Chapter 273: Volume 1_Chapter 273: The Old Marquis is Cuckolded

Volume 1_Chapter 273: The Old Marquis is Cuckolded

The incident at the Yun family was neither big nor small, but it left Yun Qiyue deeply shocked.

Because it was simply too melodramatic.

So melodramatic that Yun Qiyue felt profound sympathy for the Old Marquis.

Why?

Because the Old Marquis had been cuckolded and made a fool of.

As it turned out, the reason Yun Yongyuan did not stop Ye Lanjue from killing Yun Wenjing and Yun Yarou yesterday was that neither the first branch nor the third branch were the Old Marquis's own flesh and blood.

They were simply the result of Chen Shi having an affair with a servant.

Normally, even if the first and third branches were not his biological children, they had still called the Old Marquis "Father" for decades.

For that reason, the Old Marquis might have dealt with them leniently; after all, having spent so many years together, there had to be some affection.

However, the problem was that Yun Qiyue's biological grandmother—the person the Old Marquis had held dearest in his heart—had died of depression precisely because the Old Marquis had taken other women and had children with them before her.

Now, he was being told that those two children weren't even his.

In an instant, with new hatred added to old, the Old Marquis truly began to loathe Chen Shi.

If not for the fact that Yun Qiyue had been nourishing him, leaving his health better than it had ever been, the Old Marquis would surely have fainted from rage.

But, having caused the death of his beloved for the sake of people who had no relation to him, the Old Marquis could not let them off easily, whether by emotion or reason.

Thus, with one word, the Old Marquis ordered the entire first and third branches to be driven out.

Originally, driving them out was the greatest punishment the Old Marquis could inflict on Chen Shi; he could not bring himself to impose anything more severe.

But Chen Shi first adamantly denied it, and then, seeing that denial was useless, began to cry and beg for forgiveness.

Yet, the death of his beloved wife was a pain in the Old Marquis's heart; how could he forgive her?

Moreover, he had never had any affection for Chen Shi; taking her in originally was only out of a sense of responsibility—a responsibility his beloved wife had forced upon him. Otherwise, given the Old Marquis's temperament, he might have killed the person who schemed against him on the spot.

For such a person, how could there be affection, and how could one speak of forgiveness?

Then, in the midst of their bickering, Chen Shi accidentally let it slip that the death of Yun Tian was also related to the schemes of Chen Shi and Yun Jiande.

Originally, after Mu Qingwan passed away, Yun Tian had been somewhat devastated.

But for the sake of Yun Qiyue and the lost child, he had held on.

And he had become famous after a single battle.

However, during one war, Chen Shi and the others had actually spread false news about the missing child while the two armies were engaged on the battlefield, in order to disturb Yun Tian's mind.

As for why Yun Tian's body went missing, no one knew to this day.

But the fact that they had caused Yun Tian's death was enough for the Old Marquis to hate them.

What was even more unimaginable was that the matter was not just that simple.

Even the disappearance of that child was Chen Shi's doing.

Don't look at Chen Shi as an unremarkable, ordinary old woman; she was truly venomous at heart.

To prevent the interests of her own children and grandchildren from being snatched away, Chen Shi had kept people watching Mu Qingwan.

After Mu Qingwan gave birth, she had people snatch the child away directly.

And the person Chen Shi paid a great price to entrust with this was none other than Jun Linche.

At the time, Chen Shi had embezzled a large amount of the Yun family's visible wealth and even borrowed usury to bribe Jun Linche—or rather, to bribe the assassins of Ghost Night.

As for the usury, a portion was covered using money from the treasury.

Naturally, covering the usury was done by Yun Jiande; the rest of the items in the treasury were spent by Yun Jiande on Yun Wenjing, otherwise, Yun Wenjing would never have been able to attend that awe-inspiring academy.

Why would Chen Shi confess all this?

It was because Chen Shi knew she had no way out, so she simply went mad and said everything, just to provoke the Old Marquis.

In Chen Shi's view, her entire life had been wasted by Yun Yongyuan, and she had never received a kind look from him, so she hated him.

Chen Shi hated Yun Yongyuan to the core.

She hated him for not looking at her for so many years and for not having a shred of affection for her.

Yet, at this moment, Chen Shi had completely forgotten that all of this was her own doing; in fact, she was the one who had schemed against Yun Yongyuan in the first place.

But Chen Shi was incapable of reflection.

In short, with one thing after another piling up, the Old Marquis, finding Chen Shi and her children unforgivable, killed Chen Shi on the spot.

As for the Yun Jiande brothers, they had never known that they were not the Old Marquis's biological children.

Seeing Chen Shi dead and realizing they were to be driven out, Yun Jiande, for the sake of the Marquis Mansion's wealth and glory, actually ordered the guards he had raised to attack the Old Marquis in a group.

Fortunately, the Old Marquis was still vigorous in his old age, and his abilities were not just for show; he did not suffer any losses, and with Yun Qiyue and Ye Lanjue arriving in time, the situation was contained.

In the end, Yun Jiande was beheaded.

Before Yun Jiande was beheaded, he also learned a truth he had never known before—Xu Ze was actually the son of Xu Shi.

Not only that, but apart from Yun Yajie, none of the other children were his biological offspring either.

These things were naturally "clarified" for him by Yun Qiyue, and the person who had investigated all of this was Ye Lanjue.

Yun Jiande's eyes were splitting with rage, but it was too late.

He would ultimately have to pay the price for everything he had done.

The others who had besieged the Old Marquis were also eventually executed one by one.

As for the rest, including those like Yun Jianye who had neither moved nor spoken, they were simply stripped of everything and cast out; apart from their clothes, they couldn't even take a single piece of jewelry.

Among these people, if anyone had a better ending, it was Yun Xinzhu, who had shown kindness to Yun Qiyue.

Of course, there was also Yun Xinzhu's mother, Hui Yiniang.

This mother and daughter could be said to be the most innocent of that entire family.

Hui Yiniang had originally been forced to become a concubine, but because Yun Jianye was henpecked, he had splashed the dirty water onto her.

In the third branch, the mother and daughter had never lived a good life.

After this incident, when that family was driven out, they were all dumped by Ye Lanjue in the middle of nowhere—a very remote place. Only Yun Xinzhu and her mother received some travel money and left Jingcheng.

The sky is vast for birds to fly; if they had no evil intentions and lived their lives properly, that money would be enough for the mother and daughter to live well.

It was just that after this incident, the Old Marquis's heart was truly broken, and he fell into a state of despondency.

However, just at this time, good news arrived.

Earlier, Yun Qiyue had asked Ye Lanjue to help find her younger brother, but there had been no clues, making it impossible to investigate.

But the things Chen Shi said before she died became the best clues.

Then, following this lead, Ye Lanjue quickly received news of Yun Qiyue's brother, Yun Wenxiang.

The person who had snatched the child away back then was indeed an assassin from Ghost Night.

However, the child had not been killed; instead, he had been raised and had become the top assassin, Xuanming—also known as Yun Xiang.

Upon learning this news, Yun Qiyue was completely shocked. ===== CHAPTER 274 =====