NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 8: Rewind of the Past
After Yaning passes out during their intercourse, he gently helps her to go to bed and covers her with a blanket.
He then pulls her together and sleeps taking her in his arms.
As everyone in the mansion slept, dreams of the past haunt him.
He could vividly see what had happened before he was exiled.
The memories of his life from his childhood appear before him.
From childhood Fan Sheng has been a loving child of their parents. They never restrained him as he is the youngest and he always lived carefree without bothering much about hierarchy.
He played with his servants, befriended his Subordinates and loved his family to the core just like how they did.
The only mistake he made is to trust the wrong people without knowing what's really in their heart.
It has been his biggest weakness to let them go as they please.
He doesn't want to make them feel small as he is the son of the Duke.
One such mistake which made him regret and even drive him to death is Befriending a General Li's Son Li Feng who is 2 years older than Fan Sheng.
In this kingdom, only the Royal has the opportunity to hire the imperial Tutors and Learn about all the abilities a person can gain after they turn 18.
It's also because they don't want anyone else to have the Strategist Ability since it is so rare.
But he let his Friend Li Feng accompany him in his studies which turned out to be his nightmare.
He let him accompany him to his classes and even fought with his parents to let him join the Royal Academy.
He shared his friends and circle and gave him the connections of the Royal Families.
He never would have imagined this would cause him and his family a tragedy they could never escape.
His downside started when Li Feng turned 18 and knew his abilities.
Li Feng has the ability of Sword Master, Defender and Strategist which are a powerful combination but he hid his Strategist Talent a Secret from the world.
Fan Sheng is engaged to the prime minister's daughter Jiang Ru Yi who is seventeen at that time. 1 year older than Fan Sheng.
They have been childhood sweet hearts and family friends.
But soon everything changed as soon as Li Feng started to secretly pursue Jiang Ru Yi.
She has fallen in love with him and soon started to secretly help him with books to learn more about the abilities of a Strategist.
1 year has passed and Li Feng's knowledge has increased rapidly.
Along with the strategist skills he also practised Martial Arts with his father which helped in increasing his Aura and Cultivation level.
His Cultivation Level Soon reached 30 with Sword Master Level 10, Archer Level 10, Strategist Level 10 and an Aura of 300 which nobody his age has ever reached.
He soon understood his powers and started to plan out his schemes.
On the other hand, Fan Sheng is being distracted by Jiang Ru Yi and Li Feng and prevented from gaining much knowledge.
Jiang Ru Yi also reached the age of 18 and unlocked her abilities.
She also gained the Strategist ability with Level 6 and Healer level 5 with an Aura of 110 and Cultivation level 11.
Li Feng soon joined the army and helped his father with his Strategist tactics and won many wars and achieved many credits.
Their family soon had the emperor's favor and Li Feng asked the emperor to let his sister Li Ran to marry the crown prince Min Chul.
The Emperor arranged the marriage and soon General Li's family rose to power with their merits and Royal Background.
"Li Feng, since you have become a member of the royal family, when are you going to marry me?" Jiang Ru Yi asks him, keeping her head on his shoulder with love.
"Soon My dear, I will have a grand wedding with you"
"Then how are we going to cancel my marriage with Fan Sheng?"
"I already have a way for it," he smirks.
From then on Li Feng used to accompany Fan Sheng into brothels regularly for drinks instead of just some taverns.
"Li Feng, why are we coming here for drinks? It won't be good if our families find out"
"Its nothing, i just wanted you to experience what it is to be a man"
"I don't need to prove myself to you, i will prove it once i marry Ru Yi"
His smile enraged Li Feng, even though he smiled at him he couldn't take his response.
He started to spread rumors about him being a Playboy who often visits brothels but what happened is entirely different.
And soon the day of Jiang Ru Yi, the daughter of the prime minister and Fan Sheng, the son of the duke approached.
On the day of their wedding Li Feng brings a courtesan to Fan Sheng's room and gets him drunk.
In the intoxication he sleeps with the courtesan and gets caught by both families.
Everyone realizes that the rumors are true and his marriage is annulled.
When the family is in crisis, Li Feng steals the details of Duke's wealth and prepares a fake ledger to defame them for corruption.
His marriage became a disgrace for the Duke in front of the whole world and the smear of corruption made Duke Fan to leave his position to clear his name.
Once an Aristocratic family now became a disgrace and corrupted in society.
This causes Fan Sheng's heart to drink wine and he finds out the affair of Ru Yi and Li Feng.
He tries to disclose his affair in front of the whole world but is shocked to know that their marriage has been settled and they are going to marry soon.
On their marriage day, fan sheng feels heart broken and commits the crime he shouldn't have.
He kidnaps Ru Yi from her wedding and flees with her but they catch him and get him arrested.
The decision soon reaches the royal court and the duke exchanges his merits for Fan Sheng's life but he is exiled from the capital and should be sent to the remote countryside village and live there for his entire life.
On the brink of punishment Fan sheng sees the real faces of Li Feng and Jiang Ru Yi, he realized their long planned scheme but couldn't do anything.
His journey to exile has started and he starved in his entire journey as before he reached the place he is now.
The dreams start to create tension in his face as his body starts to sweat.
He was left on the streets to beg for food until one year after he was exiled.
His body became so thin due to malnutrition and his face became pale and dull.
He never tried to contact his family due to the guilt but knew that their power had gone and their family suffered a lot due to him.
But someone else rose to power.
Li Fend became a key minister in the Court due to his Strategist Ability and the crown prince died unexpectedly leaving Li Feng's nephew as the only heir to the throne.
It's quite suspicious that Li Feng became the regent in such a short span of time.
But suddenly everything came to an end when a hammer struck his head.
The pain and misery all ended with that strike.
"I don't know what to think about the person who killed me"
"Why he killed me and who killed me"
"But everything ended on the very day"
"I could finally be free from everything" He thought looking at the man who killed him in the rain drenched in a dark coloured robe.
But nobody knew how Fan Sheng knew everything that had happened and what his Ability was.
Fan Sheng woke up from his dream drenched in sweat and took a deep breath after seeing the vision of death in his previous life.
Questions rose in his mind about who is the killer and why they want to kill him.
He knows who wants him dead but he is not sure about Why?