Chapter 904 - 269: [Was It Unjust?]_2
A woman with disheveled hair held a dagger against her neck, her face full of despair, retreating step by step...
Finally, under the relentless approach of the two fierce men with malicious grins, the woman fiercely plunged the dagger into her chest, then leapt into the lotus pond.
After she fell into the water, the two men stood on the pavilion, looked at her, and shook their heads with some regret, finally leaving unwillingly.
But the woman in the water, her body convulsing and struggling, blood gushing from where the dagger had been thrust into her chest, spreading on the water’s surface, clusters of red...
And as she was dying, her eyes were desperately looking to the left.
Chen Yan followed her gaze and saw to her left, under a lotus leaf, a small, thin body in the water, with a little head hidden under the lotus leaf, eyes full of fear and hatred!
As the woman was dying, her eyes were still fixed on the little figure under the lotus leaf.
The figure under the lotus leaf trembled, biting their teeth, looking at the woman, seemingly wanting to reach out.
The woman finally exhaled, shaking her head at the little figure, then letting herself sink into the water...
Chen Yan’s heart shook!
He clearly saw the profound pain and hatred on the face of the little figure hiding under the lotus leaf!
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Chen Yan continued walking inside.
In the backyard, further inside, someone stumbled into a building.
Chen Yan approached and saw in the large room, on the front altar, there were ancestral tablets arranged all over!
It seemed to be the ancestral hall of the Li Family.
The figure who had fled in earlier staggered and fell onto the table, spitting blood from their mouth, clutching an ancestral tablet, with a face full of sorrow and despair.
This person was dressed in fine clothes, obviously someone of considerable status within the Li Family.
Outside the door, several fierce men rushed in, and in this ancestral hall, they hacked this noble of the Li Family to death with a flurry of blades, even finally impaling the body onto the altar violently!
The noble of the Li Family, upon death, knocked over several ancestor tablets, blood gushing from their mouth, body still faintly trembling!
Before leaving, the fierce men took up their blades, slashing everywhere inside the Li Family’s ancestral hall, clearing away the place filled with ancestral tablets, chopping them up in a mess.
Moreover, one of the fierce men walked in laughing wildly, splashing a bucket of fresh blood viciously over the tablets!
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Chen Yan stood there silently, quietly watching these illusions, and after a while, he slowly exhaled.
Turning around, Chen Yan walked out of the ancestral hall and returned to the lotus pond.
He stood by the bank, looking at the small, trembling figure still hiding under the lotus leaf.
Finally, Chen Yan slowly said, "Alright, I’ve seen enough... it can end now."
Under the lotus leaf, the small figure, with eyes full of hatred, gradually shifted their gaze, fixing it on Chen Yan.
In the midst of the illusion, he seemed to be the only real presence.
He actually stared at Chen Yan, coldly saying, "Did you really see clearly?"
"I did see clearly." Chen Yan nodded.
The child let out a tragic smile and suddenly turned into a wisp of black air, disappearing from the lotus pond.
Immediately, all the illusions within the Li Mansion turned into black air and dissipated.
The wailing and running people of the Li Mansion, the corpses all over the ground, the grimacing fierce men...
All illusions turned into soaring black air, then instantly dissipated.
When Chen Yan looked at the Li Mansion again, it was already a mess of ruins!
Collapsed buildings, charred remnants, the lotus pond already dried up to mere sludge...
In the air, a cold, aged voice questioned.
"May I ask, if such a family massacre happened to your family, what would you do?"
Chen Yan took a deep breath, his tone very serious, slowly said, "If such a thing happened to my family, I’d chase through heaven and hell to kill all the enemies!"
The aged voice spat with hatred, "Very well! Since you say so, you must agree with my means of revenge!"
Chen Yan frowned and remained silent.
The aged voice continued coldly, "Years ago, the Sun and Li families were at odds, fighting for years, for generations!
When I was eight, the Sun Family used vile means, bribing a band of thieves, and exterminated my Li Family!
That day, one hundred and forty-six of my Li Family fell, leaving me alone alive!
My father was hacked to death in the ancestral hall, his body torn apart by knives! The ancestral tablets were splashed with dog’s blood!
My mother refused to be humiliated, committed suicide in front of me, and fell into the pond!
The wet nurse who raised me had her head cut off by the fierce men!
My two elder brothers were hacked to death in the study at the back!
My younger brother, only two years old, was picked up by the fierce men and smashed to death on the ground!
All of this happened right before my eyes!!
That day, by sheer luck, I jumped into the water, hiding under the lotus leaf, and survived!
Since that day, I haven’t had a single restful night, as soon as I close my eyes, the faces of my parents, brothers, my family of one hundred and forty-six, flicker before me like a carousel!
I have awakened countless times from dreams, hearing my parents and brothers questioning why I haven’t avenged the Li Family in my dreams!
I dreamt of my little brother covered in blood, his little body smashed to pieces, lying at my feet, crying to me, saying... it hurts!"