Chapter 141 One lost his father, the other lost both parents...
At this point, Shan Ran shook her head helplessly, "After the dream, I felt that A Shang had become a bit smarter, but I didn't expect him to overthink things and get stuck in a rut. I had imagined how he would react after waking up and knowing the truth, and I was worried that he would want to rush to the First Continent to seek revenge, but I never expected..."
“I’ve never been inside the mist before, and I never imagined that the illusions inside would be so real. Ah Shang suffered so much inside, and when he woke up, he learned that his parents had passed away. He was just overwhelmed by the shock. Ranran, don’t blame him.”
"How could I blame him? I just hope he can live a good life."
After saying goodbye to Cheadle, Shan Ran walked towards a nearby building.
Meng Xin also prepared to form his own team to find the group of assassins who killed District Chief Lu. This group remained a potential threat on the Third Continent.
Gano followed closely behind Shanran. His supernatural abilities were very high, and his presence further enhanced Shanran's safety.
Xie Qingheng was placed in a house not far from Nan Guishang, so that the therapist could move between the two places more easily.
Since Xie Qingheng woke up some time ago, his condition has been quite strange.
When he was with other people, he was always indifferent and didn't seem to care about anything. But once he saw Shan Ran, his emotions fluctuated greatly.
Sometimes he would weep bitterly, resenting his family for harming Shanran's parents and for trying to trick her into going there to harm her after the apocalypse. The person who did it was his father, who was related to him by blood, so he took the blame upon himself.
Sometimes he would burst into laughter, happy that Xie Huaimin was dead and glad that Shan Ran was alive and well.
Sometimes she would look at Shanran calmly, as if she wanted to atone for her sins.
“You don’t need to atone for your sins. Xie Huaimin is dead. You don’t need to bear any responsibility for his actions.”
“But I am his son, I am a member of the Xie family, I was raised by the Xie family, so I have to bear the Xie family’s mistakes.”
Xie Qingheng has always been troubled by this. When he is alone, he will try to hurt himself and watch the blood flow out of his wounds, as if this will allow him to break free from the shackles of his bloodline and no longer be affected by the Xie family.
Shan Ran was also helpless and could only have someone stay by Xie Qingheng's side and take turns looking after him every day to prevent him from doing such a thing again.
In addition, she would spend some time with Xie Qingheng every day to soothe his emotions and try to calm him down.
"Brother Qingheng, I'm here."
Xie Qingheng looked up at Shan Ran, a faint smile appearing on his pale face, "Xiao Ran."
Shanran sat on the edge of the bed, watching the IV drip slowly and steadily, without saying a word.
Xie Qingheng's mental health issues were too severe; he refused to eat, so they had to give him IV drips to maintain his nutrition.
Now facing Shan Ran is a calmer version of Xie Qingheng. He looks at Shan Ran with a faint smile, and from the outside, he seems to be completely normal.
Gano stood right behind Shan Ran, just inches away, but Xie Qingheng seemed completely oblivious, his eyes fixed solely on Shan Ran.
He silently observed Xie Qingheng across from him. Xie Qingheng undoubtedly had a beautiful face. Even though he hadn't eaten properly for a long time and looked haggard, he was still good-looking. Instead, he appeared even more fragile and pitiful.
The young man had a head of milky white hair, typical of the Light faction, with a very light yellow tinge in the white, which looked like a warm ray of sunlight from a distance.
His eyes were long and narrow with upturned corners, and his brows and eyes were deep-set, giving him an exceptionally alluring look. His pale complexion and milky white hair complemented each other perfectly, and from a distance, they seemed to radiate a soft white light, making him look like a beautiful fairy.
The Light faction represents hope, but in the young man, Gano only saw a lifeless atmosphere.
At the same time, Gano sensed a familiar presence.
They all had a touch of madness.
However, Gano's life was bought with the life of Gavin, so he cherished it very much.
Xie Qingheng, on the other hand, had a heavy sense of decadence about him, as if he had no passion for life and had lost interest in living.
Aside from Shan Ran, only when you see Shan Ran can you see a glimmer of life in him.
Unbeknownst to him, Gano's eyes had turned into vertical pupils.
This person, and that red-haired guy from earlier, are both very cynical about life.
It's okay to want to die, but they disturbed Shanran.
Shan Ran didn't want them to die, so she took time out of her day to take care of them and comfort them.
These are two real problems.
My sister is already exhausted, why should I become a burden to her?
Late at night, Shanran, who had been busy all day, finally got to rest and soon fell into a deep sleep.
After confirming that Shan Ran was asleep, Gano quietly left and went to Xie Qingheng's room.
He stayed close to Shan Ran for a long time, so the guards never paid any attention to him.
Upon seeing Gano, Xie Qingheng's expression remained unchanged; he merely glanced at her before looking away.
With that kind of expression, even if the other party were an assassin, preparing to kill him, Xie Qingheng wouldn't react at all.
