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Damn...

What on earth did Pei Luoyan, this "substitute," mean?

Qin Yu blinked.

He couldn't quite penetrate what she had up her sleeve, but Yan Mingyu trusted her, so it was not his place to follow them uninvited.

At this moment.

Ye Xinyue and Yan Mingyu had already walked deep into the underbrush.

After coming to a stop, Ye Xinyue gave her a deep look, then reached up to her jawline and gently tugged, revealing a mask as thin as a cicada's wing in her hand.

"You?"

Yan Mingyu's eyes widened in disbelief.

This "Pei Luoyan" looked at least ninety percent similar to herself, creating the sensation of looking into a mirror.

No wonder she felt a sense of deja vu despite never having interacted with her. So, she looked almost exactly like herself?

"Recently, some online posts smearing my reputation surfaced, one of which included a photo from my dad's car accident scene. Was that woman you?"

Yan Mingyu was clever, and she quickly realized that this woman must be the very person she had asked Chen Mo and Luo Zheng to investigate.

"It was me. Your dad was killed by me!"
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Ye Xinyue nodded, openly admitting it.

"What?"

Yan Mingyu was even more astonished. Why would this woman, who looked exactly like her, want to kill her own father?

"Mingyu, you must know what kind of person your dad was. Using his good looks and glib tongue, he hurt so many women. Killing him was merely delivering divine justice!"

Ye Xinyue said indifferently.

"Then... why do you look so much like me, could it be that you are my... mother?"

Yan Mingyu, in her twenties, hadn't dated or married simply because she knew from a young age that her father was a philanderer.

As such, she was greatly disappointed in men and did not believe in romantic relationships. If not for her grandfather pressuring her to marry that "husband" who delivered takeout, she had been prepared to stay single for life.

Her own background was a mystery to her until the breakdown in her relationship with Liu Nanyan, after which she kidnapped her and revealed that they had no blood relation. Now that a woman resembling her had appeared, it was natural for her to subconsciously assume this was her biological mother.

But she was uncertain, for by appearance, this woman was at most in her early thirties, unless she was over forty and exceptionally good at self-maintenance.

"I am not...."

As expected, Ye Xinyue shook her head, providing a negative answer.

"Then... what is your relationship with my mother, you must be related to her, right?"

Yan Mingyu couldn't help but ask further.

"Yes, your mother and I are very, very close relatives. The story goes back twenty-six years.... That time, I was only ten...."

Ye Xinyue's face showed a trace of reminisce as she slowly began to tell the story of how her sister met Yan Mingyu's father, became pregnant, was imprisoned in the water dungeon, and how she then begged the organization behind Pei Luoyan to rescue her sister.

However, when her sister gave birth to Yan Mingyu at the hospital, their family found them amidst the chaos. Ye Xinyue, just ten years old, managed to escape from the hospital with the infant Yan Mingyu in her arms, but her sister's whereabouts remained unknown in the chaos.

At that time, Ye Xinyue, only a child, certainly lacked the abilities to care for Yan Mingyu. Subsequently, the people from the Assassins Organization suggested handing Yan Mingyu over to Old Master Yan.

His son might have had questionable morals, but Old Master Yan had a good reputation in East Sea.

As time passed, Ye Xinyue gradually became a member of the Assassins Organization and consistently used its intelligence network to search for her sister, to no avail.

On one occasion when she came to East Sea to visit Yan Mingyu in secret, she discovered that Yan Mingyu's father was unrepentant, neglecting to care for Yan Mingyu properly and continuing his philandering ways.

Enraged, Ye Xinyue meticulously arranged an accident and killed the man responsible for her sister's pregnancy and disappearance.

"...so I should call you 'auntie'?"

After listening to Ye Xinyue's story, Yan Mingyu fell silent for a few seconds before asking with her teeth slightly clenched.

"Yes! I had someone rescue my sister, which is your mother, and because of that, I could never return to the family and could only become an assassin!"

Ye Xinyue nodded, her expression also very complex.

"Then...the family of you and my mother, which family is it? Is it true that if they hadn't imprisoned my mother in the water prison, both yours and my mother's fates wouldn't have changed? One became an assassin, the other's whereabouts unknown?"

Yan Mingyu felt that the root of the problem lay with her mother's family. If they hadn't been so heartless, none of these things would have happened.

"Mingyu, remember your auntie's words. Live your current life well, don't mention your origins to anyone, and don't try to investigate that family. I will continue to search for your mother, you should act as if you never saw me today, never heard me say these words, understand?"

Ye Xinyue took Yan Mingyu's hand, speaking gravely.

For so many years, the Ye Family had never troubled Yan Mingyu, probably because they thought she was the child of her father and another woman, not her sister's child.

Otherwise, if Yan Mingyu's true identity were ever exposed, it would definitely bring about her doom.

Perhaps the Yan Family had some influence in the East Sea, but in the eyes of the Ye Family, they could extinguish them in a snap.

"Auntie...okay!"

Yan Mingyu could vaguely guess Ye Xinyue's reasons; in these large families, in order to maintain their so-called "face," there was nothing they wouldn't do.

"Well, tell your bodyguard to let us go, we will no longer come to the East Sea. This matter ends here. By the way, your bodyguard is really excellent, brave and resourceful, a man worth trusting. If you haven't married, you might consider him..."

Ye Xinyue didn't know if she would ever see her niece again, inevitably thinking far ahead.

"Auntie, I..."

Yan Mingyu didn't know what to say, her current marital status was a complete mess.

In the end, she nodded and said, "I will talk to Qin Yu and won't make things difficult for Pei Luoyan and you!"

"Good then, let's go. Everything we discussed today stays buried in our stomachs!"

"Oh…"

Ye Xinyue put her mask back on and walked out of the bushes with Yan Mingyu.

Meanwhile, with Pei Luoyan.

Ever since Ye Xinyue said she wanted to talk alone with Yan Mingyu, her expression had become much more composed.

"Put away the rope!"

Pei Luoyan glanced at the rope in Qin Yu's hand and said languidly.

"Why should I put it away?"

Qin Yu looked at Pei Luoyan as if she were a fool.

"Your boss will let us go!"

Pei Luoyan said calmly.

"What?"

Qin Yu was even more speechless.

Pei Luoyan and her people had caused so much trouble for Yan Mingyu and had almost killed Li Xiaozu. Would Yan Mingyu just let them off?

"Because... it involves a huge secret. You, a small fry, will never have the qualification to know!"

Even in Qin Yu's custody, Pei Luoyan maintained a sense of "half-respect," thinking that however powerful Qin Yu was, he was just a hired help.

The secret of Yan Mingyu's origin was something he wasn't even qualified to know.