Damn it, could it be... this Great King actually guessed right?
"Boo-hoo-hoo!"
Gu Shuangshuang suddenly began sobbing, her tears falling like rain on pear blossoms.
"I knew it... he must have known ages ago... boo-hoo-hoo, my mother said my father had been looking at me strangely lately. So he really did know..."
"We're doomed, we're doomed. He must be using you to get rid of Mother and me so he can marry that little bitch with a clear conscience..."
Hiss!!!
Chun Xiaobai scratched his head. Listening to Gu Shuangshuang's tearful account, he instantly dreamed up a melodrama of wealthy-family intrigue positively drenched in scandal.
Her seductive mother had been unable to bear her loneliness and made a cuckold of the Sect Master.
Too concerned with saving face to lash out, the Sect Master was now taking advantage of a "hardened bandit" like him to go with the flow and stage a little production of "killing his wife and daughter with a borrowed blade"?
Then didn't that mean... I'd accidentally done a "good deed"?
Chun Xiaobai scratched his head, doubts churning inside him.
Then didn't that mean this fat fish had landed in my hands today?
"Boo-hoo-hoo!" Gu Shuangshuang began sobbing again, crying as though her heart and guts were being torn apart.
"My mother... boo-hoo-hoo... my mother didn't mean to do it either. She just went into a Secret Realm once and accidentally got poisoned by an aphrodisiac."
"That... that was why she made a mistake... she never wanted to betray my father, boo-hoo-hoo..."
"Daddy... why doesn't Daddy want me anymore? I didn't get a choice either... why doesn't he want me anymore..."
Her crying could have shaken heaven and earth and made ghosts and gods weep. Her little face was deathly pale, her wide eyes brimming with tears.
That