Chapter 354: Five Years Ago, the Abyss of Severed Souls?!

But Ye Qingran never expected that a woman who serves men for pleasure, after being played with to exhaustion by a man, could never rise again.

Even though Ye Qingran does this for Your Majesty, in the end it is merely like fallen petals having intention while flowing water remains heartless!

Lin Xueyan thought smugly.

She only felt an incomparable exhilaration. Earlier she had been pondering how to eliminate Ye Qingran as a lingering trouble. It wasn't that she hadn't acted against Ye Qingran during this period, but the people she sent always vanished without return, which frustrated her.

This time, she didn't even need to act herself; Ye Qingran killed herself.

How could she not be pleased?

"There is another matter," the plain‑looking young man said at that moment.

"Speak."

"The Bloodline Detection results for the young master and Yun Zhi are ready; at the latest they will reach Your Majesty tomorrow."

Lin Xueyan curled her lips in a smile, a sharp gleam flashing in her eyes.

The Bloodline Detection results are about to be released?

She looks forward to Your Majesty's reaction upon seeing the results!

"Miss Lin, Your Majesty wishes to see you."

Fu Er appeared silently outside; his voice came, startling Lin Xueyan.

Your Majesty is looking for her?

Lin Xueyan was first stunned, then opened the door and went out, looking at Fu Er, both startled and delighted, "Why does Your Majesty seek me?"

Fu Er shook his head, "Miss Lin will know once she goes!"

"I understand, I'll tidy up and go right away!"

Fu Er nodded and left immediately.

"Miss, could it be that Your Majesty has had a change of heart and finally recognized your virtues?" After Fu Er left, Lin Xueyan's maid looked at her with excitement.

A change of heart?

Lin Xueyan's eyes flashed as she thought of Fu Hanxiu's peerless handsome face and his upright, firm physique, causing her heart to flutter.

She even dreams of becoming Your Majesty's woman!

She also believes this possibility is great. After all, Ye Qingran is now a wreck, Your Majesty's attitude toward Yun Zhi is cold, and at his side currently only she, Lin Xueyan, remains as a woman.

"Miss, go quickly! I have a feeling you will soon become Supreme Lord's wife!" the maid urged.

Supreme Lord's wife?

Such a title made Lin Xueyan's heart race. The thought that countless strong ones at the Peak of the Hunt would later bow to her, honoring her as lady master, made her unable to contain her excitement.

Lin Xueyan returned to her room with anticipation, changed into splendid garments, applied an exquisitely delicate makeup, and then, radiant, hurried to Guoshi Fu.

Guoshi Fu

"Your Majesty, Lin Xueyan has arrived."

"Bring her in."

Soon, Lin Xueyan entered the study; Fu Hanxiu sat at the desk, his face slightly lowered, making his expression hard to read.

His upright, towering physique made her heart race.

Lin Xueyan's heart brimmed with excitement as she surveyed the study's furnishings, becoming increasingly certain that Fu Hanxiu summoned her because he wanted her to be his woman.

After all, this was her first time in Your Majesty's study. The room was filled with his scent, the kind that could intoxicate her.

Thinking of this possibility, her heart pounded, thoughts fluttered in her mind, even recalling certain scenes that often appeared in her dreams.

But on second thought, Your Majesty had ignored her for five years; this time, if Your Majesty says he wants her as his woman, she could agree, yet if he intends to do something indescribable, should she play hard to get? After all, she does not want Your Majesty to think that she, Lin Xueyan, is like Ye Qingran—a woman available to anyone!

Lin Xueyan's nobility is such that even the Emperor Sovereign of the Peak of the Hunt cannot obtain her merely by desire.

"Your Majesty, what business do you have with me?" Lin Xueyan bit her lower lip, asking knowingly.

She deliberately made her voice sound more coquettish.

Fu Hanxiu slowly lifted his head; his eyes were profoundly deep, like a distant Abyss, yet like an endless night sky.

Lin Xueyan gazed into those eyes; the woman who had been full of endless romantic thoughts suddenly froze her expression.

That gaze...

She seemed to see the Grim Reaper's scythe swinging before her.

A wave of death's aura spread from her feet upward, erasing all her romantic thoughts.

She finally realized the truth: Your Majesty seeks her not because he wants her to be the lady master of the Peak of the Hunt!

"Your Majesty..." Lin Xueyan's heart trembled, her lips trembling, voice quivering.

"Lin Xueyan, I'll ask you again: who is Xiao Chen's birth mother?"

Fu Hanxiu spoke slowly, his voice low and deep, yet carrying a chilling cold that made the soul shiver.

Lin Xueyan's whole body tensed, her gaze at Fu Hanxiu instantly freezing.

She couldn't help recalling five years ago, when she carried Ye Qingran's child to the Peak of the Hunt, Fu Hanxiu had asked him the same.

But his attitude then was very indifferent, as if he didn't care at all.

She had answered back then that the child's mother was already dead, and she didn't know who she was.

Lin Xueyan swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva before regaining her voice, "Your Majesty, didn't I already say that back then? I don't know who the young master's mother is; at the time I only saw a woman lying in a pool of blood, already dead. She was drenched in blood, and I couldn't even discern her features..."

Fu Hanxiu slowly rose; his towering, upright frame made the once spacious study feel suddenly cramped.

Lin Xueyan looked up at him, terror filling her eyes.

She subconsciously thought, could Your Majesty already know the truth from back then? That's impossible! Ye Qingran didn't even know that Fu Qianchen was her child, and Your Majesty certainly couldn't...

Fu Hanxiu stepped out from behind the desk, walking toward Lin Xueyan step by step, each step seeming to tread on the tip of her heart.

"Not telling the truth, huh?"

His voice was clearly low, yet it gave Lin Xueyan a chill as if she were falling into an ice cellar.

Fear almost made her unable to hold back from confessing all the truth. But reason told her that if she now told Fu Hanxiu the truth, what awaited her would be a very miserable fate.

She might as well gamble!

Anyway, the Bloodline Detection results for Yun Zhi and Fu Qianchen are about to arrive!

"Your Majesty, everything I said is true! I really don't know who the young master's birth mother is! When I met the young master years ago, he lay beside that woman, almost frozen stiff, and I immediately held him in my arms... As for that woman, she's already breathed her last, and I'm not even sure whether she is the young master's birth mother."

Lin Xueyan kept speaking, then she knelt down, her voice and tears falling together.

If it had been before, Fu Hanxiu might have believed Lin Xueyan, but now he has already heard the truth from Ye Qingran—how could he believe Lin Xueyan again?

Fu Hanxiu approached Lin Xueyan, looking down at him. His face was cold, his eyes deep and unfathomable—impossible to tell what he was thinking.

"Then tell me, what happened five years ago on the Soul-Shattering Abyss?"

Five years ago, the Soul-Shattering Abyss?!