"Su Xiang, even this surname is rewarded by the Su family. You can't blame me..."

"If Chen Yan hadn't stopped him desperately and his father was soft-hearted, they would not have died. Remember in one second, read the wonderful without pop-ups for free! Su Xiang, you owe our Su family what you have never been clean in your life."

Su Run looked at Su Xiang viciously, trying to leave him alone, without even a door!

Su Xiang's mind was in chaos, and she could no longer care about Su Run's self-righteousness. Qi Lingyang glanced at him coldly, and the sound of his opening was as frozen as it was. He said, "Su Run, don't say useless nonsense."

No word he said sounded threatening, but it was terrifying to hear it in his ears. He did not dare to disobey his words at all. Su Run glanced at Su Xiang and closed her mouth honestly.

Qi Lingyang then asked coldly: "Do you know, who that man is?"

Su Run shook his head: "How could I know?" If he knew, he would definitely have to go to the man to settle the score. The Su family has raised his daughter for so many years and still has to endure this shame for so many years. How could it be so cheap?

However... Su Run's eyes moved slightly, her brows frowned, and she kicked the bedding beside her feet in a disgusting manner, and said to herself: "I don't know if she is still alive, maybe she will die long ago..."

Qi Lingyang frowned: "You said just now that you didn't know who it was, but now you said you're dead?"

Su Run said: "I really don't know. When she was found back that year, she had blood on her body and her father got angry. She was looking for death, and that man might be dead."

Su Xiang's fingers trembled. If Chen Yan left to return to the man, then according to Su Mingdong's temperament, he would definitely not show mercy. Then...

Su Xiang swallowed hard and asked in a low voice: "How do you know these? How do I know, are you saying true?"

Su Run looked up at her and said, "If you don't believe what I said, why should I ask me?"

He turned his head, looked at the wall opposite, and said calmly: "That year, I saw everything that happened. When she came back, she said she didn't want to live anymore. I went to see her. She didn't even want me. She said that I was not the child she wanted at all, but the evil seed that her father forced her to give birth to later."

"She was crazy and accused her father of everything she did to her. During that time, they quarreled every day and smashed everything in the room. She became neither human nor ghost, and no one could get close to her until..."

Su Xiang saw Su Run's fingers holding the floor hard, and his knuckles turned white. At that time, he was just a child...

She pursed her lips, and her fingers suddenly loosened her fingers before she realized that she had pinched her palms at some point. Qi Lingyang pulled back his gaze and looked at her. Seeing that there was a layer of fine sweat on her forehead, she pulled out the blue handkerchief from her suit pocket and handed it to her, "Go and have a rest first?"

Su Xiang's brain hurts like a swelling and cracking. She looked at his calm gaze and saw another meaning in his eyes. She nodded, turned her head to look at Su Run, pinched her fingers hard, and walked out of the door without looking back.

In the study, Qi Haipeng held a teacup in one hand and a book in the other. When he saw Su Xiang and Qi Lingyang coming in, he closed the book and said, "Is the talk finished?"

As he said that, he picked up the teapot and wanted to pour water, but Qi Lingyang took it first. Qi Haipeng withdrew his hand. Seeing Su Xiang, who was as pale as paper, he turned to look at Qi Lingyang with inquiring eyes.

Qi Lingyang poured two cups of hot tea slowly and said, "Not yet." He put one cup in Su Xiang's hand, "Your face is ugly, go lie down for a while."

Su Xiang shook her head, held the warm tea, swallowed it with a mouthful of hot tea, and her frozen body warmed up little by little. She looked at Qi Haipeng, and her voice was hoarse and difficult: "Uncle Qi, I remember you said before that Su Mingdong was a hero, and Chen Yan had fallen in love with a painter. Do you still remember who was that painter?"

If she was not mistaken, Chen Yan was going to marry that painter. Chen Yan had to leave the Su family when Su Run was eleven years old and divorced Su Mingdong. At that time, she should have been with the painter. However, Su Mingdong was unwilling to let go, so she trapped her again.

She is the daughter of the painter.

Qi Lingyang looked at Su Xiang and said, "Do you believe what Su Run said?"

Su Xiang nodded and said, "There is no need for him to lie, and what he said is right to the ones that Uncle Qi said before. His hatred for me and the unscrupulous things he did to me are so righteous. I think these things make him feel that what he did is what I deserve and is my reward for the Su family."

