Chapter 341

Chapter 341: Rot on Your Own, Don’t Drag Others Down

The Jiang brothers were speechless: “…”

It was hard to comment.

Unmoved by the surge of spiritual energy building around them, Yu Zhi Yi continued slowly: “Even if Old Manor Lord Ji wasn’t famous in the Martial World, it was easy for him to deal with his own son.”

“After your mother died, you became your father’s punching bag for a long time. In contrast, your brother was rarely hit. Your father even showed him a kind, fatherly smile now and then.”

“You were average in talent. No matter how hard you trained, you couldn’t match your gifted brother. A move you practiced for a month, he could copy after a few lazy swings. The inner arts you worked at for more than ten years, he learned in two and surpassed you.”

“You hated your father purely. Toward your brother, you felt both hate and jealousy.”

“When you thought your life would go on like that forever, you met a demonic cultivator.”

“That woman planned to capture you and drain your vitality. Just as she was about to succeed, Chen Ruo Lan rushed in and sprinkled sleep powder, knocking the woman out and saving your chastity.”

“From then on, you treated Chen Ruo Lan like a Divine Maiden-like your salvation. You chose to become her dog. Wherever she pointed, you struck.”

“Eighteen years ago, after you two got drunk, you slept together, and Chen Ruo Lan became pregnant. She planned to find a chance to pin the child on my father. You were hurt, but you firmly protected her interests and wanted to help her get her wish.”

“Sadly, back then you were both too weak. My father was loyal to my mother. He did care for Chen Ruo Lan as an adopted sister, but even after she showed her feelings again and again, he decided to distance himself.”

“You two couldn’t find a good chance, yet her belly grew day by day. Helpless, you picked another fall guy.”

“That was Chen Ruo Lan’s ex-husband, the Azure Sea Sect’s Young Lord Liao Jun.”

“As one of the old, well-known forces in the Martial World, the Azure Sea Sect isn’t as strong as the Martial Alliance, but its name carries far.”

“Liao Jun was a true talent. His only vice was lust.”

“Chen Ruo Lan married him just to borrow his name to have a child. There was never real love.”

“When the baby was nearly due, she set him up to sleep with another woman. Then she pretended to be heartbroken, ran out of the courtyard, and took a staged fall.”

“That triggered labor.”

“She had bribed the doctor and the midwife ahead of time, so everyone believed Chen Xin Yue was born early.”

“In truth, the baby only seemed small because Chen Ruo Lan worried too much during pregnancy and didn’t rest well, so the child didn’t fully grow.”

“After she got what she wanted, Chen Ruo Lan made a scene using his ‘mistress’ as the reason, kicked her ex-husband away, and took Chen Xin Yue back to the Martial Alliance.”

“Her plan was to make my father take responsibility.”

“But my father didn’t bite.”

“Ji Guang Dai wanted to recognize his real daughter, but Chen Ruo Lan looked down on him and wouldn’t let him anywhere near Chen Xin Yue.”

“That night between them had been an accident. Chen Ruo Lan meant to cut her losses and never have any relationship with Ji Guang Dai beyond that.”

“No one expected Ji Guang Dai to get a few books from that female demonic cultivator. They contained several wicked arrays. The best among them was the Fortune-Shift Array.”

“Ji Guang Dai started testing it right away.”

“Two years later, he succeeded. He even ‘entered the path’ through the array-but through an evil array.”

“The biggest winner of the Fortune-Shift Array was him. Next was Chen Ruo Lan. The least was Chen Xin Yue.”

“Juxian Manor’s growth was only a side effect of the three of them getting stronger.”

“The forbidden book clearly explained the backlash the array maker and those who benefited would suffer if the array was broken. Ji Guang Dai is a careful man. He didn’t think he’d fail, but he still didn’t dare gamble even a tiny chance of failure.”

“So, once he was sure the Fortune-Shift Array could work, he modified it.”

“He even found another woman to bear him a child for this.”

“The young manor lord was born under that malice.”

“The array was laid by the young manor lord’s own hands. Even the method to hide the array was handled completely by him.”

“That twelve-year-old truly had no idea what the array was for. His father told him to do it, so he did, without a single question.”

“And that still wasn’t the end.”

“As a beneficiary of the Fortune-Shift Array, Ji Guang Dai would still suffer backlash when the array broke.”

“So he took a crooked path: first, he shifted all that luck onto the young manor lord.”

“After the luck stayed on the boy for a few days and bound to him completely, Ji Guang Dai moved the luck onto their family of three.”

“The poor young manor lord was just a tool to carry and transfer luck.”

“So on the day the array was broken, as the array maker and the one who profited, the poor young manor lord didn’t even get a second to breathe. He fell straight off a ten-thousand-foot cliff.”

“If not for a thread of the Jiang clan’s luck still clinging to him and keeping him from dying on the spot, he’d already be a pile of rotten flesh.”

“For someone in his state, death might have been a mercy.”

“The Fortune-Shift backlash is no joke. Even if you pass out, your soul is still torn. Even in sleep you get no rest.”

“His body will get worse day by day. The pain will reach into his dreams, making him suffer and grow weaker even while he sleeps.”

At last, Yu Zhi Yi’s expression moved as she said: “Even a tiger won’t eat its cub. You’re more vicious than a tiger in the mountains.”

Ji Guang Dai laughed and said: “Official Yu rose from an abused adopted girl to her place today. Surely she used many methods that can’t stand the light. You and I are half a pound against eight ounces-we’re the same kind of people.”

Before Yu Zhi Yi could answer, Jiang Yu Chuan spat and snapped: “Stop flattering yourself. Jin’er isn’t like you-she got where she is by her own skill. You’re rotten from the root, so go rot by yourself and don’t drag others down!”

Ji Guang Dai snorted and said: “Second Master Jiang, you grew up in a honey jar. You don’t understand how hard life is for people at the bottom.”

His face lit with a twisted excitement as he went on: “Before she turned ten, Second Miss Jiang lived in silk and rich food, loved by all of Yu Manor. After ten, her parents and her elder brother became someone else’s. She lost their love, was misunderstood, bullied, and abused. Even the lowest maids could climb over her head and act high and mighty.”

“After she married, her husband treated her badly and let a mistress walk all over her.”

“Days like that aren’t for people.”

With a sigh, Ji Guang Dai looked at Yu Zhi Yi, his eyes full of pity-and the glow of meeting someone he thought was the same as him.