Chapter 32

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This time travel was perilous, but also yielded many rewards.

That girl's icy laughter was familiar to Yuan Luoyi, but she couldn't recall who it was. Perhaps revisiting the corridor would help her remember more.

Yuan Luoyi hopped out of bed, opened the door, and jogged through the Yuan residence, quickly reaching that corridor. The same wallpaper, the same windows, the same silvery moonlight streaming in, only without any bloodstains on the floor this time.

Yuan Luoyi walked forward, trying to recollect.

I've heard her voice before!

Come on, remember!

Who is she?

Step by step, Yuan Luoyi arrived at the door to Yuan's Mother's room.

Yuan's Mother was a spy assassin, not easily killed by ordinary people. So how did the murderer succeed?

Yuan Luoyi placed her hand on the doorknob, recalling how this cold metal would be stained red with fresh blood in the future, and how inside, Yuan's Mother would lie grievously injured, bleeding profusely.

Yuan Luoyi remembered many more details, like how Yuan's Mother was gripping her phone, its flickering screen showing she was trying to call Yuan's Father, but he didn't pick up.

And on the table was a calendar, open to June 27th.

A sharp pain shot through her temple, and Yuan Luoyi frowned deeply as fragments of her past life's memories flooded in.

She remembered now - on June 27th, she was discovered to be a fake heiress. Yuan's Father's gaze was ice-cold as he tossed out a suitcase, telling her to leave immediately.

That night, Yuan Luoyi dragged her suitcase alone towards the subway station.

The people just getting off work were utterly exhausted. They hurried along, boarding the last trains home to rest. Yuan Luoyi envied them for having a home to return to.

She had lost everything. The love she received was all false. She drifted aimlessly, heart weary, like a piece of driftwood uncertain where to land and call home.

The advertisement on the large screen suddenly paused, flickered, and a wanted poster flashed up.

At first, Yuan Luoyi paid no mind, looking down at her phone to check the subway route map. Only when people around her started pointing and staring did she realize something was amiss.

Looking up, she saw the photo on the wanted poster was of her, labeled "Class A Wanted Criminal, Extremely Dangerous, Suspected of Matricide".

The memory fragments ended there, and 11-year-old Yuan Luoyi finally understood the full sequence of events.

So that's how it was.

On the day she was driven out, Yuan's Mother was murdered, and Yuan Luoyi was framed as the killer. Then, before her brothers returned to the country, she was executed.

Such swift judgment, as if there was an urgent need to get rid of her before her brothers could intervene to save her.

Behind the string of deaths in the Yuan family seemed to be an invisible hand, meticulously orchestrating everything to make each of the Yuans die a painful death.

Now, the 11-year-old Yuan Luoyi gazed out the window at the solitary moon hanging in the sky as the night insects chirped.

The first time she time traveled, Yuan Luoyi felt like only a few minutes had passed. But in reality, several hours had gone by. This time was the same - when she returned home, it was the afternoon, but now it was completely dark out.

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