The male supporting character was actually myself.

But she… Brother Shangguan’s earnest teachings echoed in his ears; the gentle and generous Lin Wanyue’s smiling face, with whom he had a heart-to-heart talk, appeared before his eyes, and Huo Changyun’s pounding heart instantly cooled down.

She is now married to another man; she is no longer Shen Rumeng but Madam Luo!

Shen Rumeng was slightly taken aback to find someone in the side room. However, what she saw was an extremely familiar face, which overlapped with the person she had been longing for day and night!

"Huo..." she blurted out almost unconsciously, nearly calling out the name that lingered in her heart.

Knowing the truth, Lin Wanyue's heart leaped into her throat upon hearing the name "Huo." She immediately stood up, grabbed Huo Changyun's arm affectionately, and interrupted Shen Rumeng with hostility, asking, "Who are you? Do you know my husband's elder sister?"

husband?

My elder sister?!

Shen Rumeng was momentarily stunned.

She thought her dream had come true and she had finally met the man she had been longing for. However, before she could even utter the name "Huo Changyun," she realized that he was dressed in women's clothing and was clearly a beautiful woman who looked remarkably like her lover.

Could it be that I'm seeing things because I miss you so much?

But why did that other charming and pretty young woman say that she was her husband's older sister?

And who is her husband?

"You..." Shen Rumeng was a little unsure, staring blankly at the two beauties and murmured, "Who are you? This girl, you look a lot like a friend of mine."

Quickly calming down, Huo Changyun came up with a solution. He cleared his throat and said in a high-pitched voice, "The friend you know, young lady, should be my younger brother, Huo Changyun, right?"

My brother and I are twins, so we naturally look very similar.

My name is Huo Yun'er; she is the wife I chose for my younger brother, Changyun. Once I find a witness to clear my brother's name, I will arrange their marriage.

The passage contains a wealth of information.

Shen Rumeng's face turned slightly pale and her body began to tremble.

Huo Changyun actually has a twin sister!

Didn't he say that he was an orphan who grew up on the mountain with his master since childhood?

He lied to me!

Huo Yun'er... his sister actually found him a wife and was going to arrange their marriage...

Huo Changyun, what do you take me for?!

Is she a promiscuous woman who can toy with people's feelings at will?!

Suddenly feeling deceived, betrayed, and abandoned, Shen Rumeng's lips trembled as she looked at the two men with a hint of coldness.

"You must be Shen Rumeng, the new wife of the Luo family patriarch and the new lady of the Luo family manor, right?"

Huo Changyun could feel the protective intent in Lin Wanyue's arms as she tightly held his right arm, which warmed his heart. He was somewhat dissatisfied with Shen Rumeng's deception and silence, so he asked in a somewhat defiant tone, "Madam Luo met my younger brother once during her recuperation in Hundred Flowers Valley, which was around the time of the massacre of the Lieguang Palace thousands of miles away."

The Valley of a Hundred Flowers was implicated and massacred, with countless people dying.

The divine physician Shangguan has been kind to you in treating and recuperating Madam Luo;

Even if I don't stand up and tell the truth to seek justice for my younger brother, I should at least speak out for the divine physician Shangguan of Hundred Flowers Valley!

"Madam Luo, you could clear the names of these two innocent people with just a word. Why are you hiding behind these high walls, acting as if it's none of your business?"

The fluffy dumpling breathed a sigh of relief and shouted at the top of its lungs toward the next room: "Host, all your brainwashing work along the way has paid off! Our unlucky protagonist can finally think things through!"

Hehe, I love this kind of protagonist aura—not letting myself become stupid, not getting tangled up in love to the point of life and death!

Chapter Thirty-Three: Confrontation

Shen Rumeng was speechless when asked the question.

Her lips trembled, and her eyes showed a hint of panic. Then, she said angrily, "Huo Changyun actually deceived me. He said he was an orphan with no relatives except his master, but now he has a sister!"

"So, doesn't that mean Madam Luo deceived my younger brother first?"

Huo Changyun's temper flared up, and he retorted angrily: "You accepted his flattery and affection but left without saying goodbye. When you met him again, he had a fiancé you were betrothed to since childhood and the two of you were already married."

Mrs. Luo, when the girl pretending to be unmarried was having a romantic time with my younger brother, did you ever think about how heartbroken he was when he loved you so much and wanted to marry you, but in the end he could only watch you get married?

He thought it was because he hadn't tried hard enough, or because his family wasn't prestigious enough, that you were forced into marriage, and he was heartbroken day and night, almost falling ill from lovesickness. Little did he know, from the very beginning, you had concealed the fact that you were betrothed since childhood and already had a fiancé, deceiving him first!

In his emotional state, Huo Changyun inevitably raised his voice a little. Just then, Luo Junfei came out of the next room with Jiang Chen and Ling Xiao, intending to ask Shen Rumeng about the testimony.

