False evidence

Chapter 501 Lü Xin's Secret

Fang Ling's body was completely unsupported, as limp as a noodle in my arms.

I quickly hugged her and crouched down in the narrow, dark passage: "What's wrong?"

Fang Ling's eyes were half-open, her eyelids and the muscles around her eyes twitching rapidly. She said weakly, "When Jiang Baohan left, I opened my eyes in bed. I watched him pick up my skin... watched him walk out... Silly boy, I'm more afraid of blood than you are. I was just trying to distract myself from what I was saying."

I realized what was happening and shivered violently.

Others might not understand what she meant, but I understood perfectly. She had personally experienced the pain of skinning, and witnessed Jiang Baohan carrying a blood-soaked human skin... The fear brought about by these sensory memories could almost scare a ghost to death again.

"Close your eyes!" Lu Xin suddenly whispered.

I instinctively repeated in the same commanding tone, "Close your eyes!"

Fang Ling refused to accept the "order," instead widening her eyes in an instant, her gaze filled with resentment, and her tone became harsh and domineering: "You surnamed Lü, you've finally come out!"

Lu Xin rarely sighed: "I knew you were doing it on purpose."

Hearing me repeat these words, Fang Ling's face grew even colder: "You know how much you owe me. You also know I won't let you off the hook. I'm giving you a chance to atone; do everything in your power to help our family's children!"

"Otherwise what?" Lu Xin smiled wryly.

Fang Ling laughed too: "The 'fight to the death' principle doesn't apply to us anymore. We have our score to settle."

A complex yet wicked smile appeared on Fang Ling's lips as she closed her eyes.

"Sister Ling! Sister Ling!"

"Stop shouting." Lu Xin said in a deep voice, "Jiawen is gone, and Fang Ling needs some time to adjust. She won't wake up anytime soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, I took action. First, I took off my backpack and put it aside, then I carried the unconscious Fang Ling on my back, took out the emergency nylon strap from the outdoor backpack, and tied Fang Ling up securely.

Just as I was tying up Fang Ling, Lü Xin, dressed in a white robe, suddenly appeared in front of me.

He looked at Fang Ling's face resting on my shoulder, his eyes filled with an extremely complex expression.

I stared at him, remaining silent for a long time.

Finally, Lü Xin spoke first, his tone resolute and determined: "You are my disciple. A teacher for a day is a father for life. My daughter has been harmed, and I will definitely avenge you."

He suddenly grinned wickedly: "You're still not satisfied even if his whole family dies? Why didn't you say so sooner? Heh, yeah, it would have been pointless to say it then. No matter, it's better to say it now. I advise you to reincarnate as soon as possible. That Zhao guy, hehe, whether it's Zhao Tiezhong or his descendants... tsk, he can't have any descendants. Since you can't get over your hatred, then I'll make sure his whole family is annihilated and suffers eternal damnation!"

Seeing that he was still staring at Fang Ling after he finished speaking, I kicked him with my toe: "Alright, enough with the nonsense, let's get down to business."

Lu Xin lifted the foot I had kicked, patted his trouser leg, and turned his gaze to the side, seemingly talking to himself: "Although I am not accepted by the Thousand Sects, I am the most outstanding disciple of the Thousand Sects. Because, from the day I entered the sect, I have always followed the sect rule of 'half a lie in three sentences, and when the lie is taken as the truth, even the truth becomes a lie.' But only today did I realize that I seem to have really missed a... a woman who should have been the most suitable for me."

He turned to me, nodded, and raised his voice slightly: "Qianmen is a liar, a good liar. In today's terms, he could be a psychology expert, just like your uncle. In modern terms, I've dated a lot of women. Of course, in my time, apart from prostitutes, all the other women wanted me to take responsibility. I didn't have any lingering feelings for them, and I even looked down on them from the bottom of my heart because they were really stupid. Do you know why I didn't choose Jiawen? Because... I had already realized that she was different from those stupid women. You don't know how special she was. What made her special was that—other women only told me 'I'm a liar' when I wanted to dump them, but Tong Jiawen, shortly after she started dating me... she looked at me and said, 'You're a liar, you won't be with me forever.' So, she was special, very special."

"You're a slut for nine lifetimes! A prostitute for nine lifetimes!" I didn't hold back my malice at this moment. Tong Jiawen is my relative, and the person in front of me is a con artist who has taken advantage of my relatives... the women in my family. You can insult someone without revealing their shortcomings, but with such a deep grudge, there's no need to be subtle.

"Damn it! Didn't we all agree not to mention this again?" Lu Xin said, somewhat exasperated.

"You're just a chicken!"

I clearly angered Lü Xin, and he did something really despicable.

With a sullen face, he blindly and quickly turned his head left and right, then faced me and spat in my face.

I was furious and about to retaliate when suddenly, some fragments that had been dormant in my mind floated up and pieced themselves together.

Upon reading the contents, my pupils contracted sharply as I stared at Lü Xin and said, "You were a prostitute... and in your nine lifetimes as a woman, you were betrayed by the men you deeply loved, and ultimately killed by them?"

“What kind of talk is that? I am who I am now, a man! How would I know? I only know I was a woman in my past life because of the murals in that city gate tower! I…”

Lu Xin is not me, and it's impossible for him to think on the same page as me. When his "weak point" was sharply attacked, he lost control and became red-faced and incoherent.

Ever since Fang Ling... or rather, Tong Jiawen, woke me up, my mind started to clear. Seeing his exasperation, I added fuel to the fire for some unspeakable reason: "In your past life, your nine previous lives, you were a woman. Even if you weren't ridden by thousands... you were still a stupid woman, fooled by men time and time again..."

"You..."

Before Lü Xin could say anything more, I suddenly shouted, "Hey Lü! Do you really want me to reveal your biggest secret?!"

"What secret?" Lu Xin reacted quickly, but his eyes darted around without daring to look at me.

“I don’t want to say. I never will,” I said firmly.

Lu Xin and I stared at each other for a full five minutes. He managed a weak smile and said in a hoarse voice, "I understand. I...I believe you. You just want me to stop scheming against you and stop thinking about using your body to take your place, right? I promise you, if you don't tell me, I will definitely not continue in that direction. I swear, I will definitely not. If I break this oath, may I be struck by lightning and suffer eternal damnation."

"Then I'll tell you."

"No!" Lu Xin actually came up and tried to tear me apart.

In reality, besides Fang Ling, who was unconscious and being carried on my back, there were only the two of us in the secret passage. Judging from Lü Xin's posture, it didn't seem like he was fighting desperately; it was more like he was in a state of panic and wanted to cover my mouth.

Before he could actually cover my mouth, I managed to say something.

The moment the words left his mouth, Lü Xin, who was lunging forward, froze as if a pause button had been pressed...

(End of this chapter)