Qi Haipeng looked at the two of them and heard some meaning from their words. In addition, he had heard that Su Xiang was not Su Mingdong's biological child before, and with his experience, he could also piece together a rough idea. He looked at Su Xiang, shook his head gently and said, "I don't know."

Su Xiang's eyes dimmed, yes, Qi Haipeng said that he was just an unknown painter. With Qi Haipeng's status, there was no need to remember such a person.

And maybe it's really dead...

Su Xiang had a headache, so she rubbed her temples and said, "I'd better go and have a rest first." As she said that, she stood up and went out, her shoulders were shattered and she was completely lost.

Qi Lingyang looked at her and his eyebrows were raised. This incident had a big blow to her. It was not easy to hold on until now. It was just about her throat...

When the door closed, Qi Lingyang turned his head and happened to meet Qi Haipeng's gaze. Qi Lingyang simply said what Su Run had said. Qi Haipeng sighed and shook his head and said, "So that's what it is..."

Chen Yan married Su Mingdong. At the beginning, everyone thought Chen Yan couldn't stand the poverty, so they married him. Unexpectedly, the real version of the story was this. No wonder, I remember that she always had no smiles, and she was very unworthy of Su Mingdong's smiling face.

Qi Lingyang frowned and said with a heavy face: "Father, I think the one who is a vicious and dumb Su Xiang is likely to be Su Mingdong."

He endured this suspicion until now and did not say it when Su Xiang was present. Perhaps, she also had the same suspicion in her heart, but she just didn't want to say it anymore, and subconsciously escaped.

Qi Haipeng frowned, breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyes became deeper.

Based on his understanding of Su Mingdong, that man was cruel and ruthless and would not have the possibility of being soft-hearted towards dissidents. If it weren't for Chen Yan's plea, Su Xiang would not have been born.

When this baby girl was born, she reminded him all the time that the fact that Chen Yan betrayed him was a thorn in her eyes.

He said, "You just said that Su Run fed Su Xiang with candy when she was a child, but she was beaten by smoke?"

Qi Lingyang nodded: "Well, Su Run did say that. Chen Yan just ignored him before, but he had never hit him. I suspect that because Su Mingdong had acts that were unfavorable to Su Xiang, Chen Yan was so nervous."

Qi Haipeng nodded, and he also inferred this way. Su Mingdong agreed to keep the child, but he couldn't stand it. He couldn't let the child disappear out of thin air, so he wanted to create the fact that the child died, but was discovered by Chen Yan. The child received emergency treatment and saved his life, but injured his throat, causing Su Xiang to become a mute. This is a possibility.

Another possibility is that Su Mingdong kept his promise to Chen Yan. He could not kill the baby, but the child was the seed of another man. He not only hid the child in front of the world, but also took revenge on the man, making the baby girl unable to speak.

But no matter what, Su Mingdong definitely doesn't want to admit this child. It was because of the obstruction and protection of the smoke that she could live safely to adulthood.

Moreover, he was glad that he raised this baby girl and could still use Su Xiang as a tool when Su's life and death, but he had no choice but to make a lot of calculations, but he still couldn't resist Chen Yan's plea.

Thinking of this, Su Mingdong's hero in this life was ultimately saddened by the beauty...

Qi Haipeng took a sip of tea, sighed and shook his head, looked at Qi Lingyang, and hesitated: "You... still hold a grudge against me?"

Speaking of which, Su Xiang and him have similar experiences.

Qi Lingyang knew what he meant, lowered his head slightly and said, "Father, the past has passed."

The grudges of the Qi family have passed with the changes of the storm three years ago. He is now just a guardian of the Qi family.

Qi Haipeng sighed again and waved his hand: "I won't mention it."

After speaking, both of them fell silent. Qi Lingyang remembered all the past, and only sighed at this point. Now, he didn't think about anything, the Fu family and the Qi family, the only thing he cared about was his own home.

Two years, now there are only more than a year and a half left...

Qi Lingyang picked up the half-cool tea and took a sip. The tea swayed slightly, and a thought flashed through his mind, and he frowned and thought about it carefully.

He put the teacup back on the tea table, put his arm on the arm of the sofa, and as the thought in his mind formed, his fingers also bent. He said, "Father, I think that painter may not be dead."

Qi Haipeng was still immersed in the past, and his thoughts were suddenly interrupted. He looked at Qi Lingyang: "Oh, what do you mean?"

