An icicle ruthlessly pierced into Tan Sixian's skull from the top of his head. A huge pain spread from his brain to his spine, all the way to his limbs and bones. His legs swayed, and he almost fell to the ground.
Despair and pain were like two executioners clutching at his heart, causing him to gasp heavily. "Don't talk nonsense! This case has nothing to do with Bongwei from beginning to end! She is the daughter of Dingzhou's Xue family, and has nothing to do with Xue Hongyi! I am the true heir of the Xue family. Otherwise, why would I be here? "
"This should be a scam that Prime Minister Tan spent over twenty years to create."
Over the course of the night, Heaven's Inquisition followed the flow of Prime Minister Tan's past. In addition, Forsythia had urgently scouted out information from Dingzhou. Finally, Ning Shu pieced together the rough outline of what had happened that year.
Twenty-three years ago, the Tan family and the Huang family were both scholarly families, and were well-matched in social status. Thus, the elders of the two families worked together to set up a marriage contract between their only son, Tan Shiyuan, and their youngest daughter, Huang Siwan. One was a peerless scholar who had been given high hopes by his elders, and the other was a well-known talented woman in the capital. Everyone thought that they were a match made in heaven, and that there was no better match in the world. Unexpectedly, Tan Shiyuan was proud and arrogant at the time, and hated being manipulated by others the most. After a huge commotion, he broke off relations with his family, and concealed his identity to make a living selling calligraphy and paintings in the marketplace. He was indeed very talented, and even after leaving his family, he quickly became famous in the marketplace. In particular, his painting of a beautiful woman attracted the attention of the courtesans in the western market, and they were all proud to be in his paintings. Thus, he met the courtesan Xue Hongyi, whose name shook the capital at the time.
A talented scholar from a famous family, and a former general's daughter who had been forced to fall into the world of mortals. The two of them had similar temperaments, and after many conflicts, they gradually developed feelings for each other and decided to marry. This should have been a beautiful beginning, but the Huang family found out. Tan Shiyuan would rather marry a courtesan than a girl from the Huang family. This was like a slap to the Huang family's face. For the proud Huang Siwan, this was a great humiliation. Thus, on the eve of Tan Shiyuan and Xue Hongyi's wedding, a hoodlum suddenly appeared and bribed Xue Hongyi's maidservant, leading to a series of tragedies.
In order to protect Xue Hongyi, Tan Shiyuan returned to the family and was willing to become a puppet that he had once disdained, marrying Huang Siwan. However, how could Tan Shiyuan, whose heart was filled with boundless hatred, be willing to play along with Huang Siwan and pretend that the past had never happened? Therefore, not long after the marriage, Tan Shiyuan brought a baby boy from outside and pretended to be his illegitimate son as the most ruthless revenge against Huang Siwan. From then on, this husband and wife became the most harmonious and envied on the surface, but the most despicable resentful couple behind the scenes.
After Xue Hongyi was rescued from the river by the golden cicada shedding its carapace, she was already deeply traumatized. When she found out that the love of her life had become her husband and her younger brother's whereabouts were unknown, her heart was even more traumatized. She hid in the thatched hut where her mother and younger brother used to live and mourned her death. A few years later, she became pregnant with Prime Minister Tan's child. This child should have given her a bit of luxury, but for some reason, she was taken away from her and sent to Tan Siwei's aunt and uncle who had been married for many years. She became their child, also surnamed Xue.
After another five years, her aunt and uncle passed away in an accident, leaving no one to take care of the child. Finally, Prime Minister Tan took her in as his cousin, and she became his niece, as well as Tan Sixian and Tan Siwei's younger sister.
As for Xue Hongyi, she was all alone. Finally, after twelve years of living dead, she completely left this filthy world. Tan Siwei had been kept in the dark until that night when he was asked by Ning Shu to look through the second volume of files related to Xue Hongyi. He discovered his father's name, and also discovered the shocking secret hidden in his family for twenty years.
"Eldest Young Master, you should have known the truth long ago. Therefore, after the envoy entered the capital, you immediately made connections with him and did everything you could to get close to him. This was to prevent Miss Bongwei from doing something stupid that couldn't be undone, and to prevent her from harming herself in her impulsiveness. However, you didn't expect that there were some things that you couldn't stop even if you tried your best. " Ning Shu's voice was very soft, like a soft feather, for fear of hurting the person who was curled up and covered in cuts and bruises on the ground.
She said, "On the seventh day of the fifth month, the one who was truly humiliated wasn't Li E'er, but Miss Bongwei, right?"
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