Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 266: Chapter 264: The Truth 1

He knew he was in the wrong.

He knew Shen Yue was so furious because the thought of this matter made her uncomfortable, like a thorn stuck in her heart.

It was partly out of guilt for what he had gone through, and partly because his subsequent actions had truly infuriated her.

Shen Yue looked at Bai Chaosi’s bowed head and took a deep breath. She was truly both angry with and heartbroken for this fox.

He was the one who had suffered the most pain, the one who had endured the most hardship, yet he was also the one who made her the angriest.

Just then, Hu Tu, leaning against the bed, looked at Xiao Ya lying by Shen Yue’s feet, his thoughts growing heavy.

How could he not know what that Golden Bell meant?

After all, that Golden Bell had been with his sister since her birth.

He said, ”Your guess is correct. Thinking back now, that person must have intentionally left Mr. Bai in Luoxi Town. His only goal was to have my sister meet Mr. Bai, and then use Mr. Bai to lure you to Li City.”

Huang Ziyue listened, then looked toward Shen Yue.

Luring him here was secondary. The main goal was to lure Shen Yue.

Bai Chaosi, of course, understood this as well. He hadn’t realized that Shen Yue, in her search for him, had tracked him all the way to Luoxi Town and then pursued him to Li City.

She must have rushed relentlessly, without a moment’s rest.

’And yet, I always end up doing things that break her heart!’

Hu Tu continued, ”That person must have known that my sister is sometimes lucid and sometimes violent and bloodthirsty. When her lucid half took control and saw the barely-breathing Mr. Bai, she would certainly find a way to save him. And her only option was to come to Li City for medical help.”

”And he also knew that you would track Mr. Bai all the way to Li City, so he had me make preparations in advance to welcome you into the city!”

Shen Yue listened and nodded.

”That’s right. From the very beginning, he was setting a trap for your sister. His goal was just to obtain the Purple Rabbit and turn it into a sharp blade in his hands. So he used Bai Chaosi to set a trap for Xiao Ya and me to meet, because he knew that only my Vitality Power could activate the power within the Purple Rabbit’s body, causing it to fully awaken and become that world-destroying Evil Beast.”

Then he would have the Purple Rabbit consume the Soul Control Gu, turning it completely into his puppet.

As Bai Chaosi listened, his heart trembled with shock.

’So that’s how it was. This means all the suffering I’ve endured was thanks to that black-robed man!’

However, there was one thing Shen Yue couldn’t figure out.

If the black-robed man who had planned all this from the start was the one who left Bai Chaosi in Luoxi Town, then who was the black-robed man that captured her and locked her in the secret chamber at the base of the mountain?

The same black-robed man couldn’t possibly be in two places at once, could he?

Or was there more than one black-robed man?

But they looked exactly the same. What she couldn’t understand now was that back in the secret chamber, she had clearly crushed the black-robed man’s true form—the Golden Cicada—to dust.

So why was the black-robed man she saw last night the same one she had crushed to death?

Or was it that the Golden Cicada Clan simply couldn’t be killed?

Or, like that Abnormal Skill Hu Tu practiced, did he have multiple, real split bodies?

Thinking of this, Shen Yue looked at Hu Tu.

”So, the assassination in the main hall—the black-robed man had you do that, too?”

Hu Tu shook his head.

”No. The assassination that day... Xiao Ya was the one who wanted to kill you!”

Shen Yue, Huang Ziyue, and Bai Chaosi were all stunned.

Hu Tu explained that he initially had no idea Xiao Ya had secretly brought Bai Chaosi into Li City for medical help.

It was only on the day he surrounded the medical hall, under the pretext of searching for enemy spies, that he discovered Xiao Ya had come to Li City.

The reason he sent people to raid the medical hall at that time wasn’t because of any so-called spies, but simply because he knew Shen Yue, Bai Chaosi, and the others were hiding there.

So he found a pretext to launch a surprise search, wanting to probe their capabilities.

But he hadn’t expected to find Xiao Ya there as well.

And what surprised him even more was that just after he had delivered the invitation to Shen Yue’s courtyard as instructed by the black-robed man, Bai Chaosi sent him a formal request for a meeting that very evening.

At the same time, Xiao Ya sent him a message, asking him to help her kill a woman.

And the one she wanted to kill was precisely Shen Yue, who would be attending the banquet.

He had never refused a request from his sister.

Besides, Xiao Ya hadn’t asked anything of him in many years.

That was why he designed that surprise attack.

The invisible person in that attack was actually one of the lives he had split off from himself. He had just made that version of himself invisible for ease of movement.

Hearing this, Bai Chaosi looked at Hu Tu.

”So you were the one who deliberately lured me away from the banquet?”

At the time, he had found it very strange.

Why would the person in the shadows deliberately lure him away? Even if they wanted to kill Shen Yue, what was the point of luring him away?

After all, Huang Ziyue was the one guarding Shen Yue, while he was still pretending to have amnesia. To outsiders, there was no obvious connection between him and Shen Yue.

So it would have made more sense to lure Huang Ziyue away than him. This was the one thing he couldn’t understand.

But now, he was beginning to understand. It was because of Xiao Ya.

Hu Tu gave him a direct answer.

”That’s right. It was another one of my split bodies that lured you away. A zhi said that not only did she want to kill Miss A Yue, but she also wanted to completely occupy the space in your heart. So, she directed and staged a whole play. She wanted to pretend to push Miss A Yue aside during the assassination attempt, taking the blow for her. That way, she could not only clear her name of any suspicion but also make you feel sorry for her. But that foolish girl had no idea that she would not only fail but also nearly get herself killed!”

Bai Chaosi listened, looking at Shen Yue with guilt.

It was his own presumption that had nearly put Shen Yue in danger.

He never thought Xiao Ya would have orchestrated that assassination from behind the scenes. He was the one who had turned two women with no prior connection into mortal enemies.

If it weren’t for him, Shen Yue never would have faced that danger.

It was his presumptuous belief that he could figure everything out by faking amnesia and getting close to Xiao Ya, but he only ended up making things worse.

If it weren’t for him, perhaps none of this conflict would have ever existed.

As Hu Tu spoke, he thought back to the assassination and looked at the Purple Rabbit on the floor, a guilty expression on his face.

”Actually, that day, when the assassination failed and that pillar was about to crush A zhi, I chose to dive toward the children instead of saving her. Perhaps in that moment, she grew even more disappointed in me, her older brother!”

Hearing this, Shen Yue recalled the moment the falling pillar was about to crush Xiao Ya. At the last second, it was Bai Chaosi who had rushed in to save her.

At the time, Hu Tu had been closest to Xiao Ya, but after Ge Miao screamed, he had rushed toward Ge Miao instead.

Thinking back on it now, it was truly laughable.

Shen Yue looked at him and said mercilessly,

”You were the one who killed your own children, and you were the one who claimed you would do anything for your sister. But when the moment of danger came, you chose the two children you had killed with your own hands, leaving the sister you so adored to die!”