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"Probably not." Long Zuoyou's gaze lingered on Tao Rusu for a moment. "The two bloodlines have been blending within her body for nearly twenty years. If there was a backlash, it wouldn't have reached this point. Moreover, if she participates in the water-walking ceremony, she will inevitably awaken the power of the dragon bloodline."

Tao Rusu didn't answer immediately: "I understand the situation, but... let me think about it. I will give you an answer within three days."

"Okay." The second elder had already shown his sincerity and didn't mind waiting for three more days, so he stood up and took his leave.

Before leaving, Bai Yu and Su Ruoli exchanged glances, and he added a question: "Does the Second Elder know Ao Xuanyue?"

Long Zuoyou stopped and looked back: "Where did you get this name?"

Bai Yu didn't answer but asked, "Ao Xuanyue's surname... is the same as Ao Muxue's. Does that mean she also has Dragon Emperor bloodline?"

There are currently two surnames in the Dragon Hometown, Ao and Long.

The latter is obviously more common, while the former has only been heard twice.

Long Zuoyou didn't answer.

But silence is also an answer.

Bai Yu continued to ask, "Is Ao Xuanyue's disappearance related to the water-walking ritual?"

The second elder's expression changed slightly.

Bai Yu smiled and said, "It seems that although you have said a lot, you still have some reservations."

Long Mingcheng quickly spoke to smooth things over: "About Ao Xuanyue..."

Long Zuoyou raised his hand to interrupt the flustered Long Mingcheng. The old man looked at Bai Yu with a sharp gaze and did not flinch. He said, "You guessed right. And I can tell you one more thing - people from Qianchen Society also came to Dragon Country and left some things behind."

The old man stopped talking and turned to leave. It was obvious that he understood that before fishing, he had to prepare a good nest first.

Throw out the bait and wait for the other party to take the bait.

Ao Xuanyue’s disappearance is related to Qianchen Society.

Now, the fact that Su Ruoli of Qianchen Society is Su Ruoji's sister has already spread due to the Zhenfa Society incident, and anyone who is interested can find out.

After closing the door, Bai Yu laughed and scolded, "What an old fox."

Su Ruoli felt that it was unexpected but reasonable. She said, "The other party came prepared."

"The goals of both parties have become clear at this point." Bai Yu nodded his chin. "What do you think?"

He muttered to himself, "To be honest, I'm a little panicked. I'm worried that I'll be taken hostage in Dragon Country and have to ask my grandfather to use the Azure Dragon Claw as ransom."

"The Dragon Clan wouldn't dare offend the Ten Evils. They don't have the guts. Their spines would be broken by a Tyrant." Tao Rusu sneered, "You heard what they just said... They launched the Dragon Sword Spring just to stop others from looking down on the Dragon Clan. What a brilliant idea."

"But there wasn't a single mention of the blood debt that happened twenty years ago."

"The Dragon Country today only cares about self-preservation, not revenge. This alone shows that their backbone is broken, like the vertebrae extracted from the remains of a Dragon Emperor."

"Even Priest Jiaoyang doesn't dare to face him directly."

"How could they have the courage to offend the Ten Evils?"

Bai Yu agreed: "In fact, I admire Long Jianquan a little bit. At least he is reckless enough. Although he doesn't consider the consequences, he is at least a tough guy."

"This is your business. We won't force you." Su Ruoli picked up the disposable paper cups on the table and said, "Think about it carefully. As long as you don't regret it, it's fine."

Tao Rusu smiled sincerely: "Thank you, I'm very happy that you said that."

"You're welcome. After all, this matter involves life and death. If something goes wrong, it would be difficult for us to save you with our current strength. Especially now that everything is still unclear, it would be dangerous to keep the appointment."

Instead, Su Ruoli took the initiative to persuade her to think it over carefully or even give up.

Without waiting for the other party's reply, she yawned gracefully: "I'm going to rest, good night."

Then, in front of everyone else, he walked over to Bai Yu, hugged her, rubbed her face, and went back to his room to rest contentedly.

Qin Xuezao suddenly realized what was going on and planned to follow Miss Su's example, but Bai Yu realized it in advance and threw him back into the room.

When Bai Yu walked back to the living room, he saw Tao Rusu with a teasing look on her face. He said unhappily, "Are you thinking of something happy?"

"I just want to lament that you are so despicable. You are already married to Su Ruoli, but you are still flirting with other girls." Tao Rusu patted Bai Yu's shoulder. "She just advised me not to go. She didn't say that to me, but to you as well. Once you get involved, there will be great risks."

Bai Yu said, "I've been mentally prepared."

"Then, so do I."

Tao Rusu turned off the lights in the living room. Only the moonlight illuminated her back in the dark living room. She opened the floor-to-ceiling window and walked to the center of the courtyard. The wind made a rustling sound, and the girl gently expressed her feelings.

"You already know my bloodline and my background. Next..."

"Want to hear my story?"

Chapter 355 Seeds of Hatred

Tao Rusu's parents are an elderly couple in their fifties. When they were young, the wife lost her fertility due to a car accident. The couple was very loving, so they had no children.

Even if one wants to find someone to adopt the child, it is a difficult task. Since he was 30 years old, he has visited welfare homes many times, wanting to adopt a child, but was told that he was not old enough and did not meet the adoption requirements, and needed to wait.

When they were forty, their thoughts had faded and they were both busy with their work.

When they were over fifty years old, one spring day when it was drizzling, they saw an abandoned baby under a peach tree.

There was a cradle under the tree, and inside the cradle was a beautiful girl.

In the words of their adoptive parents - they felt it was God's will.

