Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 499 The Tragedy of the Past

Du Anrao's surprised expression seemed to please the thing hiding in the shadows, so a gust of cold wind blew over his head, making Du Anrao shiver and calm him down.

Having already brought people into their territory, this so-called divine will naturally not allow Du Anrao to have his way for long.

After the cold wind blew, Du Anrao felt himself float up again, and then he plunged into the large pot of boiling oil.

As before, the pot of boiling oil failed to harm her in the slightest. Instead, it allowed Du Anrao to see clearly what was protecting her.

It was a transparent sphere enveloping her, which, viewed from the inside out, looked somewhat like a giant transparent bubble.

A faint golden light emanated from the edge of the bubble. Du Anrao recognized the golden light very well; it was... merit!
It was the merits she had accumulated that were protecting her! Sure enough, her previous guess was correct. These merits were not given to her by the current Heavenly Dao, but instead helped her resist the harm from this new Heavenly Dao!
The fire under the oil pan burned brighter and brighter, and more and more small bubbles appeared around the edges of the oil.

Despite being right in the middle of the oil fryer, Du Anrao was completely unharmed. In fact, he found it quite comfortable and cool inside the fryer, completely oblivious to the true temperature of the oil outside.

They just kept cooking in the oil pot for who knows how long. Du Anrao was almost asleep inside the big bubbles when Xin Tiandao, who was determined to fight Du Anrao to the death, realized that this method was indeed not going to work. Suddenly, he turned Du Anrao back into the dark sewer.

Du Anrao was stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to do something, he felt a strong wind blowing in his face, followed by the familiar black smoke.

The failures of the mountain of knives and the cauldron of boiling oil greatly provoked this invincible world ruler. Du Anrao could feel his frustration even from the way the black smoke was being pulled.

Before he could react, Du Anrao was once again pulled into the inky black smoke.

It was clear that this time the other party was truly determined to kill her at all costs. The black smoke enveloping her this time was much thicker than before, eventually turning into sticky mud.

Just like a swamp in real life, it slowly pulled her down, and the more she struggled, the faster she sank!

The black mud quickly reached Du Anrao's throat, then her chin, mouth, nose, forehead, and even her entire head. Her breathing became rapid, and her consciousness began to blur.

In her daze, she seemed to hear a familiar voice, but it was filled with despair and grief.

"Junyan! Open your eyes and look at your mother. This isn't real, this isn't real, Junyan..."

A mother's voice? Du Anrao's eyes widened slightly, and he subconsciously reached out to grab it, but touched only a blurry image.

After that, scenes flashed before Du Anrao's eyes like a revolving lantern.

She saw Bai Xiuqing arrive at their door with her three-month-old belly, without her presence. Although her parents were shocked by the identity of the "biological father" of the child in Bai Xiuqing's womb, they easily believed her story out of affection for Bai Xiuqing's parents and because of the positive impression they had of Bai Xiuqing when she was a child.

Even the eldest brother, despite having no recollection of the forged prenatal report, ultimately accepted the child's identity upon seeing it, marking the beginning of their family's tragedy. A month after Bai Xiuqing moved into the Du family home, the plot took a sharp turn for the worse.

Jia Yunxiao's men discovered her whereabouts, and her family suffered a fierce reprisal from Jia Yunxiao for harboring the eldest madam and her unborn child.

The eldest brother was under close police scrutiny because company employees were bribed and a large amount of company funds were transferred to unknown overseas accounts. This was followed by a huge media storm. Before the police could find out the truth, Jia Yunxiao had already guided public opinion to convict him.

As a result, the Du family's company became infamous, and its partners withdrew their investments one after another. Before long, the company faced the risk of bankruptcy.

The eldest brother was in a terrible state, but he still refused to give up hope and sought help everywhere. However, after going out, he was ambushed in the wilderness by people arranged by Jia Yunxiao and stabbed more than a dozen times. He never returned.

Seeing her second brother at the height of his career being targeted by Jiang Huaiying, a female rogue, who, after failing to win his love, orchestrated a honey trap to embroil him in a scandalous affair, ruining his reputation and forcing him to retire from the entertainment industry.

Later, she was tricked by Jia Yunxiao into being pushed off a high-rise building and died. Afterwards, it was faked that she had a depression attack and committed suicide by jumping off the building.

Her fourth sister, who should have been cherished by her family and lived a happy and carefree life, was instead labeled a vicious female supporting character and became the imagined enemy of Li Qianxi and her sycophants. Not only was she targeted by those sycophants whose brains were all tiny, but she was also hit and run over by Li Qianxi's biological father and died a violent death on the street.

Her parents, simply for standing up for their helpless cousin, were resented by Cui Jueyan, a man from a poor background. Later, they were unwittingly drawn into Du Desheng's inheritance battle, and were inexplicably framed and imprisoned. They were then unknowingly murdered inside.

At this point, her third brother truly became a lonely man, having lost his entire family.

At that time, Du Yihan was still working day and night in the laboratory, completely unaware that during his seclusion, all his blood relatives had died, and he was even more unaware that a terrible crisis was just around the corner.

So, the third brother, who was excitedly leaving the laboratory with his research results, was confronted with the bloody reality of losing all his loved ones. Later, his proud research was stolen, and he even suffered the infamy of being cursed by thousands.

Under the double blow, Third Brother had actually decided to die. He spared no effort to save those suffering from illness, but his own relatives could not be saved and died one after another. How ironic.
But he knew he couldn't just die like that. After weighing the options, he risked his life and returned to the lab, only to run into Xiao Jinhang, the instigator, and get into a fight with him.

During the scuffle, Xiao Jinhang knocked over the chemicals in the laboratory, causing a fire. He managed to escape first, but his poor third brother was burned alive in the laboratory. Even after death, he had to bear the infamy of plagiarizing others' research results and deliberately setting fire to the laboratory in revenge.

Du Anrao was furious, but then the scene shifted, and she saw herself, a self that was both familiar and unfamiliar to her.

Four or five-year-old Anrao, dressed in patched and tattered clothes, sat by a bridge, with a long river stretching out below.

She didn't know how long she had been sitting there, or what she was waiting for.

Day after day, year after year, Xiao Anrao would sit on one side of the river, swinging his legs, staring at the shimmering water under the bridge, lost in thought, all alone.

Until, a figure appeared...