Chapter 427 - Jiang Zhan’s Story (End) (1/2)

Chapter 427 : Jiang Zhan’s Story (End)I heard that I was born on a heavily snowing day.

Due to the sheer coldness of the weather, my mother didn’t survive that winter.

And because I was born prematurely, without my mother’s milk to nourish me, I was sickly.

The first time I saw her was when I followed my father to Medicine Granny’s place. The Medicine Granny that had always been called a godly physician by the people of jianghu.

She was squatting in Medicine Granny’s yard. I saw her the moment I entered. She was fair and tender. Though she wore clothes of coarse linen, it couldn’t hide her vivaciousness.

Father and Medicine Granny entered the house to discuss while I stood in the yard.

She’d been squatting ever since I entered. I was curious as to what she was looking at, so I slowly made my way over.

“What’re you looking at?” At the time I was 8 years old. I was pretty tall for my age, so I blocked out the light by standing in front of her.

She lifted her head and puffed out her cheeks, huffily shoving me away. “What’re you doing?! You’re stepping on my bug!”

‘Bug?’

I lowered my head. How was that a bug?! It was clearly a scorpion that was preparing to sting me!

“Ah!” I shouted and jerked back, my back drenched in cold sweat.

Having heard the commotion from inside the house, Medicine Granny came rushing out and pulled her by the ear. “Damn girl! This is a guest! Have you been scaring people again? Put that little fellow of yours away right now! Don’t be scaring this little brother.”

She had an aggrieved expression as she spoke, “I wasn’t bullying him.”

Although Medicine Granny appeared angry, she didn’t use that much force. My father later came out and smoothed things over by saying that kids were just kids.

After they entered the house, the little girl immediately got to her feet. She lifted her head and walked past me, stomping on my feet on the way.

I was still frozen from the previous shock, so this caused me to nearly yelp in pain. At the time, I was wondering why this girl was so detestable.

But I didn’t realise that her meanness wouldn’t stop there.

My father let me stay at Medicine Granny’s to nurse my body. And that was the start of my nightmare.

Finding snakes in my sheets when I was about to go to bed, getting stung by scorpions when I was wearing my shoes, finding insects in my meals when I was eating…

Stuff like these happened too often to count.

I found out later on that none of these critters were poisonous—I would’ve been fine even if I had been bitten.

Perhaps having noticed that I’d discovered this, she didn’t use these methods anymore, instead finding other ways to prank me.

One day, another boy around my age was sent to Medicine Granny.

Ever since he came, I found that her focus was no longer on me. She had instead switched to tormenting that other boy.

Back then, I didn’t understand how she could be so nasty.

It was only after a long, long time that I remembered how she suddenly became nice to me when I was about to leave, as if she couldn’t wait for me to go.

She probably thought I was planning on fighting her for Medicine Granny’s love.

She was just 5 back then, the time when kids are most reliant on adults, so it’s normal if she had thought that way.

We didn’t see each other again for 7 years.

While I was away from her, I’d occasionally remember how she pranked me. I always thought that I detested her. She’d bullied me, after all.

When I heard that Medicine Granny had passed away, that was around the time where I led the Demon Sect to escape from our old location.

As the Young Master of the Demon Sect, I had to shoulder the burden of supporting it. I couldn’t just leave then, so I don’t know what she had experienced during that period.

When we finally met again, it was at Jadewater Village.

Oh, that’s not entirely true. I saw her a few times before then, but it seemed like she didn’t recognise me, as if I had been just another stranger to her.

I didn’t know why, but I lost my temper and we fought. Afterwards, I realised that I must’ve been upset because she didn’t remember me.

When I noticed that she wanted to kill me, I was very angry, so I became more unpleasant towards her.

I’d heard some of the rumours about her, but I never believed them. She wasn’t that kind of person.