"It seems you still have some brains, which is rare."
Xun Cheng admitted frankly,
"Unfortunately, it's a little late."
Water flows in autumn as if struck by lightning.
He would never have imagined that the letter accusing him and Xiao Chenglin of colluding to usurp the throne and put him to death was actually written by his brother who should have died long ago!
“Are you crazy!?”
Shui Xingqiu's forehead veins bulged, and he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"What good will it do you to treat me like this?! If I die, the Shui family will be destroyed too! Do you know that Tuoba Shan has already taken over the Shui family—"
"Of course I know." Xun Cheng interrupted him, "Isn't this as it should be? As the head of the family, you collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country. How can they, as your family and subordinates, get away with it?"
Tuoba Shan has been wary of the Shui family for a long time, so how could he be willing to give up this great opportunity?
Shui Xingqiu's eyes slowly widened, and his neck felt like it was being strangled by something.
"You...those are your family and relatives too! Are you planning to completely destroy the Shui family?!"
Xun Cheng looked indifferent and apathetic.
"My only relative is my mother, and she has been dead for many years."
As for the rest... he wouldn't even glance at them!
Shui Xingqiu looked as if he had just heard some ridiculous joke. "Are you seeking revenge? Just because your mother died young? But she died willingly!"
The Shui family is good at the art of poison, but if they want to become the most powerful one, they need to pay too much.
The previous head of the Shui family, Xun Cheng and Shui Xingqiu's father, had used his own body as a test subject and had been inoculated with dozens of poisons. His life was hanging by a thread and he almost died.
Later, he wanted to continue, but his wife couldn't bear it and offered to test the Gu for him.
As a result, he died.
Xun Cheng still clearly remembers the tragic scene before his mother's death.
"The art of poison is inherently evil and should have been eradicated long ago. But the Shui family is stubborn and power-hungry, willing to make each generation pay a huge price in order to pass on this art... But I don't want to."
Therefore, when Xun Cheng realized that his half-brother was ambitious for the position of head of the family, he had already begun to think about retreating.
He originally wanted to have a good talk with him and let him take his place, but he didn't expect Shui Xingqiu to attack him first.
Xun Cheng simply took the opportunity to leave the Shui family.
In fact, he didn't mean to fake his death to deceive Shui Xingqiu. At that time, he was poisoned by several kinds of poison and was really dying.
Fortunately, he met Ye Chutang at that time and saved his life.
Shui Xingqiu was completely stunned, and then burst into laughter.
He laughed so hard that tears came out.
"You don't want to... you really don't want to!"
It turns out that the things he had tried so hard to snatch were not even worth the price of others!
Ha ha!
How ridiculous!
There was a hint of pity in Xun Cheng's eyes when he looked at him.
"Do you think it's great to be second only to one person and above everyone else? Do you think that just because you're in that position, everyone has to bow down to you and obey you? You're too naive. Those people in the Shui family would even sacrifice the lives of their relatives and friends for profit, let alone someone like you?"
Just like this time, Shui Xingqiu had just fallen from power, and the Shui family immediately fell apart.
Shui Xingqiu couldn't laugh anymore.
"Don't tell me that! I don't want to hear it!" His tone turned vicious. "I'm already in your hands, so why bother pretending?"
After saying that, he closed his eyes, as if waiting to die.
Xun Cheng just took one last look at him and turned away.
"Kill you? I don't want to dirty my sword." (End of this chapter)
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