"The only thing I could do was find an excuse to move the child and protect him. I wanted to protect you more thoroughly too, but I know that if I had to choose to protect only one person, you would definitely prefer to protect Kangkang, right?"
An Ruo nodded, "Yes, as long as Kangkang is safe, that’s enough."
"Even if I could only move Kangkang, I wouldn’t let you be in danger. I’m here guarding you, and if anything really happened, I was ready to risk my life to save you at any moment. I also considered that if our plan was exposed and I truly couldn’t escape death, I would accept it..."
An Ruowei slightly opened her mouth wanting to say something to dissuade him, but realized anything she said would be weak.
"You haven’t told me yet, did your plan succeed?" she asked him.
Tang Yuchen took a sip of wine before replying, "It succeeded. About a month ago, I left for a while, that was to carry out the final act."
"A month ago?" An Ruo’s eyes flashed with deep thought.
"At that time, Xiao Ji and Mo Hua left as well. Tang Yuchen, what else is there that I don’t know about?"
"Today, I plan to tell you everything to let you know the whole truth. In our plan against Xingtian and Tang Yushen, another key person is An Ji."
"Xiao Ji? He joined your plan too?" An Ruo was very surprised.
Tang Yuchen nodded, "In Country A, he learned about my situation and approached me voluntarily, offering to help me."
I asked him why he wanted to aid me, and he said it wasn’t just for me. He just didn’t want you and Kangkang to be in danger should I die. It was for you and Kangkang that he decided to help me.
Moreover, since he took the position of Sect Leader of the Xuanwu Sect in Beidi Hall, he urgently needed to prove himself to secure his position. If he could kill Xingtian and take over Xingtian’s arms, then his merits would be undeniable."
"Later we replanned everything. Ke Ren and I returned to the country first; intentionally, I didn’t tell you anything to make you misunderstand me and fall out with me. As long as you were disassociated from me, Tang Yushen and the others wouldn’t start too heavily with you.
With you and me officially opposed, I had more of a pretext to take Kangkang, and when An Ji came back, he would have more reason to come after me."
Hearing this, An Ruo understood a lot.
She asked with doubt, "That time you were shot, was it all an act between you and Xiao Ji?"
Tang Yuchen curved his lips into a smile and said, "Yes and no."
"What does that mean?"
He explained, "Him shooting at me was indeed part of our plan, aimed at making Tang Yushen believe he was not with me."
Xingtian and Tang Yushen wanted to achieve their ambitions. They alone weren’t enough; if they could enlist the power of Beidi Hall, it would help them even more.
We were betting that they would recruit An Ji. After I was shot, indeed they started courting him, and An Ji, following the plan, gradually joined them and eventually confronted Xingtian.
When I said ’no’, I meant that An Ji shooting me wasn’t solely to convince Tang Yushen. He really wanted to shoot me, and that was a debt I owed you."
An Ruo’s gaze flickered, struggling to digest these revelations.
"You said Xiao Ji wants to take over Xingtian’s arms... Could he really be doing something illegal?"
"Don ’t worry about him, and don’t think of him as being involved in the underworld.
Beidi Hall has been around for decades, standing unshaken, and its influence has only grown, certainly because it has its own way of surviving.