Chapter 414: Mother and Son (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Don’t be fierce with Daddy!” Xu Luo screamed angrily. He grabbed Xu Yan’s hand tightly and looked at Wei Wan on the couch with hostility.
Gu Yanfei raised her hand and pressed the agitated Wei Wan back onto the couch. She warned lazily, “Don’t move.”
When the girl’s eyes were as bright as the vast stars, Wei Wan, who had been like an angry cat, instantly became obedient. The anger in her heart gradually subsided, but she still had mixed feelings.
It turned out that her husband and son weren’t hers.
Gu Yanfei glanced at Xu Yan and Xu Luo and asked calmly, “Lord Ji’an, have you seen the scar on your son’s body?”
As she spoke, she slowly walked towards the father and son with an ambiguous smile on her lips.
Xu Yan looked at Gu Yanfei calmly. He was expressionless and didn’t say a word. His cold eyes were filled with vigilance.
Gu Yanfei stared intently into the other party’s eyes and continued, “Six years ago, a baby girl died not long after she was born. Do you remember that baby girl?”
Her tone was very slow, with a unique and soothing rhythm. Her pupils were as dark as a deep pool, suffused with a faint, clear light, and mysterious.
Xu Yan’s eyes widened slightly, and he was in a daze.
His memory was drawn back to six years ago by her words. The baby girl’s cry was still fresh in his mind, and he seemed to hear it at this moment.
Gu Yanfei took another step closer to Xu Yan and said faintly, “She hasn’t left yet.”
The girl’s voice was clear and cold.
Xu Yan:”…”
“Have you taken a closer look at your son’s back?” Gu Yanfei raised her hand and pointed at Xu Luo, who was hugging Xu Yan tightly. Xu Yan’s gaze couldn’t help but be directed by her. From his height, he could see a few fiery red scars on his loose collar.
Xu Yan snorted and asked, “So what?”
Nine years ago, Qing’er’s back had also been covered in red spots.
Later on, Qing’er left him. He searched for her for a full two years before finding her in Yangzhou. At that time, the red spots on Qing’er’s back had already healed, and there were only two or three fingernail-sized red spots left.
Xu Yan had indeed seen Xu Luo’s back, but that was when red spots had just appeared on Xu Luo’s back two months ago.
At that time, Xu Yan saw that the red spots on his son’s body were identical to the ones on Qing’er’s back in the past, so he didn’t pay much attention to them. He thought that Xu Luo would recover in a few days.
It wasn’t a big deal for a boy to have a few red spots on his body. As long as they didn’t grow on his face, it was fine.
“There’s no harm in looking at it again.” Gu Yanfei’s eyes, which were as clear as a mirror, seemed to be able to see through people’s hearts. She smiled gently and turned her small face to Imperial Duke Wei.
Imperial Duke Wei understood tacitly and gave the guard beside him a look.
The smart guard stepped forward unexpectedly and rudely pulled off Xu Luo’s aqua blue jacket.
“Hiss!”
The guard’s movements were rough. He tore a large hole in the jacket and tore off the inner shirt, revealing the boy’s back.
On his thin back, the contours of his backbone and shoulder blades were clear. The blood-red scar was even redder than at noon, like a ghost mask with clear facial features. His pair of demonic fox eyes were vicious and cold, as if they wanted to captivate people.
This…
After Xu Yan took a glance, he immediately looked away. His eyes flickered, and even his face was slightly pale, as if he was frightened.
Gu Yanfei chuckled without hiding anything.
Then, she looked in the other direction and raised her voice. “Do you see?”
This sentence wasn’t directed at Xu Yan, but at a young woman who had just been brought in by the guard behind the curtain.
The woman appeared to be around 25 or 26 years old, with black hair that resembled crow feathers and was tied into a simple bun. Her face was oval-shaped and adorned with a pair of clear-cut and bright eyes, giving her a gentle and graceful appearance. She had delicate skin and a well-proportioned figure, but a few stray hairs were falling out of her bun, and her hairpin was slightly crooked, making her look a little disheveled.
She was wearing a simple green dress that couldn’t hide her graceful figure.
“Qing’er,” Xu Yan shouted. His eyes suddenly turned cold as they swept across Imperial Duke Wei’s face sharply.
A cold smile appeared on Imperial Duke Wei’s lips as he met Xu Yan’s gaze.
After knowing that Xu Luo’s background was suspicious, Imperial Duke Wei first sent people to Wu Villa to chase after Wei Wan and the others. Similarly, he sent another group of people to investigate Xu Yan.
In the past, only Imperial Duke Wei had never suspected this brother-in-law. If he really wanted to investigate, it wasn’t difficult. The people from Duke Wei’s Mansion quickly found out that Xu Yan had placed his mistress in a house in the west of the city for almost seven years.
The guards took down the outer room and had just escorted her to this manor.
The green-robed woman called Qing’er suddenly didn’t notice the hidden waves around her. She looked at the blood-red scar on her son’s back in a daze, and her delicate oval face was as pale as paper.
“Mommy!” The boy also saw the woman in green and let go of Xu Yan’s hand. The “ghost face” on his back moved. Its lips curled into a sinister smile, as if it was smiling at someone.
Qing’er couldn’t help but feel fl.u.s.tered. Her heart was beating wildly in her ears.
Her expression changed several times in an extremely short time, from heartache to panic to disbelief. Her eyes were filled with sparkling tears.
“Luo’er!”
Qing’er shouted hoa.r.s.ely and staggered to Xu Luo.
She quickly squatted down and hugged the boy with heartache. Her hands and body trembled uncontrollably as she muttered repeatedly, “How did this happen? How did…”
Her expression and tone were extremely sorrowful, and the remaining blood on her face gradually faded..