He's as stiff as a log.
He might even be happy, feeling that he can finally be free.
So annoying.
Gano clicked his tongue impatiently. If it weren't for his sister, he would have already dealt with this young man and let him get what he wanted.
Reaching the bedside, Gano reached out and pulled the IV tube from the young man's hand, then lifted him up on his back.
"Wait! Sir!"
"Mr. Gano, what are you trying to do?"
"Hey, the mountain chief has ordered that Mr. Xie be taken good care of. What are you doing?"
The guard standing outside the door asked in surprise.
Gano patiently explained, "To help them recover quickly."
After saying that, he left directly.
No one dared to stop them, fearing it was Shan Ran's order; they simply reported the news to Chandel.
Even without agility-based abilities, A-level ability users are still very fast.
With no one stopping them, Gano quickly carried Xie Qingheng to their destination.
The room of the merchant returning from the south.
Xie Qingheng, who had always been expressionless when facing others, finally showed some change in his expression at this moment.
Because Gano put him on the bed, next to a red-haired man who was sleeping and drooling.
Xie Qingheng sat up abruptly, looking at Ganuo for the first time. He was already frail, and the movement caused him to gasp for breath, turning his pale face red and finally giving him some color.
"Xiao Ran doesn't know, does she? What are you planning to do behind her back?"
This was the first time in a long time that Xie Qingheng had spoken to someone other than Shan Ran.
Gano smiled, revealing a very standard smile. "I hope you can talk to the gentleman next to you and reduce some of the burden on my sister."
Xie Qingheng: ?
Nan Guishang had experienced immense grief today and was already having trouble sleeping. He was quickly awakened by the noise next to him and opened his eyes.
"I..." He was startled and almost jumped up. "Who are you? What are you doing in my bed?"
Then he noticed there was another person in the room, and he was startled for the second time. "Weren't you with Shanran? What are you doing here? What's this white-haired guy doing?"
With a smile, Gano briefly introduced the two people's identities, backgrounds, and the recent accident.
One lost his father, the other lost both parents; both seem to have suffered quite a lot.
Nan Guishang hadn't expected that the other person would share his pain. After calming down a bit from his grief, he was now in the mood to comfort him.
"Brother, where's your mother? Did she survive and escape?"
She died when I was seven years old.
"That's alright, at least I enjoyed several more years of maternal love. No, more than that, more than ten years."
Xie Qingheng:.........
"Your mother passed away when you were so young. Do you still remember her?"
Xie Qingheng was originally going to say one sentence and then ignore the two of them, but for some reason, he still answered their question.
“My mother is a very gentle person. She is not very brave and is afraid of the dark. When I was very young, if she encountered anything, she would hide behind me.”
"Then you and your father need to be more careful and protect your mother. My mother is different; she's very strong. She's always the one who protects my father in any situation, but unfortunately... she couldn't protect him this time."
“He won’t protect me and my mother. If anything happens, he’ll run away faster than we do. My mother died because he avoided her when there was danger, and she died in an accident.”
“......He’s a real piece of work.” After cursing, Nan Guishang suddenly shut up, secretly glancing at the other person, only to find that the white-haired man didn’t react at all.
"What's wrong with you? Do you hate your father a lot?"
After a long while, Xie Qingheng let out a soft "hmm".
"Why? Just because he killed your mother to save his own life?"
“Not only that,” Xie Qingheng paused for a moment, “he killed Shan Ran’s parents.”
"???" Nan Guishang braced himself on the bed board with his right hand and sat up abruptly, but because he used too much force, he fell back onto the bed.
"What caused the death? Who was killed?"
Xie Qingheng remained silent, his thick eyelashes drooping, obscuring his eyes.
He looked pale and weak, with a bewitching appearance, but he was not aggressive at all. Nan Guishang thought he was just a pitiful person like himself and almost thought he had misheard.
After Yu Yuan discovered the truth in his dream, he told Shan Ran about it. Jia Wen and Jia Nuo were listening to the whole process, so they knew a lot about the matter.
So Gano gave a brief explanation to the returning merchants.
Xie Qingheng did not stop him, but lowered his head slightly, his brows furrowed, his expression a mixture of shame and pain.
Very few people know about this, and Shan Ran has no intention of making it public.
Xie Huaimin, who killed her parents, and the Shan family are all dead. The family that orchestrated this behind the scenes has also suffered heavy losses. She will definitely have another fierce battle with those families in the future.
She didn't want the public's attention to focus on the Shan family's past; she would keep it to herself.
Therefore, the merchants who returned from the south had never heard of it.
After hearing this, he made no attempt to hide the shock on his face.
"Damn it, was Shan Ran responsible for your beastly father's death? Did she take revenge? How are you still alive? Your beastly father knew Shan Ran's parents, and you and Shan Ran have known each other since childhood, haven't you?"
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