Yue Xiaofei looked at Xu Yiming's anxious face and fell silent for a moment.
He knew Xu Yiming genuinely wanted what was best for him.
He also knew that, to everyone else, what he had just done seemed far too impulsive, far too reckless.
But he had his reasons.
"My father was framed and imprisoned five years ago."
"The Night Watchers squad he served in was wiped out on a mission at South Mountain."
"I suspect the Cao Family was behind it all."
What?!
Xu Yiming's expression changed dramatically.
What had he just heard?!
Yue Xiaofei's father had been framed and imprisoned?
A Night Watchers squad had been wiped out?
And the Cao Family was behind it all?!
The revelation was staggering. Unthinkable!
Xu Yiming's first reaction was not belief, but disbelief.
"Yue... Yue Xiaofei, you're... you're not joking, are you?"
His voice stammered with shock.
"How... how is that possible?! The Cao Family... how could they dare?!"
They had framed a decorated soldier!
They had plotted to destroy an elite squad belonging to the nation's most secretive department!
Either crime alone would be enough to ruin an entire family!
The Cao Family might have been one of the Eight Great Clans, with immense power, but how could they dare commit such monstrous acts?!
This went beyond mere audacity!
It was an open challenge to the nation's most fundamental principles. It was treason!
Yue Xiaofei looked at Xu Yiming's shocked, disbelieving face and offered no further explanation.
He merely said calmly, "I don't have direct evidence yet."
"But every clue points to them."
There was not the slightest tremor in Yue Xiaofei's voice, but beneath that calm burned a fury fierce enough to set the heavens ablaze!
His father's wrongful imprisonment!
The blood of those who had come before him!