Purity

Some moments, once they happen, require someone to remember them for a lifetime, but these moments are often not reciprocal.

Qing was just one of the hundreds of blood slaves that Xu Yinhe saved during the blood disaster when he was young.

He was special to her, but to him, she was just a pitiful little girl.

They were pitiful people, no different from the thousands of blood slaves driven by the Blood Ghost Sect.

The only faint impression I have is that during the treatment of blood slaves, I saw the character "Qing" on the escape list compiled by the medical clinic.

He is the rising sun in the sky, while I am but a maggot struggling in the gutter, yet the light of this rising sun gives the maggot hope to survive.

This is Qing's answer to the protagonist's question about why she aided and abetted evil in the novel "Cangyuan," and it is also her murmured words as she looked up at the Black Prison before her death.

"Call"

Xu Yuan slowly exhaled, raised his hand to rub his temples, and murmured with some complicated feelings:

"What a cliché story."

"You're quite observant."

A soft, seductive voice suddenly sounded behind Xu Yuan: "However, Qing is not as simple as Changtian thinks."

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Upon hearing that familiar voice, Xu Yuan's emotions instantly became somewhat unstable.

Damn it, she robbed him of everything, and this damned woman still dares to show her face in front of him.

However, considering the vast difference in their strength, Xu Yuan suppressed his dissatisfaction, believing that revenge was never too late.

When did you arrive?

"It's been a while," a light, alluring voice replied. "Things outside have been mostly arranged. For events like the Prime Minister's Mansion banquet at the Prime Minister's residence, I, the Black Scale Chief, still need to make an appearance."

Xu Yuan rolled his eyes:

"I mean, when did you get into this room?"

"Well, probably after you entered this room."

After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan said with slight displeasure, "Since you're here, why didn't you say anything?"

With a swaying gait, a voluptuous figure slowly walked to the desk.

She was still wearing that elegant and fitted cheongsam.

Lou Ji glanced at the dusty old table but didn't sit down. Her emerald eyes reflected the firelight as she smiled and said:

"My sister doesn't quite trust this woman."

Looking at his sister Lou Ji, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, Xu Yuan glanced at the old wooden door that hadn't been closed:

"With Si Kou's strength, dealing with Princess Xien shouldn't be difficult."

Lou Ji said with a smile:

"If she doesn't have ulterior motives, it really isn't difficult."

Xu Yuan frowned slightly:

"What's the meaning?"

Lou Ji slightly raised her slender fingers and forcibly pulled Xu Yuan up from the rocking chair. Then she sat down herself, crossed her two plump legs, and said with a smile:

"Your guess is correct. Qing does indeed love your father, but her birth and upbringing have caused her personality to become somewhat distorted, and her expression of love is also somewhat abnormal."

Xu Yuan, who had been forcibly pulled up, was somewhat displeased, but upon hearing Lou Ji's words, he raised an eyebrow and asked:

"Deformity?"

Lou Ji stared at the direction Qing had left with her beautiful, snake-like eyes, thought for a moment, and then described:

"How should I put it? It's kind of a combination of being so insecure that she doesn't dare to show herself in front of him and pursue him, yet so arrogant that she wants to cut off all contact between him and other women."

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Xu Yuan's eye twitched.

This was a situation he had never encountered in "Cangyuan".

After a brief silence, Xu Yuan tentatively asked:

"So, what did Qing do?"

Lou Ji waved her hand dismissively upon hearing this:

"It's nothing, just a minor disagreement with your mother."

Xu Yuan's lips twitched slightly, and he said in a low voice:

"Could this be a crime of passion?"

"Bang."

Lou Ji raised her finger and flicked it across the forehead, smiling charmingly, "You seem to know quite a bit about these things, buddy."

Xu Yuan tilted his head back in pain, rubbed his temples, and was somewhat speechless.

Using the terminology from the anime/manga series, Qing's name carries a slightly yandere connotation.

"My dad was actually entangled with a crazy woman."

Xu Yuan enjoyed hearing these romantic tales of the older generation, but then he became somewhat puzzled and asked, "But if Qing attacked my mother, why is she still alive?"

Although people with such morbid emotions were depicted as terrifying in anime and movies from my past life, that was an illusion created because most of the people entangled with them were incompetent.

Playing these fancy tricks in front of that old man will only lead to one result.

If it shows its head, it dies.

Putting everything else aside, the maternal uncle would be the first one to chop Qing up.

Lou Ji thought for a moment, then seemed to find the explanation a bit troublesome. She smiled and said simply:

"The situation was quite complicated at the time. Qing was very powerful; he secretly helped your father do a lot of things, and your mother found out about all of these things."

At this point, Lou Ji's lips curled into a smile:

"So Qing's assassination attempt on her was actually the result of your mother deliberately creating an opportunity for Qing to reveal himself."

"And then Qing was convinced all at once?"

After listening carefully, Xu Yuan blinked. He didn't believe that the personality of someone who had lived in the shadows his whole life could be changed by a few words: "There must be other hidden stories, right?"

"That's natural."

Lou Ji's slender fingertips gently traced the old, yellowed table in front of her. The image of that woman seemed to flash in her beautiful eyes as she said softly, "Your mother promised Qing that Qing could assassinate her at any time, anywhere, anytime, in any way. Moreover, Qing operates in the shadows, with no communication, which could easily disrupt your father's overall plans."

After hearing all this, Xu Yuan suddenly understood, understood Qing's words just now and the inferiority complex that flashed in her eyes before she left:

"Has the Qing Dynasty remained unchanged after all these decades?"

"It's easier to change mountains and rivers than to change one's nature."

Lou Ji's complicated expression vanished, and she smiled gently, "Qing's emotional state has always been somewhat unstable due to her living environment in the first half of her life. Changtian, although you are quick-witted, you have a very talkative mouth. If you upset her and something unexpected happens, it will be hard to say what will happen."

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"Go do what you want to do, your sister is watching."

As Lou Ji spoke, she seemed to remember something and softly instructed, "By the way, don't tell your father and maternal uncle about Qing's matter, and it's best not to tell Xu Changge either."

Xu Yuan glanced back at her:

"My father didn't know for decades?"

"This is to clear one's own mind."

Lou Ji chuckled softly, shook her head slightly, and said in a tone that was somewhat ambiguous, "Always saying things like, 'Rotten maggots shouldn't be exposed to the sun.'"

Xu Yuan nodded upon hearing this, and slowly walked towards the outside. He suddenly stopped at the door and asked:

"With Qing's cultivation level, he should be able to reshape that body, right?"

Lou Ji gave Xu Yuan a deep look and said softly:

"What? You want to find yourself a stepmother?"

Xu Yuan's gaze was open and calm as he spoke:

"I just feel that Qing shouldn't live her whole life in the shadows."

Lou Ji tilted her head and said softly:

"Everything Qing has is built upon that body. If she does that, she will become useless to him."

"Qing cannot accept this outcome."