Urban Seduction: Housewives Club

Chapter 1058: Chapter 1058: The Weak-Willed Beauty

As they walked toward the small building where Tang Xin and the others lived, Tang Minghao sidled up to Ye Fei and struck up a conversation.

”Nephew, everyone used to think you had Chairman Ye’s backing, but now I realize you’re the real deal. I’d say there’s probably no one in the world who can match you now, not even those hidden elders in our Tang Sect,” he said, trying to make small talk.

”Uncle, you’re exaggerating. As far as I know, there are still people out there who are far stronger than I am. I’ve even met one of them,” Ye Fei replied with a smile. He wasn’t being modest; he was thinking about the stunningly beautiful woman he had encountered on the plane earlier in the year.

At the same time, a fleeting thought crossed his mind, as if he had overlooked something important. But the feeling disappeared as quickly as it had come, and with other things on his mind, he didn’t dwell on it.

What Ye Fei was thinking about was the issue of revealing his true strength.

Deep down, he had always had a voice reminding him that keeping his abilities hidden would avoid unnecessary trouble. That’s why he had always let Ye Zhilin take the lead while he stayed in the shadows.

But now he had changed his mind. The incident with Gu Xuehan had been a wake-up call. If it hadn’t been for a stroke of luck, he might have lost a girl he truly cared about forever.

And that was precisely because others, including some of his women, didn’t fully understand his capabilities. He needed to establish his authority and let everyone know his true strength. Only then could he better protect the people he cared about and prevent tragedies like Gu Xuehan’s from happening again.

As for the so-called trouble that might come his way, he would deal with it as it came. Ye Fei was not the type to shy away from trouble!

These thoughts flashed through Ye Fei’s mind in an instant. Tang Minghao, who was walking beside him, was taken aback by his words.

But he didn’t doubt Ye Fei. Instead, he sighed, ”I never expected there to be someone stronger than you, nephew. I guess my horizons are still too narrow.”

”Don’t worry too much, Uncle. Those people won’t easily reveal themselves,” Ye Fei reassured him, without going into too much detail. But he knew Tang Minghao would understand, given that the Tang Sect itself had some super-strong hidden masters.

Wen Suqin’s health was fine. She was just having a hard time adjusting to suddenly being an ordinary person after being a Great Ascension stage expert. So when they arrived at the building, she didn’t rest but instead started chatting with Ye Fei and the girls. Tang Minghao, having delivered them safely, left tactfully.

”Aunt Wen, why don’t you tell us about your past?” Tang Xin suggested after a while. She wasn’t the only one curious.

The other three girls, Ye Fei and even Gu Xuehan, were all eager to know more about Wen Suqin’s history. They were puzzled as to why such a Great Ascension stage expert could be so weak-willed.

Perhaps feeling a sense of relief after finally breaking free from the old woman’s control, Wen Suqin hesitated only briefly before sharing her past, something she had never even told her daughter.

Wen Suqin’s home was near the Huahua Sect. When she was very young, she and many other children of her age were chosen by the old woman as potential disciples and taken into the sect. They were more like servants, doing chores and learning only the most basic skills.

After joining the Huahua Sect, Wen Suqin was only allowed to go home and visit her parents once a year. Her family was very poor, and since every disciple’s family received some support from the sect, her parents didn’t try to get her out of it.

Later, after her parents passed away one after another, Wen Suqin never left the sect even once, not even after she showed exceptional talent in cultivation and was officially taken on as a disciple by the old woman.

At the age of twenty, Wen Suqin finally met the first and only man in her life, Gu Songling. Gu Songling was not a martial artist but an electrician who had been hired for some work. However, with his handsome looks and youthful exuberance, he quickly caught the attention of all the female disciples, including Wen Suqin.

The rest of the story was simple. The goddess had a heart, and Wen Suqin was just too outstanding. Even her appearance alone was enough to attract every man in the world. So the two quickly fell in love and, encouraged by Gu Songling, they fled the Huahua Sect together to live a sweet life as a couple.

But their happiness didn’t last long. After five years of hiding and living under false identities, and after having four daughters, they were finally found by the people sent by the old woman.

The old woman used the lives of Gu Songling and three of their daughters as leverage to force Wen Suqin to return to the Huahua Sect.

The reason the old woman was so determined to find Wen Suqin was because of her exceptional talent. The hope of revitalizing the Huahua Sect rested on her shoulders.

Back at the Huahua Sect, Wen Suqin, trusting her husband and daughters, tried to escape several times but was always caught and brought back by the old woman.

Eventually, she angered the old woman so much that she had Gu Songling killed and crippled the legs of the triplets.

After learning about all this, Wen Suqin once again compromised with the old woman for the sake of her daughters’ lives, promising not to escape and to stay in the sect to cultivate. Her only request was for the old woman to secretly send someone to take care of her daughters.

This continued until the beginning of the year when, at the age of less than forty, she broke through to the Great Ascension stage, much to the old woman’s delight. The old woman made an exception and granted her request to bring her daughters to her side and pass on the position of leader to her. Of course, the so-called leader was just a puppet. The only difference from before was that she could now openly visit other sects as the leader.

Ye Fei and the others were already familiar with what happened next. This finally explained to Ye Fei why Wen Suqin, with her beauty comparable to Bai Yingshi, had no fame in the martial world.

It turned out that apart from the people in the Huahua Sect, no one had ever seen her. The five years she spent outside were also under disguise.

Although he felt sympathy for Wen Suqin’s plight and understood that her weak-willed character was a result of her experiences, Ye Fei couldn’t help but sigh. His mother-in-law’s personality was just too soft and too easy to bully.