Li Yao was rendered speechless for a long time. He said in embarrassment, "As it turns out, Qi Yuanbao and your wife are biological siblings. That's truly a surprise."
Neither Qi Yuanbao, a senior deacon of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, nor Wuying Qinxin, Jin Yuyan's wife, were Mr. Nobody. Li Yao had naturally collected files on the two of them, but none of the files mentioned the relationship between the two of them at all.
It was only natural that Li Yao had some dirty thoughts because of that.
"It's their deepest secret. Outsiders naturally don't know it."
Jin Yuyan sniffed and said, "My father-in-law's name is' Wuying Yuanshan '. A hundred and fifty years ago, he was the Sector Master of the' Spiritual Mountain Sector ', a rather prosperous Sector at the edge of the Imperium. Also, he had a lot of friends and a lot of wealth. He was vaguely a leader of the' Wuying group '."
"Wuying group?"
Li Yao immediately realized that there was indeed such a thing as the 'Wuying group' in the business world of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
Five hundred years ago, the royal power fell, and the four families rose. The previous royal family and members of the royal family all withered and dispersed. Part of the members of the royal family stayed in the capital and became ignorant spendthrifts, guarding the ragged Imperial Guards that had no morale or training at all. Another part of the members of the royal family dispersed to every corner of the sea of stars with their family belongings, looking for a way out.
The four families strictly controlled the members of the royal family in politics. They were only allowed to be the Sector Masters of the peripheral worlds of the Imperium at best, but they were not allowed to claim power at the center of the cosmos.
However, a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. After all, the Wuying family had ruled the center of the cosmos for five hundred years. Neither its wealth nor its power could be dissolved so quickly. Besides, the four families were going to rule the Imperium with the Wuying family's token. Naturally, they could not push the Wuying family too hard, in case the Wuying family retaliated strongly and the two parties got into a life-and-death struggle. That would only benefit other people.
Therefore, the four families vaguely reached an unspoken agreement with the descendants of the royal family. The Wuying family would not reveal their ambitions for the highest power anymore, but it was not a problem for most of the members of the royal family to go to the peripheral worlds of the Imperium to live a luxurious life. They were even secretly supported by the four families.
A real man was born to either fight for power or seek wealth. Having lost the hope of power, the Wuying family did not want to live the rest of their life like pigs, so they could only devote all their attention to the pursuit of money.
The capital that they brought from the center of the cosmos with the wealth that they had plundered in the first five hundred years was certainly incomparable to the small families born and bred in the peripheral worlds of the Imperium. Also, with the support of the four families in secret, their connections, vision, and technology were all unheard of by the bumpkins in the peripheral worlds. Very soon, they crushed the bumpkins and controlled a lot of core industries at the peripheral worlds, making a fortune.
In the hundreds of years that followed, the capitals that were backed by the royal family and whose behind-the-scenes big shots often had the surname "Wuying" were known as the "Wuying group".
"My father-in-law was the leader of the 'Wuying group' in the beginning. He was also a man of great ambitions. In his heyday, he even tried to concentrate all the capitals of the 'Wuying group' and build an unprecedented, truly great enterprise!"
Jin Yuyan sighed and said, "It was a pity that he forgot the reason why the four families supported the 'Wuying group' in the first place. Did they really want to make a fortune for them? It was nothing more than to shut their mouths with some money and wear down their ambitions and determination.
"The descendants of the royal family stayed in the peripheral worlds obediently, made some money, and lived an extravagant life. The four families did not bother to bother them, but my father-in-law wanted to concentrate all the capitals for a 'great enterprise'. Hehe. He was asking to be killed!
"What happened next was the common drama of a prince who was in trouble, lurked in the wilderness, sharpened his sword for ten years, and took his revenge. My father-in-law 'Wuying Yuanshan' was killed in an assassination uncannily, and his whole family was buried in the furious fire. Even his position as the Sector Master was usurped by his subordinates. Naturally, his great dream was gone.
"However, at that time, the assassin massacred my father-in-law's entire family, but the two youngest ones escaped. They were my wife and my brother-in-law. Oh, my brother-in-law did not completely escape. He was hit by the enemy's vicious palm strike. The corrosive and corrosive power in the palm strike haunted him for decades. In the end, his body decayed, and he died. However, the fact that he was able to cultivate into a 'super spectral Cultivator' with a very weird form later had something to do with the sufferings of the past few decades.
