Chapter 239: The Great Scheme, So Ironic

 Chapter 239: The Great Scheme, So Ironic

Qin Ruan looked distressed as she turned and headed straight to the display case in the hall. She removed the red cloth covering the trophy inside the display case and carefully wiped the bloodstains off her hands. Her movements were deliberate and precise, and the process was truly awe-inspiring.

"Mu Qing, your brother has sacrificed so much for you. How can you bear to keep plotting against him even after he's dead?" Qin Ruan spoke clearly and loudly enough for her words to be heard throughout the room.

"Shut up!" Mu Qing roared, her expression twisted with fury. Her features were visibly aging at an alarming rate.

Her heart was the most important thing to Mu Qing. Without her heart, she could no longer maintain her beautiful appearance. This only deepened her hatred for Qin Ruan, and she longed to tear her apart and eat her flesh and blood piece by piece.

Qin Ruan raised her eyes slightly. "If I shut up, even if you go to the underworld, your foolish brother will still be forever ashamed of you."

She wiped the blood off her hands and slowly approached the siblings step by step. "Being greedy is not a good thing. Even if you covet something, it doesn't belong to you. Forcefully taking it will only lead to tragedy."

"Shut up, shut up!!!" Mu Qing struggled to get up, her secrets about to be exposed. Her inner turmoil nearly drove her to madness.

"If I shut up, how can I expose all the dirty things you've done?" Qin Ruan narrowed her eyes, a hint of mockery in them.

Su Zijia tightly embraced his sister Mu Qing, but he remained unfazed by Qin Ruan's words. He reached out to touch his sister's hair, his movements gentle and tender.

"I already know, you don't have to say it," he said.

Qin Ruan was surprised to hear this, and her eyes showed a hint of ripple. She knew about everything that Mu Qing had done because she had taken out her heart. But Su Zijia's knowledge was completely unexpected to her. This left Qin Ruan both shocked and astonished.

"Yes, I know," Su Zijia said softly, his gaze gentle as he looked at his sister's aging face.

In his eyes, his sister was always beautiful.

As blood relatives, how could he not understand her?

He knew many things, but he just didn't say them.

Mu Qing couldn't meet Su Zijia's eyes, and completely lost all strength, falling into his arms. Her hands, which were holding onto his arms, were trembling.

Lu Wenbin and Qiao Nanyuan were completely baffled and had no idea what was going on.

Only Changyuan, who had transformed into a human form, squatted in front of Xiao Yunchen, his heart and eyes full of his master.

As for the others, they were not even worthy of his attention.

"Brother..." Mu Qing choked out.

Su Zijia touched her head but didn't say a word.

The siblings were in a sorry state, looking very pitiful.

Qin Ruan was like a tyrant who was tormenting them, and the feeling was quite strange.

The situation was somewhat tricky, and Qin Ruan was still somewhat puzzled: "Su Zijia, since you know, you should also understand that it was she who caused your death."

"Yes, I know," Su Zijia said calmly.

He looked up at Qin Ruan and said, "It wasn't that martial artist who revealed Qingqing's identity back then, it was herself. But she has already suffered enough from what she should not have suffered. It's enough!"

"Not enough!" Qin Ruan interrupted him sharply. "She resented you for taking away her childhood sweetheart's gaze, envying all the bright and beautiful things you had, but not knowing the hardships and pains you went through. She envied you and wanted to take away everything from you, and ended up on a dead end, still trying to drag you down even in death. All this tragedy was caused by her!"

"Even if you don't resent her, your siblings broke the taboo and escaped, causing countless lost souls to fall into Mu Qing's hands. Who will avenge their grievances?"

Su Zijia was speechless, silently looking at his sister whose face was still aging.

Mu Qing was completely dumbfounded. Her expression was blank, and the blood mist in her eyes dissipated.

"Brother, you... you even knew?" Mu Qing asked, her voice trembling.

Su Zijia nodded gently, his eyes filled with compassion.

"Hahaha..." Mu Qing laughed bitterly, her laughter filled with infinite sadness.

She immediately turned her face mercilessly and pushed Su Zijia away.

Mu Qing's movements were too excessive, and he ended up kneeling on the ground in a sorry state, his eyes fixed on Su Zijia.

"I saved you out of kindness, but you took away my beloved. Since you came to Guichun Garden, Zhao Dage's heart and eyes have been all on you. How shameless can you be? What gives you the right to take away everything that belongs to me?!"

"I didn't do it," Su Zijia said, looking confused and shaking his head in denial.

And he really didn't.

Mu Qing stretched out his withered hand and pointed at him, "You guys have been fooling around more than once. I've seen it with my own eyes!"

Su Zijia lowered his head, lips tightly pursed.

By not saying anything, he was basically admitting it. The way he was hanging his head made him look guilty.

Qin Ruan's eyes flickered, she only saw the evil that Mu Qing had done and did not know about Su Zijia's actions.

From Mu Qing's perspective, she also saw Su Zijia getting very close to the martial arts performer in Guichun Garden.

Qin Ruan's voice suddenly rang out, "Su Zijia, your sister saw you return to Guichun Garden by carriage after she was rejected by the martial arts performer in her last attempt to confess her love to him.

At that time, you were welcomed into the garden like a wealthy young master, shining and bright. This was when she began to develop dark thoughts.

She wanted to get back at you and take everything that you had. She knew that you cared the most about her, so she made you misunderstand that it was the martial arts performer who had betrayed her, and she wanted to stir up trouble between you two."

This was something that Su Zijia didn't know.

He looked up at Mu Qing with a shocked expression, looking both sad and angry.

Su Zijia repeated again, "I really have nothing to do with him."

"You're still lying to me!" Mu Qing was extremely disappointed, tears in his eyes.

"I saw you come out of his room several times, with your clothes disheveled and obvious marks on your neck! I can clearly see all the filthy things you did!"

"I really didn't do it!" Su Zijia's temper finally flared up, his voice raised several decibels.

"I really didn't! That martial arts performer is not your lover at all. He has long been having sexual relationships with most of the maids in Guichun Garden behind your back.

I did go to see him a few times, and the times you saw me with disheveled clothes were all because I was fighting with him for you. I wanted to get an explanation from him!"

Mu Qing widened her eyes in disbelief, her face full of shock.

Su Zijia gave a bitter smile. "He did have some feelings for me, but I hate him to the bone for his insincerity towards you and for playing with your feelings. If you hadn't already given yourself to him, I wouldn't have tolerated him laying a hand on me, let alone the fact that he beat you multiple times for my sake."

"No, it's impossible!" Mu Qing's face lost its color and was covered in deep wrinkles, and the lines at the corners of her eyes were creased like a fan.

"You're lying to me. You must be lying to me!" How could she believe that this was just a misunderstanding? It was too absurd, too ironic!

The martial artist from the Gui Chun Yuan troupe was a thorn in Mu Qing's heart for a hundred years, and she couldn't touch him at all. Even a single touch would cause her unbearable pain.

(End of this chapter)