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So Feng Yang was a gay man who tricked someone into marriage?

At that thought, Su Nan's expression darkened further. "Feng Yang, there are some things I want to discuss with you alone."

Feng Yang frowned. He really disliked Su Nan. Not only because Su Nan had indirectly caused the Feng and Su families' ruin in his previous life, but also because Feng Yang thought there was something wrong with Su Nan's mind.

His thoughts were too extreme, his actions too radical. He always looked like he was drowning in resentment, as though the whole world had wronged him. He was brimming with hostility and exceptionally aggressive. Every day, he went on about revenge, about making those who had wronged him pay the price. Yet what he did was even more ruthless and vicious than the people he sought to deal with, and he would stop at nothing.

What puzzled Feng Yang most was that the people Su Nan targeted were often just like Feng Yang had been in his previous life—they had no idea how they had offended Su Nan. By the time they learned the truth, Su Nan had usually already destroyed their families and ruined their reputations. The reason was either that they had been ungrateful and become Chen Shimei in their previous lives, or that, for one reason or another, they had wronged Su Nan in his previous life. In any case, every crime rested on Su Nan's word alone.

This was what Feng Yang found hardest to understand. Even a vengeful ghost had to abide by karmic retribution. If it overstepped even slightly, it would suffer heaven's punishment. Yet Su Nan could recklessly harm and kill so many people based solely on a memory known only to himself, one whose truth or falsehood could not even be verified. Most crucially, even the will of Heaven and fortune seemed to stand on his side.

By comparison, weren't the vengeful ghosts and wronged souls who painstakingly did good deeds to accumulate golden merit light, only to end up with their souls scattered and destroyed, far too pitiful, innocent, and undeserving?

Ever since Feng Yang had told his parents that Su Nan was gay and had turned his love into hatred after being rejected by Feng Yang, Feng Jianguo and his wife had become highly wary of Su Nan. They were afraid that if they looked away for even a moment, their precious son would be retaliated against by Su Nan.

Now that Su Nan had shown up uninvited and even wanted to speak with Feng Yang alone, Father Feng and Mother Feng immediately left their business partners and came over. "Nan Nan? Why did you come by yourself? Where are your parents?"

"God... Uncle, Auntie, hello." Su Nan looked at Father Feng and Mother Feng with a complicated expression.

Feng Jianguo and Yang Liu were Feng Yang's parents. Driven by the mindset of hating the house because of the crow, Su Nan should have hated this couple. After all, in his previous life, when Feng Yang wanted to marry that vicious woman, Feng Jianguo and Yang Liu had not objected. They had even stood on Feng Yang's side and urged Su Nan to break up with him.

Yet Su Nan was grateful to Father Feng and Mother Feng. In his previous life, Feng Jianguo and his wife had truly cherished him and treated him as one of their own. After he had saved Feng Yang, suffered disfigurement and burns, and lost his family, he had continued living with the Feng Family. Feng Jianguo and his wife paid his medical bills, gave him money for cosmetic surgery, bought him a house and a car, and even wanted to adopt him. They had even left him a share in their wills. Other than allowing Feng Yang to get married, Feng Jianguo and his wife had done nothing to wrong him.

But Su Nan was unwilling to accept it. He had risked his life to save Feng Yang because he liked him, because he loved Feng Yang desperately. To save Feng Yang, he had suffered so much that even his parents had died in a car accident on their way to the hospital. He had lost everything and had only Feng Yang left. Yet Feng Yang no longer wanted him.

At that moment, Su Nan felt as though the sky had fallen. He did not want the money the Feng Family offered him, nor did he want to hear their advice. He only wanted Feng Yang. So, behind the Feng Family's backs, he secretly made his way to Beijing, intending to plead with Feng Yang in person and ask him to change his mind.

But on the very night Su Nan arrived in Beijing, he was kidnapped. Five men took him to a remote, desolate abandoned factory and tortured him for three days and three nights. He was violated, brutally beaten, and filmed, but he gritted his teeth and endured it all. Until Su Nan received a phone call from a woman.

The woman claimed to be Feng Yang's fiancée. She said she and Feng Yang were about to get married and could not tolerate Su Nan, a potential third party, clinging to Feng Yang. She told Su Nan to swear that, as long as he obediently left Feng Yang, she would let him go. The videos would not be released either. They would pretend none of it had ever happened. Su Nan could still be the Feng Family's adopted son and inherit their estate, as long as he never came to Beijing again for the rest of his life.

Su Nan refused. His lifelong obsession was Feng Yang. Without Feng Yang, he was nothing. What use was money to him?

But in the end, Su Nan heard Feng Yang's voice over the phone. The woman said Feng Yang knew about this too. Feng Yang simply did not want to keep entangling himself with Su Nan, which was why he refused to meet him. She told Su Nan to show some self-awareness and not think that saving Feng Yang once meant he could bind Feng Yang to him for the rest of his life. Even if Su Nan had done Feng Yang a favor, the Feng Family had spent years providing money and people to care for him. They had long since repaid that debt.

Feng Yang knew I came to Beijing! Feng Yang knew his wife hired people to kidnap me! Feng Yang despised me for clinging to him! Feng Yang wanted me dead!

Su Nan had not given up even after being humiliated and beaten by so many people, but this string of blows broke him completely. He struggled and wailed like a madman, screaming Feng Yang's name hysterically. But the call had already ended. Su Nan fought back desperately, punching and kicking the kidnappers, only to receive a savage beating in return. He was beaten to death alive.

When Su Nan opened his eyes again, he had returned to twenty years ago. He had returned to the day he confessed to Feng Yang. He had carefully prepared for that confession. He led Feng Yang into the most secluded prop room in the haunted house. Before he could say anything, the haunted house suddenly caught fire. In his previous life, Su Nan had protected Feng Yang and been injured by a falling beam, yet he still gritted his teeth and held on, dragging Feng Yang—who had been knocked unconscious by the thick smoke—out of the haunted house. At the time, he thought he would die. Before getting into the ambulance, he desperately shook Feng Yang awake and gathered the courage to confess. Fortunately, Feng Yang accepted his confession.

But Su Nan had never expected his parents to get into a car accident on their way to the hospital. This was the regret and remorse that haunted him all his life. He had always blamed himself, believing that if he had not been injured, his parents would not have rushed to the hospital. They would not have died in that car accident.

He had saved Feng Yang only to cause his own parents' deaths. Ridiculously, a few years later, Feng Yang and his wife had killed him too.