Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!
Chapter 281: The truth behind the 279 explosion case

Chapter 281: The truth behind the 279 explosion case

"My aunt must be here," Ah Xing said cheerfully as she ran towards the door.

Su Zihu suddenly said, "Someone from Jiang Ke? Stop her first."

Jun Lii quickly called out, "Ah Xing."

But she sprinted so fast that she didn’t hear the call behind her and flung open the door directly.

"Ah Xing..." Jun Lii got up in a hurry and groped his way towards where she had been speaking.

"You go back and tell aunt that I will bring my partner to the Jiang Family next week~ Ask her to persuade my mother beforehand, so mom won’t get mad and scold me!"

"Certainly, Miss."

After closing the door, Ah Xing turned around, "Eh, how did you come over here?"

Jun Lii was very anxious, "Ah Xing, who was that just now?"

"It was someone sent by my aunt." She wiped sweat off his forehead with her hand, "Look at you, sweating as if I was about to run away."

"I..." Jun Lii didn’t know how to begin, after all, Ah Xing didn’t know about Jiang Ke’s affairs yet.

"What’s wrong?"

"I..." Jun Lii thought for a moment then beat around the bush, "Ah Xing, are you very close with your aunt?"

"Of course~" Ah Xing giggled, "What kind of question is that? My aunt is definitely good to me! Whenever I got scolded by mom for not paying attention in class, it was my aunt who protected me~ She even took me horseback riding in the mountains, which was so much fun! Oh right, my sneaking away this time and hiding from mom, my aunt helped me cover up too, and told me to rest assured and stay here, otherwise, mom would have found me long ago."

Jun Lii felt a chill down his spine, "You’re saying this house was prepared by Jiang Ke for you?"

"Yeah~ it’s all arranged by my aunt." Ah Xing didn’t realize what his nervousness stemmed from and comforted him, "When your eyes are better, I’ll take you to my house. Well... I’ve kept some things from you before; my family, let’s say, has a bit of money... and everyone dotes on me a lot, knowing that I’m dating you might lead to some testing... But don’t worry, even if they give you a hard time, my aunt will be on your side~ You have to get on good terms with her, you know?"

Just as Jun Lii wanted to urge further, Su Zihu beat him to it and said, "Alright."

After Ah Xing left, Jun Lii angrily asked himself, "Why didn’t you tell her about Jiang Ke’s intentions?"

"She wouldn’t believe it," Su Zihu said with some difficulty, "Look, it took me several months to convince you, let alone convince her."

"But—"

"In her eyes, Jiang Ke is a good aunt who has been kind to her. Jiang Yu hasn’t told her much about those underlying tensions of the Jiang family! Ah Xing would never guess what a duplicitous person Jiang Ke is."

Jun Lii fell silent...

Indeed, what he said was right.

In Ah Xing’s heart, Jiang Ke was like Uncle Mu to him, a benevolent and amiable elder.

If suddenly someone claimed "Uncle Mu is plotting against me," his first reaction would probably be—Is this person trying to sow discord?

Without evidence, and with Ah Xing unaware of the nuances of the Jiang family,

Even if laid out for her, she might not understand the traps Jiang Ke had set...

It might be better left unsaid.

Su Zihu suggested, "Your eyesight should be restored soon, so try to contact someone from the Jun Residence first."

"Okay."

Previously, contacting someone from the Jun Residence was inconvenient. If it first brought assassins from the S organization, wouldn’t that drag Ah Xing into the abyss?

Now that he was nearly recovered, it was time to try reaching out to Jun Chi.

After sending a message to the Jun Residence using a secret letter, Jun Lii began to fall into an anxious wait.

At the slightest disturbance, he was alert, his worries preventing him from sleeping.

Only when he finally received Jun Chi’s reply "Will come to escort you tomorrow" did he feel relieved.

No matter how you look at it, returning to the Jun Residence in Hua Country is much safer than going directly to the Jiang Family.

