[Main Text · v4] Chapter 1: The Good-for-Nothing Live-in Son-in-Law Awakens Memories of His Past Life
Chapter 1: The Good-for-Nothing Live-in Son-in-Law Awakens Memories of His Past Life
Sunset City, the Xiao family.
The autumn wind swept dead leaves over the courtyard wall. Xiao Nuo crouched in the woodshed, covered in injuries, blood still at the corner of his mouth.
Three years.
Three years ago, the family struck Xiao Nuo's name from the main branch and banished him to this woodshed, a place even the servants refused to live in, making him the Xiao family's live-in son-in-law. In name, he was a son-in-law, but in practice he was treated worse than a dog. Every day, he had to get up before dawn to chop wood, haul water, and sweep the courtyard. He could only squat in a corner to eat whatever scraps were left.
Xiao Nuo clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white.
Three years ago, Xiao Nuo had been a gifted young member of the Xiao family's main branch. He broke through to the seventh level of the Acquired Realm at just twelve years old, stunning all of Sunset City. Back then, the old master of the Xiao family had personally arranged his engagement to the eldest young miss, Xiao Hanyan. Everyone said the Xiao family was on the verge of rising to greatness.
Until that night.
Xiao Nuo's father, Xiao Zhan, the previous head of the Xiao family, mysteriously disappeared. The main branch fell from power, and Third Elder Xiao Yuande seized the opportunity to take over.
Worst of all, Xiao Yuande not only expelled Xiao Nuo from the main branch, but also announced in public that he was “practicing demonic arts and bringing chaos to the Xiao family.” He then used a bizarre sealing technique to forcibly seal Xiao Nuo's meridians, knocking his cultivation down from the seventh level of the Acquired Realm to the first!
And that wasn't all.
For the next three years, everything Xiao Nuo ate and drank was secretly laced with a slow-acting cultivation-destroying drug by Xiao Yuande's men. The drug was colorless and odorless. Taken in small doses every day, it gradually eroded his meridians. His once-clear spiritual channels became increasingly clogged and atrophied. On top of that, he had to do the hardest labor, eat the worst food, and sleep in the most dilapidated room. This
