": 1129013}, {"idx": 163, "cIdx": 2, "text": "But his Eldest Sister had refused and told him never to mention it again. She was a very traditional woman who firmly believed that this was her fate, and she was willing to accept it.", "start": 1129013, "end": 1137215}, {"idx": 164, "cIdx": 2, "text": "In her view, her husband was at least willing to work and earn money, which was much better than many men who did nothing but drink and beat their wives.", "start": 1137215, "end": 1143536}, {"idx": 165, "cIdx": 2, "text": "As long as they could get by and she could slowly raise her two children to adulthood, she felt that no matter how tired she was, it was worth it.", "start": 1143536, "end": 1149988}, {"idx": 166, "cIdx": 2, "text": "\"By saying that, are you blaming your father and me?\" Qian Guifen's brow furrowed deeply. Seeing his mother's expression, Chen Xiuying immediately panicked.", "start": 1149988, "end": 1157223}, {"idx": 167, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Their father was a man of few words and very honest; their mother had always been the head of the household, and the siblings had grown up fearing her more.", "start": 1157223, "end": 1163753}, {"idx": 168, "cIdx": 2, "text": "\"Mom, I'm saying you really shouldn't rush the marriage. Doesn't Youngest Sister want to repeat her studies for the university entrance exam?", "start": 1163753, "end": 1170022}, {"idx": 169, "cIdx": 2, "text": "I think that path would be better for her.\" Chen Nuo said calmly. Chen Xiuying's eyes lit up, and she looked at her mother with anticipation. \"You make it sound easy. How much does university cost?", "start": 1170022, "end": 1179582}, {"idx": 170, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Besides, she doesn't have the ability; if she could have passed, she would have passed long ago.\" \"Mom, I can pass!", "start": 1179582, "end": 1185590}, {"idx": 171, "cIdx": 2, "text": "The year before last, I wasn't feeling well, so I didn't perform as well as I should have.\" Chen Xiuying defended herself indignantly.", "start": 1185590, "end": 1191990}, {"idx": 172, "cIdx": 2, "text": "During the college entrance exam, it happened to be those few days when her 'period' arrived, which caused her—whose mock exam results were usually good enough for university—to ultimately fail.", "start": 1191990, "end": 1201185}, {"idx": 173, "cIdx": 2, "text": "\"If you didn't pass, you didn't pass. The family doesn't have the money for you to go to university anyway.\" \"Mom, I'll find a way to handle the money.", "start": 1201185, "end": 1208264}, {"idx": 174, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Let Youngest Sister go back to repeat her studies this September!\" \"Brother...\" Chen Xiuying looked at her third brother in surprise, her heart deeply moved.", "start": 1208264, "end": 1215264}, {"idx": 175, "cIdx": 2, "text": "\"What way could you possibly have?\" Qian Guifen looked at him with a face full of disbelief. \"Don't worry about that.", "start": 1215264, "end": 1220305}, {"idx": 176, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Regardless, I'll definitely be able to provide the money when the time comes.\" After saying that, Chen Nuo picked up his bowl and drank the noodle soup.", "start": 1220305, "end": 1227462}, {"idx": 177, "cIdx": 2, "text": "\"Since you're so concerned about her affairs, why don't you hurry up and get your own wedding settled? You're already twenty-five!", "start": 1227462, "end": 1233078}, {"idx": 178, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Who in the village your age isn't married yet?\" \"Mom, here you go again. After you're done nagging my sister, you're nagging me, right?\" \"What do you mean?", "start": 1233078, "end": 1240444}, {"idx": 179, "cIdx": 2, "text": "You agreed to it before!\" Qian Guifen's expression became serious. She had put in a lot of effort and finally found a matchmaker to introduce a pretty girl from her side of the family.", "start": 1240444, "end": 1249012}, {"idx": 180, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Her son had already met the girl, and in the past few days, under the persuasion of both parents, he had agreed to the marriage. \"Did I agree? I don't remember.", "start": 1249012, "end": 1256639}, {"idx": 181, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Regardless, I'm not going through with this marriage.\" Chen Nuo said in a firm tone. \"You...\" Qian Guifen was so angry she couldn't speak. She got up and walked quickly to her room.", "start": 1256639, "end": 1265181}, {"idx": 182, "cIdx": 2, "text": "After a moment, she returned with a cloth bundle and threw it in front of Chen Nuo. \"There's 650 yuan in here. It's the money your father and I saved for your wedding.", "start": 1265181, "end": 1273226}, {"idx": 183, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Take it to the Town and buy everything you need. Tomorrow, your father and I will take you to Qianjia Village to present the betrothal gifts.", "start": 1273226, "end": 1279495}, {"idx": 184, "cIdx": 2, "text": "You're getting married whether you like it or not.