Chapter 63: Memories 2
Alessio’s parents were scholars studying ancient Earth history. Though their background wasn’t as prestigious as Yan Wangbei’s aristocratic family, they were well-off.
She was an only child, spoiled by her parents since childhood. However, because her parents frequently traveled to various planets for research, often for more than a month at a time, she developed an independent, strong, and decisive character.
Unfortunately, Alessio’s parents were killed in a field accident.
She had just turned eighteen that year. A distant relative from her mother’s side suggested Alessio move in with her and receive her care.
But Alessio refused, not wanting to give up the Imperial University she had worked so hard to get into. From then on, she lived alone.
Such an independent and strong woman like Alessio, how could she tolerate being toyed with by a man?!
So, when Yan Wangbei hung up and turned around, he saw Alessio sitting coldly in the hospital bed.
What followed was simple. Under Alessio’s sharp questioning, Yan Wangbei had to admit the fact that he had a fiancée. He also promised Alessio love and a carefree future.
Alessio couldn’t stand this still-charming scoundrel and directly broke up with him.
Yan Wangbei, still in the heat of love, was naturally unwilling to let her go. He pleaded with her, promising a future, ensuring that after the child was born, he would divorce his fiancée and marry Alessio.
But Alessio insisted on breaking up, even threatening to tell his parents about their affair if he didn’t.
Yan Wangbei hesitated. He wasn’t the only heir in his generation; he had an equally outstanding younger brother.
His rigid parents would never allow him to give up the arranged marriage and marry Alessio, a commoner with Western ancestry.
He couldn’t have both. Yan Wangbei wouldn’t give up the Yan family for Alessio, a beautiful woman, and an unborn child.
After repeatedly expressing his love, reluctance, and pleas to stay together, he agreed to separate.
However, after confirming that Alessio would keep the child, he made her sign an agreement guaranteeing that the child had no connection to the Yan family and would never claim their heritage.
Alessio had completely seen through Yan Wangbei’s true nature. She was eager to completely sever ties with this lying scoundrel and signed the agreement without hesitation.
Yan Wangbei kept his word. After separating from Alessio at the hospital, he never returned to their shared house and never saw Alessio again, as if they had never known each other.
Alessio quickly moved out of their house, finding a new apartment near the hospital.
After graduation, Alessio wasn’t in a rush to find a job. Her family savings and her parents’ compensation were enough to support her comfortably for most of her life. She planned to find a job after her child was safely born.
But there are no secrets that last forever. Yan Wangbei’s fiancée saw the agreement concerning the child on Yan Wangbei’s data pad.
His fiancée could tolerate his affairs, but she couldn’t tolerate him having a child out of wedlock.
Using her family connections, she found Alessio’s address and, with more than a dozen bodyguards, went to force Alessio to have an abortion.
Luckily for Alessio, when Yan Wangbei’s fiancée arrived, she happened to be at the hospital for a prenatal checkup.
Returning home, she saw a crowd of people downstairs and became anxious. She approached and pieced together the truth from the onlookers’ gossip.
Alessio turned and left. She went straight to the spaceport, bought a ticket on the next departing ship, and escaped Capital Star.
After arriving on a strange planet, to avoid Yan Wangbei’s fiancée, Alessio contacted some old friends her parents knew. With their help, she hid on Unreturnable Star.
Unreturnable Star, also known as Hell Star.
It was a desolate and backward planet located at the southernmost tip of the Empire, far from other planets, separated from the Empire’s old enemy, the Zerg, by the entire Empire.
The most amazing thing about this planet was that it periodically shifted its location like a tide.
Initially, the planet only had some indigenous inhabitants. Later, some wanted criminals from an unknown Imperial planet discovered the planet while escaping.
Since then, due to its mobile nature, the planet became a haven for criminals.
Space pirates, wanted criminals, assassins, mercenaries, traitors—all kinds of outlaws fled to this planet, making it a true hell.
Of course, Unreturnable Star also housed people like Alessio, civilians fleeing the pursuit of powerful nobles.
Alessio hid there for almost 18 years. When Yan Gui Xing was 17, Yan Wangbei’s fiancée finally found Alessio and hired bounty hunters to kill her.
Yan Wangbei’s fiancée, now the Yan family matriarch, didn’t know that Alessio had already given birth to a child.
Although she had suspicions, after hearing her confidante describe the harsh conditions of Unreturnable Star, she didn’t believe that Alessio, a delicate beauty, could survive and give birth to a child there.
Therefore, only Alessio was targeted, not the then-unnamed Yan Gui Xing.
At 17, Yan Gui Xing lost his mother overnight. Overwhelmed with grief, he used a kitchen knife to massacre the Hunter’s Guild, finding the hunter who killed his mother and forcing him to reveal the mastermind.
