Reborn at 80: From Village Scoundrel to Billionaire

"Wait! Ha'er, are you sure he's Fan Shiba?" After thinking about Fan Shiba and his past, Liu Bei was still skeptical.

"Yes. I'm sure." Fan Ha'er nodded. "Because this house is Fan Shiba's house."

"Is this Fan Shiba's house?" Liu Bei paid special attention to his surroundings.

The night was too dark and the moonlight was too weak. He was so focused on getting home that he didn't pay attention to whose house it was.

After being reminded by Fan Ha'er, he carefully looked around and, based on his memory, determined that Fan Ha'er was right; this house was indeed Fan Shiba's home.

"No. Still no. Isn't Fan Shiba unmarried? And who is the woman in his room?" Liu Bei raised an eyebrow. "Having an affair with another woman is illegal. It also violates clan rules. As the village accountant, how dare he break the law? Does he have a death wish?"

"Shh!" Liu Bei had barely finished speaking when Fan Ha'er covered his mouth and pointed a finger into the room.

Liu Bei glanced inside again; Fan Shiba and that woman had finished filming.

Perhaps due to the intensity of filming, the two were exhausted and constantly panting.

About three minutes later, Fan Shiba got up from the woman and lay down beside her.

The woman nestled in Fan Shiba's arms, hugging him tightly, and said, "My dear soldier, from now on, I'm yours. You can't go back on your word."

Fan Shiba pinched the woman's chin and examined her carefully for a while, then said with a smile, "Yingzi, do you know? When I was young, I longed for you day and night. I wished I could hold you in my arms every day and make you happy."

"Unfortunately, Fan Sanyuan suddenly appeared out of nowhere and tried to take you away from me. I thought I could win. But what I didn't expect was that you would choose him in the end, not me."

"I want to know, why didn't you choose me, but chose him instead?"

"Oh, my dear soldier, that happened decades ago. Are you still holding a grudge? Let's not talk about the past, okay?" The woman pressed her head tightly against Fan Shiba's chest and said.

"No. I need to know the reason. Otherwise, I won't know where I went wrong in the first place." Fan Shiba grabbed the woman's chin again, his expression very serious.

woman:"……"

After staring into Fan Shiba's eyes for a while, she suddenly burst into tears.

"Waaah~"

"Why are you crying?" Fan Shiba asked, puzzled after hearing the woman's cries.

"I...I dare not say," the woman seemed to have something difficult to say.

"Why wouldn't I dare? I told you to speak, so just speak." Fan Shiba raised his eyebrows, somewhat dissatisfied.

"I...I'm afraid if I tell you, you'll be angry, Aibing-gege." The woman hesitated for a moment, biting her lip, somewhat unsure.

"Don't worry, I'm no longer the naive and ignorant boy I used to be. Just tell me, I won't get angry," Fan Shiba urged.

"Well... it's a deal. If I tell you, you can't be angry, okay?" The woman reiterated the terms to Fan Shiba.

"Hmm. Tell me. What is it?"

Fan Shiba raised his eyebrows into an inverted V shape. "If you don't tell me, I'm really going to get angry."

"Sigh~" The woman sighed deeply, her thoughts seemingly returning to the past. After a long silence, she slowly opened her mouth and said, word by word, "Actually, the person I truly liked back then wasn't Fan Sanyuan, but you, Aibing."

"If you like me, why did you choose him in the first place?" Fan Shiba didn't quite understand and looked suspicious.

"My family was struggling financially back then, you know that, right, Aibing?"

"Mm." Fan Shiba nodded.

"My mother passed away early. My father raised my brother and me all by himself, acting as both father and mother. Years of hard work had taken a toll on his health. That year, his health seemed to be deteriorating day by day. We went to the clinic, and the doctor said he wouldn't last many more years."

"But I'm not married yet, and my younger brother isn't married either. If he's gone, there will be no one to take care of my brother and me. He's unwilling to let his life's efforts go to waste."

"To avoid any regrets, he asked someone to act as a matchmaker for me. In the end, Fan Sanyuan and you came. They both took a liking to me. They both had feelings for me."

"He asked me to contact both of you at the same time. After I contacted you both and understood your situations, he told me something."

"What did your father say to you?" Fan Shiba pressed, seeing that the woman had suddenly fallen silent.

"My father said... he said, Yingzi, if my health is still good, I won't force you. But the doctors say I don't have many days left to live."

"Before I close my eyes, I have only two wishes. One is to see you marry into a good family and live well there, without having to suffer like you did with me!"

"Another reason is that I saw your younger brother get married and continue our family line."

"But your brother wants to get married, so we need to prepare a bride price. But you know our family's situation. It wasn't easy raising you two siblings. Where would we find the money to give your brother a bride price?"

"So your father hopes you will choose Fan Sanyuan. His family is better off than Fan Aibing's. They will definitely offer more dowry."

"When the time comes, once Fan Sanyuan's family sends the betrothal money to our house, you will marry into their family, and your younger brother will also have the money to get married."

"After you and Fan Sanyuan return to your parents' home, I'll ask someone to arrange a marriage for your younger brother. I'll try my best to help him find a wife and start a family as soon as possible."

"As long as he gets married, I'll have no regrets even if I close my eyes and lie in my coffin."

"When the time comes, if I reunite with your mother in the underworld, I will be able to give her a satisfactory explanation."

"Yingzi, you should be able to understand what I'm saying, right? Can you promise me? I'm not forcing you to agree now, but I hope you'll think it over carefully."

"After hearing this, I knew that what my father said was true. From childhood to adulthood, my father has suffered a lot for my siblings and me. But no matter how hard or tiring it was, he would rather suffer himself than let my siblings and me suffer even more."

"I saw it all. It pained me deeply. I know that when Dad said those things, it was because he had no other choice. He was forced into it."

"so--"

"So, just to get a bigger dowry for your brother's wedding, you agreed to your father's request, abandoned me, and chose Fan Sanyuan?"

Fan Shiba suddenly realized.

"Hmm." The woman nodded, looking at Fan Shiba. "My dear soldier, you...you're not angry, are you?"

"Smack~" Before he could finish speaking, Fan Shiba kissed the woman and said, "No. I'm not angry. I'm not angry at all. On the contrary, I'm very touched."

"Feeling...touched?" The woman thought she had misheard and was somewhat confused.

"Yes. I'm touched." Fan Aibing hugged the woman tightly. "Because you're a filial woman. A woman who knows how to repay kindness. And a woman who loves her family. A woman like you deserves to be cherished. How could I be angry?"

"But at that time..."

"Shh!" Fan Shiba covered the woman's red lips with his finger. "Don't say anymore. Although you chose Fan Sanyuan back then, he didn't get you, did he? On the contrary, decades later, I got you before him. That's enough. Because in the end, I still won, didn't I?"