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Chapter 63 With a stepfather comes a stepmother (A Prayer)

As soon as Qi Yuan returned to the system space, he saw Qi Yuan looking at him with a smile. To others, that smile might seem like a gentle breeze, but to Qi Yuan, it was malicious.

"What are you laughing at? Why are you awake so early!" Qi Yuan cursed as she stepped forward, only to see that Qi Yuan was just smiling and didn't react at all.

Qi Yuan waved her hand in front of Qi Yuan, but there was still no reaction. She looked at the other animal systems with a puzzled expression.

"Second Brother, we don't know either. The eldest brother suddenly sat up and kept smiling at the entrance you came from, without saying a word. We've been talking to him for ages, and he's still reacting like this..."

"Yes, we didn't lie to you."

...The animal systems chattered incessantly, but Qi Yuan noticed something amiss. Could this guy be thinking about doing missions even in his sleep? Or is there a rule that he must complete a mission within a certain timeframe? Otherwise, it's really hard to explain Qi Yuan's behavior.

You can't exactly say you're sleepwalking, can you?

As soon as Qi Yuan had this thought, Qi Yuan disappeared into thin air, and the exit of the system space also became closed.

Alright, now I understand. Prayer woke up from her slumber to do a mission. I have to say, Prayer is quite the workaholic.

The original owner's parents divorced when he was five years old. He didn't know the specific reason for the divorce. He only remembered that his parents asked him who he wanted to follow that day. He thought his parents were playing a game with him. After hesitating for a while, he caught up with his mother who was walking to the right. From then on, he never saw his father again.

Whenever the original owner asked, the original owner's mother, Li Aifang, would remain silent and forbid the original owner from mentioning his father again.

After this happened several times, the young original owner understood that she shouldn't mention her father anymore, and she never asked where her father had gone again.

It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married.

On the original owner's sixth birthday, it was pouring rain outside the window. On the same day, Li Aifang remarried, taking the original owner with her. She married her second husband, Zhang Jijun. Zhang Jijun was also remarried and had a son named Zhang Yaozu, who was two years older than the original owner and was already in the first grade of elementary school.

Zhang Yaozu's mother suffered severe postpartum hemorrhage during childbirth and, despite nearly two years of care, passed away.

Zhang Jijun's main reason for remarrying was to find someone to take care of Zhang Yaozu. Initially, Zhang Jijun did not fancy Li Aifang. After all, Li Aifang had a biological son and was not good-looking, neither of which met Zhang Jijun's criteria for remarriage.

But later, whether it was Li Aifang showing maternal warmth in front of Zhang Jijun, or Li Aifang's cooking skills touching Zhang Jijun who hadn't been able to eat home-cooked meals for many years, the two got engaged a month after they met.

When this date was set, no one remembered that today was the original owner's birthday, including Li Aifang.

Ever since the original owner moved into the Zhang family with Li Aifang, she hasn't had a single good day. To put it simply, in order to quickly gain a foothold in the Zhang family, Li Aifang often made the original owner suffer and tried to please Zhang Yaozu.

Gradually, Zhang Yaozu also accepted Li Aifang. Who wouldn't like someone who flatters, fawns over, and cares for them every day? Especially an eight-year-old child like Zhang Yaozu.

Perhaps Li Aifang had tasted the sweetness of success, because from then on she completely ignored the original owner, and would suppress the original owner from time to time to please Zhang Yaozu.

The original owner couldn't leave his mother since childhood, and later he couldn't wait to escape this oppressive place. After finally finishing the college entrance examination, the original owner's grades were not very good, but he still managed to get into a first-tier university.

After the results were released, no one asked the original owner about their college application. The original owner directly applied to the university farthest from home, and never returned.

Li Aifang paid for the original owner's first year of university tuition. Later, because the original owner did not come back for the New Year, Li Aifang felt that the original owner had become too independent and could not be controlled. So she threatened the original owner with the tuition. The original owner had finally escaped the fire pit, so how could she easily turn back?

Fortunately, the university offered scholarships, and the original owner would also work part-time when she didn't have classes to earn living expenses in case of emergencies, which came in handy this time.

