It's been a long time since Jiang Yingyue smiled.
A real, happy smile. But now she was laughing so much that the muscles in her stomach stretched painfully.
It's been 2 hours, but she still finds it hilarious.
She had been reincarnated into her first life, when she used to be a naive, innocent 4 year old girl. However she had to learn the hard way, that to be naive was the the most foolish thing she ever done.
In her first life, she was killed by her own father's hands. He wanted to take over his wife business, so he concocted a plan to first kill his wife, then his daughter. Then he would inherit the wealth that his wife gave their daughter and together with his mistress and their child, live a happy life together.
He succeeded too.
After Jiang Yingyue died, she was reincarnated into another world where humans developed special gifts true cultivation. Everything was possible if you had talent and worked hard. In Jiang Yingyue's case, she cultivated for 250 years and successfully crafted 4 different abilities.
One of them was learning abilities, she learned everything faster then human possiblity. Because of this ability, she crafted twice as much as any other person had before.
However her main interest was actually something she learned from her time on earth, human gifts.
Such as paintings, tea art, Chinese martial art, computer science, history and languages among a few.
While cultivating for so many years, she learned profoundly from her hobbies. Her skill was exceptional, but in a cultivation world, these things where not sought-after.
No, it was her excellent control over her abilities that was tremendously looked up to. Aside from her learning ability, her other abilities where healing touch, manipulation eyes and invisibility.
Healing touch was making her able to heal anyone and more precisely she could just touch someone or thing and feel what's inside and what needs healing. Manipulation eyes made her able to manipulate anyone with just looking in their eyes and speak out what she wanted them to think, feel or do. Her fourth ability was to turn herself or whatever she touched invisible. With these 4 rare abilities, she became very successful in her second life and was very well known.
She died when she was 250 years old, as do everyone in the cultivation world. Now she was reincarnated back to her first life and she was tremendously happy to be back, specially before her mother died.
Jiang Yingyue was going to change her history and save her mother and successfully change both their fate.
Inside a small house on a broken down bed sat Jiang Yingyue thinking of their future. Her mother was out working and her father would not show his face before Jiang Yingyue was 10. No he would not step forward until her mother Jiang Mei, inherit her father's wealth.
Now mother and daughter had nothing to their name, because Jiang Mei belived her father was dead. She didn't know that he had spent years searching for her after his brother kidnapped Jiang Mei when she was 8 years old. But no one knew this yet, it would come out in the open until years later.
Jiang Yingyue thought it would be good to have her mother and grandfather met earlier then last life.
She opened her mother's old laptop and started searching for his name, Wu Chen. It didn't take long for her to find out where he lived and what he did. He was the CEO of his multi billion dollar company. This company worked mostly with medicines and was very famous in the capital. Her grandfather lived alone at the moment, but would become more and more lonely and eventually invite his son, daughter in-law and their child to move in with him. This is when his health started disorienting and he eventually died, but no one knew that what really killed him was not his unstable health, but poison. Small drops of poison put in his meals every day eventually killed him from the inside, burning up his organs.
Jiang Yingyue could not let this happen again.
She started hacking into her grandfather's phone and sent a small, but informing note.
"Dead Mr Wu
Your daughter, Jiang Mei and her child Jiang Yingyue live in City G Northern road 15 and works as a nurse at Wei hospital.
sincerely A Friend"
Several miles away an old man open his phone to check his new message when he almost get a heart attack, reading it's consent.
After dobbel checking that he read correctly, he made a phone call.
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Jiang Yingyue hope he would come soon.
She heard sounds coming from outside the house, lots of shouting and she remembered. Today is the day her neighbor would come trying to make trouble. Her name was Wang Mo and was about the same age as Jiang Yingyue's mother. Wang Mo hated her mother because of all the attention she got from the opposite sex. Even though Jiang Mei was extrordinery beautiful, she never went on dates or even encourage anything. Nevertheless it did not stop some of the most jealous ladies around the little broken down neighborhood they lived in.
Jiang Yingyue let out a little laugh as she opened the door and there they where, the audience. Wang Mo loved an audience when she yelled at people, she acted like the injured party. Most of the simple people here belived her sob stories, and in Jiang Yingyue's last life she won many times. Today was not an exception.
"What can I do for you Miss Wang?" Jiang Yingyue behaved like she use to before she was reborn 1 week ago, when all she wanted to do was to slap this annoying fly that keeps buzzing in her ears.
"Where are your mother? " Wang Mo behaved impatient witch made Jiang Yingyue smile a little
'So you are in a hurry to make sure your audience keep staying.? ' Jiang Yingyue thought.
"Mom is still working, is this about your casserole?" Jiang Yingyue put on a worried look.
Wang Mo seem to be surprised by the little girls question.
Wang Mo smiled thinking she could grow dirt on Jiang Mei by tricking her 6 year old daughter.