\" \"I don't want it!\" \"Take it!!!\" Qian Guifen shouted sharply. Both siblings trembled.", "start": 1279495, "end": 1285764}, {"idx": 185, "cIdx": 2, "text": "Chen Nuo picked up the cloth-wrapped money from the table and stuffed it into his pocket. He couldn't help it; their fear of their mother was etched into their bones.", "start": 1285764, "end": 1293026}, {"idx": 186, "cIdx": 2, "text": "However, while he took the money, he certainly wasn't going to buy gifts for a proposal. What a joke. He had taken this wrong step in his past life;", "start": 1293026, "end": 1300157}, {"idx": 187, "cIdx": 2, "text": "how could he possibly repeat the same mistake in this one? A woman like Chen Nuos former wife—whoever wanted her could have her. He was absolutely not going to be a cuckold again.", "start": 1300157, "end": 1308463}, {"idx": 188, "cIdx": 2, "text": "It just so happened that he had other uses for this sum of money. #4That treasure girl AI Model: gemini-3.0-flash", "start": 1308463, "end": 1315228}, {"idx": 189, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Chapter 4: That Treasure of a Girl. By the seaside in May, the temperature was warm but not hot, and the constant breeze from the sea felt very comfortable.", "start": 1315228, "end": 1322751}, {"idx": 190, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Chen Nuo strolled through the village with a faint smile on his face.", "start": 1322751, "end": 1325937}, {"idx": 191, "cIdx": 3, "text": "The memories in his mind were gradually merging, giving him a sense of both familiarity and strangeness towards everything he saw.", "start": 1325937, "end": 1331762}, {"idx": 192, "cIdx": 3, "text": "In a few years, after the nineties, the coastal areas would develop rapidly. Every time he returned home for the holidays, the village would have changed significantly.", "start": 1331762, "end": 1339703}, {"idx": 193, "cIdx": 3, "text": "The dilapidated brick and tile houses, and even the mud-brick houses before him, would gradually disappear, replaced by high-rise buildings.", "start": 1339703, "end": 1346338}, {"idx": 194, "cIdx": 3, "text": "The roads would evolve from the current mud and dirt to gravel, and eventually to cement.", "start": 1346338, "end": 1350386}, {"idx": 195, "cIdx": 3, "text": "One year when he returned to the village, he had even donated money to repair the roads and the ancestral hall.", "start": 1350386, "end": 1355166}, {"idx": 196, "cIdx": 3, "text": "For some reason, compared to the modernized village of the future, Chen Nuo preferred this slightly dilapidated little fishing village.", "start": 1355166, "end": 1361095}, {"idx": 197, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Walking toward the northwest, the terrain became higher, and the villagers' houses grew more densely packed.", "start": 1361095, "end": 1365979}, {"idx": 198, "cIdx": 3, "text": "In the summer, typhoons often caused waves at sea, and every year, some villagers' houses would be flooded.", "start": 1365979, "end": 1371151}, {"idx": 199, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Therefore, when the villagers built new houses now, they would choose locations with higher ground whenever possible.", "start": 1371151, "end": 1376218}, {"idx": 200, "cIdx": 3, "text": "The old house where Chen Nuo currently lived was close to the sea and on low ground. Every summer when the weather turned bad, his family would worry.", "start": 1376218, "end": 1383035}, {"idx": 201, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Once things looked wrong, the whole family would quickly move their important belongings out and take refuge on higher ground.", "start": 1383035, "end": 1388337}, {"idx": 202, "cIdx": 3, "text": "In his previous life, after Chen Nuo went out and earned his first pot of gold, he came back to build a new two-story house for his parents, right next to his second brother's current home.", "start": 1388337, "end": 1396696}, {"idx": 203, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Just then, a graceful figure not far ahead caught Chen Nuo's attention, pulling him back from his drifting thoughts. The girl was about twenty years old.", "start": 1396696, "end": 1403722}, {"idx": 204, "cIdx": 3, "text": "She was sitting on a small stool in front of a mud-brick house, head lowered as she scrubbed laundry. Her beautiful black hair was tied into two simple braids.", "start": 1403722, "end": 1410879}, {"idx": 205, "cIdx": 3, "text": "From the side, she looked a bit like the Queen of Women's Kingdom from Journey to the West, who would soon become famous across the country.", "start": 1410879, "end": 1416808}, {"idx": 206, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Chen Nuo had seen