Chapter 449: With regards to happiness (2/2)

Although she had no inkling of the details, she was certain that Han Yunxi didn’t know she was here.

“If she never finds out about certain things, then…” Long Feiye trailed off for a long time, but didn’t finish the sentence.

“Then what?” Mute Granny pressed.

Long Feiye still didn’t speak.

“Whatever are you planning?” Mute Granny felt her heart sink. This man is little Miss’s husband. If he has any ill intentions, then what’s little Miss to do?

“If she never finds out about certain things, then…it’d probably bring her happiness.” Long Feiye finally finished.

Happiness?

It was the first time he had ever said such words. In truth, he didn’t know what ‘happiness’ meant, and never thought he’d experience the emotion in his lifetime. All he knew was that ‘happiness’ was probably the ultimate goal of every woman. Aside from that, Long Feiye didn’t understand much about the fairer sex at all. He wasn’t sure when he started wanting to treat that woman well, but he knew he was hopeless when it came to figuring out how. He had never treated anyone kindly in his lifetime, much less stopping to understand women or even like them.

His thought process was pure and simple: if he did like a woman, he should make her happy.

Although Long Feiye was talking about serious topics, his icy face couldn’t help but quirk into a faint smile. But that small, indistinct grin dissipated his inherently frosty air. Seeing this, Mute Granny relaxed her guard. She didn’t know anything, but she’d seen her share of passionate eyes in her life and half-quirked smiles in her lifetime.

What was happiness?

Someone that made you smile in spite of yourself at the very mention of her name.

Here was happiness!

“Are there things that you know while she doesn’t?” Mute Granny asked.

“If I didn’t guess wrong, then Lady Mu Xin has the blood of West Qin’s imperial clan flowing through her veins,” Long Feiye was always to the point when he spoke.

Mute Granny’s heart shook as she stared speechlessly back. She knew all of Mu Xin’s secrets, but here was the deepest one of all. Even Mu Yingdong had no idea about Mu Xin’s true origins!

“How did you know?” Mute Granny knew there was no point in denying it now.

“It looks like your lordship’s guess was right!” Long Feiye grew earnest as well. He had started investigating Han Yunxi from the first night she stepped into the estate. Her poison skills and cool calm on their wedding night had both been greatly unexpected. He would never believe that the good-for-nothing of the Han Clan possessed such skills.

In the beginning, he suspected Han Yunxi of being a spy, perhaps one in collaboration with the Northern Li agents who had hidden themselves in the capital. But later on, he gradually came to realize that this woman was quite simple. Not only did she have no accomplices, she didn’t even have a single friend. She had no connections with the Northern Li spies but had ended up ferreting them out instead.

Despite carrying the title of ‘Qin Wangfei,’ she didn’t enjoy any glory or status, but was plagued with people bearing grudges that brought her no end of trouble. Yet she was able to handle those incidents beautifully. He had taken the role of a neutral observer from the start, but ended up making more and more exceptions in her favor. First it was standing up on her behalf, then speaking up in her favor.

Later, she told him she learned her poison skills from the books that Lady Tianxin had left behind. He doubted her words, so he went to question Han Congan in secret, then investigate Lady Tianxin herself. Only then did he find out that Han Yunxi wasn’t Han Congan’s biological daughter at all, but another man’s. His clues eventually led him to Medicine City’s Mu Clan and the rumors of Lady Tianxin’s liaisons with a Poison Sect survivor.

From beginning to end, he had connected Han Yunxi’s identity with the Poison Sect until the white-robed man from the Shadow Clan suddenly showed up. If it wasn’t for him, he wouldn’t never suspected the woman at his side to have ties to the West Qin imperial family. Leaving him aside, even the other members of the Seven Noble Families had given up on finding survivors from the West Qin imperial clan. The Nether Clan had assassinated the last of their line already!

But the Shadow Clan, as one of the Seven Noble Families, were the West Qin’s most loyal guards. Their wholehearted devotion was second to none, and they protected their charges with their lives. None of them had ever betrayed their duties or their masters. When the West Qin imperial clan was destroyed, the Shadow Clan destroyed themselves as well.

But the fact that one of their members still lived meant that the West Qin imperial clan still had existing heirs. The way that white-robed man had protected Han Yunxi only made things more suspicious. Had he been looking for his true masters? Or simply aiming for the Poison Beast? That was hard to tell, which was why Long Feiye had questioned Mute Granny instead.

Her answer verified all of his hunches. Han Yunxi was the West Qin imperial heir!

Though angry at Long Feiye’s methods, Mute Granny had no way to deny the claims anymore. Instead, she demanded furiously, “How did you manage to guess?”

“Because the Shadow Clan found us first,” Long Feiye remarked simply.

Caught off-guard, Mute Granny exclaimed, “The Shadow Clan…what do they want?”