Honored Guest

The rain in River City had fallen for a week without pause.

In a neglected corner of this city, Chen Yuyi, his body covered in dried blood, suddenly opened his tightly shut eyes.

At that very moment, the rain ceased abruptly, and a sliver of dawn broke through the clouds.

Chen Yuyi slowly climbed up from the muddy ground. Upon closer inspection, a faint white mist enveloped his entire frame.

“What’s going on? Weren’t those mysterious people the ones who finished me off?” he wondered, his gaze dazed as he looked around. He realized he was still in the same world, not in some underworld or afterlife.

Even more astonishing, though his body still bore traces of blood, every wound on him had completely healed.

“Who exactly was it that killed me?” He tried desperately to recall the events before his death, but his mind remained a fog.

He had been born into poverty, struggling to survive at the lowest rungs of society, rarely ever quarreling with others. He could not fathom why anyone would target him with such lethal intent.

If there were anything that distinguished his life now from before, it was that a month ago, he had “married himself off.”

A month prior, his father had fallen gravely ill, needing two hundred thousand yuan for surgery. Though he worked diligently to cover his own school expenses as a university student, he could never have saved such a sum.

Unable to bear watching his family worry, he took a desperate measure. Through a series of twists and turns, he “married” himself to Shen Zhuyun, the female C