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Chapter 299 A Feud Across Two Lifetimes

After catching up with Shen You, she lost interest in the lantern festival and hurriedly returned to her residence.

Before leaving Beijing, there was one more crucial thing she needed to do.

The moonlight was bright tonight, reflecting the unmelted snow in the general's mansion, adding to the chill. Xiao Ran pulled her fox fur coat tighter around herself and scattered fine snowflakes.

She stepped up the stairs, gently pushed open the door of the ancestral hall, and nimbly walked inside.

"boom--"

As the door closed, He Wan, who was kneeling on the ground, turned to look at her.

But in an instant, He Wan turned back.

"What? Sister, you're willing to come to this damp and cold ancestral hall?"

Xiao Ran smiled and said, "I thought my sister knew I didn't like snowy days."

He Wan slowly stood up and patted the dust off her clothes:

"My sister has finally stopped pretending."

"My sister too."

He Wan chuckled: "Why are you so calm, sister? Normally, you would probably be jumping up and down in anger."

Xiao Ran walked to a chair and sat down, saying calmly, "If we have to do it all over again, we should be more composed."

"I underestimated my sister before; I never expected her to be so cunning."

He Wan also got up and sat down next to Xiao Ran.

"Not as good as my sister, but I think..."

Xiao Ran found it laughable that He Wan, despite her disheveled appearance, sat comfortably beside her.

"I thought my sister wouldn't have the guts to sit next to the person she had killed."

He Wan smiled slightly: "But isn't my sister living a perfectly good life now?"

"What about my father, the Yan family, and... what about Nangong Ming who always trusted you?"

When Nangong Ming was mentioned, He Wan looked slightly stunned.

She snorted coldly: "Sister, you don't understand me. These are not things I wanted to do... I had no choice but to do them."

"Was it out of necessity..." Xiao Ran pretended to ponder, then took off the pendant from her waist.

"Is it about something... transmigrating through destiny, the protagonist being eliminated?"

He Wan had been staring at the pendant ever since Xiao Ran took it out.

After a long while, she said:

“Sister does remember, but…” He Wan looked up at her, her eyes filled with an ambiguous meaning.

"I'm afraid my sister will regret asking this question once she finds out."

"Never mind." Xiao Ran stood up. "I didn't come here to ask you this question in the first place..."

She picked up the pendant and hung it back on her waist: "What does your plan have to do with my mother?"

"Your mother?" He Wan suddenly laughed, as if she had heard some huge joke.

"It's not your mother, it's related to you."

"Xiao Ran, are you really stupid or are you pretending? Don't you realize that everything in this world revolves around you?"

"How could Xiao Mu remember you when you should have died in the countryside? How could Nangong Ming like you when you came from the countryside? How could someone still be around when you're almost dead in the Marquis's mansion..."

The laughter subsided, and He Wan didn't continue.

Xiao Ran merely glanced at her indifferently.

"It doesn't matter, those are things from the past life. He Wan, you should know why I live in this life. I wish I could strangle you right here and now, and destroy the deep mother-daughter bond between you and He Shi."

"But I'm afraid. I'm afraid my father will fall into your trap again. I'm afraid I'll be schemed against by you again..."

The snow outside was falling heavier and heavier, and the chill seeped in through the cracks in the window.

The leg injury from my previous life is starting to ache again.

"He Wan, the next time we meet, it's time for us to settle our scores from two lifetimes."