chapter 2

The case was quickly settled.

A fatigued truck driver crashed into the car carrying Wu Man and her daughter Jiaojiao.

Wu Man died on the spot, and her daughter Jiaojiao, terrified, fled the scene and accidentally fell into the river.

Because there was a heavy rain that night and the river was swollen, Jiaojiao’s body was never found; it was presumed to have been swept out to sea.

The surveillance cameras on that road had long since broken, and the person who came forward to take the blame was a driver in the late stages of cancer.

According to procedure, four years after my disappearance, I was officially declared dead.

Both my mother and I had purchased large accidental insurance policies before our deaths, with my father as the beneficiary.

So, both enormous compensation payments ended up in my father’s pocket.

My father’s business had been on the verge of collapse, but with those two sums of money and a stroke of luck, he suddenly revived his cash flow and became one of the richest men in Jiangcheng.

Fang Xue married him, and every day she flaunted her handbags, watches, and jewelry online, becoming the wealthy wife envied by countless people.

They had another child together, and along with Fang Xue’s son from her previous marriage, the four of them formed a happy family.

Fang Xue is a Buddhist; every year she donates a lot of incense money to temples and brings back many consecrated Buddha Beads.

My father often does charity work and appears on television as a successful entrepreneur.

Look, Mom.

You once taught me to say that evil people will get their retribution, that Heaven will punish the wicked, so Jiaojiao must be a kind person.

But as I grew up, I realized that saying is just like believing in Santa Claus-it’s something adults tell children to fool them.

I can only avenge myself.

So, twelve years after that car accident, when everyone had almost forgotten it-

I came back.