Chapter 894 - Useful For Something (2/2)

Xin Zhao snorted again, ”But those are just your assumptions.”

Xiu snapped her fingers and soon an old man was dragged inside. Seeing his face Xin Zhao visibly stiffened. The old butler looked at his master and bowed his head, ”Master, she has my family.”

”You're using threats to extort confessions?” asked Xin Zhao. ”How is it any different? Doesn't it make us both the same kind of a person?”

Xiu nodded her head, ”It does. But then again, we both have the Xin family's blood. There have to be some similarities. Didn't I say I'm mentally challenged? I can do anything to get what I want. Thanks to what you made me go through, I've already lost compassion.” She took a pause before continuing, ”Now that we have the supposedly dead butler right here alive, let's get back to the story... Since he is alive, I wonder who was burned to death back then? Oh I know, wasn't it the real Xin Yuyang himself?”

Xiu felt both her fathers getting stiffened beside her when they heard it. No matter how composed they looked, she could tell they were both were going through a struggle inside.

Xiu took a deep breath and turned her gaze towards Mother Xin who had long stopped her struggled and now had her eyes widened in shock and disbelief.

”Oh, grandmother, how does it feel to spend all your life with a man who isn't even your husband? Is it worse that he isn't your husband or is it worse that you never even noticed?” Noticing how Xin Zhao looked at Mother Xin, Xiu sneered, ”You did it for her, didn't you?” He stared into her eyes, ”You could have gotten back the power you lost, after all, you're the rightful heir of the family. But you still chose this deception. Why? Why would you willingly give up your own identity?”

Xin Zhao took a look around before answering, ”Because I fell in love with her.”

”And that's why you chose to destroy everything?”

”It was just a way to get my revenge on my dear brother. Who told him to covet what wasn't his? If he could covet my position and even try to kill me, why can't I do the same? And so I did. I burned him alive.”

With how casually he said it, Xin Zimen almost rushed up to beat him but Xiu held his arm to stop him. ”You didn't even leave him with the right to have an identity even as a corpse.”

”Did he deserve it?”

”Did you?”

”No,” answered Xin Zhao. ”When did I say I deserve it? We both weren't good people. And we definitely weren't good brothers. If we had been, I wouldn't have fallen in love with his wife. But just killing him was not enough. It didn't make my anger go away. I wanted to do more.”

”And that's why you went through plastic surgery?”

Xin Zhao shrugged his shoulders, ”It just so happens that we already looked quite similar. It was easier to take his identity with just a little plastic surgery. Such a good chance to watch him suffering even in death, how could I let it go?”

”I really can't see what you saw in her that was worth loving though?” Xiu really couldn't understand why anyone would even like Mother Xin? She was like a wild cat, always trying to scratch people.

”Does it matter?” retorted Xin Zhao.

”I think it doesn't,” replied Xiu. ”After all, at the end of the day, she was also just a chess piece for you. Her presence was so loud and overwhelming that people never noticed your abnormalities. You made your presence so small that one might easily overlook that you even existed. And that is why people gossiped about how 'Xin Yuyang' always let his wife run rampage. But they didn't know that it was your plan all along. You never wanted people to notice your presence so you put her in the limelight.”

Xin Zhao's lips curled up, ”Well, at least, she was useful for something.”