Fifteen-year-old Gu Sihan was doing something like this for the first time, and he couldn’t help feeling a bit uneasy.
But he had already awakened the memories of his past life. For Mingzhu’s sake, for the good of everyone in the Gu Family, he could only wrong Di Youyou.
“Uncle Zhang, drive faster!”
“Yes, young master!”
Inside the handbag placed at Gu Sihan’s feet, the baby girl abruptly opened her large eyes, which were filled with stars. Even in the pitch-black darkness, they still shimmered with scattered starlight.
Remarkably, the baby girl didn’t cry or fuss at all.
As the Heavenly Dao’s Beloved Daughter, Di Youyou was already on her Second Cycle of Mortal Existence.
The last effects of the knockout drug had already been completely expelled from her body through her sweat glands.
Di Youyou knew Gu Sihan’s secret! The baby girl actually sneered coldly.
It seemed her cheap older brother had also been reborn, just like her.
To be so impatient as to personally steal her, only three days old, from her mother’s side…
She was utterly speechless. In her previous life, the original owner had at least enjoyed a month of good days in the Gu Family before being swapped out by Gu Mingzhu’s nanny mother.
The original owner had wandered outside for seventeen years before being recognized and taken back by the Gu Family. But by then, no one in the Gu Family wanted to acknowledge Di Youyou anymore, and they even insanely plotted a car accident.
It was a close call—she, the Heavenly Dao’s Beloved Daughter, had just descended to the mortal realm when she was sent flying by a car wheel.
Opening her eyes again, she encountered such a ridiculous situation.
Well, well. It seemed her status as a daughter of the Gu Family truly held no karmic ties with the Gu Family. They didn’t want her both times, and Di Youyou wouldn’t force it either.
She could live a good life in the mortal world all by herself, fulfilling a lifetime of Mortal Karma.
Gu Sihan had really gone to great pains, driving over two hundred kilometers to deliver Di Youyou to the foot of Longhu Mountain in Shencheng.
This time, sending her over two hundred kilometers away from Haishi, surely Di Youyou wouldn’t have any chance to go back and compete with Mingzhu for her identity, right?
Gu Sihan truly couldn’t bring himself to kill Di Youyou, otherwise he could have permanently eliminated the threat.
He had read in novels that babies were usually left at the entrance of a Taoist temple, and the temple master would always give them a way to survive. That was still better than being raised by a nanny, waiting for the day the truth exploded.
The problem was, that scoundrel Gu Sihan was so afraid others would discover he was the one who abandoned Di Youyou here that he didn’t even go near the Taoist temple entrance on the mountain. He directly threw Di Youyou into the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain.
Di Youyou: “…”
Really unbelievable, but she still pretended to be unconscious.
Gu Sihan gently placed Di Youyou on the dry leaves.
“Little sister, don’t blame your big brother. Mingzhu is in poor health; she can only survive if raised in the Gu Family.
In this life, I hope you can grow up safely here.
As for the Gu Family… just forget about it!”
Probably because there was still a last shred of humanity in his heart that hadn’t been completely extinguished, Gu Sihan rambled on for quite a while.
So annoying, get lost, get lost!
That idiot Gu Sihan—when he offered Gu Mingzhu’s nanny mother one million to leave Gu Mingzhu in the Gu Family for treatment, the look the nanny gave Gu Sihan was something Di Youyou still remembered to this day.
What a fool!
Originally, Gu Sihan had given her to the nanny, asking her to take Di Youyou away. But then he grew uneasy, afraid Gu Mingzhu’s identity would be exposed like in their previous life, so he simply took matters into his own hands.
The nanny, on the other hand, took the one million and slipped away. As for his own biological sister, she was wrapped in a piece of tattered cloth and directly thrown into the deep mountains and old forests.
Even with the broadest mind, Di Youyou hated Gu Shan to the core at this moment.
