“Iwa-sheng…”
“Do me a favor…”
“Take my body!”
“Even if I ruin my body, I won’t give in to that scoundrel Wang Mazi!”
Lightning flashed and thunder roared outside the dilapidated temple on the back mountain of Stone Village.
The white light shone into the temple, illuminating the woman’s fair and graceful figure.
Inside the dilapidated temple, the straw piles made a rustling sound.
Half an hour later, the noise in the dilapidated temple subsided.
Chen Yansheng gradually regained consciousness.
He looked around and saw that the earthen walls of the dilapidated temple were painted with words such as “Down with all demons and monsters, feudal superstition is unacceptable”.
Then he saw the woman lying beside him, exhausted and unconscious, with a drop of bright red blood in the grass.
The fair and smooth back, the charming and delicate familiar face, made Chen Yansheng’s body tremble suddenly.
“I’ve been reborn!”
Countless memories flooded back, making Chen Yansheng’s expression complex and heavy.
He returned to that stormy night in 1987, to the dilapidated temple behind Stone Village!
This woman is named Yu Bingjie. She is his sister Chen Yuting’s best friend and is 3 years older than him.
Two weeks ago, Yu Bingjie’s father passed away, leaving behind a seriously ill mother and a mentally challenged younger brother.
The relatives on Yu’s side of the family wanted to take advantage of the family’s lack of inheritance, so they drove Yu Bingjie’s family out and divided up their land and house.
At this time, Wang Mazi from the same village came to Yu’s door with an IOU, demanding the money that Yu’s father owed him before his death.
The Yu family had already spent all their savings on their mother’s medical treatment, so they had no money left to repay Wang Mazi.
Wang Mazi proposed that Yu Bingjie marry him, in which he would not only clear all the debts but also give her an extra dowry so that she could pay for her mother’s medical treatment.
With nowhere else to turn, Yu Bingjie was forced to marry Wang Mazi.
On the eve of her engagement, Yu Bingjie, unwilling to let Wang Mazi ruin her body, chose to give her virginity to Chen Yansheng, the younger brother of her best friend whom she had always had feelings for.
“Sister Bingjie, in this life, I will never let you experience the despair of having no one to rely on, and finally commit suicide by jumping into the river!”
Looking at the woman in front of him, whose delicate brows were furrowed from his actions, Chen Yansheng felt sorry for her.
On that night in his previous life, he was framed and fed an aphrodisiac meant for livestock.
After he had relations with Yu Bingjie, the man deliberately led Wang Mazi and the villagers to the dilapidated temple, where they discovered the two men, who were disheveled.
In his previous life, he had just been admitted to university. He was timid and cowardly. When the villagers found out, he fearfully blamed all his mistakes on Bingjie for seducing him!
Even so, feeling cheated on, Wang Mazi still broke his leg, and the villagers took him to the police station on charges of hooliganism.
In this era, hooliganism is a serious crime, and those with severe circumstances are subject to execution.
Even so, in order to protect him, Yu Bingjie kept emphasizing to the people at the police station…
She admitted that she was promiscuous and had seduced Chen Yansheng, and that all her faults were that she was despicable and shameless.
Even so, Chen Yansheng’s place in university was taken by someone else, and he was sentenced to seven years in prison, not being released until 1994.
Yu Bingjie was also called a “promiscuous woman” and a “stinking whore” by the villagers because she told the police station that it was a voluntary act.
Enraged, Wang Mazi produced an IOU and seized the Yu family’s house and land.
Yu’s mother was already seriously ill, her husband had just died, and their house had been taken away. In a moment of despair, she took her mentally challenged youngest son and committed suicide by burning charcoal.
With all her relatives dead and nowhere to go, Yu Bingjie also chose to commit suicide by jumping into the river, ending her beautiful life.
Because of this incident, Chen Yuting, the older sister, resented Chen Yansheng for being weak, incompetent, and irresponsible, unable to even protect the woman he had a relationship with, which led to her best friend’s tragic death.
Because of this incident, Chen Yuting, the older sister, took her parents to another place and never saw Chen Yansheng again.
Although Chen Yansheng became a wealthy businessman after his release from prison, thanks to his outstanding abilities and the market economy dividends of the 1990s.
But with his leg crippled and unable to gain forgiveness from his parents and sister, coupled with his guilt towards Bingjie, he never dared to touch a woman again and remained a lonely man for the rest of his life!
His only offspring were the twins that were already formed in Yu Bingjie’s belly when her body was pulled from the river.