A woman berated her newlywed wife for concealing her marriage and being intimate with her younger brother. Her voice wasn't loud, but every word reached Luo Junfei's ears. Luo Junfei's face turned pale instantly, and the image of Shen Rumeng's abnormal behavior after their marriage flashed through his mind. His anger burned fiercely.

What a well-educated and reasonable girl!

What a girl who never leaves the house and is raised in seclusion!

From a young age, he knew that his father had arranged a marriage for him with a woman he had been betrothed to since childhood. She was beautiful and charming, and she preferred studying ancient things to swords and clubs. He had admired her for her refined and elegant demeanor and her profound knowledge, which set her apart from those martial arts women who were always fighting and killing.

But it was precisely because of this that he couldn't meet his fiancée beforehand to build a relationship. He was incredibly excited for the wedding day, thinking he would finally have a unique wife and a happy marriage, but who knew she would...

"Brother Luo, this..." Jiang Chen's face showed a hint of embarrassment, and he hurriedly explained, "Although this matter occurred in Hundred Flowers Valley, I really had no knowledge of it..."

Inside the room, the two were still arguing. Huo Changyun recounted in detail how they met, fell in love, made vows of eternal love under the moon, and even went boating on the lake late at night. Shen Rumeng did not deny it, but angrily rebuked Huo Changyun for revealing such a secret to others, feeling that her precious love had been desecrated.

Luo Junfei stood outside the door, listening with a livid face.

Jiang Chen felt guilty and quietly explained that she didn't know about the secret relationship between the two in the valley, but she was also very gratified.

Judging from the original plot, Luo Junfei deeply loved Shen Rumeng, while Shen Rumeng was in love with Huo Changyun. As a result, the prestigious Luo Family Manor, the number one family in the martial arts world, was the stage for one melodramatic love story after another. Regardless of whether the eventual deaths of the two were related to this matter, it is the wisest choice to reveal the truth at this stage.

While Luo Junfei's feelings for his new wife haven't deepened yet, he can save his father and take charge of the overall situation while trying to resolve the grudges between the two. Perhaps this can even save Luo Family Manor.

“Since Shen Rumeng concealed her engagement and met with Huo Changyun every night, she naturally wouldn’t dare let Young Master Shangguan know. This matter has nothing to do with you; it’s all Shen Rumeng’s fault. Please don’t blame yourself for this.” Luo Junfei took a deep breath to suppress his anger, pushed open the door, and stared coldly at the two women who were still arguing.

Shen Rumeng was caught off guard by his sudden appearance, her mind went blank, and cold sweat broke out on her back.

Didn't they say the people in the next room were busy diagnosing and treating patients?

Why did Luo Junfei come in right after I entered and only said a few words?

How much did he hear? Will Huo Yun'er expose him on the spot?

If this happens, will it affect the overall situation?

"I..." Blinded by love and anger, Shen Rumeng looked at her new husband guiltily and said in a very low voice, "I heard that the new doctor came to take my father-in-law's pulse, so I thought I would come over to pay my respects and inquire about his condition..."

When she looked up at the person following behind her husband, her face turned pale, and she pointed at Jiang Chen, her voice trembling, "He...he...why is Shangguan Jiang Chen here? Junfei, you...you've hidden the remnants of the demon in the manor, you'll kill everyone!"

Jiang Chen narrowed her eyes and sneered, asking, "Oh? Miss Shen also thinks Huo Changyun is a great demon, and Shangguan Jiang Chen, who testified for him, is a remnant of the demon? Is this the judgment of the daughter of the martial arts alliance leader, the mistress of Luo Family Manor, and a woman who has been well-versed in Confucian classics since childhood and is known as the most beautiful and talented woman in the world?"

"Tell me, where was Miss Shen a month and a half ago?"

Shen Rumeng was shocked to find him still alive at Luo Family Manor, feeling as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

“I…” She hardened her resolve and said coldly, “A month and a half ago, I was naturally waiting to be married in my boudoir at the Shen family’s Aolong Garden!”

Huo Changyun glared angrily, and with just one sentence, he completely extinguished the last trace of tenderness in his heart.

"You're lying!" He trembled slightly with anger. Looking at the woman who had once been by his side, whispering sweet nothings, she now seemed like a complete stranger, cold and indifferent. He couldn't help but sneer, "Back then, you were recuperating in Hundred Flowers Valley, having a deep and passionate affair with my younger brother Huo Changyun, meeting him every night. Now you're saying you're at Aolong Garden?"

Shen Rumeng, with an air of utter defiance, looked down at me and said, "Do you have any witnesses or evidence? Ha, are you trying to get me to give false testimony and collude with you in order to clear Huo Changyun's name as a great demon?"

"Holy crap! Host, what's she up to?"

The little dumpling scratched its ear, still unable to understand. "Could it be that love turned to hate, and it was out of resentment that Huo Changyun had found a new target and wanted to kill him?"

Jiang Chen's intuition told him that it was definitely not that simple; Shen Rumeng's series of strange behaviors must have another hidden story!

But why?

