But when the two sisters walked out from behind the screen hand in hand, Ling Yuan's eyes were wide open with shock. She even pushed Mo Yuan aside rudely because he blocked her view.
When Mo Yuan tried to approach her to argue, she slapped him back: "Brother, stop making trouble. I have more important things to deal with now."
She first looked at Gongzi Yan, then at Mo Hanyi, her eyes moving non-stop. Although Gongzi Yan's appearance amazed her to the point that she forgot to breathe, in contrast, Mo Hanyi's face evoked the weakest point in her memory.
Look, at the end, she actually abandoned her own sister and grabbed Mo Hanyi's hand.
He turned around and looked at Mo Yin with an extremely excited look: "Brother, her true identity couldn't be what I thought, right?"
Mo Yin raised his eyebrows calmly, "What do you think?"
Seeing how calm he looked, Ling Yuan became furious and pulled Mo Hanyi in front of Mo Yin, pointing at Mo Hanyi's face.
"Don't fool me. Look at this face. Look at this face. It looks exactly like my sister. It's her, right? It has to be her, right?"
elder sister?
Gongzi Yan frowned slightly. She knew very well that this sister was not referring to her. Then, in this world, the only one who was worthy of being called so affectionately by Ling Yuan was...
Thinking of this, she suddenly raised her head and stared at Mo Hanyi's face without blinking. The more she looked, the more she felt that he looked like her. No wonder she felt like she had seen this face somewhere before when she was inside just now. However, because her memory was too vague, she did not think about it too deeply.
Unexpectedly, Ling Yuan saw the crux of the problem at a glance. However, this seemed to make things even more complicated, right?
Mo Yin looked at Ling Yuan's eyes, which were more brilliant than grape wine, and smiled faintly, "Don't worry."
"How can I not be anxious? Do you know how many years they have been looking for her? But I never thought that she would appear in front of me in this way. Brother, do you know how guilty and self-blaming I will feel once the truth is revealed?"
"Yuan'er, things are not what you imagined. We had our own difficulties back then. I can explain this to you."
"I don't want to hear your explanation now. I just want to know, who is Hong Mei'er?"
Mo Yin frowned slightly, "Yuan'er, you have to understand that I called you back home today to tell you everything that happened that year. How can I start talking to you when you are resisting like this?"
Ling Yuan was very emotional and was about to retort, but Gongzi Yan came over with a frown and pulled her hand: "Yuan'er, brother is right. We came back to solve problems, not to create problems. If you have anything to say, why not wait until they finish speaking before expressing your opinion? The way you are now will only make those of us who are waiting feel at a loss." After he finished speaking, he looked deeply in the direction of Mo Hanyi.
Ling Yuan choked and immediately thought of Mo Hanyi. She turned her head suddenly and looked at her with worry and guilt in her eyes. "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."
Although Han Yi was still confused, she could see that Ling Yuan might have known her life experience. Out of trust in them and her good temper, she did not have too many negative emotions. Instead, she patted her hand as if to comfort her.
"Now that things have come to this, we should look forward instead of holding on to the past. Moreover, I have not suffered in the Mo family over the years. I am very happy. Therefore, you don't need to feel so guilty. Why don't you wait patiently for your brothers to make things clear before talking?"
Ling Yuan blushed, looked at her apologetically, and nodded uncomfortably: "I'm sorry, I overreacted."
Mo Hanyi smiled slightly, "We sisters should not talk about this." After saying this, she looked at the two Mo brothers involuntarily, "Brothers, can you tell us now?"
Before Mo Yin could speak, Mo Yuan lost his temper and asked, "You, is this how you react?"
The three sisters looked at him at the same time, somewhat confused by his question, "What's your reaction?"
Mo Yuan pointed at their faces with a depressed look on his face: "Are you not surprised or curious about your own appearance at all?"
Ling Yuan snorted coldly after hearing this, "I don't know how many times my face has changed over the years. What's so surprising about it? It's just that it looks better than before. It's just that my face has changed so many times that it feels a little unreal to me. Until now, I still think I'm wearing a mask. How can I be surprised?"
She was different from others. She was an ugly girl who was despised at first. She was not without inferiority complex and sadness at that time. But later, she accidentally detoxified herself and was reborn from the ashes. Her appearance changed drastically.
She has already experienced the process of evolving from an ugly girl to a beautiful woman. At that time, she was already stunning enough. Although her appearance today is even more radiant, this rarity had already been differentiated when she saw Mo Hanyi's face.
She was already very beautiful before, and her mentality has undergone tremendous changes. Now she is even more beautiful. Logically, she should be happier, but years of disguise have made her visually tired and numb, especially since this face is not unique. What is there for her to be happy about?
Of course, she didn't dare say this out loud, for one thing, she was afraid of being beaten by her sister, and another, she was afraid of causing public outrage.
But what she never expected was that Gongzi Yan's reason was exactly the same as hers, except that the other person was used to wearing men's clothes, and suddenly changed into women's clothes, and the woman was such a dazzling beauty. Apart from feeling it was troublesome, she really didn't see any other benefits.
As for Mo Hanyi, it was even more straightforward. She hadn't even seen what she looked like, so why was she so excited?
Moreover, Ling Yuan's reaction also told her that she was most likely not a member of the Mo family. She was feeling upset at the moment, so how could she be in the mood to welcome this new face?
Therefore, when Mo Yuan asked this question, except for Ling Yuan who responded to him, the other two simply ignored his question, causing Ling Yuan to laugh secretly: "Sometimes I feel that the two of you are more like sisters."
Look at the way Gongzi Yan and Mo Hanyi smile and frown, they are more like sisters than when they are with her.
"From now on, you are real sisters." Mo Yin's powerful words seemed to have told them something.
