Hu Xiaotian and Visa listened with pounding hearts. Old Madam Xu was no ordinary woman-she was so vicious that she had even murdered a pregnant woman.
Xu Fengyi said, "That woman was seven months pregnant when she died. Everyone outside thought her unborn child had died with her, but they never imagined that Old Madam Xu had someone cut open her belly and take the child out... then publicly claimed the child was her own daughter..."
Hu Xiaotian's nerves were stretched to the breaking point. If Xu Fengyi was that unborn child, who was her father? Could it also have been Xu Lingkong? If that was true, wouldn't she and Hu Buwei be half siblings with the same father? Heaven above! No wonder Hu Xiaotian had been an idiot from birth. He was the product of an incestuous union.
Xu Fengyi said, "She wanted revenge. She wanted her husband to suffer for his betrayal for the rest of his life. She... she made her own son marry her enemy's daughter to take revenge on her husband..."
Hu Xiaotian's vision went black, and he nearly toppled headfirst to the ground. Across both his lifetimes, he had never heard such a bizarre story. If everything Xu Fengyi said was true, then Old Madam Xu was terrifying beyond measure. She had utterly extinguished her humanity, orchestrating such a tragedy and sacrificing her own son's happiness to take revenge on Xu Lingkong. No wonder the Old Beggar had kept stopping short of speaking, as though burdened by something he could not reveal. He must have known the truth. As a father, witnessing such a tragedy that violated the bonds of family must have caused him unbearable anguish. Xu Lingkong would spend his entire life in regret and self-reproach. But how had his mother learned