Chapter 144: Heaven and Earth Are Unkind (Part )

The four of them fell silent. There were some things they all knew, but they had never talked about them openly.

Now that Gu Yue Jiarong has taken the lead in breaking the precarious balance, does he want to break off relations with Xu Shanshan, or does he plan to break off relations with them first?
"Mr. Gu Yue, what exactly do you want to say?"

Chi Jiangdong was a straightforward person, and he was not good at beating around the bush in probing. He stared at Gu Yuejiarong with his piercing eyes, and an unyielding strength weighed on his heart.

Gu Yue Jiarong glanced around and saw that the mystics who were "hiding" from them were still discussing and were not paying attention to the four of them.

"Do you still remember when we went to Quexie Mountain to cancel the engagement?" he asked softly.

Chi Jiangdong's eyes flashed with surprise, and he nodded: "Yeah."

Jiashan raised his fine eyelashes, his pupils swirled, then hid in the depths. He was willing to listen to the details.

Wei Canghao turned his head to the side, his eyes fixed on the air, his expression calm: "Of course I remember."

"I remember that from that day on, Xu Shanshan became different from before, but we didn't pay much attention to her at the time and ignored this change. But now when I think back, the only words she said to us at that time were also very meaningful."

Gu Yuejiarong's words awakened their dormant memories. Recalling the past, Xu Shanshan seemed to say that it was not that easy to break off the engagement with her, and that it was not something they could just say...

Jiashan subconsciously reached for the rosary on his wrist, but his hand was empty. He then remembered that the string of nine-purple phoenix eyes that had accompanied him for more than ten years had been given away. However, it was always difficult to change a habit that had been cultivated for so long... especially when he was in a restless mood.

"I have learned about this from my elders at home. The marriage conventions of those who study the mysterious arts are different from those in the mortal world. It is not easy to regret simply by returning the marriage certificate or verbally giving up the engagement. The party who wants to regret the engagement needs to pay a very serious price."

This was the first time that Jiashan brought this matter up. Perhaps their elders knew about it, but they... obviously did not know the seriousness of the matter, otherwise they would not have been so impulsive and went to Quexie Mountain to cancel the engagement.

Gu Yuejia Rong was not surprised: "Our marriage with Xu Shanshan still exists, and she is still our fiancée, whether you are willing to admit it or not."

The other three heard this and neither agreed nor refuted.

"But we have both made the move to break off the engagement... It seems that apart from some bad luck recently, there are no other more serious consequences?" Chi Jiangdong wondered.

Seeing that he knew nothing, Jia Shan sighed helplessly, "That's because Xu Shanshan didn't approve of the cancellation of the engagement, nor did she take any revenge on us for the cancellation of the engagement, so the backlash of the broken engagement was alleviated. On the contrary... we did have a lot of troubles recently, and she stepped in to resolve the disasters one by one..."

Speaking of this, Jiashan suddenly felt that their “insistence” when they broke off the engagement was perhaps somewhat... ungrateful.

Chi Jiangdong was dumbfounded. He drew inferences from one instance and said, "Then the Li family encountered such a big trouble. Could it be that it was because Li Heye broke off the engagement..."

Seeing that Master Qingyi and the others were about to finish, Jiashan cut to the chase, "Maybe, maybe not. In this world, it is always difficult to distinguish the consequences of causes. People can only infer the causes from the consequences. Let's stop discussing this for now."

He looked at Gu Yue Jiarong again: "I understand what you mean. Whether she is Xu Shanshan or not, she has taken on this fate and identity and has taken on everything of this identity. If she is fake, then she is no longer Xu Shanshan. Since the marriage has not been cancelled, we have to acknowledge it." Gu Yue Jiarong looked at him for a moment, and after exchanging the meaning in each other's eyes, he said: "I think we should no longer speculate on her thoughts with the past thinking. According to my guess, she must have ideas about these people, either killing... or surrendering. She wants to get something from them..."

This is indeed something worth considering. Only by figuring out what Xu Shanshan is thinking and what he intends to do can they know what to do next.

Wei Canghao had been listening to their conversation quietly. At this moment, he suddenly spoke up: "These people are just some small fish. We haven't figured out the real big fish hiding in the depths. But she is really capable of causing trouble. In half a year, she has offended almost all the powerful forces in Jingguo, both overtly and covertly."

Chi Jiangdong jumped out immediately and couldn't help complaining: "That's right, I wouldn't be surprised if she pierced the sky now. Are we really here to help her? Why do I feel that she doesn't need it at all..."

Gu Yue Jiarong ignored his meaningless words and raised a question instead: "In the past, I thought she killed King Chen and King Jin because she was forced by the situation, but is there a possibility that she was actually targeting them from the beginning?"

"Why did she do that?" Chi Jiangdong disagreed: "Is it because she can't stand the Seventh Prince's rebellion? But she doesn't look like someone who would like a tyrant like Emperor Yue."

Gu Yuejiarong: "..." Although the words were rough, the logic was there. What Chi Jiangdong said did make sense and he was speechless to refute it.

But Wei Canghao also had the same view: "Indeed, it seems that everything she did was centered around many people, but as Master Jiashan said, if we infer the cause from the result, she was determined to kill King Jin from the beginning, and she was even willing to take the risk of being hostile to anyone for this."

Jia Shan silently digested the content, then said: "We don't need to speculate too much at the moment. No matter who she is or what she wants to do, she has caused a great entanglement between us..."

"Hey, what are you four whispering about?"

The old Taoist in yellow robe suddenly asked in a stern voice, interrupting what Jiashan was about to say.

As soon as he came out, he saw the four people gathered together and talking furtively, and he couldn't tell what they were plotting. He even suspected that these four people might be from the Li Mansion or people Xu Shanshan knew.

"Hey, have you finished your discussion?" Chi Jiangdong raised his hands and said with a fake smile, "We didn't ask you guys what you guys were whispering about hiding in there, but we four were the ones who were inexplicably excluded. Do we have to accept your interrogation uncomfortably?"

The old Taoist in yellow robe was choked by Chi Jiangdong's sarcastic tone.

Seeing this, the eloquent Qing Yi Fa put on an unfathomable smile and walked forward and said, "Indeed, the discussion is over. Although the four of you were not allowed to participate in the process for some reasons, you will definitely not be excluded from the next plan..."

Hearing this, Chi Jiangdong and the other three immediately had a bad feeling.

"We have all unanimously decided that the four of you will work together to lure Xu Shanshan out."

"Huh?! The four of us going? Why?"

The old Taoist in yellow robe teased and mocked: "I heard that Xu Shanshan has always been a heretic. Not only has she been engaged to five men, but she was also crazy about a beautiful young prostitute. I think she must be a homosexual. I think the four of you are not very capable, but you all have good looks. You can be used as bait to lure her!"