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Chapter 1

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**Bang**

This was the last sound Wang Heng’s ears received from this world.

Wang Heng was hit by a truck while crossing the pedestrian crossing on his bike.

Wang Heng deeply regretted it,

Very deeply,

A 2.5-kilometer journey, a ride-sharing app would only cost 8 yuan, but he lost his life to save 6 yuan,

His life was really too cheap...

...

...

Wang Heng suddenly opened his eyes,

What he saw was a beige mosquito net. A mosquito net?

He hadn't used one for many years, so where was this?

The quilt cover was red with peony flowers, just like the mosquito net,

Almost a standard in many households over a decade ago,

White lime walls, cement floor,

A room of over 20 square meters, with only an old wooden bed, no other furniture,

Wang Heng remembered that when he visited relatives, their guest rooms were mostly like this,

The difference was that some houses had piles of grain,

But Wang Heng hadn't visited relatives for nearly ten years, so he couldn't remember whose house this was.

It didn't matter where he was; the most critical thing was that he saw the Nokia phone on the bedside table.

After turning on the phone screen,

The phone showed the date as December 31, 2005,

His eyes closed and opened, and it was already 16 years later,

He was reborn.

Wang Heng was a gentle and honest person,

Even when bullied, he rarely got red in the face or neck,

So even knowing he was reborn, he wouldn't go crazy like others,

At most, he would lie down, cover his head, grit his teeth, and cry for the wretchedness of his past life,

No one would see,

He didn't need to worry about losing face,

Who said men don't cry...

In his past life, he worked diligently, was honest and straightforward,

He lived to nearly 40, like a grandson,

It seemed anyone could bully him,

His wife left him early, complaining about his lack of ability,

He lived alone for 16 years,

He wasn't without thoughts of finding another wife,

He had no money,

He wasn't stunningly handsome, and he had a 2-year-old daughter, who would marry him?

Those girls who asked for tens of thousands of yuan,

He didn't dare to find, so for over ten years of loneliness,

He could only rely on the right girl for help...

Although he was also called Old Wang,

He wasn't the flirtatious Old Wang next door,

But a lifetime of living in frustration, Little Wang.

After venting his emotions, Wang Heng gradually calmed down,

He sat up again, staring intently at the white wall in front of him.

Then, Wang Heng stretched out his hand and made a vow:

In this life,

He wouldn't be an honest person anymore,

He would be a rich person!

...

Although Wang Heng wasn't well-educated,

He only finished two years of junior high school, but over the years, he read countless web novels in his spare time,

Especially those about rebirth in the city, and he even tried writing a rebirth novel himself,

So his mind was filled with a lot of useful information about the future,

For example, stock trading,

Domestically, there were Tencent, Alibaba, Meituan, Pinduoduo, all with trillions in market value,

And then there were Douyin, Kuaishou, Didi,

Internationally, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon,

And then there was a particularly outstanding one.

Buying stocks in these leading companies, holding them for a decade, and seeing a tenfold increase was nothing...

There were also various cryptocurrencies,

Rising from a few cents to 400,000 yuan in just ten years, a million-fold increase,

Could you believe it?

So others' lives were like hidden cards,

But Wang Heng's life now was like playing with the cards face up, and if the cards were bad, he could change them,

Playing like this,

Even a pig could get excited!

Wang Heng couldn't help but recall the things he had seen in his past life,

Mansions, luxury yachts, luxury cars...

Delicacies...

Models...

He swore that in this life, he would have all of these.

Even God couldn't stop him!

In his past life, he could only look, and as for owning them, he didn't dare to dream,

In this life, he dared to think and dared to have everything...

He had already died once, what was there to fear?

When Wang Heng woke up, it was just slightly light,

He daydreamed for a while,

By the time it was fully light, there was a knock on the door,

Wang Heng quickly shouted, "I'm awake, I'm getting dressed."

While speaking, he picked up the clothes on the bedside table and put them on,

The person outside the door, hearing Wang Heng's movements, stopped knocking and left.

After getting dressed,

Wang Heng went downstairs to the kitchen and picked up a disposable toothbrush to brush his teeth.

There was no breakfast in the kitchen, and no one was there,

Clearly, everyone had already gone out,

Wang Heng couldn't immediately tell whose relative's house this was,

Outside the house, it seemed like many people were talking, very noisy,

And faintly, someone was crying.

Wang Heng had been thinking about his own affairs, so he hadn't noticed these things,

Now he had a vague impression,

This seemed to be his wife's mother's relative's house,

His wife's family hadn't built a new house yet, they were still living in the old house, and there were only two bedrooms,

Wang Heng's two brothers-in-law shared one room,

His in-laws shared another,

As for where his wife used to live, Wang Heng didn't ask,

During the New Year, Wang Heng always stayed at his wife's relatives' house,

It was 2005, so Wang Heng quickly remembered,

This year, his father-in-law fell from a construction scaffold and died,

The construction site compensated his wife's family with several ten thousand yuan,

Then a classmate of his wife's from junior high school, who had made some money, returned to the village for the New Year,

After returning, he didn't care about the funeral arrangements for Wang Heng's wife's family,

Nor did he care that Wang Heng's wife had already married and had a child,

He went all out, busy with everything, and secretly encouraged Wang Heng's mother-in-law,

To make Wang Heng's wife divorce him and marry him, offering 50,000 yuan as a dowry.

