Chapter 131

Chapter 131: Leveled Up!

The Du family members could more or less guess why Du Qi Chang was so reluctant to part, but they also knew that, just from the comments Du An Rao had revealed a moment ago, and the fact that he could not hear Du An Rao’s Inner Voice, even if he somehow escaped this tribulation by luck, in Du De Sheng’s heart he was already out.

Whether he stayed or left would not make much difference.

Even though they heard from Du Qi Chang that the matter had been resolved, Du An Rao still could not get through to Du Bi Xiao’s phone, so her heart hung in her throat.

After all, her cousin had gone to save someone with danger and bloodshed hanging over her head. If anything went wrong, it might not be her saving others, but others having to save her.

After learning what she was worried about, Du De Sheng took out his phone and directly called the people over there, asking Du Bi Xiao to find a moment to personally call Du An Rao and report that she was safe. Only then did Du An Rao finally relax.

[Granduncle really has such a warm heart. He knew I was worried about my cousin, and he even specially made a call and pulled some strings so she could call me back. He’s thoughtful and sentimental, reliable and rich. If it weren’t for those people around him, each with their own schemes, grabbing at him alone to fleece him, how would Granduncle have been forced to do things so ruthlessly in the end? He’s really too pitiful.]

The Du family members: “…”

Baby, do you have some misunderstanding about your granduncle?

Wake up. A man who, on his deathbed, could wipe out in one go all those petty leeches scheming for his fortune absolutely could not be the pitiful, homeless veteran you’re talking about.

Forget everything else. Isn’t your filter a bit too strong? He really is only this gentle to you!

Hit by this strange kind of sugar-coated bullet, Du An Rao was instantly bought over and returned to the earlier topic.

[Because of what happened with Fourth Sister’s side, I almost forgot about that Miss Qin.]

Du De Sheng’s eyelids twitched, and his hand unconsciously tightened around his cane.

He admitted he really was purposefully currying favor with Du An Rao, but if she could truly help him get what he wanted, he was perfectly willing to spoil Du An Rao for a lifetime.

Thinking this, Du An Rao focused her gaze on Du De Sheng, and her eyes narrowed.

[Huh? Did my eyes just… level up?]

Leveled up? What kind of wording was that? The Du family members watched her face curiously, trying to read her expression, but before they could figure it out, Du An Rao had already given the answer.

Before this, Du An Rao could also see a few things from people’s physiognomy, but it was shallow. The really detailed parts she knew mostly because of the plot descriptions in the Inner Library.

But now, as long as she wanted to, one look at someone’s face and she could see their life story. She could only see what had already happened, though. The future was still too blurry to see clearly.

But that was already more than enough, especially because…

[Besides his own past, I can also see the past of some people who are connected to him.]

And the closer the relationship, the clearer it became. The deeper the entanglement, the more she could see.

Realizing this, Du An Rao decisively focused her attention on Du De Sheng’s Spouse Palace.

Even though he and Miss Qin had never married, and the two of them had been separated for decades, two people in love had never forgotten each other and had never stopped looking for each other. This bond was deeper than with anyone else.

Sure enough, after looking for only a short while, Du An Rao learned quite a lot about Miss Qin.

[Wow, Miss Qin is way too miserable!]

Du De Sheng’s heart gave a hard thump. His face went pale at once, making several of the Du family members so nervous they were almost shaking, afraid the elder would not be able to handle the shock and have something happen right in their home. Then their entire family could really never clear their name, even if they jumped into the Yellow River.

Luckily, this elder who had spent his life in storm and rain had pretty good mental strength. Even though his heart was shaken to the extreme, he still forced himself to endure it and did not show a single crack.

Du An Rao had no idea that one sentence of hers had almost broken Granduncle’s defenses. She herself was also angry at the moment.

It turned out that, after Miss Qin and Father Qin and Mother Qin escaped from Bianjing, they soon met a friend who helped them, and luckily found a place to settle in another city.

Miss Qin kept thinking about her lover who had disappeared without news, but she didn’t expect that this friend’s son would also fall for the young, beautiful, and well-educated Miss Qin.

Miss Qin’s parents had always hoped she could quickly marry into a wealthy family that matched theirs and stop thinking about that poor boy who had nothing. They were happy about this marriage, and actually agreed to the friend’s proposal without Miss Qin’s consent, promising their daughter away again.

Miss Qin never thought she could escape war but not escape a forced marriage, especially when the people forcing her were the very benefactors who had just helped her family.

If it had been anyone else, they might have struggled a bit and then given in. But Miss Qin was stubborn. That very day she went to the young master who admired her and clearly told him that she already had someone in her heart and did not want to marry him, and asked him to break off the engagement.

Who knew he would not care whether she liked someone or not? He only said it was his parents’ order and a match made by a matchmaker, and that Miss Qin’s wishes were not important. As long as she married him, sooner or later she would accept her fate, and once she did, forgetting the person in her heart was only a matter of time. He could wait.

At that point, Miss Qin was completely isolated and helpless. That night, after meeting him, she slit her wrists to show with her actions how she protested this arranged marriage.

Clang!

Hearing this, Du De Sheng finally could not endure anymore and slammed his cane hard against the corner of the coffee table in front of him.

When Du An Rao turned her head in surprise, he forced a stiff smile and said: “I’m getting old. I can’t handle being hungry anymore. When I’m hungry I get dizzy and weak, and I can’t even hold my cane.”

Father Du hurriedly followed up: “We were careless. Jun Yan, go to the kitchen and bring some snacks for your granduncle so he can pad his stomach, and hurry them up about dinner too.”

“Okay, I’ll go right now.”

[So he was just hungry. Makes sense. Granduncle isn’t young anymore, and he ran around everywhere when he was young, so he must have a lot of health problems. But these years he has had people around him taking care of him. Miss Qin, though…]

But what? Say it!

Everyone’s hearts rose with Du An Rao’s unfinished thought, and Du De Sheng’s eyelids started twitching even harder.

Miss Qin’s suicide attempt had not succeeded, but the marriage between the two families blew up because of it.

A young unmarried girl slitting her wrists because she had someone in her heart and did not want to marry her fiancé would still be the talk of the town even now, let alone half a century ago. That was absolutely a scandal.

Father Qin and Mother Qin lost all face, and the friend’s family became the laughingstock of the whole city. In their anger, they kicked the entire Qin family out and drove them away.

Father Qin and Mother Qin already held a lot of resentment about how Miss Qin’s wrist-cutting had embarrassed them. After being driven out, they blamed everything on Miss Qin. Some Qin relatives were dragged into the mess as well and came to pressure Father Qin and Mother Qin.

After being fanned by those sour and sarcastic words, Father Qin and Mother Qin simply drove the still-recovering Miss Qin out of the house and cut ties with her.

The Du family members: “!!!”

Du De Sheng: “…” Where are my quick-acting heart pills?