Li Wuyou continued, "I knew that once she mastered the secrets of cloning, doomsday would be upon us. I encoded my genetic code and memories into one of the Seeds of Fire, then chose to destroy myself so Xu Mingying would believe I was dead."
Hu Xiaotian said, "But Xu Mingying is still alive today."
Li Wuyou said, "To buy time, I helped her produce some cloned organs. I originally intended to tamper with them, but Xu Mingying was extremely vigilant, and I dared not take the risk lightly. Besides, although those cloned organs were healthy, the disease ravaging her body could never be eradicated. By my calculations, she doesn't have much time left."
Hu Xiaotian said, "So you personally implanted the Seed of Fire in Madam Li? How did you fool Xu Mingying?"
Li Wuyou said, "Madam Li had heart disease at the time. Only a heart transplant could save her. To gain control over Li Tianheng, Xu Mingying asked me to save his wife's life, leaving him owing her an enormous debt of gratitude. I cloned a brand-new heart for Madam Li. She was already more than a month pregnant then, and I took the opportunity to implant that Seed of Fire in her body. So although Xi Yan and I are twin sisters, I wasn't carried to full term. That gamble also cost me a lifetime of paralysis." She smiled. "Perhaps heaven ordained it. Xu Mingying ended up paralyzed in her old age too."
Hu Xiaotian said, "Has Liang Dazhuang been working for you all along?"
Li Wuyou nodded. "Fortunately, you spared him. Otherwise, we would never have had this chance to meet."
Hu Xiaotian said, "You actually used Old Madam Xu's name to get me here?"
Li Wuyou said, "How else would you have agreed to