Jiang Xu was momentarily unresponsive to this address. He coughed rapidly to conceal his surging excitement, but his tone was still almost incoherent. "My sister said she met a little girl who she felt close to the moment they met. She said you look a lot like my mother, and the curve of your mouth when you smile is very much like my father's... But she also said you don't have a birthmark on your left shoulder, only a thumb-sized scar..."
Jiang Xu spoke very quickly, and after he finished speaking, he paused and stared at Xue Zhiyi's face carefully for a long time, as if trying to find traces of his parents, and also looking for traces similar to himself.
"Awan, my parents didn't mean to abandon you, and my brother and sister didn't mean to not look for you..."
"I know." Xue Zhiyi said suddenly.
She and her brother Jiang Xu didn't grow up together, so they couldn't get too close for a while. She could only tell him seriously: "Someone did it on purpose, and they won't let you find it easily."
Besides feeling sad, she was filled with anger: "If I hadn't discovered this in advance, I would have died without knowing that I had been plotted against by the Xue family since I was born."
"You mean, the Xue family back then?" Jiang Xu was a little dazed.
"Yes." Xue Zhiyi said, "Fu Ling admitted before his death that they were the ones who killed my parents. Because my fate is similar to their daughter's, I can protect the Xue family from disaster. That's all."
"That's all..."
Jiang Xu actually laughed for a moment, supporting his forehead with the base of his palm, as if he thought that the reason that caused his family to be destroyed was extremely ridiculous.
Yes, just for this reason, they can disregard the life and death of others, as if they are nothing more than ants in the eyes of the powerful, who can be summoned and dismissed at will, but if they resist, it is like brushing off the annoying dust on the brocade, making it seem so easy and casual, making their resistance seem so presumptuous and their pain so insignificant.
Even Xue Zhiyi seemed to have to be grateful for the wealth and glory bestowed by the Xue family, otherwise he would be repaying kindness with enmity and being ungrateful.
How could they be so self-righteous? They regarded themselves as gods, manipulating the lives of others at will... It was truly absurd and ridiculous!
Not only that, in their previous life, they greedily stole Jiang Xu's fame and killed people to silence them.
Xue Zhiyi was only thankful for her own planning in her life, and thankful that this moment of compassion allowed her to accidentally save her few blood relatives in this life.
"It's a pity that they got their comeuppance before I even had the chance to meet them in person." Jiang Xu said bitterly.
Xue Zhiyi chuckled softly, "How can there be so many retributions in this world?"
She was their retribution for all the painstaking planning she had put in.
Just as Jiang Xu was wondering about the meaning of this sentence, the gate of the courtyard suddenly creaked.
Xue Zhiyi was stunned and put away the sadness on her face. She opened the gate, but saw Xue Ruoyu standing outside the door, leaning against the door frame and staggering.
She covered her chest with her hands, as if she was in so much pain that she couldn't straighten her back, and her pale face was already covered with tear marks.
She... heard it all.
Xue Zhiyi didn't expect Xue Ruoyu to be here. He almost subconsciously wanted to support her, but she dodged him in panic.
She walked into the yard with heavy steps.
But Jiang Xu stood up, his face alert, and hurried forward to separate the two. His expression was not friendly towards the daughter of his enemy.
Xue Zhiyi said gently, "She won't hurt me."
"That's not what my mother told me..." Her voice trembled, with a sob that came from the bottom of her heart, almost desperate.
"She said that she took you in as an abandoned baby out of kindness, but after learning about your life story, you heartlessly betrayed the Xue family... Which one is true?" Her head seemed to hurt badly. She covered her head in pain, curled up and sat down.
Facing Xue Ruoyu's collapse, Jiang Xu felt no pity, but instead became even more furious: "Take her in? Awan has parents and siblings, who needs to take her in? How can you have the nerve to say the word 'take her in' when you've caused others to be separated from their loved ones and their families to be destroyed?! How can there be such shameless words in this world?!"
Looking at the painful Xue Ruoyu, Xue Zhiyi couldn't remain completely indifferent after years of getting along with her. She held Jiang Xu and said, "She doesn't know about these things. Brother, don't go against her."
Xue Ruoyu hunched over, weeping bitterly. This revelation was like a bolt from the blue. In her eyes, her parents, at least her mother, were kind and compassionate, even to the servants. She treated her with tenderness and love. It was her mother who had taught her since childhood to be upright and kind. She even felt that the Xue family's misfortunes were a frame-up...
Now she is told that everything is fake, and the parents she trusts are murderers who kill people behind her back. How can she accept this?
"Why is it like this..." She asked foolishly, not knowing who she was asking.
Xue Zhiyi never took his anger out on her. Xue Zhiyi still remembered that during all these years in the Xue family, Xue Ruoyu was one of the few people who truly loved her.
Seeing Xue Ruoyu in so much pain, Xue Zhiyi couldn't bear it. She wanted to help Xue Ruoyu up despite Jiang Xu's obstruction.
But Xue Ruoyu was unwilling to get up. She cried, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry!"
Xue Zhiyi squatted down and looked into her eyes, and his eyes felt a little sore.
"This matter has nothing to do with you. I never blame you. You don't have to apologize."
It would be better if Xue Ruoyu was a person like Fu Ling and Xue Zhentong. If she was a little more inferior, at least when something like this happened, she would never hurt herself because of self-blame.
"We are brothers, but I didn't expect this result... I have watched you grow up, how could you not be my sister?" She looked at Xue Zhiyi carefully, her eyes full of confusion.
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