Chapter 2: The Nie Family of Yunyang

  "Uncle, wake up, wake up, don't die..."

  In a daze, Nie Kong suddenly heard the anxious and urgent voice of the woman, and he was taken aback for a moment. His consciousness cleared up a bit: Uncle? When did I have a niece? Moreover, it seems that I've already been struck by lightning, so why is she telling me not to die? Could it be...

  At that moment, when the gaming headset was struck by lightning, Nie Kong felt as if his consciousness had floated out of his body. Outside the window, heavy rain poured down and thunder boomed, while he stared blankly at his own body convulsing uncontrollably, the brief but intense pain almost suffocating him.

  His body was completely still, and Nie Kong floated higher and higher. Endless darkness and silence enveloped him from all sides, causing his consciousness to sink deeper and deeper until it became completely blurred. Nie Kong didn't know how long the desolate process lasted, but he knew he had really died. Yet, looking at the current situation...

  I'm still alive?

  A thought flashed through his mind, Nie Kong couldn't help but get excited. As a doctor, he didn't have much fear of death, but if he could continue living, it was naturally worth rejoicing. For a moment, the brain's sudden abnormal excitement was like an unlocked key, and a string of unfamiliar memory fragments emerged like a lantern slide.

  Nie Kong was stunned, and he unexpectedly discovered an unbelievable thing from those memories. The body he was in had the same name as him, but it was a completely different person. This Nie Kong was only eighteen years old and was a young master of the Nie family in Jieyang City of the Great Yan Empire.

  Dacheng Empire, Ji City, Nie Family...

  Nie Kong was as if he had been doused with a basin of cold water, what on earth was going on? The excitement and thrill disappeared, replaced by an unspeakable shock and panic. Nie Kong's mind was in a mess, all sorts of familiar and unfamiliar memories mixed together, and finally even he himself couldn't tell whether he was the traditional Chinese medicine doctor Nie Kong from Earth or the young Nie Kong from Jieyang City in the Great Da Cheng Empire...

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  “……”

  "Uncle, uncle, hurry up and wake up. Didn't you tell me yesterday that I must hold on? How can you leave now......"

  A mournful cry of grief shocked Nie Kong awake.

  At this time, Nie Kong suddenly realized that she was not her niece, but her sister-in-law Hua Mei. This world had no airplanes or cars, no computers or TVs, and all sorts of technological products were absent, it was a bit similar to the ancient times in her previous life, here, sisters also called their husbands' younger brothers "uncle".

  Nie Kong's mother died early, and he was a sickly child from a young age. His older brother Nie Qiong was also the same.

  Huāméi was married into the family three years ago, and on the day of their wedding, Niè Qióng had already passed away before they could even hold the wedding ceremony. Not long after, her father Niè Qīngyáng also left, and Huāméi took care of him. He was very protective of Huāméi, and managed to hold on until today when he finally took his last breath, only to have Niè Kōng take advantage of the situation and occupy his physical body.

  Nie Kong, who had grown accustomed to life and death and had experienced it himself, was met with such an unimaginable change. After the initial panic, his mood gradually calmed down. No matter what strange things happened after being struck by lightning while playing games, since he was reborn in this city of Jieyang, he should live a good life. Fortunately, his relatives on the other side had long passed away, and there were no attachments. Upon learning of his death, those patients and customers would only be saddened for a while, but they wouldn't be as heartbroken as Hua Mei was on this side.

  Listening to the hoarse and mournful voice beside him, Nie Kong's heart suddenly felt a little sour.

  "Don't cry."

  Nie Kong couldn't help but speak, yet not a single sound came out. His body was numb and aching, making it hard for him to move. Nie Kong tried his best to open his eyes, but his eyelids felt heavy as if they had two lead balls attached to them.

  "It's no wonder it's been a sickly body for eighteen years, this body is really poor."

  Nie Kong smiled bitterly.

