The villainous simp ignores the plot and mercilessly torments the female lead to tears.

Qin Tianlin's words made some people feel ashamed and embarrassed.

However, most people's complexions did not change at all.

One of the elders gave Qin Tianlin a cold look and said:

“I think the Grand Elder is right. I think this matter is very likely a conspiracy against our Qin family.”

Everyone looked at the speaker, who was the Second Elder.

They were all a little doubtful, knowing that Qin Tianlin and he didn't get along well; the two could be considered old rivals who had competed for many years.

I never expected that I would speak up for Qin Tianlin today.

A smile appeared on Qin Tianlin's face; not only were others surprised, but even he was taken aback.

Someone who had fought against him his whole life would unexpectedly stand by his side.

However, a single sentence from the elder on the second platform completely extinguished the joy in Qin Tianlin's heart.

He said, "Back when the family head had not yet been appointed, our Qin family's geniuses were attacked one after another, and countless geniuses were killed."

"Now that the patriarch has also been murdered, I think someone is deliberately targeting our Qin family, so we must find out the truth about this matter."

After hearing these words, everyone nodded and loudly echoed them:

"Yes, I had a nephew who died under mysterious circumstances. These things are definitely related, and we must investigate them thoroughly."

"Hmph, my son was a top-ranked genius back then, but I never expected him to die in an ordinary war. There must be something fishy about this, and we must investigate it thoroughly."

The words of the crowd reached Qin Tianlin's ears, causing his expression to change repeatedly.

Why the hell would these damned people bring this up now? How many years has it been?

When the Qin family decided to determine the next head of the family based on strength, he personally contacted outsiders to leak the whereabouts of those geniuses, giving them an opportunity to kill them.

At the time, this incident caused a great uproar in the Qin family, and many people vowed to find the murderer and bring him to justice.

However, Qin Tianlin beat them to it, finding the outsiders he had contacted and personally killing them to prevent them from being found and revealing the truth.

Since the murderer was killed, the matter was naturally dropped.

It was precisely because of the reduction in competitors that Qin Xiaotian was able to successfully ascend to the position of family head.

So many years have passed, and he thought these people had all let it go, but he never expected that they would still remember this matter.

Qin Tianlin frowned and said coldly, "What do you all mean? Wasn't the murderer already found?"

"Now that you're bringing this up, do you think I showed favoritism back then?"

The Second Elder said slowly, "We do not suspect the First Elder of favoritism; we just feel there is something fishy about this matter."

“Those people you captured and executed didn’t dare to directly attack the geniuses of our Qin family. There must be someone behind them, and we need to find that person.”

"Moreover, I suspect that the person behind this is the one who planned and killed the head of the family."

In fact, almost everyone present knew that Qin Tianlin was definitely involved in that incident back then.

But Qin Tianlin did it so cleanly that he didn't leave a single trace, leaving them with no way to vent their anger.

But things are different now. Qin Xiaotian is dead, the head of the Qin family is dead, and this is a big deal.

So they were determined to muddy the waters, to mix the two things together, and to investigate everything again from beginning to end.

How could Qin Tianlin not know what these old fogies meant?

They wanted to find evidence that they had ordered those people to kill the Qin family's genius back then, so that they could wipe out their entire lineage.