With a shrill scream from Yun Lianmeng, she vanished into thin air.
Only Chu Zhiyuan was left there, lost in a daze. The person who had taken Yun Lianmeng had disappeared without a trace. No matter how hard Chu Zhiyuan searched, he couldn't find them.
Chu Zhiyuan stood at the spot where Yun Lianmeng had disappeared, his face grim as he seemed lost in thought.
What Chu Zhiyuan hadn't expected was that after he and Yun Lianmeng had finally managed to escape to the town, thinking they were out of danger.
But in the end, just one step away from freedom, they were caught.
The target of that person was Yun Lianmeng.
Chu Zhiyuan's eyes were firm. He was going back.
Back to the small village they had just escaped from to rescue Yun Lianmeng.
After the jewelry around Yun Lianmeng's neck was completely restored, she fell into a deep sleep that night.
In her dream, Yun Lianmeng didn't sleep soundly. She kept muttering to herself, and the words she said kept changing, making it impossible to catch any useful information.
Chu Zhiyuan had no choice but to use his spiritual power to stabilize her trembling soul.
As Yun Lianmeng received more and more memories, the vast amount of information was overwhelming her.
Yun Lianmeng's soul was already unstable. She had stayed in this world for too long.
She should have been reincarnated long ago. This time, recovering her memories was also a test for her.
Chu Zhiyuan stayed by her side all the time, afraid that something might happen to her, especially when he saw Yun Lianmeng's figure becoming faint and indistinct.
It felt as if she was about to disappear at any moment.
Chu Zhiyuan thought he was seeing things, but when he reached out his hand to touch Yun Lianmeng's figure, his hand went right through!
This wasn't right.
Although Yun Lianmeng was in a soul state, she hadn't been this weak before.
As a ghost who had stayed behind due to her obsession, she was weaker than a fierce ghost, but if she wanted to, she still had the ability to touch physical objects.
And Chu Zhiyuan was quite talented, so he was naturally able to touch ghosts. The only explanation for his hand going through her body was that she was about to disappear. Her soul was now at its weakest and on the verge of vanishing. If anyone gave her a random blow now, Yun Lianmeng wouldn't survive for even a second.
Chu Zhiyuan didn't understand why just a memory could damage Yun Lianmeng's soul.
It wasn't until almost dawn that Yun Lianmeng woke up.
Before Chu Zhiyuan, who had been guarding beside her, could say a word, the just-awakened Yun Lianmeng stumbled to her feet and rushed towards the door. Her face was anxious, and even her hands were trembling slightly.
Chu Zhiyuan saw the faint light in the distance. The sun was about to rise. If the soul-damaged Yun Lianmeng was exposed to the sunlight, she would surely die.
The blocked Yun Lianmeng wouldn't listen to anything Chu Zhiyuan said. She kept rushing towards the door, muttering all the time.
She wanted to go to a village.
Only after Chu Zhiyuan managed to hold her back did she calm down.
Yun Lianmeng slumped to the ground weakly, her eyes blank.
She slowly told her memories.
It turned out that the thing she had been looking for all along.
Was her own corpse.
Yun Lianmeng had died a tragic death. She had been brutally killed by her adoptive mother and her body had been dumped in a remote small mountain village.
When Chu Zhiyuan first met her, he had tried to help her. He had searched for her name online, hoping to find some clues.
If she was an online celebrity or had a certain family background, there would surely be some clues that could be found.
But the messages that popped up online had nothing to do with Yun Lianmeng at all.
Chu Zhiyuan had thought that she was just an ordinary girl.
According to Yun Lianmeng's story, she was actually a child of the Yun family.
The very Yun family that Ning Yitao's mother had married into.
"But why couldn't I find any information about you online?"
Chu Zhiyuan asked in confusion.
When it came to this, Yun Lianmeng's expression dimmed, and she replied:
"Maybe my father deleted all my information. He doesn't allow any news that might affect his company to appear. Or maybe my stepmother did something and came up with some ideas that made my father lose his mind."