  If he could take action, he believed that with his own medical skills, he could adjust his body well, but now he can't speak or move like a vegetable, and doesn't even have the most basic conditions to treat himself, which is really frustrating. Nie Kong's brain was racing rapidly.

  Bang!

  A loud crash interrupted Nie Kong's contemplation, as if the door had been kicked open with great force.

  "What... what do you want to do?" Huā Méi's voice came immediately, her tone slightly trembling, apparently somewhat frightened.

  "What are you doing? Hua Mei, have you forgotten what you promised Third Young Master of my household yesterday?" A sharp male voice sneered, with an unutterably lewd tone.

  Third Master?

  Upon hearing these words, a face of a young man in his early twenties involuntarily flashed into Nie Kong's mind. The Nie family was a prominent clan in Jicheng City, and Nie Kong's branch was only a side branch of the Nie family. However, this Third Young Master was from the main line of the Nie family and was the third son of the current patriarch of the Nie family, Nie Feng Xing.

  Nie Kong's heart was inexplicably anxious, and Nie Feng's figure flashed by, arrogant and domineering. In his memory, he had always coveted the beauty of Hua Mei, but because the original owner of this body had fought to protect her and Hua Mei had refused him, he had not succeeded. Now that he had burst in, it was definitely not a good thing.

  "Hua Mei stammered: 'I... I haven't forgotten...'"

  That sharp male voice laughed and said: "Since you haven't forgotten, then follow us now, Third Young Master is still waiting for you over there."

  "No, I can't leave now, I have to prepare for my uncle's funeral."

  "A funeral? Is that sickly Nian Kong finally dead? Good riddance, good riddance. A useless person like him living is just suffering, haha." The room erupted in a burst of mocking laughter. "What a pity, wasting Third Young Master's bottle of 'Rejuvenating Dew' for nothing..."

  "Wu Tong, don't be allowed to say so."

  Hua Mei said angrily, "You go back and tell Third Master that after I've finished with my uncle's funeral, I...I will go see him myself."

  Wu Tong hummed: "Third Master can't wait that long, Hua Mei, you'd better come with us, we'll take care of Nie Kong's funeral."

  "You, all of you get out, I won't go with you now."

  "Are you not leaving? Since you got that bottle of 'Rejuvenating Dew' from Third Young Master, you've been unable to control yourself. Bring her away for me."

  "Ah, let me go..."

  “……”

  Perhaps influenced by the memories of this body, listening to the hoarse crying and intense struggling sounds beside him, Nie Kong's heart was like a knife, and his anger arose spontaneously. From Hua Mei and Wu Tong's conversation, he had roughly understood the cause of things, which should be that when they saw themselves on the verge of death, Hua Mei ran to ask Nie Feng Xing for "Huichunlu" to take it down, and the price... was probably Hua Mei's body.

  "Bang!"

  A loud crash was heard, as if something had hit the wall.

  "...... Hold her, hold her...... Two useless things, can't even grasp a woman. If she hits the wall and dies, Third Master won't let you off. Luckily, luckily, just some skin was broken." Wu Tong breathed a sigh of relief, then continued to cluck his tongue in disapproval, "Hua Mei, what's the point of this? This sickly thing is already dead, no longer needs your care. From now on, following Third Master will be all good days, why seek death and danger?"

  "Don't touch me, you beasts!"

  "How dare you scold me... What did I do to you? Hey, even if I'm scolded by Third Young Master, I'll still touch you a few times. Tsk, tsk, such a smooth face. Nie Yun that kid just got married and became a widow, what bad luck..."

  "Bastard!"

  “……”

  Just by the sound, Nie Kong also knew what had happened in the room. Hua Mei almost crashed into the wall and died, and was ridiculed by Wu Tong, Nie Kong's heart was filled with anger and indignation, his chest full of rage, as if his whole body was about to explode. At this moment, a warm current suddenly spread from his lower abdomen to his limbs, Nie Kong's entire body suddenly cleared up, and he suddenly let out a loud roar and flipped over to sit up:

  "Stop!"

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