Xu Manzhi reached out and covered his mouth, whispering, "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I mind? The debt I owe her over the past few years is beyond words."

she……

"You probably guessed it already."

Yan Lin nodded slightly.

He had his doubts.

Ever since he learned that Ye Qiqi was his wife Zhizhi, he suspected that most of those burned to ashes were the real Ye Qiqi.

Xu Manzhi's eyes flickered.

One by one, the past events have passed, yet those who are immersed in the long river of time still shine so brightly, and every time we think of them, we feel a pang of sorrow.

At that time, Ye Qiqi found Haicheng and tried several times to tell her about her birth mother.

But she was cautious by nature and never recognized strangers who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

It took Ye Qiqi a year or so to gain even a tiny bit of her trust.

Until before the fire...

Ye Qiqi found her with her mother's photo frame and recounted what had happened back then. At that time, she was already on her last legs and sensed that death was imminent. Perhaps out of pity, she asked her to come back in a couple of days, so that they could get together again when Yan Lin returned from his mission.

Ye Qiqi agreed on the spot.

It was quite a coincidence.

On the day of the fire, she smelled an unpleasant odor outside, but because she was pregnant and her belly was getting bigger, she often felt nauseous and vomited.

A villager nearby often bought diesel and tung oil to light his coal stove, and she was careless and didn't check the whole yard.

Until one of the eyes secretly watching her appeared.

"Who is he?" Yan Lin exclaimed in surprise.

Xu Manzhi took his hand and comforted him, "Don't worry, he's just a pawn, not an important person."

As for him knowing that she was dying, it was she who secretly spread the word to the sentries, deliberately spitting blood in front of one of them when Yan Lin was not at home.

After vomiting several times, she happened to meet her master Zhang Dayong on the street and asked him to cooperate with her in a play at Linyuan.

After taking her pulse, Zhang Dayong discovered she was pregnant. Her pulse was erratic, indicating she was already terminally ill. He immediately wanted to knock her unconscious and take her away...

By then, it was no longer acting.

Zhang Dayong was genuinely worried about her, and he could tell the truth of her words as soon as he checked her pulse.

She simply said, "Master, everything is predestined. You should go back now. I left a note in the thatched hut. If you still want to take me with you after you've read it, then come back."

The journal details the predicament she faced and the identity she could not escape.

At the same time, she left her master a copy of the Poison Classic supplement she had studied, and told him that she had to go to several locations to refine medicine in order to finally save herself.

Master has passed away.

As she said, after finding the medicine, he refined it again and again before mailing the semi-finished product to Dai Chunying.

This time, the sentry could no longer hold back.

He walked right up to her that day and threatened her, saying he would reveal all the secrets of the Xu family, including the treasure vault they had left inland...

She deliberately spread this news in the hospital.

It's hard to tell what's real and what's fake.

Generally speaking, many people simply accept it and mostly don't believe it.

Regardless of any ulterior motives.

She did everything to use this person to fake her death and then hide in the space for refuge... Unfortunately, plans don't always go as expected.

Ye Qiqi secretly contacted Wang Jianguo and hired a large number of thugs.

Arson was the first step.

If they can't burn her to death, the thugs will naturally come in.

The sentry wasn't alone; he was capable of dismissing other sentries, demonstrating his exceptional abilities. He had infiltrated the organization for many years, eventually climbing to a high position.

He also brought quite a few people with him.

When the thugs tried to kill her and the sentries tried to kidnap her, Ye Qiqi rushed in and stood in front of her, tearing at the crowd with all her might, disregarding her own life...

Fists, clubs, and unexpected sneak attacks—even with Xu Manzhi's thorough preparations, she couldn't have foreseen the chaotic situation she was in.

She was hit on the head by accident and almost fell down.

Ye Qiqi held her tightly, preventing her from falling.

In that instant, she exposed her back and was struck in the back by a sentry, breaking her waist. Her body collapsed like mud. Xu Manzhi had originally planned to escape with Ye Qiqi regardless of the exposed space.

Yet they so cruelly harmed a young, innocent girl for the sake of a mere possibility.

At that moment, she became furious.

The fire within his body was completely unleashed.

She disregarded everything else and released the poisonous creatures, Big Yellow and Little Black, ordering them to interfere with them. She was going to personally kill these bastards.

A butcher's knife suddenly appeared.

At that moment, when the overwhelming poisonous creatures suddenly appeared, and Xu Manzhi acted strangely, they all widened their eyes and wanted to escape.

Unfortunately, she wasn't going to let them go.

She used poison to distract the enemy while simultaneously raising her knife to stab them.

Blood splattered on her body, staining her vision red.

When the sticks came at her, when the fists hit her back, she protected her stomach with all her might, and launched a ruthless attack, her eyes bloodshot with rage.

Ye Qiqi lay on the ground, only her two hands were still movable.

Even so, she crawled frantically, leaving trails of blood, trying to catch the bad guy and protect her...

Xu Manzhi's eyes were red-rimmed.

Her body had collapsed, and she was about to lose control of her mind. At that moment, she didn't care about anything else and said to Hei Hei, "I need to stay conscious. No matter what method you use, I must kill all these mad dogs."

They would rather die than give up.

Heihei sighed.

The original plan had to be revised at the last minute.

It said, "I am not omnipotent. Your body has consumed too many red pills, which all came at the cost of burning your life value. If you want to kill enemies now, I can help you once, but that would be a violation of my rules. After you have collected the female lead's luck, I will leave this world."

"So what?"

Xu Manzhi coughed up blood, and his eyes were red.

She readily agreed and immediately unbound herself from Heihei.

Heihei helped her.

So she went on a killing spree, wiping out the thugs and sentries.

The knife was stained red.

She was the same.

His body, hair, and clothes were all wet; some were from the enemy, some from himself…

When she managed to maintain her last shred of rationality and walked to Ye Qiqi's side, she thought Ye Qiqi would be afraid and think she was a monster. Unexpectedly, Ye Qiqi endured the pain of her bent back and forced a gentle smile.

She said haltingly, "Sister, the Ye family won't harm you. We've been looking for you, wanting to bring you home. No matter what kind of person you are, we're not afraid..."

At that moment, bright red blood flowed down from the top of her head, and Xu Manzhi could no longer hold back the tears in her eyes.

She reached out to hug her, saying in anguish, "I have to save you, I must save you."

Unexpectedly, Ye Qiqi shook her head.

"No, I, I will live...you live..."