My younger brothers are so fierce!!! I'm clearly the eldest brother!

"Who?"

The group of people immediately became alert.

Don't worry, it's just a special movie screening. We'll take you home afterward.

Before the group could ask any questions, the seating in the screening room suddenly began to change.

In the front row, five seats slowly rise up, each covered with a deep red velvet cushion, as large as a single sofa. A table is placed in front of each seat, with wet wipes, tissues, and lemonade on it.

On either side of the luxurious seating area was a regular movie theater seat.

Next, seven more "seats" rose up on the left and right sides. These were metal plates with a cold, gray sheen, supported by rough steel pipes connected to the ground.

Please take your seats according to your names.

The group of people looked at each other, then subconsciously glanced at the five seats in the middle.

The moment they saw the name in the very center, Jiang Yan, Gong Bolin, and the others' pupils constricted sharply.

How could it be Bai Xin?

Jiang Ning was unhappy when she saw that her seat was made of steel plates. "Why should I sit on a steel plate? This is discrimination, and Bai Xin isn't even here!"

[Oppositions are ineffective. I'm just discriminating against you. You deserve to be sitting on steel plates.]

[I'll count to ten. Those who haven't found their seats yet are in for a shock.]

Jiang Ning gave the ceiling the middle finger, "What the hell are you, sneaking around like this, hiding in the shadows!"

"Aww—"

Jiang Ning suddenly took a step forward, rubbing her lower back incessantly. "Holy crap, that's electric shock!"

Seeing this, Yan Ling, Jiang Yan, Fu Chengyan, and Gong Bolin hurriedly told everyone to sit down in their seats. Among the group, Gong Bolin and Fu Chengyan sat in ordinary seats, Yan Sui'an sat in the luxury seat on the far left, and the rest of them were all in steel-plated seats.

After they were seated, the door to the screening room suddenly opened, and Bai Xin, Shangguan Zhenghuai, Yu Zheqing, and Xie Xuansheng walked in together, their expressions not very good, and went straight to their seats.

Bai Xin sat in the center, with Yu Zheqing and Xie Xuansheng on his left, Shangguan Zhenghuai on his right, and then Yan Suian.

[Everyone is here, let the video begin!]

Bai Xin looked up at the enormous screen in front of him, his fists clenched.

The mysterious person said that Jiang Guanqing was reborn, and through the film, they would learn about Jiang Guanqing's previous life.

In novels, the previous lives of those who are reborn are mostly tragic and painful. So what about President Jiang? Did he also suffer a lot and pay a price to get the chance to be reborn?

The screen lights up, the movie title appears for a few seconds, then the scene changes, and a villa appears first.

The moment they saw the villa clearly, everyone was stunned. It was the Jiang family villa. Although it had changed a bit, Yan Ling and Yan Suian, who had only been there a few times, recognized it.

The scene shifts to a cozy room where a young boy is sound asleep, nestled in his blankets. That boy is Jiang Guanqing, who is not yet eighteen years old.

The figure under the covers stirred, and a fair hand reached out from under the covers to touch the phone.

Jiang Guanqing: !!!

"How come it's almost nine o'clock?" Jiang Guanqing muttered. "Why didn't Mom call to wake me up...?"

After getting up, washing up, and changing clothes, Jiang Guanqing checked the day's trending topics on his phone. The top trending topic was a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Linyi Town at 3:42 AM...

Jiang Guanqing's expression changed drastically, and he frantically called Jiang Jizhong and Meng Linghuan.

"Answer the phone, Mom and Dad, answer the phone..." Jiang Guanqing pleaded softly, clutching his phone.

[Hello, the user you dialed is not in service area. Please try again later.]

The phone slipped from Jiang Guanqing's hand and fell to the floor. Panic gripped him. He picked up the phone and ran quickly out of the room, but after a few steps, he turned back and retrieved his ID card from the bedside table.

"ah--"

Jiang Guanqing ran down the stairs as fast as he could, but in his haste, he lost his footing and tumbled down the stairs.

"Big brother!" Jiang Ting exclaimed in surprise, his eyes already red.

Jiang Yan, Jiang Zhuo, and the others had tense faces, their eyes fixed on Jiang Guanqing on the screen.

"Young Master, are you alright?" The old butler was startled when he saw Jiang Guanqing fall down the stairs.

Jiang Guanqing was a little dazed from the fall, only feeling a burning pain in his arms and cheeks, but his knees seemed to hurt even more.

After being helped to sit up by Uncle Zhang, Jiang Guanqing quickly rolled up his trouser leg and took a look. His knee was scraped and visibly swollen.

"Uncle Zhang, I'm fine." Jiang Guanqing took out his phone and started looking for plane tickets, train tickets, and high-speed rail tickets to Linyi, but all of them were suspended due to the earthquake.

Jiang Guanqing's hands trembled as he tried to switch ride-hailing platforms, but the distance was too far and it was in the suburbs, so no one would pick him up.

