After I stopped being a lady from a rich family, I fought all over the capital

Chapter 264 Another Victim

When Su Xianyun picked up the broadsword, although she didn't move as easily and swiftly as Tan Ci, it was still much better than his strenuous and difficult task, which even resulted in him straining his back.

Su Wenheng suddenly began to question the meaning of life.

Could it be that he... is no longer able to function?

He could understand if his wife wasn't as good as him, but now, she's even worse than his daughter!
Even if, even if his daughter perfectly inherited, or even surpassed, his wife's strengths, how could his daughter, who had been in a coma for so many years, possibly still... Su Wenheng completely doubted himself.

He looked at his left hand, then at his right hand.

After looking at it again and again, I still couldn't figure out where I was lacking.

However, neither Tan Ci nor Su Xianyun paid him any attention and went straight back to their rooms.

Su Wenheng immediately forgot about the matter, quickly closed the door, and chased after him.

“Yun’er, what you just said…”

Su Wenheng wanted to verify it again, fearing that he had misheard.

"Absolutely true!"

Su Xianyun took a deep breath, remembering what Song Lan had said, and mustered her courage.

"Back then, my maternal grandfather made a deal with the head of the Zhang family, selling my lifespan to the Zhang family in exchange for my eldest cousin's official rank!"

“My maternal grandmother was still somewhat hesitant, worried that if my mother found out, she might break ties with the An family.”

"But after listening to my eldest uncle's advice, thinking about my eldest cousin's future, and receiving a death order from my maternal grandfather that if my maternal grandmother did not comply, my maternal grandfather would divorce her and remarry, finding someone who was not related to my mother by blood. He would definitely do so without hesitation or scruples for the sake of the whole family."

Su Xianyun's voice gradually calmed down: "I suppose it was because my maternal grandfather and eldest uncle were backing me up that my maternal grandmother was able to completely let go of her worries, bring me to the Zhang family's banquet, and then completely abandon me."

"After that, I couldn't find my maternal grandmother and the others, so I went looking for them everywhere."

"They were led by servants from the Zhang household to a room equipped with a hidden mechanism."

"I fell into a trap and was locked in a dark place. Then someone took my lifespan and left my body in a desolate courtyard, waiting for you to find me..."

After Su Xianyun's lifespan was taken away, her soul left her body.

So I saw all of this, and I also saw clearly what happened in the past and who was involved.

Her voice choked slightly: "If it weren't for the accident that happened to the buyer they originally booked, I'm afraid my mother and father wouldn't have been able to wait for me to wake up."

"It was precisely because the buyer did not conduct the transaction with them as agreed that my lifespan was taken away and I had nowhere to go. I was also unable to enter the underworld, and they would not allow me to go to the underworld."

"They won't even let me do it, lest the ghost messengers find out and drag me to the underworld, making it impossible for them to do what they did."

"But I can't die either."

"If I die, the lifespan that was taken from me will naturally become unusable."

"So they sealed my soul inside my body, making me live like a dead person, until recently..."

Su Xianyun's lifespan was completely used up, and at that time, she already felt that her soul was about to be annihilated.

It's not about going to the underworld to wait for reincarnation.

Instead, they completely disappeared from this world from that point on.

"You silly child, you've kept such a big thing a secret all this time!"

Tan Ci wanted to scold her, but she only managed to say half a sentence before her voice choked and she couldn't make a sound.

After a long while, she whispered hoarsely, "I almost... I almost didn't see you again!"

If Song Lan hadn't appeared in time...

Tan Ci dared not imagine how insane she would have gone if Song Lan hadn't appeared in time.

She is determined to send all those who harmed her daughter to hell!

Su Xianyun gently patted Tan Ci's back, bit her lip slightly, and hesitated several times as if she wanted to say something but stopped, looking at her mother with some hesitation.

"Auntie..."

She was filled with anxiety and unease, unsure whether she should say those words. Tan Ci, who had been watching her daughter closely, quickly noticed something was wrong.

"Is there something you haven't told your mother?"

She gripped her daughter's shoulders nervously, staring intently at Su Xianyun, not daring to blink.

Su Xianyun lowered her eyes, pursed her lips, and dared not look into her mother's eyes.

Seeing this, Su Wenheng quickly followed up by asking, "Yun'er! The enemy is in the dark, while you and I are in the light. You are the one in our family who knows the most about these things. Your mother and father need you to provide more information to help us make a more accurate judgment."

"Only when we have more evidence can we strike the enemy dead in one blow!"

"If you know anything else, please tell your mother and father, okay?"

Su Xianyun bit her lip tightly, and after a long while, she said in a very low voice, "I'm not very sure."

"I only remember that when my soul left my body and I felt that I had died, I saw another soul floating in mid-air."

"However, she doesn't seem to be in very good condition."

"He looked very weak, like he might disappear at any moment!"

Su Xianyun carefully recalled the fragmented memories from back then: "But it's also strange that there seem to be faint golden threads wrapped around her soul."

"Later, I was thrown back into my body and I knew nothing more."

Tan Ci and Su Wenheng looked at each other, and it took them a while to recover from their shock: "Then..."

"Do you remember who she is? Or rather, do you remember what she looks like? Do you know her?" Tan Ci asked anxiously.

She suspects that her daughter was likely not the only victim from back then!

It is very likely that there are other victims.

Su Xianyun shook her head, then nodded... "I remember, she seems to be the Xue family's older sister."

Sister Xue?

"Xue Wan?!"

How is this possible? !

Back then, it was uncertain whether Xue Wan could even be invited to the Zhang family's banquet.

Even if they did manage to invite her, Xue Wan has been perfectly fine all these years...

Su Xianyun nodded.

That is Xue Wan.

However, after she regained consciousness, she inquired and learned that Xue Wan had been staying in the Xue family all these years. Although she had not married, she had been interacting with people of equal social standing.

If Xue Wan was also someone whose lifespan was stolen, then...

Could it be that the Xue family hadn't noticed anything at all?

Even if no one in the Xue family noticed, what about all the people who had contact with her? Surely no one noticed either?

This is simply unacceptable.
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Liu family.

Just as Song Lan was enjoying herself and listening to the music, she suddenly felt a burning sensation in her palm.

hiss!
She frowned, looking at her palm, which looked like it had been burned and was now red, and was very displeased.

"You repay kindness with enmity?"

"Even though the ghostly power has been almost completely devoured, it still has such a large amount of energy."

"really……"

"You must have been a kind person who accumulated good karma in your past life!"

Song Lan looked up at the sky and laughed mockingly: "Could it be that there really is such a thing as karmic retribution in this world?"