Pinching the soft flesh at his waist, she gave it a full one-hundred-and-eighty-degree twist.
The pain made Gu Changge nearly jump straight up on the spot.
"If you have something to say, just say it. Can you stop being so infuriating?"
"Her life is already miserable enough!"
"How could you bring yourself to act like that?"
The two women voiced their displeasure.
Qian Renxue had suffered far too much.
They both enjoyed gossip.
But at this moment, even they could not bear to watch Gu Changge speak with such an attitude.
Gu Changge rubbed the spot at his waist that had been pinched painfully.
He did not bother explaining himself to them.
What could two little wives who understood nothing possibly know?
They had no idea he was using drastic medicine for a serious illness.
"Fine, then I'll get straight to the point!"
"Your father, Qian Xunji, was actually killed by your mother, Bibi Dong!"
There was none of that infuriating tone.
Nor was there any of his flashy, roundabout buildup.
Yet precisely because of that.
The moment those words came out.
Qian Renxue's composure utterly collapsed.
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling immediately wanted to administer household discipline to Gu Changge.
But this time, Gu Changge had come prepared. With a grab of both hands, he caught the hands they had been about to use for mischief and clasped them in his palms!
"What are you two trying to do? Wasn't this what you asked for? And now you want to sneak-attack me!"
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were practically furious to death. "Is this how we asked you to say it? We wanted you to say it in a less punchable way!"
"She's already suffered so much, and you're still treating it like entertainment, afraid the situation isn't messy enough."
"But you did change. You no longer look like you're enjoying the spectacle and hoping for more chaos. Still, couldn't you have put it more tactfully? Do you really want to anger her to death before you'll feel satisfied?"
Whether it was Qian Renxue or Xue Qinghe.
They were both strangers to Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
Normally, there should not have been so much sympathy and pity involved.
But there was no helping it!
The Little Angel's circumstances were truly too tragic.
And in this life, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had been firmly protected by Gu Changge since childhood.
They had never witnessed the many cruel things that made life seem not worth living.
So after hearing of Qian Renxue's utterly tragic life.
They truly found it hard to accept.
That was why, at this moment, they genuinely wanted Qian Renxue to feel a little better.
Yet Gu Changge was acting like a heartless bastard.
He did not have the slightest thought of being gentle with her.
"You can't blame me for this either. That's simply how things happened. I can't change it."
Gu Changge shrugged, wearing an utterly unconcerned expression.
Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan were angry, but there was nothing they could do to him.
"Wait, Chang Ge. Wasn't it said that the former Pope of Spirit Hall was beaten to death by Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect?"
At that moment, Dugu Bo suddenly spoke.
Then everyone turned to look over.
"Tang Hao was just the scapegoat!"
Gu Changge said casually, "He did hammer Qian Xunji once, but that only severely wounded Qian Xunji. Consider the Clear Sky Sect's standing and Spirit Hall's standing. Tang Hao wasn't an idiot—how could he have dared to truly kill Qian Xunji?"
"You have to know, their ancestor Tang Chen had already been missing for many years at that time!"
"If he had really beaten Qian Xunji to death!"
"Would the Clear Sky Sect still have been able to survive?"
Gu Changge casually laid out what had happened back then. "Otherwise, did you think the Clear Sky Sect could muddle through this just by sealing off the sect and withdrawing from the world?"
"And Tang Hao—a man who had only just broken through to become a Title Douluo—could escape from the hands of Qian Daoliu, a level-ninety-nine Limit Douluo?"
"Don't make me laugh!"
"No matter how old-fashioned Qian Daoliu was, no matter how incapable he was of adapting!"
"Dealing with a Tang Hao who had just broken through to Title Douluo was still effortless for him!"
"The only reason things turned out this way was because Qian Daoliu knew that his son, Qian Xunji, had died at Bibi Dong's hands!"
"But this matter was a scandal—an enormous scandal that could not be exposed no matter what!"
"Otherwise, the fact that Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden was a brain-dead, ungrateful fool who fell in love with that trash Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang!"
"And that Spirit Hall's Pope Qian Xunji, in order to keep her from aiding the enemy, put his own student in the Secret Chamber and even made her bear a child, would no longer be concealable!"
"So they could only go along with the mistake and use Tang Hao as the scapegoat!"
"But precisely because he knew Tang Hao was merely a scapegoat, Qian Daoliu showed mercy!"
"He allowed the Clear Sky Sect to seal itself away and withdraw from the world, then put on a show of hunting Tang Hao down while secretly letting him go and allowing him to escape!"
Although the original novel had never directly described these matters.
That did not stop Gu Changge from using what was known to infer the unknown process.
After all, the outcome was already there.
Once he worked backward from the result and eliminated every impossibility.
This was the final answer.
"Oh, and don't ask me why, if they were already going along with the mistake, Qian Daoliu didn't truly wipe out Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect!"
"The answer is that Qian Daoliu had a moral obsession and was a rare kind of hopelessly good person!"
Was that claim fake?
Very fake!
But was it the truth?
It really was!
Everyone had just been about to open their mouths.
But after Gu Changge added that explanation, they immediately fell silent.
Because that truly was the question they had wanted to ask.
As for Qian Renxue.
She had now shattered completely.
She sat there limply.
Yet the powerful air of elegance and nobility around her had vanished.
Gu Changge rose and walked over to her.
Looking at the Little Angel before him, with her exquisitely beautiful face.
Honestly, she was truly stunning.
He reached out and poked her little cheek.
Qian Renxue did not dodge.
She was like a doll sister who no longer had a heart.
She did not even have the will to resist.
"Alright, the bad news is over. Want to hear some good news?"
Gu Changge asked with a smile.
Qian Renxue stared at him blankly, mockery on her face. "Could someone like me still have anything good happen?"
"Don't be so pessimistic. In life, eight or nine things out of ten never go as one wishes."
"Though your share of 'not going as one wishes' is indeed a little excessive!"
"But that doesn't mean there isn't still the slightest bit of light in your life."
Gu Changge sat down directly beside her.
But Qian Renxue did not pay much attention to those words.
"Say it if you want to."
She spoke casually, her face full of numbness.
"Bibi Dong actually loves you!"
Gu Changge gave her no time to prepare.
Nor did he offer any psychological buildup.
He got straight to the point and threw out those words.
Then a flash of color burst across Qian Renxue's face.
Gu Changge was not surprised by that.
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