Heavenly Star Chapter 320 – Waterless

She quietly went out, avoiding everyone’s sight, silently appearing in Dream Smoke Tower. His distant gaze is like the stars in the dark night, as if everything in the world can’t escape his eyes: “Back then, your Southern Emperor Clan and Northern Emperor Clan jointly performed a play to cover the ears of the world, I have to say, the performance was quite successful. At least, after that, you came to Tianlong City at the behest of the Southern Emperor Clan, tasked with quietly and unobtrusively bringing Tianlong City, the capital of the Tianlong Kingdom, into the grasp of the Southern Emperor Clan. With the power that the Southern Emperor Sect possesses, this is indeed not a difficult task. And you have been doing it very successfully all these years. Even for me, it would be difficult to achieve this level of success that you have accomplished now within three years.” “……,” Shui Mengchan’s slender eyebrows twitched slightly. Three years? What Shui Mengchan had laid out in Tianlong City today had taken nearly ten years. His “three years”, in the mouth of others would be seen as contempt, but when he said it, she felt like there was a different kind of appreciation. “And what makes me suspicious is that three years after I fell into the soul-breaking abyss, Long Yin is still alive. And everything points to the fact that you really want to marry Long Yin. It is true that with this method, you …… or the Southern Royal Clan can in the shortest possible time take over Tianlong City, and thus everything in the Tianlong Kingdom would be under your control. But even without this method, with the strength of your Southern Emperor Clan and the layout of these years, to reach that level is just a little more effort and time. But you still choose the former, wanting to marry Long Yin, which is not what I expected back then. Is it really normal for the Southern Emperor Patriarch to go out of his way to marry his daughter to someone who is old enough to be her father, just to save some effort?” Shui Mengchan: “……” “And this father, when she was only a few years old, set up a marriage arrangement, that she would be married to Long Yin to fasten the future of the ambitions of the Southern Emperor Sect. And a few years later, sent you to Tianlong City, since then you very rarely returned home, and this is suppose to be normal?” Shui Mengchan: “……” “If you really are his only daughter, how could he do such a thing? At least, a normal father would not leave his daughter who is not yet an adult thousands of miles away, it’s completely unimaginable. That’s what initially made me suspicious. If you are not his daughter, all of this would make much more sense…… If it were me, I would also leave this so called ‘daughter’ who isn’t really my daughter far away and out of sight.” The corners of Ye Wuchen’s mouth curved upward, smiling mysteriously. “And later, I happened to learn that people with direct Southern Emperor’s blood or Northern Emperor’s blood will always be loyal to their ancestors and will never disobey the mission left behind by their ancestors. The speculation in my heart thus began to take shape.” Ye Wuchen said here, his words turning as he half tilted his head, pleasantly admiring Shui Mengchan’s pleasing posture: “I have honestly explained, now it’s your turn to tell me what you really know. Some things can not only help you, but also help me.” Ye Wuchen changed to a comfortable position and made a listening posture. “Human nature …… turns out, the truth of many things, in fact, are hidden in the most ordinary, the most easily ignored things.” Thinking back on her childhood to adulthood, she really subconsciously ignored a lot of things. If she could have had Ye Wuchen’s heart, perhaps at an early age, she would have been able to see what was going on from her mother’s abnormalities, her “father’s” differences, and many other differences. Just because they were her “relatives”, the people she should trust the most, without any hint of suspicion, she had been living all this time in a false world. She began to tell the story of her return to the Southern Emperor Sect, her encounter with Shui Yuntian, the way they convinced each other of their identities, and everything Shui Yuntian had told her, in great detail, without missing a word. These days, Shui Mengchan’s heart has been haunted by these things, and even in her dreams, it was Shui Yuntian’s miserable posture with his resentful words. Even if she wanted to forget, she couldn’t forget. As she spoke, Ye Wuchen’s expression also quietly changed. Shifting from a light smile, to a calm gaze, and then to his eyebrows being furrowed in deep thought, searching for every bit of information he could use. When Shui Mengchan finished everything, Ye Wuchen also fell into complete silence, the previous relaxed and easy-going atmosphere was gone. With a soft sigh, he said softly, “Corrupted hearts are always so terrifying.” His voice paused and his gaze turned to his left: “Now, do you believe me?” Shui Mengchan was stunned for a while, and immediately realized that Ye Wuchen was not talking to her. When his gaze turned, the screen carved with purple wood was pushed aside, and a person rushed out violently. This person looked similar in age to Ye Wuchen. The young man was also similar in height, with a pale face that had a hint of femininity on his handsome face. The first thing one would think of is the elder brother of some big family. His gaze was gloomy at this time, his lips were bitten blue, in extreme shock and anger, he yelled in a nearly out-of-control voice “Sister, is it all true? Is this true ……” he asked Shui Mengchan in a cold trembling voice hastily, although, he actually no longer had any doubts …… “Wuque, how come you are here!?” Shui Mengchan shouted in shock. It was actually her brother, the “idle” Shui Wuque, who ran around all day! And he was hiding behind the screen, so close to her, and she didn’t even notice. He didn’t dare to believe everything Ye Wuchen said to him, but he believed all of what Shui Mengchan said. Even though he didn’t want to believe it, it was from his sister’s own mouth. Unlike Shui Mengchan, he felt more of a bitter hatred and tinge of pain, he didn’t really have the same feeling of being deceived and toyed with …… because after all, his and Shui Yunlan’s “father and son” relationship is extremely indifferent, and he has long been unwilling to even treat him as a father. For him, his only family members were his sister and mother. Those aunts, uncles, elders …he also do not want to have anything to do with them. His only friends in the clan were those who were willing to follow him out to find the Southern Emperor Sword. “It was I who brought him here, but it also took some effort. I guess, if it wasn’t for your discouragement at the beginning, Wuque would have taken the initiative to come to me three years ago.” Ye Wuchen said with a smile.