"Heh, you deliberately took the bait and let me capture you, and you stayed quietly in this Beirong Palace for more than half a month without making a move. You're not that smart."
“No, it’s not about intelligence, but rather…” Nan Lingqin looked at Xu Yiran, “I just want to know what Xu Yiran is hiding from me.”
"Hahaha……"
Upon hearing this, the masked man suddenly burst into loud, maniacal laughter. The curtains swayed, and the entire hall seemed to tremble with the force of his laughter.
“Xu Yiran, look at you, you are so devoted to her, and she is good to you too. Even if you die, you will have no regrets.”
Xu Yiran's usually calm and composed face changed at this moment. Looking at Nan Lingqin, her misty eyes seemed to clear instantly. She hurriedly grabbed Nan Lingqin's hand and said, "Xiao Qin, let's go."
"Go? Is it even possible to leave?"
The man with the dark face suddenly sneered, "Since you know everything, I won't play games with you. I can tell you that in this world, I am Xu Yiran's everything. Without me, Xu Yiran would not be where she is today."
"Xiao Qin, let's go."
"I'm not leaving."
Nan Lingqin seemed to suddenly get angry, staring at him intently, "I'm willing to risk my life just to know the things you don't want to tell me and can't tell me."
Xu Yiran, however, became anxious. "Xiao Qin, I was just afraid you'd save me. I know you already consider me family. You were willing to risk your life for Yuwen Yao, so I believe you'll do everything you can to save me. That's why I 'betrayed' you. I just wanted you to hate me. Now that things have come to this, I won't hide anything from you. That's why I've done so much. Listen to me, can you leave first...?"
“Xu Yiran, even if everyone in the world turns their back on me, I know you won’t either, so I need to know the truth.”
"Xiao Qin!"
Xu Yiran simply shielded Nan Lingqin behind her and looked at the masked man, "Release him, or I will die with you."
"Hahaha, my dear Yiran, I've treated you so well, and this is how you repay me?"
"Either let her go, or we die together. You decide."
"Haha, how loyal and righteous he is, Nan Lingqin. If you knew what he had been through, would you still think he's so good?"
The masked man chuckled.
"Really? Whatever he did, no matter what he did, he is still Xu Yiran, the Xu Yiran I have known in my life."
"He ate his mother alive."
The masked man suddenly spoke, and every word he uttered struck Xu Yiran's scalp with a heavy blow.
The perfectly composed man was struck dumb for a moment, his expression becoming utterly dejected.
Nan Lingqin's eyelids shrank, and she saw with her own eyes that Xu Yiran's body trembled and her face turned pale.
So this is what he never wanted her to know, what he tried so hard to keep from her even if it meant making her hate him.
"You know, Xu Yiran was only three years old then. When I found him in the snow, his face was covered in blood, and his eyes were bloodshot. That's the kind of thing that's turning into a demon... Haha... But..."
The masked man paused here, looking at Nan Lingqin.
In that instant, Nan Lingqin felt that although he was staring intently at her, he was looking at someone else through her eyes.
“Your mother, the chieftain of the Yun clan, has changed him. My original intention was to get him closer to her so I could get what I wanted, but I never expected that he would be moved instead. Tell me, should I be angry…”
angry?
Oh!
Nan Lingqin's face was full of sarcasm, "What right do you have to be angry?"
"Without me, Xu Yiran wouldn't be where he is today. If it weren't for me, he would just be an orphan. He wouldn't have entered the Xu family, met Yun Yishang, or received spiritual arts from her. Hmm? But he's unfilial, ungrateful, and unjust. He even argued with me, forcing me to lock his memories. If it weren't for his extraordinary intelligence and usefulness, and the fact that he even has some connection with you, Miss General, I would have killed him that day. However, he is indeed very cunning. He didn't tell me that you are very likely Yun Yishang's daughter, so now, he seems to be protecting me, hahaha..."
The masked man laughed wildly, "He still betrayed me. I told him to guard the city gate and watch over you and Yuwen Yao, but he attacked the city instead. And he even told me what it means to hate you. Hate you? He just didn't want you to know everything about him, to know that his life was in my hands, and he didn't want his filth exposed in front of you. Xu Yiran, you really know how to sacrifice yourself."
The masked man seemed extremely angry as he said this, "Do you really think I don't know? I was just watching you play this childish game."
"So, you are the Second Elder of the Underworld, and you made him use your name in order to make him obey you."
"Of course, that's not all. I personally administered the poison to you back then, and I devised a plan to hand it over to Yuwen Shu, who then passed it on to Yuwen Yao, hahaha..."
The masked man was extremely pleased with himself, as if he was making a great deal of fun by manipulating everyone's hearts.
"You wouldn't even spare such a young girl?"
Nan Lingqin gritted her teeth and tensed up, a chill emanating from her body.
The truth is like this, it's really like this...
"Of course, at that time, I thought you were Xie Zhengshan's daughter, but I was just thinking of getting under my control as soon as possible, Yuwen Shu, Yuwen Yao, the entire royal family."
"How ridiculous. Yuwen Shuji has been scheming for so many years, and now he is dead and buried in the yellow earth. He probably doesn't even understand that he thought he had the world under his control, but he himself was just a pawn in someone else's game."
"Yuwen Shu? He's just short-sighted and thinks he's the best."
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