"Because Dongfang Yi is actually the same kind of person as Hua Hanyun."
Xie Yu frowned and shook his head, indicating his confusion.
"I still don't understand..."
"They all lived in hatred, and hatred can easily devour a person; the pain suppressed in one's heart can accompany one throughout life."
Xie Yu seemed to understand. "You mean Dongfang Yi never intended to escape unscathed, but instead was prepared to be free?"
Su Yan nodded, "That's why Miss Leng would rather die than have Dongfang Yi found out."
"Oh, I see."
After listening to Su Yan's explanation, Xie Yu suddenly understood.
Just then, a sound came from the path at the foot of the mountain, which seemed to be the sound of footsteps.
Su Yan immediately perked up, lowered her voice, and gestured to the people around her to be quiet.
Just as she expected, Dongfang Yi, carrying a basket, gradually appeared in front of everyone.
At this moment, Dongfang Yi was dressed in tattered burlap, looking extremely haggard and much thinner than he had been a few days ago.
When Minister Meng, who was kneeling in front of the grave, heard the noise behind him, he turned around and was completely terrified.
His face was deathly pale. He tried to get up and run away, but found that his legs had gone numb from kneeling. He didn't even have the strength to stand up and could only fall helplessly to the ground.
The pleading gaze turned towards the bushes where Su Yan and the others were lying in ambush, but there wasn't a single person or even a bird in sight.
Minister Meng felt like he had been tricked, and he could only watch helplessly as Dongfang Yi walked towards him.
"You...you..." Minister Meng forced himself to calm down, and put on a kind smile as he looked at Dongfang Yi. "Yi'er, you've grown up so much...it's your father who has wronged you."
Dongfang Yi completely ignored the presence of Vice Minister Meng and bypassed him to reach the grave.
He took out paper money from the basket and silently burned it.
The flickering flames devoured the yellow paper money, casting an indistinct shadow on Dongfang Yi's face.
Seeing that Dongfang Yi didn't seem to want to attack him, Minister Meng looked around, unsure of where Su Yan and the others were lying in ambush.
So they planned to run away and escape.
Feeling guilty, he glanced at Dongfang Yi and then ran away.
Unexpectedly, a sharp pain shot through his foot. When Meng looked down, he discovered that his right foot had been pierced by an iron hook.
Suddenly losing his balance, he fell headfirst to the ground.
Minister Meng glanced behind him in alarm, only to see Dongfang Yi toying with the end of an iron fishing rod in his hand.
"Yi'er...don't kill me...I am your father."
Minister Meng's face turned deathly pale instantly, and he pleaded desperately.
Upon hearing this, Dongfang Yi's lips curled into a cold smile. "Father? Minister, you are truly laughable. All these years, have you ever truly regarded me as your son?"
"Yi'er, I'm sorry, it's all my fault..."
Minister Meng was unable to answer Dongfang Yi's question because he had never truly regarded Dongfang Yi as his own child.
Dongfang Yi was too lazy to listen to Meng Shilang's hypocritical explanations. A surge of anger rushed to his head. Thinking of how his mother had devoted her whole life to this kind of man, he felt nothing but resentment in his heart.
Meanwhile, Su Yan and the others, who were hiding in the bushes, remained silently lying there, seemingly not intending to come out and stop what was happening.
"Su Yan, have we been lying in the bushes the whole time, just letting the father and son face off against each other? Is that really a good idea?"
"Why not? Dongfang Yi knows we're nearby, he won't do anything."
Xie Yu was puzzled after hearing this. "Didn't he want to kill Minister Meng?"
"If Dongfang Yi really wanted to kill Minister Meng, he would have done it long ago, he wouldn't have waited until now."
"really?"
Xie Yu was not entirely convinced by Su Yan's speculation.
Su Yan nodded, "Just relax and keep an eye on things!"
After saying that, Su Yan's gaze shifted to the father and son facing off in front of her.
Dongfang Yi grabbed Meng Shilang by the collar and carried him to the tombstone.
At this moment, Dongfang Yi's eyes were filled with tears, but he forced them not to fall. "Mother, do you see? This heartless man is about to die, and he still won't acknowledge me as his son. Is it really worth losing your whole life for this scoundrel?"
“Dongfang, I’m so sorry for you and Yi’er…” Minister Meng hugged the tombstone and cried his heart out.
Dongfang Yi quietly looked at Minister Meng, feeling a surge of unease.
"Don't cry, don't worry, I promised Mother I wouldn't kill you..."
Upon hearing this, Vice Minister Meng's sorrowful expression turned to joy in that very instant.
He saw Dongfang Yi pull out a machete from behind his back. "You...you...you promised your mother you wouldn't kill me..."
Dongfang Yi's lips curled into a cold smile, "I did promise not to kill you, but I didn't promise not to hurt you..."
Having said that, Dongfang Yi swung his knife toward Minister Meng's leg.
Minister Meng shouted, "Help! Damn Su Yan, where are you?! Come and save me now..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Su Yan whistled.
The people who had been lying in ambush all around filed out and instantly surrounded Dongfang Yi in a circle.
Upon seeing Su Yan appear, Minister Meng was overjoyed, as if a god had descended from heaven, and cried out desperately, "Lord Su, please save me..."
Su Yan gave Minister Meng a look of utter disdain, but quickly changed her expression, smiling as she turned to Dongfang Yi and began to exchange pleasantries, "Dongfang Yi, long time no see... I didn't originally intend to arrest you, but you still came..."
Dongfang Yi was not surprised by Su Yan's appearance. "Lord Su, I thank you for making Minister Meng kneel in front of my mother's grave for half a month."
Su Yan looked at Minister Meng beside her, her eyes showing no disdain, "It's a pity that even after kneeling for half a month, he showed no remorse whatsoever."
In the past two weeks, Su Yan has seen it most clearly: when Minister Meng saw the woman he loved buried in a mass grave, his face showed not only disgust but also impatience.
"Let's skip the pleasantries. I just want to know if you deliberately approached Miss Leng, right?"
Dongfang Yi did not deny it, "She's really stupid... She thought I could save her from hell, but little did she know that she was just a pawn I was using..."
At that time, Dongfang Yi didn't know how to place the puppets on Yan Shuo and Meng Heng, and later discovered that Leng Qiuling and Yan Meng had a special relationship.
Dongfang Yi then approached her, and to his surprise, Leng Qiuling agreed without hesitation.
"Dongfang Yi, do you really not understand why Leng Qiuling took all the blame?"
"Wasn't she just being used by me?"
Su Yan shook her head. "No, she did it willingly because her heart was already dead in hell. The reason she took all the blame was so that you could live well for her."
"impossible……"
Dongfang Yi shook his head firmly, not believing a word Su Yan said.
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