Chen Yan
Chapter 155 Ambiguity
She had no time for such trivialities.
If not to figure out Qin Yiliu's identity, Yu Qingwu wouldn't want to see Shen Ke at all.
It wasn't that she once had any love for Shen Ke, nor was it a deep-seated, irreconcilable hatred.
It was simply that he was no longer useful, so there was no need to see him and disgust herself.
Yu Qingwu pulled a stool and sat opposite Shen Ke. Her bright features revealed a hint of mockery in the dark prison. She looked at Shen Ke with a smile and said leisurely, "Shen Ke, you're already in this state. What's the point of me humiliating you?"
"The reason I came to see you today is just to remind you of our past relationship..."
"That Qin Yiliu may not be as capable as you think."
"You, bearing the notorious reputation of seducing your brother's wife, and causing discord with your cousin Shen Lin, all for the sake of Qin Yiliu's prophetic abilities. Do you think she can help you gain a future? Help you suppress your elder brother and help you become the heir of the Rongguo Duke's mansion?"
"It's a pity, even if she is prophetic, she is still the same fool she was. Even if she lives a few decades longer, she is no match for me."
She curled her lips, her peach blossom eyes shimmering and enchanting. Her words seemed to reveal a hint of pity as she looked at Shen Ke with a half-smile, like looking at an idiot, yet with a cold and mysterious gaze.
Before coming, Xie Jin Yan had carefully described to her what Qin Xiang, Qin Yiliu's elder sister, had said and showed her the portrait of herself wearing the Empress Dowager's ceremonial robes.
She didn't know why Qin Yiliu was able to foresee the future, but she knew that if Qin Yiliu could really see the future, then her future self would definitely not be as unbearable as she said.
In addition, Qin Yiliu had been targeting her from so early on, so Yu Qingwu felt that her future self must have a grudge against her. And judging from the looks of it, she was the winner, and Qin Yiliu must have lost miserably.
After analyzing and considering this, Yu Qingwu decided to disguise herself as someone like Qin Yiliu to trick Shen Ke.
Sure enough, Shen Ke's face turned pale after hearing Yu Qingwu's words.
Under the scarred face, the blood and the paleness formed a sharp contrast.
At that moment, Yu Qingwu clearly saw the truth in Shen Ke's eyes.
His eyes widened in disbelief, filled with horror, like he had seen a ghost. "You... you... Yu Qingwu, what do you mean? What... what do you know?"
Yu Qingwu smiled and raised an eyebrow, asking him in return, "Shen Ke, I know everything that Qin Yiliu knows. Even if Qin Yiliu is prophetic, she is still repeatedly schemed against by me and cannot escape imprisonment."
"Tell me... what do I mean?"
She chuckled, deliberately drawing out the end of her sentence.
Between her eyebrows and eyes, she slightly revealed some of the enchanting and sinister expression in the portrait.
This... this was too similar!
This expression was exactly the same as Qin Shi described.
So...
Shen Ke's lips trembled violently, his eyes filled with fear.
He stared at her in horror for a long while before stuttering tentatively, "You... you are like Qin Yiliu, you have also lived a lifetime?"
Lived a lifetime? So, Qin Yiliu was able to foresee many things because she had lived a lifetime?
Hearing the result, Yu Qingwu was slightly shocked.
Compared to being able to predict the future, this result was obviously more absurd.
But thinking about it, there were all sorts of wonders in the world, and it was not impossible.
Moreover, although Qin Yiliu could foresee the future, she had never learned anything about it.
And according to Qin Xiang, Qin Yiliu's elder sister, Qin Yiliu seemed to have become a different person after a serious illness. Before the age of fifteen, she was ordinary, cautious, and careful. After that serious illness, she became more and more fond of showing off, gaining the love of a group of young masters in the capital, and also being loved by her adoptive brother and adoptive father. Even if she did something that disgraced the family, the Yingguo Duke would try his best to protect her.
The most important thing for noble families was their reputation. If an ordinary family had a daughter who did such scandalous and dirty things, such as stealing her sister's fiancé, she would either be beaten to death or thrown into a temple to become a nun.
But the Yingguo Duke didn't even care about the face of his legal wife and insisted on protecting this adopted daughter who had no blood relationship with him. The Yingguo Duke was fine, but the heir of the Yingguo Duke's mansion couldn't justify it. That was his own mother. How could he watch an adopted daughter who ruined the family's reputation anger his own mother to death and still protect her everywhere?
The only explanation was power, the benefits that Qin Yiliu's prophetic abilities brought to them.
In the face of interests, how weak kinship was.
It seemed that, as she and Xie Jin Yan had guessed, whether it was Shen Ke, or Qin Yiliu's adoptive father and brother, their so-called infatuation or love for her was all for the sake of her 'prophetic abilities'.
Heh, she didn't know how many people Qin Yiliu had told about her ability.
She didn't even know how many fools who thought they could take shortcuts through her had stumbled on her.
Looking at Shen Ke's face full of horror, Yu Qingwu remained calm.
She sighed softly, smiled, and looked at Shen Ke with some pity, saying, "Cousin Shen Ke, I originally thought that you had treated me well in your previous life, and I was thinking of letting you go..."
"But you..."
As Yu Qingwu spoke, she suddenly stood up and slowly walked closer to Shen Ke, word by word, "But you actually hooked up with that bitch Qin Yiliu. You could have hooked up with anyone, but you had to hook up with that bitch!"
"I'm telling you, I won't let go of anyone who has anything to do with Qin Shi! Qin Shi must die! Your Shen family must be buried with her!"
Yu Qingwu's voice was low, but her eyes were fierce, as if she really had a great hatred for Qin Yiliu.
Shen Ke felt cold all over from her vicious gaze, and his heart was even more regretful and annoyed.
Yu Qingwu was much smarter than that Qin Shi, and she was a thousand times more beautiful than that Qin Shi. If he had known that Yu Qingwu was also a reborn person, why would he have bothered to be affectionate with Qin Shi?
Now it was good, he was implicated by that Qin Shi, not only had his imprisonment come earlier, but even Yu Qingwu, who had originally planned to let him go, wanted to kill him.
Now, not to mention his career and the position of heir, he didn't know what the days in the Guogong mansion would be like after he left this prison. His mother was imprisoned and divorced. Now it was that Liang woman who was in power.
The Liang woman already had an illegitimate child with his father. How could it be his turn in the future?
No, he must not get to that point.
Perhaps... perhaps he had other ways out.
Under the blood-stained face, his eyes rolled slightly. Shen Ke suddenly looked at Yu Qingwu, with tears in his eyes, and called her ambiguously, "Sister A'wu, I... I have never liked that bitch Qin Shi! She is promiscuous and any man can sleep with her! I have been disgusted with her from beginning to end."
"But... but she told me that you would kill our whole family. She told me that you would abandon me and be with other men, and also plot for my Shen family's property. I... I couldn't just watch my whole family die, so I had to... had to be cruel to you."
"But now, I have realized that everything was Qin Shi's slander."
"Sister A'wu, can you forgive me?"