"She's awake! Xia'er is awake!" He Zhilan exclaimed excitedly, her previously worried and furrowed brows instantly relaxing.
Lin Qixia lay on the bed, staring at He Zhilan in astonishment.
"Really? Xia'er is really awake?"
"Xia'er!"
"aunt!"
Several people rushed into the room at once, making the originally spacious room feel crowded.
Lin Xiao and Lin Yi were both there, and—
etc--
Standing not far from the bed, cautiously watching her, was none other than Huo Yanqing?
Lin Qixia reflexively struggled, desperately trying to grab the other person and attack him, shouting, "How come you're still alive! I'll kill you!"
"Calm down! Calm down!" He Zhilan quickly hugged her and explained softly, "Xia'er, don't blame your senior brother. Yan Qing was saving us!"
"What?" Lin Qixia was instantly confused again.
"Xia'er, he didn't mean to harm us at the time, actually—"
"Zhilan, let him explain to Xia'er himself." Lin Xiao sighed, stopping He Zhilan from continuing, and pulled her away from the house.
He Zhilan came to her senses and realized that Huo Yanqing, the person involved, really needed to explain this matter in person.
She slowly raised her hand and gently patted Lin Qixia, "Be patient and listen to him."
Then she got up, took Lin Yi's hand, and followed Lin Xiao away.
Only Lin Qixia and Huo Yanqing remained in the room.
Lin Qixia suppressed her temper and asked him, "What exactly happened?"
He was still wrapped in bandages, and his pale face was clearly due to excessive blood loss from the knife wound I had inflicted on him.
She felt somewhat guilty and remorseful. If she had known things weren't so simple, if she had known Huo Yanqing was plotting to save her, she wouldn't have—
"Some time ago, a person claiming to be a system popped into my head."
“That thing threatened me that if I didn’t do what it said, you, me, and everyone else would die.”
Lin Qixia could hardly believe her ears. After a long while, she asked him, "And then? How did you break free from its control?"
It turns out the system sensed her abnormality and thus took control of Huo Yanqing.
A surge of resentment welled up inside her.
Huo Yanqing told her the whole story.
For example, after discovering the system, he pretended to cooperate, made contact with the Huo family's forces, and gathered them to prepare for revenge against you and everyone else.
"Is that why you suddenly disappeared back then?" Lin Qixia suddenly realized.
Huo Yanqing nodded. "That's right."
Then he continued speaking.
Huo Yanqing pretended to act according to his original destiny, but in reality he was disobedient. However, the other party's thoughts were far more complex than that.
The appearance of Mu Yunzhi and others disrupted his gradual plan.
“When I returned to the mountains and was ready to tell you everything, you had already been influenced by Mu Yunzhi, and I—” He said, his expression turning somewhat sad.
Lin Qixia also avoided his gaze with guilt, but still said, "This is my fault. I shouldn't have trusted him so easily."
"It's not your fault. I didn't actually see through Mu Yunzhi's intentions at the time, until he led his men in a night raid on the Beiling Mountain stronghold—"
"By the time I caught up with him, you had already escaped down the mountain with him through the secret passage."
After that, he launched a swift and decisive attack on Mu Yunzhi's camp at the foot of the mountain, devised a plan to capture Gu Ciyu, and coerced her into cooperating with him, giving Lin Xiao and He Zhilan fake death drugs.
He sent people to escort them out safely because he could sense that the system's ultimate goal in doing so was not actually for the Lin family.
It was for Gu Ciyu and Li Pei.
Therefore, at that juncture, it was most appropriate for Gu Ciyu to make the move.
Sure enough, everything finally succeeded.
But I didn't expect—
"You didn't expect me to suddenly attack you and try to kill you, did you?" Lin Qixia asked him with a mix of guilt and emotions.
Huo Yanqing smiled wryly: "Given the circumstances at the time, I wasn't surprised that you would do that after you got the chance."
"I think that system was once with you too, right?" He had witnessed the power of that thing, which explained the strange phenomena that had previously occurred to Lin Qixia.
Lin Qixia was surprised that Huo Yanqing had guessed this so astutely.
"Yes." She nodded, and she knew what happened afterward.
She realized that she had made many wrong judgments.
Of course, there are also cases directed at individuals, such as Huo Yanqing and Gu Ciyu.
Lin Qixia was surprised that she didn't take the opportunity to kill the Lin family members.
Moreover, she guessed that the system did that in order to make them kill each other.
Just as Huo Yanqing said, the system told him to kill her and the Lin family, but at a crucial moment it gave her powerful abilities.
The purpose was to eliminate Huo Yanqing along the way, clearing all obstacles for Gu Ciyu and Li Pei, and making the world's development more exciting.
It thought it was a god and fooled everyone.
Lin Qixia said with a hint of melancholy, "It's good that you're alright, and everyone—everyone I care about is alright, except—"
Apart from her sister Lin Jiudong.
She understood that if Lin Jiudong were alright, her older brother and sister-in-law would have told her earlier so she wouldn't worry.
But they all tacitly avoided mentioning it, and Lin Jiudong himself didn't show up here.
"Where is Gu Ciyu?" Lin Qixia asked, remembering that Gu Ciyu was still alive before she lost consciousness.
Huo Yanqing pondered for a moment and said, "She did what she promised me and even healed my injuries, so I let her go."
"I see..."
Lin Qixia murmured in agreement, accepting Huo Yanqing's approach.
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