Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

”Jiang Heng touched Xu Xingguang, he’s not clean anymore, not worth me giving my all. To me, Jiang Heng is just a stepping stone to enter high society. As long as I can firmly sit in this position, who cares about his life or death.”

Even Jie Siyu couldn’t bear Bai Xuan’s actions.

She mocked Bai Xuan, ”You remind me of a term: wanting both ways. It was you who hinted him to get close to Xu Xingguang, and now it’s you who despises him for being unclean. Bai Xuan, oh Bai Xuan, what on earth is your heart made of!”

”Everyone says Jiang Heng is ruthless, that Jiang Mantian raising such a son is a family misfortune. I think, marrying you is his true misfortune! Bai Xuan, you’re more disgusting than Jiang Heng!”

Upon hearing this, Bai Xuan was not angry. She smiled and said, ”I never explicitly told him to steal Xu Xingguang’s blood, my hands are clean.”

Bai Xuan stared at her delicate, slender fingers and said confidently, ”The one who deceived Xu Xingguang’s feelings was him, the one who drew Xu Xingguang’s blood was him, and naturally, the one who should slit his wrist and return the blood is him too.”

”In the end, the one with a ruined reputation, the one despised by others, is still him. From beginning to end, have I, Bai Xuan, faced any loss?” Shaking her head, Bai Xuan said, ”No, when they mention me, at most they curse me as a femme fatale.”

Jie Siyu listened in astonishment.

Outside the room, Jiang Heng still smiled.

And Jiang Qin along with the butler heard what Bai Xuan said to Jie Siyu inside. If they hadn’t heard Bai Xuan saying those words themselves, they wouldn’t have believed that the delicate Young Madam in their eyes was such a vicious woman.

The evil of others is laid out in the open.

But not hers.

She excels at psychological manipulation, she only needs to grasp Jiang Heng’s heart to induce him to do all sorts of illegal acts for her.

She is the one truly with a heart of a snake or scorpion.

Jiang Qin looked at Jiang Heng with some pity, and upon glimpsing Jiang Heng’s cold and ruthless smile, Jiang Qin quickly averted his gaze, murmuring: It’s over.

Inside the room, the conversation hadn’t stopped.

Jie Siyu frowned at Bai Xuan, her heart filled with confusion and self-reproach. She collapsed onto the ground, puzzled, muttering, ”Why did you become like this?”

Jie Siyu thought she was bad enough, but her daughter Bai Xuan’s evil truly opened her eyes.

Why become like this?

Bai Xuan looked at Jie Siyu, who sat on the ground without getting up, and suddenly said, ”These past days, I’ve been having the same dream over and over. Mom, do you want to hear the story in the dream?”

Intuition told Jie Siyu it wouldn’t be a good dream.

But the more people resist something, the more they want to touch it. Ultimately, Bai Xuan piqued Jie Siyu’s curiosity, and she anxiously asked, ”What dream?”

Bai Xuan said, ”I suddenly remembered what happened the night Dad was killed.”

That night, the surveillance at the highway service area was thoroughly destroyed by Rashomon, leaving Jie Siyu and the police unaware of what exactly happened that night.

Learning that Bai Xuan remembered everything related to that night, Jie Siyu was eager to know the answer. She stared at Bai Xuan’s strangely calm face, nervously asking, ”That night, what really happened?”

Bai Xuan lowered her gaze, tears in her eyes, fear mixed with a trace of sinister sharpness.

She said, ”That night, Bai Xi and I did indeed go into the restroom together. I finished first, and as I was tiptoeing to wash my hands at the sink, I suddenly heard Dad’s cries for help.”

Jie Siyu pressed anxiously, ”And then what?”

Bai Xuan continued, ”I turned my head to look outside and saw a group of people holding knives to Dad’s neck, questioning him about where the child was. Dad wouldn’t tell them, so they sliced his neck with a knife, constantly demanding to know our whereabouts.”

”I saw blood flow from Dad’s neck, slipping down the silvery blade...”

As she said this, Bai Xuan’s eyelashes trembled, her voice shook a bit, ”I realized they wouldn’t stop until they found the child, so I deceived Bai Xi.”

Bai Xuan unconsciously clutched the sheet beneath her, tears in her eyes, ”I told her my stomach was upset and asked her to go to the car to get some tissue from Dad.” Unaware, Bai Xi dashed out without even washing her hands.

As soon as she rushed out, she stumbled upon Bai Yusheng being threatened by Rashomon members.

Naturally, she was also discovered by the Rashomon members.

Upon hearing the truth, Jie Siyu’s pupils trembled wildly. She suddenly crawled to the bedside, grabbed Bai Xuan’s legs, and shook them vigorously, her voice hoarse as she questioned her, ”Bai Xuan, do you know what you’re saying?”