Hao Yi
In Huaxia Kingdom, in Capital City…
Here, the Five Great Clans held sway, and no one dared oppose them. Especially the number one clan, the Hao family. It was said that they had ties to state institutions and oversaw the entire special forces, serving the country.
The Hao family’s fifth son, Hao Jiankun, was one of the people in charge of that organization. He was not the main head, but simply being able to enter a state institution was already impressive enough.
The second great clan was the Chen family, the third great clan the Murong Clan, the fourth great clan the Zhan family, and the fifth great clan the Gu family.
The Hao family was the most powerful, and its industries in Capital City were enormous as well. The relationships among the Five Great Clans were far from harmonious, except for the Hao family and the Chen family.
Still, the Hao family had produced a useless playboy, Hao Yi, a heap of mud that could not be molded into a wall. In the Hao family, he was a joke, and in all of Capital City he was a punchline.
Once, he had set his sights on the daughter of the Gu family’s eldest son. He was beaten half to death by the Gu family, and it was said they had nearly ruined him below the waist. It became the talk of the entire city.
After that, this young master ran to the Murong Clan and confessed to the daughter of the Murong family head. The Murong Clan directly released five dogs, and they chased Hao Yi all over the streets. It was said Hao Yi was bitten, and the dogs had specifically bitten the most important part of a man. That was how the fact that Hao Yi had been utterly crippled spread throughout Capital City.
However, Hao Yi still did not behave. He actually set his sights on a young lady of the Chen family as well, and even told his own grandfather that he wanted to marry her. That truly caused a disaster.
The Chen family ranked second among the Five Great Clans. Since they could rank second, that proved they had the standing to sit in that second position.
After learning that some crippled young master had set his sights on their daughter, how could the Chen family head endure it? He immediately called a family meeting, looking for a way to deal with that shameless, useless playboy. And it had to be a stroke that worked instantly, so he would never, ever stir up trouble again.
So Chen Rong, the young lady Hao Yi wanted to marry, immediately told her father, “Dad, hasn’t the Hao family always wanted to kick Hao Yi, that disgrace to the family name, out of the house? Why don’t we take this chance to help the Hao family?”
When Chen Feng heard this, he immediately gave Chen Rong a thumbs-up and praised his daughter for her cleverness. “Good, that’s a fine idea. Then, Rong, what do you have in mind?”
“Isn’t Hao Yi trying to get himself a wife? Then let’s give him one, only not a woman, a man. Do you think the Hao family would tolerate Hao Yi staying in the family after he married a man?”
Chen Feng’s eyes lit up, and he praised her loudly. “Hahaha, Rong, what a brilliant idea! That way, Hao Yi will be branded as liking men, and in all of Capital City no one will marry their daughter to a useless young master who likes men!”
“Dad, this also counts as saving the women of Capital City. If some woman married Hao Yi, who can’t perform as a man, wouldn’t that ruin her whole life?” Chen Rong said with a smug smile.
“Exactly! Rong, I’ll go to the Hao family right now. Since we’re doing this, we should of course make sure the Hao family knows. Better yet, we should have them help too. That way, the matter will be absolutely foolproof! I’m sure Hao Jiantian won’t refuse!” Chen Feng said with complete confidence.
The reason Chen Feng was so certain was that the Hao family had a secret almost everyone knew. Why call it a secret if everyone knew? Because everyone understood it in their hearts, but no one dared say it out loud.
Hao Yi’s father, Hao Jianwen, the former Hao family head, had remained missing to this day. Originally, the legitimate eldest grandson Hao Yi should have been highly regarded. Instead, because of Hao Jianwen’s disappearance, his standing had steadily declined, and very soon he became the target of the entire Hao family.
The reason was naturally the good work done by the second son, Hao Jiantian, who had already secured the position of clan head.
Suppress the eldest son and take the position of clan head. Then his own children would become the focus of the Hao family. After he stepped down someday, naturally it would be Hao Jiantian’s son who became the next Hao family head.