For four years of university, the original owner was like a mule that never rested, constantly turning. Just when she finally graduated, got a permanent job, and was about to have a new beginning in life, she collapsed on the ground at work. When she woke up, the doctor told her that she had stomach cancer, and it was already in its late stage. Even with treatment, she would only have a few more months to live at most.

To live a few more months, it would cost hundreds of thousands of yuan. The original owner would never do such a thing, not to mention that he didn't even have hundreds of thousands of yuan.

The original owner gave up treatment, quit his job, and used his savings of 100,000 yuan from the past few years, along with a subsidy of 200,000 yuan from the company, to begin the countdown to his death.

In order to spend all 300,000 yuan before he died and not leave Li Aifang a single penny, the original owner went to great lengths. In the end, four months later, he died peacefully at dusk by the sea. The funeral arrangements made in advance took care of the original owner's affairs, without informing Li Aifang at all.

When Zhang Yaozu got married, Li Aifang finally remembered the original owner of the body whom she hadn't contacted for almost ten years. In order to raise enough money for Zhang Yaozu to buy a house, Li Aifang, at the urging of Zhang Yaozu and Zhang Jijun, appeared on a family-finding program.

Li Aifang's tearful search for her son made headlines, sparking a wave of prayers and support. Ultimately, with the help of netizens, Li Aifang learned of the original owner's death. It was thought that Li Aifang would regret her actions, but unexpectedly, she filed a lawsuit against the company where the original owner had worked and the funeral company that had handled the funeral arrangements.

This caused the original owner, who was working well in the underworld, to suddenly bear several karmic burdens, preventing him from being resurrected. This is why the prayer came about.

"Stay away from Li Aifang and take revenge on her family of three."

Yes, in the original owner's eyes, Zhang Jijun, Li Aifang, and Zhang Yaozu were a family of three. As for him, he had no relation to them at all; if he did, he was their enemy.

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"Qiyuan, be good. Everyone says being a stepmother is hard. Qiyuan loves Mommy so much, you'll definitely help Mommy, right?" As soon as Qiyuan arrived, she heard Li Aifang's sobbing voice, which was also seductive.

Even Qi Yuan felt that a mother like Li Aifang was better off not having at all. She treated her own son so badly and brainwashed the original owner from a young age. Li Aifang was really... Qi Yuan couldn't find the words to describe her. She just wanted to get away from Li Aifang, this leech mother, as soon as possible.

As for the original owner's biological father? He never appeared in the previous life, so let's just pretend he didn't exist in this life.

Qi Yuan looked at his short arms and legs and started thinking about where to stage an accident, get his genes altered, or something like that, to become someone else's child.

"Yes, Mom is right. I was being unreasonable. I won't do it again next time." This was the first day Li Aifang brought Qiyuan to the Zhang family. Because Zhang Yaozu didn't like Qiyuan and her son, feeling that they were taking away Zhang Jijun's love, he cried and made a fuss. Qiyuan became the person Li Aifang treated differently, a tool used to show that Li Aifang would treat Zhang Yaozu better than Qiyuan.

In the living room, Zhang Jijun was comforting Zhang Yaozu when he suddenly heard the crying from the bedroom stop, and Zhang Yaozu also quieted down.

If my younger brother stops crying, wouldn't it be embarrassing for him to start crying too?

The current Zhang Yaozu is only afraid that his father will be taken away. He dislikes Qi Yuan and Li Aifang equally, unlike later when he directed all his dislike and rejection at the original owner. In addition to the usual cold violence and ridicule, he would occasionally put on a show of 'deep mother-son affection' in front of the original owner to provoke her fragile heart.

Seeing that Qi Yuan was no longer crying and leaving, and was even understanding, Li Aifang gave Qi Yuan a big smile, wiped away the tears on Qi Yuan's face with her sleeve, and pulled Qi Yuan out of the bedroom.

"Honey, Qi Yuan was just being silly, don't blame Yao Zu." Li Aifang smiled ingratiatingly and pushed Qi Yuan forward, clearly implying that it was all Qi Yuan's fault and that everything Zhang Yao Zu did was right.