What good would it do Huo Changyun to become a demon that everyone wants to kill, and for Hundred Flowers Valley to be reduced to ashes?

To erase that ill-fated relationship and pave the way for herself to become the wife of the Luo family?

Or perhaps... she's just a weak woman who doesn't know martial arts, and it would take many people to give false testimony for her to tell such an easily exposed lie. The excuse she blurted out was clearly something she had already prepared, so there must be someone supporting her behind the scenes; at the very least, her father, Shen Aolong, would be involved.

Could it be that the seemingly easy-going, fair and just leader of the martial arts alliance also wanted to see the current situation?

"Miss Shen actually has the ability to create clones, which is truly amazing." Jiang Chen made a judgment instantly, opened the folding fan in his hand with a "whoosh" and gently shook it, a smile appearing on his face. "Since they dare not admit that they are in Hundred Flowers Valley, and I am a suspect, it is really difficult to distinguish the truth from the falsehood when each side has its own version of events."

"Why don't you ask Brother Luo to uphold justice and send someone to Aolong Garden to inquire about the situation and see how Alliance Leader Shen and her servants respond? If everyone testifies that Miss Shen was not recuperating in Hundred Flowers Valley at the time of her marriage, then I will naturally have nothing to say and will accept it."

"Though I am a weak woman, I have always acted uprightly and honestly. Why should I fear my husband sending people to investigate? Go ahead and do it. If even one person says that I am not waiting to be married in Aolong Garden, I will personally take my own life to atone for my sins!" Shen Rumeng stood proudly with a clear and cold voice.

Huo Changyun clenched his fists and sneered, asking in return: "If Miss Shen was in Aolong Garden a month and a half ago, how did she get to know, fall in love with Huo Changyun, who was recuperating in Baihua Valley?"

On the 23rd of August, you two secretly met and went boating on the lake at midnight. On the wooden boat, you took off your outer clothes and wore only a strapless bra embroidered with peonies and butterflies. You sat at the stern with your legs soaking in the water and had him splash water on you to bathe you.

You sing him the Song of the Moonlit Night, and he dances with his sword for you.

Those intimate moments are still vivid in my mind, yet Miss Shen claims she's not in Hundred Flowers Valley? Whose hair is that hibiscus flower from Hundred Flowers Valley adorning? Have you considered that the hundreds of wronged souls in the valley will be unable to find justice because of your shirking of responsibility, howling and crying out day and night, resenting and hating you? How can you possibly rest peacefully every night?!

Chapter Thirty-Four: If You're Unjust, Don't Blame Me for Being Unjust

As her "former lover," Huo Changyun knew her very well; every word she uttered was a bombshell.

Sure enough, upon hearing the words "vengeful spirit," Shen Rumeng's face turned pale, and a hint of fear appeared in her eyes. She had told her beloved in Hundred Flowers Valley that she was afraid of the dark and ghosts, and that hearing stories of evil spirits would give her nightmares.

Being delicate and fragile is a double-edged sword. When they are intimately entwined, it arouses a man's protective instincts and adds a touch of romance to their late-night rendezvous. But when they are face to face, it becomes a weakness that can be attacked.

"I...no! That's not how it happened!" Shen Rumeng cried and roared, covering her ears. "I didn't kill him, so why blame me? If anyone should hate someone, it should be Huo Changyun! It's all his fault! It's all his fault!"

Luo Junfei's face turned ashen as he coldly looked at Huo Yun'er, whom he had always thought was just an ordinary maid. "Miss Huo Yun'er, you said that Shen Rumeng and your brother Huo Changyun had a secret rendezvous on a boat in Hundred Flowers Valley at midnight on the 23rd of August, and that you even knew what she was wearing. Do you have any evidence?"

The scene from that day is still vivid in my mind.

Almost instantly, a beautiful image flashed through Huo Changyun's mind: the moonlight shone on the lake, making it sparkle like shattered silver. The two of them were playing and swimming. Shen Rumeng's peony and butterfly strapless bra was soaked and clung tightly to her body, revealing her graceful figure. Her beautiful face, set against her wet hair, was like a lotus emerging from the water...

His mind was a bit of a mess.

Reliving the past and recalling the tender feelings they once shared, Huo Changyun suddenly felt that he had gone too far. How could he be so cruel to the woman he once loved so deeply?

She is already married and has a bright future ahead of her. If she were to reveal everything, wouldn't that ruin Shen Rumeng's life?

How could I, as a man, be so harsh?

"Say something!" The little white cat perched on his shoulder meowed anxiously, slapped him on the head with its paw, and angrily cursed, "You still have feelings for this kind of person?"

Are you stupid?

She's so heartless and ungrateful, she won't even testify to clear your name. Why aren't you exposing this selfish and vicious woman? What are you hesitating for?

While Huo Changyun was struggling with his decision, he suddenly felt as if he had been hit on the head with a stick, and suddenly realized that it was the innocence of hundreds of lives in Hundred Flowers Valley!