The sword tip swayed slightly before his eyes. Mu Bing's pupils shrank sharply. He did not doubt for a moment that Yue Qianchou was joking; if Yue Qianchou was displeased, he could pick out one of his eyeballs with a single stroke. He hurriedly said, "I deliberately told Wu Xiong that you had once pursued Tianjiao, that the relationship between you two had always been ambiguous. That stirred up Wu Xiong's jealousy and made him use his power to help me hunt you down."
"Uh..." Yue Qianchou was choked speechless. Never mind whether he and Mu Tianjiao had truly shared any ambiguous relationship; even if they had, could a father say such a thing? Especially when there had been nothing at all! He simply could not imagine that a father would slander his own daughter's reputation like this.
Not only him—perhaps even the dead Dong Shunlai would never have imagined that the question he had been unable to understand before had actually arisen because Wu Xiong was jealous. After all, sometimes, no matter how deep a man's schemes ran, he could not bear seeing his woman entangled ambiguously with another man, and would often do something impulsive that he would later regret.
"So that was it!" Yue Qianchou said with a slight shake of his head. He did not think Mu Bing was lying. Slowly exhaling, he said, "I have to hand it to you. You would even frame your own daughter... Tell me, did Mu Tianjiao know you came to hunt me down?"
"No! Wu Xiong and I hid it from her together. If she had known, she definitely would not have agreed." Mu Bing answered in a panic, the words spilling out before he could even think, afraid that any delay would bring disaster upon him.
Hearing that,