countless beauties, even from various countries around the world, and had been with many women.", "start": 1416808, "end": 1422058}, {"idx": 207, "cIdx": 3, "text": "However, compared to those beauties who were instantly stunning, the beauty of the girl before him was a pure and moving kind that returned to nature, a quiet and elegant beauty like a long-flowing", "start": 1422058, "end": 1430443}, {"idx": 208, "cIdx": 3, "text": "stream. Without exquisite makeup or magnificent clothes, she was the most beautiful scenery in Chen Nuo's eyes.", "start": 1430443, "end": 1436242}, {"idx": 209, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Chen Nuo subconsciously stopped in his tracks, quietly watching the girl, an unknown guilt hidden in his complex gaze. As if sensing his gaze, the girl looked up at Chen Nuo.", "start": 1436242, "end": 1444705}, {"idx": 210, "cIdx": 3, "text": "After a brief moment of surprise, the girl gave him a sweet smile as bright as summer flowers.", "start": 1444705, "end": 1449198}, {"idx": 211, "cIdx": 3, "text": "\"Chen Nuo, why are you here?\" \"I missed you, so I came to see you!\" Chen Nuo suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and replied with a smile.", "start": 1449198, "end": 1456303}, {"idx": 212, "cIdx": 3, "text": "The girl's name was Li Yuzhi, the woman who had caused him a lifetime of regret in his previous life. The two were classmates in middle school and had even been desk mates for a year.", "start": 1456303, "end": 1464479}, {"idx": 213, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Back then, youth was vibrant and carefree, and they had shared many beautiful memories.", "start": 1464479, "end": 1468710}, {"idx": 214, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Girls often mature earlier than boys and pay attention to their feelings sooner, while most boys are still ignorant and slow.", "start": 1468710, "end": 1474300}, {"idx": 215, "cIdx": 3, "text": "In his previous life, Chen Nuo didn't know until he got married that such a girl had been secretly in love with him for many years.", "start": 1474300, "end": 1479968}, {"idx": 216, "cIdx": 3, "text": "It wasn't until two or three years after his marriage that Li Yuzhi was also arranged to go on blind dates. However, fate seemed to be deliberately playing tricks on this girl.", "start": 1479968, "end": 1488039}, {"idx": 217, "cIdx": 3, "text": "She got engaged twice, and both times the groom-to-be died in a bizarre accident shortly after.", "start": 1488039, "end": 1492662}, {"idx": 218, "cIdx": 3, "text": "One was stabbed several times on the street for unknown reasons, and the other was said to have died from electrocution.", "start": 1492662, "end": 1497990}, {"idx": 219, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Precisely because of these two accidents, some bad rumors about her began to spread in the village.", "start": 1497990, "end": 1502561}, {"idx": 220, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Right then, one of Li Yuzhi's fair-weather friends stabbed her in the back, revealing an abnormality in her body. Most of the villagers were uneducated and ignorant.", "start": 1502561, "end": 1510136}, {"idx": 221, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Soon, Li Yuzhi became known throughout the nearby villages as the \"husband-cursing White Tiger woman,\" and no one dared to get engaged to her again.", "start": 1510136, "end": 1516953}, {"idx": 222, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Additionally, Li Yuzhi had been an abandoned orphan since childhood and was adopted by a widow in the village, Li Sufen.", "start": 1516953, "end": 1522543}, {"idx": 223, "cIdx": 3, "text": "The villagers thought it was too much of a coincidence and gradually began to view both mother and daughter as jinxes.", "start": 1522543, "end": 1527584}, {"idx": 224, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Some of the more extreme villagers even suggested driving them out of the village and committed some disgusting acts.", "start": 1527584, "end": 1532599}, {"idx": 225, "cIdx": 3, "text": "For example, they fabricated rumors about the mother and daughter, destroyed the crops they had just planted, and threw manure on their house at night. Li Sufen was a strong-willed woman.", "start": 1532599, "end": 1541141}, {"idx": 226, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Even under those circumstances, she did her best to protect Li Yuzhi. However, they were just a lone girl and a widow, after all, and lacked the strength to resist it all.", "start": 1541141, "end": 1549447}, {"idx": 227, "cIdx": 3, "text": "In the end, Li Yuzhi became disheartened. Not wanting to burden her adoptive mother any longer, she went out one night and threw herself into the river.", "start": 1549447, "end": 1556526}, {"idx": 228, "cIdx": 3, "text": "At that time, Chen Nuo had just gone far away to work. He only