Qi Lingyang said: "If Su Mingdong was a ruthless character as his father said, Chen Yan still thought of the man after marrying him, and even got pregnant with his child, he would definitely not be willing to show mercy in his heart."

"It's just Su's... such a huge company was at its peak at that time, but it went down in a short period of time. Even Su Mingdong was forced to jump off the building. Is this really just the reason for Su Run's investment mistake?"

"After this, Su Run did not successfully revive the Su family, and was forced to almost lose his life. I always feel that this is not as simple as it seems."

Instead, someone wants the Su family to be destroyed!

Qi Haipeng narrowed his eyes slightly: "What do you mean is he coming back to take revenge?"

Qi Lingyang said: "If that person is not dead, he will definitely be revenged for his wife's hatred and humiliation."

Qi Haipeng was stunned and said, "But that person is a painter and doesn't understand business operations. It is not easy to let such a large company collapse."

Qi Lingyang said: "Twenty years ago, he was a painter, but after twenty years of dormant, is this man still just a painter?"

His eyes leaped slightly, and the name gradually emerged in his mind. Was Su's family acquired by that person? Is it related to him...?

...

In the guest room, Su Xiang didn't take off her clothes and lay down leaning against the pillow. Although her eyes were closed, her mind was noisy, including some chaotic scenes, the screams of smoke, Su Mingdong's rage, and all kinds of crying...

Why, why did my mother never talk about the past to her? Or did she really accept Su Mingdong after decades of marriage?

Or maybe, just for her to endure such a forced marriage?

The Su family, the gorgeous villa, had such an unbearable secret hidden inside. She thought of Su Mingdong raising her like this, but just treated her as a gift and made contributions when it was right. She felt an unspeakable grief in her heart.

He never had any feelings for her, only hatred. Whenever she appeared in front of him, would he immediately think that she was his shame?

In the darkness, a pair of scarlet eyes were full of hatred, staring at her tightly, stretching out her hands in the boundless darkness, tying her neck, making her unable to breathe. No matter how hard she struggled, she would be useless. The hands were getting harder and harder, and she could no longer make a sound...

"No...help..." Su Xiang opened her mouth and shouted in despair, touching and scrambling in the air with both hands in vain. Who will save her?

"Please, let her go..." A woman's crying voice sounded, "Let her go, I won't leave. Don't kill her, please don't kill her..."

The woman knelt on the ground, crying moaningly, holding a knife in her hand against her chest: "If she lives, I will live, and if she dies, I will not live..."

The hands that were pinching her neck were loosened, and Su Xiang was breathing heavily. She tried hard to see the person who was pinching her, but the surroundings were too dark and she couldn't see them. She could only see the scarlet eyes wandering between her and the woman with hatred.

The dream changed and turned into a bright place.

The wind blew in from the window, and the gauze curtains blew, unable to blow away the thick smoke inside, and the suffocating breath made people feel suffocated.

The woman's sob begging sounded again: "Please, don't...she is already a mute. If you do this, she will die."

"She has been in such a miserable life. If you do this, you are sending her to hell... The Fu family will not accept her. Please, don't..."

The man rudely shook the woman's hand that came out, and she threw herself to the ground. He said angrily: "I have raised her for twenty years, and now the Su family is about to collapse. Shouldn't she do her part!"

The woman kept begging, but no matter how she begged, the man looked at her with a tangled eyebrows on his face.

"Even if I go to the underworld, I will accompany you... Let her go..."

As the picture changed, bright red blood spread from their bodies, slowly flowing out, as if it could not flow out, completely dyeing the white piece of white red.

"Ah!" Su Xiang sat up suddenly, and then she realized that she had fallen asleep at some point. She also had a layer of cold sweat on her body, which made her clothes soaked.

Su Xiang wiped a cold sweat and her body trembled slightly. The chaotic dreams made her unable to distinguish between reality and illusion. When she woke up, Su Run's words poured into her mind again.

Su Xiang ran downstairs barefoot and asked the servant for a painkiller. He took several deep breaths before his mood stabilized.

When Qi Lingyang heard the sound, he went out of the study and saw Su Xiang standing barefoot on the floor. He winked at the servant, who quickly brought a pair of new slippers over. Qi Lingyang took it and walked to Su Xiang and squatted down.

He held her ankles and wiped her soles against his sleeve before putting the fluffy slippers on.
To be continued...