“In this life, I must protect Yu Bingjie and the child she is about to carry, and never let the tragedy of the previous life happen again.”
Thinking of this, Chen Yansheng’s eyes blazed, and he secretly made a vow.
…
According to the timeline of their previous life, the villagers of Stone Village are already on their way.
“Bingjie, wake up!”
Thinking of this, Chen Yansheng put on his clothes while patting Yu Bingjie’s fair and smooth back and whispering.
After being tossed and turned for an hour, Yu Bingjie was exhausted. Hearing Chen Yansheng’s calls, she opened her eyes with some difficulty.
Upon seeing Chen Yansheng, who was already dressed, Yu Bingjie’s face showed a hint of shyness and fear.
Chen Yansheng was incredibly aggressive just now, like an animal on drugs.
“Yansheng, don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone about what happened tonight. Just treat it as a dream.”
Yu Bingjie sat up, putting on her clothes as she spoke, her slightly trembling hands indicating that her emotions were not very stable.
“Sister Bingjie, who taught you to trick me into going up the back mountain?”
Chen Yansheng said with a serious expression.
As he spoke, he tried to stand up, but because of the medication he had taken and the exertion he had just exerted, his legs were still a little weak.
He had just stood up when he almost fell down again.
Yu Bingjie also noticed that Chen Yansheng’s physical condition was not right, so she quickly supported him and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“I’ve been drugged, and I just noticed a lot of flashlights shining at the foot of the mountain. It must be the villagers coming to find us.”
Chen Yansheng said in a deep voice:
“If they find out about our current situation, you should know what the consequences will be…”
Upon hearing this, Yu Bingjie’s expression changed drastically, and she exclaimed, “How could this be?”
“I suspect we’ve been framed!” Chen Yansheng stared at Yu Bingjie, his tone serious. “Tell me first, who suggested you bring me to the back mountain?”
“It’s Wang Tao’s wife…” Yu Bingjie’s expression was rather unpleasant.
Ever since Wang Mazi forced Wang Tao to marry her, Wang Tao’s wife has suddenly started coming to chat with her frequently.
The other person even offered her advice, seemingly unintentionally: “That Wang Mazi is so ugly and slovenly, are you really willing to give him your virginity?”
“If you ask me, I’d rather find a man I like and give him my virginity. At least I won’t regret it later.”
Yu Bingjie was also persuaded by Wang Tao’s wife’s words, and set her sights on Chen Yansheng.
“It really is Wang Tao! He wants my spot in university!” Chen Yansheng’s face darkened, and he clenched his fists.
In this day and age, even getting into university doesn’t guarantee you’ll actually be able to attend classes.
The brigade also needs to issue a certificate to confirm that the person’s family background is not problematic and that they have no criminal record, etc.
In addition, there are restrictions on the number of university places available.
The village chief’s son, Wang Tao, was also a high school graduate in the same year as him, but his grades were not as good.
In his previous life, after Chen Yansheng went to prison, his university spot was taken by Wang Tao, the village chief’s son.
Upon hearing Chen Yansheng’s analysis, Yu Bingjie’s expression changed slightly: “If the village chief’s son wants to harm us, what should we do?”
She thought tonight’s events were just wishful thinking on her part, never expecting such a huge conspiracy behind it all.
“The most important thing now is to prevent Wang Mazi and the villagers from seeing us, a lone man and woman, in the dilapidated temple behind the village,” Chen Yansheng said.
“I’m going to hide deep in the mountains right now, and I won’t come out until dawn.”
Yu Bingjie knew the situation was urgent, so she immediately prepared to leave.
“No, it’s thundering and raining outside!”
“You’re a woman, running off into the deep mountains. What if something happens to you?”
Chen Yansheng tried to stop him.
As soon as he finished speaking, several beams of flashlight light shone from afar outside the dilapidated temple.
The sound of the villagers’ footsteps grew closer and closer.
Upon hearing the noise, Yu Bingjie turned pale.
Now, even her way out of the mountain god temple was blocked.
“Chen Yansheng, don’t say anything later, just pretend that nothing happened between us.”
“At worst, I’ll just say that I lured you to the back mountain and wanted to sleep with you.”
“Since I’ve already been shameless once, I’m not afraid of losing face again.”
Yu Bingjie took a few deep breaths and spoke to Chen Yansheng in a slightly trembling voice.
After saying that, her face hardened, and she turned and walked out of the dilapidated temple.
The most likely outcome for her going there would be that she would be locked in a pig cage and thrown into the river to drown.