After returning to Xiaoyue City, Jingyang was still thinking about the strangeness of the house.
What kind of place needs so many Eagle Guards to guard it so strictly? They won't even let you get close. It's even stricter than the guards in the royal city.
After getting off the horse, she was about to go back home to ask her father if he knew about this.
But as soon as she stepped over the threshold, someone threw a stone and it hit the back of her foot.
She turned around and saw someone sneaking around the corner. When she looked closely, the figure seemed familiar.
She walked in that direction and was quickly pulled to the corner by the man.
"Helian Yu! What are you doing?" She looked puzzled.
"I have something to talk to you about." Helian Yu's figure was hidden in the dark.
Jingyang couldn't see his expression, but she just crossed her arms and asked in confusion, "If you need something from me, why don't you just go to the palace? Why are you being so sneaky?"
They grew up together and it was common for them to interact with each other, without even having to send each other a note.
Although they are now engaged, the two of them are avoiding each other, but if Helian Yu really has something urgent, it is normal for him to come to the palace.
Helian Yu lowered his head and said nothing, not at all his usual energetic look.
Jing Yang noticed his change of mood, patted his shoulder and asked, "How about we find a restaurant?"
Helian Yu then said "hmm".
"You go first, and I'll follow."
Jing Yang was a little confused and thought Helian Yu was weird.
But she still did it, told her family, and didn't even bring Xuezhu with her. She went to the restaurant she usually went to and asked for a private room.
They sat down and ordered dishes that they both liked. After all the dishes were served, Helian Yu finally arrived.
He acted strangely and even wore a black veiled hat.
I took it off only after entering the private room.
Only then did Jingyang see his face clearly. He was so frightened that he screamed "Ah!" and couldn't help but stand up.
"Helian Yu! How did you get into this state?"
Helian Yu just glanced at her indifferently, sat down in front of her silently, and poured a glass of wine and drank it.
Jingyang also sat down and stared at him.
They came back from Dacheng, and it had only been less than a month since they separated, but Helian Yu had become much thinner.
His once robust body was now almost emaciated, unable to even hold up the clothes he was wearing.
His eyes were sunken, his cheekbones were prominent, and he looked listless.
The cheerful and high-spirited Helian Yu seemed like a different person. Now he sat opposite her with a blank look in his eyes.
Jing Yang couldn't help but ask him what had happened during this period of time.
Helian Yu drank several glasses of wine in succession and suddenly spoke,
"Jingyang, I'm going to Dacheng."
"ah?"
"ah!"
Jingyang was just about to pick up some food for him, but his hand holding the chopsticks stopped in mid-air, and he was so startled that the food he had just picked up fell to the ground.
She thought she had misheard and asked again, "Where did you say you were going?"
Helian Yu's hand tightly grasped his cup, as if suppressing something, and repeated, "I'm going to Dacheng!"
"Why...why?" Jing Yang couldn't help swallowing a breath, then shook his head and asked from the beginning, "Tell me what happened first?"
How come he has become like this after not seeing him for such a short time?
Besides, didn't they just come back from Dacheng? Why would he go there again?
"Ayang..." Helian Yu glanced at her, his eyes revealing despair, "My father... my father..."
He lowered his head, unable to utter the rest of the words.
Helian Da Sima?
Jing Yang had never seen Helian Yu like this before. She stood up, sat next to him, and patted him on the back.
Helian Yu raised his head and looked at her, his eyes were red.
"Ayang...my father is a traitor to Dacheng..."
With a "bang", Jing Yang's elbow knocked over another wine glass on the table, and it shattered.
"W...what?" Her eyes were filled with disbelief. "This...is impossible..."
"Your father is Da Sima..."
Helian Da Sima... he was a high-ranking official in the imperial court, second only to the emperor. How could he possibly be a Dacheng official? ... or even a traitor to Dacheng?
But looking at Helian Yu's current expression, he must have evidence to be so sure.
"He got the position of Grand Marshal by betraying Dacheng..." Helian Yu raised his head, feeling depressed and powerless.
One day after returning from Dacheng, he went to the study to greet his father, but accidentally heard his father and mother arguing.
In his eyes, his parents have always had a good relationship.
My mother has never been in good health, but my father has always taken good care of her. They have only had a few arguments in all the years they have been married.
But this time, the quarrel was earth-shattering.
He didn't want to interfere in his parents' private affairs, but when he heard his mother mention "Dacheng", "Huo Family", "Huo Pingchang", "Jifeng Valley"...
He listened at the door and became more and more shocked.
The father he respected the most was actually Huo Pingchang, the second master of the Huo family of Dacheng! He was also the traitor who betrayed his country in the battle of Jifeng Valley!
Helian Yu didn't remember how he left the study that day. He locked himself in the room for three days and still couldn't believe it.
He took advantage of his father's absence to sneak into the study and search around.
When he found the things belonging to Huo Pingchang at the bottom of the box, he felt as if he had been hit hard.
To him, his father has always been a man as great as the heaven and earth since he was a child!
Helian Yu admired and respected him, and wanted to be a man of great stature like his father since he was a child.
How could this happen? How could this happen?
In a rage, Helian Yu went to confront Helian Chang, but was slapped in the face by his father, who had always been kind to him, and then locked up in his own yard.
That's why he is hiding his tracks today.
After hearing this, Jingyang didn't know what to say for a moment.
She was also in shock and couldn't recover.
"Do you still remember the day before we left Dacheng?" Helian Yu asked suddenly.
Jingyang nodded and said, "I remember."
"That day when you went to say goodbye to the princess, I met the two ladies in the training ground..."
"I remember, one is Miss Xie's mother, and the other one..." Jing Yang thought about it and couldn't continue.
Helian Yu sneered and continued, "The other one is the second wife of the Huo family."
"That day I was wondering why the second wife of the Huo family looked at me with such a strange expression..." As he spoke, tears welled up in the eyes of the seven-foot-tall man.
"That day she took my hand... and said she had a son who was older than me..."
With a loud crash, Helian Yu could no longer suppress his temper. He flipped the table in front of him and almost roared,
"He's my dad!!"
“How could he do this!!!”
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