Master Recognition Successful.
This gold bracelet can only recognize one master at a time. Once it has a master, it cannot recognize another until the current master dies.
After recognition, the space automatically binds to the user’s divine consciousness. Even if someone else obtains the bracelet, it is useless unless Xie Li dies.
In the original story, Xie Silin used this very mechanism to engineer the death of the original Xie Li.
Within this space lay the wealth and treasures accumulated by the Xie family over generations a final fallback that the patriarch had left for the original Xie Li.
The patriarch knew all too well the character of Xie Qingsong and Wu Fengrao. Their hearts belonged only to Xie Silin, and there was no guarantee that the family fortune would not one day fall into the hands of someone unrelated by blood to the Xie family.
It was far safer to give it directly to Xie Li at least she carried the blood of the Xie family.
Xie Li closed her eyes and entered the space.
The space stretched endlessly, free of wind or dust.
On the ground lay the Xie family’s heirlooms and treasures, accumulated over generations.
One carved rosewood chest after another extended for a distance of ten miles a sea of red!
The original text described it like this:
The patriarch’s fortune for Xie Li was packed in one carved rosewood chest after another, stretching across mountains and valleys for ten miles.
Xie Li opened the chests casually.
Masterpieces, luxury watches, gold, jade, and agate!
She could lie down for a hundred lifetimes and never worry!
Truly befitting a Shanghai tycoon the kind only a real capitalist could have!
After months of cursing the author, Xie Li finally began to feel gratitude gratitude for the author’s audacity, generosity, and, well… for writing a story where her character could inherit such a fortune.
On the ground lay an envelope. Xie Li picked it up and opened it.
It was the patriarch’s final instructions:
Little Li: Please forgive Grandpa’s presumptuous decision. The political movements have started to take shape. Our family will inevitably face purges. I have arranged a marriage for you with the Shen family. Their grandfather is an old friend, and I have sent your ID so that you can apply to marry his grandson. That boy is a soldier, an honest man. Only his family can keep you safe. My time is short, so I had no choice but to arrange this for you. My little Li, Grandpa wishes you a lifetime of safety and smooth sailing.
Xie Li held the letter, trembling, tears streaming down her face.
In the original story, after the patriarch arranged everything, the original Xie Li set off to find the Shen family’s young man. Xie Silin, with her god’s-eye perspective, bribed the boatman to sink the vessel.
After the original Xie Li drowned, Xie Silin claimed the gold bracelet, letting her blood bind to it, stealing the space and fortune. At the very start of the political movement, she fled to Hong Kong with her family and Pei Shuchen’s family.
With this space and fortune, she dominated the second half of her life both the Pei family and the Xie family had to curry favor with her.
Xie Li sat on a chest, beginning to calculate.
In the early 1960s, the sweeping political movements were about to begin. Big capitalists like the Xie family would inevitably be targeted. The patriarch, with his foresight, arranged the Shen family marriage to protect her.
In the book, the Shen family and their grandson were mentioned only briefly; he was a soldier.
Xie Qingsong and Wu Fengrao would surely flee to Hong Kong with Xie Silin, leaving Xie Li unprotected. Only a military marriage could guarantee her safety.
Meanwhile, Xie Silin held the jade bracelet in her hands, eyes closed devoutly.
Her mind went blank. The space wouldn’t activate.
Strange was her blood too little?
She gritted her teeth, grabbed a fruit knife from the kitchen, and cut a deep gash in her finger.
Blood dripped down her hand.
Yet she was so excited she didn’t even feel the pain.
Drip… drip… drip…
No reaction.
Drip… drip… drip…
Still nothing!
How exactly was this supposed to activate? The book said “blood recognition,” but never detailed the process.
That damned old Xie Buyou must have told Xie Li how to activate it!
Xie Silin decided to go and probe Xie Li.
Knock, knock, knock!
Xie Li’s door was tapped gently.
It was Xie Silin, carrying a tray of fruit.
The two women exchanged glances, each with their own scheme.
“Sister, have some fruit. Grandpa left you in the room before he died and surely said many things to you. I miss him terribly. Can you tell me what he said?”
Xie Silin was probing.
Xie Li lowered her gaze, adopting her previous meek, submissive demeanor.
Xie Silin raised an eyebrow.
So all that ruckus when Xie Li beat Pei Shuchen and ransacked the Xie household had been fueled purely by her anger. Now calm, she was back to being a timid weakling.
Xie Silin raised her hand, shaking the bracelet on her wrist:
“Xie Li, you know the secret of this bracelet, right? Don’t think you can beat me. I’ve already bound it with my blood. I just want to ask did Grandpa say anything else about the bracelet before he died?”
Xie Li’s eyes widened instantly, and she clutched the bedframe tightly!
Xie Silin inwardly rejoiced. She pressed her advantage:
“Xie Li, tell me now, and I’ll reward you. You know the bracelet contains the Xie family’s generational wealth. If I give you a little, you’ll still enjoy endless riches for the rest of your life.”
A flicker of unwillingness and resentment passed through Xie Li’s eyes.
After a long moment, she timidly spoke:
“Grandpa did tell me something about the bracelet… but if you want to know, you must give me part of the fortune. Otherwise, I won’t say a word!”
Xie Silin sneered.
The timid weakling actually had the nerve to make demands! One gold bracelet wasn’t enough to appease her?!
“Fine, speak!”
Xie Li swallowed nervously, stammering:
“I… I want all of the Xie family’s basement fortune.”
Xie Silin: “???!!!”
She hadn’t expected timid, cowardly Xie Li to dare make such a bold request!
The Xie family basement contained all of the visible wealth.
Though it was only a fraction of what was in the space, it was still enough to last several generations.
This was the fallback that Xie Buyou had left for Xie Qingshan.
Xie Silin thought for a moment, then had an idea:
“Wait here. I need to discuss this with Dad and Mom.”
She went to confront Xie Qingshan and Wu Fengrao, explaining the jade bracelet and why her blood-binding attempt failed. They needed a breakthrough from Xie Li.
“Mom, Dad, even if we agree to give her all the basement property, it doesn’t matter. I’ll absorb it into the space, and she’ll be left with nothing!”
Xie Qingsong was so excited he could barely sit still!
That’s what he knew there was more than just the visible treasures! And now he realized his father had secretly left these treasures for that girl, Xie Li!
“Fine! Agree to all her demands!”
Xie Qingsong waved his hand grandly, taking Wu Fengrao and Xie Silin to Xie Li’s room…