It was said that while Doctor Li was on his way to exile, he was inflicted with an infection and fell into a dire illness. Before he began to serve his sentence he departed from this world.

When Qin Yu obtained this news, he calmly folded the paper and burnt it to ashes over the oil lamp.

As the paper ashes fell onto the table they were swept away by the wind, as if the final traces of his act were being erased.

Doctor Li had obtained his deserved punishment, but the threat from Ning Ling’s family still existed. Qin Yu couldn’t allow everything that happened in his ‘dream’ to occur once again. He had to prepare himself.

He recruited experts to guard his mansion and contributed a massive amount of resources to obtain the protection of a lord in the capital. Qin Yu busied himself for a long time and his cheeks began to turn thin. It was only much later that he finally started to relax a little.

Now, even Ning Ling’s family wouldn’t easily dare to take action against the Qin Family.

Unconsciously, a year passed. Everything remained peaceful, as if all the nightmares had already faded away.

On this day, the spring weather was just right. He thought about how he had been ignoring his wife lately and ordered his servants to prepare; he was going to take her out on a spring tour.

On the riverbank in spring, the scenery was beautiful and mesmerizing. Qin Yu stood against the coming wind, feeling...