"Impossible, you must be lying to me."
Yun Zhi's eyes were bloodshot, and his gaze changed from disbelief to coldness. "Yun Mo, I didn't expect you to have picked up the bad habit of lying. You're still too green to try to deal with me this way."
Upon hearing this, Yunmo was stunned, and the last glimmer of hope that had remained in his eyes vanished completely.
It turned out that his father preferred to believe that he was lying rather than believe that he could actually do it.
A round of applause rang out, and Jiang Yu released Yun Hui and slowly walked to Yun Zhi.
"I truly witnessed a good show just now." Jiang Yu shielded Yun Mo behind her. "If he were lying to you, how did I get out?"
"To tell you the truth, I think that mechanism is nothing special. Compared to the mechanisms made by Yunmo, it's like heaven and earth."
Yun Zhi's eyes narrowed sharply, and his nostrils flared slightly as he exhaled.
“The Yun family was known for its government agencies, but under your leadership it has gradually declined and started doing business.” Every word Jiang Yu uttered was like a dagger to Yun Zhi’s heart. “Even if you die, you will have no words to face your Yun family ancestors.”
"puff--"
A mouthful of blood spurted from Yun Zhi's mouth. He looked around and found that no one was willing to help him up.
He had planned for the Yun family for so many years, but in the end it all came to nothing.
He cannot accept it.
His only mistake was not killing Yunmo when he was born, thus preventing him from having the chance to unlock the mechanisms of the Minghua Water Pavilion.
Thinking of this, Yun Zhi swallowed the mouthful of blood and slowly said, "You're not killing me now because you want to know the truth about what happened back then, right?"
Meeting Jiang Yu's gaze, Yun Zhi actually curled the corners of his mouth, "Now my two legitimate sons and daughters have turned against me, my eldest son was killed, and only my eldest daughter is left who may still be willing to be close to me."
"I want to see Yunwei."
"Even at a point like this, you're still unrepentant?"
Pei Zhi could no longer hold back. She stepped forward and grabbed Yun Zhi by the collar, "You killed members of the Pei family. Can the Yun family now withstand the wrath of the Pei family?"
"But she's dead."
Yun Zhi's gaze remained fixed on Jiang Yu. "I have only one request: I want to see Yun Wei."
Now that things have come to this, what future can the Yun family possibly have?
Relying on Yunmo, that ungrateful bastard who betrayed him?
"Go and call Yunwei."
Jiang Yu's voice carried a certain certainty, Yun Wei... Yun Zhi's last glimmer of hope was likely to be dashed.
......
"Wei'er, come here to your father."
When Yun Wei arrived, her eyes were glazed over. After hearing Yun Zhi's words, she walked towards Yun Zhi almost mechanically. Jiang Yu only raised an eyebrow and did not stop her.
Seeing Jiang Yu's reaction, the others also silently watched Yun Wei.
Yun Zhi grabbed Yun Wei by the neck, his expression turning cruel. "I want to see the Qin family."
"What gives you the right to see the Qin family?"
Yun Hui shouted, "You're like a stray dog now, why do you think the Qin family will see you?"
"Because Yunwei is pregnant."
Jiang Yu spoke slowly, and Yun Zhi trembled violently upon hearing this.
"The Qin family values offspring, even illegitimate sons are highly respected." Jiang Yu glanced at Yun Wei. "So you want to use the child in Yun Wei's belly as a lifeline?"
Jiang Yu replied as if she had heard something out of the blue, "Yun Wei's baby is long gone."
"impossible!"
"Yunwei pointed her finger at me and cursed me. How could I possibly keep Yunwei's child? Of course, the Qin family will only know that you locked Yunwei in the ancestral hall, which is why the child was miscarried." Jiang Yu, with a wicked sense of humor, let Yun Zhi rack his brains for a way to survive, only to cruelly crush any hope he had in the next second.
"It just so happens that I don't know how to deal with Yunwei without offending the Qin family. If you can help me, I would be more than happy to do so."
"You're a devil!"
Yun Zhi finally broke down completely, his teeth chattering.
"This is nothing."
Jiang Yu turned to Pei Zhi and said, "If your Pei family is willing, I will order someone to open the tomb and help you bring your aunt's coffin back to Longyou."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Pei Zhi clasped her hands in a fist salute to Jiang Yu, and the next second Yun Hui burst into tears.
"You two come along too, let's go open the tomb now."
"Opening a tomb for the dead, Jiang Yu, this is a death sentence!" Yun Zhi roared, only able to watch helplessly as Pei Zhi led Yun Mo and Yun Hui away from the house.
Only Yun Zhi and Jiang Yu remained in the room.
......
"Go to hell?"
Jiang Yu chuckled and pulled up a stool to sit next to Yun Zhi.
"This is your last chance. Tell me what happened back then." Jiang Yu's voice inexplicably made Yun Zhi tremble. "If you still don't tell me, I won't listen anymore."
"By then, all of the Yun family's bloodline will have to disappear."
Yun Zhi's eyes narrowed suddenly, then he burst into laughter.
"Those two idiots, Yunmo and Yunhui, thought they had found a powerful backer, little did they know... you never intended to spare their lives."
“Not only that,” Jiang Yu said calmly, “the entire Luoming will be incorporated into the Dayu region, and the Yun family will completely disappear from the five great families.”
"I will burn all books about the Yun family. A hundred years from now, no one will know that there was ever a Yun family."
"You're asking for death!" Yun Zhi's mental defenses collapsed completely at this moment, but the next second, Jiang Yu slapped him, leaving a deep handprint on Yun Zhi's face.
"I hate men who abandon their wives and children the most."
"Ayu, don't hurt your hand."
A deep voice rang out, and Gu Lin put his arm around Jiang Yu's waist. Yun Zhi could almost immediately guess Gu Lin's identity with his signature silver mask: "Emperor Zhaoyuan!"
"Ayu is asking you a question."
Gu Lin smirked, and Yun Zhi's limbs were immediately broken, eliciting a violent cry of pain.
"Still not going to talk? Ayu, why don't we just turn him into a human pig and put him in front of Yunmo's mother's grave?" Gu Lin said seriously. "Anyway, you're safe and sound now, so what happened back then isn't important."
"I'll talk!"
Yun Zhi's face was covered in a mixture of sweat and blood, and he also had some facial spasms due to the pain.
After Yun Zhi finished speaking, Jiang Yu's expression did not change at all. Instead, she moved closer to Yun Zhi and asked, "What I mean is, besides the Yun family, who else was involved in what happened back then?"
"The Qin family? Or the Sun family? Or perhaps the Gong family, or the Pei family?"
Upon hearing this, Yun Zhi trembled.
The next second, Yun Zhi bit his tongue and committed suicide.
"He's dead." Gu Lin withdrew his hand from under Yun Zhi's nose. "It seems that the person involved was so powerful that Yun Zhi would rather bite his tongue and commit suicide than dare to speak out."
"But why?"
Jiang Yu frowned. The Yun family was already in a dead end. What exactly was Yun Zhi afraid of?
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