Chapter 2: Rebirth

 

Ou LingYi curled up tightly in the explosion. A force came over him and he felt that he was sucked into a deep vortex. There was something watery in the fuzziness that covered his whole body, warm and comfortable.

There was no pain or burning after the explosion. Thinking of the sound coming from his ear before the explosion, Ou LingYi closed his eyes and fell asleep feeling nothing.

After a long time, Ou LingYi felt a force pressing his body, which woke him up from sleep. Involuntarily, he was pushed out. A white light flashed in front of him, and he closed his eyes reflexively.

"Congratulations, madam. It's a healthy little boy! Look how lovely he is!" With the joyful sound in his ear, Ou LingYi felt that he was brought close to a warm bosom, and the strong smell of disinfectant filled his nostrils.

Then came a sharp scream, "What are you looking at?! Get him out of the way! This tiny bastard will bring calamity upon me!"

Hearing the familiar and mean voice, Ou LingYi suddenly opened his eyes, and there was a sharp pain in his head. All the memories that had passed with time rushed into his mind like a flood.

Unable to bear the sudden pain, he groaned and heard a loud baby crying in his ear. Waving his little hands and feet, Ou LingYi looked at the once pregnant woman. What he saw was his mother's young and beautiful face filled with deep disgust.

Now, Ou LingYi finally found out that he had returned back to the moment when he was just born.

Looking back at the past, he closed his eyes tightly and frowned painfully.

Ou LingYi, in his previous life, lived with his mother until he was fourteen years old. His mother had a beautiful face, but she had no ability to make a living. Hence, she could only do the lowest business – prostitution.

Her pregnancy with Ou LingYi was accidental.

At that time, Ou LingYi's mother was still very young, with a slim and perfect figure, a perfect and delicate face, and brilliantly stunning. With her beauty, she climbed into the bed of the president of the Ou Group, who was known as the emperor of the underworld, Ou XingTian, and she became one of his hundreds of women.

At that time, Ou XingTian had a son, Ou TianBao, and loved him and cared for him. Seeing this situation, Ou LingYi's mother began to think about giving birth to a child to receive the same special treatment from Ou XingTian. Unexpectedly, when she went to tell him, she was thrown out of the house.

With a large amount of money for abortion fees, and under the threat of being killed, Ou LingYi's mother had to pack up and leave, and to secretly find a place to kill the baby in her stomach.

She didn't expect that something she couldn't control occurred. During the examination for her abortion, her blood clotting ability was found to be faulty, so it would be life-threatening for her to try and forcibly remove the child. [efn_note]Also known as Hemophilia, von Willebrand Disease, Coagulation Disorders, Blood Clotting Disorders, Clotting Factor Deficiencies. Bleeding disorders are rare disorders affecting the way the body controls blood clotting. [/efn_note]

Faced with this, she could only grit her teeth and give birth to Ou LingYi.

Shortly after Ou LingYi was born, his mother and a young man quickly fell in love. Unfortunately, he had turned out to be a swindler and he cheated her out of all her property. Under the pressure of life, she had to go back to her old job and move into the red light district with Ou LingYi, leading the lowest and most difficult life.

In his mother's eyes, Ou LingYi was a bad omen, and all her misfortunes came from him. Therefore, beating, scolding, and abusing became a common part of Ou LingYi's childhood.

At the age of fourteen, Ou LingYi was already very handsome. He completely inherited the excellent features of both his parents: his body was long, his face was delicate, and others were obsessed with his looks. This was the reason why his miserable life began.

Once, when Ou LingYi's mother catered to an old man with pedophilia, the man asked to buy Ou LingYi, who was only fourteen years old at the time. Seeing the man take out a thick stack of banknotes from his bag, his mother agreed without thinking.

From then on, Ou LingYi began to welcome and send people to and fro, selling his body as a prostitute. This dirty life continued until the last day of his fourteen-year-old life, when his second uncle, Ou XingZhen, appeared and took him back to the Ou family.

If you think this is the end of Ou LingYi's tragedy and the beginning of a happy life, you are wrong. Greater pain was waiting for the little boy who was still ignorant and naïve at that time.

Back home, Ou LingYi led a rich life that could only appear in one's imagination.

Dressed in expensive and decent clothes, eating expensive meals, sleeping on a high bed with a soft pillow, he felt as though he was dreaming, and deep fear filled his heart.

