“Grandfather, what exactly happened… you… weren’t you killed by Nie Wuyou?!”
Si Xia looked at the old man who suddenly appeared across from her, wearing a face filled with disbelief.
“Killed by Wuyou…?”
As Si Xia’s words fell, the patriarch and matriarch of the Nie family immediately changed their expressions. How could this be? Father had been missing for a long time, but how could others say that he was killed by Wuyou…
“Dad, what’s going on?” The Nie family matriarch looked anxious.
Upon hearing this, the old man glanced at the handsome man behind him and said, “Jing Mu, you explain.”
Handsome man: “?”
Seeing this, the old man looked somewhat embarrassed. “Never mind, I’ll explain it myself.”
“Initially, Wuyou and I had some disputes, so we decided to resolve them through a competition. If Wuyou won, I would listen to her, and if I won, she would follow my words.” The old man organized his thoughts and continued, “However, during our competition, for various reasons, Wuyou accidentally injured me.”
At this point, the old man’s gaze unintentionally fell on Nie Wuming.
“After I was injured, a man in a black robe broke in and tried to kill me. However, in the end, he spared me but left me severely wounded,” the old man sighed.
“Dad, who did it?” The Nie family matriarch asked urgently.
At this moment, Ye Wanwan silently looked at Nie Wuming beside her. That man in the black robe… must be her big brother…
But in the end, he couldn’t bring himself to kill.
“It was me.”
Without giving the old man a chance to speak, Nie Wuming said, “It was me.”
“What?!” The Nie family matriarch and patriarch were stunned, looking at Nie Wuming in astonishment.
“Not Nie Wuyou, but Nie Wuming… how is that possible…”
Si Xia frowned deeply, finding it hard to believe.
Back then, her grandfather had disappeared without a trace. There were a lot of bloodstains and signs of a struggle at the scene. After investigating the surveillance footage, they found that Nie Wuyou had stabbed her grandfather with a dagger…
Later, Si Xia tracked down Ye Wanwan’s whereabouts, returned to Huaxia, and discovered that Ye Wanwan had chosen to overwrite her memories due to the torment of certain memories.
Therefore, Si Xia had always believed that Ye Wanwan had killed her grandfather. But she never expected that the assailant would turn out to be Nie Wuming!
“How could you… harm your own grandfather!” The Nie family matriarch looked at Nie Wuming, heartbroken.
“He was the one who killed Ling Miao,” Nie Wuming spoke after a moment of silence.
Even so, Nie Wuming still didn’t kill his grandfather; he only left him severely injured.
“Unnamed, your grandfather had no choice,” the old man looked at Nie Wuming, closed his eyes, and spoke gravely. “The Arbitration Council issued a death order. If I didn’t comply, the consequences would be severe. Moreover, I didn’t kill Ling Miao; I brought her back to the guild and have been treating her.”
At the time, his grandfather didn’t have the courage to resist the Arbitration Council. It was only when Ye Wanwan inherited Ling Miao’s ring that the Arbitration Council planned to target her. That was when his grandfather truly made up his mind to overthrow the Arbitration Council and establish himself as the ruler of the Twelve States…
“I know you saved Ling Miao,” Nie Wuming said.
Just now, he had already heard Si Xia mention it.
“Then, Grandfather, what’s the story behind your disappearance, and… if you’re not dead, why haven’t you appeared all this time?” Si Xia looked at the old man and asked anxiously.