"I didn't get along well with Yun Ruichu. We didn't have the same mother. My mother died when I was very young."
Yun Fanghai was just a poor boy at that time, but he managed to win the heart of the only child of the Yun family.
As the only princess of the Yun family, she had been doted on since childhood.
But she was so infatuated with Yun Fanghai that no matter what, she insisted on marrying this poor boy.
No matter how much pressure the Yun family put on Yun Fanghai privately to threaten him, he knew that only by getting hold of the Yun family's daughter could he turn his life around.
In the end, unable to reach an agreement, Yun Qi, the daughter of the Yun family, in order to pursue her love and be with Yun Fanghai, even threatened her parents with suicide.
Their beloved daughter was so determined. Seeing this, the Yun family finally gave in and allowed Yun Fanghai to marry into their family.
Yun Fanghai didn't originally have the surname Yun, but on the first day he married into the Yun family, he changed his surname and even didn't allow others to call him by his former name.
He was so desperate to enter the wealthy family that he could abandon the surname given by his parents.
But Yun Fanghai was never a man who would abide by the rules. After the death of the Yun family's parents, Yun Qi, the daughter of the Yun family, lost her protection, and the Yun family was taken over by Yun Fanghai.
Yun Fanghai showed his true colors. He rekindled his relationship with his first love, Liu Yi. Half a month after Yun Lianmeng was born, Yun Ruichu was also born.
Yun Qi, the daughter of the Yun family, had almost died giving birth to Yun Lianmeng. Just when she was at her weakest, Yun Fanghai came to her bedside with the pregnant Liu Yi to provoke her.
Liu Yi was held in Yun Fanghai's arms. Yun Fanghai gently stroked her belly, and the tenderness on his face was obvious.
Yun Fanghai had been waiting for this moment for a long time. He had been oppressed by the Yun family and couldn't breathe.
On a daily basis, he had to endure Yun Qi's princess-like temper. This time, he finally turned the tables and could finally hold the woman he loved in front of Yun Qi.
And Yun Qi could only lie in bed, crying hysterically. She was powerless to do anything.
A strange sense of joy welled up in Yun Fanghai's heart, even though the woman in front of him had just given birth to his daughter at the risk of her life.
Liu Yi even revealed Yun Fanghai's secret. The car accident of Yun Qi's parents wasn't actually an accident. It was a conspiracy planned by Yun Fanghai.
Liu Yi was so proud when she said these things. She took out the intimate photos of her and Yun Fanghai and the paternity test of the child in her belly and showed them to Yun Qi.
The pampered princess since childhood couldn't accept this. She didn't believe it, but the ugly reality was right in front of her.
She was so unwilling, but there was nothing she could do about what Yun Fanghai had done. She could only watch as Yun Fanghai brought that woman back into their home.
After Liu Yi gave birth to Yun Ruichu, she officially moved into the Yun family with Yun Qi. She sneered at Yun Qi every day, which made Yun Qi's postpartum depression worse and even led to a mental breakdown.
Yun Fanghai was afraid of being criticized, so he dismissed all the servants in the family.
However, Liu Yi also paid a heavy price for her arrogance.
After giving birth to Yun Ruichu, Liu Yi couldn't wait to move into the Yun family. She even wanted to stay in the Yun family during her confinement. She had become the new mistress of the Yun family.
Yun Qi hated her so much. She didn't want to live anymore, but she was determined to take Liu Yi with her to the grave.
Yun Qi drank the poison herself and forced the still-weak Liu Yi to drink it too. Then she used a pillow to suffocate Liu Yi to death.
For the first time, Yun Qi felt that the world was so interesting.
They only left Yun Fanghai with two crying babies.
Yun Lianmeng had never known why her father didn't like her. Now she finally understood the reason.
Yun Lianmeng was also doomed to suffer.