Hai Cheng Prison.
As the iron gate slowly opened, a tall figure walked out.
"Finally out of prison!"
Qin Yi looked up at the azure sky and let out a sigh.
Four years ago, Qin Yi and his girlfriend Liu Jinxiu were out eating barbecue at night when they ran into Tang Jialei, a rich second-generation who was drunk.
Tang Jialei saw that Liu Jinxiu was quite pretty and came forward to make advances.
Qin Yi saw his girlfriend being bullied and stepped forward to stop him, but Tang Jialei picked up a beer bottle and smashed it on his head.
A conflict ensued, and they got into a fight.
Afterward, Tang Jialei, relying on his family connections, caused Qin Yi to be sentenced to four years in prison for intentional assault.
Tang Jialei, however, got away with nothing.
Only today did Qin Yi finally get out.
"I wonder how Mom and my sister, and Xiuxiu are doing?"
"This old man, why did he have to get me such a strange tattoo..."
On the way home, Qin Yi muttered to himself, pulling down his left sleeve to cover a tattoo on his wrist, so his mother wouldn't see it when he got back.
Qin Yi had no father since childhood and lived with his mother and sister. He had been in prison for four years, and his mother, sister, and Liu Jinxiu had never visited him, making him worried.
The tattoo on his left wrist was done by his master in prison, a crazy old man, who did it one night while he was asleep.
The old man was eccentric and considered a lunatic by others. Qin Yi had entered prison when the old man was already there.
Everyone in prison disliked the old man, but only Qin Yi treated him as a friend.
Therefore, one day, the crazy old man said he wanted to take him as a disciple and teach him medical skills, Daoist magic, and supreme martial arts.
Initially, Qin Yi didn't take it seriously. To appease the old man, he pretended to agree and did whatever the old man asked him to do.
But who would have thought that after a few years, he would actually learn a lot of skills from him...
As his thoughts drifted, Qin Yi had already arrived at his doorstep. He suppressed the excitement in his heart and knocked on the door.
It had been four years, and he was finally going to see his mother and sister again.
Creak.
The door opened, and a woman with an unfamiliar face stood inside.
"Who are you looking for?"
Qin Yi's excitement came to an abrupt halt. He looked at the door number and confirmed he wasn't mistaken.
He asked, "Isn't this Zheng Shufen's house?"
"Zheng Shufen?" The woman thought for a moment and said, "Oh, you mean the previous owner of this house! I bought this house long ago. Zheng Shufen doesn't live here anymore!"
"What???"
Qin Yi was shocked. His family only had this one house. If it was sold, where would his mother and sister live?
Did they buy a new house?
Or was he taken in by Liu Jinxiu's family?
As Qin Yi was wondering, the woman sized him up and said, "Aren't you Zheng Shufen's son who went to jail for assault back then?"
"Oh my, you're finally out. Your mother and sister are in a terrible state now. They're living by the nearby garbage dump and making a living by scavenging. I heard the other day that your mother was injured, and she doesn't even have money to buy medicine..."
Before she could finish, Qin Yi suddenly moved and sprinted towards the garbage dump at his fastest speed.
In less than ten minutes, Qin Yi arrived at the garbage dump.
In the middle of summer, the garbage dump reeked, and mosquitoes and flies swarmed everywhere.
This place was not fit for humans; even dogs would go out of their way to avoid it.
"Ah..."
"Don't hit me, please don't hit me anymore!"
"Haha, little clown girl, if you don't have money today, let's see how we deal with you and your mother!"
Suddenly, a scream of pleading and the curses and laughter of hooligans reached Qin Yi's ears.
Hearing the screams, Qin Yi clenched his fists and charged towards the source of the sound.
A moment later, Qin Yi reached the source of the sound. He saw a young girl with dry, yellow hair, skeletal thinness, and ragged clothes curled up in a pile of garbage.
Around her, four or five young thugs surrounded her, taunting and humiliating her.
At this moment, one of the thugs even unbuckled his belt, preparing to urinate on the girl.
"Haha, no money? Then I'll treat you to some pee!"
"Xiao Lei!!!"
Qin Yi looked at the girl on the ground. He felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his anger exploded.
Even though he hadn't seen her for four years, and even though Qin Lei looked vastly different from four years ago, Qin Yi recognized her as his sister, Qin Lei, at a glance.
Qin Yi's shout made the thugs pause. Qin Lei, from the pile of garbage, raised her head with difficulty.
When she clearly saw Qin Yi, her eyes were filled with excitement and joy: "Brother, you're out..."
But then, she seemed to realize something and quickly lowered her head.
Qin Yi looked at Qin Lei's disheveled state, especially the horrifying scar on one side of her face. He trembled.
"Ah..."
Realizing what had happened, Qin Yi let out a roar of pain and rushed forward. His imposing aura erupted, and with one punch, he sent the thug who was about to urinate on Qin Lei flying over ten meters, crashing into a nearby pile of garbage.
Then, Qin Yi, ignoring the other thugs, picked Qin Lei up from the garbage.
As he held her, Qin Yi's heart ached fiercely.
She was too light!
Qin Lei was one meter sixty-eight tall. Although she used to be mindful of her weight, she had always weighed over fifty kilograms. Now, he felt she weighed at most thirty-five to forty kilograms, not even forty.
"Xiao Lei, how could you be like this, how could you be like this..."
Qin Yi's heart was like a knife twisting, and tears streamed down his face uncontrollably.
Qin Lei instinctively reached out to wipe his tears, but then she remembered her hands were very dirty and stopped halfway. She kept comforting him, "Brother, don't cry. It's good that you're out! I'm fine, really fine..."
"Mom is inside. Go in and see her quickly! She must be very happy that you're out now!"
Qin Yi turned his head. Next to them was a simple tin shed.
Hearing this, he carried Qin Lei, pushed open the tin door, and walked in.
The thugs, recovering from their shock, pulled their companion out of the garbage pile and fled.
Qin Yi's display of martial prowess, kicking someone over ten meters away, had terrified them. They had no courage to stay any longer.
Entering the tin shed, the first thing that hit him was a wave of intense heat. Being in the middle of a garbage dump, there was also a strong foul odor inside. The stifling heat and stench made Qin Yi feel like he couldn't breathe.
In a corner of the room was a wooden bed, where Zheng Shufen was lying.
Zheng Shufen lay on the wooden bed, her body motionless except for her open eyes. She must have heard the commotion outside and was trying to turn her head to look towards the door.
Her face was filled with anxiety.
"Mom!"
Qin Yi went over, put down Qin Lei, and then discovered that Zheng Shufen's limbs were all broken, rendering her immobile.