"No Yingyue, your mother was seen speaking with my fiance yesterday." Wang Mo purposely said this to try and trick the little girl in answering truthfully. She had personally seen him walk out and knocked on Jiang Mei's door, she hoped he was flirting with Jiang Mei so she had a reason not to marry him. Wang Mo's father had set the marriage, but she hated men who where not serious about the marriage and even more because he did not have money so she tried desperately to get proof of this and it didn't hurt that she could crush Jiang Mei's reputation in the process.
Jiang Yingyue was no fool with so many years of experience, she also knew because of this woman in her last life, it destroyed her mother' reputation not only here, but also when they moved to her grandfather in the capital.
" Yes Miss Wang is correct, he did stop by yesterday." Jiang Yingyue spoke clear and calmly.
'Try and destroy my mother and I will destroy you" she thought.
Wang Mo acted suprised and broken hearted while the neighbors whispered in between each other, to make sure Jiang Yingyue couldn't hear them. However it did not matter, because she could read lips just easily.
Through their words, was it easy to see they all but convicted her. Jiang Yingyue needed to speed it up because she knew her mother would come home soon.
" Yeah he asked for your big casserole, you know, the one mom borrowed from your mother last week. "
Jiang Yingyue's word made everyone take a breath, but she could still see the they did not believe her so she continued.
"I'm sorry, but we forgot to return it. That's why he came looking for it, because your mother wanted to make mashed potatoes and he said she could not make it without that casserole. "
Jiang Yingyue's word was calm and unhurried, she did not seem to be lying and her young innocent eyes made them believe her.
Jiang Yingyue blinked her eyes in confusion and continued the farce. "Why? There wasn't any problems with the casserole, right? We where very careful and it was just used to boil cale." Her voice seemed to show her worry, making the neighbors puff annoyed that they been lied to.
Jiang Yingyue thought about it again and continued before Wang Mo could continue. " He said he was in a hurry to take you out on a date so he left soon after, so we didn't check if the casserole was ok. Was there any problems with it?"
All the ladies surrounding them laughed. Wang Mo was red from ear to neck from embarrassment, but Jiang Yingyue continued to look confused and looked up as if she just realized the neighbor wife's standing close by.
"Oh hello aunties, what's going on?" Jiang Yingyue smiled and suddenly showed a confused expression as she looked around.
Wang Mo was horrified, she felt she just made a huge embarrassment of herself and was to afraid to look back on the women behind her. Just as she wondered if she would have to run away, Jiang Mei came walking over, finished with her shift, looking very tired. She hadn't noticed all the commotion outside her house until she was just a few feet away from them. Jiang Mei furrowed her eyebrows in confusion as she looked around. When she turned and looked at the entrance of their home she noticed Wang Mo and her daughter standing there, looking at her.
"Mom, do you remember if there where any problems with the casserole that uncle Qi came to pick up yesterday?" Jiang Yingyue looked very innocent, waiting anciently for a answer.
Jiang Mei finally saw Wang Mo and walked towards them. "Miss Wang, your fiance picked it up yesterday and I checked and found no problems with it before giving it back."
Jiang Yingyue gave of a look of being relieved and smiled " Oh that's good, I was worried it somehow broke."
She turned and looked at Wang Mo and touched her nose. " Or ... was it something else?"
Laughter filled the small courtyard as the women laughed of Wang Mo's embarrassment.
Jiang Yingyue looked around in confusion, making everyone believe her, because small children can't act convincingly.
Jiang Mei soon figure out the problem and send Jiang Yingyue inside, so she can send this scheming woman away.
Inside the small house, Jiang Yingyue started to think of the near future as she sit down on a kitchen chair. Tonight is the day a man called Qi Yu would be killed close by her home. He would be stabbed by a enemy and left in an alley to die. Qi Yu is a very successful man in his late 30's who owned one of the strongest entertainment company in the capital.
Jiang Yingyue smiled thinking it wouldn't be bad to find a good man for her mother before her father started to manipulate her. As far as she remembers, Qi Yu is single and rarely seen with other women. He is upstanding and a gentleman, maybe they would hit it of. Regardless, he needed to be saved from his sure death regardless if he and her mother hit it off.
When the sun was about to set, Jiang Yingyue thought it was about time to make a move and spoke to her mother.
"Hey mom, I forgot I needed to get some food to grill for tomorrow. Everyone in kindergarden needs it for the trip to the mountain."
Jiang Yingyue looked away, and her mother could see she had a guilty conscience for forgetting to tell her, so she picked up her purse and they left.
On the way there, Jiang Yingyue made sure to make a detour so they would walk by that familiar alley.
"Why do we need to walk here? There is a much closer store behind us."
Jiang Mei looked tired, but they had already walked this far so they continued.
Jiang Yingyue smiled and said: "Yes, but they don't have those hotdogs with cheese and I love them."
As they walked by the alley in question a small noice came forth, making it obvious that someone was there and in pain.
Jiang Yingyue ran down the alley with her mother calling her from behind. " Yue, be careful. "
When they reached the end she saw a man lie on the grown while his body was red from blood. Jiang Mei ran over in panic and checked his vitals while Yingyue got the job of holding the phone while her mother spoke with the ambulance.
" Don't worry, sir. You will be alright. " Was the last the man heard before darkness swallowed him whole.