Sweet Rebirth: The Little Healer

Using her Divine Sense, Zhao Nuanyue searched the nearby stream and pinpointed Li Shan’s location. To her astonishment, she also saw Wang Dadan trailing behind him.

Her younger brother was following Li Siming and Liu Lanhua, then there was Zheng Delin in the county town, and on Wild Boar Ridge, there were Li Shan and Wang Dadan.

If this plan succeeded, Zhao Nuanyue could take down all these villains at once. But if it failed...

She would not fail!

Zhao Nuanyue firmly believed she wouldn’t fail. Ever since her rebirth, she had overcome every obstacle she’d faced. She would certainly overcome this one, too.

Her life was hers to control!

No one, no matter who they were, would be allowed to harm her family or stand in the way of her pursuit of happiness.

As Zhao Nuanyue walked further into the distance, Li Guihua and Li Jianjun followed close behind, staying under cover.

Zhao Nuanyue climbed up Wild Boar Ridge. The people approaching from the other two paths also spotted her.

However, the villagers behind them didn’t dare to advance any further. They were afraid that if the kidnappers saw them, they would harm Little Red Carp.

Zhao Nuanyue carefully scanned the area with her Divine Sense. She found a large boulder to hide behind, about a few dozen meters from Li Shan and Wang Dadan, and then shouted, ”I’m here! This is Zhao Nuanyue! Let my sister go! Whatever you want—money, ration tickets—I’ve brought it all!”

Zhao Nuanyue’s voice was clear, and carried by the wind, it reached the ears of Li Shan and Wang Dadan with ease.

’Wang Dadan’s heart burned with lust. ’My God, I actually get to have a beauty like Zhao Nuanyue today! She might just be that bastard Hua Yusen’s sloppy seconds, but she’s gorgeous. I don’t care if she’s a virgin or not!’

Li Shan looked at Wang Dadan and said, ”In a bit, I’ll knock her out, and you can have your way with her. If you don’t want to go to prison, you kill her after!”

’Wang Dadan hated Zhao Nuanyue to the core. Getting to sleep with her before killing her would be a wonderful bonus!’

”Of course,” Wang Dadan said with a vicious grin. ”That Zhao Nuanyue has too many connections. If we let her live, we’ll be the ones to die. If it weren’t for that damned girl, how would our two families have ended up in this state! This is all her fault. I’m going to make her suffer for meddling and ruining my plans!”

Li Shan just smiled. ’He hadn’t wanted Wang Dadan involved in this, but Wang Dadan had seen him and his parents moving Little Red Carp earlier.’

’If he could, he’d get rid of Wang Dadan along with her.’

’A child could still be sold. Once she was somewhere far away, what would it matter if she knew the truth? It wouldn’t affect him in the slightest. But an adult... hah... especially a greedy, insatiable man like Wang Dadan... keeping him around would only be asking for trouble.’

’Only the dead can keep secrets!’

Li Shan looked at Wang Dadan and said, ”Get her to come over now. We’ll grab her, you take her to that cave, and I’ll lead away the people tailing us!”

”My dear nephew, you’re too good to your uncle,” Wang Dadan said, overjoyed and thrilled. He hadn’t expected such a wonderful turn of events. All that effort he’d put into this kid hadn’t been for nothing!

”Little Red Carp is right here! Just come over here, and I’ll let her go!” Wang Dadan shouted. ”If you don’t, I’m leaving! I’ll count to ten! Ten... nine... eight...”

’Zhao Nuanyue knew the two of them were just bluffing, and she was reluctant to go. But if she didn’t, how could she possibly capture them?’

’Risk and reward really do go hand in hand.’

Zhao Nuanyue thought for a moment. When Wang Dadan’s count reached five, she stepped out from behind her boulder and walked, step by step, toward the one where he and Li Shan were hiding.

Just as Zhao Nuanyue came within ten meters of the boulder, Li Shan and Wang Dadan poked their heads out from behind it.

”So it was you,” Zhao Nuanyue said coldly. ”Where’s Little Red Carp? Where have you hidden my sister?”

Acting as if she hadn’t seen through their ploy, Zhao Nuanyue put on an anxious expression and rushed toward them.

Seeing Zhao Nuanyue’s beautiful face and graceful figure, Wang Dadan charged out, intending to tackle her to the ground.

Just then, Li Shan pulled out a pistol. He fired a shot at Zhao Nuanyue’s head, then immediately turned and fired a shot directly into Wang Dadan’s.

The instant Li Shan drew his gun, Zhao Nuanyue’s limbs suddenly went stiff. It was too late to enter her Space Ring. On pure instinct, she threw herself to the side and rolled across the ground.

Fortunately, her body had been enhanced by her special abilities. Her Divine Sense reacted instantly, and her movements were nimble, allowing her to dodge Li Shan’s shot in the nick of time.

The shot had practically grazed the hair by her ear. With no time to dwell on her fear, Zhao Nuanyue kept rolling.

After firing at Zhao Nuanyue, Li Shan assumed she was dead. At such close range, and with his marksmanship, he believed it was impossible for her to have dodged. So, he had immediately used his next shot on Wang Dadan’s head.

”ARGH!” With his back to Li Shan, Wang Dadan cried out in pain. His eyes glazed over as he slowly turned his head to face his killer. ”You... you actually... killed me...”

Li Shan sneered, ignoring Wang Dadan, whom he’d just shot in the head. He looked over at Zhao Nuanyue and saw she was still rolling on the ground. ’She’s still alive? I missed!’

He took aim again, preparing to shoot Zhao Nuanyue. He would kill her, then make his escape—settling this once and for all!

Just then, Li Jianjun, who had a gun, saw Li Shan fire at Zhao Nuanyue. He immediately took aim at Li Shan and fired his first shot.

”Ah!” Li Shan cried out, seeing that his right arm was wounded. ’This is bad! The people tailing us actually have guns!’

’Li Shan hadn’t expected the villagers to be armed. He especially hadn’t expected them to hit him from so far away with what looked like a decrepit old hunting rifle!’

Taking advantage of the gunshot, Zhao Nuanyue had already rolled more than twenty meters away to the cover of another rock. Though the rock wasn’t large, it was big enough to hide her curled-up body.

Li Shan was wounded. He had no choice but to take cover. He could only hold the gun in his left hand, but with his non-dominant hand, he had no chance of hitting Zhao Nuanyue while she was hidden.

Seeing more and more people with hunting rifles closing in, Li Shan knew the mission was a failure. ’Even if I get back to my unit, my superior won’t let me off the hook. But if I stay here and get caught, I’ll be sentenced to prison.’ After all, in his attempt to kill Zhao Nuanyue for good, he had also eliminated Wang Dadan—a threat to him and his parents.

Despair began to set in, but Li Shan knew he couldn’t just wait to be captured. He quickly wrapped his wounded right arm and bolted into the dense thicket behind Wild Boar Ridge.

’From this day forward, he would be a fugitive, on the run for the rest of his life. He could only hope that one day, he would have the chance to repay his parents for raising him.’