Wang Heng's mother-in-law thought about it, this money plus the compensation from her husband's death,

Could build a big house,

Wang Heng's mother-in-law felt she couldn't build a house for her son, so she agreed,

Then she worked on her daughter's thoughts at night,

In just a few days, she convinced Wang Heng's wife,

After the funeral, Wang Heng's wife directly confronted him,

Wang Heng was unfamiliar with the area, the language was different,

He was alone, and there were many people against him,

He couldn't argue, and fighting was impossible,

In the end, Wang Heng had to leave with his daughter,

The next day, his wife went to his house to demand a divorce,

Wang Heng didn't want to divorce,

But after his wife said something, Wang Heng immediately agreed to the divorce.

Thinking about this, Wang Heng felt speechless,

One was a husband, the other a father, two women,

Actually scheming over these things while the body was still warm,

This was really not letting the dead rest in peace!

Regarding the divorce with his wife,

Wang Heng definitely had no resentment now, nor would he force her to stay,

After all, it had been 16 years, everything had faded,

And he couldn't even remember what his wife looked like anymore.

Pushing open the door,

Wang Heng glanced at the mud house not far away, where a crowd was gathered, and then walked over.

In the mud house, Wang Heng's wife was in the room with their daughter,

Seeing Wang Heng come in, she put down the daughter,

Picked up a white cloth, and put it on Wang Heng's head, saying expressionlessly,

"Wang Heng, it doesn't matter if you don't understand what the host says,

Someone will remind you, just follow what they do,

Don't make a fool of yourself today, many people are watching."

Wang Heng looked at his wife, who was now familiar to him,

After all, they had lived together for three years,

But now his wife looked like a young girl to him,

She was only 21, and the mourning clothes made her look even more delicate,

No wonder even after marrying and having a child, someone still couldn't forget her.

"Okay, I'll hold the daughter, you need to cry for the spirit later."

Wang Heng said, picking up the daughter from the bed,

Since he had woken up early,

His daughter was half-asleep, indifferent to Wang Heng,

In his past life, after the divorce,

His 2-year-old daughter stayed with his mother,

At first, his wife caused trouble at his house,

He lost face, felt sad, and worked outside for a few years, not returning for the New Year,

A few years later, when he returned, his daughter almost didn't recognize him,

So their father-daughter relationship wasn't deep,

Wang Heng only remembered holding his daughter when she was 1 or 2 years old, and hadn't held her since.

Now, holding his precious daughter,

He couldn't help but kiss her little face a few times,

Wang Heng was honest and straightforward, doing everything with a beginning and an end,

In his past life, even when bullied, he still finished the wedding flower arrangements,

In this life, he didn't want to be like that, looking at his delicate wife,

Wang Heng, holding his daughter, steeled his heart,

Reached out, and took off the white cloth and mourning clothes from his daughter's head and body,

Then he also took off the white cloth from his own head,

"Wang Heng, what are you doing?"

Wang Heng's wife glared at him, preparing to put the clothes back on the daughter.

"Rao Yan, let your classmate mourn your father, I won't humiliate myself."

Rao Yan, hearing Wang Heng's words,

Stopped her hands, her face pale, and said stiffly,

"It's better you know, Rao Liang gave my family 50,000 yuan,

We met when we were working, and after having Xinyi,

We had no choice but to get married, I didn't take a single cent from you,

My father is gone, my mother can only farm, she can't earn money,

My brother has no ability, if I don't help him, he won't be able to find a wife,

So don't blame me, blame yourself for being incapable,

If you could come up with the money now, not 50,000, even 30,000, I wouldn't divorce you."

Rao Yan originally planned to tell Wang Heng after her father's funeral,

So being exposed a few hours early, she took the opportunity to say it,

What she said wasn't much different from what she told Wang Heng in his past life.

This was her home, and Wang Heng was an honest person, so she wasn't afraid of him getting angry.

Wang Heng felt he should be angry, but he wasn't at all,

Of course, Wang Heng had sworn not to be an honest person,

So, although he wasn't angry,

He still repeated what Rao Yan said to him in his past life when she forced him to divorce.

Then, "Slap!"

Rao Yan, angry, slapped Wang Heng's face and cursed,

"Wang Heng, are you a turtle? You're a beast, not a human."

Wang Heng said expressionlessly,

"I don't hit women, but don't take advantage of my kindness, this slap is for my mistake."

"If you and he are the best, be careful your father comes to find you on the seventh day.

I'll say one last thing, Rao Yan, I guarantee you'll regret it."

"Are you? Wang Heng, I'm not underestimating you, if you can find someone better than me after the divorce,

I'll be your maid for life."

"I refuse, I don't want a maid like you."

"TM, go dream on!"

Rao Yan, her anger rising, grabbed the backpack by the bed, opened the door, and threw it outside,

Turning back, she pointed at Wang Heng and the daughter in his arms,

"Get out, my father doesn't need a beast like you to mourn him."

The crowd outside, who were talking, stopped at this,

Wang Heng didn't care about the onlookers, picked up the backpack without a word,

And left without looking back...