CHAPTER 1066: 1143: BUT HE NEVER WAITED FOR THIS PERSON

"I just feel like everything has changed, and I once asked my Benefactor why he saved me. He told me: in adversity, in difficult times, he had also thought about how wonderful it would be if someone could help him. But he never met that person, and because he never did, he was willing to be that person for others."

"I found that he had a wide circle, often seeing shopkeepers coming and going from his residence."

"We played chess and chatted until one day I suddenly vomited blood, and my illness worsened sharply. At that time, his face changed dramatically, and he looked at me with great compassion. Afterward, he sent me away, letting his people take me to seek medical treatment."

"Before I left, he gave me travel expenses, saying he planned to finish this last job and return to his hometown, where he has a sick brother. He said the money he earned in Jiangnan should be enough to treat his brother. I thought to myself that I must repay him one day for his great kindness to me, equivalent to being reborn. Without him, I might have been dragged back to prison long ago, or perhaps died on the streets."

"I asked where his home was, but he kept silent, only saying that helping me was just a small favor and I didn’t need to worry too much."

"So I left Jiangnan, but there were more twists and turns on the road. I encountered a group of Mountain bandits and thieves, and those he sent to protect me, the Escort Army traveling with me, were slaughtered by the mountain thief. My travel expenses were looted completely, and due to my poor health, barely hanging on, I narrowly escaped death, as the mountain thief didn’t finish me off."

"I lay on the official road for two days and a night, and it was my good fortune to meet Elder Sun. Afterward Elder Sun took me back to Dajin territory to my sect, where I recuperated for several years, gradually recovering, during which I learned through Elder Sun about what happened after I left."

"The person who saved my life was actually implicated by me. Fortunately, he is still alive, but alive as if he evaporated into thin air, hiding somewhere unknown. Until last year, when the Seventh Princess ordered the city to be closed, Elder Sun sent word to me, but the journey was distant and the messenger confused, so that when this letter reached my hand, it was already the beginning of this year. Upon receiving the letter, I immediately set off, and by the time I arrived in Jiangnan, it was only recently, but then there was no news of my Benefactor, and instead, by a twist of fate, I encountered Jade."

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Yi Ran explained everything about himself clearly, and Dong Huiying listened with a furrowed brow. Her husband, what kind of fate does he have? Helping people, he attracted so much trouble.

For example, Shujun, saved He Su, and attracted this poisonous rotten Peach Blossom of He Su.

Or Zhi Chen, who saved Lu Yinyin, also restless, once acting out of jealousy towards himself.

Or this Yi Ran, with a complex identity, actually a Royal Family’s foster son. Back then, Zhi Chen mistakenly thought he was a slave, saved him, but his painstaking efforts in Jiangnan were entirely wasted. Even then, Zhi Chen had saved up a sum of money, according to Zhi Chen, enough to treat Shu Yu’s illness, but in the end, all was lost; his business was gone, the money was gone, and Shu Yu’s illness was delayed. He himself also ended up on the Seventh Princess’s blacklist, having to live quietly hidden.

But the question is...

"One thing I care about, from the subsequent confrontations, did the Seventh Princess fancy my Zhi Chen, or was she targeting him from the beginning because of you?"

Yi Ran was taken aback, and then, with a bitter smile, rubbed his nose, saying with guilt: "Probably, it was because of me?"