Duan Yu's Breakdown

"Miss Wang, your guess was correct. You are also Duan Zhengchun's daughter."

Before Duan Yu's despairing gaze, Xiao Feng still revealed that terrifying truth.

"Impossible, impossible! How could Miss Wang be my sister? How could she possibly be my sister?"

Duan Yu completely broke down, collapsing onto the ground like a lump of mud, his face full of utter disbelief.

Seeing this, everyone present could not help but observe a moment of silence for Duan Yu.

They had seen fathers who screwed over their sons, but never one who screwed over his son this badly!

Kang Min laughed until tears came out, shouting gleefully, "Duan Zhengchun, this is retribution! The retribution you deserve! Hahaha..."

Wang Yuyan was also unwilling to believe that she was Duan Zhengchun's illegitimate daughter, instinctively retorting, "You're talking nonsense! How could I be Duan Zhengchun's daughter? My surname is Wang."

"What an innocent little fool~"

Xiao Feng shook his head. "If your mother had not been abandoned by Duan Zhengchun after he toyed with her affections, how could she hate heartless men and people from Dali so much that she insisted on capturing them and taking them back to use as flower fertilizer? And didn't your mother fill Mantuo Manor with camellias because Duan Zhengchun liked camellias, hoping that one day he would change his heart and return to her?"

"..."

Though Wang Yuyan did not want to admit it, Xiao Feng's words were so logical and well-supported that she had no choice but to acknowledge that she and A Zhu were biological sisters.

Hidden in the shadows, Murong Fu learned that Wang Madam had cuckolded his uncle, and he was both furious and delighted.

He was furious because Wang Madam had been unfaithful, but delighted because Wang Yuyan had secretly given him her heart and was utterly devoted to him.

As long as Murong Fu married both Wang Yuyan and A Zhu, becoming the Dali Kingdom's royal son-in-law would be a certainty.

Just as Wang Yuyan and A Zhu exchanged complicated looks, Xiao Feng continued dropping revelations. "Oh, right! Miss Wang, aside from being a princess of Dali Kingdom, you can also be considered half a princess of Western Xia."

Huh???

At Xiao Feng's words, not only did Wang Yuyan and the others stare in astonishment, but even the First Rank Hall experts hidden in the darkness revealed shocked expressions.

"Miss Wang, your mother's name is Li Qingluo. She took her mother's surname."

Xiao Feng glanced toward the forest where Murong Fu and the others were hiding. "Your maternal grandmother is named Li Qiushui. She was a consort of Western Xia's former emperor, as well as the biological mother of Western Xia's current emperor and the present Empress Dowager of Western Xia. Therefore, you can also be considered half a princess of Western Xia. I have to say, this generation of the Murong Family started with an incredibly favorable hand! As long as Murong Fu married you and A Zhu, restoring Great Yan would be as easy as turning over his hand. Unfortunately, both Murong Bo and Murong Fu are short-sighted fools. They only know how to stir up trouble in the martial world. Back then, Murong Bo fabricated lies and tricked Xuan Ci into leading men to ambush Xiao Yuanshan, intending to provoke a war between Great Song and Liao Kingdom so that he could restore Great Yan amid the chaos."

"So the true culprit who destroyed my family was that old thief Murong Bo!" Qiao Feng gritted his teeth. "Murong Family, I, Qiao Feng, will never rest until one of us is dead!"

"Young Master Xiao, aren't you straying a little too far from the point?"

Although Duan Yanqing also found Xiao Feng's explosive revelations fascinating, what he wanted to know more was the whereabouts of Long-Haired Guanyin and his biological son.

"Sorry, sorry. Let's get back to the point now!"

Xiao Feng waved his hand somewhat sheepishly, then said solemnly, "After hearing all that, I'm sure you all understand what kind of man Duan Zhengchun is, don't you? Duan Zhengchun's habit of leaving affection everywhere had long since broken his first wife's heart. Therefore, to take revenge on Duan Zhengchun, Dao Baifeng chose the most extreme form of revenge: giving her body to the filthiest, lowliest man in the world. At the time, Dali Kingdom was in rebellion. The Crown Prince of Dali Kingdom was persecuted by treacherous ministers and could only flee the imperial palace. Later, he was besieged by powerful enemies, his face was utterly ruined, and both his legs were crippled. By chance, he then encountered Dao Baifeng, who had wanted to take revenge on Duan Zhengchun. That was how that night of fleeting passion came to be."

"You're saying that Long-Haired Guanyin from that night was Dao Baifeng. Then my son must be..."

Halfway through his words, Duan Yanqing looked at Duan Yu with an expression of utter disbelief.

"That's right!"

Xiao Feng nodded firmly. "Duan Yu is your biological son. Back then, Duan Zhengming seized your throne. Now, neither Duan Zhengming nor Duan Zhengchun has a son under their command, so the throne has ultimately fallen into your son's hands. Every drink and every peck is fated; every cause has its consequence! If you don't believe me, look at the Small Gold Plate hanging around Duan Yu's neck. His date and hour of birth are engraved on it."

"Hu... hu... hu..."

At those words, Duan Yanqing's breathing became rapid. His two crutches blurred as he rushed toward Duan Yu at top speed.

After learning that Wang Yuyan was his sister, Duan Yu felt as though his entire life had gone dark. He had not heard anything else Xiao Feng said and remained trapped in grief, unable to pull himself free.

Therefore, even when Duan Yanqing came before him and took the Small Gold Plate from around his neck, he showed no intention of resisting.

After obtaining Duan Yu's Small Gold Plate, Duan Yanqing saw the four words "Live to a Hundred" engraved on it. On the reverse was another line of tiny characters: "Born on the twenty-third day of the eleventh month, Guihai year, second year of Baoding, Dali."

Back in the second month of the second year of Baoding, Duan Yanqing had been besieged by enemies, fled to the outskirts of Tianlong Temple, and encountered Long-Haired Guanyin.

After confirming that Duan Yu was truly his biological son, Duan Yanqing could not stop himself from bursting into wild laughter. "Heaven has treated me so well, so very well! Hahaha..."

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Just as everyone's attention was drawn to Duan Yanqing, Lord Tan and the others closest to the forest suddenly began coughing violently.

"Not good, someone is up to something!"

"What got into my eyes?"

"I can't open my eyes..."

Everyone felt a stabbing pain in their eyes, tears streaming down their faces as their bodies collapsed uncontrollably to the ground.

Seeing that everyone had lost the ability to resist, Helian Tieshu, who had been hiding in the shadows, finally emerged from the forest with the experts of Western Xia's First Rank Hall.

In truth, the moment the Four Great Evils appeared, it meant that the people from Western Xia's First Rank Hall had already arrived. They had merely released the Grief-Numbing Breeze in secret and hidden themselves while waiting for the poison to take effect!

The Grief-Numbing Breeze was a colorless, odorless poisonous gas. Those afflicted by it would weep uncontrollably, their entire bodies going limp and leaving them unable to move.

Other than Xiao Feng, Duan Yu, and Duan Yanqing, everyone else—including Qiao Feng—had fallen victim to it and completely lost their ability to resist.

There was naturally no need to mention Duan Yu. He had consumed the Manggu Toad and possessed a Poison-Immune Body, so the Grief-Numbing Breeze could not poison him.