“Mom, I’m hungry!”
“Shh, Mom is too tired. Let her sleep a little longer. Big Brother will take you to Huzi’s house to dig for sweet potatoes.”
“Big Brother, maybe don’t let Sanmao go. His shoes are showing his toes again, and Xiaoying will laugh at him.”
Chu Fuyu felt dizzy and groggy. This was already the second time she had dreamed about these three little boys.
The first time she dreamed of them, she had been completely shocked.
Because the three boys actually resembled her quite a bit around the eyes and brows. They also looked extremely alike to one another—clearly triplets born of the same mother.
Just when she was complaining that her dreams had become stranger and stranger lately, she heard them chirping around her, calling her “Mom.”
What a joke!
She, Chu Fuyu, had been single for twenty-five years since birth! She had never even held a man’s hand before! How could she possibly have three sons this old?!
And each of them looked yellow-faced and malnourished. They were probably already five years old, yet they looked no bigger than three-year-olds. Their clothes were ragged and torn too.
Although they looked miserable, their delicate features were impossible to hide.
Even at such a young age, it was obvious they had naturally good looks. It was only because of long-term malnutrition and all the dirt on them that they looked like little beggars scavenging for scraps.
Chu Fuyu also noticed something else—the place in the dream was somewhere she had never seen before. The house looked like an old-fashioned straw hut. There was almost no furniture inside, though the courtyard outside was fairly large. No matter how she looked at it, it resembled ancient times.
Could this be her previous life?
Chu Fuyu guessed as much. If so, then her life with these three sons had truly been miserable.
But where was the children’s useless father?
Why had he never appeared even once?
Could it be that in her previous life she had been some hopeless love-struck fool who ended up digging wild vegetables to survive?
Was her name Wang Baochuan or something?
Or perhaps she had been a widow?
Her mind filled with endless speculation, yet none of it could be confirmed. But looking at the three children, she couldn’t help feeling pity for them.
Such pitiful children. They couldn’t even get enough to eat! And they had no father or mother to care for them!
Thinking about it made her chest ache.
Chu Fuyu herself had lost both parents at a young age. The only family she had left was an absurdly rich “Second Uncle.”
Rumor had it that his current wealth and success had come from causing her parents’ deaths.
But she had no proof and no way to avenge them.
Just as she was feeling sorrowful and bitter, her phone suddenly rang with a ding!, pulling her attention away.
The next second—
“Alipay payment received: 100,000,000 yuan.”
?????
How many zeros was that?!
Did she hear that right?
Had Alipay bugged out?
Why had such a huge amount suddenly been transferred to her?!
It felt like more money than she could spend in a lifetime!
Just as she was still reeling from the shock, her phone rang again. She quickly answered.
A calm, steady male voice came from the other end.
“Hello, Miss Chu. I’m Lawyer Wang. Before your parents passed away, they left behind a large inheritance for you and instructed me to transfer it to you when you turned twenty-five. Do you have time right now for us to discuss it in detail? There are some truths I believe you deserve to know.”
Chu Fuyu’s heart skipped a beat. Her parents had died in a car accident fifteen years ago. Everything had happened so suddenly that they hadn’t left behind even a single word.
By the time she arrived, her second uncle had already arranged for their cremation.
She had been living alone ever since. And now, news related to her parents had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Excitement surged through her immediately.
“Yes! Where are you?” she asked hurriedly.
“I’m downstairs at your apartment.”
A while later, in the living room of her home, Chu Fuyu looked at the sharply dressed Lawyer Wang sitting before her and poured him a cup of tea.
“Lawyer Wang, you said earlier that you had news about my parents? And… the truth about something?”
Lawyer Wang adjusted his glasses and handed her a folder, his expression grave.
“I was Chairman Chu’s personal lawyer and worked with him for over twenty years. Back then, the car accident involving Chairman Chu and Madam Chu was not an accident at all—it was orchestrated by the current head of the Chu family, Chu Xiong.
“Unfortunately, it all happened too suddenly. Chairman Chu and Madam Chu had no time to guard against it and fell victim to the scheme. Over these years, I’ve secretly been gathering evidence.
“Thankfully, they had prepared in advance. Most of their assets had already been entrusted to me, with instructions to hand them over to you when you turned twenty-five. This one hundred million yuan will be enough for you to live a life of wealth and comfort.”
Learning the truth so suddenly, Chu Fuyu immediately grabbed the documents and read through them carefully.
Inside were records of her parents’ assets from back then, the legal transfer of those assets to her, and finally, all the evidence Lawyer Wang had gathered over the past fifteen years.
Her hands trembled violently.
She suddenly looked up, her eyes reddening.
“Lawyer Wang! I want to sue him! He’s my father’s own younger brother, yet he could do something so vicious! I want him to suffer for the rest of his life!”
Lawyer Wang’s eyes also turned moist.
“Miss, don’t worry. I’ve prepared for this day for fifteen years. My purpose in giving you the inheritance today was so that afterward, I could avenge Chairman Chu and Madam Chu.
“You don’t need to get involved. Before they died, their greatest wish was that you would never be dragged into this—that you could live a healthy, peaceful life.”
“They were my parents. Of course I should be the one to avenge them!”
Chu Fuyu’s voice rang out firmly.
But Lawyer Wang only shook his head without saying more before standing up and leaving.
At first, suddenly receiving so much money had filled Chu Fuyu with ecstatic joy. But now that she knew the truth, she felt only unbearable agony.
She read the documents over and over again. Thinking of how much her parents had loved her, grief overwhelmed her.
In this life, she no longer had any family.
There was only herself, utterly alone.
If only she still had even one family member…
Lost in pain, she ground her teeth in hatred whenever she thought about the mastermind behind everything. She wanted nothing more than to skin him alive and tear him apart.
With that thought, she hurried out and hailed a taxi to the Chu Corporation headquarters.
But just as she got out of the car and arrived downstairs at the company building, she suddenly saw crowds of people looking terrified. Numerous police cars were parked nearby as well.
Chu Fuyu froze, suddenly realizing something. She quickly grabbed someone nearby and asked, “What happened inside?”
A white-collar worker, still visibly shaken, explained:
“Just now, a lawyer in a suit uploaded evidence of our chairman’s crimes onto the company’s official website, which alerted the police. Then suddenly… he dragged the chairman down with him. The two of them fell from the rooftop together. There was blood everywhere…”
Chu Fuyu was so shocked that her mind went blank.
So this was the revenge Lawyer Wang had spoken of.
After all, Chu Xiong was now the chairman of the Chu Corporation—a man powerful enough to cover the sky with one hand. Using only the law, it would have been difficult to make him receive true punishment.
If he merely served a few years in prison, how could that ever ease such hatred?
A blood debt had to be repaid in blood.
And so, Lawyer Wang had chosen such a tragic method.
Chu Fuyu remained silent.
Looking at the cold one hundred million yuan in her account, she stood there utterly lost.