In Chenji Palace, most of the guards have been urgently sent to the outskirts of the palace by Ouyang Hongye. Compared with the previous few days, it is much cleaner. Accompanied by Feng Huo, Lion King Cheng walked around the Tianquan Hall towards the Fuxing Hall, his expression and steps showing a rare panic.
"Father, are everything they said true?" Feng Huo hesitated and asked again and again.
"Hush! Don't say anything until the facts are confirmed. This is no joke!" Lion King Cheng was breathing heavily because he was walking too fast, and his voice was trembling.
"Yes!" Feng Huo lowered his head and stopped talking.
Recently, his adoptive father Shi Wangcheng has not allowed him to participate in the actions of Demon King Fox and others. He spends all day bored in Kaiyang Palace with nothing to do. He can only occasionally ask Shi Yao Yanming to play a few games of ghost chess with him, but their chess skills are different. The disparity was so great that every time the stone demon spoke, he would deliberately give him water so that he could take a few more steps, so over time he lost interest.
He also asked Shi Wangcheng several times about the reason why he was not allowed to play, but every time he was prevaricated by him with some irrelevant things. Even if Feng Huo's mind was not very smart, he could still feel that he was deliberately avoiding his questions, and he vaguely felt that Shi Yao Yanming should also know the reason for this.
This day was no different from the past, and he thought he would spend it in boredom again, so he got extremely drunk at noon and simply took a nap on the stone slab in the courtyard. Unknowingly, he fell asleep until dusk. Half asleep, he felt someone standing next to him. When he opened his sleepy eyes, he saw that it was Ouyang Hongye.
"I finally saw what it means to be a lazy cat!" Ouyang Hongye said with a smile.
"Hey, isn't this Brother Hongye? Why are you so free to come to Kaiyang Palace today?"
Feng Huo rarely got angry at being woken up, but got up and stretched his neck, which was stiff from sleeping on the stone slab. Recently, Ouyang Hongye has basically been handling all matters in Chenji Palace alone. Even if he met him in the palace, it would be difficult for him to have time to chat with him, so when he suddenly appeared, Feng Huo was still able to do something about it. Happy to have someone to talk to.
"I came to see Elder Cheng, but I saw someone being lazy here. If you are so free, you might as well come and help me."
Ouyang Hongye mentioned to Lion King Cheng several times that he wanted Feng Huo to help him train the troops in the royal city, but Lion King Cheng always shied away from his request because he was in poor health and needed Feng Huo to always be around to take care of him.
"I think I'm going to grow hairy if I stay here every day. I'm still suitable for riding a demon horse and galloping freely. Unfortunately... ugh!" Feng Huo complained while scratching his head, "My adoptive father should be in the study at this time. I’ll go find him with you.”
Since the incident of the Divine Pillar Crisis last year, Lion King Makoto's health has been greatly reduced, and his energy has never fully recovered. The stone demon Yanming had long predicted that the demon world's sixteen-year apparent peace would be completely broken. The crisis of the divine pillar was just a sign. The death of the human blood alliance signatories was the real beginning, and the second person whose death was predicted by him turned out to be Feng. fire.
Although as a member of the royal city and a subject of Demon King Fox, his personal life and death sometimes had to be ignored, Lion King Makoto still wanted to protect Fenghuo in his own way. So he asked Shi Yao Yanming about how Feng Huo could avoid this disaster. Shi Yao Yanming told him that the only way was to keep him in Chenji Palace. Once he left Chenji Palace or left the royal city, It is inevitable that you will encounter misfortune.
With Feng Huo's personality, if he was told that the reason why he stayed in Chenji Palace was because of the prophecy of the Stone Demon Yanming, he would definitely not take it seriously, so he used his physical illness as the reason. Although Feng Huo was reckless, he was extremely filial to his adoptive father, so he no longer made any plans to leave the palace. Lion King Makoto, who has lived for a long time, also knows that doing this is not a long-term solution, and accidents will always happen, but he did not expect that this accident would come so quickly.
Ouyang Hongye followed Fenghuo into Lion King Cheng's study. After bowing, he said: "Elder Cheng, Elder Yong, please go to the Fuxing Hall!"
"Oh? Just send someone here. Why do you need the prince to invite you in person?" Lion King Cheng put down the two walnut balls he was playing with and secretly thought that Ouyang Hongye's sudden visit meant that something big must have happened in the palace. But he still pretended not to understand what he meant.
"This matter is not trivial. It is not appropriate to let too many people know about it for the time being. That's why Elder Yong specially sent me to invite you." Ouyang Hongye responded.
"You'd better tell me what it is first!"
"Okay! The traitor in the royal city has been found!"
"What?! Who?!" Lion King Cheng asked in shock.
"Tingyue's wife, Miao Xueyou."
"It's her..." Lion King Cheng's face changed drastically and he continued, "Well, you go first, I'll make some preparations and then go with Feng Huo!"
In the Fuxing Hall, Miao Xueyou stood in front of everyone dressed in plain clothes. She looked even thinner. She tried not to look at Ouyang Yong, and she didn't want to look at Wang Yue's expression. She knew that any one of them must hate her. It was deeply rooted in her bones, and she herself had long been prepared to be sentenced to death.
