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The remains of Shen Chong's mother and elder brother had been found not long ago.

Perhaps Zhou Tianhai's declaration that he would dig up his mother's and elder brother's corpses had only been a vicious threat, but someone had taken it seriously, and carried it out in earnest.

That person

was First Madam Zhou Yi!

Bearing a towering hatred for Shen Chong, Zhou Yi had truly led people to dig up the bones of Shen Chong's two closest kin.

And even that had not been enough to vent her hatred.

She had thrown them both into the public latrine in the mortal residential district.

Although after killing Zhou Tianhai and destroying the Zhou Clan, Shen Chong had taken revenge with a ferocity and posture more ruthless than ever before, clearly, what had happened could no longer be changed.

All he could do

was pick up the remains of his two closest kin, piece by piece, and wash them clean again.

"My elder brother was very good to me ever since we were little."

Shen Chong suddenly spoke, as if talking to himself.

"When I was very young, my health was poor. In order to curry favor with First Madam, the servants in the family deliberately withheld our living supplies. Of the medicinal herbs I needed to nourish my body, less than ten or twenty percent ever reached my hands. Mother went to make a fuss, but in the end, First Madam punished her with a light, airy sentence of 'not knowing her place,' making her kneel for three days."

"Back then, my elder brother would run outside the city and go into the mountains to search for medicinal herbs for me, set traps to kill wild beasts, and help me build up my body."

"Later, my elder brother succeeded in