Zhang Jijun never liked Qi Yuan, this burden, so he didn't say anything when he saw this. He waited for Qi Yuan to apologize to Zhang Yaozu. Although Zhang Jijun knew that Zhang Yaozu was just being unreasonable, he couldn't help it because Zhang Yaozu was his own son. If he didn't favor his own son, would he favor an outsider? He wasn't Li Aifang, who would side with outsiders.

"Qiyuan, quickly apologize to your brother." Seeing that Qiyuan was standing still, Li Aifang pushed her forward again.

It was impossible to get Qi Yuan to apologize. Qi Yuan just looked down at the floor and didn't say a word. When Li Aifang saw that Qi Yuan wouldn't apologize, she slapped Qi Yuan on the back.

Instantly, Qi Yuan spat out a mouthful of blood, which landed all over Zhang Jijun and Zhang Yaozu's faces.

"May you pray!"

"Ah! Blood!"

The first sound came from Zhang Jijun. After all, even though he had lived for more than 30 years, he had never seen such a scene. He watched as the prayer was like the one described in the novel. A blood-red storm raged in front of him and then landed on his face. If he felt it carefully, he could feel the warmth and stickiness of the blood, as well as the strong smell of blood.

As Qi Yuan slowly collapsed, Zhang Jijun felt that he was doomed, completely ignoring even Zhang Yaozu's exclamation from the side.

Zhang Yaozu had never seen so much blood before, and he fainted from shock.

But at this moment, Zhang Jijun and Li Aifang's attention was entirely focused on Qi Yuan, and they did not notice that Zhang Yaozu had fainted.

"W-What should I do? I...I killed someone..." Li Aifang looked at her palm in disbelief, not understanding where she got so much strength to make Qi Yuan vomit blood.

"Call the police! Call an ambulance, quick!" Zhang Jijun was terrified that Qi Yuan might die in his house, which would surely cause the house price to hit a new low. He didn't care whether Li Aifang had actually beaten Qi Yuan to death or not. As long as the police were called in time and Qi Yuan was taken to the hospital, he could just get a divorce if Li Aifang really did beat him to death. It wouldn't involve him.

Li Aifang was also terrified and lost her composure. Upon hearing Zhang Jijun's words, she subconsciously dialed the police.

"Hello, is this the police? I, I think I've killed someone... Yes, in XX..." Before hanging up, Li Aifang asked, "Does this count as turning myself in?" After hanging up in a daze, Li Jijun had just finished calling 120. The two stared at each other, unsure whether they should stay where they were or go outside to wait, hoping for the best.

"Yaozu! Wake up, Yaozu!" Zhang Jijun glanced at Zhang Yaozu subconsciously and found that Zhang Yaozu's eyes were closed, his face was pale, and he was completely bloodless. He was terrified and picked up Zhang Yaozu and rushed outside.

When Li Aifang saw Zhang Yaozu being carried out of the house by Zhang Jijun, she didn't know what she was thinking, but she went back to her bedroom, grabbed her clothes, and ran out after them.

Hearing the security door close, Qi Yuan got up from the ground after a while.

"Ring ring ring~" Li Aifang didn't take her phone away. After the call ended automatically, Qi Yuan picked up the phone and started fiddling with it. After a while, a video of a mixed doubles fight appeared on the phone, and Qi Yuan's cries for help could be heard in the video.

After searching the bedroom and finding the gold bars that Li Aifang had hidden, as well as Zhang Jijun's gold chain and gold ring, Qi Yuan affixed an invisibility talisman and left the Zhang family.

Once she leaves home, she begins to calculate, waiting for a destined person. This person must be of good character, have a loving marriage, be childless, and have considerable wealth... While she is asleep, she often 'sees' Qi Yuan enjoying himself leisurely in his little world, and she adds many additional conditions to the selection of people who stage accidents for extortion.

Just as they were hoping to find a target for staged accidents, police cars and ambulances appeared in the Zhang family's residential area, immediately attracting the curiosity of many onlookers. They all followed the police to the Zhang family's building, and some even followed the police upstairs, hoping to get firsthand information.

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