Ouyang Yong did not ask her to kneel down or tie her up. He felt that since she chose to admit the crime, she would not run away. He actually watched Miao Xueyou grow up. She was just a baby when she was brought back to Chenji Palace by Tingyue. Because it was inconvenient for a grown man to take care of her, Tingyue left her with Ouyang Yong. Running around in the Star Palace seems like it was yesterday. Once upon a time, she and he were like a father and daughter, but I don’t know when they started to become estranged. He couldn’t even remember the last time she came to help. How long has it been since Xingdian came to look for him
Qianqi and Lingyu were arranged to stand on both sides of the chair where Mochizuki was sitting. They wanted to ensure that Mochizuki would bounce out of his seat at any time due to impulse. Mochizuki stared at Miao Xueyou with unblinking eyes. He wanted to see what made this woman's heart so vicious.
His brother Tingyue's love for this woman once made him, as a younger brother, a little jealous. No matter when, he was always so gentle towards her, because he had lost all his kin since he was a child, out of pity for her. So he was careful not to let her get hurt at all, and he silently kept in mind all the things she liked and disliked. But who would have thought that his brother's death would be closely related to the woman he loved most.
As soon as Lion King Cheng and Feng Huo walked into the Assistant Star Hall, they felt the tense atmosphere here. Different from the past, no one was eager to accuse Miao Xueyou of being a traitor this time. Everyone was silent. Maybe they wanted to There is so much to say that I don’t even know where to start.
Ouyang Hongye led Lion King Cheng to sit next to Ouyang Yong's seat at the front, while he and Feng Huo stood behind them respectively.
Ouyang Yong nodded to Lion King Cheng, then turned to the front and ordered: "Miao Xueyou, repeat what you just said to Elder Cheng!"
"I did it all, destroying the seal of the divine pillar, letting Yasha go, telling Qingyun your plan, all of this is what I did." Miao Xueyou paused for a moment when she said this, and then her face was expressionless. A nervous smile suddenly flashed across his face, "Also... sixteen years ago, I was the one who betrayed Qingyun about the situation in the royal city and the lax guards in the city during the New Year celebrations."
"You..." Wangyue almost jumped up from the chair, and Qianqi and Lingyu spent a lot of effort to push him down.
"Why?" Ouyang Yong asked.
His eyes were full of sadness. Since when did he not recognize Miao Xueyou at all? How did the little girl who used to surround him clamoring for him to tell her stories or play games with her, the Miao Xueyu who would be so happy for a small gift or a new dress, become What is it like today? He couldn't figure it out.
"Because of hate!" Miao Xueyou answered without hesitation.
"Hate?" Ouyang Yong, like everyone present, became more and more puzzled.
"Yes, I hate you, you want to marry me to Tingyue, and let me face his ugly scars every day! Why?! Just because I was picked up by him, so I don't even have the right to choose?! You clearly know that the person I love is Mr. Xue Ye, but you want me to spend my whole life guarding someone I don't love at all. I want to take revenge on him, and I also want to take revenge on you!" Miao Xueyou pointed at the people surrounding her, she Her voice echoed throughout the hall. After a long time, she was finally able to make her inner thoughts known to the public, no longer afraid of others discovering the darkness hidden beneath her beautiful appearance.
"I want to ask you too! Do you know how my brother got the scars?! Back then, in order to increase his strength, Qingyun decided to kill all the snow girls in the Blowing Snow Land and use their souls to practice martial arts. My brother happened to pass by there, It's a pity that I was outnumbered and only rescued you. In order to save you, he was chased by Yaksha, Rakshasa and others, and in order to protect you, he was injured by the fire of hell. He was such a beautiful person..." Mochizuki said this. He broke down in tears. What pained him was that his brother's sincerity could be trampled to such an extent.
Ouyang Hongye then said: "He begged us to hide this from you because he was afraid that you would have thoughts of repaying him for this. He always felt that it was too heavy for you, and he thought you would finally be able to feel him. Infatuation, but he didn't expect it to hurt himself."
"It's impossible... How could this happen? I don't believe it!"
Miao Xueyou kept shaking her head, her feet softened, and she fell to the ground. She silently thought in her heart that everyone was lying to her, and only what she had always believed was true. Why didn't Tingyue tell her these things until she died? Why was he so stupid that he thought he could impress her with his sincerity? But she was the one who was really stupid. She killed the only person in the world who regarded her as a treasure, her savior, her husband, and the father of her child.
"What Mochizuki and Hongye said are true. You can tell just by looking at Yukito. She looks more and more like her father. Mochizuki's original appearance is not inferior to that of Xueye and Hongye. It's a pity that he At that time, he only wanted to protect you, but he was severely burned by the hell fire of the Rakshasa Mother, and his face was disfigured. When he first knew that his appearance could not be restored, he was also negative and even painted his own portrait. Everything was burned away, but watching you grow day by day, the wounds in his heart also healed."
Ouyang Yong sighed heavily. If he had known that something like this would happen, why would they have concealed the truth from Miao Xueyou in the first place.