Beginnings

The next few days after Xiao Li's departure to Bie Feng, bits and pieces of the original body's memories started appearing. Bie feng cautiously played the role of the original body to avoid suspicion, helped Uncle Duan with chores, ran errands in the village and boiled medication as he slowly absorbed the original's memory.

He is currently in the 34th year of the Jin Dynasty, the same year his Master, Tie Cheng, was born.

It seems like he had returned to the past...Back then, the greatest wish in his last life as a sword spirit was to protect his master, but because he was still very weak still, there was not much he could do.

The man known by most as the greatest bastard ever, was also the same man he saw weeping bitter tears while alone at night. Thousands feared that man, yet they didn't know that their peace was the result of his effort.

There was so much only he and his master knew, and he struggled with so much grieve and pain as a sword spirit that he sometimes wished he was human. If he was human, he could solve the misunderstandings, he could be there when his master was alone. He could change everything.

"Ah! Was that why….?" he pondered.

Maybe he was given a chance to go back to the beginning to save his Master. Back to before everything happened. Back to before the madam died, back to before his master became an empty shell.

Crossing his legs, he gently massaged the broken foot that was already somewhat recovered. Children really do recover a lot faster than adults ah…

The original body, Qin Ji, is 6 years old this year. He had grown up with Uncle Duan for as early as he could remember. As Uncle Duan is the village cemetery's caretaker, he was given a nickname, Ghost Uncle.

"Aiya aiya, this is why the original is called ghost boy ah…" Bie Feng snorted while sorting through the fragments.

The relationship of the original with Xiao Li and Hu Lei was also revealed. Turns out the original met both of them 3 years ago when Uncle Duan accepted a job to repaint the Hu Family's Mansion.

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The original was only a 3 year old at that time and since Uncle Duan didn't have anyone at home taking care of the toddler, he brought him along to the job. The toddler was strapped with cloth on the back of Uncle Duan while he was doing his painting work.

Xiao Li got reminded of his younger brother when he saw the toddler. Although the toddler was quiet and didn't make any big movements behind Uncle Duan's back , Xiao Li was in distress looking at it.

"Young master…why don't we let the boy stay with us while Uncle Duan works?"

Hu Lei was surprised that Xiao Li came to look for him on his own initiative.

Since Xiao Li hardly asks for anything, he agreed to allow Xiao Li take care of the toddler while Uncle Duan completes his work.

"Hello, my name is Xiao Li, this person beside me is Hu Lei. You can call us Brother Li and Brother Hu alright?'

The toddler looked at Xiao Li with his bright eyes and nodded.

"What is your name?"

"Qin Ji"

"Nice name, I will call you Ah-Qin. Have you eaten breakfast yet?"

"...I'm not hungry"

Just as he said that, a low growl was heard coming from the toddler's stomach.

Filled with embarrassment, the toddler looked away shyly.

Of course, hearing that, Xiao Li dragged the toddler over to have breakfast with him.

Hu Lei was quite unhappy that someone else had disrupted his breakfast time with Xiao Li, but upon seeing Xiao Li so happy, he let them be.

The repaint works went on for almost a month as the Hu Mansion was huge. Everyday the toddler would join the two boys for breakfast and Hu Lei's face was getting blacker as the days passed.

By the time the repairs were done, Hu Lei thought that his nightmare would be over, but Xiao Li ended up going to the toddler's house to visit him regularly in his free time, even bringing back some food and snacks that he had given Xiao Li.

Hu Lei really regretted giving in to Xiao Li demands, now he had to share the attention with a stupid brat! Because his jealousy got worse overtime, he started to mindlessly bully the original whenever he bumps into him.

Of course, he wouldn't do anything too extreme for fear that Xiao Li would be angry at him, but sometimes he really wants that child to disappear so that Xiao Li can give him all his attention.

Bie Feng, who was digesting these memories finally understood why the chubby boy was so hostile towards him.

He's just a big vinegar pot ah!