I only then realized why Yu Longting was so angry, it was simply because Lin Xinmei's delirious cursing had involved me. "In the eyes of the people of the Lin family, I am indeed fallen, although it's a prejudice, but that's how their education is. The perspectives of sect members and disciples are all shaped in this way, I can't really blame Lin Xinmei."
"You, a person with a clumsy mouth, have become so eloquent for Lin Xinmei," Yu Longting spoke darkly, "What to do? I'm even more inclined to slaughter her now."
Six dots popped up in my mind: "..."
Did my persuasion backfire?
"Red Centipede, spare her," Yu Longting raised his hand.
The heart-wrenching screams of Lin Xinmei abruptly stopped.
At this moment, drenched in sweat with her hair wet and clingy, she lay prostrated on the ground like a lump of mud.
"Snake Lord, that crazy... that mysterious woman in the loft, she raised three children. The eldest is a boy, Lin Qianshan, the second is Lin Xinmei, the third is Lin Xintang; all girls," Lin Hang voluntarily introduced, and because he received a fierce glare from Lin Xinmei, the words "crazy woman" he was about to say were forcibly swallowed back.
After listening, I found myself even more puzzled about many things. "What's the surname and name of the woman in the loft, what's her background? Why does she live in the loft of the main residence? I've heard that Lin Gang was always single..."
"Lin Gang has always been a bachelor. He brought that woman back and kept her in the loft, yet he never married her. No one knows what she looks like or what her name is." Lin Hang looked at Lin Xinmei with malicious eyes. "That place, only Lin Gang and the woman's three children come and go. When I was a child, I heard the woman's laughter from the loft—it was quite frightening.
That's why I said, although Lin Qianshan, Lin Xinmei, Lin Xintang all bear the Lin surname, the authenticity of their bloodlines is dubious, and no one truly regards them as people of the Lin family."
"A woman without even a name, living in the Lin family out of the blue, isn't it strange to the people of the Lin family?" I asked Lin Hang.
Lin Hang shrugged, "Everyone finds it strange, but Sect Master Lin ordered that no one is allowed to go up to the loft, nor are they allowed to discuss it privately."
I fell silent for a moment.
The Sect Master that Lin Hang referred to must be my grandfather Lin Huan, right?
If it wasn't for Lin Huan's approval,
how could that woman have stayed in the Lin family for so long?
After reflecting for a while, I gathered my thoughts and asked Lin Xinmei, "Lin Xinmei, who taught you the Forbidden Woman's Technique?"
"I... my mother..." Lin Xinmei glared at me with resentment. She had been disciplined by Yu Longting and, though she was extremely unwilling, she dared not defy us.
I caught the key point. "Is your mother's identity that of the Forbidden Woman?"
The Forbidden Woman's Technique has been esoteric and rare since the time of the pre-Qin dynasty, known by very few people.
And the people of the Lin family practice Exorcism Technique, not the Forbidden Woman's Technique.
It was easy to speculate that the mysterious woman in the loft was a Forbidden Woman, and Lin Xinmei's superb art of the Forbidden Woman was all imparted by that woman.
"Yes," the resentment in Lin Xinmei's eyes grew even more intense.
Feeling uncomfortable under Lin Xinmei's gaze, I noticed something peculiar on her with my Spiritual Eye, the more I looked, the dizzier I became. I could only tap my temples with my hands to stimulate myself and stay conscious,
"Yu Longting, I think my head's a bit broken."
"Oh? Where's it broken?" Yu Longting asked half-teasingly, his fingers touching my temples as he lightly massaged them. "Got a headache?"
I exhaled, "I feel dizzy. When I look at Lin Xinmei's soul, I see double."
"My wife, that's not double vision. There are two souls inside her body," Yu Longting revealed a slightly amused expression and said to me.
I dropped my hand from rubbing my forehead, looked at Yu Longting then back at Lin Xinmei, "Are you split-personality? No no no, that's not right! You... you're a twin?!!"