Today's third update: Chapter 823! 3/3!
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Xu Kun had been resting with his eyes closed earlier because he had finished reading the information Yang Yao had provided about Sima Dai!
It had to be said, Sima Dai was indeed vastly different from what he had imagined!
Because of the fixed impression Sima Ziyuan, the dean of the Poison Academy, had left on him, coupled with Sima Dai poisoning Sikong Ting a few days ago, Xu Kun had held a terrible impression of him!
In his mind, Sima Dai had been nothing more than a sinister petty man!
Yet he had never expected that he and Yang Yao had shared such a past!
Xu Kun vaguely remembered that, when they were young, Yang Yao only came to stay at their home in Jiangnan Base City during summer vacation each year. Every time they parted, Yang Yao had been very sad!
Once, when Xu Kun saw Yang Yao off, she had said, "I have to go back again. There aren't any friends there to play with. There used to be an older brother I could play with, but not anymore..."
At the time, Hao Jian, who had been wise beyond his years, mocked, "Kun Kun, your child bride is getting stolen by some older brother!"
Of course, Hao Jian ended up getting thoroughly beaten by the two of them!
It was a buried memory from seven or eight years ago. Only today did Xu Kun learn who the older brother Yang Yao had mentioned was!
So it was Sima Dai—the man who had stirred up such a storm throughout the city, targeting and suppressing anyone who dared harbor improper thoughts toward Yang Yao!
Sima Dai liked Yang Yao. That was an indisputable fact!
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