If—
Li Qianfan’s hope of survival rested entirely on Su Nanyin, but if Li Wuji absolutely refused, Su Ziyu would go down on her knees and beg her!
Su Ziyu’s answer did not surprise Mo Hongti.
She held Su Ziyu’s hand and said earnestly, “Su and Mo are one! I’ll accompany you then.”
Su Ziyu nodded, but then gave a bitter smile, “The problem is, I’m afraid even if I can move mother, Qianfan won’t agree.”
Mo Hongti pouted, “Tch, will it be up to him to decide then? As long as mother agrees, dealing with Qianfan is my responsibility. If soft tactics don’t work, we’ll use hard ones. If direct approaches fail, we’ll use indirect ones. In short, if Sister Hongti takes action against her brother, it’ll be a piece of cake. Afterwards, I’ll bear all the responsibility alone. You, the esteemed young madam of Longxu, must not suffer the slightest criticism from anyone.”
She said this, felt it in her heart, and would act upon it.
Su Ziyu knew this very well.
She wanted to thank her—
But felt awkward, “Thanking Sister Hongti for going through so much trouble, to crown me with another pair of green hats? What kind of thing is this?”
“Ziyu, I know you don’t feel good about this either.”
Mo Hongti clearly perceived Su Ziyu’s emotional shift.
She tightened her grip on Su Ziyu’s left hand slightly, “After all, for us women, no one wants their man to associate with other women. We all want to spend our lives together with the man we love. But Qianfan’s status, and especially the cause he’s pursuing, dictate that it’s impossible for him to be solely devoted to you his whole life.”
“Sister Hongti, you don’t need to counsel me. I know better than anyone what I should do to face this unavoidable reality.”
Su Ziyu smiled and asked, “Do many people think I’m particularly pathetic?”
Mo Hongti remained silent.
This was tantamount to an admission.
Was Su Ziyu pathetic?
In terms of status, power, and wealth, she was richer than almost all girls her age.
But in terms of marriage?
Su Ziyu was indeed quite pathetic.
She was already legally married to Li Qianfan, yet she could only stay in Longxu and watch Li Qianfan openly embrace the Scandal Queen in the Su family of Sijiu (as well as Du Yaoya, Chu Yazhi, and others).
Even when necessary—
Su Ziyu had to arrange for Li Qianfan to have intimate encounters with a certain CEO who could slow his aging.
Even Mo Hongti, who was now by her side day and night, was a genuine “shareholder.”
Anyone in Su Ziyu’s position would be a pitiable figure.
“Sister Hongti, actually, I’m not pathetic at all. The truly pathetic Su Ziyu died last year when she was captured by Lan Yunhai at the horse ranch.”
As Su Ziyu spoke, she clasped Mo Hongti’s hand.
She said earnestly, “The Su Ziyu you see now is the Su Ziyu you dug out from the grave, risking your life. From the moment you pulled me out, I knew my fate had undergone a 180-degree transformation. Especially after I repeatedly instructed Qianfan in my will to retaliate against Lan Yunhai with an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, even if I had truly died at that moment, Chu Yazhi and Murong Mingyuan would have become Qianfan’s women.”
Mo Hongti looked at her quietly, without speaking.
“Let’s put aside the role Chu Yazhi plays for Qianfan for now.”
Su Ziyu said, “But we both know, if Murong Mingyuan hadn’t risked her life to carry Qianfan across the Arctic snowfield for several days and nights, how could Qianfan have survived until now? Therefore, I always feel.”
As she reached this point, a flicker of apprehension crossed her eyes.
Mo Hongti asked, “You always feel what?”
“There’s a force in the unseen that’s driving me, you, Chu Yazhi, Murong Mingyuan, Dai Paipai, Du Junlin, Su Nanyin, and others; to gather around Qianfan from all corners of the world. That force, which neither I, Qianfan, nor any of you can resist. It’s highly possible that it has a direct relationship with the primordial 209 that Qianfan carries within him! Even Zhuang Wujian, who created the War Demon Hall, desperately desires Qianfan.”
Mo Hongti’s pupils contracted slightly.
Only after going to Longxu did Mo Hongti learn many legends she hadn't been privy to, about how miraculous (and actually bizarre) the primordial 209 was.