That bastard better not show up again, or I’ll settle both old and new scores together.
Di Youyou listened as the person seemed to have rolled far away, then sighed.
Her little hands fumbled around inside the swaddling clothes, as if tracing some kind of totem.
In the forest, a large macaque swooshed through the branches.
Li Jingmo, a stunningly beautiful young man with dyed green hair, found himself inexplicably following it.
Today was the day the Li family was coming to take him back to Jing City, and Li Jingmo was utterly fed up. What was the point of going back to such a lifeless place?
His grandmother, the only one who truly cared for him, was gone too. Li Jingmo felt life really had no meaning.
Grandma had always said it was a pity his sister had died young; otherwise, the siblings could have kept each other company.
He had stayed at Dragon Tiger Mountain for forty-nine days, hoping his grandmother could reincarnate without suffering.
Li Jingmo sighed, pushing the thoughts aside.
Meanwhile, Di Youyou had already spotted the macaque’s figure.
[Brother Monkey, over here!
I’m here! Could you please take me to the entrance of the Taoist temple?
I’m too small; I need to find a place to grow up for a few years, or I’ll just starve to death.]
The macaque had been wondering what had summoned it this way. Turned out it was a human infant. Poor thing, how did it end up abandoned here?
And she could even communicate with it through Interspecies Communication. You really do live and learn.
[Little human, how about I take you to my wife first for a quick feed? She just gave birth to a little one, and her milk has been plentiful these days.]
Di Youyou nearly choked on her own saliva.
[Heh heh, thank you for the kind offer, Brother Monkey.
Just take me straight to the temple entrance, please. Raising a human is a very troublesome business; let’s not cause trouble for your wife, okay?]
The macaque scratched behind its ear.
[Alright, suit yourself.]
Just as the macaque was about to pick up Di Youyou, it was caught red-handed by Li Jingmo, who had followed it.
A fifteen-year-old boy is at the peak of youthful vigor and overflowing with a sense of justice.
From a distance, Li Jingmo had seen an abandoned baby on the ground, and figured the big monkey had probably caught the scent and come over.
In an instant, countless scenes of Di Youyou being torn to pieces flashed through his mind.
In a moment of urgency, Li Jingmo could only pick up a few stones from the ground and hurl them at the macaque.
‘Ow~~’
His aim was surprisingly good.
Caught off guard, the macaque took a painful hit right on its rear end.
Di Youyou was also startled. Why did Brother Monkey suddenly go berserk?
[Dammit, someone’s ambushing me!]
The macaque turned around and bared its teeth at Li Jingmo, who was running over.
Li Jingmo immediately threw another large stone, which landed on the monkey’s head with a loud thump.
Di Youyou felt a sympathetic headache for the monkey.
[Brother Monkey, you should hide first!
Don’t worry about me.
This big brother probably thinks you’re trying to eat me~]
Another hit like that and it really wouldn’t be able to take it. Since Di Youyou said so, the macaque naturally wouldn’t stick its neck out any further.
With one leap, it vanished without a trace.
Seeing that he had driven the big creature away, Li Jingmo finally let out a sigh of relief.
He had been terrified the wild monkey would just grab the baby and run up a tree…
Li Jingmo ran to Di Youyou’s side and picked her up from the ground.
Just looking at Di Youyou’s beautiful little face, Li Jingmo knew she was a girl.
“Poor little thing, how did you end up here?”
Di Youyou, of course, couldn’t speak.
“Ee-ya ee-ya!”
“You’re quite brave, aren’t you?”
She wasn’t even scared enough to cry!
Li Jingmo carried Di Youyou back, thinking to himself that the sister his grandmother had always talked about wanting—well, now he had one.
“I want to raise this child!”
Inside the Yiqing Taoist Temple, the steward Li Zhong and the temple master, Master Liaochen, both gaped in astonishment.
“What? Little Mo, you’re still a child yourself. How can you raise this infant?”