So everyone knew that Hao Jianwen had been driven out of the Hao family by Hao Jiantian’s schemes, and now it was Hao Jianwen’s son Hao Yi’s turn.
On top of that, with Hao Yi’s dissolute and useless personality, the Hao family could not possibly tolerate someone like him. They had long wanted to find a way to kick Hao Yi out.
It was just that Hao Yi was a descendant of the Hao family, so he could not simply be driven out on a whim. Hao Jiantian had been waiting for an opportunity to throw Hao Yi out.
Now that the opportunity had arrived, there was no way Hao Jiantian would not cooperate. That was why Chen Feng was so confident.
Afterward, he stood up and had the driver take him to the Hao family, planning to get Hao Yi married to a man and then throw him out the door.
Watching her father leave, Chen Rong smiled faintly and thought to herself: Hao Yi, don’t blame me. This is all the evil you brought on yourself. Who told you to lay hands on me, Chen Rong? Then don’t blame me for being ruthless! Don’t worry, our Chen family will find you a decent man to marry. We definitely won’t wrong you!
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“Sigh…”
He did not even know how many times this young man had sighed.
The person in the mirror was a very handsome and tall young man, full of vigor and good looks, with a somewhat roguish air when he smiled. He really was quite something. But this was not his face, and it was not his body either, was it?
Although his name was Hao Yi, and the owner of this body was also called Hao Yi, the two of them were absolutely different people. Absolutely.
It was just that when he woke up, this was the face he saw, and it was a face that had been beaten.
Look, the swelling at the corner of the mouth, wasn’t that where he had been hit?
The memories in his mind had long since merged with the memories of this body’s original owner. The one who beat him was a young man named Gu Liu, the eldest son of the Gu family, one of the Five Great Clans of Huaxia Kingdom.
As for the reason he had been beaten, it was simply because Gu Liu looked down on him.
“Sigh…”
With another sigh, Hao Yi knew he had to face reality. He had arrived in a completely unfamiliar era, and an especially awful one at that.
Because the spiritual energy here was thin, and spiritual resources were scarce. It was simply not a place suited to his cultivation.
Thinking back to before he came to this era, he had suffered a cultivation mishap. His true qi had gone astray, his meridians had been severed, and he had fainted on the spot.
Fine. He woke up and found himself in a different place, and a place that was not suitable for cultivation, no less. Could it be that Hao Yi really was not suited to walking the path of cultivation?
Hah! Hao Yi did not believe that nonsense. Even if the conditions were unfavorable here, he would still carve out a cultivation path of his own.
Looking around, because of the merged memories, he knew this was a school dormitory. He was the only one living here, because the descendants of the Five Great Clans had privileges when studying here, and living arrangements were one of them.
However…
Looking at the clothes in the wardrobe, there were clearly clothes for two people inside. Most of them were his, and only one luggage bag in the corner belonged to someone else.
And that person was…
So, what seemed like the nth sigh escaped Hao Yi’s mouth again. Sigh…
He had not expected that the owner of this body would actually marry a man. That luggage bag belonged to his wife, and compared to Hao Yi’s things, there was simply pitifully little.
Images of that wife surfaced in his mind. He was not tall, only reaching Hao Yi’s shoulder. His face was small, his chin a little pointed, his features delicate and pretty, just somewhat timid. No matter when, he always kept his head down and did not dare look people in the eye.
Especially in front of this body’s owner, Ding Xuan was even less daring to look up, because Hao Yi often beat and scolded Ding Xuan, frightening him so badly that he was terrified of Hao Yi.
Thinking of that Ding Xuan, Hao Yi actually felt a little sorry for him. After every beating, he had to kneel on the ground, and once he knelt, he knelt for the entire night.
It seemed that the night before, Ding Xuan had been punished to kneel, and he had only gotten up this morning to go to class.
Just then, the dorm room door opened, and a timid voice sounded from the doorway. “Young Master, l-lunch time…”
Hao Yi turned around and saw Ding Xuan standing at the doorway with two lunch boxes in his hands, his face not looking very good, his head lowered all the while…