The most melodramatic rebirth in history

Chapter 74 I was blind

"Shut up! You stole my jewelry box! You're framing me!" Ruan Xinrou's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly interrupted the pretty woman. As for what else was in the box, she knew perfectly well.

"Hmph, you can't deny that this piece of beast skin comes from the Illusion Continent of the South China Sea, can you?" Sun Yuyang was furious at the other party's repeated attempts to argue. She smashed the dark red box in her hand, and an unknown viscous material used to make human model skin was exposed to everyone's eyes.

"Madam Ruan, you are from the South China Sea Illusion Continent. Everyone knows this. Do you still want to deny it?" Li Hao and the others had gloomy faces. As merchants who traveled all over the world, how could they not recognize this exotic product?

"No, impossible!" Ruan Xinrou's body trembled, a sly glint flashing in her eyes. The thought of "I'd rather die than admit it" had already taken root in her mind. She thought to herself: If this thing wasn't impossible to fake, I would have prepared a copy for you in this golden box!
“Mr. Jia, you haven’t even asked about the purpose of this magical beast skin before you start questioning us. I’m afraid that won’t convince the public.” Zhang Yi, who had been silent until now, stepped forward to stand in front of Ruan Xinrou. His words were calm and gentle, without a trace of fear.

"Oh no, something might have happened!" Seeing the handsome man so confident, Ling Weiyun's clone was startled and quickly sent a telepathic message to his group, already having a bad feeling.

"Uh? Miss Sun, that phantom beast skin is definitely Madam Ruan's. Please tell us, what is its connection to your father's death?" Li Hao was slightly taken aback, and the other powerful and influential people also realized that they had been too hasty. So, they all turned around awkwardly to ask Sun Yuyang.

"Hmph! These guys are too arrogant!" Ruan Xinrou was furious and dissatisfied, and secretly snorted to Zhang Yi.

Anyone could see that Li Hao and the others were subtly siding with Sun Yuyang! They clearly trusted Sun Yuyang's words more, and now all that was left was a charge that would completely crush them!
"No worries, the surprise is yet to come! Just relax and wait to see the show!" Zhang Yi sneered inwardly, secretly rejoicing, "Luckily I had a backup plan, otherwise Xinrou would have been in deep trouble this time."

Before the main hall, Sun Yuyang took a breath and looked at the beautiful woman, her voice trembling with anger: "My father was... killed by having his heart ripped out! The missing flesh on the surface of his heart was covered up with the skin of a magical beast!"

"Hiss~!" Li Hao and the others were startled. The three chilling words "evil spirit master" came to mind at the same time. They took a few steps back and stopped. After that, the look in their eyes when they looked at Ruan Xinrou and the others changed slightly.

These twenty-odd wealthy businessmen, though businessmen, also possessed cultivation levels of seven or eight rank, while Li Hao was even at nine rank, having seen all sorts of storms. Therefore, their inexplicable apprehension towards the evil spirit master did not mean they were afraid of him.

“My good daughter, you must provide evidence for everything. Your words without proof are slander against your mother!” Ruan Xinrou said with a mocking expression, pacing back and forth in the center of the hall. She looked very relaxed and showed no sign of tension.

Hearing Zhang Yi's telepathic message again, Ruan Xinrou felt much more at ease and was no longer as flustered as before. Now she was in an invincible position and could play with Sun Yuyang however she wanted!

"Shut up, you vixen! Fine, since you want evidence, then even if I have to bear the infamy of being unfilial, I will bring my father's corpse to the main hall, so that you, you slut, will be unable to defend yourself!" Sun Yuyang was furious. The other party always liked to bring up the point she hated most.

"Hmph! I've done nothing wrong, what's there to argue about?" Seeing the subtle murderous intent flashing in the pretty woman's smug eyes, Ruan Xinrou was overjoyed. Nothing was more satisfying than seeing her nemesis suffer a setback.

"Gentlemen, please wait a moment!" Suppressing his anger, Sun Yuyang called out to Li Hao and the others, then turned and beckoned several guards from both sides of the hall to him. He whispered a few words to them, and the guards immediately obeyed and left.

"Junior Brother Feng, I have a feeling something's fishy! These two are handling things far too calmly!" Leng Ning Shuang, her face still frosty, secretly sent a message to Feng Ling with suspicion.

She silently observed the changes in the scene, feeling a strange sensation, though she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

"There's something wrong with Yu Yang's father's body!" Feng Ling remained outwardly calm, but the heaviness in his voice was evident in his tone.

It is said that a thief has a guilty conscience, but Feng Ling did not see a trace of guilt in the eyes of Ruan Xinrou and the others. So there are only two possible answers: either they did not do it and were not afraid of ghosts knocking on their door in the middle of the night, or they did do it but destroyed the evidence and were fearless!

After searching for so many days, all the evidence pointed to the other party, so the former could almost be ruled out. That left only the option of "destroying the body and destroying the evidence"!
"How can you be so sure, Junior Brother?" Leng Ning Shuang's heart stirred. Seeing Feng Ling's confident words, even omitting words like "I'm afraid" and "maybe" that indicated speculation, she couldn't help but be curious.

