When Bian Qingwen and Bian Wenwen arrived, they were immediately forced to their knees.
At first, none of the three said a word. Without another word, Gong Fanyu ordered her people to beat them.
After only a few blows, Bian Wenwen confessed everything.
As it turned out, Bian Wenwen and Bian Qingwen were not siblings. Bian Wenwen was actually his cousin, the daughter of his maternal uncle.
Not long after Bian Wenwen was born, her parents died in an accident. Everyone said she had brought death upon her own parents-that she was a jinx-and no one was willing to adopt her.
Bian Qingwen's mother happened to be visiting her parents' home. Taking pity on Bian Wenwen, she brought her home to raise and named her Bian Wenwen.
As it happened, Bian Qingwen's mother had previously given birth to a child who had been sickly from birth and died soon afterward.
And so, Bian Wenwen assumed that child's identity and stayed with the Bian family.
No one outside the Bian family knew about this.
Bian Wenwen and Bian Qingwen gradually grew up, and the two had been close since childhood.
But on the surface, they were siblings and could not possibly marry.
Later, when the Gong family was looking for a live-in son-in-law, Bian Qingwen wanted to lift his family out of poverty, so he asked someone to put forward a marriage proposal. To his surprise, he really was chosen.
Upon learning that he had been chosen, Bian Qingwen formed a plan.
He intended to marry Gong Fanyu first. No matter how formidable she was, she was still only a woman.
As long as he carefully built up his position in the Gong household, wouldn't everything the Gong family owned be his within a few years?
Once he controlled everything, killing