Her destiny stolen? The Divine Witch Ancestor has returned!

"Uncle Yan!" Wu Xingyun, who was still holding Yan Xuzhe's hand, immediately turned cold.

He stepped back a few paces, blocking Wu Zhao's way. "What do you mean by that? You're telling me to get out of here right in front of me?"

Wu Xingyun's smile had faded, and his stern expression resembled that of his decisive and efficient older sister.

Yan Bin didn't expect Wu Xingyun to react so strongly. He tried to hold Yan Xuzhe down and explained, "Xingyun, Uncle is just too angry. He didn't mean anything else."

"You, the person you invited... is speaking rather tactlessly. My Xuzhe is not that kind of person!"

Wu Zhao sneered and said, "So, he can't sleep at night and is trapped in the same place every day because he likes it?"

"You're so eager to find someone to resolve this matter, isn't it because you feel guilty?"

Yan Bin was rendered speechless by the rebuttal.

Wu Xingyun also sensed something was wrong. He frowned and said, "Uncle Yan, when you asked me to come, I repeatedly emphasized that you had to tell me the truth. What do you mean by this?"

"Xingyun, you've known Xuzhe for so long, you know him very well. He's such a good kid..." Yan Bin said, hugging the exhausted Yan Xuzhe tightly.

Yan Xuzhe's eyes were vacant as he muttered to himself, "It's my fault, I broke my promise... It's all my fault..."

Wu Zhao didn't want to waste any more time. "She's just a girl from an ordinary family. If you like her, try your best to persuade your father who doesn't agree to you being together. Don't be a coward and think about running away with her."

"Even people in ancient times knew to aspire to be concubines. What kind of man are you to elope with her here? Don't you understand this principle?"

"You two made a promise to leave here together and live in a new city, but you didn't keep your promise and left her alone at the port."

"Did she really fall into the sea by accident? Yan Xuzhe, those who betray sincerity deserve to swallow a thousand needles!"

She said to Yan Binzhi, "No one wanted to harm your son. He just felt guilty and couldn't get over it. However, from the moment you separated them and he chose to give up and run away, you were both the culprits in this death."

Wu Zhao explained the matter clearly in just a few words, and Wu Xingyun understood as well.

As if remembering something, he said, "Are you talking about the woman who drowned at the dock two days ago...?"

Having just returned from Pearl Island, Wu Xingyun had only heard that someone had fallen into the water from the dock and was never found and had died.

He initially thought it was just a normal accident, but after hearing what Wu Zhao had just said, he looked at the Yan father and son with suspicion.

"How did that girl fall into the sea?" he asked.

The Yan family father and son only had a faint aura of yin energy on them, and did not seem to have been tainted by blood.

Yan Xuzhe also looked up at Wu Zhao.

Wu Zhao looked at Yan Bin and said, "Why don't we ask Mr. Yan how that girl fell into the sea?"

"Dad?" Yan Xuzhe looked at his father in confusion.

Yan Bin closed her eyes briefly, her voice trembling slightly: "She...she just accidentally fell down..."

“So you saw her fall, and you didn’t save her,” Wu Zhao interrupted him. “Unfortunately, you still didn’t tell the truth.”

Wu Zhao felt a faint warmth emanating from the gemstone on the ring, and the Yin spirit that had been drawn inside reacted violently upon hearing Yan Bin's words.

To prevent her from turning into an evil spirit, Wu Zhao severed the connection between the gem and the outside world.

Yan Xuzhe was also very emotional. He questioned, "Dad, is what she said true? You watched Qingqing fall?! Why didn't you save her? Why!"

"Calm down! You trust a stranger but not your father?" Yan Bin snapped coldly. "Look at yourself now, what kind of behavior is this?!"

Slightly distraught, Yan Xuzhe pushed Yan Bin away and shouted, "What am I doing?! I'm a person, not a tool! I love Qingqing, why are you stopping me from being with Qingqing! You promised me you'd meet her, she's such a wonderful first girl..."

"I wish I had gone with her. I shouldn't have trusted you... You're my father, how could you lie to me..."

He knelt on the ground and covered his face.

"I killed her... no, you killed her..."

"I deserve to die... I deserve to die..."

Wu Zhao channeled a bit of spiritual energy into the ring, calming the waning spirit.

"What exactly happened that day?" Wu Xingyun leaned close to Wu Zhao and whispered, "Is Xu Ze going crazy...?"

This naive and innocent descendant is really giving the old man a headache. Wu Zhao thought to himself.

She sighed and looked at Yan Bin: "Mr. Yan didn't want his son to follow in his footsteps, so he stopped two people who were not a good match from being together. It's a pity... that girl was too strong-willed and chose to end the relationship in a way you never expected."

"She committed suicide."

"You watched her jump, but you neither called the police nor tried to save her. But you didn't expect that she would die shortly after jumping, and because her obsession was so deep, she turned into a ghost that you could see."

Yan Bin's face turned deathly pale after Wu Zhao finished speaking.

He sat down on the sofa, feeling somewhat weak. "I... I really didn't expect it. But I didn't mean to kill her... I just told her that she and Xu Ze wouldn't have a good ending, and that letting each other go and leaving behind beautiful memories was the best outcome."

As if lost in memories, Yan Bin's voice was a little hoarse: "My mother and Xu Ze's mother were just like them. She was a rich heiress, and I was a college student from humble beginnings... We thought that standing up against our wealthy parents and getting together would have a happy ending, but in the end, we still lost to reality..."

“I don’t want to see my son and her follow the same path as us, ending in tragedy for various reasons.”

He looked up at Wu Zhao with slightly reddened eyes: "Can you understand a father's painstaking efforts?"

“I don’t understand,” Wu Zhao replied expressionlessly.

There was a hint of sarcasm in her expression. "It's quite funny that you used such a reason to break them up, and you even thought it was for their own good."

"Now you see your son, trapped in their agreed-upon place and on the verge of driving himself mad... Mr. Yan, do you regret it?"

Wu Zhao's gaze lingered on Yan Bin's face: "Were you very proud of yourself for lying to Yan Xuzhe that day, saying you were in a car accident and hospitalized, causing him to detour to the hospital halfway and miss meeting Shen Qingqing?"

His cold gaze swept over Yan Xuzhe, who was already somewhat dazed, and he said, word by word, "Perhaps Mr. Yan doesn't know yet."

"Your son only has one marriage line in his life. If he misses this one, he will not only never get married, but he will also suffer all his life and eventually die young."

Seeing Yan Bin's increasingly terrified expression, Wu Zhao smiled gently, a slight curve to his lips.

"I've said it before, those who betray sincerity will suffer the consequences of swallowing a thousand needles."

"His true love is none other than that girl you don't approve of."

Yan Bin clutched her neck and cried out in pain twice.

Wu Zhao said calmly, "Tell me, who truly betrays sincerity—"

"Who is it?"