After Time Traveling, I was Forced to Marry a Wealthy Family

One night Mu Ci had a dream. He dreamed that Zheng Xuran was tied up in the corner covered with blood, his eyes were closed, and he made no sound. He was so frightened that he woke up immediately. When he sat up, his heartbeat was thunderous and pounding in his chest.

Cold sweat had already soaked his pajamas.

Mu Ci’s first reaction was to grab the mobile phone next to the pillow and press the screen to call Zheng Xuran.

But when he saw the time on the screen, Mu Ci hesitated again. It was one o’clock in the morning, and it was really not a good idea to disturb someone’s dream for no reason. Mu Ci struggled for a while, put down the phone again, and decided to call again after dawn.

But he couldn’t sleep again. When he opened and closed his eyes, he could see Zheng Xuran’s lifeless face, overlapping with the bloody shadow in his dream. Occasionally, he would see Gu Huai and Jing Zheng, both looking like wolves and tigers, sinister and terrifying.

These two people, especially Gu Huai, had become a nightmare engraved in his bones.

So, he stayed up until dawn, groggily got up to wash up, sat down at the dining table, and started calling Zheng Xuran, wanting to ask about his situation.

But when the number was dialed, a cold female voice came – it was an empty number.

Mu Ci was stunned, and his fingers unconsciously grasped the phone. When he heard this, he didn’t react for a moment, and he didn’t have time to be surprised. There was even a look of confusion on his face.

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Wu Ming came over with two bowls of noodles. Seeing him like this, he asked strangely, “Mu Ci, what’s wrong?”

“It’s an empty number.” Mu Ci held up the phone and looked at him blankly, “Why is it an empty number?”

Only then did he react. He quickly took out the note Zheng Xuran wrote to him from the drawer and compared it with the numbers in the address book one by one. He didn’t confirm it until he checked it three times. The saved number was correct.

Then why was it an empty number?

Wu Ming came over and looked at the note, “Did the person who helped you escape give this number to you?”

Mu Ci nodded. He felt inexplicably uneasy and anxious, but he didn’t know what to do. He made meaningless calls to that number over and over again, but without exception, the number was empty.

Wu Ming felt inexplicably unbearable when he saw his devastated look. He was very smart, and he immediately understood Zheng Xuran’s intention of leaving the fake number.

Pressing Mu Ci’s shoulder, Wu Ming sighed, “If my guess is correct, he must have expected that his phone call would be monitored, so he gave you a fake number to coax you to leave with peace of mind. If you really called, the people over there will definitely take this opportunity to track your location. Wouldn’t your efforts be in vain?”

“But, he can’t…” Mu Ci simply didn’t know what to say, ” I can’t contact him. What if something happens to him and I don’t know… No! I have to go back and take a look!”

Mu Ci did as he said and stood up immediately, planning to go back to the house to pack his luggage.

Wu Ming pushed him back hard, “You just get out, don’t throw yourself into a trap again. Wouldn’t Zheng Xuran’s hard work be wasted by you?! Besides, he didn’t take the initiative to call you, so it should be nothing serious. Don’t make trouble again.”

What he said was a bit sharp. Mu Ci’s face turned pale for a moment.

Wu Ming’s heart softened again, and he slowed down, saying, “The first priority is to find the jade pendant first. Didn’t you say last time that the jade pendant was in Ji Yunshu’s hand? I gave the information about him to our professor, and he said he would like to meet you.”

Mu Ci smiled gratefully at him, but there was still a lingering sadness in his eyes.

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Wu Ming’s history professor was indeed well-established. It was said he was knowledgeable about the past and present, had a wealth of talent, and had done research on the history of the Yi Dynasty.

Others might only be able to name the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the Yi Dynasty, but this professor was well aware of every figure who left a mark in history in that era.

Mu Ci saw him in the university’s office and mentioned Ji Yunshu’s name. The professor said oh and picked it up, “I know him. He was a courtier during the Fengli period. He had a very high official position, but he died too early. It’s a pity.”

Mu Ci’s eyes dimmed imperceptibly, and he whispered: “I want to find his descendants. Do you know what happened to the Ji family?”

The professor couldn’t help but glance at him, and the eyes behind his lenses gradually became sharper. He probably felt that the purpose of the prelude was a bit strange, but he didn’t say anything, and he concealed his inquiring thoughts very well.

“Ji Yunshu left behind two children, and both of them later became very influential ministers and flourished.” The professor sighed, “The Ji family is amazing, with many talented people. There are more than a dozen courtiers recorded in history books alone. Later, when the dynasty changed, the Ji family was partially purged, but it did not collapse. Instead, it was engaged in business, and it lasted until the Republic of China.”

The professor paused and looked up to see Mu Ci with a serious face, like a good student who was listening in class, with his hands still taking notes.

The professor was stunned and quickly waved his hand, “But these are all my guesses based on some clues. They are half true and half false. Don’t take them all seriously. Who could say accurately what happened hundreds of years ago. My words are only guesses.”

Mu Ci nodded, put away his notebook, and asked modestly: “Can you tell me how the Ji family fared when they arrived in the Republic of China?”

“During the Republic of China, the warlords fought in a melee. The first ones to be affected were the merchants, and the rich could not be defeated. The Ji family was the leader of the Chamber of Commerce at the time, so they must have been manipulated by the superiors, so the Ji family simply sold their property and went into seclusion to avoid the chaos, and they never came back again.”

The professor suddenly smiled mysteriously, “But there is another gossip, I don’t know whether it is true or not, but you can listen to it. According to rumors, the Ji family has actually changed their names and is secretly preparing to make a comeback. By the way, you know the now famous Hanhai Enterprise, right? It’s the Gu family.”

Snap!

Mu Ci’s hand shook, and the pen fell directly to the floor, rolled around twice and disappeared under the sofa.

“Wait, you, are you talking about… the Gu family?” Mu Ci felt that his voice was trembling and he could hardly control his voice. He seemed to have developed a stress-like fear of Gu Huai’s name. Whenever he heard about him, his body couldn’t help but tremble.

His body was turning cold, and he stood up in a daze. He didn’t know what happened, how he said goodbye to the professor, how he took a taxi back to the apartment, walked in and fell on his bed.

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Mu Ci’s mind was spinning stiffly, like many rusty gears creaking and moving, and there was only one sentence in it: Gu Huai was actually Ji Yunshu’s…descendant!

Mu Ci laid on the bed and took a long time to recover from the impact of this incident.

If the Gu family was really the Ji family after changing their surname, and if the jade pendant was well preserved by Ji Yunshu and passed down from generation to generation, then Gu Huai should have the jade pendant in his hand.

Right now, the act of stealing the jade pendant was tantamount to snatching food from the tiger’s mouth, and Mu Ci couldn’t take this risk. The biggest reason why he wanted to get the jade pendant and return to Yi Dynasty was to avoid Gu Huai.

There was no need to put the cart before the horse.

Mu Ci was worried and stared at the snow-white ceiling for a long time. Finally, he couldn’t resist the sleepiness that gradually spread over him, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

If Mu Ci and Ji Yunshu did it, in other words, Mu Ci had intimate relationship with Gu Huai’s ancestors?