Leng Ruoxue gathered her fire-attribute spiritual power in her hand and waved it at the block of ice. After a few minutes, it meltedâ¦
The man in black was wet and trembling non-stop. At this moment, the two spiritual powers of fire and ice were fighting in the man in blackâs body, both wanting to obtain the upper handâ¦
Leng Qingtian stepped forward and pulled down the mask on the man in blackâs face. Then he was stunnedâ¦
âGrandpa, whatâs wrong?â Leng Ruoxue asked doubtfully after seeing her grandfatherâs reaction.
âNothing,â Leng Qingtian said quickly after coming back to his senses.?How can they be so alike? But no matter how alike they are, a fake is still a fake.
âXueâer, what happened?â Leng Ruohan hurried in.
âItâs okay. Big Brother doesnât have to worry,â Leng Ruoxue hurriedly comforted. She had actually startled her brother.
âThatâs good.â Leng Ruohan turned his head and saw the black-clothed manâs face. He couldnât help exclaiming, âDad!â
Leng Ruohanâs address of âdadâ attracted everyoneâs attention.
âBig Brother, what did you call him?â Leng Ruoxue thought she had heard wrong. But after seeing the othersâ reactions, she was sure that she hadnât heard wrong.
âItâs nothing. I saw wrong, but this man resembles Dad,â Leng Ruohan explained.
âWho are you?â Leng Ruoxue asked the man in black, whose face was alternating between red and white. This man in black was about 40 years old, good-looking, and indeed resembled her brother in some ways.?No wonder Big Brother was mistaken. Grandpa must have thought that he was his son just now too!
âIâm the one who came to take your life.â The man in black looked at Leng Ruoxue with eyes full of hatred.
âYou? If Iâm not mistaken, Noble Consort Xu sent you!â Leng Ruoxue said with certainty. Probably no one else other than Noble Consort Xu would command an advanced Spiritual Sovereign to be an assassin. Moreover, this man resembled her father so much.
âNo, I donât know any Noble Consort Xu,â the man in black denied.
âWhether you admit it or not isnât important to me. Since Noble Consort Xu was willing to send you here, Iâm sure youâre just an unimportant substitute for her,â Leng Ruoxue said with some pity.
âIâm not a substitute! Iâm not a substitute!â the man in black roared furiously.
âI know no one is willing to be someone elseâs substitute, but youâre doing it willingly. Who can you blame?â Leng Ruoxue continued to provoke him.
âI said Iâm not a substitute,â the man in black yelled, somewhat emotionally unstable.
âGrandpa, let him go!â Leng Ruoxue knew that she had achieved her goal.
âOkay.â He believed that Xueâer had her reasons for doing so.
âLeave! On account of you looking so much like my son, I wonât kill you this time. But youâll be dead next time,â Leng Qingtian added oil to the fire.
âXueâer, why didnât you kill him?â Leng Qingtian asked unpleasantly after the man in black left. In his opinion, directly killing such a person would save a lot of trouble.
âBecause I want to use him to restrain Noble Consort Xu and let these dogs fight each other,â Leng Ruoxue explained. After returning from the last banquet, she had asked her grandfather in detail about what had happened back then. Moreover, she had Feng Da investigate it and learned some relatively secret things.
âXueâer, are you sure that person is related to Noble Consort Xu?â Leng Qingtian asked while suppressing his anger.?Xu Lianâer really wants to haunt us!
âYes. Noble Consort Xu doesnât only have people like him by her side. Itâs just that they donât know of each otherâs existence,â Leng Ruoxue said. She knew that there were a few people by Noble Consort Xuâs side who looked a lot like her father. But if it werenât for her brother calling him âdadâ, she wouldnât have been too sure that this person was related to Noble Consort Xu. After all, she had no impression of the father of this body at all.
âXueâer, the Xu family isnât easy to deal with. We shouldâ¦â
âGrandpa, donât worry. I donât intend to deal with the Xu family now. Itâs never too late to take revenge. Itâs been so many years, so we can wait.â Leng Ruoxue tried to calm him down. She was not an impulsive person, so she wouldnât do anything unless she was absolutely sure.
âThatâs good.â Leng Qingtian felt relieved after hearing Xueâerâs words.
âGrandpa, go back to your room and sleep!â
âOkay, weâre going back. Be careful!â Leng Qingtian reminded her worriedly.
âOkay.â
âWhy are you still here?â Leng Ruoxue saw that the others had left, but Freak had no intention of leaving.
âI want to stay behind to protect my fiancée,â Freak said matter-of-factly.?What a great opportunity to be a hero and save the beauty! Too bad it was the fox who actually got lucky. Alas!?He was depressed!
âI can protect myself. Go back to your room and sleep.â She couldnât let Freak stay in her room. Otherwise, she wouldnât be able to clear her name even if she jumped into the Yellow River.
âI donât want to!â With that, Freak took out a blanket from his ring, spread it on the ground, and lay directly on it. But he kept muttering in his heart,?Have pity on me! The ground is very cold!
Unfortunately, he had miscalculated.
Seeing that she couldnât chase him away, Leng Ruoxue ignored him and laid on the bed in her clothes. She fell asleep in no time.
Freak had a sleepless night listening to Xueâerâs sound breathing.?Alas, the plot failed!
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Leng Ruoxue woke up early the next morning. She turned her head and saw a resentful handsome face. His bright black eyes seemed to be welling with tears, and there were two dark circles under his eyesâ¦
Upon seeing Freak like this, she was at a loss.?What does Freak want?
When they walked out of the room, Leng Qingtian and the others, who were already waiting in the corridor, looked at them strangely and ambiguously. It made Leng Ruoxue uncomfortable all over.
âGrandpa, donât be mistaken. We didnât do anything!â She instantly felt regretful.?Didnât I just reveal what I wanted to hide??She turned her head and glared at Freak.