Jiangnan City, People's Hospital.
In a certain Intensive Care Unit.
"Ugh, this is a hospital, you know."
A curvaceous and enchanting woman is pinned to the bed by a tall man looming before her, her alluring complaint filled with flirtation.
"So what if it's a hospital? I asked Wang Chao to watch the door, no one will come in."
The tall man grins wickedly, his hands wandering up and down the woman's body, causing her much pleasure.
"Stop it, Ye Chen is still in the bed. What will we do if he wakes up?"
The enchanting woman glances at the pale-faced young man lying on the hospital bed and pushes the tall man away.
"He won't wake up, and even if he does, what of it?" He's already aware of our relationship."
With great strength, the tall man pulls the enchanting woman back to him, a vicious look in his eyes.
"This jerk dared to hit me, so I'm going to take you right in front of him. Are you afraid he'll see?"
"A poor town-dweller, what have I to fear from him? I just think you're despicable."
"What can I say? Women don't love men who are too nice."
"Humph..."
After some hesitation, the woman finally decides that this situation is too thrilling to resist, she stops protesting.
Boom!
As the two engaged in a passionate kiss, a thunderous crackle resonated, and a eerie crack appeared in the sky above the hospital.
Time and space shifted, a phantom figure descended from the heavens, merging with the young man on the hospital bed.
Ye Chen slowly opened his eyes, turning his head to see the startled young man and woman separated by the lightning strike.
"Liu Yuxi! Yuan Hao!"
Ye Chen's pupils slightly narrowed, memories flooding back, confirming that he had returned to the day he first arrived in Jiangnan.
It was on this day, Ye Chen discovered that his girlfriend Liu Yuxi, whom he had saved with his bone marrow and been dating for a year in college, had betrayed him, colluding with his rich roommate, Yuan Hao.
Ye Chen saw for his own eyes, Liu Yuxi, who came to pick him up at the car station, stepping out from the passenger seat of a Porsche, and before leaving, she warmly embraced and kissed Yuan Hao in the co-passenger seat.
Rage surged in Ye Chen's heart, and he stormed up to punch Yuan Hao, only to be beaten up by his gang.
During the fight, Yuan Hao intentionally pushed Ye Chen onto the road, resulting in him being hit by a truck.
Although Ye Chen preserved his life, he ended up with a disability that left him unable to use his legs.
After this incident, Ye Chen's father traveled thousands of miles to Jiangnan, several times he went to Yuan Hao's workplace, trying to seek compensation for Ye Chen. However, Yuan Hao had power and influence and arranged for Ye Chen's father to be covertly killed and his body dumped in the wilderness.
In the end, when Ye Chen learned about the grim news of his father, he gave up all hope of living, sinking into depression in his wheelchair until his demise.
But!
Even though Ye Chen's body died, his soul traversed to the world of cultivation. Through three thousand years of training, he became a high-level cultivator, renamed himself as Ye Xuantian, and was universally respected in the cultivation world as the Xuantian Immortal!
Despite ten thousand years passing by, Ye Chen was unable to forget the humiliations of his past, the brutal death of his father, and the root cause of all tragedies in his previous life!
Disturbed by numerous inner demons, he was supposed to fall during the ascension tribulation. Unexpectedly, heaven gave him another opportunity, allowing him to return to the day when his previous life took a drastic turn!
"Ye Chen, why are you awake?"
On the other side, Liu Yuxi, seeing Ye Chen awake, asked surprisingly.
"Sorry, I've spoiled your fun." Ye Chen's tone was very calm.
To Ye Chen, who had been resurrected from his past life, his once deeply adored Liu Yuxi, is now nothing.
For this pair of adulterers, their only fate is to be buried in his fury!
Looking at Ye Chen, Liu Yuxi suddenly felt a sense of unfamiliarity as if he had transformed.
"He woke up, so what? He's a cripple anyway, he can only watch."
Yuan Hao without too much thought, stretched his hand into Liu Yuxi's skirt without hesitation, causing her to slightly moan.
"You're right, he's now disabled in both legs, can't even stand up, let alone stop us."
"Let him watch the live broadcast!"
"Who says I can't stand up?"
A cold smile spread across Ye Chen's face as he lay on the sickbed.
Although his cultivation was annihilated with his resurrection, his soul's power was far stronger than ordinary people.
Upon introspection, he found a mysterious book and a wisp of green ethereal silk still floating in his mind.
The “Tao Xuanjing”!
And the Tao Xuanjing emanates Vital Qi!
The “Tao Xuanjing” has an unknown origin. It was Ye Chen's reliance in becoming the immortal supreme that, even as he reached the consummate enlightenment, he did not fully understand it.