learned of this tragic news when he returned to his hometown before the Spring Festival. He went to see Li Sufen.", "start": 1556526, "end": 1565015}, {"idx": 229, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Li Sufen looked like she had aged over a decade by then and was seriously ill in bed.", "start": 1565015, "end": 1569063}, {"idx": 230, "cIdx": 3, "text": "She beckoned him to sit by her bedside, told him that her daughter had always secretly loved him, and gave him several diaries that Li Yuzhi had insisted on writing.", "start": 1569063, "end": 1576298}, {"idx": 231, "cIdx": 3, "text": "After reading those diary entries, which were almost all about him, Chen Nuo wept silently, his heart feeling as if it had been pierced by countless sharp knives.", "start": 1576298, "end": 1583847}, {"idx": 232, "cIdx": 3, "text": "A few days later, Li Sufen also passed away. Disregarding his family's opposition, Chen Nuo paid to help with the funeral and had the mother and daughter buried together.", "start": 1583847, "end": 1591762}, {"idx": 233, "cIdx": 3, "text": "He also intentionally spread the word that the mother and daughter had been driven to their deaths, and if anyone dared to do anything disgusting again, he would pursue it to the end and make them", "start": 1591762, "end": 1599520}, {"idx": 234, "cIdx": 3, "text": "pay the price. Li Yuzhi's matter became his inner demon.", "start": 1599520, "end": 1602393}, {"idx": 235, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Later, when he learned he had cancer, even though he had plenty of money, he didn't think about getting cured, believing it was his retribution.", "start": 1602393, "end": 1609028}, {"idx": 236, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Then, after learning of his wife's betrayal, his heart completely turned to ash, and he even began to look forward to his own death.", "start": 1609028, "end": 1615245}, {"idx": 237, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Starting from scratch and earning a net worth of tens of billions, whether it was the attraction of wealth and status or his own personal charm, he never lacked women throwing themselves at him.", "start": 1615245, "end": 1623186}, {"idx": 238, "cIdx": 3, "text": "He began to indulge himself. While accepting those women, he played the part of a foolish cuckold in front of Chen Nuos former wife, while secretly arranging everything.", "start": 1623186, "end": 1631022}, {"idx": 239, "cIdx": 3, "text": "In short, the starting point of his failed life was marrying Chen Nuos former wife. All of this can still be changed! \"You... what are you saying? I...", "start": 1631022, "end": 1638519}, {"idx": 240, "cIdx": 3, "text": "what's there to look at?\" Li Yuzhi lowered her head in a panic, her cheeks instantly flushing red, and she even stuttered as she spoke.", "start": 1638519, "end": 1644866}, {"idx": 241, "cIdx": 3, "text": "\"You're just very good-looking!\" Chen Nuo walked over with a playful smile, thinking the girl before him was just too cute. In his previous life, he must have been blind.", "start": 1644866, "end": 1652598}, {"idx": 242, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Such a wonderful treasure of a girl was secretly in love with him, and he had no idea! \"You... Chen Nuo, you're so strange today.", "start": 1652598, "end": 1659050}, {"idx": 243, "cIdx": 3, "text": "I heard you went on a blind date.\" Li Yuzhi looked up at him, a trace of resentment flashing in her clear, bright eyes. \"Yeah, my parents forced me to go, but I didn't take an interest in her.", "start": 1659050, "end": 1668427}, {"idx": 244, "cIdx": 3, "text": "She's not as pretty as you, nor as virtuous.\" Chen Nuo said with a light laugh. How could Li Yuzhi withstand this?", "start": 1668427, "end": 1674121}, {"idx": 245, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Her pretty face turned even redder, like a ripe apple in late autumn, and her heart pounded like a rabbit. \"You... don't talk nonsense.\" \"I'm not talking nonsense, I'm serious.", "start": 1674121, "end": 1682845}, {"idx": 246, "cIdx": 3, "text": "Let me ask you, are you willing to marry me? 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We're going to try our luck and get some clams, razor clams, and such to go with our drinks.\" Wang Fugui replied with a grin.", "start": 1820501, "end": 1828442}, {"idx": 266, "cIdx": 4, "text": "\"Brother, come with us!\" Chen Qiang invited him with a smile. \"Sure!\" Chen Nuo readily agreed.", "start": 1828442, "end": 1833483}, {"idx": 267, "cIdx": 4, "text": "In his previous life, he had chosen to seek his fortune in Yangcheng, while these two friends had stayed in the village.", "start": 1833483, "end": 1838681}, {"idx": 268, "cIdx": 4, "text": "After Wang Fugui got married, he followed in his father's footsteps and took over the job of banquet chef. 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