Chapter 1102 Twins
One question after another rushed out, ultimately pointing to a possibility that Ye Wanxi least wanted to guess.
"She..." Ye Wanxi hesitated for a while before finally asking the question that was on her mind, "What kind of person is she?"
"I can't say for sure either." Feng Tianyu glanced at Ye Wanxi, and he couldn't help but feel resentment towards the woman who had abandoned Ye Wanxi.
But he also knew that she was his junior sister's closest blood relative in the world, and he didn't want his subjective will to affect her and indirectly hurt her feelings.
“Yours…” Feng Tianyu paused, then tried to use a different form of address. “The woman in the painting is surnamed Shen, and her given name is Yunniang. She is the eldest daughter of the prestigious Shen family in Zhaoyang. This Shen family is a family of scholars, with several high-ranking officials in their ancestors, and almost every generation has had someone sent to several major sects to seek immortality.”
"Because of these two things, the Shen family has a very high status in Zhaoyang. Also, because the members of the Shen family are usually very charitable and help the common people, and do not have any airs of nobility, they have an excellent reputation in Zhaoyang."
"As the eldest daughter of the Shen family, Miss Shen naturally held a high position in the Shen family and even in Zhaoyang. Moreover, she was once recognized as the most beautiful woman in Zhaoyang. It is said that when she was just sixteen years old, matchmakers came to her house to propose marriage so many times that they wore out the doorstep."
As Feng Tianyu spoke, he subconsciously glanced at his junior sister, his feelings complicated.
Shen Yunniang was once known as the most beautiful woman in Zhaoyang, and Ye Wanxi's appearance was at least seven or eight parts similar to hers. Fortunately, she was raised on the mountain since childhood and rarely had contact with outsiders, otherwise...
No, quite a few fellow disciples had designs on Junior Sister back then, but Junior Sister was young and oblivious, and those people were nipped in the bud before they even had a chance to get close to her.
Ye Wanxi noticed that Feng Tianyu stopped talking and stared at her with a strange look. She frowned slightly and looked at him with a puzzled expression.
Feng Tianyu then seemed to wake from a dream, withdrew his gaze, and continued, "Unfortunately, Miss Shen didn't fancy any of these people. Before that, she already had someone she liked."
Ye Wanxi's heart skipped a beat: "Who is the person she loves?"
"The eldest son of the Wu family."
Ye Wanxi's expression changed slightly: "The Wu... Wu family?"
"Yes, the Wu family. The Wu family is also a prominent family in Zhaoyang, but unlike the Shen family, the Wu family is of merchant origin."
The social hierarchy of the time was scholar, farmer, artisan, and merchant. Although merchants were wealthy, their social status was not high, at least in the eyes of outsiders, they were no match for the Shen family.
"The reason why the eldest son of the Wu family and Miss Shen got involved was because one of the daughters of the Wu family, who was also the aunt of the young master of the Wu family, married a son of a concubine in the Shen family. Miss Shen had a very good relationship with this aunt, and the two young masters of the Wu family often visited her at the mansion. Over time, they became familiar with each other."
Ye Wanxi was slightly taken aback: "The Wu family has two young masters?"
"Yes. At that time, the Wu family had two young masters, and these two young masters were twins."
"Twins?" Ye Wanxi's eyes narrowed slightly. "Twins? Then Wu Yequan is..."
"He is the second son, the second young master of the Wu family. Master Wu and Madam Wu had twin sons after many years of marriage. The elder was named Wu Yeming, and the younger was named Wu Yequan. They looked very similar, but their personalities were completely different."
Hearing this, Ye Wanxi's mind was in turmoil. Miss Shen was in love with the eldest son of the Wu family. Could her father be Wu Yequan's brother? Then wouldn't she and Wu Yequan be...
"How are they different?"
"Wu Yeming is cheerful, kind, and loves making friends. He was also exceptionally intelligent from a young age, learning everything very quickly. He was a well-known genius. Wu Yequan, on the other hand, was eccentric, cunning, and would stop at nothing to achieve his goals. Moreover, he was of average talent from a young age and was far from his brother's extraordinary talent."
"Especially as they got a little older, all the major immortal sects went down the mountain to look for promising talents. Wu Yeming became the young talent that all the major immortal sects competed for, while Wu Yequan only managed to get his wish through scheming."
In fact, every year, the major immortal sects would send people down the mountain to find promising talents. If a mortal was selected, it would bring honor to his ancestors and even his family members would rise to prominence, becoming the envy of everyone.
Putting aside the fact that Wu Yequan's entry into the school was not exactly honorable, being selected, even if it was only at the very bottom, would be considered extremely lucky by many.
But unfortunately, with such a shining pearl as Wu Yeming standing in front of them, everyone else was destined to become mere supporting characters, not worth mentioning.
"Since... since this young master is so powerful, how come I've never heard of him before?"
"Because he...died very early." A genius who falls too early doesn't have time to shine brightly, so naturally not many people will remember him.
Ye Wanxi's expression changed slightly, and she asked in a hoarse voice, "How did he die?"
"On the surface, he was killed while protecting the younger members of his family from being ambushed and attacked by enemies."
"On the surface?" Ye Wanxi immediately grasped the key point in Feng Tianyu's words. "But in reality?"
"Died from... Wu Yequan's conspiracy."
Ye Wanxi's eyes narrowed slightly: "That's his own brother."
"It is precisely because he is his own brother that he was able to succeed so easily, and it is precisely because he is his own brother that he could be so ruthless."
When Feng Tianyu first met Shen Yunniang and heard her talk about the Wu brothers, he already sensed Wu Yequan's feelings.
Although Shen Yunniang's description of the two brothers was somewhat subjective, the two twin young masters of the Wu family were quite famous in their hometown back then. Although her detailed description differed slightly from Shen Yunniang's, it was not much different.
As Feng Tianyu mentioned before, although Wu Yequan was fortunate enough to embark on the path of cultivation, his aptitude was mediocre, and his cultivation progressed much slower than that of ordinary people.
The reason he became so powerful later was entirely because he took shortcuts and used any means necessary to steal from others.
His brother, however, was the complete opposite. Despite being born from the same womb and having the same face, the two children received vastly different evaluations.
It's no exaggeration to say that when Wu Yeming was still alive, wherever he was, everyone's eyes would unconsciously turn to him, and the conversation would basically revolve around him.
Wu Yequan is rarely mentioned, and even when he is, people only offer a perfunctory remark: "Oh, he's Young Master Wu's twin brother."
He was like a transparent person, a shadow of his brother. Everything he did and thought was attributed to his brother, leaving him with no sense of existence.
When someone is better than you in everything, and everyone around them likes and praises them, even comparing them to you and using your incompetence to highlight their excellence, most people will feel psychologically unbalanced.
(End of this chapter)
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