"All in all, after my wife and my brother-in-law escaped, a series of accidents and fortuitous encounters happened. In case the enemy continued hunting them, the two of them decided to hide their names and carry out their revenge plans separately.
"With her advantages as a Meditation Healer, my wife joined the business world and became a rising star of the 'Wuying group' from a different perspective. She also found out the truth of the changes of the Spiritual Mountain Sector years ago. My brother-in-law, on the other hand, changed his name to Qi Yuanbao, nicknamed 'Hanged Man'. He became a notorious assassin and established his own force, 'Life Claimer', to wait for an opportunity for revenge.
"Later, my wife and I got to know each other in business …"
Li Yao nodded quickly after hearing that. "Got it. Your marriage is more like a political one!"
Blushing, Jin Yuyan said, "Of course, the marriage of people like us can't be purely for love. She was interested in me because I had already become a rather powerful upstart in the business world after I distinguished myself in the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors. She wanted to avenge herself with my strength. So, she confessed the truth to me despite the risks.
"After weighing the pros and cons, I was also interested in the connections and reputation of my deceased father-in-law 'Wuying Yuanshan' in the 'Wuying group'. I wanted to grasp the strength in my hands. Therefore, I made a choice that was a 'win-win'.
"After that, my marriage with Wuying Qinxin was actually quite pleasant, and our cooperation with Qi Yuanbao went quite well, too. With the secret support of Wuying Qinxin and I, Qi Yuanbao's' Life Claimer 'executed all the murderers who were directly responsible for the annihilation of his family. It was sort of a small interest first. Then, naturally, he announced the return of Wuying Yuanshan's daughter in the Wuying branch.
"In the meantime, with the strength of the 'Wuying group' and Qi Yuanbao's' Life Claimer ', I rose rapidly within the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and defeated almost a hundred competitors in a row. Eventually, I became the director of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and the leader of the business at the edge of the Imperium!
"Of course, in case of being too conspicuous and being struck by the four families again, Qi Yuanbao never regained his surname of 'Wuying', and nobody knew that he was Wuying Qinxin's biological brother. Otherwise, the power of the siblings and me would've been too terrifying. Chances are that we would've been on the list of the four families and erased by them!
"You should understand it now, don't you? Wuying Qinxin and I were sort of a couple who met before we really made our fortune. Later, we established the most solid alliance of interests and made great contributions to each other. It must be noted that the real culprits who annihilated her family years ago were the four families. How could I have foreseen that she would betray me before the four families were destroyed?"
Li Yao thought quickly and deduced for a long time. He could only nod his head and say, "That's right. Under normal circumstances, before the four families were destroyed, there was indeed no reason for her to betray you. If I were you, after being a couple for more than a hundred years, I would've trusted her without any reservation, too.
"However, you couldn't have foreseen that Blackstar the Great would be resurrected!
"Wuying Qinxin and Qi Yuanbao were both members of the royal family, which meant that they were Wuying Qi's direct bloodline. There were too many things that could've been done. If Wuying Qi justified himself with the rise of the royal family and tempted them with titles such as' prince ', tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. If it were me, I would've been tempted too."
"Who can say that it wasn't?"
Jin Yuyan's smile was even more bitter. "That's also why I was convinced when you said that Blackstar the Great had been resurrected. Other than that, there was no other reason that Wuying Qinxin and Qi Yuanbao could've betrayed me!"
"Speaking of which, the reason why Qi Yuanbao never regained the surname 'Wuying' or announced his relationship with Wuying Qinxin was probably partly because of you, wasn't it?"
Li Yao looked at Jin Yuyan with a vague smile. "I think that if Qi Yuanbao revealed his real identity and everybody knew that he was your brother-in-law, it would've been impossible for you to be the director of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and your brother-in-law to be one of the five senior managers of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors. Other managers and shareholders would've been wary of your family."
Jin Yuyan coughed and said, "That's right. I did have the idea of controlling more shares of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and suppressing the other three assassin groups through Qi Yuanbao. You know that the four gods of death are all disobedient and skilled, and they have so many unpredictable, murderous assassins under their command. I'm not a battle-type Immortal Cultivator. How can I keep them in check without one or two trump cards?"
"So, you regarded your brother-in-law as your greatest trump card."
Li Yao said, "You didn't expect that your trump card would fall into Blackstar the Great's hands in the end. You were almost killed. Even if you were lucky enough to survive, there's no telling if you could recover your real identity and make other people admit that you are Jin Yuyan!"
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