After the mind-reading and gossip-eating incident, officials in the imperial city were demoted one a

"Mother, once we get back, we'll start investigating that scumbag father. Once we find evidence, we'll send him to the authorities."

"Fine, he doesn't deserve to be your father."

The mother and her children chatted for a while before going to rest.

Ye Yaoyao arrived at a horse pen and saw Ye Chengzhu there with several people.

The stable boy dragged a person out from a dark, damp corner of the stable. The person on the ground was disheveled, covered in filth, and reeked of stench, making it impossible to discern their features. Their trousers were empty below the waist.

"Sir, the person has been dragged out."

"Hahaha, Ye Li'an, you've finally met your match! Get down here!" Ye Chengzhu laughed wildly, his face contorted with rage as he ordered his servants.

The person in front of her was actually her older brother; Ye Yaoyao could see his outline clearly.

"Yes." The servant lifted the bucket of excrement and poured it onto Ye Lian.

"No, you can't do this!"

Ye Yaoyao stood in front of Ye Li'an, but the excrement flowed through her body and still poured onto Ye Li'an.

She reached out to touch Ye Lian, but touched nothing.

"Big brother." At this moment, she understood that this was what would happen in the future.

Ye Yaoyao's voice was choked with sobs, and her body trembled slightly. Although she knew that his fate would be miserable, she could only truly understand the pain by witnessing it firsthand.

Ye Li'an didn't move at all, still curled up as before.

"Ye Lian, the pride of heaven, you never thought you would end up looking like a ghost, neither human nor ghost, did you?"

So what? You took everything that belonged to me, but in the end it all came back to me. Did you ever think you'd end up in my hands?

Hahaha……"

Dressed in a magnificent robe, Ye Chengzhu stood before Ye Li'an, swaggering around with an air of smugness and the satisfaction of revenge on his face.

Ye Li'an kept his eyes closed and didn't even look at him, perhaps because his reaction angered Ye Chengzhu.

"Keep pouring! I want to see how stubborn he is!" Ye Chengzhu roared angrily, his features contorted with rage.

He wanted to see Ye Lian beg for mercy, like a stray dog ​​begging him to let him go.

"Beat him! Hit him hard!"

However, no matter how they beat him, Ye Lian did not make a sound even in pain.

"Fine, very fine." Ye Chengzhu paced around irritably.

"Want to know how your younger brother, who passed the martial arts exam and became the top martial arts scholar, is doing now?"

Ye Li'an remained unmoved, but Ye Chengzhu was not about to let him off the hook.

"He was sent by the emperor to suppress bandits. Those people were not thieves or bandits; they were all law-abiding citizens. As long as Ye Jingyang killed them, someone would report to the court that Ye Jingyang had only killed law-abiding citizens."

If he hadn't been killed, with archers lying in ambush all around, he would have been accused of colluding with bandits to rebel, and would have ended up with a thousand arrows piercing his heart.

What do you think your brother will choose? I bet he'll be pierced by a thousand arrows! Hahaha…”

Ye Li opened her empty eyes, which were filled with endless darkness.

"Big brother..." Ye Yaoyao had just called out when her body moved uncontrollably away from there and into another unfamiliar place, the wilderness.

The sound of horses' hooves approached, and Ye Jingyang led a small group of people toward Ye Yaoyao.

"Second Brother..." Ye Jingyang couldn't hear her either, as his voice passed through her body.

Then arrows were shot from the shadows, and Ye Jingyang was hit by dozens of arrows.

"Second Brother..." Ye Yaoyao saw Ye Jingyang's eyes wide open in death.

Ye Yaoyao arrived at a dilapidated house, where a musty smell of decay permeated the air.

Lying on the bed was a thin woman with a sallow complexion and skin and bones. She coughed from time to time, and Ye Yaoyao almost did not recognize Liu Yunshu.

"mother……"

Xue Ruoxue, dressed in the robes of a first-rank imperial lady, pushed open the door, came to the bedside, and looked down triumphantly at the seriously ill Liu Yunshu.

"Liu Yunshu, it's been a long time. Look how much more successful I am now than you were before! These were all gifts from Ye Mian and my son."

Xue Ruoxue swayed her body, deliberately showing off her gorgeous clothes.

"Even if a pheasant becomes a phoenix, it will still fall from a great height."

Liu Yunshu, despite her illness, offered a sarcastic remark.

"Hahaha! It's better than a fallen phoenix being worse than a chicken. Besides, the father and son have the Emperor's deep trust, so I will only soar higher and higher."

Your Liu family, however, was sentenced to be executed along with the entire clan. Oh, and Ye Li'an was thrown into the stable to fend for himself.

News of Ye Jingyang's death by arrow will soon reach you, and your daughter, abandoned as a wife, must be living a life worse than death.

Xue Ruoxue burst into unrestrained laughter and recounted the tragic fates of Liu Yunshu's relatives one by one.

"You...you all...may you die a horrible death!"

Liu Yunshu used her last bit of strength to shout.

"Go ahead and curse, it won't change the facts. All the suffering I've endured in the first half of my life is thanks to you. Blame yourself for being blind to marry Ye Mian."

I've waited twenty years for this day, and on this day twenty years later, I've finally won.

Having grown accustomed to a good life, this feeling of being worse than dead must be unbearable, right? I'm here to kindly see you off on your final journey.

Don't worry, your children will go down one by one to keep you company.

Xue Ruoxue's face contorted as she grabbed a pillow and shoved it hard against Liu Yunshu.

"mother……"

Ye Yaoyao could only stand by and watch helplessly as Liu Yunshu was suffocated to death.

They then arrived at a mansion. Ye Xiyao looked utterly dejected, hung a white silk ribbon around her neck, and lit fires all around her.

The flames burned fiercely, reflecting Ye Xiyao's desperate face, marking the end of her short life.

"elder sister……"

Ye Yaoyao tried to rush over, but was still bound by an invisible force and was carried away.

Later, I saw Ye Mian lead his troops to kill Xin Chonglian and his wife.

“Hang them on the city wall for three days and three nights.”

Ye Mian's eyes were icy cold, as if what lay before him were not two lives, but insignificant ants.

Then the scene shifts to Xin Chuli, her face haggard, her eyes red and swollen, kneeling desperately in front of an old eunuch.

"You're so beautiful! Are you sure you want to marry me?"

The old eunuch squinted, looking Xin Chuli up and down with a nauseating smile on his lips, and reached out his withered hand to stroke Xin Chuli's face.

"Yes, Eunuch Cao, as long as you help me put my parents down and give them a proper burial, I will serve you for the rest of my life."

Xin Chuli's eyes were empty, her face resolute, her hands clenched into fists, her nails digging deep into her palms.

"Okay, okay, it's nothing, hahaha..."

The old eunuch's lewd smile echoed in the empty room, sending chills down one's spine.

What Ye Yaoyao saw next was the complete extermination of the Liu family.

At the graves of Liu Yunshu and her son, Ye Yaoyao saw a tall, slender figure standing quietly before the tomb. The figure exuded a sense of loneliness and desolation, and looked somewhat familiar to her.

I walked over and saw a familiar face wearing a half-mask. It was him, that mysterious uncle.

The man gazed silently at Liu Yunshu's tombstone, his cold eyes filled with endless sorrow.

The next scene shows the mysterious uncle leading his men into the palace, only to be outnumbered and killed by multiple swords.

"Mysterious Uncle..."

Then I felt a violent shaking, and was pulled away by an invisible force.