[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 57

Chapter 57: A Traitor Within?

Xue Mu’s emotions fluctuated wildly. Dugu Yuan’an tapped several of her acupoints, letting her sleep quietly. She herself read the suicide note left by Xue Duanhun dozens of times, but could still only see that Xue Duanhun wanted to take all the blame alone, not wanting Xue Mu to be involved, not wanting her to suffer new entanglements from the pain of the extermination of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain and her master’s suicide.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. She glanced at the sleeping Xue Mu and whispered, “Come in.”

“…Master.” Behind Zi’ang followed Dugu Huansheng. Dugu Yuan’an raised her hand to signal for quiet, walking forward on double crutches. Zi’ang pushed the wheelchair over. Dugu Yuan’an sat down and lifted her chin towards the door. Zi’ang understood and pushed her into the courtyard.

Dugu Huansheng walked to the bedside and looked down at Xue Mu. Seeing the sleeping girl’s eyes and nose still very red, pity arose in her heart. She sighed silently and left quietly.

“Little Aunt, this is Senior Xue’s suicide note. Please take a look.” The three arrived at the guest room on the other side of the courtyard. Dugu Yuan’an handed the folded paper to Dugu Huansheng. Dugu Huansheng took it, scanned it a few times, and returned it. “Ruo’er is still in the Xue Star Tower. I sent someone to notify her. She was very surprised, and also very cold.”

Dugu Yuan’an frowned. “How did Mu Ruo injure Senior Xue’s eyes?”

“Ruo’er didn’t hurt Xue Duanhun. If she had attacked, those Guardian Stars in the Xue Star Tower would definitely have noticed,” Dugu Huansheng said. “Although her internal energy has reached the ninth level of Soul Cold, her palm and sword techniques are not refined. She couldn’t beat those Guardian Stars, so how could she knock out those dozen or so Guardian Stars?”

Dugu Yuan’an was stunned. Although she suspected there was a fourth Yu Clan member, she couldn’t figure out who it was. “Little Aunt, when you went to Jin Mountain, did you check the corpses of the clan members?”

Dugu Huansheng sighed. “Naturally I checked, that’s how I found Ruo’er.”

Dugu Yuan’an was half-believing and half-doubting. “Every clan member related by blood to the Yu Clan died?”

Dugu Huansheng’s expression changed slightly. “You think someone is still alive? No, I checked every corpse. Yuan’er, you must know that the clan members who can learn the Soul Cold technique must be direct heirs of the ‘Bright Light Generation.’ And every ‘Bright Light Generation’ Yu Clan bloodline I knew of perished on Jin Mountain.”

“But the injury on Senior Xue’s eyes has traces left by Soul Cold internal energy,” Dugu Yuan’an whispered. “Little Aunt, I actually have another guess.”

Dugu Huansheng said, “Speak.”

Dugu Yuan’an said, “Could the elders of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain not defeat Xue Duanhun and her accomplices? If they fought back desperately, I think Xue Duanhun couldn’t have killed them. I’m more inclined to believe that Xue Duanhun only broke into Jin Mountain to take revenge on certain clan members, while her accomplices possessed the strength to exterminate an entire clan.”

“As far as I know, at least three people went up to Jin Mountain. One of them injured Mu’er, causing her to be poisoned with Raging Tide Poison. Mu’er told me that a Dharma King Wu Qing from the Western Regions recognized this poison. Based on this, I think the person who injured Mu’er is from the Western Regions and is very likely back in the Western Regions now. As for the third person, knowing both Xue Duanhun’s identity and the identity of that person from the Western Regions, the three of them partnered up to go to Jin Mountain to seize what they wanted.”

“Xue Duanhun was for revenge. The person who injured Mu’er might have wanted to get something—I think it would be that martial arts secret manual from the Discourse on the Dao Conference. And the third person, I think that person is the real mastermind, and also the one who truly wanted to completely destroy the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain.”

Zi’ang listened with fear and trepidation beside them. Dugu Huansheng, however, lowered her brows and eyes, her expression cold and sharp, pondering Dugu Yuan’an’s words.

After a long time, she slowly said, “You think that third person is—”

Dugu Yuan’an said in a deep voice, “I think there was a traitor within the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain.”

Boom— The sky suddenly darkened. Black clouds moved slowly towards the north, with purple lightning flashing through the clouds from time to time. Dugu Yuan’an looked at the pitch-black clouds outside the window. Cool wind poured into the room, and her knees began to ache again.

On the day the Yu Clan was exterminated, Jin Mountain was also covered by a mass of black clouds, almost pressing down on the mountain peak. Rain poured down, mud and sand buried bodies. There was no heat anywhere on the body, only cold, soft skin. The cold seeped into the marrow, and the blood in the body seemed about to freeze.

Dugu Huansheng had never thought of this point and was horrified in her heart. Her hands trembled uncontrollably as she murmured, “Traitor… traitor… Yuan’er, don’t talk nonsense. Do you know how… how cruel this guess is?”

Dugu Yuan’an looked sorrowful. She clenched her fist and punched the sorest part of her right knee, her voice becoming clearer:

“Little Aunt, why didn’t Xue Duanhun reveal the identities of the other accomplices in her suicide note, only caring about taking all the blame herself? She didn’t want Mu’er involved, I can understand—but when this thought popped into my head, I felt that Xue Duanhun might also not want us to trace this cruel truth. How can extermination caused by external enemies be more painful than extermination caused by internal resentment?”

“A traitor within the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain…” Dugu Huansheng repeated absentmindedly, then suddenly sobered up and shook her head vigorously. “No, Yuan’er, I really can’t think of anyone who would plot against the Yu Clan. If you say someone from the ‘Hidden Darkness Generation’ wanted to seize the orthodox status and exterminated the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain, that would be a reason. But the previous generation passed away early. Your uncle and I roamed the Jianghu outside and didn’t return to Jin Mountain for a long time. Later, we gave birth to your brother and sister in Hanfeng Town. If I hadn’t heard about the incident on Jin Mountain, I wouldn’t have gone back.”

“I naturally believe Little Aunt wouldn’t do such a thing. I was just thinking, if a traitor appeared in the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain, lived in seclusion after leaving Jin Mountain, why did they suddenly appear in front of Xue Duanhun and hurt her, yet didn’t silence her?” Dugu Yuan’an said calmly. “At that time, the way Mu Ruo looked at me was also very strange. So I mistakenly thought she recognized Xue Duanhun as her enemy and attacked Xue Duanhun with Soul Cold internal energy, but Xue Duanhun, feeling guilty, didn’t fight back.”

“Maybe Mu Ruo, like me, realized that Xue Duanhun was just one of them,” she whispered. “So the strange look in her eyes was actually sarcasm, mocking me and also mocking herself for failing to discover for so many years that the person beside her was the enemy who exterminated her clan. She should have also discovered that the person who injured Xue Duanhun is very likely a member of the Yu Clan…”

Dugu Huansheng said, “Ruo’er can no longer stay in the Xue Star Tower. I will bring her back to the manor. You and Mu’er must also stay in the Dugu Manor and absolutely not show your faces casually.”

Dugu Yuan’an shook her head. “Too late, Little Aunt.”

“Even if we hide now, that person has ways to find us. At that time, more than just Xue Duanhun will die. This is the blood feud of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain; we cannot let the bloodlines of the Xue family and the Dugu family be destroyed because of this,” she said. “Let’s watch the changes quietly first and see if there is any movement within Xue Duanhun’s first seven days.”