Murong Xue froze. "What?"
"It's true that Mo Shan betrayed the Mo family," Lin Yi said calmly. "But you embellished the story about how Mo Li's father died."
"How could you possibly know..." Murong Xue trailed off, suddenly realizing something.
Lin Yi smiled. "Because I was there."
What?!
Murong Xue's eyes widened. She couldn't understand what he meant at all.
Mo Li also whipped around, staring at Lin Yi in shock.
"Senior, you mean..."
"Mo Tian's death was indeed connected to me," Lin Yi admitted frankly. "To be precise, I killed him."
Boom!
The words struck Mo Li like a bolt from the blue, leaving him completely stunned.
What was going on?
Senior Lin had killed his own father?
Had he been running around with his father's killer all these days?
And calling him Senior?
Mo Li felt as if his entire worldview had crumbled.
"But don't worry. I had a reason for killing him," Lin Yi continued. "He discovered my secret and wanted to expose me."
"So I had no choice but to silence him."
He said it so casually, as if he'd killed a chicken instead of a person.
Mo Li's mouth hung open. For a long moment, he couldn't say a word.
Murong Xue was stunned too.
What was going on?
Why did it feel like the whole script had gone off the rails?
"Th-then... what about Mo Shan's betrayal?" she stammered.
"That part was true." Lin Yi nodded. "Mo Shan really did intend to sell out the Mo family, but before he could act, Mo Tian had already died at my hands."
"Then your Qingxia Sect took advantage of the situation and swallowed up the Mo family's businesses."
"You could say I bear the main responsibility for the Mo family's downfall."
Only then did Mo Li