With the “Tao Xuanjing”, he was destined to return to the pinnacle of the cultivation world in this life. He would transcend the tribulations and reach the other shore!
The green filament, on the other hand, was the ethereal Vital Qi fostered by the “Tao Xuanjing” – one of the primal energies of the universe!
Using this Vital Qi, the entirely crippled legs could be healed in the span of a breath.
Under the nourishment of the Tao Xuanjing Vital Qi, Ye Chen's fractures combined, injuries healed, and legs were restored to their original state.
"Ye Chen, are you still trying to scare me? I've asked the doctor before I came, you suffered comminuted fractures in your legs, you will never stand up again in your life,” sneered Yuan Hao, staring at Ye Chen.
"Is that so?"
The very next moment, Ye Chen had already thrown off his quilt and stood before his eyes.
"You!…“ Yuan Hao was startled.
"Ye Chen, how are you all right?!” Liu Yuxi was also wide-eyed.
Ye Chen ignored the astonishment of the two people, picked up the cigarette box on the bedside table, and shook out a Yuxi cigarette.
He lit it slowly, his expression somewhat indiscernible.
Upon seeing Ye Chen's provocative look, Yuan Hao hardened his face, "Ye Chen, you couldn't possibly have bribed the doctor to lie to gain sympathy from Liu Yuxi, could you?"
Back then, when Ye Chen was pushed onto the road and hit by a car, they straight away ran off.
Later, they found out that his leg was broken.
Looking at it now, it seems very likely to have been a scam.
"Just a used shoe, why the hell would I need her sympathy?" Ye Chen took a puff of his cigarette, nonchalantly.
"Yo-" Yuan Hao was about to flare up, but Liu Yuxi stopped him, and yelled at Ye Chen, "Ye Chen, I admit I've done some inappropriate things, but at this point, I hope you know better!"
"Inappropriate? Just inappropriate?" Ye Chen stared at Liu Yuxi, "I was the one who saved your life, you know."
"Ye Chen, rescuing me was solely your own wishful thinking. I did not ask for it!"
Liu Yuxi retorted passionately.
"And don't think because you saved my life, that I should be grateful to you. Even if you hadn’t been there, with Yuan Hao's power and money, a few more months could have easily found me a suitable spinal cord donor!"
“Ha, given your condition back then, without my immediate intervention, ten more days and you probably wouldn't be around."
Ye Chen shook his head and scoffed coldly.
"So what, I'm perfectly alive and well now!" Liu Yuxi replied heartlessly.
"Exactly!" Yuan Hao quickly supplemented, "Even if your leg isn't broken, what does it matter? In the end, you're nothing but a commonplace second-generation wealthy, and only I can provide the life that Yu Xi desires. You simply don't deserve her!"
"So you betrayed me simply because I'm poor?" Ye Chen exhaled a plume of smoke towards Liu Yu Xi.
"What else would it be? If it weren't for the spine that I need from you, I wouldn't spare you a glance!" Liu Yu Xi gave a cold sidelong glance, "Ye Chen, you and I are simply people from two different worlds!"
"Indeed, we are people from two different worlds. Your acknowledgment of this is commendable."
Ye Chen's laughter carried an ambiguous undertone.
Liu Yu Xi was nothing but a mere insect, while he, Ye Chen, was the unsurpassed Xuan Tian Immortal honored above all beings! They were truly people from two different worlds!
With the fall of Ye Chen's words, he flicked his cigarette butt towards Liu Yu Xi's enchantingly oval face without extinguishing it.
The cigarette butt, bearing the spark of fire, struck Liu Yu Xi's tender skin at an extremely high speed, instantly burning a red glow on it.
"Ah!" Liu Yu Xi screamed as she covered her face.
"Ye Chen, you're asking for death!" Furious, Yuan Hao raised his fist, intending to strike at Ye Chen's head.
But Ye Chen moved faster, his right hand deftly struck Yuan Hao in the abdomen.
Thud!
After a deep thud, Yuan Hao clutched his stomach and knelt on the ground. His face was flushed red, and he was gasping for breath.
"Wang Chao! Get in here now!", he slurred his shout with spit drooling out of his mouth's corner.
Bang!
The door of the ward was forced open the next moment, and five young men rushed in.
The leader of the pack was Wang Chao, ruggedly charming, standing tall at a whopping 1.9 meters.
An active basketball team player and a loyal flunkey of Yuan Hao.
In the past life, Ye Chen was brutally beaten, suppressed by Wang Chao right outside the bus station.
But in this life, the conclusion will be different, indeed!