[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 55

Chapter 55: Heart Like Dead Ashes

When Dugu Yuan’an asked this, Xue Mu suddenly sobered up, staring straight at her. “Are you saying Mu Ruo hurt my master?”

Dugu Yuan’an said, “First tell me why you knew it would be her.”

Xue Mu gasped rapidly, moving her gaze to the side. “She… only she would often go to the cold pool. If there must be a surviving orphan of your Yu Clan in my Xue Star Tower, it’s her… But she has never shown martial arts in front of me.”

“She often goes to your cold pool?” Dugu Yuan’an muttered to herself. “When your Fire Poison attacks the heart?”

Xue Mu turned her gaze back. “She did when we were young, but not anymore when we grew up. She… even if Mu Ruo is the surviving orphan of your Yu Clan, why do you say she hurt my master?”

Although she asked this with her mouth, she had actually already anticipated the terrible thought when Dugu Yuan’an mentioned the Soul Cold internal energy. Amidst her anger, she still harbored hope. Seeing Dugu Yuan’an’s expression darken, her heart suddenly ached. “What do you mean? Are you saying my master exterminated the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain?!”

Dugu Yuan’an didn’t speak. Xue Mu panted twice and shouted, “My master is not that kind of person!”

Dugu Yuan’an looked up. Two sharp lights shot from that pitch-black abyss, piercing Xue Mu’s face. “Your master took revenge and committed the sin of slaughter. She admitted it in her suicide note.”

“Then… then how can you be sure that the people she wanted to take revenge on were the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain?” Xue Mu was anxious and angry, her face flushed red, her eyes seemingly burning with fire. “My master didn’t say who she killed!”

Dugu Yuan’an said, “The person who hurt your master must be someone possessing the Soul Cold technique. If the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain was completely exterminated, leaving only me, my Maternal Aunt, and Mu Ruo, my Maternal Aunt didn’t see the scene, so she couldn’t recognize if your master was the culprit. The only person who could hurt your master is Mu Ruo.”

Xue Mu was shocked and suspicious, denying it flatly. “A-Ruo wouldn’t hurt my master!”

Dugu Yuan’an closed her eyes briefly, still maintaining her composure, and said calmly, “Then it can only mean that there are other surviving clansmen of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain who discovered your master’s tracks and came here to kill her.”

“That doesn’t make sense!” Xue Mu said.

“Why doesn’t it make sense?” Dugu Yuan’an said.

Concerning Xue Duanhun’s innocence, Xue Mu’s brain spun rapidly, explaining hurriedly, “Because… because if my master killed people from the Yu Clan, why didn’t the surviving clansmen of the Yu Clan kill her directly when they discovered her? If my master went to Jin Mountain to kill the Yu Clan members, why didn’t anyone use that move to blind my master back then??”

Dugu Yuan’an sighed softly, murmuring, “I am also thinking about this question. I only know that when the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain was exterminated, it wasn’t just one person who broke in to kill and burn. Your master was just one of them; she had accomplices—”

Xue Mu interrupted her, suddenly standing up and moving away from the bed. “My master wouldn’t be the villain who harmed your whole family!”

Dugu Yuan’an fell silent and spoke no more. Watching her quiet appearance, Xue Mu understood how childish her behavior was at this moment. But that was her master, the master she had always respected and trusted—

Xue Mu clenched her fists and suddenly beat her own head hard!

She also wanted to find a reason why Xue Duanhun couldn’t have participated in the tragedy of extermination. But now Xue Duanhun was dead, and the person who injured her was someone who had learned the Soul Cold technique, possibly even Mu Ruo. Xue Duanhun knew her sins were grave, so she chose to commit suicide to end the gratitude and grudges.

Thinking this, all her hopes turned to ashes. Beating her head, she burst into loud wails. How could she accept that her own master exterminated her lover’s entire clan! She treated Mu Ruo as her own sister; how could she accept that her own master exterminated her sister’s true blood relatives!

Xue Mu collapsed by the bed, her legs stretched straight. Holding her head, she bent down forcefully, her face almost touching her thighs. Her chest was stuffy and painful, so she gasped for breath in big mouthfuls.

Dugu Yuan’an slid from the bed to the floor, scooped Xue Mu into her arms, and pressed on her lower abdomen. A cool and cold qi flowed from her palm into the lower Dantian, surging towards Xue Mu’s limbs and bones.

“Mu’er, I know you are in pain. I don’t want you to be in pain, so I didn’t want you to remember anything, nor did I want to drag you into the blood feud of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain again.” Dugu Yuan’an hugged Xue Mu, pressing her cheek against Xue Mu’s ear, speaking softly and gently. “Deep down, I also don’t want your master to have participated in the tragedy of extermination. Your master also didn’t want you to know these things, didn’t want to make you sad and heartbroken.”

Xue Mu shook her head, unwilling to look at her, even wanting to struggle up and run away. However, her internal energy was no match for Dugu Yuan’an, and she was held tightly in her arms. “Where are you going? Are you leaving? Are you leaving me?”

Xue Mu murmured, “My master caused you and A-Ruo to lose your families. I… I…”

“So what? Do you want to bear the sins for your master?” Dugu Yuan’an’s voice turned cold. “Mu’er, the mistakes your master made have nothing to do with you! You are also a victim!”

Xue Mu just repeated blankly, “My master harmed you.” Dugu Yuan’an couldn’t bear it and whispered, “Mu’er, maybe your master really only killed the Yu Clan members who had a grudge against her. You must know that back then, it wasn’t just your master alone who went up to Jin Mountain to kill. She had accomplices, and those accomplices… perhaps the accomplices wanted to exterminate the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain completely.”

Xue Mu said numbly, “Then why didn’t my master want to expose the others? If she wasn’t the mastermind, why didn’t she tell you where the other enemies are?”

Dugu Yuan’an had been thinking hard since Xue Duanhun refused to expose the person who injured her after the incident. At this moment, Xue Mu’s question seemed to open a key, giving her a flash of insight, her brows and eyes sharp. “Maybe… maybe your master wanted to hide something, wanted to cover up something.”

If Xue Duanhun was one of them, then the other person who injured Xue Mu on Jin Mountain back then was still at large elsewhere. She only saw two people when she escaped, but from their conversation, there was a third person on Jin Mountain, and his strength was even greater…

What did Xue Duanhun want to hide? Why take all the blame for the extermination on herself and commit suicide to atone for her sins? Was it because she didn’t want her to continue investigating the events of that year, didn’t want her to seek revenge like a moth flying into the fire only to be killed by the enemy, or was there some unspeakable secret?

“You… you are my wife, and my master harmed you.” Xue Mu lost her strength, collapsing limply in Dugu Yuan’an’s arms. “My master caused your family to be destroyed, caused your mother and sister to die. I… I became her disciple, I let you down.”

“You didn’t let me down; I let you down,” Dugu Yuan’an whispered.

Xue Mu didn’t understand her words. “What do you mean?”

Things having come to this, even if Dugu Yuan’an didn’t want to say it, she had to say it to comfort Xue Mu.

“Didn’t you want to know why you were poisoned?” When she said this sentence, her heart ached like being cut by a knife, but her tone was very gentle. “You took a palm strike from a villain for me, got poisoned, and almost died.”

Xue Mu was stunned for a long time.

“You knew me a long time ago?” she said incredulously.