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He knew his souls were unbearably filthy, his crimes irredeemable. The will of heaven would have always descended upon him, sooner or later. Yet at that moment, he felt a sharp twinge of grief. He wanted his mother, his shifu, his didi, his uncle and auntie; he wanted a home. He’d probably been too greedy, wanting so much. And now, in the end, he had nothing at all.

He cast back through his memories, but he couldn’t find a single point in either lifetime where he’d be able to start over again without worries.

He couldn’t find any stretch of time—not even a single day—when he’d been truly carefree, with his belly full and warm clothes on his back.

He’d lived through two lifetimes, more than forty years in total, but he’d never known a night of peace.

“All right, then. After this, he will have paid for his crimes. He will have given back everything he owes the world.” The wind picked up. “But as for what the world owes him…” Xue Zhengyong’s voice caught. “Will there be anyone to give it back—will there be anyone to give it back to him?”



PS. AT THIS POINT, I WANT TO MURDER MEAT BUN😔

But what was this child’s fate as written? He was an abandoned bastard son who had never had enough to eat. He and his mother had eked out a living begging and panhandling. After his mother died, that frail wisp of a child had dragged his mother’s festering corpse to a mass grave. With his own hands, he’d buried the only warmth he’d ever known. He’d been beaten and abused, locked in a cage, and imprisoned for a crime