"You better watch out, you little bastard! I'm going to get my dad here!"
The eldest boy seemed afraid when he realized that someone was bleeding. After some harsh words to the bullied boy, he spun around and ran away, bawling.
The Blackmount villagers knew that the wild child could even hurt adults if provoked.
Those few kids were indignant, especially that one who got hit in the head.
He stared at the boy dead in the face. "Your dad died and your mom ran away because of you, bastard An Mingji! How dare you hit me! I'll make you pay for this!"
Gu Jin froze upon hearing the name "An Mingji".
It's him!
She shivered as she looked at his lonely, skinny shadow.
She leaped to her feet and ran toward the boy without even thinking.
Little did she realize that she was lying on a large boulder, which could accommodate four or five adults at once, outside the village entrance. She just ran straight down because she was so worked up.
She fell inevitably.
Lucky for her, the boulder was large but not high; Gu Jin only sprained her leg, and she quickly recovered her balance.
Her movements attracted the boys' attention, except for the bullied boy who was standing with his back to her. He was still holding the rock in his hand, cautiously looking at the other boys surrounding him.
Gu Jin saw his skinny body from behind. Ignoring the pain in her ankle, she staggered toward him.
"Big Bastard and Little Bastard are a match in heaven!" a boy blurted.
Those were such familiar words. If Gu Jin had still been a teenager, she would have surely gone up to start a gang fight with those kids.
However, Gu Jin simply ignored them now as she fought back the pain in her leg and arrived behind An Mingji.
Right then, it did not matter if it was only a dream; she just wanted to protect this boy, whose back was facing her.
It was all because after her death, in her spirit body, she had clearly seen that he was the only person who buried her body.
At this point, An Mingji was still a child, not a gentleman in a wheelchair.
In her past life, upon learning about what had happened to her, he avenged her death in the most brutal and bloody way. He brought down the Zhen Family as well as the Liu Family, killing their second and third generations but leaving the older ones to rot by themselves.
Sometimes, it was not death but endless suffering that was the most horrible thing to endure.
"An…"
Her voice was obviously trembling.
Hearing the voice, An Mingji turned around slowly. When he saw Gu Jin, he forced a smile on his soiled and swelled face.
"Jin…"
Her eternal memories started to come back, and Gu Jin was beside herself with grief when she heard him call out to her.
Back then, the two of them were like castaways of the village just because An Mingji's father had died, and his mother had run away with someone else. His grandmother had also passed away.
Gu Jin's mother, who had been transferred to work at the grassroots-level in Blackmount Village in the countryside, was pretty but pregnant and alone at that time. Unable to stand the hardship, she married the second son of the Gu Family and gave birth to Gu Jin, who did not even know who her biological father was.
Two years after the marriage, her mother got a chance to return to the city. So, she left Gu Jin and the marriage behind.
Just like that, she was labeled as "Big Bastard". Later, because of what An Mingji had experienced, he became Little Bastard. Both of them became aliens in their own village.
However, they did not really know each other well back then. She had pitied An Mingji and given him some food, which she did not really think was a big deal.
Yet, due to that little kind gesture of hers, An Mingji had become eternally grateful to her.