After the massacre, Yan Gui Xing couldn’t stay on Unreturnable Star anymore. Besides, he needed to return to Capital Star, find the Yan family matriarch, and kill her to avenge his mother.
Yan Gui Xing, covered in wounds, fled to the nearest border planet to Unreturnable Star that night, collapsing from blood loss in the suburbs and was saved by Arki, who had run away from an orphanage.
Perhaps it was fate. Arki took Yan Gui Xing to his secret base and, using medicine and food stolen from the orphanage, saved him.
After learning about Yan Gui Xing’s experiences, knowing he wanted to join the military, Arki didn’t hesitate and joined the military with him.
Yan Gui Xing showed extraordinary talent in piloting mechas and commanding, coupled with his fearlessness and ruthlessness.
He quickly rose through the ranks to lieutenant colonel, his promotion speed was like taking an elevator, a meteoric rise.
Yan Gui Xing became a hot topic in the military. Some envied his good fortune, catching the boom in space pirates, each weak as a dumpling, making his achievements seem effortless.
But those who had been on the battlefield with him knew that everything he had achieved was deserved. Few dared to do what he did: charging into enemy starships with just one mecha, causing starships to explode.
The Yan family also took notice of Yan Gui Xing.
Most Yan family members were involved in politics or business; none had joined the military. The reason was simple: the Yan family’s young masters lacked the physical fitness to pass the military academy entrance exams, and even if they did, they couldn’t handle the rigorous training.
From Yan Wangbei’s generation, the Yan family had become smaller, and their political and business endeavors were less successful than before.
The Yan family had declined among the nobility.
The rising star of the military, Yan Gui Xing, who looked eight-tenths like Alessio, gave Yan Wangbei hope for the Yan family’s return to the top.
The Yan family collected information about Yan Gui Xing’s birth records, hair, and blood samples. After multiple tests, they found Yan Gui Xing.
Even in the reunion, the Yan family maintained a superior attitude, as if it was an honor for Yan Gui Xing to return.
Yan Gui Xing, who had fought his way to his current position, wasn’t a mindless brute. He wanted the Yan family to beg him to return. He wanted them to pay for how they treated his mother.
After one refusal, two refusals, three refusals, Yan Wangbei finally realized that his son not only looked like Alessio but also shared her personality tenfold.
When coercion failed, they tried bribery. Bribery failed, then they tried cooperation. When cooperation failed, the Yan family panicked.
That’s when the Yan family made a huge concession, throwing their full support behind Yan Gui Xing to become a five-star general. This time, Yan Gui Xing agreed.
The Yan family matriarch was the most furious and devastated to welcome Yan Gui Xing back. She never imagined that the child from her past had grown so powerful, becoming a lieutenant colonel.
After marrying Yan Wangbei, to secure her position and to prevent Yan Wangbei’s affairs, she desperately tried to have a son, the next heir.
But after giving birth to two daughters, she couldn’t get pregnant again. She became distraught and fell seriously ill. The family doctor told her that her body wasn’t suitable for another pregnancy and that she should focus on her health.
Ignoring the advice, she tried every method and finally got pregnant again after ten years. This time she gave birth to a son, Yan Wangbei’s only legitimate son.
Unfortunately, due to her excessive medication and poor health, the child was frail and sickly from a young age, and mentally challenged.
As he grew up, he became an undisciplined wastrel who only cared about pleasure.
He wasn’t just a failure compared to Yan Gui Xing; he was a failure compared to other noble heirs.
Seeing Yan Gui Xing, who had grown so outstanding even in a place like Unreturnable Star, the Yan family matriarch couldn’t help but feel angry and jealous.
She even thought, how wonderful it would have been if Yan Gui Xing were her son.
After that thought, her anger turned to despair. Yan Gui Xing wasn’t her son; he was the son of the mistress who had interfered in her marriage!
The Yan family matriarch changed Alessio’s chosen name, Huo Ge, to Yan Gui Xing.
In return, Yan Gui Xing made his half-brother completely mentally disabled.
The son the Yan family matriarch desperately gave birth to became a helpless fool who needed constant care, causing her to completely collapse, crying and demanding Yan Gui Xing’s life in return.
Yan Gui Xing was extremely shrewd and wouldn’t let anyone catch him. Yan Wangbei knew it was Yan Gui Xing’s doing, but for the sake of the Yan family and himself, he pretended not to know.
Yan Gui Xing not only became a five-star general but also the heir to the Yan family.
Yan Wangbei lowered his eyes, avoiding looking at Yan Gui Xing’s face, letting out a heavy sigh before bowing his head.
“I spoke out of turn. Don’t be angry. I have important business to discuss.”
[Author’s Note]: Yan Moumou’s former name: Huo Ge, Hugo, meaning “light of the soul”