Ye Qingwan frowned: "Who did this?"
Lin Xiuyan asked, "Was it done by the Zhou family?"
Fan Xilou gave a brief account of what happened on the night his entire family was wiped out.
His tone was calm, but his eyes were filled with a sinister glint: "I deeply regret sleeping alone in the warehouse that night."
"If I hadn't gone to the warehouse, maybe I could have found a way to save my parents that night."
Ye Qingwan said directly, "It's not that I look down on you, but with your skills, if you had stayed at home that night, it would have just added another soul to your family."
Lin Xiuyan nudged her lightly with her elbow, but she seemed not to feel it: "Isn't what I said the truth?"
“The massacre of an entire family must have been meticulously planned by the other party, and they would definitely have been equipped with highly skilled martial artists.”
“When we were training at the Lin residence, I saw Fan Xilou’s martial arts skills. He couldn’t even beat me.”
"The reason he was able to kill Zhou Shuyi and his group this time was because he had made arrangements in advance, taking advantage of Zhou Shuyi's unpreparedness."
"The massacre of the Fan family was the opposite; they were plotting against the Fan family."
"So, in essence, if he lives, he can avenge his family; if he stays, the whole family will die together."
Fan Xilou glared at her and said, "Shut up!"
Ye Qingwan chuckled lightly: "Shut up? Aren't I just stating the facts?"
"You're just upset because your whole family died, and you can't accept the fact."
"So you imagined what would happen if you were there, and thought you could change everything."
"In this way, you will feel even more guilty and torture yourself for no reason."
Fan Xilou's forehead veins throbbed: "You don't understand at all!"
Ye Qingwan's lips curled slightly, and the smile in her eyes deepened: "This kind of torment can make you feel better."
"So you live in your fantasy every day while resentfully wanting revenge on your family."
"The Zhou family must be your enemies, right? After killing Zhou Shuyi, did you even want to commit suicide to join them?"
Fan Xilou roared, "So what if it is? This is my business, what's it to you?"
Ye Qingwan chuckled lightly: "It's none of my business, after all, I wasn't familiar with you to begin with."
"I just think you're pretty stupid. You set a trap for yourself and now you don't want to get out."
"Whether you live or die is not important to me, but it is very important to your family."
Do you think your family wants you to die and join them, or do they want you to live happily?
Fan Xilou was stunned when he heard her words. His originally irritable emotions suddenly didn't know where to go.
Lin Xiuyan said from the side, "Qingwan, you should say less."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Fan Xilou and said, "Although Qingwan's words were not very pleasant to hear, I think they make a lot of sense."
"Although I have never met your uncle and aunt, they must be extremely gentle people to have raised you to be like this."
“I believe your uncle and aunt must be extremely grateful that you didn’t stay at home that day, thus preserving a glimmer of hope for the Fan family.”
"And you are not alone in this world, I still have us."
Fan Xilou looked at her, and she smiled slightly at him: "We are friends."
“We went through life and death together when you were in Chongqing, and this friendship is genuine.”
Fan Xilou's eyes were bloodshot: "The Zhou family works for the Prince's Mansion."
"The Zhou family killed my entire family in an attempt to completely control the medicinal herb market in the south, in order to prepare for the military supplies for the Pingnan Prince's Mansion and the imperial court's war."
"You are all from the Prince of Pingnan's mansion, so you must know about these things. I ruined your plans, and you brought me here, is that...?"
He didn't say the rest of his sentence because he saw the shock in Lin Xiuyan and Ye Qingwan's eyes.
He frowned slightly: "You wouldn't be unaware of these things, would you?"
Lin Xiuyan looked at him and said, "You're right, we really didn't know about these things."
Ye Qingwan said from the side, "Let me tell you about the situation at the Prince of Pingnan's residence!"
"Neither my brother nor I were born to the current Princess of Pingnan. She killed my mother."
“My father dislikes my brother and me very much. He wants to depose my brother and give the position of heir to Ye Jingxian.”
"Oh, that's the eldest son born to the current Princess Consort of Pingnan, the second young master of the Prince's mansion."
Lin Xiuyan added, "The Zhou family works for the Princess Consort of Pingnan, not for us."
"To be honest, I killed Zhou Lengshan with my own hands."
Fan Xilou's eyes widened in surprise at the result: "You killed Zhou Lengshan?"
Lin Xiuyan nodded: "He is the lackey of the Princess Consort of Pingnan, so naturally he must be killed."
Upon hearing this, and recalling everything that had happened since he met them today, Fan Xilou's guardedness lessened somewhat.
He spent a great deal of time investigating before discovering that the Zhou family was the murderer who killed his entire family.
He also learned some clues about other things by chance.
However, he knew very little about the affairs of the Prince of Pingnan's residence.
Ultimately, he was just the son of a merchant, and it was difficult for him to access anything deeper.
Therefore, in his eyes, he always thought that the Pingnan Prince's Mansion was a whole.
If the Zhou family works for the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, then they are essentially going against the entire Pingnan Prince's Mansion.
After arriving in Chongqing, he learned that Lin Xiuyan had married Ye Junfei.
He even had a somewhat paranoid feeling that they were also his enemies, so he did not go to find Lin Xiuyan after arriving in Chongqing.
The dramatic change made him begin to have some doubts about her as well.
Was she involved in the massacre of the Fan family?
Hearing their words now, he realized he had really misunderstood.
He said softly, "I misunderstood you."
After saying that, he fell backward.
Lin Xiuyan quickly caught him and helped him up. Ye Qingwan asked, "What happened to him?"
Lin Xiuyan reached out and took his pulse, then said, "Excessive worry, coupled with days of hard work, has taken its toll on your body."
"It's not a big problem. I'll give him a few acupuncture treatments, and he'll recover after a few days of rest."
Ye Qingwan looked at Fan Xilou and said, "He's a pitiful person too."
"That old hag has committed too many atrocities; I will kill her one day!"
The last time she saw Fan Xilou at the Lin residence, he was a gentle young man who blushed easily.
In just a few months, he seemed like a completely different person, which was quite disheartening.
Lin Xiuyan sighed, administered acupuncture to Fan Xilou, and called a servant to help him to bed.
When she first met Fan Xilou, she was hoping to curry favor with him, but now he has become like this.
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