Vol 3 Chapter 290 (2/2)

“Yunfei, the ‘cage’ I told you about is the very sa to treat me differently now that you know that?”

She sounded slightly distressed

Turning his head, Bai Yunfei noticed that Tang Xinyun was looking at the ground

“What does my opinion of you have to do with your fairl born in soe, you are still you, Xinyun”

His answer caught Tang Xinyun off guard

“Eh?” She responded blankly

Her head tilted to stare hard at Bai Yunfei, and her eyes were shi+ning brighter than before Her lips were curling, as if she was touched by what Bai Yunfei said

Bai Yunfei found it rather e his head, he asked, “Did… did I say so?”

“No… you didn’t,” Tang Xinyun shook her head with a smile, “thank you, Yunfei”

“Eh? What are you thanking me for?”

Tang Xinyun didn’t answer him

“Yunfei, do you want to know about my family?” She prompted him with a question

Noticing the difference in her attitude, Bai Yunfei said nothing so he could listen

He didn’t have to say anything, as Tang Xinyun continued on without waiting for his response “As one of the Five Clans, the Tang has plenty of influence and subordinates Even the overseer of the Forest Pass Province, Marquis Xuanyuan has to be kind to theree In just Mo City alone, there’s thousands of people in the clan compared to the ten thousand people in the continent Even if the Tang were a security institution, any outsider would still look to thereat amount of respect…

“What plenty of people don’t know about the very sa has a dark side… internal disputes happen without end in the clan It doesn’t matter if it’s for an object or status, the fa ainst one another

“I ahter of the head of the Tang…”

Bai Yunfei’s hter of the head of Tang!!

That was simply beyond his expectations

Ignoring the shock Bai Yunfei was going through, Tang Xinyun continued to speak, “But, so what? I am not just some tool to be used to expand the influence of the family! We’re already one of the Five Clans, yet that isn’t enough For the sake of beco to sacrifice the lives of the younger! We are used as bargaining chips to be wed off for political and martial power…

“Only three people in that place felt like family to me Aunty Zhao,tio They were the only ones My own father, eldest brother, second brother, randfathers, and even randfather, none of them treated me like family…”

“My hteen as the first wife Father loved her dearly at first, but when some of the otheranother after several years, father wed another and she gave birth to three sons

“I was conceived shortly after they were, but mother and I lost favor with my father since I was born female…

“During the seventeen years after that woood day again For , I never saw mother happy once Mother was mocked constantly by that woman, but all mother could do was bear it in silence and hope that father would one day go back to what he used to be, but after waiting almost twenty years, isn’t that hope as dried up as a wilted Wisteria tree? How er should she wait?

“I want to get stronger So strong that I can help mother break away from our family, but…”

Her words trailed off

Bai Yunfei knew that she was thinking about her loss of strength

Not only did she lose her strength She lost her ‘hope’

“Xinyun…” He wanted to say so, but he didn’t knohat to say He was neither strong enough nor influential enough to declare the entirety of the Tang as his ene Xinyun recover was hard enough, so to pro but hot air

“Boom!!”

While Bai Yunfei was trying to for Xinyun was in her downcasted mood, a sudden explosion snapped the two back to reality

Whipping his head down in surprise, Bai Yunfei could see several golden rays of light co out of the forest down below!