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CHAPTER 10 - THE DEAD MAN'S VOICE
LIN FENG'S POV My knees buckled and I grabbed the edge of the front desk to keep from hitting the marble floor, the receiver nearly slipping out of my sweating palm."That's not possible," I whispered, my voice cracking apart in my own ears. "You're dead. I watched them bury you myself.""Did you?" the voice asked, calm and almost amused. It was the same low, measured tone I remembered from childhood dinners, from bedtime stories, from a voice I had spent ten years believing lived only in memory and grief. "Or did you watch them bury a coffin, and assume the rest?"That was my father.The words would not leave my mouth as my throat had closed around them and my whole body trembled so hard the receiver rattled against my ear. I had stood at that grave more times than I could count, had knelt in front of that headstone every Qingming festival with incense burning between my fingers, had grieved a man I believed the world had swallowed whole in a construction accident that took everythi
CHAPTER 9 - FIFTY MILLION YUAN
LIN FENG'S POVMy phone buzzed hard against my thigh once, then twice, then a third time in rapid succession, and I nearly knocked over my water glass reaching for it under the table.The room was still applauding Ryan, glasses raised and someone shouting a toast to his success, but I was no longer looking at him. I was staring down at my cracked screen, my thumb trembling as three notifications stacked on top of each other.“{Verification complete. Falsehood confirmed.}”“{Asset located: Heshan Central Development Group, three commercial tower properties, downtown district. Estimated value fifty million yuan.}”“{Warning: current host authority is insufficient for full asset transfer. Partial claim available.}”My chest tightened as I read the message again.Partial claim? So the system couldn't simply hand me everything it detected? For the first time since waking up in this second life, I felt something other than shock at one of its notifications.I felt curious.Yesterday, I had
CHAPTER 8 - THE REUNION
LIN FENG'S POVI bolted the moment the shadow shifted. My shoes skidded against the thick carpet as I threw myself around the corner and pressed flat against the wall of the next hallway.My heart slammed so hard I thought it might give me away on its own. Footsteps crossed the banquet room behind me, slow and unhurried.Nothing like the panic clawing through my chest. As I ran, I caught one broken glimpse of the figure, a thin hand pushing back into the shadows, a glint of silver around the wrist and a ring I almost recognized.Almost, but I couldn't place it quickly enough. My instincts screamed at me to move, and I listened. I didn't stop running until I was three blocks from the Golden Crane.I bent over against a lamppost, gasping for breath, one hand pressed against my chest while my mind raced through every familiar voice from my old life.Who had spoken to me like that? Who knew what happened ten years ago? And why did that voice sound so familiar?Every time I thought I had i
CHAPTER 7 - THE GOLDEN CRANE
LIN FENG'S POVI slammed my palm against the elevator button three times before realizing it was already lit. My reflection stared back at me in the polished steel doors, jaw tight, eyes darker than I remembered them being that morning.I had told myself the whole ride across the city that I would think this through carefully. I would weigh every risk before deciding whether to walk into a trap set by someone I could not name.Instead, I had grabbed my jacket, shoved my cracked phone into my pocket, and left before caution could talk me out of it.The elevator doors opened.I stepped into a hallway lined with gold trim and soft lighting, the kind of hallway that made it obvious I did not belong in a place like this.Not with these clothes, not with this face that still carried ten years of poverty in every hollow line. Nobody stopped me or looked twice.The Golden Crane was busy enough with wedding guests and business travelers that one more tired-looking man moving through the lobby
CHAPTER 6 - THE MORNING OF THE REUNION
LIN FENG'S POVI woke up to fists pounding on my door, my heart already slamming against my ribs before my eyes had fully opened.I rolled off the mattress, my bare feet hitting the cold floor, and grabbed the closest thing within reach, an old broom handle leaning against the wall before I even registered the time on my phone, it was six in the morning.The reunion wasn't until evening. Nobody had a reason to be at my door this early unless something had already gone wrong."Lin Feng, open this door right now!" I let the broom handle drop against my leg, relief loosening my shoulders for half a second. It was Cheng Ye's voice, but there was something wrong with it.His usual gravelly calm was missing. His voice carried a sharp edge of worry that immediately put me on alert.I crossed the room, yanked the door open, and found him standing in the hallway with his robe hanging half open and a folded newspaper clutched in one shaking hand."What's wrong?" I asked, my pulse still refusing
CHAPTER 5 - WHAT SU WAN KNOWS
LIN FENG'S POVThe phone slipped clean out of my hand and cracked against the kitchen tile, the screen splitting into a spiderweb of fractures right as her message finally loaded.I dropped to my knees, ignoring the sharp bite of broken tile against my skin, and snatched the phone back up with fingers that would not cooperate. The screen still worked, thank God. The crack ran diagonally across the glass, but the text underneath was still readable.“Vivian isn't just planning to embarrass you tomorrow. She's planning something bigger. I heard her on the phone with Ryan two days ago. They're bringing someone Ryan owes money to, and I think they mean to use you to pay part of it off.”I stayed frozen on the floor, my knees pressed against the shattered tile, staring at those words until they blurred together.Ryan was in debt?That was the first thought that hit me. The second was worse, they wanted to use me to pay for it.I read the message again, slower this time, searching for some d
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