The Devils Fire

"Who would have thought that a killer who had perished in a fire would be reborn in a small rural town in the United States, in the body of a girl who died suddenly from a heart attack."

In the farmhouse on the second floor, Jane Rivers examined her reflection in the mirror.

The girl in the mirror was eighteen years old, with long black hair reaching her waist, delicate features, and skin as fair as flawless jade, a rare beauty indeed.

"Moreover, its not just me who can be reborn..."

Jane closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, several lines of text appeared before her.

[Objective: Complete 30 trial tasks.]

[Reward: Resurrect "Jack Rivers."]

[Note: Retain the skills from the previous life, remove the heart disease from the original host.]

[……Tasks are being customized……]

"Its as if Ive received a mission from a game system."

A hint of confusion appeared in Janes black eyes, which were soon overwhelmed by pain and regret.

Little Jack was her brother.

She had planned to leave the organization with her brother, but he had drugged her halfway, disregarding her objections, and returned to the organization alone to buy her time.

When she woke up again, she had successfully escaped the organizations control on the other side of the ocean.

Her brother, however, was brutally tortured and killed by those people!

Jane clenched her fists, her fingernails almost digging into her flesh!

"As long as I can bring Jack back to life, whether its 30 tasks or 300 tasks, I will give it my all!"

"Jane, come downstairs for dinner," a loving voice called from downstairs.

Jane turned and went downstairs, finding her mother Lisa Green cooking dinner in the kitchen, with her father George Rivers assisting.

Lisa Green was a middle-aged woman of about fifty, whose face was weathered from years of farming. George Rivers was two years older than her, a dark-skinned farmer.

He asked Jane, "Honestly tell your dad, is someone bullying you at school?"

Ever since she started high school, his daughter seemed to have changed, but no matter how they asked, she denied it.

"No," Jane lied.

The original host was indeed bullied at school.

She could handle those matters on her own.

Lisa Green asked again, "What about the Chen familys young master, how is he treating you? Have the Chens mentioned when they will hold the engagement party for you two?"

Janes eyes flickered.

The Chen familys young master referred to the only son of the Chen Group in New Haven, who was also her fiancé.

Given the Rivers familys status, the marriage alliance with the Chen family had to be mentioned in terms of the relationship between the grandfathers of the two families.

The two grandfathers were villagers of Stone Bridge Village back in the day, as close as brothers, and had promised to arrange marriages between their descendants.

Due to some special reasons, the childhood betrothal was postponed to Jane and the Chen familys young masters generation.

However, the Chen familys business had grown larger and larger, transforming from a dilapidated village household to a prominent family in New Haven.

According to the usual plot in dramas, the Chen family should have denied the marriage.

But Mr. Chen highly valued the principle of integrity in business.

Not only did he not neglect the Rivers family, but he also frequently sent gifts to the countryside for the Rivers family.

Upon hearing that Janes middle school grades were not ideal, he generously arranged for Jane to enter the best private (aristocratic) academy in New Haven—Falcon High School.

And he justified it by saying that his grandson was also at Falcon High School, and the two could cultivate their feelings there.

Unfortunately, the Chen familys young master did not inherit his grandfathers fine qualities.

The original host had been bullied for three years at school, and there was no sign of the Chen familys young master offering help.

Moreover, with Mr. Chens death earlier in the year, the engagement party became a distant prospect.

"This matter is not urgent," George Rivers looked at his wife:

"City folks have high standards, the Chen familys young master may not necessarily look up to our daughter, and our daughter doesnt have to marry into the Chen family. Everything should be based on our daughters wishes."

"Youre right," Lisa Green nodded in agreement: "If Jane is unwilling, even if the Chen family offers us a hundred million, we dont want it!"

Jane ate in silence, lowering her head.

This kind of care from her parents was too unfamiliar to her.

After dinner, Lisa Green came to Janes bedroom, checking over and over again the items her daughter needed for school, afraid of missing anything.

It wasnt until Jane couldnt bear the drowsiness and fell asleep that she quietly turned off the light and left.

However, as soon as she left, Jane opened her eyes, her pupils in the dark emitting a cold light.

"Theres the smell of blood and gunpowder in the wind."

An assassin is a role that dances at the muzzle of a gun and the tip of a knife; keen alertness is the first element of survival.

She was certain that there was a gunfight on the back mountain, so she pretended to be tired to get rid of Lisa Green.

"The United States is different from other countries; gun control is very strict. Apart from the authorities, those who can own guns are generally not good people."

"So whats the situation on the back mountain?"

"A pursuit by the white path and the black path? A shootout between the black paths?"

"No matter which, it could endanger the safety of Lisa Green and George Rivers; they are too close to here."

A fierce look flashed through Janes eyes as she leaped out of the window, agile as a leopard in the night, heading straight for the back mountain.

The system retained her skills from her previous life as an international assassin, and soon, she found an old man whose thigh had been pierced by a tree branch behind a bush.