Once back, he would slowly explain everything to Ah Xing.

The next day, Ah Xing unwrapped his bandages.

For a long time, he had been trying to see his surroundings at night. Now opening his eyes during the day, he still wasn’t quite used to it.

Yet Ah Xing’s beautiful face gradually took shape before him, becoming the most vivid image in front of his eyes.

Jun Lii had heard Su Zihu sing Ah Xing’s praises eight hundred times, "Ah Xing is very beautiful!"

Although there might be a bit of beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder effect, considering Jiang Yu’s noble appearance, Jun Lii thought that Ah Xing ought to be a pretty young girl regardless.

But when he saw her with his own eyes, he was still stunned by her appearance.

A mix of pure admiration and intense love intertwined, Jun Lii even found it hard to believe—had he really obtained such a beautiful girl?

The doorbell rang, and Ah Xing chuckled, "Don’t space out, blink more! I’ll get the door, it must be my aunt sending me things~"

None of the three had expected Jiang Ke to make a move at this time.

Even in Su Zihu’s world, Jiang Ke laid an ambush for him a year later and then lured Ah Xing with a scheme. By that time, Jiang Ke had already been at odds with Jiang Yu for many years, so anything he did was to be expected.

This world’s Jiang Ke, however, was so flawless as to leave no handle to grab.

Without causing any public commotion, she couldn’t calm her impatience and sent someone with a package.

"It’s a pretty package~ I told my aunt I have a little one now, and she even wrapped it with a blue ribbon, it looks like a gift for the baby."

She said as she untied the ribbon.

Ah Xing’s face suddenly changed.

"What’s wrong—"

"Ah Xing, throw away the package!" Jun Lii sensed something was amiss and, with a look of rage, dashed over, but someone was faster than him!

His body felt as if someone had suddenly drained all the strength from it, and he watched, eyes wide open, as Su Zihu burst out from within him.

A shadowy figure tightly embraced Ah Xing.

"Zihu?" Ah Xing’s eyes widened.

How could you really split into two people?!

But the words she hadn’t finished were drowned out by a loud noise.

Jun Lii was knocked over by the powerful blast of the explosion and slammed to the ground, unconscious...

In the last second before he lost consciousness, the last scene he saw was Su Zihu, with his soul, with that last bit of forced consciousness... protecting her.

When he woke up again, Jun Chi, his eyes red, knelt before him: "Master, I have failed my duty, it took us until now to find you!"

"Ah Xing? Where is she?" he blurted out in panic, fearing even a hint of bad news, stumbling through his words, "The girl who was with me... how is she?"

Jun Chi bowed his head, "Master, the situation was urgent, after we dug you out from the rubble, we immediately moved back to the country... the others..."

"You didn’t search for them?" Jun Lii’s heart was instantly filled with a huge sense of suffocation.

"I left two people to continue searching, but then the people from Organization S came, along with some other forces... the scene was very chaotic, and they were afraid of being pursued by the others, so they had to withdraw first!"

Jun Lii knew that for Jun Chi, who was ignorant of the truth, this was already the best possible choice.

But how could he bear that his men had left Ah Xing behind and escaped back on their own?

He spoke with difficulty, "How long have I been unconscious?"

"Three days..."

Three days!

He had already missed the optimal time for rescue!

Jun Lii was in so much pain he could hardly speak!

Jun Chi originally thought that the girl was merely someone who had done the master a few months’ favor. Seeing his reaction now, he realized something was wrong and immediately said, "Master, we can send people back to search now!"

"Go, search!" Jun Lii clutched his chest, his words squeezed through clenched teeth, "Everyone go search that house!"

"Alright." Jun Chi dared not speak any further and quickly followed the order to leave.

The result, naturally, was that they found nothing.

A piece of clothing, a strand of hair... nothing was left behind, all had been burned to ashes by the flames after the explosion, not even a fragment was found.

Jun Chi returned and knelt down with a heavy heart.

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