"So, from the very beginning to the very end, you've never regarded me as your daughter, right?"
Yuan Xin said, "You're not my daughter. You weren't before, you aren't now, and you never will be."
"I'm just a pawn?" Jun Xin asked.
Yuan Xin replied, "I've raised you for seventeen years. In these seventeen years, I've never bothered about the many troubles you've caused for the Yuan family. Xin'er, today is the time for you to repay my kindness in raising you. Weren't you always saying you wanted to repay me? Now that you have this chance, you should feel honored."
Jun Xin looked at Yuan Xin.
At this moment, she felt that people always said she was crazy, willful, and unflinching when killing.
Jun Xin thought Yuan Xin was even more terrifying. His way of "killing" was far more sophisticated than hers. She was just a pawn in his hand. Whenever he disliked someone or someone posed a threat to the Yuan family, it was always Jun Xin who was sent to deal with them.
She didn't care how cruel her methods were.
Nor did she care about the bad reputation she might bear.
She just liked it when, after she completed a task, Yuan Xin would stroke her head and say, "Good girl."
"They all said I was stupid, but actually I understand everything. Yuan Xin, I only regarded you as my family, so I pretended not to understand those things."
"However, it seems you don't see me the same way."
Yuan Xin frowned and whispered, "Jun Xin, don't even think about running away. You won't be able to."
Jun Xin shook her head.
"I don't want to run."
Then she gently took out the boneless fan she had received from Feng Zhan before.
She turned the handle.
The sharp ribs of the boneless fan turned into a dagger.
She stabbed it deep into her heart.
She knew she couldn't escape, but she still couldn't bring herself to take action against Yuan Xin.
When she was a child, it was him who called her Xin'er.
It was him who taught her to walk.
It was him who carefully picked out the vegetables she didn't like.
It was him who taught her martial arts and mental techniques. No matter what happened, it was him who protected her.
Jun Xin really, truly regarded Yuan Xin as her own father.
When she stabbed the dagger deeply into her body, she saw the fleeting panic in Yuan Xin's eyes.
Maybe he didn't expect that she would sacrifice herself without even putting up a fight.
Jun Xin reached out her hand.
From her lips came the two words she had never dared to say.
"Father—"
Yuan Xin's body trembled.
He couldn't move his feet for a moment.
This call of "father" was really too shocking.
Jun Xin's body fell to the ground. Until then, the hand she had reached out didn't receive any response from Yuan Xin.
Yuan Xin would never know.
When Feng Zhan said those things to Jun Xin, she had already started to waver.
When Yuan Xin greeted her with a smiling face on the city gate, she had also felt panicked.
When she came out of Yuan Xin's study, despair had already started to fill her heart.
She knew that there was an abyss and a pit of fire ahead.
But she was unwilling to give up. She just wanted to take a gamble. She just wanted to see if the man who had raised her since childhood would really regard her life as worthless for the sake of a divine beast.
The room was like a gaping, blood - red mouth.
But Jun Xin just smiled and walked in.
The moment Jun Xin's body fell to the ground, her pupils completely lost their luster.
Miaoxi covered her mouth when she saw this scene.
Yuan Xin finally lost his balance and sat down on the chair behind him.
Since she had noticed something, why didn't she run?
She should have run. To prevent her from running away, he had even set up such a solid protective shield. But she didn't even resist.
"Master, what should we do?"
Yuan Xin's voice trembled a little.
Maybe he had unconsciously developed feelings for this willful little witch who would follow him around and call him foster father.
"Seal her body so that no blood will flow out. Prepare for the sacrifice."
Miaoxi nodded and quickly used her spiritual power.
But at this moment, Yuan Xin stopped Miaoxi's hand.
"Let me do it."
Miaoxi nodded and stepped aside.
After Yuan Xin sealed Jun Xin's body, the protective shield outside the room disappeared.
Feng Zhan sighed.
Holding the pure - white porcelain bottle in his hand, he could already circulate his inner strength in his dantian.
The door opened.
The inside was in a complete mess, but there was no sign of that girl Jun Xin.
Feng Zhan had already guessed the girl's fate.
Sure enough, these people's minds were unfathomable. Just as Bu Ran had said, those who could become the masters of great families not only had excellent personal abilities but also were extremely shrewd, scheming, and ruthless.
Yuan Xin and Miaoxi walked out.
Miaoxi stepped forward.
"Jun Xin, the leader of the Yunyan Alliance, committed a crime of insubordination and attempted to harm the master. She has been beheaded by the master. From now on, the power of the Yunyan Alliance will belong to our Jingyue Palace."
Yuan Xin left.
No one could tell what was on his mind at this moment.
Feng Zhan noticed that the fingers of Yuan Xin hidden behind his back were trembling slightly.
After the head of the Yuan family left.
The people of the Yunyan Alliance began to pay their respects to Miaoxi.
"Your subordinate pays respects to the palace master."
Miaoxi was quite satisfied, but after looking around, she found that the white - clothed man wearing a bamboo hat at the back didn't move at all.
Wasn't he the useless man that Jun Xin always kept by her side?
She wondered what was so special about this man that even the little witch Jun Xin was so infatuated with him.
"Come here."
Miaoxi raised her slender finger and pointed at Feng Zhan.
Everyone looked at Feng Zhan.
Feng Zhan also came back to his senses. Indeed, all the members of the Yunyan Alliance in front were kneeling on the ground, and he was the only one standing, which was really conspicuous.
Feng Zhan didn't move.
At this time, a woman from the Yunyan Alliance stood up and whispered something in Miaoxi's ear.
After listening, Miaoxi showed a smile on her face.
"You don't like that little witch Jun Xin either?
"Now it's all right. You don't have to kill her. She's already dead. Anyway, you don't have much ability now. This palace master isn't afraid of anything strange about you. From now on, you can follow me to the Jingyue Palace and be a handyman. That would be good too."
More importantly, the woman from the Yunyan Alliance had just said that this man was extremely good - looking.
Feng Zhan smiled slightly.
He threw the porcelain bottle behind him into the grass.
He said slowly, "Maybe it won't work."
Feng Zhan's voice was deep, magnetic, and full of smiles. Just listening to him speak was like the clear sound coming from a quiet spring, making people feel ethereal but fatally attractive.
"What did you say?"
Feng Zhan was wearing a bamboo hat.
He replied, "I say, no."