Yun Xi was startled. "Killed her son? But I just saw Zhang Huan's son when he entered the door. Does she have another child?"
But how could a three - year - old child like herself kill her child?
When she first met Hun Yuan, Hun Yuan had told her that every person in the world had their own destiny. Although there were indeed cases of incompatible fates, young children had the weakest influence. Because at a young age, their bodies and souls were not yet fully developed, their birth characters were light and their fates were unstable. There might be minor disasters, but it was impossible to the extent of killing someone.
Before Yun Xi could figure it out, Zhang Huan's inner thoughts continued:
[Why? During the epidemic back then, every branch of the Liu family lost sons or daughters. Why was Liu Jingyue the only one who remained unscathed? Just because she got married?]
[She's still a member of the Liu family! She can't escape!]
[If that person had found this little curse first, my Che'er... wouldn't have died...]
Yun Xi frowned her willow - shaped eyebrows, more confused than ever. She directly pointed it out to Zhang Huan:
"So it turns out that you resent that my brother and I remained safe during the epidemic while your Che'er died at that time. That's why you've held a grudge against my mother ever since."
"How do you..."
"Ridiculous nonsense!"
Everyone looked at Zhang Huan in surprise. Zhang Huan's eyes widened in shock, and the words in her heart blurted out involuntarily.
Fortunately, she stopped in time, and the exclamation of her husband, Liu Yao, covered her words, so no one heard them. But all her inner thoughts fell into Yun Xi's ears—
[How does this curse know? I've never told anyone about this.]
[She... she must be a monster, the monster that killed my Che'er!]
Liu Yao was completely unaware. He was even so busy glaring at Yun Xi that he missed Zhang Huan's obvious expression of being hit right in the heart.
After decades of marriage, he always thought his wife was gentle and soft - spoken. Although they were heart - broken when they lost Che'er, they had slowly moved on over the years, and they had other children. She would never take out her anger on others because of something uncontrollable.
Liu Yao shouted directly and refuted without thinking:
"My wife is not such a person. You can't just spout nonsense and act recklessly just because you've found someone from your maternal family to back you up! Let me tell you, I'm not afraid of the person backing you up..."
"Third brother!"
"Third uncle!"
Liu Jingyue and Yun Qi spoke up in unison, displeased, and were about to retort on Yun Xi's behalf. But then they heard Yi Yuan's cold voice, calm yet imposing:
"Is it enough if I back her up?"
"Uh..."
Meeting Yi Yuan's gaze that regarded him as a dead man, Liu Yao hesitated.
He'd forgotten that this god of death was still here!
Reluctantly, Liu Yao let out a grunt and finally closed his mouth, still dissatisfied.
A flash of amusement passed through Yun Xi's eyes. She looked at Zhang Huan again and continued:
"Who was the person that Nanny Xi handed me over to after she abducted me? Why wouldn't your Che'er have died if they had found me first? Third aunt, how did you get to know that mysterious person?"
Yun Xi cast a casual glance at Liu Yao, who still looked dissatisfied, and hooked her lips playfully:
"As far as I know, that mysterious person is a... man."
Liu Yao stood up abruptly, his eyes bulging as he glared at Zhang Huan, who had long lost her calm demeanor:
"Is what she said true?"
Zhang Huan hung her head silently, making it hard to see her expression.
"Third sister - in - law, say something,"
Liu's second wife couldn't help but urge her:
"If there are any grievances or mistakes, you should make them clear so that we can understand."
[Che'er... Che'er...]
Yun Xi's mind was filled with Zhang Huan's mournful murmurings. It was obvious that she had touched on Zhang Huan's sad past.
"Third sister - in - law,"
Seeing that she still didn't say a word, Liu Jingyue, who didn't miss the drastic change in her face, spoke calmly:
"Since you married into the Liu family, I've never done anything wrong to you. During the epidemic back then, the Liu family was hit the hardest, and I did my best to help."
"Che'er's death was because he was infected with the epidemic. It wasn't deliberately caused by any of us. Yingying was only three years old at that time. There's no way she could be related to it. But you colluded with others..."
"You know nothing!"
Zhang Huan suddenly roared, interrupting Liu Jingyue.
Tears full of hatred and sorrow slid down her eyes one after another, smudging the powder on her face and making her look both ridiculous and heart - wrenching:
"She's a curse! That person told me personally that they were looking for her! If they had found her earlier, my Che'er... my Che'er wouldn't have died! So many people in the Liu family, so many lives, could have been saved!"
"You!"
Zhang Huan pointed at Yun Xi hatefully, her sharp nails as if she wanted to pierce a blood hole in her. Her eyes were red as if they were about to bleed:
"All of this is because of you! You're the one who should have died!
"Why are you still alive? You should be dead! Liu Jingyue, since you're also a member of the Liu family and you want to share the hardships with us, you should also taste the pain I've endured!"
"Slap!"
A crisp slap landed heavily on Zhang Huan's face, knocking her to the ground.
Liu Yao was shaking with anger:
"So it was really you! Who is that wild man!? Do you believe whatever he says!?"
"You actually listened to the slander of an outsider and harmed the blood of your own family! You... you're so vicious!"
"I'm vicious!?"
Zhang Huan's face was full of tears:
"If I hadn't been cruel enough to send this curse to that person, do you think our Ning'er could have survived? Your..."
Her thin, pointed finger was like a sharp arrow, pointing around from the position of her gold bracelet. Zhang Huan's voice became even shriller:
"All your children would have died!"
"Hehe..."
Zhang Huan let out a few crazy laughs, her expression deranged and even a bit proud:
"You don't know yet. Back then, when I went to the palace to deliver things to the Liu family members in the palace, I accidentally heard that person talking to a woman. He said that he had tried all the Liu family children, but he hadn't found the one he was looking for. He was going to expand the search, maybe among the side branches of the Liu family."
"And he wouldn't care about the other Liu family children who were infected with the epidemic but still alive. They would all die in a few days anyway. He would only focus on finding the one he wanted."
"It was me. I thought of Liu Jingyue, who had married out. I wrote down the birth characters of her two children, collected their hair and fingertip blood, and sent them to that person. I confirmed that the one they were looking for was this curse!"
"It was also me. I went through great hardships to send people to kidnap her, which bought the antidote for the Liu family children! Otherwise, all the children in the Liu family at that time would have died!"
The more Zhang Huan spoke, the more excited she became. Her hair was in disarray, her clothes were askew, and the madness and cruelty in her eyes overwhelmed all her senses:
"Isn't she a curse!? If it weren't for her, how could the Liu family have suffered such a great disaster? And how could my Che'er have died!"
"You should all thank me. You should all kneel three times and kowtow nine times to me! It was me who saved all the children, but now you're blaming me for sending this curse away! Ahahaha..."
Suddenly, Zhang Huan stopped. With lightning speed, she pulled out the gold hairpin on her head and stabbed at Yun Xi's neck with hatred on her face:
"Go to hell—"