“What do you mean?” the girl asked.
“What do I mean?” Si Xia sneered. “When you accepted that ring, it meant you’re the new leader of the Death Rose, and the Arbitration Council knows about it… So, the Council will make your grandfather… kill you and take back the ring, to give it to the Council!”
“What…”
The girl looked puzzled.
“For the first time, your grandfather had no choice, being the head of the Independent State Martial Arts Union, he was restricted by the Council and couldn’t resist… But this time, he decided to rule the Independent State for you and confront the Council…” Si Xia said coldly.
“Why didn’t my grandfather tell me about this?!” the girl exclaimed.
“Tell you?” Si Xia shook his head. “Your grandfather didn’t want you to know about this because he didn’t want you involved. This plan could either succeed or fail, and not telling you was to spare you from feeling guilty or responsible in case of failure. Besides, he didn’t think someone as ruthless as you could feel guilt.”
…
Soon, everything turned into nothingness, returning to darkness.
Ye Wanwan felt someone vigorously shaking her body.
“Feng Jie, what happened? Damn… Feng Jie, are you dead? Don’t scare me, Feng Jie, what’s wrong?”
Ye Wanwan slowly opened her eyes and saw Bei Dou looking alarmed.
“Stop shaking me, okay?” Ye Wanwan frowned.
“Feng Jie, you’re not dead!” Bei Dou’s face lit up with relief when he saw her eyes open.
Ye Wanwan didn’t speak, she got up from the ground and sat on the sofa.
She remembered everything now…
But she didn’t want these memories, and she didn’t want to accept them.
How could she have killed her grandfather… the dagger she used was just a training weapon, not sharp…
At this moment, although Ye Wanwan felt pain and self-blame, she remained extremely calm.
On the island, Si Xia had claimed to want to dominate the Independent State, but now it seemed like he was just trying to provoke her. The only sincere thing Si Xia said on the island was that she was a demon.
…
When she first heard the news that she had killed her grandfather, she couldn’t bear the pain and didn’t think much. She just wanted to die.
But now, after so many years, Ye Wanwan could finally think calmly.
Indeed, there were too many questions that the ring couldn’t answer.
In the video, although her grandfather was stabbed with the dagger, he didn’t die immediately. From what she saw in the video, he was weak but managed to leave after she escaped.
But according to Si Xia, her grandfather died outside the door…
She had always thought her grandfather died from excessive bleeding after being stabbed with the dagger.
But now…
“No, something’s not right,” Ye Wanwan suddenly stood up.
Bei Dou was startled. “What’s not right? What do you mean?”
Ye Wanwan frowned, and a certain detail came back to her.
Back then, after she injured her grandfather with the dagger, she distinctly heard a series of extremely light footsteps outside. It was because of that, in her panicked state, she fled.
If it had been members of the Martial Arts Union, they would have been able to tend to her injured grandfather promptly, so the idea of him dying from blood loss didn’t make sense!
But if it wasn’t members of the Martial Arts Union, then who could it have been…
The Martial Arts Union was impenetrable to outsiders unless it was someone from within or an extremely skilled person who could sneak in undetected…