At that moment, Feng Ling reiterated his speculations to Leng Ning Shuang, Feng Yu Qing, and the others, but deliberately kept them from Sun Yu Yang. Presumably, he didn't want her to be so anxious and worried.
Besides, this is just Feng Ling's subjective speculation. What if the other party didn't do that? Wouldn't it be presumptuous of him to say it out loud? After all, plotting against a dead body is a despicable act. If Sun Yuyang were to make wild guesses, she might think he was after her father's corpse!

Based on this, after being rejected by Sun Yuyang, Feng Ling, Leng Ningshuang, and others secretly discussed whether or not to take over the management of the back mountain behind Sun Yuyang's back. In the end, they all chose to respect Sun Yuyang's decision, since it was her family matter and did not involve the extermination of the evil spirit master.

"Eighth level, still seems a bit weak!" After the discussion, Feng Yuqing muttered telepathically, essentially expressing half of what Feng Ling and the others were thinking. However, this time she had learned her lesson and didn't utter the words "extremely weak," which shared their complete opinion. A quarter of an hour passed…

“Sun Yuyang, everyone has been waiting for you for ages, why are you so slow? Are you afraid because you feel guilty and dare not…” Ruan Xinrou’s provocative words were interrupted by intermittent, trembling shouts from outside the hall.

"Miss... Miss...!" A seventh-rank guard who had left earlier ran back to the main hall in a panic, his legs weak as he knelt before Sun Yuyang. He glanced at the people around him and then whispered in a low voice, "Master's body... is gone!"

"Boom!" Sun Yuyang's delicate body trembled, her brain went blank, and thankfully Leng Ningshuang reacted quickly and stepped forward to support her. Then, Feng Ling and the others rushed forward and surrounded her.

"Hmph, the ugly show has only just begun!" With a cold snort in her heart, apart from Zhang Yi's expression changing slightly, Ruan Xinrou and the others, who had their eyes wide open, were completely waiting to watch the show, leaving Li Hao and the others, who were unaware of what was going on, completely baffled.

"Yu Yang, what's wrong?" Leng Ningshuang helped Sun Yu Yang up and asked her telepathically. Although the group already had a bad feeling, they still had to come and confirm it.

"Father's body has been stolen!" Sun Yuyang's eyes were bloodshot, and she was completely distraught. She even forgot to transmit her voice, and uttered the words in a trembling voice, almost like a whisper.

There is no proof!

Feng Ling and the others felt a chill run down their spines. They couldn't be happy about their own prophetic words coming true.

"The weather is unpredictable, and fortune can change in an instant. It's true, what you fear most is what will happen!" Ling Weiyun's clone sighed, his aged face full of wrinkles, showing the vicissitudes of a lifetime of "coming through wind and rain".

These words made Leng Ning Shuang's beautiful eyes flicker and her thoughts drift. She didn't know what she was thinking, but Feng Yuqing subconsciously tightened her grip on Feng Ling's arm, as if she was afraid that he would evaporate from her sight at any moment.

"Sun Yuyang, are you perhaps crying wolf, feeling guilty at this crucial moment? You came up with this trick to appease everyone... a self-inflicted injury ruse!" Ruan Xinrou pressed her advantage relentlessly, her voice sharp and determined not to let the matter rest.

"Yu Yang, where did you hide your godfather's body?" The handsome man hesitated for a long time before finally gritting his teeth and rebuking the pretty woman.

"Zhang Yi, to have fallen for you... I must have been blind!" Sun Yuyang's heart shattered without a trace. With this piercing question, the last shred of illusion she held for the handsome man vanished completely!
What Zhang Yi didn't know was that anyone could criticize her, but he was the only one who couldn't! He also didn't know that the word "fiancé" carried the same weight in Sun Yuyang's heart as it did in Sun Yunshan!
“Yu…!” The handsome man’s heart was numb, he hesitated to speak, and a trace of indelible pain remained in his expression. After several attempts to speak, looking at the beautiful woman who was disheartened, he could only utter this one word.

"Miss Sun, where exactly is the old city lord's remains?"

"Why doesn't Miss Yu Yang answer? Could it be that you are truly the murderer who poisoned your own father!"

"Alas! Even tigers don't eat their cubs, so what if we do the opposite?"

With Ruan Xinrou fanning the flames and Zhang Yi adding fuel to the fire, apart from Li Hao whose eyes flickered uncertainly, the rest of the crowd discussed among themselves, and all their criticisms were instantly directed at Sun Yuyang, whose face was contorted in pain.

"Disperse, everyone! Miss Sun is unwell, we'll talk another day." Ling Weiyun's clone said in a deep voice, his tone carrying an unyielding air. The domineering aura of a peak tenth-level expert was unmistakable, and the entire noisy scene fell silent. Apart from a few ninth-level experts whose faces turned pale, everyone below the ninth level was slightly out of breath.

"Senior sister, quickly take Miss Yu Yang away, her emotions are a bit off!" Feng Ling frowned and secretly transmitted his voice to the aloof woman. Leng Ning Shuang immediately nodded in understanding, supported the emotionally unstable Sun Yu Yang, and disappeared outside the hall in just one breath.

"Alas! It's impossible to please everyone. The most terrifying thing in this world is the human heart!" Feng Ling sighed inwardly. How many chivalrous and righteous people have chosen to spend the rest of their lives or even die to prove their innocence because they could not withstand the persecution of baseless rumors and gossip?

What is most regrettable is that after those people died, they were still used by shrewd people to slander them, saying that they committed suicide because they could not bear the burden and were afraid of being punished!

(End of this chapter)