He was afraid of waking up, afraid he would go back to the messy room in the red light district, where he could be kneaded, pinched, played with, and done.

In order to grasp the dream-like good life, Ou LingYi began to study the etiquette of the upper-class society desperately, enrich his mind desperately, and flatter his father, uncle, brother, and sister desperately, in order to hope that such a good dream could stay longer and longer.

Unfortunately, the dream would always be a dream, there would be a day to break it. On his twentieth birthday, he learned the truth about his return to the family from his adopted sister, Ou LingShuang.

It turned out that he was just a living organ donor. When the right time came, his father would ask him to donate his heart to his brother with congenital heart disease. His efforts, his flattery, and even his life and death were never of significance in the eyes of his father, Ou XingTian.

The horrific truth was totally unacceptable to Ou LingYi. He didn't believe that his family would be so cruel to him. So he did something that ultimately made him a ghost, and he still regretted it.

He impulsively ran out to confront his second uncle. As for asking his father, Ou LingYi didn't dare to think about it. His father, Ou XingTian, hated his existence very much. No matter how much Ou LingYi tried to please him, he never looked at him. This was the source of Ou LingYi's uneasiness.

He rushed to his second uncle's hospital to ask; the result of that was, of course, that the naïve Ou LingYi was deceived by the second uncle yet again. The second uncle told him that although Ou LingShuang was his brother's – Ou TianBao's – fiancée, she had an affair with Lan Yu, his father's right-hand assistant, and was even pregnant. In doing so, Ou LingShuang had compromised Lan Yu's relationship with the Ou family.

Ou LingYi, a young man who hadn't gone through the world, didn't think about it too much, so he really believed Ou XingZhen's words. He hurriedly ran to the headquarters of the Ou Group to confront Ou LingShuang, but Lan Yu quietly kidnapped him, dragging him into Ou LingShuang's car. At this time, Ou LingYi was convinced that Ou LingShuang betrayed the Ou family, and he refused to follow her, so he snatched the steering wheel from her recklessly.

In the unsteady car, they collided head-on with a truck. Ou LingShuang, in order to protect Ou LingYi, threw herself on him, and shielded him from the force of the collision.

In a pool of blood, Ou LingShuang tightly held Ou LingYi's hand and smiled with relief, "Xiao Yi, I regret not telling you eariler what I really wanted, but now it's too late. This is the jade pendant that I have been wearing since the orphanage. My mother gave it to me before she died, saying that making a vow would be spiritual. I once had two wishes: one is that TianBao's illness would get better; the other was to leave the Ou family and live a simple life. Unfortunately, these two wishes have never been realized! But I believe it will listen to my last wish. I hope you can live a good life! Live the life you want, no longer controlled by people at will! I am leaving this jade to you, let it guard you instead of me. Now leave quickly, the Ou Group's people are coming!"

Holding the weak hands of Ou LingShuang, watching her close her eyes and fall into the pool of blood, Ou LingYi's heart broke as he cried. Where could he find the strength to follow her instructions and escape?

In the end, the bodyguards dragged him back to the Ou family.

In Ou LingShuang's room, his brother, Ou TianBao, answered his doubts and told the bloody truth.

From that day on, Ou LingYi completely lost the will to live. He did not eat or drink, and waited until he was pushed onto the operating table.

After being drugged, Ou LingYi didn't feel any pain. Watching the doctor's shining scalpel cut his chest, watching his beating heart carefully taken out, Ou LingYi closed his eyes with a smile.

Then came the long wandering years, empty and simple, a time of lost memories.

With his little hand shaking, he rubbed his neck, Ou LingYi found that the jade pendant that had been hanging between his neck was missing.

It looked like it was destroyed in the explosion. It turned out that this jade could fulfill people's wishes only at the cost of a human life. With the combination of the former and the latter, Ou LingYi immediately figured out that he had become an immortal wandering soul and experienced rebirth.+

The continuation of his soul used the life of sister Ou LingShuang. However, he was not willing to go back to that cold home!

This life is for me to protect you, to complete your unfinished wish! Just don't try to shake me off anymore.

Silently transferring the familiar energy in the body, Ou LingYi's mood had returned to the previous coldness.

Lips slightly curved, he made his own vows and closed his tired eyes.