The ghost infant Li Wuji, with his numerous teeth and bloodlust, brought the mysterious 209 into this world from an unknown origin.
After lying dormant for many years, 209 created Ji Ya, the woman who reached the pinnacle of human beauty.
The reason 209 created that most beautiful woman was solely to have Ji Ya save Li Wuji from aging and death in his final moments!
Furthermore.
Mo Hongti also learned that a time tunnel, as depicted in science fiction, might exist in the Xuecang Plateau of the Eastern Lands.
The bizarre 209 might have come from that time tunnel, from a higher dimension to this three-dimensional space.
As early as the 1940s, the German Reich had secretly sent teams to the plateau to search for it.
What made Mo Hongti’s skin crawl even more was.
When Li Xiao took Li Wuji to the plateau to search for the time tunnel, he could faintly hear the voice of the long-deceased Ji Ya, guiding him towards the tunnel!
209!!
Too bizarre, too miraculous.
From the day he was born, Li Qianfan inherited the most primitive 209 from Li Wuji.
This also predestined his life to be extraordinary.
With a *swish*.
Mo Hongti ripped off her facial mask and said in a low voice, “Are you saying that the 209, which most likely came from a higher dimension through a temporal loophole to our world, is that mysterious force in the unseen? Are all of us women potentially targets arranged by 209 all over the world, waiting for Qianfan to find and conquer them one by one?”
Su Ziyu remained silent.
She got off her feet and walked to the sofa before saying, “Sister Hongti, you come.”
The two of them went to the sofa and sat down.
Su Ziyu picked up the paper and pen provided by the hotel from beneath the coffee table and began to write rapidly.
Qingyun.
She circled the location.
Looking up, she said to Mo Hongti, “Before Qianfan came to Qingyun, he had already been wandering in society for months. Not to mention whether his desperate act of offering to become a live-in son-in-law was funny or not. Nor his miraculous medical skills and combat prowess. Just based on his physique and appearance, would girls be smitten?”
Whose son was Li Qianfan?
Setting aside his father, let’s talk about his mother.
Li Wuji was a genuine ageless goddess!
Back in the day, more than twenty years ago (during the era when Su Nanguanyin was hidden from the public), the only girl who could compare to her in beauty was Yu Minmin of Longxu.
How could the child born to such a woman be ugly?
Mo Hongti answered truthfully, “The first time I saw him, even though I was angry, I was still smitten.”
Su Ziyu nodded and continued.
“But after wandering in society for months, visiting so many cities, no girl was ever smitten with him.”
“This in itself is an abnormal phenomenon.”
“Of course, we can explain it as everyone thinking he was joking, so no one took him seriously.”
“Thus, he wandered to Qingyun.”
“The day I met him was precisely the last day of his wandering period given by mother. Then I married him.”
“And then, his romantic luck suddenly blossomed in Qingyun.”
“You were the first one I met, then Dai Paipai, then Chu Yazhi and Murong Mingyuan.”
“The four of you, for various reasons, appeared in his life.”
“Of course, there’s also Bai Ziyan, Jiao Yin, and Du Junlin, who went to Qingyun to break off the engagement.”
“I even suspect that the relationship between Qianfan and Shen Yun is not as pure as we thought.”
“Not to mention the Scandal Queen.”
“In short, Qingyun was a turning point for Qianfan.”
“Not only his destiny changed, but ours were also changed one after another!”
“There is also a reality that I have long thought of but dared not delve into.”
Su Ziyu took a breath.
Mo Hongti asked nervously, “What is the reality you thought of but dared not delve into?”
Su Ziyu picked up her pen and wrote a line on the paper.
Mo Hongti read it aloud, “Qianfan goes to the Shen family in Lingnan to atone for not marrying Du Junlin?”
“Yes.”
Su Ziyu nodded, “Qianfan’s trip to Lingnan was another major turning point in destiny for him and me.”
Mo Hongti quickly asked, “What turning point?”
“If this were a story, Qianfan and I would be the male and female leads. The Scandal Queen and you, Sister Hongti, would be supporting characters. But now? Qianfan and I are often apart. It seems he divorced me and married the Scandal Queen.”
Su Ziyu said softly, “The female lead of the story has changed from me to the Scandal Queen.”