Rebirth: Grand Marshal's Wilful Fiancée-Chapter 1 - I Came Back?
The sun beat down on the ground, scorching hot, the streets were noisy and full of daily coming and going. At the front of the city gate hung the bodies of a few people, The strong odour of decaying dead bodies made one sick with nausea. The flies buzzed around with vultures hovering above the bodies. Among the dead bodies, there was a woman, still alive, covered in blood and panting slightly. She was completely incapable of moving.
The nails of her hands were broken, and the blood mixed with the mud from the floor, making them more like the hands of a fiend.
Her long hair was soiled, scattered and knotted, and her forehead was covered by the fringe of her brow. But these could not hide the sad and bright eyes. These bright eyes burned with the flames of anguish and despair, and the blood gushed from them.
"Tch, what bad luck!"
"Look at this wench's eyes. Ouch, I'm scared!"
"But you are just a rubbish who is doomed to die, and dare to look at me with such eyes. Bah!"
Around the woman came the harsh mocking and indifferent laughter of those inhuman people with twisted nature liked a devil's taunt, some looked on with hatred in their eyes and other simply shook their heads in pity.
The person on the pole stared at them as if she were going to carve their faces in her mind and turn to ghost to seek revenge.
She grinned and looked at the people crowding around.
"What are you laughing at?"
"That look is terrifying, why isn't she dead yet?? Kill her!"
That smile stopped the laughter of the men, and they began to look frightened, to hide their fear in anger, and to lift up the stones and throw them at her.
When the stones were thrown, the loud thud had come. It sounded like a watermelon had been broken, This thud tore into those peoples' ears, and chilled them out in a cold sweat.
The flies whirled suddenly and swarmed to the corpse, whose voice had died, and whose head had been broken. However, her eyes were still wide open with a creepy grin at the corner of her mouth mockingly.
"Shit! Tough luck! Let's get the hell out of here before we get affected by the bad energy!"
"Pooh, pooh! I'll have to let my woman prepare bath water for me to wash away the bad luck."
"Ha Ha Ha !"
The sneering crowd slowly went away, their voices fading, the sun dimming, and the darkness welcome her like a warm embrace.
Then as the woman slowly lost her last breath a clear blue jade pendant suddenly slipped out from ,her tattered clothes , glowing faintly ,it suddenly flashed a bloody red and broke in half.
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"Wake up please!!"
"Grandfather open your eyes!, Second uncle!"
"We will never collude with bandits, this is an unjust accusation! This has nothing to do with our Jiang family!"
"I'm Jiang Feng jia, upright and virtuous, I'm not such one of those villains!"
"Your demons are just trying to take over my Jiang family's property. You set us up and mutilated and killed dozens of my family, and I'll crawl back to take revenge!"
"Ah, ah, ah… My leg! My leg!"
"Criminals!,How dare you collude with bandits to terrorize the citizens?!,Even going as far as murdering to cover up your crimes!"
"Ridiculous! What marshal fiancée! Don't you know how influential the Imperial Song family is! You even want to combine with this great family by marriage!"
"See? This is the divorce paper from Song family. Take a good look at yourself. Who do you think you are? You really think your family can rely on Song family to turn the tide? In your dreams!"
"No, I didn't overrate myself. That's what the Song's promised Grandpa. I don't want… I didn't, I didn't, I didn't do it. They wronged me… I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I want revenge, I want revenge!" Murmurs full of anguish and despair came from Jiang Feng jia's mouth, and finally the cry of despair woke her from her nightmare.
Suddenly sitting up straight, Jiang Feng jia was perspiring. Then she stared blankly at everything around her, which looked both familiar and strange to him.
This was a fenced pavilion, Beside the pavilion was a pathway that meandered towards the corner door on the wall, and the corner door was open…
"Where am I?"
She remembered this place it was the beginning of her nightmare.
Getting through that corner door, she would be framed with filthy crimes that could never be washed clean; from then on, her life was in a state of agony and despair.
But she was dead, wasn't she? She dreamt when she was dead?
The headache was splitting. Jiang Feng jia was very confused, and could not tell whether this was the dream or the reality. She held the tabletop of the stone table and staggered to stand up.
Catching sight of what she was wearing, she was shocked as if she was struck by lightning. The clothes on her was what she had on that day!
It was so real! How could this happen?
Her legs! they were in perfect condition too!
Taking a deep breath to calm her thoughts, she gave her legs a good thump.
"Ouch, that hurts."
"This pain is too real, not a dream!"
Outside the pavilion, the cold wind suddenly blew in. It made her shiver. Jiang Feng jia stood up shakily. She was alive. She was really alive now!
She was shaking all over, checking herself from head to toe. She looked at her unscarred hands, she pinched her wrists, felt her waist and face, and began to tremble. It was real. She was back! Back to when she was 17 years old!
After confirming this fact, Jiang Feng jia forced herself to calm down her eyes flashing coldly.
If this was true, then Jiang family was fine now. She was still the young miss of noble birth in Tan Yang, not the unclean trash. Her 'unworthy engagement' to the Song family was not known, Grandpa was still alive, second uncle was still alive, and the rest of Jiang family are still alive
This was the wish she had prayed for so many times that God had really made it possible for her?