Abandonment is not allowed in Daxia society. Education is the foundation of a country, and the control over children is extremely strict. Family education is also an important part. If irresponsible parents are found out, they will be forcibly deprived of custody after two warnings and sent to a social welfare institution to be raised by professionals.

When an abandoned baby is found anywhere, it will attract the attention of the local night watchman, public opinion will ferment, and the media will supervise. Local officials will open a reporting hotline. Once the discovery is confirmed, the reporter can receive a high reward.

Coupled with the strict implementation of the household registration system, once ordinary people have undergone any pregnancy test, they will inevitably leave blood samples, genetic data and other records in public institutions, which makes abandonment impossible.

When the adoptive parents picked up the child, their first reaction was to notify Chang Ye Si, but after testing, they could not find any matching blood sample records. Even after reporting it to the province, they still could not find it.

After a month of waiting, there was still no specific clue, and the omnipotent public reports were also ineffective. The only relevant clue was that a witness saw a young woman in her twenties.

This child has indeed become an abandoned child.

The old couple was determined to adopt the baby girl despite all the difficulties. They believed that this was God's will.

The girl they picked up on the day they just celebrated their 50th birthday was a child sent to them by God.

Both old men had the surname Tao. They met her under a peach tree in the misty spring, so they named her Tao Rusu.

Tao Rusu's birth was not blessed.

She knew this as early as when she was five years old and found her swaddling clothes in the compartment on the top floor.

Her adoptive parents did not hide the truth from her and told her that she was an adopted girl.

But after learning about it, Tao Rusu behaved very naturally. She was a precocious child and had been able to remember things since she was five years old. Ordinary five-year-old children at this time were still confused and had only partial understanding of many things, but she had already started reading and studying.

Thanks to the careful care and love of her adoptive parents, she was able to grow up in a healthy family environment. Both elderly people came from good families and received education. They were both from Nanling since childhood. She also received a good family education. She did not think there was anything wrong with calling two elderly people who were old enough to be grandparents as parents.

Blood relationship is actually not important in her family.

The three are not related by blood, but that does not prevent them from becoming each other's closest relatives.

But changes always happen.

When she was thirteen, she lost all her relatives.

The two murderers kidnapped her entire family and hid them somewhere.

Their request was incomprehensible to Tao Rusu, who was still a junior high school student at the time.

They asked Tao Rusu to tell them where her father was.

She had no idea what the other person was talking about. Wasn't her father tied up right next to her?

Her silence and surprise were taken as resistance by the other party.

So they cut off one of their adoptive father's fingers.

Blood splattered, and Tao Rusu screamed in fear, "I really don't know what you are talking about, please!"

The two thugs with ferocious expressions roared without hesitation: "Tell us where he is!"

"I'm just an abandoned baby. I don't know who the father you're talking about is!"

"Be tough!"

click!

Another finger was broken.

During the torture that lasted for more than an hour, Tao Rusu witnessed her adoptive parents being tortured beyond recognition by two thugs. At the same time, she learned about her own life experience for the first time... She was the daughter of a tyrant.

The two thugs in front of them had their families destroyed by the tyrant, so they did not hesitate to choose the most extreme means of revenge. After they knew who Tao Rusu's bloodline was, they took the initiative to come to him.

Kidnapping, forced confession, murder... maybe it has been done more than once.

The two thugs who transformed into evil spirits for revenge confirmed that Tao Rusu really knew nothing after the interrogation.

But this did not make them feel happy because it meant they had come up empty-handed.

Anger needed to be vented on someone, so the knife was placed on her neck.

Torturing and killing the Tyrant's relatives would give these two men an outlet for their madness and anger.

Tao Rusu no longer had the strength to resist. She sat on the chair, her spirit almost collapsing.

The adoptive mother, who was tortured beyond recognition, suffered a relapse of heart disease. The adoptive father, with his last breath left, fell in a pool of blood. He looked at his daughter with tired and desperate eyes, trying to squeeze out a trace of comfort.

He might be trying to say - we don't blame you.

But without a tongue, he couldn't open his mouth at all and could only spit out large mouthfuls of blood. In the end, he died with his eyes open.

This scene made the thirteen-year-old girl feel what it meant to be in excruciating pain for the first time in her life.

She gave up resisting and let the knife be brought to her neck like a lamb to be slaughtered.

Then she was saved.

The person who saved her was a woman with waist-length hair.

She could tell who the other person was at a glance because he looked so similar to her.

That was the first and last time Tao Rusu saw her biological mother.

She cleanly and efficiently killed two thugs and scum who had fallen into evil ways for revenge.

Although Tao Rusu didn't know the strength of their realms, he could tell at a glance that the other party's strength was far superior to those two.

How did she find here?

Tao Rusu was not very grateful, but instead was thinking... why did he come so timely?

He arrived just in time when I was about to die.

"You've been here a long time ago, haven't you?"

Tao Rusu questioned the woman standing in the middle of a pool of blood in an extremely calm and low voice.

The woman didn't answer.

"You've already arrived, but you refused to help, just to see if they can force something out of you! Right?"

"answer me!"

She screamed as if her throat was breaking.

Tao Rusu struggled hard, and the edges of the metal cut her skin and dislocated or broke her arm.

The woman showed a slight reaction. She turned her face to the side, her eyes cold and empty, like a dry meadow, with deathly silence as the only color.

"So what?"

The woman turned and left, ignoring her own daughter who was tied to a chair and struggling.

Tao Rusu sat in the chair, almost losing her soul.

Even when she was abandoned, she stayed quietly under the peach tree, gazing at the strange world with her big eyes, hoping it would be beautiful and colorful.

she wailed.

……

“From that point on, I understood two things.”

"First of all, my identity will inevitably bring disaster."

"The bloodline of a tyrant is always a problem."