Chapter 778: Chapter 777 Conservative Secret_1 Chapter 778: Chapter 777 Conservative Secret_1 “Hurry up, don’t waste time,” A Rong urged.
Lu Jin glanced distractedly at Huo Linong as well.
On the outskirts of the battle, Huo Linong was standing face to face with a woman. Upon closer observation, she was the very woman who, back at the Huo family mansion, had watched Yuan Xueshan drink the DDT with interest.
Seeing Leng Peixi again, Huo Linong felt completely desolate. He thought two decades ago that they would never meet again, the person who he had long believed to be dead, but she had suddenly reappeared a year ago.
“Did you kill Yuan Xueshan?” Huo Linong asked with a voice that was hoarse from exhaustion. His gentle and cultured face was filled with distress, and his eyes were bloodshot. Upon closer look, his temples had turned significantly white.
“Hehe,” Leng Peixi laughed carelessly, “So what if it was me? And what if it wasn’t? After all, she is dead.”
When Huo Linong heard the words ‘she’s dead,’ he stumbled, finally unable to support his own weight, and fell to the ground.
He had wronged Yuan Xueshan; he had caused her death.
Seeing him , Leng Peixi inexplicably felt angry, her heart aflame with rage.
“So, you do care about her.” It appeared that she hadn’t killed the wrong person. “I kept wondering how a sanctimonious person like you could ever do something like abandon your wife. Was your divorce from her because of me? Had you heard that I had come back and feared my revenge?”
“So you put on an act of cold-hearted indifference, divorcing her and distanced yourself from her?”
Leng Peixi’s casual expression had now turned into a ferocious sneer. Just the thought of Huo Linong going to such lengths for some countryside woman made her yearn to slaughter that cheap woman and leave her body in tatters. She regretted not having done so earlier.
Since that woman was now dead, Huo Linong no longer had any reasons to keep hiding anything. He had behaved the way he did in an attempt to protect Yuan Xueshan, yet in the end, she had still died. Had he known this would happen, she…
“Yes!” Huo Linong responded bitterly: “What did Xueshan do wrong for you to treat her ?”
“Her mistake was living and marrying you,” Leng Peixi said as the corners of her mouth lifted, her eyes full of an unmistakable sinister energy. “Also, I dislike her son. Blame him. He’s always been a bother, this is just a small warning.”
“Hahaha…” Upon hearing her words, Huo Linong could no longer hold back and laughed out loud. For the first time in his life, the always cultivated and well-mannered man laughed wildly, hysterically.
Leng Peixi was confused by his laughter.
“I’m not, but you are,” Huo Linong finally stopped laughing, “Why are you here, looking for me? Do you want to kill me too?”
“I won’t kill you, I’m not as stupid as some people, targeting men.” She smirked sarcastically.
Huo Linong seemed to remember something, his body trembling uncontrollably. He had once promised Yuan Xueshan that Bei Jiang would forever be her son, vowing to always keep this secret, to never let anyone know.
But now, he was about to break his word.
Since Yuan Xueshan was dead, there was no need to keep the secret any more.
“You…” A vengeful smile spread across Huo Linong’s face, sending chills down one’s spine.
Huo Linong was a born scholar, he preferred straight forwardness in dealing with people and matters, disliking trickery. When he decided to divulge something, he was blunt about it.
“Huo Bei Jiang is not Yuan Xueshan’s son. Xueshan was impoverished as a child, constantly going hungry and had suffered frostbite in winter, rendering her unable to conceive.”
“You, you, you…” Leng Peixi was speechless.