Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!

Chapter 406 - 398: Listening to a Grand Drama

Not to mention, he sent a large number of people to search everywhere, almost turning over the surrounding area, yet found no trace.

"Continue monitoring the Sikong Family, there’s no need to investigate further on the rest."

This clearly shows protection for Miss Cheng, unwilling to delve deeply into others’ secrets.

Previously, I already found Miss Cheng mysterious, and now even more so.

Forget it, if the master says not to investigate, then we won’t!

Miss Cheng has genuinely saved the master’s life this time, such severe injuries that even under Elder Qi’s treatment at the Dark Pavilion Headquarters might not have survived.

"Understood!"

"Have there been any recent updates about her?"

This "her" was instantly understood by Han Yi.

"Miss Cheng has not returned to the Underground City for a long time. She seems to be particularly busy recently."

"Hmm!"

The master’s questions always seemed so abrupt.

If he cares, he should just say so. Next time Miss Cheng returns to the Underground City, he must keep her there.

She has settled them here for so long, yet has never visited, such audacity indeed.

"Master, you should lie down and rest, health is important."

"It’s fine. Has anything unusual happened elsewhere?"

"Not particularly significant, but the extreme cold has led to countless deaths and injuries among the people, bones piling up into mountains.

Even in such significant matters, the Court remains inactive. All they do is fight desperately for power, while in various regions, banditry and looting are rampant, and in Jianghu, chaos erupts, with forces vying, annexing, leading to numerous unjust deaths over resource grabs."

"The fickle world, survival of the fittest. Don’t be overly guilty."

For someone of his status, to have to struggle from the mire, the world has never been fair. One must become strong to secure one’s existence.

"I am not guilty. What we do at the Dark Pavilion is an assassination business, overtly heinous, but behind the scenes, countless commoners have been aided, far better than most wolves in sheeps’ clothing."

Han Yi spoke with pride.

The master is all bark and no bite.

"How is the situation with the Ouyang Family?"

"It’s quite tricky; every old monster in that lot is skilled with curses. We’ve lost many people. It’s a tough nut to crack."

Whenever the Ouyang Family is mentioned, Han Yi gets angry. How could he let them have an easy life after injuring his master like this? Even if it can’t be resolved quickly, he intends to make them suffer.

"There’s no need to be so aggressive; take it slow. At the right time, use one force against another."

If the Ouyang Ancestor weren’t severely injured, the Dark Pavilion would take ten to eight years to take down the Ouyang Family, or there’s a possibility of being countered and annihilated.

But now it’s different; the Ouyang Family is already riddled with holes, breaking them up and devouring slowly is the best strategy.

"Master is wise!"

Previously, he was too hasty, solely focused on avenging the master, lost many brothers, utterly unworthy.

Since the Ouyang Family is entangled with the Zhongsun Family and Zhongli Family, let’s create conflict and let them tear each other apart.

...

Cheng Xiaoxiao had stayed in Dayan City for several days, running around exhausted during the day, and at night listening to gossip from the Governor Mansion owners.

It let her, as a bystander, witness quite a dramatic story.

It turns out those assassins were hired by the Commandery Governor’s Wife at a great cost.

The reason being nothing else, the little boy’s biological father was not her own son. Given her age, she could not have a son that old, let alone a grandson.

She is a stepmother, and considering her biological son, it’s understandable not to want someone else to share the inheritance, but even more dramatic is: that early summer by the West Suburban Lake.

Back then, the Commandery Governor’s Wife was a young girl, not yet of age, and went to the lake with her sisters, where she met a talented young man, the Commandery Chief Mansion’s eldest son, and fell in love at first sight.

But the young man was interested in her cousin; she tried to split them up, but no matter her schemes, it only strengthened their bond, and they eventually married, living harmoniously.

But then...!

Later, it’s unclear whether there was a plot twist or the protagonist aura faded, but a year after marriage, something big happened.

Her cousin had a miscarriage from being accidentally hit by her mother-in-law, who later poisoned herself and died.

The specific truth died with the mother-in-law, leaving her cousin to defend herself futilely.

This irreconcilable conflict nearly destroyed her cousin’s marriage with the eldest son.

Upon hearing this, she thought she had another chance, trying all means to visit the Commandery Chief Mansion under the guise of visiting her cousin, expressing her feelings to the son, but he’d rather stay with a spiteful wife than take her as a concubine.

It drove her almost insane with anger.

The people of the Commandery Chief Mansion already disliked her for her prior deeds, and after these visits, were even less willing to let her enter.

Hence, her opportunities to see the man were fewer.

Later, at a banquet, she set herself up to seduce the eldest son.

But, he’d rather jump into the lake than touch her, deeply wounding her heart and soul.

She wasn’t willing to let go of them just like that, so she devised a scheme to marry the then forty-something Prefectural Governor as his second wife.

Thus becoming a stepmother to the eldest son and her cousin.

Upon marrying into the mansion, she stirred numerous troubles, further straining the already fragile marriage, combined with the father-in-law’s displeasure, making her cousin’s life miserable there.

Soon, she got pregnant, and after ten months, she gave birth, the Lord Governor, having a son in his old age, was very pleased, holding a grand celebration.

Gradually she realized, to secure her standing, the eldest son was surely a hindrance.

So she plotted another miscarriage for her cousin and made the son believe it was intentional, leading him to utterly despise her cousin.

Her cousin, grief-stricken, lived in misery.

Which delighted her greatly yet still couldn’t drive her cousin out of the mansion.

Until, years later, while the couple was away, the son was poisoned, and in a fit of anger, the Lord Governor expelled her, citing her failure to care for the son and bear children for the Zhao Family.

Only then did she get her complete release and, seeing the son weakened by illness, lost the admiration she had for him.

Gradually, she let go of her hatred and focused on educating her son.

Thinking past events were like smoke and that she was the ultimate victor.

Unexpectedly, while the son tormented by illness secretly met that woman, rekindled an affair, and even fathered such a grown son in secret, how could she not harbor intense resentment?

That woman, gone for so many years, now strikes back, how can she not be driven mad with jealousy and anger?

Regretting she wasn’t more ruthless back then and didn’t make a decisive end.

Everything in the mansion belongs to her and her son, and no one else would get even a scrap.

The humiliation of being rejected back then repeatedly plays in her mind, suffocating her reason with jealousy and discontent.