Chapter 36: Nightmare Revisited
In the moment when the light suddenly disappeared, Bian Yue felt a tightness in her heart, her throat abruptly losing its voice.
She squatted on the ground, her chest stuffy, and her own breathing becoming heavier and heavier.
The surrounding darkness seemed to take Bian Yue back to that night at the Bian Family—
the night when both her parents died.
In the classic European-style hall, 16-year-old Bian Yue sat on the sofa, crying desperately. She wanted to cry her eyes dry, as if only by doing so could she empty her soul and lose the ability to feel pain.
minutes earlier, a lawyer had come by to announce the death of the Bian couple, and he read the will publicly. They had left all their assets to Bian Yue.
That was the Bian Family of Xiangjiang, one of the dominant triad forces alongside the Shen and Li Families, controlling the absolute wealth and power of speech in Xiangjiang.
And now, Bian Yue owned the entire Bian Family.
"I’m deeply saddened by the death of my big brother and his wife, but how can all these things be left just to Bian Yue? She’s only 16, what does she know!"
The speaker was Bian Liang, Bian Yue’s uncle.