Ling Yuan raised her eyebrows: "Brother, can I tell you now?"
Mo Yin stood up, his tall body standing in front of the window. His angular face had a hint of melancholy, as if because of memories. The dazzling sunlight stretched his figure very long. Just when Ling Yuan thought he was going to be lost in thought, his deep and mellow voice sounded faintly...
The room was very quiet, quiet from the time the sun rose high to the time it set, and from the time the sun set to the time when the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.
It was not until the midnight watch rang that the five brothers and sisters in the hall gradually woke up from their memories.
Today should have been a good day for family reunion, but they did not eat or drink a drop of water on this day. Even so, they did not feel hungry or thirsty at all, because the sudden large amount of information filled their minds, which was enough for them to digest.
The five brothers and sisters sat opposite each other without saying a word. They just sat there in a daze until dawn. Then Ling Yuan stretched his stiff body, slowly stood up, and said expressionlessly.
"Everyone must be tired, I'm going to make something to eat. We can talk later if you have anything to say."
Mo Yuan quickly followed: "You are not familiar with this place, I will take you there."
After Ling Yuan left, Gongzi Yan suddenly looked up and looked at Mo Yin with lightning-like eyes.
"So, Yuan'er is the important heir who determines the rise and fall of the Mo family? So, you asked us to come back for the rise and fall of the Mo family? Yuan'er and I, one will guard the Mo family's forbidden land for the rest of my life, and the other will marry into the royal family to consolidate the Mo family's position? I understand it this way, right?"
Mo Yin looked at her sideways and shook his head slightly.
"The position of the Mo family does not need you to consolidate it. Yuan'er becoming the heir is God's choice, and no one can change it. Without her, the spiritual energy in the Mo family's forbidden land will dissipate on your sixteenth birthday. By that time, the entire empire will become the same as the Four Continents!"
"So what? What does the lack of spiritual energy have to do with us? Why put such a heavy burden on us? Wasn't Yuan'er's first sixteen years hard enough? She hasn't had a few days of good life yet, and you want her to sacrifice so much for the Mo family. Why? Brother? Haha, this is the real reason why you came back to find us, right?"
"Yan'er, this is the rule passed down by our ancestors. It is a fact that no one can change in such a large Mo family. If it weren't for this, my mother wouldn't have been trapped in the demon clan for so many years. If it weren't for this, my father wouldn't have used his own spirit to guard the Mo family so that it wouldn't be destroyed."
"So? You all work so hard, so Yuan'er and I should be more selfless and risk ourselves, right?"
Mo Yin frowned and met her clear gaze, his eyes filled with helplessness and powerlessness.
"If possible, no one would want to do this, but the Mo family's genes were destined a hundred years ago. The goddesses in the past also carried heavy burdens. When it comes to you, there are more difficulties and heavier burdens. Believe me, if possible, I would never want you to bear such a responsibility, but the rules are like this, and no one can change it!"
Gongzi Yan stood up and looked at Mo Yin with unwavering eyes.
"Rules are made by people, so why can't they be changed? Our ancestors made these rules to protect us, but as things have evolved to this day, the meaning of these rules has long since diverged and they have become a heavy burden for us."
"We are women who need to be protected. We are not strong enough to support the entire family. We are not responsible for the destruction of the entire family. Brother, our shoulders are too narrow to bear such a responsibility! After so many years, generation after generation has been tossed around, how many generations are happy?"
Gongzi Yan's words caused Mo Yin to fall into a long silence, and even Mo Hanyi beside him had a solemn look on his face.
Since the day she and Mo Xiangjun were born, they knew what responsibilities they would have to shoulder in the future. Perhaps because of the ideological indoctrination since childhood, they had long learned to numb such consciousness. But after hearing Gongzi Yan's doubts today, she felt that she had not been happy these years.
Everyone says that Mo Xiangjun betrayed the Mo family, but if there were no rules of the Mo family, how could she have had an entanglement with Long Kun?
As the twin daughters of the Mo family's generation, one is destined to marry into the Long family and become the most honorable woman in the royal family of the Dragon Empire, while the other must guard the Mo family's forbidden area for her entire life and can only be moved out of the forbidden area after she dies of old age. Is this the preferential treatment that the Mo family gives to their daughters?
No, she believed that the ancestors definitely did not mean this, but things have evolved to this point today. Even if they are unwilling to admit it, over the years, the twin girls sounded high and mighty and had absolute power in the Mohist School. But who could understand their inner torment?
The rules were established in the early years to protect the women of the Mohist family. However, as time went on, as the responsibilities shouldered by the goddess became greater, the resentment of the men of the Mohist family became greater and greater. The Mohist family, which seemed to be calm and peaceful, was actually no less dirty than the royal family. And among the women of the Mohist family, except for the goddess, which one did not fall into the embarrassing position of being hated by their fathers and brothers?
Obviously, this rule of our ancestors is definitely the only reason for the future demise of Mohism.
The unrest sixteen years ago was already obvious. Otherwise, why would the Mohist school have remained silent for so many years and endured it?
Now it is another sixteen-year cycle, and who knows what kind of trouble will arise this time.
Gongzi Yan was very worried. After hearing the whole story, she was still worried. Of course, this worry was not from herself, because compared with what Ling Yuan would have to endure in the future, her life would be much easier. On the other hand, Yuan'er was almost about to sacrifice her life for the Mo family!
Her sister had suffered a lot since she was a child, and she thought that all the hardship would pay off, but who would have thought that she would have to face such a complicated future. She felt sorry for her, and when she thought of her expressionless face just now, Gongzi Yan's heart ached.
That was her sister, her only sister, the sister she had finally found. How could she let them treat her like this?
She thought the twin daughters of the Mo family were just a legend, but she didn't expect things to be so complicated. No, how could she just watch her die?