Chapter 25

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Am I really?” Yan Xi blinked and pretended to be serious.

“You’re such a brat,” Yan Hong said unhappily and threw the porcelain bottle in his hand to Yan Xi. “Use this skin regeneration cream first. It has the effect of reducing scars.”

Yan Xi looked at the ointment in her hand. It was a very popular beauty ointment in the kingdom and was very expensive.

Although she did not need it, it was a gesture of goodwill from an elder. Yan Xi accepted it with a smile. “Then I thank you, Elder Hong.”

Yan Hong opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he stopped.

“Do you have anything else to say?” Yan Xi tilted her head.

“Yan Xi, don’t hate your grandfather. Back then, he…” Before Yan Hong could finish speaking, he suddenly saw a majestic figure walk over with his hands behind his back.

It was Yan Zhongshan.

“Yan Xi, come with me to the study.” Yan Zhongshan went straight to the point.

“Grandpa.” When Yan Chushi heard that Yan Zhongshan wanted to take Yan Xi away, he thought that Yan Zhongshan was going to settle the score for Yan Lan.

He tightened his grip on Yan Xi’s sleeve, his big black eyes looking uneasily at Yan Zhongshan.

“What’s wrong? You’re still afraid that I’ll eat your sister?” Yan Chushi’s protective look piqued Yan Zhongshan’s interest. However, his stern face only made him look fiercer.

Yan Zhongshan seemed to have realized this too. He immediately coughed twice and remained expressionless. “Don’t worry. I’m just looking for Yan Xi to have a chat.”

“Chushi, you go first.” Yan Xi touched the little boy’s head.

Yan Chushi nodded obediently and left.

“Chushi loves you very much.” Yan Zhongshan walked in front and sighed. “I’d be relieved if all the Yan family’s children had such a good relationship. They are clearly of the same bloodline, but there’s so much strife and unhappiness. Don’t you think it’s strange?”

Hearing him hint at her relationship with Yan Lan, Yan Xi raised her eyebrows and said bluntly, “Chushi and I love each other sincerely. Blood doesn’t mean everything. Not everyone is worthy of sincere friendship. If what you’re saying is for me to forgive Yan Lan’s actions over the years, then I have only one thing to say, Master Yan.”

Yan Zhongshan paused. “What is it?”

“How can I repay evil with good?” Yan Xi quietly spat out these words. Her dark eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of ice as she stared at Yan Zhongshan calmly. “Instead of punishing the perpetrator, you want the victim to forgive the perpetrator. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous, Master Yan? Or… Is it because she’s a genius and I’m a piece of trash that can’t cultivate that I deserve all the humiliation I’ve suffered all these years?”

Her last question was extremely sharp.

Yan Xi felt a sense of depression rise from the bottom of her heart. It was the resentment of the original owner who had been bullied for more than a decade.

Yan Zhongshan stared at the girl in front of him and sighed. She was very prickly.

Also, he noticed that she called him Master Yan and not… Grandpa.

She still blamed him.

Yan Zhongshan sighed heavily. “I’m sorry. After your father passed away, I was in seclusion for ten years and didn’t take good care of you. Instead of apologizing to me, why don’t you apologize to my father?” Yan Xi’s eyes flickered with impatience. The moment he mentioned Yan Wufeng, it reminded her of how her father had been sentenced as a thief and expelled from the family tree.

“Yan Xi,” Yan Hong, who had been following in the background, finally could not help but call out anxiously.

Yan Zhongshan raised his hand to stop Yan Hong from speaking. He said in a low voice, “I also don’t believe that Feng would do something like stealing.”

Yan Xi’s eyes were even colder.

So… He knew that Yan Wufeng did not do it, but he deliberately slandered him?

“When I heard the news of Feng’s death, I immediately announced that I would hand over the family’s affairs to your eldest uncle. Then, I concealed my identity and trekked through the night to the Longyuan Empire in an attempt to investigate this matter.” Yan Zhongshan’s tone was heavy.

Yan Xi was stunned. Did this happen back then?

“The Yan family can’t do without their Mystical King, so I didn’t tell anyone else about this. Only Yan Hong and a few other elders know.” Yan Zhongshan recounted the events of the past. “After I arrived at the Longyuan Empire, I secretly investigated your parents’ whereabouts. I wanted to at least find their bodies. Later, someone found out that I was investigating Feng’s matter and began to hunt me down. I was hit by the other party’s palm, which was poisonous. I didn’t dare stay in the Longyuan Empire any longer, so I had to travel through the night to return to the Muyun Kingdom. I also asked Yan Hong to spread the news that I was going into seclusion to prepare to break through to the next realm. In fact, I’ve been trying to get rid of the poison in my body all these years, and it was only a few days ago that I managed to control the remaining poison.”

Yan Xi discovered that Yan Zhongshan’s aura was strong on the surface, but it was very weak on the inside. It was obviously the result of a long-term illness.

It was just that he was far away before and had been using pressure to cover up the true condition of his body, so she could not sense it.

“Child, your father’s matter is not as simple as it seems. The Yan family is just an ant in comparison to the enemy.” Yan Zhongshan’s heart still palpitated at the thought of the person he had met that night. “When your uncle announced that your father would be expelled from the family tree, I had just returned from the Dragon Abyss. I was poisoned and couldn’t show my face. However, I can’t punish him due to this, because the Yan family can’t afford to offend such a huge power. As the head of the family, he didn’t do anything wrong. As a father, I really want to avenge Feng and seek justice. However, as the family head, I can’t do whatever I want, do you understand?”

This old man, who was originally full of prestige, now looked old and tired.

“I know,” Yan Xi nodded. She was the head of the Yan family in her previous life, so she naturally knew how to shoulder the responsibility of the family’s future.

Yan Zhongshan nodded his head in relief. He was about to take advantage of the atmosphere to make her call him Grandpa.

This granddaughter of his had been scared of him since she was a child. She would hide from him the moment she saw him. Now that she was finally not afraid of him, he must hear her call him Grandpa!

However, before he could be happy for a few seconds, he heard his granddaughter blink and say something infuriating. “However, isn’t the root cause of all that you’ve said because you’re not strong enough?”

Yan Zhongshan was rendered speechless. He could not deny it when he heard his granddaughter say such hurtful words!

Yan Hong disagreed. “Yan Xi, we were forced to do that. You’re still young and don’t know the difficulties Master Yan had to face.”

Yan Xi smiled faintly, and a sharp light flashed in her dark eyes. “I don’t know what other people are like. However, when I love someone, I will make sure that they will always have justice.”

In her previous life, when she was the head of the family, no one in the world dared bully the Yan family.

Yan Zhongshan felt a strange feeling as he looked at the young girl in front of him. She was not joking.

He could not help but think that if Yan Xi could cultivate, wouldn’t it be a good choice to let her take over the Yan family?

“I will seek justice for my father for the injustice he suffered. Grandpa, you didn’t just ask me to come here to talk about this, did you?” After the misunderstanding was cleared up, Yan Xi felt that the old man who liked to keep a straight face was not so annoying.

Hearing Yan Xi call him Grandpa made Yan Zhongshan overjoyed. But when he thought about the question she asked, his usually serious face showed some embarrassment.

He coughed.

“Xi… I also wanted to ask… What do you think about the engagement with the Holy Son?”