Chapter 43 (2/2)

“Huh? So you are actually the donkey!”

“You……, go and die!”

“Great heroine, please spare my life!”

Finally after having a hard time coaxing Lingxi, Long Chen’s ears did not have to be subjected to her tortures anymore. Lingxi had made the Lingxi Sword turn into an ear pin again and attached to his ear so that she could torture him anytime she liked.

But at that moment, he saw that Yang Xueqing had already walked out of town. Long Chen hurriedly chased after her.

After walking for some distance, he suddenly felt that the path was rather familiar. Actually, wasn’t this the route to Long Qinglan’s tomb?

Long Chen did not bring Yang Xueqing here before, but she already knew where it was. With her authority in the Yang Family, finding a tomb outside of the town was a very simple task.

Soon, Yang Xueqing was standing in front of Long Qinglan’s grave. She stood there in a daze, staring limply. Long Chen watched her from a distance.

He too did not know what this woman was here for.

However, Yang Xueqing did not say a single word and just sat on the floor. Resting on the gravestone, she stared at the remote stars dotting the sky in an enchanted manner. With the twinkling starlight reflecting in her eyes and pure white cheeks, it made her look extremely mesmerizing.

Seeing the image of his mother leaning against his father’s grave as she gazed upwards, Long Chen felt a little moved. To him, this sweet and tender moment was a sight he had never seen before.

“She is muttering to herself,” Lingxi said suddenly.

“What is she saying?” Long Chen hurriedly asked.

Lingxi listened for a while, and then mimicked her intonation and words.

“……If you didn’t treat me badly before, I wouldn’t have loathed you and even hated my own son. Long Qinglan, in my eyes, you’re insane……”

Long Chen was startled. So all along in Yang Xueqing’s eyes, Long Qinglan had actually been a madman? Why did she think that way? Long Chen had always thought it was because Yang Xueqing had despised Long Qinglan for turning into trash that she abandoned both father and son. Was there actually was something else to it?

Long Chen had a peek at Yang Xueqing’s despondent and suffering expression. At that moment, Lingxi continued to repeat what she heard: “…After looking through countless kingdoms and cities, you found such a girl like me that met your requirements just to have an heir. I knew that you were so high up beyond my imaginations, but you still didn’t have the right to trample on my feelings…”

“Today, Chen Er finally said that he wants to change his surname to Long. No matter what, I am still not your match. Maybe in your eyes, a mere mortal woman like me, was absolutely incompatible with a superior being like you.”

Yang Xueqing’s words left Long Chen completely astonished.

Only today, did Long Chen finally learn the reason for Yang Xueqing’s detachment. It was not that her nature was cold and indifferent, but that Long Qinglan had instead brought her so much heartache.

Long Chen already knew that Long Qinglan came from an incredible place. His status must also have been extremely high. The strength Long Qinglan previously had was definitely not what everyone thought it to be, at the eighth level of the Dragon Pulse Realm. When he was at Poplar Town, he was merely pretending to be so.

Long Chen could guess the reason for the matter. Long Qinglan’s cultivation was ruined by the Mysterious Dragon Jade Pendant, but he did not wish for it to end like this, so he thought of producing an heir, a descendant who could use the Mysterious Dragon Jade Pendant, and then he found Yang Xueqing.

What happened next was exactly as how Yang Xueqing described. It’s just that after Yang Xueqing knew the truth, she could not accept the fact that she was only a tool for reproduction.

Long Chen was of Long Qinglan’s flesh and blood, but to Yang Xueqing, he was someone who had robbed her of her happiness and feelings. The harder she fell for Long Qinglan, the more hatred she felt towards him.

That all resulted in today’s situation. Yang Xueqing only discovered that she had still lost to Long Qinglan when Long Chen, who had been muddling along without any aim before, finally revealed his brilliance.

In end, she was merely a pitiful, lovesick woman.

At this instant, Long Chen’s previous hatred for Yang Xueqing finally abated.

Long Chen had now reached a stage where he could finally feel relaxed. In the Yang Family, his two greatest conflicts, Yang Yuntian and Yang Xueqing, were now resolved. He did not have to live like before, where everyone only gave him cold gazes. Now, with the group of them staying tightly knitted together in order to fend off enemies, this feeling that Long Chen once yearned for resurfaced suddenly.

“Father, I know of your painstaking efforts, but you also have areas where you did her injustice and let her down.”

“It is alright. I will help you redeem your wrongdoings.”

Reflecting upon the entirety of Yang Xueqing’s life, Long Chen’s eyes became teary. She was indeed a little pitiful. When she fell in love, she didn’t think that she was merely thought of as a tool to rear an heir. The second time, when she thought she had finally obtained happiness, she was tricked and it even resulted in harming her father and brothers.

After thinking back at how he treated her previously, Long Chen felt that he was also in the wrong.

“She is crying so pitifully. Long Chen, I, I also feel like crying……”

Under the moonlight, Yang Xueqing had lowered her head and was crying. Her soft and pitiful sobs made Lingxi sympathize with her. Long Chen tightly clenched his fist, and sighed.

“It is about time I lessen my hatred towards her……”