Chapter 289

Chapter 289: No way, was his past life crazy?

In his past life, Yang Tian Fang was a koi that grew up in a daoist temple.

Koi are favorites of heaven, born under great luck, with special chances and blessings.

Under that huge good fortune, the little koi cultivated for less than ten years before gaining intelligence. It could not take human form yet, but it could speak.

Because it had grown up in the temple, it became friends with the daoist masters.

A few years later, a little girl came to the temple.

This little girl was born with a harsh fate. She clashed with her six close relatives and naturally leaked wealth.

She killed her mother at birth. At three years old, she killed her father.

At four, when it looked like her grandfather would be next, her grandmother decided to throw her into the back mountain to feed the wolves.

An old daoist master happened to pass by, rescued her from the wolves, and brought her back to the temple.

At four, the little one did not know what “clashing with six relatives” meant, but she knew the daoist people called her a jinx.

She felt inferior and sensitive. Even in a temple where everyone treated her kindly, she was wrapped in fear.

The only being she could approach without defense was the little koi.

Because she did not know the little koi could understand human speech.

She told the koi everything that had happened to her, down to the smallest detail.

Most people pity the weak. Even if they do not help, they at least feel, deep down, that this person is truly pitiful.

But the little koi was not human.

After ten years in the temple, it also knew some mystic sect matters. It understood that the young miss’s fate was special. Unless she met a great chance, she would never grow up.

The koi guessed that meeting the old daoist master might be that chance.

It suddenly got very curious: if the young miss really lacked this chance, would she die?

Because koi are heaven’s darlings, they can make some wishes come true. Not long after, the young miss “accidentally” offended a noble and was driven out of the temple.

Soon after she left, the little koi, impatient to see the result, transformed into a child, a pink-cheeked boy.

Eager to know, it slipped out of the temple and used its natural luck to find the young miss.

Heaven and earth may be indifferent, treating all things like straw dogs, but heaven never backs people into a corner entirely. In a dead end, there is always one thread of life.

The young miss did clash with her kin and leak wealth, but for a time she would not harm herself. After leaving the temple she lived poor but safe, and she stumbled through a year.

In the second year, a kind noblewoman noticed her and took her in as an adopted daughter.

That household was a famous local rich family. The couple were both very kind. They often gave porridge and clothes to the poor and had deep good works. They were not affected by the young miss’s fate and raised her safely for three years.

The little koi did not believe anyone could escape a fate given at birth, so it told the couple about the young miss’s fate.

Luckily, the foster parents were good people. They half believed and half doubted such things, but they truly loved their adopted girl. After three years with no mishaps, they chose to act as if they knew nothing.

Unluckily, other family members overheard. Seeing the couple “remain stubborn,” they reported it to the clan.

The clan elders ordered the couple to send the adopted girl away, or the clan would burn her alive.

Helpless, the couple drove the young miss out.

Over the next few years, her life was not smooth, but it was not as tragic as the koi imagined.

As she grew, her features became more and more beautiful, drawing many fine young men to her.

Among them was even the crown prince.

The koi went to tell the crown prince: if he married her, he would die in the street.

The crown prince did not believe it.

Angry, the koi ran to the prince’s rival faction and used its luck to push that faction up and up.

Most important, the rival’s wishes could come true.

What did the rival wish for most?

To kill the crown prince.

So before long, the crown prince really did die in the street.

After his death, the koi revealed that the young miss was a walking disaster, and she was sentenced to death by slow slicing.

Before she died, the koi went to the prison and told her all about its thoughts and deeds through these years.

Only then did the young miss realize that the sad back half of her life was not because of fate at all, but because of this koi.

She was born with a harsh killing aura. Wronged to death, she turned straight into a vengeful ghost and hunted the koi for revenge.

Though full of great luck, the koi had not cultivated seriously all those years. With its thin cultivation base, it could not fight a vengeful ghost and was torn to pieces.

Even that did not wash away the young miss’s hate.

Knowing the koi carried luck, she feared it would be reborn blessed again. She paid the price of letting her own soul scatter and cursed the koi to lose its luck forever and be plagued by bad luck in every lifetime.

Yu Zhi Yi’s look at Yang Tian Fang turned complicated.

Yang Tian Fang had not expected his lifetime of bad luck to come from this.

He found it unbelievable and said: “M-my past life was that boring?” As a wish-come-true koi, instead of asking for rich cultivation resources and actually cultivating, he went after a mortal girl? “Was I just stuffed and itching for trouble?”

Jiang Liu Bin was speechless too. After hearing Yu Zhi Yi’s story, he was not so scared of Yang Tian Fang anymore; he only felt the man’s past life had something wrong with it. He blurted out what he was thinking.

Yu Zhi Yi raised an eyebrow at him and said: “Right. Picking on someone who never wronged you is a sign something is wrong in your head.”

Jiang Liu Bin fell silent. [Why did that feel like a dig at me?]

She continued: “Although someone sealed you here on purpose to harm the Martial Alliance, luckily nothing happened, and you did not stain yourself with any blood-debt. I will send you on to reincarnate.”

Yang Tian Fang hesitated, then after a long pause asked: “Then… will I still be this unlucky in my next life?”

Yu Zhi Yi shot back: “What do you think?”

With a thud, Yang Tian Fang dropped to his knees and tried to throw his arms around Yu Zhi Yi’s leg.

Before he could touch her, a streak of golden light sprang out and flung him away.

Jiang Liu Bin froze. [What just happened?]

Before long, Yang Tian Fang drifted back. He did not dare act up again. He stood one meter away, pitiful and honest, and asked: “Master, do you have a way to break that curse?”