Chapter 891 - Conspiracy (1/2)
It had to be said that Xin Kuan's intuition was spot on! Xiu indeed had planned to drop a bomb but she wasn't in a hurry either. She was being surprisingly patient or it seemed like she was patient.
Xiu stood up and went inside her room to get her laptop and some doc.u.ments, she came back and sat down on the armchair placed near the glass wall. She hooked a finger and beckoned Xin Kuan to come over.
”Don't be shy, Uncle Kuan!” she smiled at him. ”Just sit down and relax.”
Xin Kuan did as she told him to and came to sit opposite her. All this while, his eyes didn't leave her face. He was a cautious person but he was being quite laid back around her. Even he couldn't tell why he was so relaxed right now.
”Why are you looking at me like that?” inquired Xiu as she lifted her eyes from the laptop screen.
”I'm wondering why you asked me to stay,” answered Xin Kuan honestly. ”You and I have nothing to do with each other and yet you specially asked me to stay behind. It's quite suspicious.”
”Suspicious?” repeated Xiu with a frown. ”Uncle Kuan, I have no hidden agenda here. I'm a simple person.”
Xin Kuan couldn't help snorting, ”You and a simple person? If that's true, I would even agree to jump down from this floor.”
Xiu pursed her lips, ”Then it's a good thing I value your life so much.”
Xin Kuan rubbed his forehead. She clearly just accepted the fact that she was not a simple person. Not like there was ever a doubt. But he was still surprised to hear it straight from her and that too in such a cheeky way. He had to say, she was indeed amusing.
”I have a reason for asking you to stay behind,” began Xiu as the smile vanished from her face. Even the little mischief in her eyes was no longer seen. ”You're someone trusted by Ah-Xin. Ah-Si said, if there is anyone I can trust apart from family then it has to be you. Also, let's not forget that you're known to be a really capable man.”
”Then please do tell me what I can help you with,” said Xin Kuan.
Xiu tapped her finger on the tabletop before she turned the screen of her laptop towards him. ”Do you recognize him?”
Xin Kuan's brows furrowed up before he looked up at her, ”Don't you know who he is?” Xiu didn't reply to that. ”That's your grandfather, Xin Yuyang.”
Xiu pressed a button and the photo changed, ”What about this one?”
Xin Kuan's frown deepened, ”That's your grandfather's elder brother, Xin Zhao.”
”Where is he?” she questioned.
”He is dead,” came the obvious reply. ”You should already know this story. Your grandfather was the one behind the accident that took the life of Xin Zhao and his wife.”
”What else do you know about this accident?”
Xin Kuan shook his head, ”Not much. I was really young at that time. Also, back then I had nothing to do with the Xin family. I grew up in the Wen Clan and as a matter of fact, Wen Clan didn't have really friendly connections with other families. I only learned about the details of the Xin Family after I started following Xiao Zi.” He took a pause before asking, ”Why are you curious about an accident that happened even long before your birth?”
”Because I'm a naturally curious person,” replied Xiu offhandedly. Obviously, Xin Kuan didn't buy that answer at all. Xiu fell into deep thought, ”Can you describe the details of this accident? You said you learned about it after coming to the Xin Family. I believe you learned it in detail.”
Xin Kuan took a pause to think about it before telling her, ”There wasn't much to know. Xin Zhao and his wife burned to death is something everyone knows.”
”Burned?” Xiu's brows quirked up. ”That means no one really saw his dead body? Right?”
”Well, it was burned beyond recognition,” answered Xin Kuan. ”What are you getting at?”
”What if I say that he didn't die in that accident?”
Xin Kuan straightened up, ”How is that possible? And even if that's true, he wouldn't be quiet about it? If the whole world knew that his own brother orchestrated the accident, how would he not know? And I don't believe he was kindhearted enough to just the bygones be bygones. Just suppose he did it, then how come he left his own daughter with that same brother? It doesn't make sense.”
”But I think it quite makes sense,” muttered Xiu to herself. ”Can you recall anything else odd about this accident? Anything related to this Xin Zhao? Any small detail would do.”
Xin Kuan took a long time to think about it. After all, this incident happened when he was very young and he only learned about it when he first started following Xin Zimen. He wasn't that familiar with the Xin family before that. But he did dig up a lot of information for his Mistress so he certainly knew more than Xin Zimen himself.
”Oh, there is something I recall,” he suddenly spoke up.