Jiang Guanqing bit her lip and kept raising the price. The family didn't hire a driver; Jiang Jizhong and Meng Linghuan both preferred to drive themselves. Occasionally, when they needed a car, Uncle Zhang would help, but Uncle Zhang was old and it would take him a long time to get to Linyi.

Finally, Jiang Guanqing paid five times the price to hire a car to go to Linyi.

The journey from Beijing to Linyi Town was long, and Jiang Guanqing vomited several times along the way. He was so sick that he turned pale and was sweating profusely, but he kept asking the driver to drive faster as long as it was safe to do so.

It was already evening when Jiang Guanqing arrived in Linyi Town.

Because the road conditions were extremely poor, the car couldn't get into the town. "Young man, there's still some distance to the town, but the car can't go any further."

Jiang Guanqing leaned against the car door and gagged twice. Having not eaten anything all day, he could only vomit a little bit of sour and bitter bile.

Seeing this, the driver wanted to get out of the car to help Jiang Guanqing, but as soon as the car door opened, the person who had just been kneeling on the ground ran away.

"Hey, danger! Be careful..."

Jiang Guanqing didn't care about anything else and ran headlong into the town. His parents had taken him around the town when they video-chatted with him; he had a good memory, he remembered, he remembered...

Jiang Guanqing ran into the town and entered a nightmare.

The ground bulged and cracked, most of the houses collapsed, leaving only a few crumbling walls. The air was thick with the smell of dust mixed with a faint stench of blood, and cries could be heard everywhere.

Some people sat amidst the ruins, tightly embracing their loved ones and weeping in despair; others, with disheveled hair, rummaged through the rubble, their fingers dripping with blood; rescue workers in camouflage uniforms hurried by carrying stretchers, the people on the stretchers covered with white sheets…

"Dad...Mom...Brother..."

Jiang Guanqing staggered forward two steps, then started running, faster and faster. He fell several times, his arms and thighs were cut in many places, and warm blood flowed down, but Jiang Guanqing didn't care about any of that. He ran wildly in the direction he remembered, and finally stopped in a pile of ruins.

Jiang Guanqing was stopped by a rescuer, who said, "You can't go over there; the risk of a secondary collapse is very high!"

Jiang Guanqing clung tightly to the other person's arm as if grasping at a straw, pleading, "My parents are still inside, my brothers are inside too, please, save them, please..."

The rescuers looked at the disheveled boy before them, a flicker of pity crossing their eyes, but their voices remained heavy. "It's not that we don't want to rescue him, it's just that the structure over there is too dangerous. Large machinery can't get in; we can only dig by hand. We're doing our best..."

Jiang Guanqing's hands trembled as he reached for his phone in his pocket. The screen was already shattered from the fall. "I have money. I can buy any equipment they need. I can hire a rescue team. Please, don't abandon them..."

As he spoke, Jiang Guanqing's knees buckled, and he knelt down on the gravel-strewn ground.

A muffled thud struck everyone's heart, even through the screen.

I'm begging you...

Jiang Guanqing's voice was broken and incoherent, "My parents are still inside... my younger brothers are still so young... please, please save them..."

In the screening room, Jiang Ting covered her mouth tightly, tears streaming down her face, crying so hard she almost passed out.

Jiang Huai and Jiang Ning stood stiffly, their eyes frighteningly red.

Jiang Zhuo bit her thumb tightly, and large tears fell down her cheeks.

Jiang Yan sat on the steel plate, her body ice-cold, watching her older brother kneeling on the ground on the screen, desperately pleading with the rescuers to save them and their parents.

It turns out the eldest brother was even more desperate than the others. When the earthquake struck, they still had their parents, who protected and comforted them. But the eldest brother had nothing. His parents and younger brothers were all buried under the rubble. How desperate he must have felt...

On the screen, the rescuer pulled Jiang Guanqing up from the ground, saying, "Get up quickly, we really haven't given up, we've been doing everything we can."

"Thank you, thank you..."

Jiang Guanqing choked up as he thanked them, picked up his phone and walked to the side. For the next hour, Jiang Guanqing kept calling rescue teams, agreeing to any offer, no matter how much they quoted.

After contacting the rescue team, Jiang Guanqing went back, knelt on the ruins, dug his fingers into the cracks in the concrete, and moved the rubble piece by piece, blood flowing down between his fingers.

"You can't do that, your hand will be ruined." A rescuer rushed over and pulled Jiang Guanqing away.

Jiang Guanqing gently pushed the other person's hand away, his voice hoarse, "My mom, my mom, and my brothers are inside, they're inside..."

As Jiang Guanqing spoke, he went to move a larger floor slab next to him. Since he couldn't move it by hand, he used his arms and shoulders to carry it.

The rough cut ripped through my arm, leaving a long, bloody gash; the warm blood instantly soaked half of my sleeve.